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I love YouTube short films.  I really do.  They’re so ACCESSIBLE.  Any putz with a camcorder can get on here and whomp up four minutes of something.  Whether it’s scary, funny, or an odd mix of both, the sky is quite literally the limit.

And today, we’re talking Bloody Mary, the online short that’s really more pathetic than it is scary, but still brings a few good laughs on the side.

A young man’s been taunting the ghost of Bloody Mary for a long time now…and now, that it’s Friday the 13th, he means to have it out with her once and for all.  But it’s not going to go how he’d planned.

It’s creepy, sure, but it’s not really that scary because these clear amateurs really don’t know how to extend out tension.  It’s over too quickly to be particularly scary, and since there aren’t a whole lot of “jump-scares” here to be had either it loses some punch on that front.

The Screenhead Ten Scale, meanwhile, hands over a six out of ten to this fairly solid short and looks forward to the next one.

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