Just ... disturbing.

[TheYak]

Sort of a cross between playing with dolls, stop-motion animation and choose-your own adventure.  There's a few things to try, some more.. umm..  special than others.  *shudder*

[Kinoko]

That is indeed disturbing... but at the same time, that doll is so cute!

[Scummbuddy]

It was extremly well done, but "disturbing" doesn't do it justice.

[Etcher Squared Games]

This sorta reminds me of a few scenes from "Sixth Sense" in a way...

[monkey0506]

That's really screwed up.  Somebody is severely sick in the head.  Especially the freak who posted this crap.

[LGM]

Oh come off it, Monkey. I've seen worse things in feature films.

And it's slightly odd that I was actually going to post a reply saying "You think THAT'S disturbing, watch THIS" and I was going to link that video/game/monstrosity.

I find that more disturbing that I've known about it since it's been posted here.

[Kinoko]

Yeah, it's disturbing in a very mild way, really. For some of them, I was like, "Pff, that's it?" or "What on earth is that about?". It's not really any worse than watching someone's head get chopped off in a movie.

Maybe if they made the room a little creepier (it's pretty darned cute. Not even TOO cute. I'd feel warm and fuzzy in that room) and put some scary music on in the background. Then again, that'd be over the top and too obvious.

The weird thing is that usually scary dools is my -absolute WORST fear-. I used to have some serious, serious issues with imagining dolls crying blood. I had plenty a night that I couldn't sleep if I thought about something like that, and I still can't even look at a lot of horror movies that feature scary dolls. Still, I just look at this and think, "Awwwww". It's strangely life-like in the way it moves, really... well, cute.

[Ponch]

I think what makes it so unsettling (at least for me) is that you are actually a participant in the unpleasantness. If it were just some animated short movie, I think I would just write it off as "well, somebody wasn't hugged enough as a child" and that would be that. However, since the format dictates that I'm the one encouraging her (or tricking her) into doing those things, I can't help but feel a bit uneasy about the whole thing.

Thanks for posting that. Now I'm sure to have strange dreams.

- Ponch

p.s. Dolls = creepy. Always!

[monkey0506]

In addition to what Ponch said, it's not even obvious what is going to happen.  I mean, how, by clicking on the picture the girl drew of herself, is one to expect that scary music will start playing, and she'll start sawing her hand off with a pencil?  Call me a wimp, or a freak, or whatever, but it kinda freaked me out.

[Rui 'Trovatore' Pires]

That's the whole point, methinks. Sure, it's not as disturbing as, say, Seven, or Saw, or the Ring, or whatever very very good thrillers and horror movies I've left out. But it's in a smaller scale.

And I have to say it is, indeed, disturbing. Somehow. You wouldn't think this was disturbing, you wouldn't think it was even worth your attention... but damn it, it *works*. I was too freaked out to see all the possible animations.

[Gord10]

YakSpit, thanks for sharing it with us.     This movie might give me some ideas for my horror game. 
This was one of the most freaky things that I watched in these days 0_o  I also admired the great animations. They must be really professionals who made this movie. In my opinion; one of the reasons, why it is so disturbing that, there is no way we could help her. For example the tow cups; she drinks the dish washing jel whatever we do. And it's obvious that she needs affection too badly. But we can do nothing but clicking the glowing objects.

Maybe if they made the room a little creepier (it's pretty darned cute. Not even TOO cute. I'd feel warm and fuzzy in that room) and put some scary music on in the background.

No, I think it's better it to be so "cute". It would NEVER be so disturbing to see an ugly doll like Chucky (I hope I spelled his name correct) cutting his own eyes in a dark room.  You must fill compassion to innocence for getting disturbed. So "then again, that'd be over the top and too obvious."

[Dart]

Hm, just saw it. It wasn't exactly that disturbing, but there were still some weird parts in it.

Like, some of the animations were kind of... bland. Like when we picked the picture of the cat, the girl just swerved back and forth in her chair. The same goes for when choosing the monkey twice... I didn't find anything disturbing about that. o_O

The ones that really got me though was when she cut her eyes and hand. For some reason, whenever I see blood in movie, it doesn't really affect me, but seeing the doll's blood affected me much more.

[Rui 'Trovatore' Pires]

Actually, by chance, those two were the only ones I DID see.

[Eggie]

Truly horrid...
That sound design was just...genius, though. And the way the doll moved was disconcertingly...real.

[Vince Twelve]

The creepy thing to me was the way her eyes looked straight at you whenever anything freaky was happening.  Watch her eyes!  Ugh...

I, too, had a ridiculous fear of dolls at a young age.  When I was in fifth grade I used to read those "Goosebumps" books all the time (remember those?).  They were not really scary at all, but I was particularly freaked out by one with a living ventriloquists dummy.  Just picturing that dummy sneaking into the kids room at night game me nightmares.

After one such nightmare, I awoke to find my talking Pee Wee Herman doll staring at me and in the moonlight I could have sworn it moved.  I freaked out and bashed his head in.  I'm not kidding.  To this day I regret doing it because that thing is a damned collectors item!  (Though I recently aquired a replacement to right my childhood's wrong.)

[Kinoko]

Hey, we've all wanted to bash PeeWee Herman's head in at some stage ^_^

I must admit, I was watching those scenes with the monkey and the cat drawing and just going, "Er... is this goig somewhere? I don't get it". When she started to take her overalls off, I thought, "I know where THIS is going!" but it didn't go there. I think the most disturbing was the picture of herself but that's probably also because self-cutting is a sensitive subject with me, which made it rather real. The eye thing was too far fetched to be really shocking.

[pslocum]

The cat drawing, etc. isn't pointless so much as it is subtle, especially compared to self-mutilation. What's supposed to make it creepy is the doll's movements and the sense of sorrow and loneliness in what she's doing.

[monkey0506]

I think the part that got me most freaked out was that:

1)  It was night, so it was inevitably dark (even with the light on, I'm still surrounded by the dark)
2)  You were forced to cause the doll to mutilate itself to some extent.
3)  It wasn't dishwashing gel it was Drano. o_0
4)  Right after my parents and my little sisters went outside (without my knowledge) to try and look for something in the sky we couldn't see anyway, and then when I went looking for them, my eyes wouldn't adjust right, so I was walking around outside, barefoot, practically blind, just trying to walk towards the voices... o_0

Yeah...I don't know why I watch crap like that cause I always let it affect me too much (like when I went in the living room looking for my family, and I swear I could still feel the doll staring at me), but I'm somehow attracted to it.  Okay, you can all kill me to put me out of your misery now.

[pslocum]

If anyone is interested in a game that uses a similar sense of participation as an element of horror, inSCAPE's Dark Eye does so to great effect.

[Rui 'Trovatore' Pires]

It does. It's one of the best games I've ever played, and is a wonderful adaptation of Poe's work. Pity that it's not 100% bugproof, but it's great stuff to finish in one fevered sitting.