Movie: Asylum Blackout

Movie review: Asylum Blackout (The Incident) 
Alexandre Courtès - USA, 2011
Horror, 85min.



Rock musicians George, Max and Ricky work in the kitchen at the local asylum to make ends meet - the pay is good and they're at minimal risk, having no direct contact with the inmates. One night, just before dinner time, a storm shuts down the security system and the doors to all the cells open, letting the lunatics loose.




Getting stuck in an elevator is bad.
Getting stuck at your work is even worse.
Getting stuck in an asylum full with lunatics on the loose... start praying!

You will meet three rock musicians that works as cooks in an asylum.
They do not have the dream job but they are as save as it gets.
In a high security building all doors are electronic secured.
Security guards patrolling the place.

But on a stormy night the power turns out and the nightmare begins.

The security guards have control on the situation.
The inmates are drugged and calm.

But they are lunatics... and some have not taken there meds...

The security guards can not handle the situation alone.
The inexperience cooks have to help the guards to lock the inmates.




It is a matter of time, when the lunatics are loosing there calm...

A very original story and a very convincing cast. No super hero`s, only some real people that are handeling a situation they weren`t prepared for.
The movie has some amazing rock music, that plays a roll in the life of the cooks.
It also brings an unique horror.
A claustrophobic feeling and the unpredictable inmates will make you shiver the entire movie.

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Game: Slender

Game review: Slender
2012 - Parsec Productions
Horror, 1 player
Microsoft Windows, OS X


It is called the scariest video game ever made.
Very popular reaction videos posted on YouTube.
Do you dare to play the game based on one of the scariest legends in history?



You are starting in the woods. All alone, armed with only a flashlight.
Darkness surround you. And your quest starts, find the eight pages!

The forest is endless, the fear of what could happen makes you shiver!
Your flashlight provides you with sight trough the darkness.

You find a page, nailed on a tree... The page gives you a hint about an old legend.
The legend of The Slender Man!
You start to realize that your life is in danger.
Your hart is beating crazy.

A strange noice... You turn around... and there he is. The Slender Man!

The only thing you can do is run, RUN for your life!
And find the other pages remaining in the woods.


The game was created by Mark J. Hadley, known on YouTube as AgentParsec.
You can download and play this game for FREE!

The game is short and difficult.
The music and sound effects are amazing! So playing with a headphone is a must!
The graphics looks old, but the effects of your flashlight and the trees are very well done.
If you look close at the Slender Man he does not look really scary.
But the first time you encounter him, you will scream like a little girl!

But for the downside, if you play this without the sound, it does not work. It will be like playing an old Half-Life map.
And the second time you play it. You`ll be more frustrated then scared of the Slender Man.

But the game is free, so go download it and enjoy a good scare!
Official site, and for download;
http://www.parsecproductions.net/slender/
http://slendergame.com/game.php

The Licked Hand

A woman is home alone with only her dog for company.

Listening to the radio she hears of a serial killer on the loose in her town.
She gets scared and locks all the doors and windows in the house. But the basement window is jammed so she just locks the basement door. After locking the house she goes to bed, taking her dog to her room with her and letting it sleep under her bed.
With the dog close to her, she feels much saver.

She wakes in the night and can hear a dripping sound in her room.

The bedside lamp won't work and she is too scared to get out of bed to turn on the main light.

She hides under the covers but to reassure herself that the dog is still under the bed she puts her hand down and feels a lick on her hand.
She lays awake for some time listening to the dripping sound and periodically puts her hand down to where she can hear heavy breathing and each time gentle licks on her fingers.

Eventually she can no longer stand the dripping and enters the bathroom.
She finds her dog hanging on the shower head, with its stomach ripped open and the blood dripping in the shower.

She looks at the mirror and finds "PEOPLE CAN LICK TOO" written in blood on the wall.

Other versions

A version with an extra ending also has her parents dead in her closet.
She then attempts to call the police but is unable to. She then looks downstairs and sees the killer. This leads to a chase around the house while the killer attempts to kill her.
The police later come and find her dead and her body mangled.

In another version of the story, there is a man and his dog who go hiking.
Soon it is nighttime and the man goes to sleep. He wakes up and the dog is agitated. The dog licks his hand. Then the man falls asleep. The dog licks his hand again, but the man's eyes are closed. He feels something warm next to him and thinks it is the body warmers, then he falls asleep.
The dog keeps licking the man's hand. When the man wakes up his dog is gone and in the snow, it says: "People can lick too".

Another version has the main character an older, blind woman.
On the radio she hears that an escaped animal is on the loose. As before she goes into the house and locks all the doors. When the tap is dripping, she goes around the house, checking all the taps. As she tries each tap to find them not the source of the dripping sound. The woman feels licks on her hand, so she thinks her dog is telling her everything is all right.
Eventually she goes into the living room to find her dog nailed to the ceiling and blood dripping onto the floor.
The ending line is "so what was licking her hand?"



What is the truth?

A classic urban legend!
It is a typical campfire story too scare your friends with.

But is is possible?
I read this story was already going around in the year 1960 as some kind of chain mail.
And that is a year where a loth of urban legends were born.

What happened next? Did the girl died? Did the cops found who did it?
No one will ever now.
But if this would happen again in these modern time, it would be all over the TV and Internets.