Let's post terrifying commercials

Here's an old Smokey the Bear commercial that seems designed to instill pantswetting terror in children. I just watched it again to link it here and even knowing what was coming, I still jumped / screamed.

Here is a genuinely disturbing AIDS PSA from Australia, aired in 1987. Don't watch this before you go to bed. I am not kidding.

My friend and I were on vacation in Ireland a couple of years ago when we saw this. After a few seconds of stunned horror we turned to each other and said in unison, "They don't fuck around!"

I thought the last one was very good. I know a couple of people who should probably watch it.

Geez. I think that Irish one has traumatized me for life. I've never had a PSA actually make me shudder and tear up before. :o

To cleanse your palates from the death and horror, here's a commercial that's horrifying for entirely different reasons. Well, maybe it isn't terrifying to anyone else. Kids. Surprise pregnancy. ::shudder::

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Here is a genuinely disturbing AIDS PSA from Australia, aired in 1987. Don't watch this before you go to bed. I am not kidding.

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This one is disturbing in a different way. (NSFW)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fkuwK0ERfI

This is the one I thought of immediately:

A gentle reminder about workplace safety.

Oh, yeah, and Be careful with that ladder.

We need some comic relief after that Irish one. Staplerfahrer Klaus: An "instructional video," not a commercial. In German, but you'll get the gist of it. Watch the whole thing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgqeBcdbFJ4

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Here is a genuinely disturbing AIDS PSA from Australia, aired in 1987. Don't watch this before you go to bed. I am not kidding.

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Okay, somebody please tell me I'm not the only person that cracked up laughing from the over-the-topness of that one.

I am horrified by Baby Laugh-a-lot

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Baby Laugh-a-lot

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JESUS CHRIST

KILL IT! KILL IT WITH FIRE!

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We need some comic relief after that Irish one. Staplerfahrer Klaus: An "instructional video," not a commercial. In German, but you'll get the gist of it. Watch the whole thing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgqeBcdbFJ4

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Holy friggin' Jesus this was fantastic. If the German part of it makes you think it's not a good investment of your time you're missing out.

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In German, but you'll get the gist of it. Watch the whole thing.

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The only thing you need to know is that the narrator plays it completely straight. Actually you wonder whether he was in on it.
(And to Germans he is a very recognizable voice actor from decades of driving PSAs)

Here are some British driving safety commercials.

Gah, that Smokey the Bear one flipped me out. Could someone spoil for me what happens in the AIDS one, before I watch it and get nightmares?

On a lighter note, my husband snapped this photo of a poster at his hotel for a band playing in Ho Chi Min City.

scary band

That's pretty frightening too.

Um, I sort of belatedly realize that I just added a still poster to a thread about commercials.

I know it was wrong, but Baby Laugh-A-Lot told me to do it. I do whatever Baby Laugh-A-Lot tells me to do.

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Um, I sort of belatedly realize that I just added a still poster to a thread about commercials.

I know it was wrong, but Baby Laugh-A-Lot told me to do it. I do whatever Baby Laugh-A-Lot tells me to do.

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If you don't, Baby Laugh-A-Lot might think you into the cornfield.

Here are some ads from a series by the Montana Meth Project.

Meth:

Not

Even

Once

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TibB_VWa9uA

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TibB_VWa9uA

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So sad.

Really terrifying too.

Whoa, these are creepy.

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So sad.

Really terrifying too.

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Yep, and it worked. The Troubles ended.

Anti-smoking ad from Singapore

I just saw this one the other night. (At 3 AM, of course. Bad time to be viewing such things anyways.)

It's horrifying and relentless. It's a four minute video, and there's no mercy cut. There's the accident done by about 90 seconds into the video, and the rest is all just watching as the rescue workers try to get the driver out, and she's seeing the cost of her actions. It's absolutely relentless.

I hope it works on the target audience. Back in 2007 an SUV with five recent graduates from a local HS were in a head-on collision with a semi-truck. The accident was forceful enough that it shattered the gas tank on the SUV and it burned everything to ashes. The truck driver was the only survivor - all five girls were killed. What no one is willing to talk about these days is that the investigation found that the driver's cell phone was exchanging text messages at "approximately the same time as the accident." And by approximately we're talking a time stamp within a minute of the first 911 call.

I get annoyed when I see people texting and driving. Very annoyed. I have even seen a bus driver doing it.

I hope this video is seen by many people.

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I just saw this one the other night. (At 3 AM, of course. Bad time to be viewing such things anyways.)

It's horrifying and relentless. It's a four minute video, and there's no mercy cut. There's the accident done by about 90 seconds into the video, and the rest is all just watching as the rescue workers try to get the driver out, and she's seeing the cost of her actions. It's absolutely relentless.

I hope it works on the target audience. Back in 2007 an SUV with five recent graduates from a local HS were in a head-on collision with a semi-truck. The accident was forceful enough that it shattered the gas tank on the SUV and it burned everything to ashes. The truck driver was the only survivor - all five girls were killed. What no one is willing to talk about these days is that the investigation found that the driver's cell phone was exchanging text messages at "approximately the same time as the accident." And by approximately we're talking a time stamp within a minute of the first 911 call.

I get annoyed when I see people texting and driving. Very annoyed. I have even seen a bus driver doing it.

I hope this video is seen by many people.

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"Darwinnowing" they call it don't they? Texting and driving is about the most dangerously stupid thing the average person could do and if they need a gruesome PSA to tell them that then there's no hope for them anyway. Here's a similar Irish one.

OOOps it appears the ad I just posted was also in the OP. My bad as they say.
Here's another scarifying one.

Do Irish kids have a thing about swimming in junkyard cesspools? That was one fucked up PSA.

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Do Irish kids have a thing about swimming in junkyard cesspools? That was one fucked up PSA.

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Well it's a British ad but here it is common for kids to swim in canals when it gets hot, canals are full of junk like shopping trolleys etc. Not so much junkyard cesspools though.

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OOOps it appears the ad I just posted was also in the OP. My bad as they say.
Here's another scarifying one.

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Noooo Donald Pleasence, leave those children alone!

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Do Irish kids have a thing about swimming in junkyard cesspools? That was one fucked up PSA.

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I don't know about Irish kids, but it's distressingly common for kids in the US to swim in old abandoned mine quarries - in spite of the dangers of toxins in the water, uneven depths, and the fact that other idiots often use such quarries as dumping grounds.

David Icke is having palpitations.