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McWeird007 · Decorated Joined: 11 Dec 2010 Posts: 200 Location: Hell

inb4 J finds another part of the paper

**Posted:** Sat Jun 18, 2011 4:00 pm

sp103 · Unfettered Joined: 07 Jan 2008 Posts: 447

Holy crap. How bad is that acting by his "parents". Their faces aren't shown because their too busy reading the script.

Horrible. I did like how Slendy appeared however. But robot parent scripting ruined it.

JustJim · Unfettered Joined: 19 Jan 2011 Posts: 661

**Posted:** Sat Jun 18, 2011 4:21 pm

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**Posted:** Sat Jun 18, 2011 4:23 pm

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**Posted:** Sat Jun 18, 2011 4:34 pm

qaqa · Unfictologist Joined: 23 Oct 2010 Posts: 1660

I can't really fault Nimbus for the parents' acting. If I drafted my parents for something like this, they'd be at least as amateurish if not far worse. My father's brief turn as Captain James Tiberius Kirk of the Starship Enterprise at a public conference when I was nine years old (and in the front row, wishing I was dead) need not be recounted here.

Anyway, what I value much more than Mr. and Mrs. Noah's hilarious hand acting (hands = faces!) is the fact that he drafted them at all and went through with it. Even EMH, which I adore, didn't do that (although I guess they probably drafted Jeff's mom to do voice work after the fact, so good on them). Sure, it's a question - 'do I go there knowing this scene will be awkward if they can't carry it off and it may alter the video's mood, or do I go all the way anyway?' If it was me I might not have done it. But then my series would've been a little more safe.

It adds a note of risk and authenticity to his storyline with his family for him to go that extra mile, even if the performance was a bit of a goof on their part. A lot of great horror films made by amateurs had similar iffy performances from non-actors which we can look back on now with a bit of a jaundiced eye, but which don't do anything in the end but add to the texture of what were overall very effective independent horror films - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Night of the Living Dead, The Last House On The Left, etc. If the material is good enough, it overcomes those kind of wrinkles. I laughed at the hand acting, but I didn't really have a problem with it and I still was engaged by the story they and he were telling. Also, the incredible Slendy entrance.

**Posted:** Sat Jun 18, 2011 4:35 pm

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maychorian · Veteran Joined: 13 Apr 2011 Posts: 96

I like it. I love it. I want some more of it.

**Posted:** Sat Jun 18, 2011 4:48 pm

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**Posted:** Sat Jun 18, 2011 4:50 pm

q_3 · Greenhorn Joined: 04 Dec 2010 Posts: 4

Noah can't figure out "unreliable narrator" precisely because he is an unreliable narrator.

**Posted:** Sat Jun 18, 2011 5:01 pm

JustAQ · Decorated Joined: 22 Mar 2011 Posts: 155

The acting made me want to stab my eyes out, but I can understand the trouble with using one's own parents. The most distracting part for me was the hand stuff. DEAR GOD, I thought they were doing ASL for the people that couldn't lip read.

Part of me wants to know more about Mary Asher's multiple imaginary friends. If Slender Man is real, could the others be real too? Was she also seeing HABIT, or maybe The Rake?

Another thing that was glossed over was "I had to stop talking to her when she tried to kill your father,". After that line they just flipped into something else completely. If I found out that my aunt tried to kill my dad, I'd have a fit, but Noah didn't even second guess. Has he told us the story previously and I just missed it? Can someone ask about it? Why hasn't he told us about that particular incident?

**Posted:** Sat Jun 18, 2011 5:27 pm

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**Posted:** Sat Jun 18, 2011 5:29 pm

icy780 · Decorated Joined: 04 Apr 2011 Posts: 158

**Posted:** Sat Jun 18, 2011 5:56 pm

Pasdio · Veteran Joined: 28 Jan 2011 Posts: 149

Am I the only one who thought that the audio was recorded separately from the video?
I couldn't even see his mother's jaw moving. Which explains all the gesticulation.
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**Posted:** Sat Jun 18, 2011 6:21 pm

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NoMoreGaems · Unfettered Joined: 17 Sep 2010 Posts: 627

That's a trick also pulled in Grandfather Karl, leaving the actor's face offscreen so they could dub over any dialogue stumbles.

Also, dat slendervanishing, so awesome. Also, logically, Noah should be looking directly at where he crops up, if I've read the reflections correctly.

**Posted:** Sat Jun 18, 2011 7:20 pm