This weekend, the child wanted to watch ‘Antrum: The Deadliest Film Ever Made’, a movie that took the concept of a mockumentary and folded it in with a little ‘Blair Witch’ style false history to make for a reasonably scary experience. The best part was the fillmaker’s use of subliminal images (latin phrases and pseudo-occult sigils) throughout the movie, leading us to freeze-frame multiple times in order to process one hidden message or another. They were more noticeable than the flash-frames of Tyler Durden in ‘Fight Club’ and were successful in making the movie even more eerie and unnerving, leading to today’s backmasked message…
The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) still gets chills thinking about the various subtle appearances of the ghost/demon called Pipes in ‘Ghostwatch’, which made a truly frightening movie even more scary, asking: What hidden message in pop culture is your favorite secret communication?
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I wish I had an answer, but I’ve never been good at spotting hidden things. (My wife gave me a surprise American Thanksgiving one year when we were living in Canada, made possible by my inability to notice a whole turkey in the refrigerator.) So I always assume that any message I spot wasn’t hidden.
All the subliminal messages hidden in Black Sabbath albums.