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Thursday, November 21, 2013

Suicide Mouse

Suicide Mouse is a clip of Mickey Mouse walking sadly on a sidewalk with weird sounds and image distortion. It was supposedly created by Walt Disney. The original video has a length of 9 minutes and 4 seconds, but the one we can see only lasts 7 minutes because it is a recreation of the original one.

This clip was never distributed and it has nothing special. It is just a continuous loop of  Mickey Mouse walking in front of some buildings for 2 or 3 minutes, then the image gets dark and the animation ends. The music is strange, it isn't even music, it's just like if someone was hitting a piano randomly. Mickey is not smiling as usual, he has a normal expression but with his head facing down and looking at right like if he had a shadowy look.

It was thought that when image gets dark, the clip ends. But when Leonard Maltin(Disney editor) was checking it to put it on a DVD, he decided it was garbage. However, he wanted a digital copy just because it was work of Walt Disney. Then, when the clip was digitalized in his computer, he realized that the video lasted 9 minutes and 4 seconds.

The image stays dark until minute six. Then, Mickey returns walking. The sound is different this time, like a murmur. Then, in the next minute, while the sound gets louder, the image begins to distort. Slowly, Mickey's shadowy face turns into a shadowy smile. Next, in the seventh minute, the murmurs turn into chilling screams, and the image gets darker. Mickey's face begins to collapse, his eyes roll all the way to his chin, and his smile points up. The buildings turn into debris and the sidewalk to strange directions.

After that, Maltin got disturbed and he called an employee to finish watching the clip and taking notes. The clip ended with a throaty scream and Mickey's face on the credits. Then, the employee came out of the room with his face pale, and repeated seven times the phrase: "you don't know the real pain". Then, he grabbed the gun from the guard that was there and shot himself.

At the end of the clip, there was a phrase in russian that said: "The sights of hell bring his audience back".

                               

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