Nightmare Fuel / Crypt TV

Every single film Crypt TV produces, according to Word of God, takes place in the same universe. EVERYTHING here exists at the same time!

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If you yourself cannot release, it will come to take a piece.

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• The Thing In The Apartment features a woman named Lindsay calling over her friend Sam after having an encounter with a monster in her apartment. She recounts this encounter to Sam, explaining that she felt its presence for some time now. Sam goes to investigate what's happening, only to encounter the monster herself and gets herself killed. Lindsay attempts to run away, only to get cornered and killed by the monster. The sequel doesn't make things any better when we see neighbours, a married couple overhearing what's going on next door. It turns out the wife is also being stalked by this creature as well and when the husband takes a look outside, he sees strange men in black masks and outfits filming the incident. It's at this point the monster makes an attack on the couple as well.
• The Look-See is a series of videos focusing on the titular mysterious monster and how it interferes and affects the lives around it. Never mind its resemblance to the Slenderman, the Look-See is an entity that stalks its victims with a philosophy it tries to force on them regarding letting things go or risk being mutilated (specifically of body parts symbolically relating to what they can't let go of). The Look-See targets anyone from grieving parents to most notably, an adulterous husband, his mistress and the man's wife. It turns out it doesn't always kill it victims, and the survivors end up working for the Look-See, and Jenny (the above mentioned wife) is its newest servant.
  • Its Slasher Smile is a typical form of creepy. However, its most disturbing moment comes in Season 2, a prequel where he attacks a trio of muggers with doubts about killing a man for his wealth - man who happened to be the Look-See's current envoy. After killing two of them, who both regretted the murder, the final mugger who held the knife just stares at the Look-See with contempt, and an absence of remorse or guilt. The Look-See stops smiling, and proceeds to leave him be, presumably either sensing nothing to "fix", or deciding he isn't worth its time.
• "One Please" takes something as simple as getting a piece of treat from an ice cream truck into something twisted. The currency of getting said ice cream mans treats is severed fingers which he keeps in jars. Which parents are all to happy to give and apparently this is a business that he's been running successfully for some time now. What the fuck is going on in this world?!
  • The ice cream man, putting aside his van having a near-pitch-black interior despite the sunny day outside, is uncanny himself. He moves at a slightly off framerate from the rest of the short, he can twitch his ears, has no fingernails - as in, he's visibly never had them - and his facial expressions come and go like an animatronic cycling facial expressions.
• The Sunny Family Cult series focuses on a girl named Taylor, who discovers as a child her parents have been leading a Knight Templar murderous cult that claims to be fighting the wrongs of society. The first season shows how Taylor is set to be moulded in to the cult as well. We get examples of her luring a copycat child murderer (something the cult stands against), and her father Elias is shown to have a domineering and controlling personality to the cults operations. Throughout all this, Taylor is conflicted about wanting her life normal and following her families cult, such as being forced by her father to kill a teenage boy as part of her official initiation. The season finale ends with Taylor fully integrated into the cult and killing a group of teenagers at a slumber party.
  • Season two continues Taylor's story as she still feels conflicted and even remorseful for her actions, but keeps them to herself as she finds new friends at her school, to her father's disapproval, especially when Taylor states I Just Want to Be Normal. We are also introduced to a new character named Roger, claiming to be a substitute teacher and an investigator, both of which turn out to be lies that cover up that he was a former member, and the masked man stalking Taylor and other high school students as well as intimidating the local sheriff. The season ends with Roger not only abducting Taylor for an unknown purpose, but a flashback to Elias and Roger's past; we see Elias was not so different than Taylor in his youth and the implication the Roger is Eviler than Thou to Elias.
• Mordeo is a simplistic short about the Wendigo in all but name. No context is given as to why all this is happening, but it features a man eating a corpse in the middle of the woods when suddenly he sees the titular spirit and the corpse of his victim telling the cannibal that he belongs to the Mordeo now. Cue a Karmic and Painful Transformation, followed by this chilling line.
  Time for the blood hunt...
  • The line "there is a price to pay for eating flesh in these woods.", does give the story a least some context.
• Widower is about a group of teenagers practicing their shooting in the woods when one of them accidentally shoots a female zombie. After killing said zombie, her "mate," the titular Widower, chases them down in a Roaring Rampage of Revenge. It's revealed that the Widower was a subject of experiments that made him an enhanced zombie. He is still sentient enough to remember his past life and care about his mate. When he chases down the last two survivors, one of them a girl, he forcibly infects her into his new "wife" after having her kill her friend.
• Kinderfänger is a modern take on the Pied Piper story in which many parents go looking for their missing children. The protagonist is a little deaf girl who learns the children have been taken and hypnotized by the titular demon in classic Pied Piper fashion. Pretending to be out of its spell, she manages to take her brother and flee to a cave while the Kinderfander screams in rage. After their seeming victory, they witness as the Kinderfander's other victims are reunited with their parents...only to watch as they tear them all apart.
• Vampire is short and simple. A man is taken into a blood bank, where he's stalled to a chair and quickly discovers that he's basically become a human juicebox for a Looks Like Orlok vampire. It turns out the vampires are running the whole scheme and he's far from the only victim they have trapped.
• Demon Clown overlaps with Tear Jerker on account of the clowns nature. The film starts with reports of a scary clown being seen around the city up until a viral video gets uploaded of him chasing kids. We are then given interviews with the clown named Norton after the video went viral, and he's shown to be a mild-mannered albeit socially awkward guy who just wants to entertain everyone. In addition to being a Misunderstood Loner with a Heart of Gold, we find out the real reason he was chasing those kids; he met a woman on Craig's List who had a clown fetish and sexually assaulted him. He was running away in distress and calling for help.
• Troubled Youth is mixed with Narm Charm that comes straight out of Jennifer's Body. We get a rampaging demon like monster on the loose slaughtering students and faculty in a high school, where a few survivors trying to hide in a class room when the monster catches up to them...only to reveal its under the control of an Alpha Bitch cheerleader. When asked why she's doing this, the girl replies "You're all sheep, it's time to bring in a wolf."
• Mira Mira is a take on the saying "Mirror Mirror On the Wall". A girl and her boyfriend are on a trip to a city, but while the boyfriend is admiring the view, she is too focused on her appearance. She is constantly taking selfies and looking at herself in the mirror, when she notices disfiguring scars in her reflection. Suddenly the titular entity pulls her into the mirror world, where the girl is Forced to Watch as Mira poses as her. When her boyfriend comes back downstairs, we see the purpose of Mira's facial scars as she splits her head open to reveal her true face and bite the boyfriend's throat out. The video ends with Mira walking off, leaving the girl stranded in the mirror world surrounded by zombie like entities.
• Mimic is a semi adaption of a two-sentence horror story of a child telling their parent that there's a monster under the bed. When the parent goes to look, they see their child, who warns them that there is something in their bed. A father hears his son calling and asking to sleep in his parents bed. The father goes to tell his son no, not noticing the attic door is open. When he sees his son is still asleep, he hears the voice again coming from his own room. When he goes to investigate he sees a maggot-like monster eating his wife before turning to face him saying in his son's voice "Hi daddy" before attacking him too. The short ends with the kid waking up to hear his father's voice calling him to his room.
• "Milk & Cookies"'s main antagonist, Walter. Picture a hideous, blue-skinned, demonic cross between Santa and Krampus who is constantly drooling blood that is implied to be toxic. He also swallows people whole and regurgitates them as lumps of coal. The animated short “Milk & Cookies: Christmas in July” features him going on a killing spree and murdering everyone in sight.
• Even the more "heroic" monsters and videos have a dash of Nightmare Fuel as well. At least if you are an unfortunate Asshole Victim.
  • "Birch" is a popular video that tells the story of a bullied boy named Kris who learns from his dying grandmother of a being in the woods and of the ritualistic means to summon it. While the entity is described as a empathetic if overzealous protector of the innocent, it still has a frightening appearance, and the next time we see the bully’s body, there are deep gashes clawed into his face, and his organs appear to have been ripped out and impaled on branches., but to be fair the bully himself takes things a little too far by seemingly attempting to shank him with a knife.
  • Stoneheart isn't exactly a subtle example with its All Abusers Are Male, but features a witch-like entity that is said to be a protector of women. All well and good, if murder wasn't seemingly its only route to go. There's also the implication that the being possesses the protagonist to commit at least one murder. The three shorts follow a girl who has to deal with an arrogant and jackass boss, who gets in her face and even chokes her in a bit of Hair-Trigger Temper; an Abusive Parent who works as a cop; and a seemingly nice churchgoer who seems to have her interests at heart, before seeming to be an abrasive Stalker with a Crush. YMMV on the retribution on the churchgoer and her boss, although there's is something cathartic about the revenge she takes on her father.
    • The Girl from the first short was a completely different character from the girl from the other two shorts.
  • Rapunzel features a perfectly happy college couple before the boyfriend is killed when their room catches fire and the girl is disfigured from the fire. It's implied that one of the girl's sorority sisters committed the arson and the rest of them pinned the blame on the girl. Unfortunately for them, the girl somehow managed to bring her boyfriend back as an undead entity and are now systematically hunting down the suspects.
• Thanks to the short film "Stereoscope", as well as fantastic acting by Trin Miller, and monster effects by rockstar Mark Furze, and with a Gory Discretion Shot at the end, people will never look at stereoscopes the same way again.