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“A horror film’s job is to scare you, is to get your pulse going, is to make you scream and yell. It’s to make you be afraid. That’s its main purpose, and creeping you out. And that can be an enjoyable experience.” --- John Carpenter ::::::::::::: MY CRITERIA FOR DISCUSSION ENCOMPASSES THE HORROR GENRE AND BEYOND, SO I USE THE TERM "NIGHTMARE MOVIES". SPOILERS CAN OCCUR WITH OR WITHOUT WARNING. READ AT YOUR OWN RISK.

GROTESQUE UNIDENTIFIED LIFE FORM FOUND IN SEWER!

July 2nd 2009 01:45
Okay, this has to be seen to be believed! Oh my God! I’m so grossed out, and yet, utterly fascinated. It looks very convincing, meaning I don’t think it’s a special effects makeup job. But then again, in this day and age, who knows?! I'd like to think it's fake ...

The video clip was brought to my attention by an old friend of mine who’s always had a penchant for digging up the weird and … um … weirder. Cheers mate! You’ve outdone yourself this time, and thanks to youtube for providing the platform to expose this kind of freakydeaky shit. "Shit" being the operative word, since this is a snake-cam in a North Carolina sewer, and what the hell is it?! These unknown organisms seem to be from another world entirely.

Ugh! It gives me the heebie-jeebies just thinking about it. I can handle my Rob Bottin special effects, but this stuff just makes me wanna take a damn shower! Just what are those North-Eastern Americans eating??!! Watch at your own nightmare peril.


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Comment by Natalina

July 2nd 2009 02:02
GROSS!!! That is so GROSS!!! Cool!

Can I link to this on E.I.? I'll give you credit for the find!




Comment by Bryn

July 2nd 2009 02:14
Haha! Yes, of course, I was actually gonna forward it to you first, but I was greedy!

Comment by Damo

July 2nd 2009 02:19
Hmmm

I am just wondering if it is a colony of some kind of worms.

Some of the bits seem to separate.

I was informed once that there are leeches that form like this. If something stumbles on them they all attack at once.

Nature is so icky.

Comment by Natalina

July 2nd 2009 02:22
That's ok! It fits in nicely with your site. Although, I don't think it would make for a very pleasurable nightmare. Yuck! I just tortured myself by watching it again. And I'll have you know I'm eating chicken while I watch it. Double gross!

Oh, I found a workable link to that documentary and updated the post.

Comment by Bryn

July 2nd 2009 02:26
Damo, hmmm, you could be onto something there, it does look a little like a thick cluster of worms or leeches, or some kind of disgustingness. I was half expecting one of them to attack the camera!

Comment by Bryn

July 2nd 2009 02:28
Natalina, I dare not watch the clip again for fear of cementing a nightmare tonight!

I'll aim to watch that doll doco asap, cheers!

Comment by Spring-Heeled Jack

July 2nd 2009 02:34
Interesting that they only seem to inhabit the junctions between individual sections of pipe. That suggests to me either that they've found their way in from outside, in the soil, or that they've come up through the pipe and can only get a grip in the seams.

I'd be interested to know what sort of environment this pipe is in. If it's anywhere near the ocean or any large body of water that would make a big difference in what it could possibly be.

Comment by Bryn

July 2nd 2009 02:41
Jack, yes, curious indeed. Well, North Carolina does have a coastline, so an oceanic life form it could well be.

Comment by DeAnne

July 2nd 2009 02:54
OOOOOOOh Yuck! That's nasty looking. But, apparantly they have been identified as a bunch of worms. Really Long Link
A quote from the linked site above:

Thanks for the video – I had not see it before. No, these are not bryozoans! They are clumps of annelid worms, almost certainly tubificids (Naididae, probably genus Tubifex). Normally these occur in soil and sediment, especially at the bottom and edges of polluted streams. In the photo they have apparently entered a pipeline somehow, and in the absence of soil they are coiling around each other. The contractions you see are the result of a single worm contracting and then stimulating all the others to do the same almost simultaneously, so it looks like a single big muscle contracting. Interesting video.

That link has further commentary and videos. I'm still not convinced - that is disgusting!

Comment by Damo

July 2nd 2009 03:04
You have to thank DeAnne for the link because I got this quote:

"They are clumps of annelid worms, almost certainly tubificids (Naididae, probably genus Tubifex)"

So the worm has turned in my favor?


Still gross.

When will the script be finish for a horror film based on this Bryn?

I am ready to start film when you are.

Comment by Bryn

July 2nd 2009 03:14
DeAnne, cheers for that! Cripes, the worm thing just grosses me out ... I've always had a "phobia" about worms, and clumps of them just does my head in!

Damo, I've started work on a treatment tentatively titled The Worms That Turned.

Comment by Damo

July 2nd 2009 03:21
Bryn

I am still looking for a copy of Squirm at my local video shop.

I see another remake on the cards.

Comment by Bryn

July 2nd 2009 03:38
I have Squirm on DVD, it arrived from the States recently. I'll have to review asap now in the wake of this post ...
I'm a little disappointed that the creature(s) were identified so soon ... I was enjoying the ghastly mystery

Comment by Natalina

July 2nd 2009 03:43
No kidding! I just posted the video on E.I. (along with another weird animal clip) ,and now I already have to go back and add an update on the identity of the nasty little buggers. Still gross that they're worms though. I'd be less disgusted if they were leeches. Here's a yucky story for you...

I used to like to play with leeches! I'd let them suck on my fingers and just marvel at them. How's that for disgusting?

Comment by Damo

July 2nd 2009 03:44
Don't worry.

There are still leeches out there.
I have seen them come in the hundreds from inside grass to chase the smell of blood. I had bare feet at the time.

They are utterly gross creatures.

Comment by Damo

July 2nd 2009 03:49
"I used to like to play with leeches! I'd let them suck on my fingers and just marvel at them. How's that for disgusting?"

Sort of reminds me of high school.

Comment by Bryn

July 2nd 2009 03:52
Natalina, leeches gross me out just as much. I've never seen them first hand though, only on TV or in the movies.

Damo, where the hell was that?!

Similarly, recently at Sydney's Centennial Park I witnessed hundreds of eels in a massive clump slithering all over each other in some kind of feeding frenzy (?) in a muddy stream below a bridge. It was utterly gross! Made me shudder violently.

Comment by Natalina

July 2nd 2009 03:55
Damo....me too

Bryn, I've never seen an eel, but they sound gross!

Comment by Bryn

July 2nd 2009 04:00
I like Conga and Moray eels, they fascinate me, but your standard pond and watering hole ones revolt me. Slimey, slithering things, like giant worms. UGH!!! And they sometimes bite too. Not to mention the electric ones! Mind you I wouldn't want to confront a Conga or Moray whilst scuba diving .... They're mean-looking buggers! Which one is the most dangerous? Damo will probably know ...

Comment by Natalina

July 2nd 2009 04:15
Some people eat eels too, I hear. There was a challenge on Top Chef once where a chef had to prepare and eel to be eaten. NO thank you!

So are electric eels really electric? Like can you get a shock from them? As much as I want to go to the ocean, I don't think I could ever scuba dive, because I'd be that 1% that gets eaten by something, I just know it.

Comment by Someone

July 2nd 2009 04:21
Apparently the electric eels isn't actually an eel, although it does produce powerful electric shocks. It should be called the electric knifefish.

Morays can get up to 4m long and weigh up to 80 pounds. Yikes.

Comment by Natalina

July 2nd 2009 04:25
80 pounds??? That's over half of me! Holy shit I hope I never encounter something that scary!

Comment by Damo

July 2nd 2009 04:30
Bryn

I was with friends in Sri Lanka near Kandy. We put our bags down on some grass beside a waterfall. Within a minute hundreds of leeches started coming out of the grass for us. These were the kind that can stand up and reach out. We quickly grabbed our stuff and moved somewhere else. I found a few of them between my toes about a while later.


Comment by Bryn

July 2nd 2009 05:19
Natalina, I've eaten smoked eel, it's delicious, popular in sushi trains.

4m Morays, Jesus! There's an eel in an aquarium at Star City casino, I think that's a Conga eel though, it's certainly not 4m, more like 1m, but he has a menacing look on his snout.

Damo, that is a horror story right there! God damn! Was it your blood they could smell, or something in the bags?

Comment by Natalina

July 2nd 2009 05:34
Grrrrrosss! I had a very bad experience with sushi once that I'll not recount, but I'll simply say that it would relate to this post. I've not eaten it since.

Damo, how big were these leeches? The ones I used to play with were about the length of my pinky finger. They were fat and flat and would leave little sucker marks on your skin but not enough to draw blood if you pulled them off right away. They'd just make a little POP noise when you removed them. It's the really little ones and really big ones that scare me the most.

Comment by Damo

July 2nd 2009 07:29
Bryn

I am not sure it it was the food or fresh blood. Suddenly when green grass becomes black you stop asking questions. Hehehe.

I have had a good look at some a few years back. 2-3 cm, It is like they can stand on their hind legs or something. A bit like half an inch worm. It was only the tiny ones that got me. A friend told me to check between the toes just in case and sure enough I picked up about three. Just squished them off with my fingers and enjoyed the rest of the day.

Comment by Natalina

July 2nd 2009 08:29
See the ones I liked were bigger that that. Big enough to keep an eye on so that you didn't lose track of them. I'd say about... 2 and 1/2 to 3 inches. The thought of little tiny squirmy ones between your toes is what gets me, Damo. Ish!

Comment by AustinTX

July 2nd 2009 09:39
Hey I found your blog through another blog I was on and it looks really awesome. Cant wait to look through all your reviews. I think the chick commenting above me is the one who writes for the site where I found you. Same name. . Hey Natalina I like your eye. Pretty. Anyways I'm bookmarkin this site for future use. Good job brother.

Comment by JohnDoe

July 2nd 2009 20:13
Tasty treat that one Bryn....Real life trumps fiction yet again....or did I see a wire there?

Comment by Bryn

July 2nd 2009 23:08
Natalina & Damo, enough with the leeches already!

Austin, good to have you on board! Yes, you'll find I have an extensive archive of reviews. Search for any movie title up in the left hand corner search box on my page, most titles will produce a review of mine. Cheers!

I actually can't bring myself to watch the footage again, I'm that much of a wuss! HA!

Comment by Cheryl J

July 2nd 2009 23:53
Eeeek! That really was gross but it gave me a chuckle. The bowels of the city has worms. Anyone got a spare bucket of Vermox?

Comment by Nevar

July 3rd 2009 00:03
Bleaach . . . it looks like fish bait? But I am not going to try it without a bio hazard suit and I wouldn't eat anything it lured to the hook, ever.

Comment by Damo

July 3rd 2009 00:52
Come come now Bryn you asked.


However I think that the leeches have had their fill and should fall off the agenda.

Comment by Cathy Setzer

July 3rd 2009 01:29

Comment by Bryn

July 3rd 2009 01:30
Damn there's some gross livin' shit on this planet!

Comment by Tricia Benet

July 3rd 2009 03:38
GROSS!! I think I'll stay out of the sewers.
That must really be magnified. I used to buy tubifex worms for my tropical fish and they are very tiny.
Trish

Comment by Mountain Fog

July 3rd 2009 05:59
reminds me of some spagetti I watched while tripping in the seventies...

reminds me, I must try and find that pic of that freakout fish/mammal/blob/monster thang... saw it a couple of years ago, it was beached by these fishermaen, who posed in the photo with it, and it really looked 'out of this world'...and no, I wasn't tripping then.

Hurry up with the Squirm review! You should link it to this blob thang too.

fog

Comment by Nevar

July 3rd 2009 06:48
Oh great, thanks for the visual FOG, now I remember where I've seen them before . . .

Comment by Bryn

July 3rd 2009 16:49
I remember first reading about "nightcrawlers"; American style huge worms which came out at night, big motherfuckers that were real thick and nasty, ugh!

Comment by Nevar

July 3rd 2009 20:43
Correct Bryn, but great bait when fishing in fresh waters.

Comment by Natalina

July 3rd 2009 21:21
I remember going out at night with my dad after a fresh rain. We'd bring a bucket and a flashlight and pick up nightcrawlers from all over the yard. Some of them were HUGE! And of course we'd use them for fishing bait. We could sometimes fill two buckets with the things.

I'm surprised that nightcrawlers are just an American thing. When it rains here, even where we are mostly covered with concrete, those big suckers are everywhere. You have to be careful not to step on them.

Comment by Adrian-2

July 3rd 2009 23:31
its against god to fixate on things like this. did you people never consider that maybe Satan put it on Earth to lead you astray?

Comment by Natalina

July 3rd 2009 23:52
I can't speak for everyone here, but I'll just say that if this is Satan's attempt to lead me astray, he's not doing a very good job, because I feel that there is very little chance that I would end up worshiping the nasty thing in that video. But that's just me.

Comment by signals

July 4th 2009 00:10
Mystery solved...They are tubifex worms that live in sewers and are fed to tropical fish.


Comment by Cheryl J

July 4th 2009 01:30
Satan's sludge. Kind of has a ring to it. Maybe I should start a band - I think we'd be a hit with a name like that!

Comment by Mr Nice Guy

July 4th 2009 10:31
I'm almost at a loss for words - can't wait for the sequel though . . .


Comment by Damo

July 5th 2009 01:26
Bryn

For your next online comp can it be to name this Monster?


Comment by Natalina

July 6th 2009 00:34
I think Damo's idea is a fun one, but I think Cheryl's new band name, Satan's Sludge pretty much is as good as it will get!

Btw, Cheryl...does Satan's Sludge need a violinist?

Comment by Bryn

July 6th 2009 02:59
I recently finished a short story with the word "sludge" in the title. Ha!

Comment by Cheryl J

July 6th 2009 09:18
That's it, we have to form a trio. Nat you're on viola, what do you play Bryn? I think I manage an off key triangle. We'll rock

Comment by Natalina

July 6th 2009 10:44
Bryn can scratch the records, and give us some funky beats. Cheryl on the sizzlin' triangle, Nat on violin/viola.... Who's going to sing? Or will we do some sort of spoken word style jam? Satan's Sludge... prepare for auditory annihilation.

Comment by Bryn

July 7th 2009 00:54
I hear spoken word, perhaps we use cut-up vox pops from people like Aleister Crowley and the guy who ran that Satan's Church in California ... LeMay (?)

Comment by Natalina

July 7th 2009 04:47
I like it! Anton LaVey. It would be perfect. We could work the Goth circuit. Maybe work in some Gregorian chanting? Once we have the outfits designed, I think we're ready to take this show on the road you guys! Our first track could be named after the famous LaVey quote..."It's too bad that stupidity isn't painful."

Comment by Bryn

July 7th 2009 06:26
I'd like to offer more creative oomph here, but I'm still recovering from a very large weekend ... as you're probably aware I haven't posted today or yesterday ... I could barely get my head around my daily barrage of emails, let alone write any kind of intelligent review ...

Comment by Natalina

July 7th 2009 06:37
It's ok, Bryn. Cheryl and I will work out the outfits. You just relax. I noticed you hadn't posted anything in a couple of days.

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