Poll: The Scary Movie Scenario: What do you do?

[MrMixelPixel]

That was pretty good!

Anyway, I'd probably leave with my phone in hand. Call the police tell them I have an intruder. And sleep at a friends place for a little bit.

 

[Frezzato]

Hey, don't blame me, blame the UK [http://www.bchorrorchallenge.com/]!

...what have you done to me!?!?

THAT wasn't the winner? I assumed it was the winner and now I may have to watch the rest of these/never sleep again.

I hope you're proud of yourself...

I checked a few of the other videos out and they honestly weren't as good. And frankly it's a travesty (travesty!) that the video, my video didn't win first prize. Yep, I take ownership of stuff I have nothing to do with.

I now truly appreciate your original post, as in "what would you do if confronted with something that cannot be explained by a normal, healthy rationale?" And to explain that I have yet another story:

Spoiler: The Ring

This is about both the movie The Ring and literally, a ring, as in the ring of a phone. Years ago I was working late nights and treated myself to The Ring on DVD. A friend had convinced me it was the scariest thing he had seen to date so I ordered it from Amazon. I got home late one night and found it under my doormat. So I popped it in at 2AM, Thursday, and watched it--no, LOVED it--and decided to watch all of the extras on the DVD. One of the extras was the actual short film shown in the movie. You know, it's the short film which, after viewing, gets the viewer killed a week later. So I watched the short, thought it was cool, hit 'eject' on the DVD player and...the main house phone rings. Remember now, it's a little after 4AM, so nobody in their right mind should be calling me.

So here I am, an adamant skeptic, staring at the phone after three rings. I don't know what I was thinking at that exact moment, but I do know that for one second I frantically sought to take inventory of what exactly I believed in.

I pick up the phone and it's my crazy friend in Orlando, and she's definitely the type of person who isn't in their right mind. She used to call me all the time at strange hours as she works 3rd shift radiology at a hospital.

So now, upon reflection, I did have my truly creepy moment, and I really did go forward just to see what would happen.

tl;dr I still think I would go investigate, and as a result I'd be dead. I'd be the character Copper from John Carpenter's The Thing (1981). I'd be one of the pale-skinned people in the basement in The Road. And it's all because I cannot help but look when others are running!

 

[DementedSheep]

Strange noises shouldn't rattle me too much, I've slept in old creaky houses and more then once peeps have tried to prank me by scaring me at night when I was younger (and failed).

The sight of that..thing though that only appears when lights are off? Different story, I'd go fucking mental and certainly would NOT be going to bed after that.
My immediate reaction would be to GTFO and arm myself with a knife or sword on the way (fencing sabre underneath my bed) and if that thing...startles me then it better not be someone alive playing a prank on me cos they just find a knife in their gut. If this is a horror movie though it's at this point the attack fails and the monster gets me

Personally im pretty inquisitive. Id be thrilled that id discovered this intelligent creature and id probably see if it was friendly or not and study its activity

You're the dude who in horror movies follows the creepy little girl aren't ya? :/

catchpra: on a boat. That's even worst! Imagine you're on a small boat when that thing makes its appearance...Your only escape is to plunge into the water. Heck this reminds me a bit of the elevator ghost "prank" in that you're trapped in a a small space with something apparently supernatural:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N5OhNplEd4

that...seems like a bad idea. Your liable to have someone actually attack her. I hope they had people on standby for that if this a real prank.
Yes I'm that person who looks at something funny and makes it not funny by thinking of ways it could go horribly wrong. Sorry.

 

[Xan Krieger]

There's a window next to my bed and it's a one-story house, yeah I'm getting the fuck out as fast as humanly possible. As it's 3:15am I'm not watching the video, I'll watch it when the sun comes up.

 

[Frankster]

Yes I'm that person who looks at something funny and makes it not funny by thinking of ways it could go horribly wrong. Sorry.

Oh you're quite right to think it's a horrible idea, because it did go horribly wrong at least once:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVFKjP7uVuI

So yeh they not only is there not people on standby but victim is trapped in an enclosed space...

Bonus round: japanese version of the "prank": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YogH3mK-iY

 

[DementedSheep]

Yes I'm that person who looks at something funny and makes it not funny by thinking of ways it could go horribly wrong. Sorry.

Oh you're quite right to think it's a horrible idea, because it did go horribly wrong at least once:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVFKjP7uVuI

So yeh they not only is there not people on standby but victim is trapped in an enclosed space...

Bonus round: japanese version of the "prank": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YogH3mK-iY

I think the first one is fake (thankfully) but yeah. That is what I'd worried about.

 

[Ieyke]

Start talking to the camera and hope I'm meta enough to survive. Failing that, I do my best to change genre by challenging it to a dance battle.

^That's hilarious.

Me?
I'm the scariest thing in the dark.
I've lived for several years now in what other people refer to as a haunted house.
I'm large and powerful.
I'm literally trained to kill.
Several years ago I lost all fear where my personal safety is concerned.
I have a bundle of machetes, a box of knives, a couple swords, and an arsenal of guns and flashlights close at hand.
I prefer the darkness, but especially in my house, because I don't need to see to know what's where.

Anything hostile invading my space has made a terrible mistake (unless it's something crazy huge and powerful, like a bear, or something too small and fast for me to hit, like....bees?).

I'm going hunting.
*diabolical grin*

 

[Frezzato]

This just in! Or up. Wow, just...wow. This isn't as creepy as the originally listed video, but it's ten times crazier I think. I wonder just what we, as individuals, would do in a situation like this.

Jesus.

Spoiler: The Owlman Cometh

St. Mary's Children's Hospital (Abandoned)
Do you think these people are acting?

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