This impressive short film borrows shamelessly from the kind of science-gone-wrong ideas and limited frame of reference that has found such popularity these days. It borrows not only the ideas, but also the music and sound effects — it’s clear this is not a final product, but rather a sort of demo reel for one guy’s special effects and editing prowess. Perhaps a final project for a student filmmaker?
Like Gordon Freeman, the character never speaks, and close observers will notice Black Mesa mentioned in the news feed — to say nothing of the Combine noises. This led some to believe it is a viral from Valve, but on reflection that’s a pretty ridiculous idea. It also uses the music from Lost. Likewise its identifying of various phones suggested it might be something phone-related, but that’s really stretching it.
The site linked makes a big deal about “What’s in the Box,” but there doesn’t appear to have been any follow-up movies. An abandoned commercial product? Who knows? In the meantime, just enjoy.
That is super cool!!!
scary !!! an way freaky cool !
I hope that in at least 7 years from now Valve will make a game that looks as realistic as this motion video. That would be sweet. Crysis what?
This reminds me of the Langoliers somehow. That mixed with some Half-Life and War Of The Worlds.
DAMN COOL
this is ESCAPE FROM CITY 17 re-make
There are a message between the code lines of the website:
“Every medium, as its ancestors.
Every pro, has his anti’s, now you think about that.”
Really nice, especially the bsod when he takes off the lenses at 5:20. hahaha
cool, Half life and LOST is my favorites.
Thinking about pro and anti i realise that in the code there are 2 css files one for screen and one for print, they are called pro.css and anti.css. In the anti.css there is an image witch url is:
http://www.whatsinthebox.nl/anti.gif
It is incredible!!!
the orange box ?:|