LOOT’s Alien Autopsy
Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
–Arthur C. Clarke
Raise your hand if those Unsolved Mysteries UFO segments used to scare the bajeebus out of you.
I mean, seriously. You know the acting was crap, you know there was melodramatic lighting and smoke effects, but remember — this was the late ‘eighties. You couldn’t just push a button and have a zillion computers produce Avatar while you went out for pizza. It was legitimately scary to see special effects on your television, depicting alien abductions, UFOs, bizarre experiments and more.
There was a period of time — culminating in the early ‘nineties, I think — when UFO mania was at its peak in this country. Whitley Strieber’s books were everywhere. Travis Walton’s alleged abduction was turned into a Hollywood film. Speculation raged over Ed Walters’ bizarre encounters in Gulf Breeze. Millions tuned in to watch Chris Carter’s increasingly bizarre television shows. If today’s pop culture is obsessed with zombies, then twenty years ago it was all about alien autopsies and government conspiracies.
UFO mania died down as advances in modern technology made things more and more implausible. It’s easy to shock a credulous audience when only a handful of people know how to hoax a Polaroid Sun 600 LMS; it’s much harder in today’s digital age when even the four-year-old kid in line behind you at the supermarket has a camera phone and can create videos of squirrels dueling with lightsabers.
Are the little green men really out there? Who knows. One can speculate that something like the Roswell incident led to the reverse engineering of alien technology and gave us the transistor, from which all modern technology has exploded. On the flipside, that can sound just as preposterous as any of the pseudo-science written by Sitchin or Hubbard.
Either way, in an internet era in which we regularly encounter increasingly bizarre elements of humanity, there is much laughter to be wrung out of the subject of alien encounters. Just look at the Men In Black franchise, which has made more money than the GDP of a small European nation off of this trope. And with the recent release of Men In Black III, coupled with LOOT’s amazing MIB-themed offerings for Home, I figured it was time to parody those grainy “alien autopsy” videos we were all subjected to back in the day.
Special thanks must be given to HearItWow, who lent his voice talents to this project. Norse really pushed me to play with sound design and foley, and I think the end result is, hopefully, rather convincing.
Enjoy!
June 17th, 2012 by Godzprototype | 10 comments
Godzprototype is learning the art of creating Machinima, and would like to share it with you. Hope you enjoy.
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(DarthGranny shakes her head wearily. “Voiceovers. Dang. Now they are going to want VOICEOVERS and SOUND EFFECTS in everything…..” and shuffles back to her overworked laptop.
LOL that was way cool Godz Funny! Good job on the voices everyone!
It was a blast to shoot, came on even better! Great work again!
What a knee slapper!!! I laughed so hard at the alien shaking his head and talking..good job on the black and white and keep em comming Godz this is just too fun to watch..Turned out better than expected.
Now THATS a machinima! Excellent work to all involved. Keep at it Proto!
Thank you everyone for the help, and the support! I will keep at it.
Yes Godz another amazing film. Thanks for having me be part of it. I think it was more fun to shoot it then watching it…… nah they both were fun!!!
Very nice!
Very nice.
Worm guy sez “8 thumbs up!”