Woo!

http://www.matazone.co.uk/animpages/hallow...ation_2006.html

Wow.
That's quite creepy. Really good though.
Don't want to say more incase people read this before watching it.

Woah..That was like really good. I liked the ending. Two thumbs up.

I have an itchy back.

ahh that was creepy..

I think the clown killer one is still my favourite though.

I think something in the throats was my favorite. Lol, even though now I'm scared of choking in my sleep...

I watched it the first time with now sound and thought it was creepy...

I watched it with the sound on the secound time and got pretty creeped out. Really, the music & Echo made the story quite a bit scarier...

I didn't know if the echo was over-doing it. Every time I've listened to an audio book of Edgar Allen Poe it's always had echo on it, and I thought it was to much, but I figured people must be conditioned to respond to echoes so I might as well exploit it!

Ha, that's fantastic in it's horribleness.

You sir, are the Neil Gaiman of flash.

gah...get away from me with those pliars! *jerks awake*

...damn you...

Wow, that was bloody amazing. I liked the ending especially too, it really pulled the whole thing together fantastically.

Endings in horror are always tricky things to handle, I'm pleased to hear that I got this one right. I had to fiddle with the timing on it quite a lot before I was happy with the pacing of the images. I needed to pick up on the rhythm of the words and repeat that for the final few images to give the sense of the story continuing beyond the poem.

wow, that is awesome. I love it how even your Halloween animations have social commentry in them

Ok I'm now all creeped out for the day! Gee thanks!

Matazone: Insisting that isn't it just a little bit possible that the creepy ball of skin next to your bathtub could be sentient?

Excellent job, Mata. I think this is one of my new favorites.

Here's where people start continue to question my sanity.

After 4 nights of insomnia the animation's ending hit me so hard in the funny bone I laughed until I had tears in my eyes. Part of me is going "that poor, poor protagonist" and "that monster is a real rat bar steward" and part of me is still giggling. My Boss at work'll wonder why I'm grinning today.

Two thumbs way up!

Oh, god, I have to stop watching the Halloween animations. Something in Throats was bad enough...

They do, but it usually says the same thing: modern life is a sham and eventually something inside us, older than we know, is going to want to come out to play... Except maybe 'The Ventriloquist', which was just a bit of fun.

It's good to know I can still traumatise people! Fans of Freud, how many representations of the unheimlich can you spot in the animation?

Marvellous, once again Mata!

I think the truly scary part is when I start thinking about the thought processes that you went through in order to reach such an idea. Images of you picking your skin off one night and then thinking, "Hmm... if only I could make myself a doppleganger from this," are more than a little frightening.

Still: very good stuff indeed!

I think it came from the awareness that we must shed a human amount of our body mass over the course of the year, and wondering how long it would take to shed an entire body's worth. From there it's only a short step to say 'if it was alive once, why can't it be alive again?' That's logical... Right?

*fighting sounds, sword clanging, battle yells, I WIN*

Master Mata, I have returned! *bows with sword in the ground a bit* Forgive me; I have been battling demons, monsters, and college midterms. But I am back now, and am joyous at your update! Though I admit I'm a bit nervous to watch Grey Matter

I take it back. I watched it.

Uh...ew? This is the kinda stuff you think of at 3 am? Bleh...that's disgusting, if I may.

If you've not had a good night's sleep for several weeks then you too will probably think of some pretty odd things in the middle of the night. My trick is to be able to be able to turn a horror motif into a story.

The day after watching this animation, I discovered a scabbed scratch on the back onf my shoulder, which is really itchy, and now I can't scratch it because it freaks me out so much >.>

Hell, I feel nauseous just reading through this thread again.

*takes hat off to Mata*

My work here is done

This is precisely why I say that it's a proper horror story, and has oodles of Freud in it; it sticks in the mind then gets you when you thought you had forgotten about it.

PS. Mwahahahahaha. That is all.

And that is the exact reason I dont watch horror films! The films dont bother me it's afterwards that bothers me.

Ok, I held out until today and wasn't dissapointed! That one's gonna stick with me and I'm not sure its a good thing
I love the white lines on black, while not actually adding things, to my mind it really left nothing out. I loved the flickering of the TV too...
Mean old grafted skin creation turning off the TV; for some that'd probably be the real horror

Sorry, I still find it makes me laugh.
However I had the worse time walking over an optical illusion of depth in a haunted house. If a friend hadn't led me across - I might still be there. Fear is an odd thing, eh?

Definitely. I have a friend who is terrified of balloons. To make the ultimate scary animation for her I'd just need to do a picture of lots of balloons, maybe animate them bobbing around a bit.

A level Psychology students get to see videos of people who have mortal fears of baked beans and feathers, respectively. What you should do next year is have a flailing chicken tied to a balloon, covered in baked beans. At least three people in the world with find that horrifying

I really like that idea! I could look up the most obscure set of phobias and see how many I can get in one image...

That would be excellent. I just watched Grey Matter through a few times and liked it a lot, though I kept wincing near the end. You timed the ending perfectly; I felt extremely sorry for your mutilated and presumably bored protagonist, especially because he'll die of blood loss in a few minutes without anything to distract him.
I know what you mean about thinking of weird things late at night. Every time I stay up past two in the morning I start getting weird images of being mauled by stuffed animals or something equally strange, and the images come back the next time I'm tired.