Six unsettling YouTube videos offer varied Halloween viewing

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The article recommends six unsettling YouTube videos for Halloween, spanning surreal short films, cosmic horror and early-style viral weirdness. It presents them as varied alternatives to choosing a single horror film or album, with each offering a different balance of unease, comedy and ambiguity.

The selection includes Cecelia Condit’s 12-minute *Possibly in Michigan*, which gained attention decades after its 1983 release, and *Heck*, a 29-minute precursor to *Skinamarink*. Other picks are *Homemade Gatorade*, *Portrait of God*, David B Earle’s one-minute *Dining Room or There is Nothing* (also available as a four-hour loop), and Nick Lutsko’s *Spirit Halloween Theme*.

In short

  • Six YouTube videos offer varied Halloween unease.
  • The picks range from surreal shorts to cosmic horror.
  • *Heck* delivers *Skinamarink*-style tension in 29 minutes.

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Originally published by The Verge as “Get in the spirit with these horrors from YouTube”.

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