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Mark Frauenfelder at 1:41 pm Tue, Nov 18, 2008

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The best science fiction short video ever, only it's real. (Via Mt. Holly Mayor's Office)

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  • Anonymous

    Every time I see something like this, I think I’d like to meet the people who thought it was a good idea… who, after finishing the video, STILL thought it was a good idea to release it…

    anyway, they make the world a more hilarious place.

  • membrain

    I was just listening to Bjork’s Medulla album when I started the clip. It struck me as pretty spaced out actually. It’s remarkable how different music can make all the difference.

    I do that a lot btw, listening to videos of all kind with different music on; i often use to watch entire TV show episodes with different music playing to it and the video sound muted.

  • dagfooyo

    Looks like you use it to apply goo to your face, like an expensive version of a mud mask. At least the intent isn’t to wear it all the time in order to hide your real face and thus become “beautiful”. That’s what I thought at first.

  • Antinous

    Botox seems tame compared to facial self-tazing.

  • Jasonclock

    Funny

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojCIiaZ8jCw

  • isaacb2

    Is this a sequence from Saw VI?

    It’s the music that does it, you know. There’s something so… wrong… about the robot mask with the blinking lights when accompanied by Joe Cocker… wow, this is just made of awesome.

  • Takuan

    http://shewalkssoftly.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/review_tz_8.jpg

  • Secret_Life_of_Plants

    It reminds me of “Vanilla Sky”.

  • iguanoid

    I love the gasping last “…to meeee-eee-eee-eee” at 2:25. Its like Joe Cocker is trembling in terror.

    Also, why did they not have the mister put on one and the two of them could make out in their Terrormasks?

    Also again, I love how she puts it on while looking in the mirror and once its one she gives a cutesy little nod as if to say….Lookin’ good honey!

  • Mark Frauenfelder

    Takuan@6: Very cool! I didn’t know someone made models of this Twilight Zone episode. Very well made (and appropriate for this video!)

  • premier mask miracle

    That is a great beauty mask instruction video, i love natural ingredients.
    premier mask miracle

  • aldasin

    Tim & Eric territory

  • Jane Kansas

    It’s like the beauty regime from land of the Stepford Wives, except every one of those women, after stroking their own faces and straps, was getting ready to grope the grotto. If you know what I mean.

  • Bledsoefilms

    Creepiest post ever

  • SomeGuy

    Crap. I sat through the whole thing waiting for the chainsaw scene.

    There’s 2:41 of my life I’ll never get back.

  • Future Schlock

    This originally comes from the video blog, Everything is Terrible.

    Sorry for shameless self-promotion but they did not provide the link in the post.

  • Fred H

    “Cover her face, with the mask of Satan.”
    -Black Sunday

  • EverythingIsTerrible

    Hey! This video comes from us folks at Everything Is Terrible.

    For more of our crap, please check out http://www.everythingisterrible.com
    or http://www.youtube.com/user/everythingisterrible

  • batu b

    buy the latest version:
    http://www.amazon.com/Rejuvenique-RJV10KIT-Facial-Toning-Mask/dp/B00005JHWB
    yes it’s STILL in stock!
    here’s an excerpt from the original infomercial
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXcYVh-W14E

  • HappyKhaos

    Who knew Jason’s mother was so hot?

  • Anonymous

    Goodness! It’s like The League of Gentlemen Christmas Special, except creepier….

  • Giovanni

    someone please remix this with villain voice overs and creepy music

  • edgore

    I can’t believe that no one has made an “Eyes Without A Face” reference.

  • paincho

    Hehehe glad to see this creepy video making the rounds. Thought I’d give credit where credit is due though, Found Footage Festival. http://www.cine-magic.com/foundfootagefest.html These two guys tour the country with their festival of random things they found on VHS tapes, and in the second volume they have this face mask video. The Found Footage festival is one of the most hilarious things ever, I highly recommended getting the DVDs or seeing it live if you can. They bought one of the masks and wore it to some kids dance show filmed in Chicago… I almost pissed myself.

  • dewexdewex

    The Nestenes are back!

  • Teresa Nielsen Hayden / Moderator

    Batu B @16: Aha! I thought that looked like electrode paste. That mask runs a current through muscle groups in your face, making them rapidly clench and relax. It’s like a TENS unit or MyStim Digital Power Box, except you don’t get your choice of where you want to position the leads.

    Mark, you’re right: it’s a short SF video, only it’s real. It’s also completely creepy. Time to hit the Chmurka archives: I need a chaser.

  • KurtMac

    All it needs is a thin Guy Fawkes mustache and you’ll be ready to fight totalitarian dictators AND cleanse your pores at the same time! Faaaabulous!

  • btb

    Oh god

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnLYs07YKe8

  • paincho

    Oops, my mistake, bad URL on the Found Footage Festival…

    http://www.foundfootagefest.com/

    and

    http://www.myspace.com/foundfootagefestival to see tour dates and trailers…

  • Mark Frauenfelder

    “we got these masks from our evicted korean neighbor’s front lawn “

  • Takuan

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy8zUHX0iKw

  • HailStorm

    So the idea is you place a mask on your face (that zaps you uncomfortably) which will make you instantaneously terrifying to anybody who sees you? And this… sells?

  • Stefan Jones

    NEEEYOINGGGGG!

    Oh, dear. I seem to have wet myself in fear.

    What were they THINKING!!?!?!?!?

  • Jack

    Damn, that could have been my 2008 halloween costume.

  • JohnnyQuest

    My parents found one of these at a garage sale and gave it to my sister last year for her birthday (yes, we’re a little weird). No one could keep it on for more than about six or seven seconds without shrieking in either pain or terror and yanking the thing off. It has a very creepy Twilight Zone/Outer Limits/Tales from the Darkside vibe. Even the “off flesh” pink color of the thing is disturbing.
    NYLUND@31: Believe me, NOBODY is this color…
    I gotta go – I’m starting to flash back and I need a hug.

  • p96

    Sure, like I have time to sit around and… ummm… (how long have I been sitting here with my laptop)… nevermind.

  • nanuq

    I know I saw this on the Twilight Zone once. After the mask comes off, she’ll look fine while everyone around her is hideous.

    Beauty is the eye of the beholder and all that.

  • Cool Products

    The creepiest part of this video are the slow motion sequences. Anybody else weirded out by this?

  • Anonymous

    Notice that none of the models turn their palms towards the camera so you can see the little red crystal flashing there. “It’s almost your 30th birthday- time for the Carousel Ritual! Renew! Renew!”

  • dragonfrog

    http://www.cyberpunkreview.com/images/brazil46.jpg is what I thought of.

  • Nylund

    Does it only come in caucasian? or is it that only white people would be stupid enough to buy this?

  • dstntmbrk

    Hey, my band used this mask for an album cover a few years ago. Check it out.

    These things are a lot of fun. We used to put it on without the lubricant and see who could stand the electrolysis pains the longest. I’ve made it to level 9.

  • Teller

    Just your average hockey Mom.

  • aarrgghh

    i was waiting for the part where we find out she’s the last person on earth!