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would you mind sharing with us some of the backstory on the creature and how the one guy got ahold of it/thought he could control it and direct it? I'm very curious on the lore of these types of things
the fact that it could have moved everytime ben looked away but didnt until he was out of the house so they didnt realize only ben could stop it is terrifying, an intelligent and plotting animal
The absolute TERROR that Rachel must have felt when she realized it was still moving even though she never took her eyes off it... Great short honestly
Am I the only one who is absolutely terrified imagining what Rachel saw when Ben left. It literally gives me goosebumps just thinking about the terror she went through.
The fact he went into the basement after hearing no response other than "yeah, whats up?" He knows the box-guy can mimic voices, at least call someone before going down
Lol horror movie logic is "immah go investigate alone despite convenient alternatives like calling the police when all lights were switched off at my house and my wife was missing"
The realization that her remark about Ben getting water on her at the start was foreshadowing the ending with all the water being turned on and Ben being responsible for what happened to Rachel
Practically anything can be scary if it pops up on screen suddenly with a loud noise. But that wet head peeking out of the box remained just as disturbing to me no matter how long I stared at it, which is a genuine achievement in horror. My favorite spine-chilling moment was the shot of its eyes just following Ben. Absolutely loved this short film!!
Thats the Difference between "Scary" and "startling". Literally everyone can go "Booo!!" jumping out of a shadow and get a reaction, but you aint scared after that, you are pissed. Someone just terrifiying you by just being there, saying something, saying nothing... thats something you have to earn.
Everytime something happens in a movie with a strong sound it literally kills the fear factor to me. It's like the movie is saying, "your suppose to be afraid..now!..aren't you afraid??" Silence is the only genuinly effective thing in horror for me. Kinda annoys the shit out of me no one ever just lets it be quiet. Seeing something disturbing in a movie with no musical cue is always so much more effective
it’s so crazy to imagine the horror Rachel felt when Ben first drives away and the thing begins to crawl out of the box despite her looking directly at it
Love how Shaun gave a less that minimal amount of info or instructions on how to keep the man in the box still and then gets mad when Ben actually doesn't understand it like a normal person would💀
@@PureenergyriftTo be fair, Sean wanted to murder Ben (or whatever the box people do, I personally think they drag you into the box void and you become one of them)
well you also have to think about how the box came, we can assume the thing didn't even appear, there's no way Sean would've been not looking at it if he had transferred it to Ben, and he didn't even know it could speak, he literally had minimal knowledge of the box and Ben lied about who was there, if Sean had the information he probably would've told him specifically who had to look, but since he was told Ben was alone, he said "You". The context is really what sealed their fate, Sean gave what he knew, Ben looked away, the box gained a voice, the thing tricked Ben, the thing then became a family and escaped.
i love how they actually hinted at the fact that ben was supposed to keep an eye on it because the man in the box followed him with his eyes each time he walked around
@@John1250gerhgidehgirehgI love how much you love that fact. But now we have more than 4300 comments. So I had to weit a new one to keep everything in balance…
Came to rewatch it and I just noticed something: As they're cooking in the beginning, the guy keeps telling her to watch the sauce. This is subtly foreshadowing the rules of the box. This short is brilliantly written.
All about the ending sequence was masterful. The entity appearing in the mirror as long as the guy is looking at it just to vanish in a single shot. My god horror at its best.
The fact that it WAITED until Rachel was alone. There were so many moments where Ben was looking away and it could have moved but it didn't to confuse them about the rules and make them think they'd both be safe.
@@samsonboldizar7290 i dont think so, the thing is obviously smart enough to do that on purpose since it purposefully lied to them about what sean said, the thing planned it all along or else it wouldnt have said that
The acting emotion when Shawn got mad at Ben for leaving the house as Ben was supposed to be watching the box was pretty powerful. You can really hear the mixture of the initial sadness of the doom Rachael is about to face followed by the sheer transition to anger for realizing that Ben didn't listen and then rage that Ben didn't listen again during that call.
The silent turn around in the car after Shawn screams “You have to keep your eyes on it” will always astound me how simple a scene can be, but portray such power
My jaw dropped when Sean started screaming at Ben saying he was the one supposed to look at the box, this is one of the greatest short horror films on UA-cam, their acting was absolutely phenomenal.
I have more questions like... What really transpired between the two guys that made Shawn say, that's water beneath the bridge. Was Shawn dating her first? or was there a bad brawl??. Like I'm left wondering, The way Shawn intentionally told the guy to open the box before reading the letter. He wanted him to DIE.
@@myivyfindstore I just keep wondering about that thing and Shown, we asumed Shawn give the box to ben because he couldn't take it anymore, and the only solution was to give it away BUT HOW IN HELL HE COULD PUT THE GUY INSIDE AGAIN?! Or why the thing in the box didn't want shawn
@@myivyfindstore I’m also confused why Shawn told Ben not to go back even if it seems he gave the box too Shawn for the purpose of it causing harm to him. But during the phone call, Shawn didn’t want Ben to go back? Like don’t you want the guy to get hurt?
Brilliant. "I told YOU to not look away from the box." The unknown of whatever happened to Rachel is frightening enough. Beautifully filmed and great acting. Thank you for taking the time to create this short film. You have the gift so please keep going.
I love how it moved so slowly to begin with in order to give them a false sense of security. Then later it becomes evident that it can move faster than you can comprehend
Letting us (the viewers and characters) establish our own rules on how it works, only to reveal it was just fucking with us and those rules aren't true is always fun in horror when done right.
I would've called the cops right away. Usually in paranormal films, the issue is proving to authorities you're not crazy. But in this scenario, you can't deny a creepy guy peeking out at you from a box. Or I would've tried hurting it while it was still in the box.
And both of them doesnt taking that box outside the house at the moment they realize that it was a hole, is very hard to believe. (but the movie is amazing)
no but think about it, shaun mustve seen it too, yet when he brought it to them, it wasnt apparent until it was too late, so that suggests it has some awareness and its likely when the cops arrived it wouldn’t appear to be there, unless it just ended up with more victims through each person who saw it becoming trapped to stare at it.
You know they did a good job when people are in the comments section theorising things about it. I want to know how Shaun survived it and managed to give it away.
@@tjavila2076 I’m guessing she was one of those people on the stairs and the guy in the box changed her into what he was. So when he trapped him the other people on the stairs were like other people he’s changed
I feel like it being a shortfilm is kind've a positive, although yea I completely agree with the amazing concept. Many movies with good ideas can become kind've bad though cause they stretch it out too much
Agreed, and that he showed such distress a disparity in being able able to explain things (you could tell he was struggling) and didn’t do the whole “there’s no time to explain” trope.
Lol, she acted like no girl in the world would. "Oh, look honey, there's a head of a weird scary dude staring at as, bizarre right? I'll just wait here, at night, with the strange magical creep while you go find your friend who's not answering your calls." XD
This is the real horror movie that i'm talking about. No jumpscare. No overused of background music. Please make the story longer . this is what i want to watch in a big screen.
I think this is the perfect length for it. Remember how they made a movie out of 'Lights Off', and it just wasnt as good. What we *could* have in cinemas is an anthology of such shorts. That would be brilliant (imagine, the lights come on at the end of the movie, and you're the only one sitting in the theatre)
11:15 GOD idk why but the delivery from Shawn’s actor just gives me goosebumps cause Ben just realized the severity of the situation and we realize that Rachel probably died (or whatever the thing did to her) the second Ben took off
@rarescevei8268 that's also what I was thinking. Especially considering that there's multiple people in the box, and the film is literally called other side of the box
His best bet in the end would had been to run straight to the creepy guy at the lamp, and get behind him fast while looking at him the whole time. The others in the stairs would be behind him and would follow, but as long as he is faster he could then get them all in his view, and assuming there are no more box monsters around coming from weird angles he would now have time to think of a solution to get out of this, while keeping them all stunned by looking at them all at the same time in the same angle.
Right? Finally people you understand the difference between scary and disgusting. A person's guts are getting ripped out doesn't make things scary, it just makes it gross.
“Why is it looking at you like that?” I thought that was one of the scariest lines of dialogue in the film. I put myself in Ben’s position and imagine I would have been absolutely terrified by the fact that it was looking at ME in such a menacing way. Similar to when I meet someone’s pet that for some odd reason doesn’t like me and the owner says something like “that’s weird, she/he usually likes everyone”. It makes me think “what does that animal see or sense that makes it feel this way about me? Is there something wrong with me? What did I do?”
It’s hard to describe, but this fear is one of the worst to me. There is nothing to do to fix it, nothing to explain it, but somehow you are in danger and a single pair of dull black eyes are staring at you. I don’t think i would be able to save myself in this situation if i was Ben. I watched a movie called Coraline, where a little girl was in danger because she was stuck in an identical world with a monster who pretended to be her mother. The feeling of that is similar to this. Why my mother? Why trap me? (sorry for poor english)
thats been happening to me a lot lately. dogs that I know and that used to love me started being weird. iv had a run of bad luck. my own dogs are acting strange to other dogs. things just don't feel right.
This is absolutely the best short film I have seen, it has no blood, no screaming just the silence and suspense, this is something makes you want more that’s exactly what we want in the suspense cinema, it’s just amazing
This is a perfect example for great psychological horror. It's given real fear, not just fear of jump scares. Even in the short amount of time, you bond with the characters in some way. And by the end of it all, you're left with more questions than answers. This is an absolutely amazing film! Definitely one of my favorites!
nah the REAL HORROR was her being like “you’re getting me wet” OVER AND OVER this is not the beginning of a porno it’s a horror film GET IT TOGETHER PEOPLE
rip whatever they were cooking, prolly meatloaf (i do not know what that is i’m italian i just know it’s americans’ childhood food and everyone hates it somehow)
@@lim3eE3American here, I don't think meatloaf is actually that disliked by many who already eat meat. I do think we write a lot of jokes about hating meatloaf thinking about it now but its just a loaf of ground beef and breadcrumbs covered in some kind of sauce. Is it amazing? It can be but usually it's just okay. I think between it being a pretty basic and boring dish to make as well as its name, meatloaf, its easy to make fun of. I think also, it being so easy to make, part of the joke is that it's made way more often than it should so a kid gets sick of it after awhile. TLDR: The hate for meatloaf is probably played up more than it is actually hated here.
Didn’t you notice how happy Shaun was after he realized that Rachel wasn’t in the house at the beginning. The box was intended for him not Rachel. Probably jealous. The box takes you in. Now it took Rachel. He probably wanted Rachel back and delete the guy
@@orphansshouldunalivethemse846 I suppose at this point it didn't matter, as Reachel was dead, I guess he didnt want him to just also die. Also I have a bit different theory...
Yeah i’m late but theory here, Racheal definitely was taken within the box. The people that were on the stairs are all victims that looked away from the box. Racheal looked like she was on the stairs during the last part. Once you’re in the box it’s like it traps and converts you into one of them. I absolutely love this
Great analysis. I have more questions like... What really transpired between the two guys that made Shawn say, that's water beneath the bridge. Was Shawn dating her first? or was there a bad brawl??. Like I'm left wondering, The way Shawn intentionally told the guy to open the box before reading the letter. He wanted him to DIE.
@@myivyfindstore that’s what i’m saying! I feel as if they were friends but both had feelings for the same girl maybe shawn before the other dude but it was fair game. It’s obvious they both deeply cared for her
@@myivyfindstore how did Shawn know anything about what's in the box without opening it though? And if he did open it then how did he survive and reseal it?
All jokes aside this is one of the best horrors ive ever seen. No dramatic music, just ambience with a few sharp notes here and there to highlight. The atmosphere is perfect, dark and creepy. Theres also underlying themes that you might not pick up the first time--"youre getting me wet!" "Water under the bridge" and the thing's apparent need for water. Ben lies to Shawn, the thing lies to Ben. Although it evidently isnt a lie because when Ben left the house the thing was able to escape. The fact that there are multiple box-things, either they could be previous victims or simply other beings from whatever dimension the box leads to. So many questions, it doesnt answer but there are many implications. This should be the standard for all horror films.
This is a smart monster even when it had the chance to move it didn’t because it wanted them to think that anyone could look at it then it waited for him to leave the house before it was finally ready to attack
Oh let's leave my wife with a random demonic box. What could go wrong. Just fking take the box with you🤦♂️. PS: I have a duck video, a chicken video...Also a patreon
@@iwanttobeabillionaire1703 Yeah taking a box that moves when you aren't watching it into a car is such a great idea. Totally not unsafe in any way shape or form.
Just take a second to award them, no cheesy acting, no unnecessary jumpscares or gore, nothing far fetched, just a beautiful horror movie that they put their heart into. Great job guys, this is amazing
@@charliebae4920 ok I dont really need to explain but I'll still try, The context of the short, the scenario, and tone of shawn's voice make the moment better and that's why its a goated line.
@@Satoru_OfX8767 it's like reality hit and Everything adds up because him being the one that had to look at the box makes sense and we knew that girl was dead before he went back. He fucked up and we as the audience when it . Everything rushing to my mind when he said that just man... That was amazing
The best part was when they thought they figured it out and had the girl watch the box. It was horrifying to hear the friend explain on the phone that HE had to be the one to watch the box and only him.
@@Mr_Flerb I assume the friend conjured up some demon. It seems he was still in love with his ex. So if Ben was responsible for watching the box, there was a chance he would be consumed eventually & the "friend" gets his girl back.
@@cademancaden Yeah, but even if he summoned it rather than having been given it himself (which is how I read it), he still had to have experienced some of it, based on the contents of the letter.
11:09 this is one of the coolest and powerful scenes I’ve seen in a short horror film his yelling and acting in this scene is so incredible you can feel the general concern and fear for Rachel and his friend.
it's crazy, it was even the monster using sean's voice to admit to them that it wanted ben to leave they played right into its hands , while staring straight at it, so it couldn't have gotten them if they hadn't been such goofballs
Not all fear is caused by the unknown. Who the hell told you that, And no its not so scary because its never fully revealed to us. Its so scary because its a box with fucking people inside it. Not that deep. Stop trying to make it as deep as the box.
Oh my gosh yeah!! The suspense is so high, and my brain can’t picture a thing, it’s just- like a pure feeling. An animal, or monster, that people can identify isn’t as scary as the unknown.
Imagine if the reason why Shawn told him not to go back is because Ben's house was being turned into "bigger box"? Shawn told the thing to not let him leave the house, and it was making the house more hospitable for it to survive, water and darkness.
Makes sense for the most part, but Shawn never said to not leave the house, it was just the box copying and using his voice like it does later with the wife. It was to trick the husband into leaving
Does it need water and darkness to survive? It seemed like it just turned off all the lights so Ben couldn't see it. And sure, it is really weirdly wet, but also it probably just turned on the sink to lure Ben further down into the basement. Meanwhile in the kitchen, it seems like it presumably just stabbed the girl with the knife and then cleaned the blood off of it.
Oh how cute.... little coddled, everyone gets a trophy, live "your truth", gutless wonder doesn't like "blood or violence" in a fucking horror movie.... so pathetic
@@Simple_Jackass Thats abit much, not that theres anything wrong with bloody blood uber violence but honestly too often its gratuitous and desensitizing to the true horror. Some of the greatest horror movies of all time have very little blood or violence and there was a time when it was nice to have a kind of horror palate cleanser between blood fests and vice versa. I wont go so far as to call you pathetic but you do sound like an entitled ignorant child that thinks way too much of themselves and who, in a world where everyone gets a trophy maybe didnt get one and just lives life now 🤬💩 on other people
This is the first time in an exceptionally long time that a horror film left me feeling genuinely unsettled hours after watching it. I saw it last night and couldn't get rid of this subtle dread in my chest. This is exactly what a horror is supposed to do. This film was fantastic.
I felt the exact same, regular don't really scare me anymore because of how predictable they've become but this literally made me so scared after watching it.
The urgency in shawn's voice when he told ben not to go back to the house sent chills down my spine, loved this one. Really awesome weeping angel concept
Yeah but why give him that gift, knowing it was evil, then tell him not to go back? I guess in retrospect, he guessed his ex girl was gone & wouldn't get her back, so he then tried to salvage his ex best friend.
@@telgou idk...I don't buy that I mean I hear it a lot but in the note he says he needed to give it to someone. Plus judging on how he's acting it looks as if he hasn't slept in days maybe weeks. Plus if he wanted his friend to be killed he wouldn't have put instructions with the box
the moment i hear "yea what's up?" from the basement after leaving the girl with a box that has a man peeking thru i am leaving. idc abt Rachel idk who she's anymore I AM LEAVING!
Yeah I think the issue with horror movies is that the run time is too long and can be drawn out, and they try to focus more on story telling when in reality, not everything needs to be explained or to make sense, its the fear of the unknown thats most common afterall.
I think it's more the mysteriousness and tension of not knowing the whole plot or a setting to it compared to a longer film where you need a plot and a setting
I honestly might seem messed up for this, but if I were the guy I wouldnt go back to the house. His “friend” kinda scared me when he yelled “DONT GO BACK TO THE HOUSE!” I would have been like “u dont gotta tell me twice”
I wouldn't blame you either. There was no point in him going back to the house at that stage. He had no weapons, only a flashlight. And of course, he was facing a literal demon. It's not like he knew how to defeat it. At the very least he could have called the police and a priest and had them meet him outside the front door before all going in.
I don't think it mattered anymore, really. It was out of the box. It could literally do anything it wants as long as Ben...and ONLY Ben... doesn't look. ...maybe. Who knows, maybe it can't leave the house.
@@winterstar5189 it wasn’t his friend, Shawn used to date that girl. Maybe they cheated and ended up together. Dude had a broken heart and wanted to get back at them
SPOILERS: The scariest thing is how clever the box-monster is when you think about it. It could've moved in the moments where Ben was turned away and it was just Rachel looking at it, but it didn't. It wanted to lull them into a false sense of security and make them think that if someone other than Ben was looking at it, then it couldn't move. By doing this, it tricks Ben into thinking he can go out to find Shawn and leave Rachel with it, not knowing that he's pretty much leaving his girlfriend to be attacked and have who-knows-what done to her.
Nah it doesn't need it. Turning it into a full length movie would mess with the pacing and its able to get everything across perfectly in this short film.
8:13 - that was such a moment in hindsight. It completely fooled them. "Well, that could have been worse." What a perfect way to lull them into a false sense of "I guess we can handle this!" to separate them. The amount of times Ben actually looked away in the beginning but it stayed - JUST to wait out until they could attack them one by one. When the guy screamed that it was lying to them, the nonchalance of the beginning felt 10x more sinister.
your observation is exceptional, when he let them look at each other for almost 2 seconds he just gently took out his fingers to make them believe that he was slow, the moment they did their test I said to myself that the "thing" in the box could perhaps move much faster and with each blink of an eye, until the "it was you" on the phone made me understand the extent of the lie, only the guy's look was effective.
It's always the fear of the unknown that is the scariest. And when that unknown looks so like us, it makes it even more terrifying. Also, the box man/creature looks a little like Hbomberguy which made me chuckle.
What's even more scary is how inanimate the thing in the box is. You stare at it at and seems to be just another object, almost like a mannequin, it doesn't respond to words or touch, but yet it's eyes move and it moves when you're not looking at it.
I hate jumpscares. They are cheap and not scary at all. All it doese is suprise you for a short momment. And them its over. All the scare is gone. Psychological horror last longer. When you cant see it anymore it keeps haunting your mind. And I love that.
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Where is shawn now?haha i would like to give him 10boxes now..haha
@@knightsofhorton533 the actor who plays Shawn actually acts in my next short too. 😊
No go away
Awesome, I love Other Side of the Box, it's still one of my favorite short films, so I'm definitely gonna check out your new one next.
would you mind sharing with us some of the backstory on the creature and how the one guy got ahold of it/thought he could control it and direct it? I'm very curious on the lore of these types of things
the fact that it could have moved everytime ben looked away but didnt until he was out of the house so they didnt realize only ben could stop it is terrifying, an intelligent and plotting animal
BRO
The fact its eyes can move around is crazy. Proves it's not just some inanimate unintelligent object. It has self awareness, but it's just....waiting.
Frrr it creep me out
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You dont need to be an intelligent object/being to track movement? There are cameras that do that now 😂
chills bro.... chills
The absolute TERROR that Rachel must have felt when she realized it was still moving even though she never took her eyes off it... Great short honestly
i saw an edit of this on tiktok and expected this to be a full length movie on netflix or something this is great
literally but it’s still so goood!!
Same! That's the only reason I watched this. One of my favorites so far!
that’s why I’m here
@@vinnie8Me too! I saw it from “Lucid”
same broo
THIS is a what a great horror film looks like. No unnecessary jump scares and blood, no screaming. Just tension and silence 👏🏻👏🏻
Jumpscares are cheaps ways to scare people
Exactly!! Why is this movie only 15 minutes long tho?
Short horror movies are way easier to do than full movies, you can't compare them
Ah, thank you so much for metting me know that there arent jumpscares :3
Bgm played well
Am I the only one who is absolutely terrified imagining what Rachel saw when Ben left. It literally gives me goosebumps just thinking about the terror she went through.
It started dropping cheesy pickup lines
Nope
"hey, hey baby how are ya." *read in Elvis voice*
Ew i know that’s so disgusting
I keep rewatching it like it's going to give me more info about what happened to Rachel.
The fact he went into the basement after hearing no response other than "yeah, whats up?" He knows the box-guy can mimic voices, at least call someone before going down
Lol horror movie logic is "immah go investigate alone despite convenient alternatives like calling the police when all lights were switched off at my house and my wife was missing"
I mean yeah why the hell did he go down there
But at the same time who knows what this creature can do
@Ben Jr really?
Nice one wasting your time saying this
@Ben Jr stfu
@Ben Jr no, there is nothing wrong with furries. stop being rude.
The realization that her remark about Ben getting water on her at the start was foreshadowing the ending with all the water being turned on and Ben being responsible for what happened to Rachel
and her needing to keep an eye on the sauce
Good comments
So much better than the latest “who’s here from TikTok?” comments, then they’re all picking at everything
i still don’t understand the significance of the water being on, but this film was really good so i would love to know why
Practically anything can be scary if it pops up on screen suddenly with a loud noise. But that wet head peeking out of the box remained just as disturbing to me no matter how long I stared at it, which is a genuine achievement in horror. My favorite spine-chilling moment was the shot of its eyes just following Ben. Absolutely loved this short film!!
Thats the Difference between "Scary" and "startling".
Literally everyone can go "Booo!!" jumping out of a shadow and get a reaction, but you aint scared after that, you are pissed.
Someone just terrifiying you by just being there, saying something, saying nothing... thats something you have to earn.
I like how it seemed to be slightly out of focus, adds to the "that's not a man" vibe
That man in the box deserve an Oscar b
Everytime something happens in a movie with a strong sound it literally kills the fear factor to me. It's like the movie is saying, "your suppose to be afraid..now!..aren't you afraid??" Silence is the only genuinly effective thing in horror for me. Kinda annoys the shit out of me no one ever just lets it be quiet. Seeing something disturbing in a movie with no musical cue is always so much more effective
"Wet head" ha lol
it’s so crazy to imagine the horror Rachel felt when Ben first drives away and the thing begins to crawl out of the box despite her looking directly at it
omg Iwas just thinking abt that lol
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And there was more than one, so she must've been freaked out when they all started coming out of the box
Also naked…😰
Imagine painting a box with vantablack on the inside and giving it to a friend after you show him this film.
lmao thats exactly what I had in mind and might do
then spend the rest of your life in jail*
🤣🤣🤣
imagine the friend didn't know they saw the video prior to you showing them a cool science trick lmbo; i would never be the same
I was thinking this exact thing
"No, Ben, YOU" and suddenly your heart is in your stomach
Love how Shaun gave a less that minimal amount of info or instructions on how to keep the man in the box still and then gets mad when Ben actually doesn't understand it like a normal person would💀
To be fair, Ben lied to Sean. If Sean had known that Rachel was there, it would have likely been different.
@@PureenergyriftTo be fair, Sean wanted to murder Ben (or whatever the box people do, I personally think they drag you into the box void and you become one of them)
@@Pureenergyrift How did Sean get him back in the box though?
well you also have to think about how the box came, we can assume the thing didn't even appear, there's no way Sean would've been not looking at it if he had transferred it to Ben, and he didn't even know it could speak, he literally had minimal knowledge of the box and Ben lied about who was there, if Sean had the information he probably would've told him specifically who had to look, but since he was told Ben was alone, he said "You". The context is really what sealed their fate, Sean gave what he knew, Ben looked away, the box gained a voice, the thing tricked Ben, the thing then became a family and escaped.
@@Pureenergyrifthow would it have been different?
As somebody who watched this alone, never appreciated an ad more
Hahahahahahaha
Never have I wanted an ad more
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I canceled my premium after reading this comment 😭😂
Couldn't say it any better
i love how they actually hinted at the fact that ben was supposed to keep an eye on it because the man in the box followed him with his eyes each time he walked around
It even told them straight up "Just Ben. Don't let him leave the house."
i like how 3300 people liked your comment but theres only 2 replies lol
@@John1250gerhgidehgirehgI love how much you love that fact. But now we have more than 4300 comments. So I had to weit a new one to keep everything in balance…
Foreshadowing
Are u slow bro they clearly stated that it had to be him multiple times
Came to rewatch it and I just noticed something: As they're cooking in the beginning, the guy keeps telling her to watch the sauce. This is subtly foreshadowing the rules of the box.
This short is brilliantly written.
Horror films without jump scares that still scare the hell out of you.
You rigth
Especially if it’s well made
Maybe cuz I'm a psychopath but do people actually think this is scary? Because I don't find this scary at all.
@@aune6770 it's most disturbing, which turns to scary.
there are no jumpscares? now i can watch it lol
So they could leave the house with it to look for Ben.
The thing lied in Ben's voice so that one person is left to guard it.
Brilliant Film
YOLO😅
Who wants to get in a car with a man peeking out of the box on ur lap
The floorboard creak and the lights flick off as he looks away. That is MASTERFUL horror directing
Timestamp please?
@@kilo.byt3 it's at the very end
MY FAVORITE SCENE FOR SURE
All about the ending sequence was masterful. The entity appearing in the mirror as long as the guy is looking at it just to vanish in a single shot. My god horror at its best.
This is no joke, the best horror movie I’ve seen. The guys on the phone gave it his all, round of applause for him.
it aint even a movie
I feel bad for you if this is the best horror “movie” you’ve seen.. it’s ass.
When Shawn started yelling in frustration about Ben leaving, it sent goosebumps everywhere. Then when it cut to what Ben heard. Truly terrifying.
Really great acting by Shawn's actor
"It's just a prank bro."
*The prank:*
Amazing!
Fr
They bring Houdini's house, lmao@@ChairDogWoofwoofmommy
As a man, I could never imagine leaving my gf home alone with a man trying to escape a box lol
Right?!?
That's not a man. It's clearly something else. And that's even worse
fr, its crazy that he decided to just leave her like that
He could have just kept the box in the car with him
@@mohammedbilal4168 how is he going to drive if he has to constantly look at the box
It's just a guy peeking out of a box and somehow it's one of the scariest things I have ever seen.
Actually more effective than what Hollyweird’s been trying to come up with.
I know! And then Ben is like, wait it could be harmless. WHAT NO
I would’ve gotten a bad and hit it
"Nothing is scarier than something that resembles a man, but isn't."
like the way he was just.. there
People always thinks that what makes a movie scary is jumpscares and stuff.. while me thinking that silence is creepier
A carton is creepier 😂
The fact that it WAITED until Rachel was alone. There were so many moments where Ben was looking away and it could have moved but it didn't to confuse them about the rules and make them think they'd both be safe.
I think that was moreso a plot hole, but ya
@@samsonboldizar7290 there was no plot hole
@@samsonboldizar7290 i dont think so, the thing is obviously smart enough to do that on purpose since it purposefully lied to them about what sean said, the thing planned it all along or else it wouldnt have said that
What rules? Who told the other guy the rules and how he closed the box and wraped in beautiful paper? 🤣
@@joroc actually that part. How are we he able to deduce the rules from it not talking? Also how was he able to get rid of it?
The acting emotion when Shawn got mad at Ben for leaving the house as Ben was supposed to be watching the box was pretty powerful. You can really hear the mixture of the initial sadness of the doom Rachael is about to face followed by the sheer transition to anger for realizing that Ben didn't listen and then rage that Ben didn't listen again during that call.
IKKK no something you’d expect to see in a short on yt this guy definitely has a right future
Still, fuck Shawn for bringing the box...
Yo for real his screaming to go back is what really fucks with me
@@antondavidovic3996 He brought it to him for a reason.
@@iceman1287 Yeah, to fuck him over
The silent turn around in the car after Shawn screams “You have to keep your eyes on it” will always astound me how simple a scene can be, but portray such power
it definitely gave me chills, akin to something of david's stare from cyberpunk edgerunners.
That was the best part.
So true
Fr silence can be loud depending on a situation
@@swavy653 very true
My jaw dropped when Sean started screaming at Ben saying he was the one supposed to look at the box, this is one of the greatest short horror films on UA-cam, their acting was absolutely phenomenal.
Unbelievably good. No violence, gore, monsters, or jumpscares. Hollywood can only dream of having this amazing level of quality.
i agreee
Meh not really. A24 is doing great things with horror. There are a few indie horror movies being released every now and then that are absolute gems.
Not everything needs to be like this, sometimes a classic jumpscure fest is fun
@@armyofuno8196 maybe for you
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The "reveal" that Ben was the one that needed to watch the Box and Shawns pure Terror and Anger in his voice is fucking incredible
I have more questions like... What really transpired between the two guys that made Shawn say, that's water beneath the bridge. Was Shawn dating her first? or was there a bad brawl??. Like I'm left wondering, The way Shawn intentionally told the guy to open the box before reading the letter. He wanted him to DIE.
I mean you can't get angry at the guy you randomly gave this horrifying thing to with little to no explanation
@@myivyfindstore I just keep wondering about that thing and Shown, we asumed Shawn give the box to ben because he couldn't take it anymore, and the only solution was to give it away BUT HOW IN HELL HE COULD PUT THE GUY INSIDE AGAIN?! Or why the thing in the box didn't want shawn
@@myivyfindstore I’m also confused why Shawn told Ben not to go back even if it seems he gave the box too Shawn for the purpose of it causing harm to him. But during the phone call, Shawn didn’t want Ben to go back? Like don’t you want the guy to get hurt?
@@boomer7004 who knows, but i feel like its kinda like it follows. If the guy you gave it to dies it goes back to the one before that
pov: u came here to watch the other part cuz that person wouldn’t post part 2
Yes, i hate that men who post that
@@ilhamfaizal7528 ye same lol
Seriously! It’s not that hard to post part 2 but apparently it is for some people
@@DarthCocoa i agree
Yes
Brilliant. "I told YOU to not look away from the box." The unknown of whatever happened to Rachel is frightening enough. Beautifully filmed and great acting. Thank you for taking the time to create this short film. You have the gift so please keep going.
I love how it moved so slowly to begin with in order to give them a false sense of security. Then later it becomes evident that it can move faster than you can comprehend
Letting us (the viewers and characters) establish our own rules on how it works, only to reveal it was just fucking with us and those rules aren't true is always fun in horror when done right.
and that thing is really smart too bc he didnt move while ben going to get a knife
Put the fries in the bad
@@AC3_.17shut up
okay this is the only comment that make me scared the fk out of me
I would've called the cops right away. Usually in paranormal films, the issue is proving to authorities you're not crazy. But in this scenario, you can't deny a creepy guy peeking out at you from a box.
Or I would've tried hurting it while it was still in the box.
Omg thank you! I was wondering why they didn't immediately called the cops. So dumb 🙄
And both of them doesnt taking that box outside the house at the moment they realize that it was a hole, is very hard to believe. (but the movie is amazing)
This
no but think about it, shaun mustve seen it too, yet when he brought it to them, it wasnt apparent until it was too late, so that suggests it has some awareness and its likely when the cops arrived it wouldn’t appear to be there, unless it just ended up with more victims through each person who saw it becoming trapped to stare at it.
@@tee4971 it doesn’t work like that, it’s just the one who has been gifted that has to look at it
You know they did a good job when people are in the comments section theorising things about it. I want to know how Shaun survived it and managed to give it away.
“Hey!! Get the fuck back in there you-“
**Aggressive shoving match ensues**
@@ParsureArts 🤣
My guess is he kept his eyes on the thing, looked tired asf when he turned up to give it away, gg Sean
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he probably realised what was happening and maybe placed the box over it or the second he realised he took his chance taped it up and gave it away
11:11 this is peak cinema
Yes
Car scene on its own deserves an award. Props to Sean’s actor man
i agree. the emotion in his yelling sent shiverz down my spine
@@xer0_dr3amz sameee
yeah he killed that ngl
i know right? amazing
@@lolok1421 by
This is SO GOOD. THE WAY SHAWN SCREAMED "YOU" GAVE ME CHILLS.
how old r u lol
noob
@@ateendas9854 sh
BAHAHHAHAHAA
find something better to do with your time little man 🤡🤡 bfr
This is less than 20 minutes long but it felt like a hour long movie. Work of art
right
I agree
i’m confused what happened to Rachel?
@@tjavila2076 I’m guessing she was one of those people on the stairs and the guy in the box changed her into what he was. So when he trapped him the other people on the stairs were like other people he’s changed
@@tjavila2076 right
It’s honestly such a simple premise but god is it so beautifully executed- I’d love to see a movie based around this studio’s short films one day!
The only downside is that this isn't a full movie. This is a cinematic masterpiece
Gatis kandis that u?
🫰🏻🫰🏻🫣
I feel like it being a shortfilm is kind've a positive, although yea I completely agree with the amazing concept. Many movies with good ideas can become kind've bad though cause they stretch it out too much
It didn’t bother you the script was so unrealistic? Even their reactions weren’t realistic they didn’t seem fazed at seeing it 😂
Lol
the guy who plays shawn is amazing at being perfectly unsettling. just enough to seem a little normal, but just enough to feel uncomfy. well done.
Agreed, and that he showed such distress a disparity in being able able to explain things (you could tell he was struggling) and didn’t do the whole “there’s no time to explain” trope.
Jesus Christ died on the CROSS FOR YOUR SINS REPENT OF YOUR SINS AND PRAY TO GOD FOR FORGIVENESS GOD AND JESUS CHRIST LOVE YOU NEVER FORGET THIS❤❤
@@peyton6466hail Satan and pray for his return
the fact you knew it was a bad thing in the box how he got a little more animated and started smiling once he wasn’t holding the box
@@peyton6466 ..?
Box contains a literal endless void. The girl: Well that’s odd
No kidding
Exactly what I was thinking
She's in denial of what she's seeing. Trying to convince herself it's just a trick of the lights
@@GRasputin91 or she’s just really dumb
Lol, she acted like no girl in the world would. "Oh, look honey, there's a head of a weird scary dude staring at as, bizarre right? I'll just wait here, at night, with the strange magical creep while you go find your friend who's not answering your calls." XD
Anyone come here from the random tiktok edit?
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Amazing film, the director was really thinking outside of the box with this one.
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I see what you did there
Damn you stole my line 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Too soon😂
ahaaaaaa
This is the real horror movie that i'm talking about. No jumpscare. No overused of background music. Please make the story longer . this is what i want to watch in a big screen.
If they make it longer it wouldn't be called "shorts"
Bro the shower scene was a jumpscare
I got jump scared because I was looking at the comments when the head popped up and 💩myself
I think this is the perfect length for it. Remember how they made a movie out of 'Lights Off', and it just wasnt as good. What we *could* have in cinemas is an anthology of such shorts. That would be brilliant (imagine, the lights come on at the end of the movie, and you're the only one sitting in the theatre)
They tried that with lights out. The short was 100% better than the abortion of a film they made
11:15 GOD idk why but the delivery from Shawn’s actor just gives me goosebumps cause Ben just realized the severity of the situation and we realize that Rachel probably died (or whatever the thing did to her) the second Ben took off
I think the things in the box take you inside and turn you into one of them.
seans acting was awesome!!
@rarescevei8268 that's also what I was thinking. Especially considering that there's multiple people in the box, and the film is literally called other side of the box
His best bet in the end would had been to run straight to the creepy guy at the lamp, and get behind him fast while looking at him the whole time. The others in the stairs would be behind him and would follow, but as long as he is faster he could then get them all in his view, and assuming there are no more box monsters around coming from weird angles he would now have time to think of a solution to get out of this, while keeping them all stunned by looking at them all at the same time in the same angle.
This was great. No jump scares, no gore, super creepy and scary, minimal cast and props, great acting, clean cuts. Wonderful.
Right? Finally people you understand the difference between scary and disgusting. A person's guts are getting ripped out doesn't make things scary, it just makes it gross.
You are wrong
@@beaneater3744 bro just says "you're wrong" without elaboration. Chad mentality
@@themisticmaster551 chad mentality virgin opinion
@@themisticmaster551 you are wrong
Pov: You hear the "Yeah, what's up?" From the basement and immediately exit full screen
Same😂
You could TELL it was her voice but "not" her voice. Too cheerful, like nothing was happening in their world.
Same
What is part 1 ?
I just did that and the first thing I see is ur comment 💀
“Why is it looking at you like that?”
I thought that was one of the scariest lines of dialogue in the film. I put myself in Ben’s position and imagine I would have been absolutely terrified by the fact that it was looking at ME in such a menacing way. Similar to when I meet someone’s pet that for some odd reason doesn’t like me and the owner says something like “that’s weird, she/he usually likes everyone”. It makes me think “what does that animal see or sense that makes it feel this way about me? Is there something wrong with me? What did I do?”
It’s hard to describe, but this fear is one of the worst to me. There is nothing to do to fix it, nothing to explain it, but somehow you are in danger and a single pair of dull black eyes are staring at you. I don’t think i would be able to save myself in this situation if i was Ben.
I watched a movie called Coraline, where a little girl was in danger because she was stuck in an identical world with a monster who pretended to be her mother. The feeling of that is similar to this. Why my mother? Why trap me? (sorry for poor english)
Me too man, me too.
thats been happening to me a lot lately. dogs that I know and that used to love me started being weird. iv had a run of bad luck. my own dogs are acting strange to other dogs. things just don't feel right.
@@bobert8125 been there Bob. You will pull out of it man.
I am burning the box
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This is absolutely the best short film I have seen, it has no blood, no screaming just the silence and suspense, this is something makes you want more that’s exactly what we want in the suspense cinema, it’s just amazing
The man kinda spoke in the top of his man..
I know. It doesn't need jump scares and screams to make people scared.
Tooo quiet makes it even scarier
And some water....
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I would've went to a stranger and said "Mystery Box, or 1$"
😂 wtf bro
this is the funniest shit ive read all day
What the hell man😂
Make it double and pass it
Opens it up in the middle of the street lol
People always forget that in these "Weeping Angel" scenarios, you can punch the crap out of the monster while it's unable to move.
It sounds like an ancient advise... Is it?
Unless it's an angel made of stone
@@aesthetic_rex sledgehammer it in the face.
@@Ujuani68 😆🤣😆
Until it unfreezes and gets payback. Lol.
The car conversation gives me chills
This is a perfect example for great psychological horror. It's given real fear, not just fear of jump scares. Even in the short amount of time, you bond with the characters in some way. And by the end of it all, you're left with more questions than answers.
This is an absolutely amazing film! Definitely one of my favorites!
Jesus Christ died on the CROSS FOR YOUR SINS REPENT OF YOUR SINS AND PRAY TO GOD FOR FORGIVENESS GOD AND JESUS CHRIST LOVE YOU NEVER FORGET THIS❤❤
Okie
@@peyton6466 can't wait to see an atheist reply to this comment
@@batata1110 i am about to do just that
@@peyton6466 wrong video my guy
One thing is sure: That box came from Wish.
I'm fucking dead
Hahaha. And took 6 months to be delivered.
@@les_5184 no more like a rough 48yr that man was an infant when shipped
@@IROOKLYN hahaha true!!
@@IROOKLYN you have me rolling right now - dude was a whole infant when that package left the warehouse 😂
"Don't look away from it"
Constantly looks away from it every chance he gets
the moment I saw that note and the guy's head peaking from inside I would've just called the police xD those two are just stupid
@@Guille2033 wtf are the police gonna do?
@@enter-username5040 get folded into non-existence while I escape for my life duh lol.
@@Nova_Crusher9688 that made me laugh so hard sorry 😭😭😭😭
@@enter-username5040 take it away and be someone else problem
As soon as i walked in that house and seen the lights off im sorry but ggs rachel i aint dying😭
The real horror is the fact that whetever they were cooking was totally burnt to a crisp by the end😔
Omg I forgot that part
nah the REAL HORROR was her being like “you’re getting me wet” OVER AND OVER this is not the beginning of a porno it’s a horror film GET IT TOGETHER PEOPLE
rip whatever they were cooking, prolly meatloaf (i do not know what that is i’m italian i just know it’s americans’ childhood food and everyone hates it somehow)
@@lim3eE3lol that made me giggle
@@lim3eE3American here, I don't think meatloaf is actually that disliked by many who already eat meat. I do think we write a lot of jokes about hating meatloaf thinking about it now but its just a loaf of ground beef and breadcrumbs covered in some kind of sauce. Is it amazing? It can be but usually it's just okay. I think between it being a pretty basic and boring dish to make as well as its name, meatloaf, its easy to make fun of. I think also, it being so easy to make, part of the joke is that it's made way more often than it should so a kid gets sick of it after awhile.
TLDR: The hate for meatloaf is probably played up more than it is actually hated here.
Didn’t you notice how happy Shaun was after he realized that Rachel wasn’t in the house at the beginning. The box was intended for him not Rachel. Probably jealous. The box takes you in. Now it took Rachel. He probably wanted Rachel back and delete the guy
thank you so much for this theory, im writing an school essay/presentation about this movie and im so thankful for thisy
but then why would he tell him he cant go back to the house if he wanted him dead
@@orphansshouldunalivethemse846 I suppose at this point it didn't matter, as Reachel was dead, I guess he didnt want him to just also die.
Also I have a bit different theory...
It seemed like he regretted what he did, bc he also said sorry when he gave Ben the box and ran away
@@maciejcieslak4026 what's yours
Yeah i’m late but theory here, Racheal definitely was taken within the box. The people that were on the stairs are all victims that looked away from the box. Racheal looked like she was on the stairs during the last part. Once you’re in the box it’s like it traps and converts you into one of them. I absolutely love this
Great analysis. I have more questions like... What really transpired between the two guys that made Shawn say, that's water beneath the bridge. Was Shawn dating her first? or was there a bad brawl??. Like I'm left wondering, The way Shawn intentionally told the guy to open the box before reading the letter. He wanted him to DIE.
@@myivyfindstore that’s what i’m saying! I feel as if they were friends but both had feelings for the same girl maybe shawn before the other dude but it was fair game. It’s obvious they both deeply cared for her
@@myivyfindstore maybe he just wanted him to suffer not die, he told him not to go back to the house
How about the foreshadowing when Rachel says, "You're getting me all wet."
@@myivyfindstore how did Shawn know anything about what's in the box without opening it though? And if he did open it then how did he survive and reseal it?
All jokes aside this is one of the best horrors ive ever seen. No dramatic music, just ambience with a few sharp notes here and there to highlight. The atmosphere is perfect, dark and creepy. Theres also underlying themes that you might not pick up the first time--"youre getting me wet!" "Water under the bridge" and the thing's apparent need for water. Ben lies to Shawn, the thing lies to Ben. Although it evidently isnt a lie because when Ben left the house the thing was able to escape. The fact that there are multiple box-things, either they could be previous victims or simply other beings from whatever dimension the box leads to. So many questions, it doesnt answer but there are many implications. This should be the standard for all horror films.
This is a smart monster even when it had the chance to move it didn’t because it wanted them to think that anyone could look at it then it waited for him to leave the house before it was finally ready to attack
Yes indeed
I'm just curious why it *had* to be him looking at the box. What made him special, I wonder?
@@jackiechan715 because he was the owner of the box. Only the owner can stop their movements.
@@fluid619 That or he was the only one to really look into the box when he first opened it and the monster imprinted on him as the target
@@jackiechan715 Like Shaun said, he gave it to him.
I’m never complaining again about my relatives giving me socks for Christmas
Same 😭
even better for me that they give me nothing.
Bro I absolutely love getting socks for Christmas, idk why, just something about socks on Christmas is amazing 😂
Same
hand down best reply ever!!!
I love how the box made the man think anyone could watch the box
yeah i was thinking that. but also when he was on the phone the dude ain’t move
@@sorjajam8852 yea that was to trick them, this demon thing is really cunning
@@k3n972 clever as frick
Oh let's leave my wife with a random demonic box. What could go wrong. Just fking take the box with you🤦♂️.
PS: I have a duck video, a chicken video...Also a patreon
@@iwanttobeabillionaire1703 Yeah taking a box that moves when you aren't watching it into a car is such a great idea. Totally not unsafe in any way shape or form.
IT'S A MIMIC DON'T ANSWER IT 12:28
I DIDNT KNOW IT WAS A MIMIC WHAT
Just take a second to award them, no cheesy acting, no unnecessary jumpscares or gore, nothing far fetched, just a beautiful horror movie that they put their heart into. Great job guys, this is amazing
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Nothing far fetched?
Why didn't they just call the cops and get the military involved. I'm sure any scientist or military wants to have a box with infinite space
@@fallu6224same thing would happen
@@sin7375 what do you mean the same
"NO BEN I GAVE IT TO YOU!"
One of the best lines in a horror short
How?
@@charliebae4920 ok I dont really need to explain but I'll still try, The context of the short, the scenario, and tone of shawn's voice make the moment better and that's why its a goated line.
@@Satoru_OfX8767 it's like reality hit and Everything adds up because him being the one that had to look at the box makes sense and we knew that girl was dead before he went back. He fucked up and we as the audience when it . Everything rushing to my mind when he said that just man... That was amazing
@@charliebae4920 the realization of his mistake
the delivery was amazing, the cut back to ben in his car and his friend’s voice shrieking through the phone. fuckkk
shawn yelling on the phone was such good acting
"Don't you go back there!"
You're right, she belongs to the streets now.
She belongs to the box now… 😂
Yes! That was my favorite part of the film
This was a rip off of Dr Who, about the Cyber men
@William Jones Then who did invent the trope and which book or film did it appear ?
The sound effects and background music really added to the creepiness of this story. I had goosebumps the entire time. Can't wait for the next video!
The best part was when they thought they figured it out and had the girl watch the box. It was horrifying to hear the friend explain on the phone that HE had to be the one to watch the box and only him.
Yea, but image just how scared she must have been when that thing suddenly craweld out of the box 😨
But where is her body? They ate her? What if man didn't return home?
Yeah, but didn’t the box guy’s deception basically imply that? “Just Ben?” What, was the box counting on Ben being contrary?
@@Mr_Flerb I assume the friend conjured up some demon. It seems he was still in love with his ex. So if Ben was responsible for watching the box, there was a chance he would be consumed eventually & the "friend" gets his girl back.
@@cademancaden Yeah, but even if he summoned it rather than having been given it himself (which is how I read it), he still had to have experienced some of it, based on the contents of the letter.
11:09 this is one of the coolest and powerful scenes I’ve seen in a short horror film his yelling and acting in this scene is so incredible you can feel the general concern and fear for Rachel and his friend.
Best delivered lines I’m ngl
I don't think he was just a friend. I think he was her ex.
Agreed I love this part
Fr!
Rachel really lost some weight she deserved it tho after taking people off the schedule
“Don’t let Ben leave the house”
*Ben 30 seconds later: Ight imma dip
White people for ya
it's crazy, it was even the monster using sean's voice to admit to them that it wanted ben to leave
they played right into its hands , while staring straight at it, so it couldn't have gotten them if they hadn't been such goofballs
EXACTLY THE DAMN IDIOT
@@westsideAUKILANI It's called plot induced stupidity. You just associate it with white people because most movie characters are white.
@@crowleysmissing cheers mate, thanks for being honest🥳. You sir are a scholar
a tiktok edit got me here
Sane
Same
@@torinkieselbach3402 same
Same
Me too
This needs to be a whole movie. This is probably the best short horror story I’ve ever seen. Great job.
Man on a train is way better watch it
nah
Better yet this should be the Box Assassin
@@ins4nutty341 lol man on a train is like Cinderella compared to this I’ve never seen anything like this
It would lose its charm if it was forced to pad out time for a whole movie.
Fear is caused by the unknown. The reason this is so scary is because the threat is never fully revealed to us.
Not all fear is caused by the unknown. Who the hell told you that, And no its not so scary because its never fully revealed to us. Its so scary because its a box with fucking people inside it. Not that deep. Stop trying to make it as deep as the box.
Tell that to Aliens and Predator movies today.
It makes me mad cuz I want to know and I want to know the back story of it
Oh my gosh yeah!! The suspense is so high, and my brain can’t picture a thing, it’s just- like a pure feeling. An animal, or monster, that people can identify isn’t as scary as the unknown.
I have to say Ben is rather good looking but if my husband would ask me to keep an eye on a box with a creepy head sticking out of it I'm leaving
EXACTLY LMFAO - Like you cute but you aint THAT cute bro
Same I’ll be like nah lol the first one who saw it have to stay and I’ll fine help bye
I found that odd too....and the wife agreed.
well said hahahaha. hats off for Rachel for being that brave lol
But her dumb ass is the one that want two stay he told her to leave
11:41 im not gonna watch itt
i literally paused it right there 😂😂
I paused it exactly here
it's like fking 1:34 and I can not bro do you understand i cannnt
SAME PAUSED IT RIGHT THEREEEE AAAAAA
Imagine if the reason why Shawn told him not to go back is because Ben's house was being turned into "bigger box"? Shawn told the thing to not let him leave the house, and it was making the house more hospitable for it to survive, water and darkness.
Thats what I was thinking
This some big brain shit
Makes sense for the most part, but Shawn never said to not leave the house, it was just the box copying and using his voice like it does later with the wife. It was to trick the husband into leaving
Makes sense cuz all the sinks and showers were turned on and the light switches were ripped off the wall/circuit
Does it need water and darkness to survive? It seemed like it just turned off all the lights so Ben couldn't see it. And sure, it is really weirdly wet, but also it probably just turned on the sink to lure Ben further down into the basement. Meanwhile in the kitchen, it seems like it presumably just stabbed the girl with the knife and then cleaned the blood off of it.
I love that this film is so good as a horror film, but isn’t all about violence, murder and that stuff, this is a masterpiece
well...I mean murder IS implied but I get what your saying
@@williamborom9943 it seems to be more about assimilation than murder
Jesus Christ died on the CROSS FOR YOUR SINS REPENT OF YOUR SINS AND PRAY TO GOD FOR FORGIVENESS GOD AND JESUS CHRIST LOVE YOU NEVER FORGET THIS❤❤❤
Oh how cute.... little coddled, everyone gets a trophy, live "your truth", gutless wonder doesn't like "blood or violence" in a fucking horror movie.... so pathetic
@@Simple_Jackass Thats abit much, not that theres anything wrong with bloody blood uber violence but honestly too often its gratuitous and desensitizing to the true horror. Some of the greatest horror movies of all time have very little blood or violence and there was a time when it was nice to have a kind of horror palate cleanser between blood fests and vice versa. I wont go so far as to call you pathetic but you do sound like an entitled ignorant child that thinks way too much of themselves and who, in a world where everyone gets a trophy maybe didnt get one and just lives life now 🤬💩 on other people
This is the first time in an exceptionally long time that a horror film left me feeling genuinely unsettled hours after watching it. I saw it last night and couldn't get rid of this subtle dread in my chest. This is exactly what a horror is supposed to do. This film was fantastic.
I felt the exact same, regular don't really scare me anymore because of how predictable they've become but this literally made me so scared after watching it.
Wtf I've seen even horror movies than this
idiotic characters didnt bother u huh?
@@Tanjiro-bf2zswhich 1
@@moyomarshi plenty
never have i ever wished for an ad to appear watching UA-cam.
The urgency in shawn's voice when he told ben not to go back to the house sent chills down my spine, loved this one. Really awesome weeping angel concept
Yeah but why give him that gift, knowing it was evil, then tell him not to go back?
I guess in retrospect, he guessed his ex girl was gone & wouldn't get her back, so he then tried to salvage his ex best friend.
@@cademancaden He only wanted his friend to be killed (because they fought about the girl apparently)
@@telgou ohhhh that makes sense
@@telgou idk...I don't buy that I mean I hear it a lot but in the note he says he needed to give it to someone. Plus judging on how he's acting it looks as if he hasn't slept in days maybe weeks. Plus if he wanted his friend to be killed he wouldn't have put instructions with the box
the moment i hear "yea what's up?" from the basement after leaving the girl with a box that has a man peeking thru i am leaving. idc abt Rachel idk who she's anymore I AM LEAVING!
Scariest part was when she almost burned the sauce
Gordon Ramsay would not be happy about this lol
@@SilentRoadStudio 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@Layton Frank bruh they came out with 0phones how much it costs
Easily
I CANT 🤣🤣🤣
Other horror movies have excessive swearing, blood, and screaming, but the tension makes me wanna scream oh my gods
Am I the only one who watches short horror films because 9 times out of 10 they’re better than their longer movie counterparts?!?
Yeah I think the issue with horror movies is that the run time is too long and can be drawn out, and they try to focus more on story telling when in reality, not everything needs to be explained or to make sense, its the fear of the unknown thats most common afterall.
its because concepts are cool and scary with you to fill in the gaps with imagination, but a lot of concepts make for bad movies
Horror is ephemeral.
me too
I think it's more the mysteriousness and tension of not knowing the whole plot or a setting to it compared to a longer film where you need a plot and a setting
I honestly might seem messed up for this, but if I were the guy I wouldnt go back to the house. His “friend” kinda scared me when he yelled “DONT GO BACK TO THE HOUSE!” I would have been like “u dont gotta tell me twice”
I wouldn't blame you either. There was no point in him going back to the house at that stage. He had no weapons, only a flashlight. And of course, he was facing a literal demon. It's not like he knew how to defeat it. At the very least he could have called the police and a priest and had them meet him outside the front door before all going in.
I don't think it mattered anymore, really. It was out of the box. It could literally do anything it wants as long as Ben...and ONLY Ben... doesn't look. ...maybe. Who knows, maybe it can't leave the house.
@@beno1129 I’m sure a priest would save you...
Why did his friend give him the box anyway?
@@winterstar5189 it wasn’t his friend, Shawn used to date that girl. Maybe they cheated and ended up together. Dude had a broken heart and wanted to get back at them
SPOILERS:
The scariest thing is how clever the box-monster is when you think about it. It could've moved in the moments where Ben was turned away and it was just Rachel looking at it, but it didn't. It wanted to lull them into a false sense of security and make them think that if someone other than Ben was looking at it, then it couldn't move. By doing this, it tricks Ben into thinking he can go out to find Shawn and leave Rachel with it, not knowing that he's pretty much leaving his girlfriend to be attacked and have who-knows-what done to her.
No shit
@@MegaBusBros comment wasn’t really necessary now was it
Cool, thanks for ruining it.
@@bobothegasstation Bro shutup
@@aynek792 bRo ShUtUp so weird how OPs comment now says spoiler at the top right after you respond 🤔
Ben truly is the worst at followinf rules I've ever seen bloody hell 💀
This needs to be turned into a full length film ASAP ! This is one of if not the best short films ive ever seen
Where would they get the budget
Nah it doesn't need it. Turning it into a full length movie would mess with the pacing and its able to get everything across perfectly in this short film.
I definitely think this wouldn't work as a full length film, it's perfect the way it is
Is this your first short film?
@@testitcalls1118 gvvvvvvvvvvv
I feel like Shaun seriously underplayed the severity of the situation.
It's the rules of the box
Seriously irritating too
yea he srsly did!
if he did they wouldn't have kept the box
Natural selection at its finest.
8:13 - that was such a moment in hindsight. It completely fooled them. "Well, that could have been worse." What a perfect way to lull them into a false sense of "I guess we can handle this!" to separate them. The amount of times Ben actually looked away in the beginning but it stayed - JUST to wait out until they could attack them one by one. When the guy screamed that it was lying to them, the nonchalance of the beginning felt 10x more sinister.
your observation is exceptional, when he let them look at each other for almost 2 seconds he just gently took out his fingers to make them believe that he was slow, the moment they did their test I said to myself that the "thing" in the box could perhaps move much faster and with each blink of an eye, until the "it was you" on the phone made me understand the extent of the lie, only the guy's look was effective.
Also at that moment, the Thing told them exactly what was going on. "Just Ben. Don't let him leave the house."
13:37 ok I’m done
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It's always the fear of the unknown that is the scariest. And when that unknown looks so like us, it makes it even more terrifying.
Also, the box man/creature looks a little like Hbomberguy which made me chuckle.
What's even more scary is how inanimate the thing in the box is. You stare at it at and seems to be just another object, almost like a mannequin, it doesn't respond to words or touch, but yet it's eyes move and it moves when you're not looking at it.
Its not a creature its a man. What do you mean “looks so like us”? Its literally a human being, it *IS* us. Its not the unknown if its just a person.
@@Smoke.stardust Its not a thing. Its a man.
@@rohanlanda men don't bleed water.
IOHO YES YES YE S YEAHHHHH
I think me waiting for the jumpscare scared me more than the jumpscare actually would’ve
Same
I hate jumpscares. They are cheap and not scary at all. All it doese is suprise you for a short momment. And them its over. All the scare is gone.
Psychological horror last longer. When you cant see it anymore it keeps haunting your mind. And I love that.
for sure
This is the speciality of Alter.... No jump scares... But the best horror short films... ❤❤❤
Facts!
There was one jump scare in one of their movies
This is one hell of a movie. Awesome Alter
Pleasssse I jumped when I saw a head peek out the boxx🤣
@@avanthapolwatte5641 what one