Lucas Anderson is an insular IT technician whose life is turned upside down when he stumbles across a mysterious email and its reality bending contents.
"Signal Dark" by Alex Murray & Max Murray
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"Signal Dark" Credits:
Cast:
Lucas Anderson - Greg Miller Burns
Crew:
Pre-Production
Written - Alex Murray
Production
Directed - Alex Murray & Max Murray
Script Supervisor - Sophie Habib-Deloncle
Line Producer - Nicola Mandy
Producer - James Carter Johnson
Director of Photogrpahy - Robert Langley
Editing - Alex Murray & Max Murray
VFX - Alex Murray & Max Murray
Colouirst - Jon Olav Stokke
Sound Design - Peter Baumann
Music - Robert Murray
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A message sent from the unknown depths of space is wonderous and at the same time fundamentally terrifying. How it is recieved and interpreted is what we wanted to explore. What will you conclude?
I before e except after c
Kinda feels like they didnt come in peace hihi. But if it was me i would want to know more and that ending will keep me guessing for while.
@@tims9434 Lol.
Now that was worth watching
It came out of an ocean that appears to be its native habitat, so I don't think it wants to eat him. There's only one of him, so I don't think it wants to enslave him. One at a time would be very inefficient. The email seems to indicate that it wants to talk to him. The content seems to indicate that it wants to program him. The spells where he jumps locations appear to be the development of some new kind of ability. A test maybe? One that he appears to have passed at least the first part of.
YO this IT guy seriously downloaded a random attachment from a random email on his work PC? Then plug that PC into his server farm? This guy's lucky it was aliens.
It's because he deleted it but it came back. But definitely a poor choice
😂 "This guy's lucky it was aliens." I love this comment.😂
A better ending would be to zoom in on his cell phone back at his bedroom with it ringing. The Caller ID says BOSS, we over hear their message yelling at him that the network is still down and he doesn't have a job anymore. ;)
Was thinking that myself
🤣🤣🤣 100%... if that guy is IT... ouch...
The moral of the story is you should never open unsolicited spam mail
...unless compelled to do so by an alien intelligence. There, fixed it for ya...
You read my Mind 🤣
He's been trying to reach you about your planets extended warranty!
😂 👍
Time is running out 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆
Renew now! This is a one time offer!!
This is how grandmas feel when they click on pop ups and their computer starts acting up
As an admin, he should've known better not to open an email with an attachment from an unknown source. ijs.
Hell yes. He should have known better
IT 24 yrs retired, and that is golden rule. Do not open!
I agree. Very foolish, could be virus
If a mysterious sound file is his escape from a boring, worse-than-mundane life, then can he be blamed for being curious?
Ain't that the truth. Never ever open an email from an UNKNOWN source .
Dang Norton really stepping up their ad game
"These 'shrooms ain't shiz...wait, what's this email?"
Brilliant piece of film making. Show, don’t tell. Very well shown. Thanks for posting.👍🏻✌🏻
Because there's nothing to tell, it's all just effects.
@@videotrexx "Show, don't tell" works mainly on written works, because, this one is a film, what are they supposed to 'tell' in a short film?
Now, that was proper cosmic horror...
Chtulu lives 😂
With Dust I typically expect something with a good idea, or with good execution, or great effects, or something thought provoking, or scary, or deeply visceral. It's incredibly rare to get more than one or two of those, and unheard of to get them all. But you did just that. Very well done and satisfying. This was wonderful, thank you!
Gawd! Brought back flashbacks from my last industrial accident at the kitchen stove from a downloaded recipe.
And the moral of the story is: if you do not know who it is from and it has an attachment, junk mail and never open! IT 24 yrs, retired. I have worked in a few data centers and that is one of the golden rules.
Virtual Sand box 🤔
The Smartest Animals On The Planet Aren,t Very Smart
Not even a peek?
The strangest thing about this,(at time of typing) is that the video was released just over an hour ago,but there is A comment from 2 weeks ago.
time travel
Probably from the creators of the film.
Probably Patreon supporters or channel members that get to see stuff early.
@@godzillaeyes I'd bet $ on yours OR what patricklee5239 wrote, from creators of the film, since it gives brief desc and asks a question. I was going to joke ask Arthur Dent. How it got here is a script for a future video. LOL. Being "pinned" might be a clue. Someone's clock is on Martian time zone.
Could have been reposted
Fairy-tale uncles in the future: "And that, my dear children, is what happens when you open unchecked attachments from strangers"
HAHA
Well done to the people working in special effects, that was an eye candy! Well done guys!
This is very intense considering there's hardly any dialogue.
The problem with those shorts ... is that they're too short! They are so good that I wish they were full length films.
What an awesome intro! Good story too. Was that... a.. Oh Good Job IT you done summoned Chtulu.
The beginning made me feel like I was a small particle of our infinite universe... what a fabulous ride. Loved it!
what a Lovecraftian ending
I almost clicked out of it with those 1st two minutes
Me too, thought it might just be a sizzle reel.
Wow, what an absolute mind bender "Signal Dark" is, brilliant a gripping, entrancing, rabbit hole of a Sci-Fi reel...Tips Fedora to all involved in the making of Signal Dark, thank you and cheers Dust for sharing the reel.
Typical Dust. Always high quality, clever and thought provoking.
A Type X civilization has explored every universe, multiverse, megaverse, omniverse, and all dimensions of the hyperverse. We are gods to countless civilizations and have a far greater understanding of realms beyond reality in the outerverse. The exponential nature of the scale stops here as time is meaningless beyond reality. An eon is like a second to those who dwell there and beyond, and space has no bound.
Hey God's! 🐜You left out the Underverse
Eloquent 🌐
Just goes to show what could happen if you open some dodgy email 😂
brave man. not necessarily a happy ending, not necessarily bad. that why I like this. because too many people take a brave character and show him as either being a winner or a loser. either bravery always works or always fails. They miss the point about courage, it's a risk. that's why we respect brave men who show it.
And this children, is why you never click on strange attachments you get in email- don't expect Kaspersky AV to protect you from Eldritch Elder Gods ¬_¬
He should change drug dealers, his current dealer is putting bath salts and junk in the smoke.
This made me think of the James Woods movie Videodrome by David Cronenberg, when video movies and TV were the devices to transport people into horror dimension realms
Awesome movie.
Seriously, this was creative, beautiful, intelligent, original and told something very important. Love what you did. You are a real artist.
This is here , this is now FIRETRUCK ,FIRETRUCK , FIRETRUCK
This is a straight AAA, thanks for this very professional and mind bending video 🙏
Needs to be a movie. Intriguing concept.
Can I get some of what our protagonist was smoking?
Definitely. Datura. Mescaline. DMT. Probably a lot of stuff can do this 😆
Least it wasn't a scammer email. That was AWESOME. 🙉🙈🙊
Its a frequency strong enough to create matter and alternate realities.
That was cool. Award winning cool.
Very interesting plot, and optimally done! Also amazing effects... would like to see a full movie !
he is wearing all time the headhpones . think his ears are a cruel bunch of bakteria and fungi resting in his ears.
Food for a pre-quel
When the Dell sales rep wont take no for an answer.
seriously though, good stuff.
It's funny, only last week I was updating some design notes with a notion like this. Humans are unique in that sound has a profound effect upon us across all levels of our cognition - emotional, intellectual and even somatic. Sounds can literally shape our understanding and interactions with reality. So I pondered, what if that process was refined beyond language and music? A perfected way to reshape the mind in a way that we don't percieve but our minds react to. A mind hack ,as it were, that we think is random noise but fundamentally changes everything about us in moments.
👍exactement, très bonne réflexion, surtout si nous prenons en compte le fait que soyons potentiellement dans une matrice, l'énergie, le son, sont des informations, le cerveau est un décodeur, qui interprète et réagit aux informations en envoyant des signaux aux autres sens 🤔 exactly, very good thinking, especially if we take into account the fact that we are potentially in a matrix, energy, sound, are information, the brain is a decoder, which interprets and reacts to information by sending signals to others sense 🤔
== Since the brain is a decoder and programable organ that had to be designed for what it can do Mr.@@Donkichoff . Who then is the designer of our brain? It didn't just happen from dirt wouldn't you agree since it is an organic computer using complex formulaic chemical equations that is right now allowing you to think giving you the abilities for thoughts and consciousness etc... Only DESIGN, can account for the first cause singularity bringing the universe into existence and everything else in it. Revelation 4 : 11 “You are worthy, Jehovah our God, to receive the glory+ and the honor and the power, because you created all things, and because of your will they came into existence and were created.” ====
@@Donkichoff Actually neuroscience suggests the opposite, that we get stimuli from our senses that the brain receives and what we experience is a mixture of reality and hallucination. Take for example the blind spot in our eyes where the retina connects to the optic nerve, if you place a dot on a piece of paper and position it perfectly then the dot will vanish and be replaced by blank paper. Now, you literally can't see anything in that area yet your mind creates a hallucination to complete the image. This is also how night terrors work exceot that what you experience is less sensory and more hallucination like we see in this short film.
How lucky I am to have found this channel. Just wow!
outstanding! i would like a tidy ending on some of these tho.
A Type VIII civilization would be able to exit its omniverse, and travel to other dimensions beyond 11d, each of them having complex interactions with their omniverse of origin. This is the hyperverse. They will eventually reach the multidimension and megadimension.
Actual depiction of what would have happened if you installed AOL 10.0….
It's the Vogons, here for the hyperspace bypass construction.
Oh freddled gruntbuggly, Thy micturitions are to me, As plurdled gabbleblotchits, On a lurgid bee, That mordiously hath blurted out, Its earted jurtles, Into a rancid festering confectious organ squealer. Now, the jurpling slayjid agrocrustles, Are slurping hagrilly up the axlegrurts, And living glupules frart and slipulate, Like jowling meated liverslime, Groop, I implore thee, my foonting turling dromes, And hooptiously drangle me, With crinkly bindlewurdles, Or else I shall rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon, See if I don't.
@@ChuckieFinzter : ah, the melodious glory of Vogon poetry!
The first minute is how I envisioned being inside a computer like Tron (1980)
I got the sense that @Potellion was setting up the big picture that the universe is a simulation, and we went through a matrix of infinite variations of reality before the signal zeroed in on a particular time frame of Earth. Would be interesting to hear his take!
When you go to the the school of "What does this button do?".
Ok, that was terrifying and amazing
There is something else in that dark forest...
They say when the Forest goes Quite, the Predators are close by
Yeah. The pale green pants.
The intro looks a classic Amiga demon with the tunnel effect.😮
I have a youtube ad blocker, so not a single ad played all the way through. I'm so smug about that. How do you like them apples youtube? Sue me, I dare you!
I told him.. Don't buy dope..from strangers)))🙏
Why does the txt file contain an image (scanned text)?!
It's Encrytped :D - also...Sci-Fi!
that's a story of my taste. I can think about it till I fall asleep. true horror. great!
Bro just received the promo album of Metatron Omega
I think I can speak for everyone here after watching this by saying... Huh?? 😂 Also I will believe in sound waves that grant Teleportation powers before I believe and decent IT guy would ever open a mysterious email and download the attachment! 😂
pretty mysterious. Cyber isolation was well depicted. Good film.
Love all the spoilers in the comments who need to reveal all the surprises and half the story ! They just love taking all the suspense away from any viewer who reads comments ! 😱😱😱
769 👍's up DUST thank you for sharing 🤗
👍🏼. Now it's 770
hails yea! im diggin this concept,and would love to see this expanded into a mini series. so many possibilities with this one. excellent! mad props!
My kinda Sci Fi. Loved it!
Не повезло,но он знал на что шел связавшись с этим.
Not bad, but being honest and very discerning, when are you going to finish this?
That's one way to order food delivery.
I think he sat down at his desk after consuming mushrooms...
That was entirely freaky. Excellent piece of work!
Fantastic movie. Love a bit of eldritch terror!! Thank you!!!
First 2 minutes are like: We buy EVERYTHING from Envato market that is tagged Sci-Fi
I see what you did there. Envato indeed!
Thanks
I, too, always download and include all the files that come in my mail.
Sometimes the truth hertz, buddy.
This must be based on a true story.
Well done,more please.
That was so good! Series worthy
The concept was to awesome for where it went.
Узнаю в нем себя когда мы снимали любительское кино 20 лет назад
Wonderful syfi video Thanks!
Weird as heck, but definitely entertaining. Well done and thanks for sharing your work. 👍🏻
They could have just order pizza if they were hungry 😂
Ля, чувак на перепутье добровольно вышел, это жестко.
Lesson 1. Don't open attachments from an unknown source.
🐼 Big Panda Bear Hugs from a 70 yr old grandma in Texas, USA and by the way l'm subscribed and l hit Like. 🐼 ❤ 🎀 👍
This was fun. Well done! Now we want more.
That was really trippy! I love the visuals!
Wow! One of the best
Interesting way to shop for dinner
Excellent 🤩
Yo, drugs will always get you in the end.
lmao. Alien ASMR gone funny.
UNDERRATED MESSAGE
Outstanding! 👏👏👏👍
brilliant
ET learned how to email 😂
Wow!!
I'll give it a thumbs up. The intro is 4 minutes too long for my taste. But, the content at the end is great.
Great short very creative
So i am throwing my modem in the trash. Just tossed my phone and tablet into the harbor. Gotta rotary phone somewhere around here. Leave me alone…
Strange story, but interesting :)