Alright guys - you all seemed to be incredibly receptive of our hypothetical exploration
into the SCP Foundation - and our own personal categorisation of strange items, objects and
entities throughout horror fiction and fandom that SHOULD be subsequently included in the
Foundations own archives.
In the last video, we included some pretty horrendous nasties - that included John Carpenter's
The Thing, as well as Wren, the amorphous genetic entity from Splice - and the cute,
carapace-plated Headcrabs from Half Life - but as we’re all about to find out, there are
many, many more that equally need to be locked up.
So, let’s take a look shall we?
Hello horror fans - and welcome back to the scariest channel on YouTube, Top 5 Scary Videos
- as per usual, I’ll be your horror host Jack Finch - as today, we crawl back through
the eldritch mire - and curiously take a look at the Top 5 Scary Items That Should Be In
The SCP Foundation - Part 2.
Roll the clip.
For the curious amongst you, that clip was from Season 5 of the incredible J.J Abrams
sci-fi series, Fringe - and I included it because, well, it’s often overlooked - and
I figured that if you’re all fans of the SCP Foundation - then you’ll also thoroughly
enjoy Fringe.
Just putting it out there.
Thank me later.
Maybe.
I don’t know.
Kicking off at Number 5 - The Jumanji Board Game, Jumanji
A game for those who seek to find - a way to leave their world behind.
Of course this anomalous board game finds itself on our list - because in all reality,
as soon as one kid mysteriously got sucked into it’s supernatural jungle - and then
later emerged as a bearded, bare-chested Robin Williams - the Foundation would be all over
it like red ants on a honeyed up forehead.
It was first introduced in the 1981 short story by Chris Van Allsburg, and then later
popularised in the fantastic 1995 film - and really, I have nothing bad to say about Jumanji,
it’s insanely good.
But let’s not have that detract from the fact that when we boil it down - the concept
of the Jumanji board game would have terrifying real world implications.
You roll a dice, your piece moves on the board - and then it manifests forward any number
of horrifying creations that the jungle can spit out.
Bats, plague riddled mosquitos, lions - man eating vegetation - a stampede of rhinos,
quicksand, crocodiles - or the evil hunter from the darkest wild, Van Pelt.
It’s got SCP Foundation stamped all over it.
Oh, and also - we can’t forget it’s equally supernatural board-game brother, Zathura - because
anything that can summon a black hole with the roll of a dice, kind of needs to be locked
away.
Next up at Number 4 - Sadako’s Videotape, Ringu
And you’ll be aware that I didn’t include the full tape scene this time, although you’ll
be fine regardless.
Unless your phone starts ringing - right about -- now.
Uh.
Sorry about that.
In actual fact though, there is SO MUCH to the Cursed Videotape that encompasses the
Japanese Ring series of Novels and Films - that the Foundation would have an incredibly hard
time trying to contain it.
Because of that, it’d most likely be Keter.
We don’t really have to skirt around the function of this one either - it’s a cursed
videotape, pertaining to the existence of the horrifying entity, Sadako Yamamura - who
crawls out of a well in a video tape, and then crawls out of the television that you’re
watching it on - to kill people who watch it.
Not cool.
However, in the novels - the 7 day curse thing - is actually a smallpox virus that creates
a tumour in the victim's throat, and after seven days they die of a heart attack.
This virus is mutated and distributed at will by the vengeful supernatural spirit, Sadako,
and it also contains a strand of her DNA - which on several occasions has resulted in being
fertilised and thus triggering her resurrection, just when you think she’s dead and it’s
finally over.
Yeah, this one’s going straight into containment - hopefully in a room that is perpetually
on fire that no one can ever enter.
Swinging in at Number 3 - The Venom Symbiote, Marvel Comics
And of course - the only thing we have to highlight from that film is Tom Hardy’s
fantastic performance as Eddie Brock.
2003 called.
They want their CGI back.
Uh anyway - as well as terrifying entities, I’d quite like to also include some anomalous
fictional items that could potentially be beneficial to the Foundation, just like with
the Pet Headcrabs from our last list.
So, enter the Venom Symbiote - well, specifically - all symbiotes - because there’s an entire
planet of them.
And a Foundation that also had the power of the Klyntar symbiotes would be an incredibly
powerful fictional organisation indeed.
The Symbiotes are a race of highly powerful parasitic entities - that seek to bind with
a humanoid host, often taking on their mental and personal attributes, which results in
further augmenting their powers.
Without getting too bogged down in the Marvel Universe canon, just imagine how insane it
would be for a venom symbiote to bind with any number of the entities within the SCP
Foundation’s containment.
SCP-076 - also known as Able, combined with the Venom Symbiote.
Holy Moly.
SCP-106?
Nah.
I’m good thank you.
What about SCP-682, the unkillable lizard - combined with the Venom Symbiote?
The multiverse would be doomed.
Coming in at Number 2 - Necronomicon Ex-Mortis, Evil Dead
And yeah - of course.
The titular villain of the Evil Dead franchise - our boy, The Book of the Dead, the Naturom
Demonto - and this one oozes some classic, evil eldritch entity that makes up the canonical
bread and butter of the SCP Foundation.
I mean, you only have to look at it to realise that a book made from the flesh of a literal
demon face kind of spells bad business for the publishing industry - and that’s before
it’s even started to summon forth the Kandarian Demon and usher forward an Army of Darkness
and Deadites into the world.
Supposedly written by one of The Dark Ones, which are essentially the Evil Dead version
of Lovecraft’s Great Old Ones - although, they’re kind of the same thing canonically
- the Necronomicon has a bucket lists worth of terrifying corporeal powers that could
easily result in an XK Level Extinction Event.
Mainly, reciting any passages written throughout the book - often results in some eldritch
shenanigans that commonly wind up with a cabin full of demonically possessed dead teenagers.
On top of that, you’ve got the power to literally tear apart the fabric of time and
space, resurrect the dead, combine it’s paper body into that of any creature it touches
- oh, and also usher in a brand new dark age of hellspawn and hellfire.
Yeah, lock this one up please guys.
And finally - coming in at our Number 1 spot - Lemarchand’s Boxes, Hellraiser
And I specifically say any of Lemarchand’s puzzle boxes, because all of them should be
rounded up, locked away, shut in a big old chest - with all the key’s dissolved in
a vat of acid.
But mainly the Lament Configuration.
Sorry guys, I’m just covering my due diligence - I don’t want any Cenobites sniffing around
again.
Sorry, probably shouldn’t have said that.
Anyway, as the events of Clive Barker’s fantastic Hellraiser series outline, LeMarchand’s
puzzle boxes were created by Philip LeMarchand - a character from Barkers’ novella, The
Hellbound Heart - who is revealed to be a mass murderer who uses human fat and bone
to construct his mysterious, Cenobite summoning vessels.
Although there are other boxes throughout the Hellraiser film series, as seen in both
Hellraiser 2 and Hellraiser: Hellworld - most of their powers are otherwise unknown.
But as we all know, in the original Hellraiser, Kirsty Cotton uses the Lament Configuration,
stolen from her abusive father who had previously used it to deglove his entire body.
Oh, and also - it summons Cenobites, the demonic hosts that reign over Hell - who are demons
to some, but angels to others.
If I’m being honest, Pinhead and his Order of the Gash would more than likely be a nuisance
to the SCP Foundation - but the Lament Configuration is a literal pager to hell - so yeah, of course
it makes the top spot.
Well - there we have it horror fans - our list of the Top 5 Scary Items That Should
Be In The SCP Foundation - Part 2 - why don’t you let us know your choices in the comment
section down below.
Before we depart though, let’s do the old bamboo - and read out some of your more creative
comments from over the past few days.
First up, Alexander Grimtotem says -- hey Jack!
I was wondering if you were into the dresden file book series.
Love the show man keep it up!
-- Well hey Alexander Grimtotem, cheers my man!
Much appreciated!
And yes, I am definitely into the Dresden Files - and my man Jim Butcher continues to
be the coolest geezer in horror fantasy fiction.
He’s even got a Reddit account.
Cheers buddy!
Next up - Brian van Hal says -- I swear Jack I love these videos.
I especially love your Lovecraft videos.
I got interested in Lovecraft after playing Bloodborne and researching a bit about Miyazaki’s
inspiration.
So a few days ago I decided to buy Necronomicon: the Best Weird Tales of H.P Lovecraft.
And I got to say, I absolutely love it.
-- You know what Brian van Hal.
Thank you man.
Keep being weird guys.
Well, on that emotional note - it’s about time I lamented out of here.
Cheers for sticking around all the way until the end.
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