Orville Redenbacher Commercial (2007)

[pacguy19]

Eh...not very creepy for me. I mean sure, the body and face are obviously created using two different mediums, but this is more of a YMMV thing. (Anyone else get here through TV Tropes?)

[dark7element]

Apparently, in a bid to save money on CGI, this company has started outsourcing their commercials to a cabal of necromancers.

[Extermidalek]

He's going to kill me! I don't want to die!

[litherabbit]

He got so angry at the end there.

[ACluelessKid]

He looks rather realistic, until you see him in the Microwave. Then he just reaches the Uncanny Valley.

[capsulej]

"I AM THE POPCORN GHOST! PREPARE TO BE POPPED!"

[SlyKappa]

STRAIGHT FROM THE DEPTHS OF UNCANNY VALLEY!

[PinkCharmander]

I personally don't find it that creepy... I mean, I can tell there's something off, but then who again I think everyone can.

[geoentronecromancer]

Y'know, I'm sure someone has already made this joke, but....Orville Deadenbacher, anyone?

[Rahheemme]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH­HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

[krudmonger]

There's something ironically insincere about a CGI-masked stunt double/impersonator hired to say, "Or my name's not Orville Redenbacher." (Odds are, his name's not...)

[Clay3613]

It's not that bad people, geez.

[PurplePeachSalad]

omfg NIGHTMARES.

[DaveTheSodaGuy0]

a person with make up or a mask would be so less disturbing

[paireon]

The fuck!? He looks more like something from an Aphex Twin videoclip than a real person! They really should tone down the CGI, it's getting even more ridiculous (and creepy).

[stardappledgreen]

between 0:14 and 0:18, those eyes looks like they belong on some taxidermied animal's head

[sleetwintergreen]

Oh God, close the window before it gets your soul!

[7DARKHELLS]

The Guy at 0:3 was like I THOUGHT HE WAS DEAD!!!

[foggyviolentviolence]

Greetings from tvtropes, the internet's biggest time vampire.

[Kastila]

...creeped out now. Uncanny Valley, Creeptown, USA.

[chocolate11pie]

TVTropes Sent me

[unknownmercury]

UNCANNY VALLEEEEEEEEYYYYYYY!

[TheLifeSource]

hahaha that is a nice animation!

[kaneman2010]

That guy is a CGI!!

[noodlezombie]

HE IS A CHAR

[AzukaraMegaDriver]

Um... guys. It's not really that scary.

[40Ddrew]

eat some poop you communist

[TackyRackyComixNEO]

I love how creeped out everyone looks, as if all the extras they hired knew exactly how disturbing the idea was. (And, due to the lack of music to at least attempt to cheer things up, so did the sound editors.)

They wanted this to creep us out, people...

[TackyRackyComixNEO]

(I guess not really a complete lack of music, but a lack of music that you'd find outside of an asylum.)

[kaploy9]

I think I noticed the CGI head the most at 0:13, that movement is like when I watched The Polar Express..... *eugh* (although, the hitchhiker guy was the best part of the movie)

[Scottybono630]

i don't like it

[girlrunner1]

Oh God, KILL IT! SEND IT TO HELL!

[magna188]

"...or my name's not Orville Redenbacher!"

...you're not. Good Lord, you're NOT.

I'd say thanks for uploading this, but... those EYES!

[SaraHysaro]

Hmm...the thing that makes this creepy (for me) is the music they played during the commercial. That itself kinda makes me thing that something isn't right.

Otherwise, he's pretty funny in a strange sort of way. xD

[loperspest]

I don't know which is worse, the eyes, or the spastic dance at the end, like a corpse enlivened by repeated jolts of electricity.

*shudder*

[Homepie]

"Hello, I'm Orville Redenbacher..."

No you're not! NO YOU'RE NOT!

[Hammerman24]

The eyesssssss....

[amazongirl24]

Why does this not creep me out? I think it's kinda funny...

[Hammerman24]

Thank you TVtropes, now you will scare me shitless whenever I see a Redenbacher commercial...God damnit

[ShuyaNanahara717]

I'm not alone.. Here comes the nightmares...

[Hammerman24]

Did I mention the eyes? Sweet jesus the eyesssssss

[RialetXII]

Awesome. I got here via TVtropes too.

His head is too big and the neck is missing. Creepy.

[PuppetOfThePollution]

That's really... Off...

[x0Mercury0x]

... o_o

[dude018219293]

0:03

everyones like

"WHAT THE FUCK?!?!?!"

[chitoryu12]

"Hello, I'm Orville Redenbacher, and i'm here to murder you while you sleep."

[ItsTylerMarie]

why did they do that?

if i died and someone did this to me, i'd haunt the fuck outta them 0_o

[Pikapoo1]

Holy shit, his head is digitally remade? I seriously thought that was real!

Now I'm more freaked out then ever.

[BlueNight134]

You just thought it was the botox, right?

[jmb817]

nightmare fuel unleaded + uncanny valley = Orville Redenbacher

[Goldberg1337]

TV Tropes wiki FTW!

[Penelopeb155]

I prefer to pop my popcorn in a pot with a little bit of Canola Oil! Orville Redenbacher is definitely a German Name or at least the last name is German.

[tnumfive]

I was almost hoping for a Kill it With Fire moment at the end when everyone started to group together behind him.

[jacval60]

That is not Orville Redenbacher, he doesn't even look like him. He has a wig on.

[DannyandSam4EVER]

It's CG. The whole head's fake.

[klutterkicker]

Hahaha this is odd... I wouldn't call it living dead though, it looks much more cartoonish. Of course everyone knows he's dead, so it seems really creepy for that reason alone.

[glassineheart]

GO BACK TO THE UNCANNY VALLEY NOW!!!

[Noonxy20k]

THIS MADNESS ENDS NOW.

[archer1949]

Jesus......

THIS is why it will be a LOOOOOONG time before CGI replaces human actors. Noone wants to watch reanimated zombies pimping your products. The ad agency who came up with this horror should be put out of business.

[tsuneniwarai]

They're the same people who made The Burger King. Y'know, creepy King dude?

[punkmonkoffunk]

Okay slooooooowly reach for the zombie weapons kids Zero hour is upon us!

[CJAnonymous]

I love the bald guy's face at 0:03. He seems to be the only one who sees what's wrong here.

[TerminusEst13]

I'm fairly sure that, at that time, he was feeling around for a knife. Or a gun. Or anything to defend himself with.

[Epsilon3311]

Well, that's what they get for holding auditions in the uncanny valley.

[eruption257]

No, your name isn't Orville Redenbacher.

Your name is Orville Reden-AAAAAHHH WHAT IS THAT AAAAHHHH KILL IT KILL IT KILL IT AAAAAAA.

[nesleyswipes]

OMG KILL IT DED WITH FIRE

[Stantzs]

it...it keeps whispering such horrible lies about me...

LIES! LIES I TELL YOU!

LIIIIEEESSS!

[sinXIII]

creepy as heck

[deidaraslove]

Something is wrong with Orville. . . something is very, very wrong. . .

. . .

*stuffs a bag with green herbs*

[Jeremyx66]

Me!

[honeysoakedgrave]

Anyone else come here because of TVtropes?

[westrim]

Me. Good GOD this is creepy, and I usually don't have a problem with the Valley.

[entropyapathy]

here too....

[milkethefish]

Same here, but I got here before...

[PancakeM1x]

I got linked from there, but oddly, I don't find it too bad at all. Subjective Trope, after all.

[ArmageddonisUnleashe]

Whoo, fellow Troper! I got linked here. It is fairly creepy, but I wouldn't call it Nightmare Fuel.

[bitesh]

@honeysoakedgrave yup, and just realized I have 14 tabs open, just for tropes.

[n00bkillerleo]

@bitesh i have four google chromes windows with +10 tvtropes tabs in each

[DarkArcz]

@n00bkillerleo Ditto, right down to the number of tabs opened and the browser used in question. Contrived Coincidence much?

[wyoshineo]

@honeysoakedgrave Yep. TVtropes can certainly ruin your life.

[Jademageify]

@honeysoakedgrave Me!

[superfishy444]

@honeysoakedgrave

...No. Why would you even ask?

[FlameAdder]

I just don't see what's so creepy about it.

[NecronomiPod]

The thing that's creepy is that they used a live actor and used CG to render in the head. If you look closely, you can notice the tell-tale signs of CG in the commercial.  Once you notice it, it gets kinda... creepy.

[FlameAdder]

I know that, I just don't find it that creepy.

[NecronomiPod]

You are a braver man than I.

[FlameAdder]

Nah. I scream at spiders. Like a little girl. Everyone's just creeped out by different things.

[Kittymouth]

That's just the thing about nightmare fuel. Different stuff creeps different amounts out of people. I don't find this creepy and I'm TRYING. But the King from the Burger King commercials?

DX

Good old fashioned Nightmare fuel.

[FlameAdder]

I'm assuming from your gross overuse of the words "nightmare fuel" that you came here from TV Tropes.

[Kittymouth]

Yeah, but I was actually quoting Mystery Science Theater with that last line.

2 times constitutes a gross overuse? Overuse, alright, but GROSS overuse? That's a bit much isn't it? What else am I supposed to refer to it as? I thought that was the topic in discussion here.

[bitesh]

@NecronomiPod you don't even need to look that closely...

[ekkostar]

I don't know what was worse, this or the Addicted to Lost commercial.

[rogonandi]

...If you see something thatlooks human and isnt, you keep your eyes on it and you feel for your hatchet.

[hellioness]

OH GOD D:

[Dipndotz214]

fail

[PotatoUPrincess]

OH MY GOD.

I'M GOING TO HAVE NIGHTMARES FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE.

Somebody...KILL IT. NOW!!!

*Runs away in opposite direction, screaming!*

[pockylover22]

Ooooooohhh....I am...truly terrified...*teary*

[Nanosauromo]

GOOD LORD where did I put my shotgun?

[AvatarofRage]

Why does it look like zombie Mrs. Doubtfire? Why? Why?

[Nktalloth]

Guan Yu please kill it.

NOW

[pyroclasm32]

Oh my.

[sowhatsupwithcancer]

oh god kill it kill it kill it

[BestiaFX]

he is CG, a work by david fincher the same director from The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.this spot was useful for them to develop the technique and test it for the movie, by the way Eric Barba was the VFX supervisor.

[DrButler]

Can you believe-HOLY SHIT! KILL IT!

[PassiveSmoking]

Can you believe they strapped a dead guy's head to an actor in order to shill popcorn?

[killer66250]

Can you believe this little baby holds 30 Gigs?

[cyborgtroy]

The lighting on his skin just doesn't look right, and his mouth doesn't look like his voice sounds.

[SpartanJose777]

Welcome to Uncanny Valley. Here's you're commemorative ventriloquist's puppet, who'll watch you every night while you sleep.

[xXpoptart24Xx]

On second thought, he looks just like my grandmother wearing a business suit. Frightening stuff, that.

[xXpoptart24Xx]

Oh dear god... It's the eyes, THE EYES.

[PiecesofEternity]

I was just about to post that very thing...

[DilutedMedia]

It looked halfway convincing until he started moving around, ugh.

[PhredLevi]

It didn't seem that odd to me, but then for just a moment, his eyes looked soulless and terrifying.

[McCoy3378]

his name ISN'T Orville Redenbacher dagnammit!

[Stantzs]

oh god, it looks like its going to rip off its mask and eat the poor peoples brains while theyre distracted by the tasty popcorn

[Zippykhan]

I know fake Orville holding the iPod backwards is probably played for laughs but...yeesh!

[NullShade]

I didn't find that creepy at all.

[cyborgtroy]

Realistic human animations is super-hard to do. Clearly.

[dumbestuserever]

what the hell is he doing at the end? lmao

[madsli]

He's moovin' too the groove

[loperspest]

It isn't CGI, they just resurrected ol' Orville by sticking a cattle prod up his butt. Seriously, the dance looks like some kind of mortal mombo, deadly dance, oe zombie swing. It is. . .creepy. AND THE EYES, THEY ARE DEAD!

[HiroshiMizushima]

I think that if they had just avoided the whole digital media player reference, the commercial might have seemed a lot less disturbing. It's like when they took the KFC Colonel Sanders and turned him into a cartoon character, or the new Chuck E Cheese wearing shin guards. It's just unnatural and feels strange, to the point where it turns us off to that character or person. But I still love the popcorn.

...and making him bounce at the end was a bad idea too.

[Ravie3]

This is just as terrifying as they said it would be

[Teckniphobia]

I thought that was pretty awesome and it made me want some popcorn. Perhaps I have a higher tolerance for uncanny valley-ness then most.

[khideky]

You know underneath that suit are just bones and unpopped kernels

[khideky]

What they didn't show was his head exploding into one giant popcorn that inexplicably rolls off screen. Then come the cornstalk tentacles....

[gitchydam]

those people standing behind him all have crowbars hidden behind their backs, ready to beat his zombie ass back to the head of the idiot that came up with this dumb idea for an ad.

[vnally]

couldn't they have just...hired an actor? please.

[CreativeCritisizm]

Colonel Sanders should do more commercials again, hey maybe Elvis can get into the picture.

[PassiveSmoking]

Ah yes, when it comes to selling popcorn, there's nothing like good old-fashioned nightmare fuel.

[racerx135]

I think we are still 10 years out before they can do this without it looking really creepy like this ill conceived commercial.

[shay1988]

KILL IT! KILL IT BEFORE IT KILLS US! *girlish screams*

[Ashitaka1110]

Oh my...oh...holy...unholy...*run­s screaming*

[jayngfet0]

deepest uncanny valley ever.

[Bartron111]

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the uncanny valley. Please do not incinerate walking corpses in no-incineration areas.

[democraticboy]

they didn't have mp3 players, his time!

[dknott87]

AAHHH. Kill it! Kill it with fire!

[bwaremypower]

BRAIIIINNNSSS.....uh, i mean POPCOOOOORRRRNNNN!!!!

[Shmiggle20000]

Its a zombie, run for your life!!!!

[RXdash78]

The dead walk!!!!

[prkesnatch]

the head is completely cg, the rest of the body is an actor, the replaced his head with a digital double of orville.. creepy indeed

[ReikaiDemon]

Welcome to what we call...The uncanny valley O_O

[alphamone]

it doesnt look that freaky to me, but I have never seen what he actualy looks like.

[JTProud]

Creeeeeeeeepy.

[paralegal2b]

Reanimated corpse or quite possibly a zombie hungry for brains, brains!!!

[DaColt88]

big pimping, good pop corn

[potsdam28]

Looks like a guy wearing a mask to me.

[cortezopossum]

I'm reminded of a 1981 Michael Crichton movie called 'Looker' where they digitize actors and actresses to create 'mathematically perfect' commercials.

[MyBrainDrained]

I don't understand what they did. It looks like some other guy acted as Orville.

[ChristopherLaRock]

It's a nice tribute to him.

[ashigod]

They should have resurrected Col. Sanders too - and the two zombies could have had a contest to see which food was worse for you.

[Adiens]

And then throw in Dave Thomas in the mix.

[xpo220]

Back to the coffin with the damned popcorn Zombie! Back, I say!

[jusy55]

datz some scary shit!!!!

[Cosmoline]

This is WRONG on every level. He's a zombie.

[PureJoe]

disturbing

[logom0]

He is digitally made?

[CzyBam]

I think it's great. Especially the funny lil' dance he does at the end, and the peering into the microwave ;]

[SkurfluffleTV]

he just looks digital. not scary

[amanochou]

Oh my God.

[Digifruitella]

director: David Fincher

[kaisenji]

D: Holy shit. I'm gonna have nightmares for EVER

[igurl09]

its weird.

[bjshea]

Creepy. Totally creepy