Larder of the Flies

WARNING: This video contains offal, maggots and stabbing synth chords and is too disturbing to upload. I only do so now with that proviso.

For this year's final Halloween upload, here's something genuinely horrifying. From the fag-end of the eighties, a cinema ad for LYNX. Not the fragrance, the animal rights activists and anti-fur pressure group now known as Respect for Animals, famed for their deep understanding of the value of subtlety. They understand it, so they can discard it.

This calculatedly nasty 18-rated cinema ad was the follow up to the famous David Bailey bloodstained catwalk "40 dumb animals to make a fur coat, only one to wear it" horror show, which - gallons of blood pouring onto Magenta DeVine lookalike's face and all - was as close as they ever got to actual subtlety. Not that that's necessarily a criticism; but constantly upping the stakes like this eventually left them nowhere to go (the follow-up to this one, "Skinned", in 1993 or so, was a three-minute film ending with a screaming upper-class model type with a skinned weasel around her neck). The slogan this time is marginally less insulting (and less accidentally misogynistic) than the last one, but still burns with a raw (and justified as far as I'm concerned - in this day and age wearing real fur is tantamount to pulling your dick out and jumping up and down at a funeral) contempt. (There are too many brackets in this description.) After LYNX became Respect, this and the Bailey were dusted off and rebranded with the new name and logo. They have a slightly kinder, gentler image now. Slightly.

I know I made that Brass Eye joke once before. I'll do it again, too, if only to piss off SOTCAA.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• advert
• commercial
• PIF
• public
• PSA
• information
• service
• film
• announcement
• LYNX
• Respect
• for
• Animals
• offal
• maggots
• flies
• blood
• despair
• meat
• mince
• arg
• blar

[cjlpowerdude999]

looks delicious :)

[Duvmasta]

@hotelmario510 OK!!!

[Duvmasta]

@hotelmario510 OK! FUCK YOU! BYE!

[hotelmario510]

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[Duvmasta]

@hotelmario510 alright, then stop talking like a fucking weirdo!!!

[hotelmario510]

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[Duvmasta]

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[EricakaJaceII]

On the plus side, I like Lynx's logo. I have a penchant for late-80's design so I like that logo.

Other than that, this PIF is quite literally hell in audio/visual form. It's a good message they're bringing, but at least deliver said message without puking the fuck out of your audiences, for fudge sake... o____o

[EricakaJaceII]

I decided to play it safe and only listen to the audio to this, after carefully reading the description after noticing its "18" rating. And eww...EWW, that music is fucking horrible.

For the past few weeks I've been making an unofficial music video for an independent dungcore group called Passenger of Shit (that exists) for a song called "Staple Tapeworms on my Penis" (which exists too) and the music for this...even whilst non-lyrical...is WAY more vomit-inducing. Believe me, good gravy. o____o

[hotelmario510]

Months later, I still feel physically ill watching this. And that's just the synth chords.