Originally posted by BOTZWANA
OMG, have you ever seen the TV spots for Magic? A close up shot of that creepy dummy reciting a creepy poem. Gave me nightmares.
Another scary commercial was this commercial for "The Hunger Project", which I think was a charity. The idea was to show a starving, emaciated boy morph into a healthy, fed one. This was the early 80's so they used airbrushed drawings until they faded into the healthy boy at the end. So, the commercial starts out with this ultra creepy, but almost photorealistic drawing of an emaciated boy in black and white underscored by creepy music, during the Voiceover they fade to drawings of him improving, until they go to then real boy in color.
That commercial terrorized me. It came on without without warning mostly at later at night or on Saturday Morning (!!). I used to avert my eyes during commercial breaks because I was afraid it would show up.
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