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The Verge's final spooky pick: horror videos from YouTube

The Verge's final spooky-season pick is six independent YouTube horror videos, including a short that became a feature film; one is a four-hour loop for party TVs.

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  1. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentThe Verge closed out spooky season with six independent horror videos from YouTube, picked by weekend editor Terrence O'Brien, and one of them is a twenty-nine-minute short called Heck that later became the feature film Skinamarink.

  2. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSo that's a short film that became a feature film. That's the only pitch meeting that actually works.

  3. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentThere's also Possibly in Michigan, a nineteen eighty-three short by Cecelia Condit. It found its audience more than thirty years after it was uploaded, after Reddit picked it up.

  4. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThirty years.

  5. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentReddit is the only archive that finds things at that speed. Then there's a Nick Lutsko Spirit Halloween theme song, which the list says mixes comedy with psychological dread, and a four-hour looped video the article suggests for your party TV.

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