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While trekking through the wilds of YouTube, looking for something interesting to talk about, I stumbled on a YouTube channel from an outfit called Fewdio.  Their tagline: we create nightmares.

Now, as a horror film buff, anyone who can assert so boldly that they “create nightmares”, and in fact had a body of work comprising better than twenty short films, will pretty much automatically get my interest–in the short term.  Thus, I went to their channel and tried a random title called Breach.

The plot is fairly simple, but the film is only six minutes long so it’d really have to be.  It’s all about a burglar alarm that goes off in the night…and yet…there’s nothing there.

Okay, I’ll admit right off that the whole thing revolves around one central moment, but this moment is actually pretty freaky.  I jumped.  These days, I can’t find a lot that kicks me into a jump scare mode any more, but man, that got me elevated for just a second.  If you haven’t been able to find something lately that’ll spark you into a jump scare, well, take a run at Breach.

It’ll freak you out…for a second.

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You may not have heard of German director Uwe Boll, but you’ve probably heard of his movies. You almost certainly have never seen these movies, but instead passed by Screen 124 while on your way to  the blockbuster on Screen 1.  Boll has directed such classic crap as  Alone in the Dark, BloodRayne,  and House of the Dead. All three are adapted from relatively plotless video games. And with even fans of the games complaining, you can imagine how bad these films are.

In fact, people are so annoyed at Boll that after a facetious remark he made in an interview with The Guardian, stating that he’d quit if a million people asked him so, there is now a petition to do that very thing. Check it out here, and get voting!

In retaliation, Boll posted a hilarious video response, claiming that his work is genius and better than all that “social-critic George Clooney bullshit that you get every fucking weekend”.

It’s pretty obvious that Boll is very aware of himself and is generating self-promotion through such ridiculous claims. This is, after all, a man who challenged 5 of his worst critics to boxing matches (and won all five). His movies are flops, and he is only able to make them through a loophole in the German film industry tax-break scheme (am I the only one thinking of Max Bialystock?). Anyway, I implore you to turn the tables on Boll’s plan, and vote against him. Let th epublic decide!

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