There are a lot of things to be scared of in modern culture. Off the top of my head, we’ve got identity theft, computer hacking, chemical warfare, and even drones (though we must admit that they do produce the world’s very best whale footage.)
But it turns out the scariest trapping of our contemporary milieu is probably sitting in front of you right at this very moment: We’re talking about your phone, and the camera within, that have given rise to selfies, the de facto art form of the new millennium.
Popularized by the reigning queen of narcissism, Kim Kardashian, the “selfie” is exactly what it sounds like: a picture of the self, taken by the self, primarily for the self. But it might surprise you that something so seemingly harmless, if self-centered, can become pretty scary.
Now, in the real world, selfies can be plenty dangerous, either in the risk-taking manner of this terrifying picture, or in the more conventional what-did-I-text-my-boss-last-night kind of way. But I’m pretty sure you’ve never seen a selfie create this kind of terror before…
In the aptly-titled short film “Selfie from Hell,” a girl home alone at night decides to engage in a little socially mediated navel-gazing. But when she clicks back into her picture a few minutes later, she discovers that things aren’t always how they seem.
If the terrifying finale made you want to drop your iPhone down a well, please SHARE on Facebook and give all your friends a super-spooky case of the shivers too!
