Saturday, October 8, 2011

Rare's Top 7 Bizarre and Creepy

Fear. It is a human emotion that put us through a state of defenselessness. We feel helpless with no other alternative option at the dire situation. Some just crawl up in a ball and accept their fate, some fight on with no other thought. But what does that have to with this? The horror genre.

Now let me state for a fact that I am by no means a horror buff nor was I ever into the survival horror genre growing up. In fact as a kid, I used to take horror villains and try and see what stats they have and their weaknesses. At first I thought they were undead, but the more I looked into them they were all different from your dream killer tapirs, to your misunderstood giants with hockey masks and no other action in their body other than kill kill kill. Then different villains came out and try to cash in on the hardcore aspect of the horror genre and the goresplotation of seeing humans suffering for survival....which is weird why we as humans fascinate ourselves like it's a display at an art museum. Where was I going? Oh yeah, the survival horror genre.

I am partial to the survival horror genre, but I am not a fan of it. I don't have favorites, but seeing this is October where we talk about this sort of thing, I wanted to put in at least a top 5 something. What can it be? Survival horror games? No that's cliche. Horror villains? Like everybody else. Oh! I know.

Come along children of the Day/Night as Rarefindit counts down: Rare's Top 7 Bizarre and Creepy.

Here's the guideline. This top 7 will be of anything. Movie, game, show, song, what have you. It has to be creepy in it's own way yet bizarre. Also, no series in general. That means no Silent Hill is better than Resident Evil whatever. Just because it's October am I not narrowing it down to that. Remeber, it's gotta be bizarre. With that let's look within the bun of our minds and count up.

7. Incredible Crisis

For those young folk, back in 1997 ska was popular for like 5 seconds and this popped up 3 years later. Now I don't really want to tell the whole story of this, but you play as the Tanaka family who have to go through the day to see grandma because it's her birthday. Pretty tame right? Well, only if you count the random dancing number in your office or the fact that you have to give this girl a back massage in a Ferris wheel who's trying to kill you only to be riding on a gurney down the road dodging traffic. Or escaping from animal crooks that force you to steal an artifact and replace it with fruit with the equivalent weight to be on a jet plane escaping an exploding facility... oh just watch this.


It's a series of button mashing mini games set to the music of ska. It's bizarre, it's kooky, it's Incredibly fun, it's Incredible Crisis! And my fingers hurt now.

6. Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni

LOOK OUT! IT'S THE ATTACK OF THE KILLER LOLIS!! All kidding aside, this series of sound and/or visual novels are set in the mountainous village of Hinamizawa where a bizarre number of murders have been happening near the annual festival where they have to give an offering to the local Deity of the village Oyashiro-sama or be Spirited Away. Now I don't have to tell you how frickin scary this series is. Not just from a thrilling and chilling sort of way, but also in the fact that these characters are children. It may seem fluffy at the start, but once you get to the good part of the mystery, you get to see how f-ed up their psyches are. Meanwhile in the later side arcs the girls of the group are so obsessed with playing a "penalty game" with you that it's downright creepy. LOOK OUT! IT'S THE ATTACK OF THE HORNY LOLIS! RUUUUNNNN!!! There's also Umineko which is part of the series, but... what's that? There's no Umineko anime? huh. Wonder why? (it sucked).

5. Walter Sullivan/The Conjurer from Silent Hill 4 the Room


I put this low on the list because of it's reputation as the weakest of the series. But for a 5 spot, that's pretty good. When I was younger, I was terrified of the Victims in this game and didn't really have that many supplies. That itself is a good thing. This game is supposed to make you feel scared and creeped out by it's bizarre macabre. Walter however, made my blood curdle and my heart beat for real. I felt actual fear and that is something for someone who normally doesn't feel anything. The inventory system although limited in what you could carry actually felt legit as I didn't have many health items or purifying trinkets and only the spade. Not only that, but I was on a time limit to save Eileen from being a Sacrifice. Plus, there's what I think is called the Conjurer in which I had to shove spears picked from these fleshed out walls that made the flesh piercing sound every time I plucked them out. There was also Walter I had to deal with. So uh, no pressure. It's bizarre in the premise of the game itself and all this stuff you have to do in order to get the good ending. And to keep your own skin and room free from the hauntings that appear at one point. Like I said, no pressure.

4. The Witches from Puella Magi Madoka Magica

Good ol' Shaft, always ready to take something and twist it into something bizarre and head scratching to the point of creepy. They are like wine coolers. bitter at first, but aged well and has a bizarre yet smooth taste. What I found creepy about the show is the fact that the bad guys in which Madoka and the others had to fight were what they call Witches. Each of them creepy and bizarre to the next. One I found that almost got me scared was this one that Mami took on. Plus the worlds in which the Witches were hiding in are enough that even the most stoned out stoner will feel like this is real. The show itself is this decades Eva (flame shield) in that not only did it revolutionized something in the anime genre, but it got people discussing about the other bizarre and creepy character on the show QB. I'll add him here too because he's a sociopath with no empathy whatsoever. The show itself is worth a watch and definitely deserved all the praise it got from the fans.

3. Katamari Damacy


Hey, Namco. What the hell did you put in my drink? Cause uh. you got any more? This wacky PS2 game released in 2004 was innovative at the time as Americans were never really introduced to the other side of the Japanese. Sure we may have our differences, but do you know what they do when they get high? They make this (and Panty and Stocking). And this intro is by no means an understatement. Believe me, the story may not make a lot of sense, but it does to me. And I'm not even high...or am I? Pretty much the King of All Cosmos gets drunk and destroys the stars in the sky. He tells his own son the Prince of All Cosmos to make new ones. How does he do that? By rolling up a sticky ball like thing called a Klump or Katamari (See what I did there?) and sticks to things. Here is the creepy part. Everything you roll up; tacks, building blocks, pots, ants, shirts, cats, dogs, people, balls, trees, buildings, islands, gods, CLOUDS, CONTINENTS, all in one little Klump get sent into the sky to make a new star. Let me repeat that. The people in which they are screaming for their lives, trapped on this Klump that somehow stuck on a human gets sent up into space and gets turned into a star. First I'm all, ooh shiny, but then I'm all oh GOD I killed a human! Somebody spike the punch with more kush. Now!

2. The Legend of Zelda Majora's Mask

3 days before the moon falls. Save 4 gods in 4 temples. Save Termina and it's people. Sound simple for a 10 year old boy in an alternative world right? Right? Well... No... Not really. A lot of people consider this to be a dark and scary point in the Zelda series and was crowned the best game of the 2000s. Why? Because of all the stuff you have to do in just 3 days. Also from my point of view. The Canyon is freakin scary.


Think about it. The swamp has deku people looking for a missing princess, the mountains have gorons freezing their ass off, the sea has Zora people preparing for a concert, but the canyon has nothing... NOTHING, but undead. And what happens if you let the moon fall? Well, I don't want to give it away if you really want to know what happens if the moon falls on Termina. But... Also THE MOON HAS A FACE!!!

1. Flowers by Terra


Now I know what you are thinking: Why is this on top? Well, take a look at this. This may look like a nice cheerful and harmless song in the Bemani series, but look closely. Do you see yourself perfecting every single note on the song? It's possible, but no. This song is the equivalent to those nice girls you meet at a theatre class who also are part of some bible study who start talking to you. But deep inside, they want to harm anyone who gets in the way of the person who they become obsessed with. That ladies and gents is called a Yandere. Flowers by Terra is a yandere and they creep the hell out of me.

I'll add this as a Runner up because the song is just crazy enough to be a country style intro, if not cheesy. It's Rising Zan the Samurai Gunman. No, I'm serious.


And that should fill you up as much as these kit-kats are filling me. Remember, just because it's Halloween doesn't mean you have to look at Tommy Wiseau's pasty white ass and look scared. Ok, maybe a blood curdling scream from that mental image, but I'm not putting that here. Look up The Room yourself at your own risk.