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Thursday, March 20, 2008
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Loren Coleman thinks this video, of a "creepy gnome" terrorizing the Argentinian town of General Guemes, is a hoax. And it is true: ever since The Blair Witch Project certain stylistic tics derived from that movie have crept into fake Bigfoot/cryptid footage.
Here, teenagers sit around filming themselves pointlessly on a deserted Argentinian street until something untoward (the gnome pitching stones, apparently) attracts their attention. Shaky, grainy cellphone footage ensues.
This footage, genuine or not, has a certain grungy effectiveness, however. (You should see some of the lousy Bigfoot fakes out there!)The gnome has a certain resonance from 80s slasher flicks, and the scream at the end is fairly convincing.
Uh-oh. There will soon be 'troofer's out there who will believe that the Bush administration was behind this as well.
ReplyDeleteI'd dearly love to find out how long anony-tard spent thinking about how to link this post to something else in order to come up with something so astonishingly stupid and dull.
ReplyDeleteThat kind of thing would take an awfully long time. I can't imagine myself spending less than a day to come up with that.
It's just that Travelocity dude...he's drunk again...
ReplyDeleteI can't stand those commercials, Mike. Don't ever mention them again.
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