And just wow, for a film with a budget of less than 30,000, just wow. I've been an SCP enthusiast for a while now, and once I heard about this I knew I had to see it. I look forward to seeing more projects by Evan and Stephen, I just hope next time I can focus on being scared ) All this being said, I still really liked this, and I think everyone did a wonderful job. The whole time I was just too confused to be scared, which was a little disappointing.

Whenever something scary would happen, it wouldn't have the effect it was going for because I was busy thinking about something that happened in the last scene. I didn't feel like I had time to be scared. I get that horror is subjective but just hear me out. And that's part of the bigger thing that irks me about this short is that it wasn't all that scary to me. I understand the appeal of an ambiguous ending and letting the viewer come up with their own idea of what happened, but we just saw so many things happen so rapidly and with no explanation that we can't even come up with a good idea of what might've happened. Then we see that the floating things from earlier are tethered to.something? Then it ends. I think that could've been a great little cliffhanger to end on, but then they switch to Kolinski, who is looking through the camera in confusion.

When the team exits the house and has a short exchange with the guys holding down the perimeter, I remember thinking that the guy who asked them to hand over the camera may not have been who he said he was. The biggest 'dude what' moment for me was at the end. But it seemed like there were a whole lot of loose ends that weren't tied up. The premise was fine, I liked the whole cult aspect. Don't get me wrong, the cast and crew all did a spectacular job but I feel like it was a little lacking in substance. The composition was amazing and the atmosphere was great. SCP: Overlord is currently streaming on YouTube.SCP Overlord was beautiful. But hopefully, that just means a sequel’s in the works. My only complaint (for lack of a better term) is that it ends on a definite cliffhanger. What I appreciate most about SCP: Overlord is that it really puts the emphasis on atmosphere and tension, from the operatives slowly winding their way through a fog-enshrouded forest, to encountering a site of the cult’s ceremonies, to getting their first glimpse of the cult’s normal-looking rural cabin headquarters… and the people floating high overhead.Ĭonsidering its minimal budget - the Kickstarter campaign raised a little over $23,000 - SCP: Overlord looks fantastic, with appropriately moody cinematography, solid production design, and some well-placed effects. Of course, the SCP is only called in when things get really bizarre, which means the SCP operatives soon find themselves facing unseen and malevolent forces. In SCP: Overlord, a Kickstarter-funded fan film written by Evan Muir and directed by Stephen Hancock, an elite SCP force investigates the compound of a cult suspected of criminal activities. All SCP stories are written in the style of scientific reports and internal documents, and some of them are quite chilling in their mundane language and clinical descriptions. Or… maybe the SCP Foundation is actually just an extremely popular and acclaimed online collaborative fiction project where people can submit stories of the bizarre and outlandish that make The X-Files pale in comparison. Its origins shrouded in mystery, its methods often venturing on brutal, extreme, and inhumane, the SCP Foundation is all that stands between humanity and oblivion. Which is where the SCP Foundation comes in. Standard government agencies simply don’t have the manpower, resources, or resolve to deal with these phenomena. Some even possess the power to bring about the end of the world as we know it. While some of these phenomena may be harmless and perhaps even whimsical, there are plenty that are far more ominous and dangerous. There exist, in this world, anomalies and phenomena that defy easy categorization, not to mention conventional attempts to capture, contain, and study them.

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