Saturday, 1 March 2014

The Embodiment of Dislocation: SCP 106 "The Old Man"

For my end of year film I have decided to make a 5 minute film based on the SCP Foundation. For those unaware the SCP Foundation is a wiki dedicated to the recordings of supernatural entities. It's a pretty entertaining site and pretty much all the ideas on there are unique and certainly scary. For example there's a blue key that can open any door in the universe, a coffee machine that can make any liquid in the universe and beyond, an indestructible lizard with a great hatred of humanity and a living drawing of a woman.

But the SCP that stands out to me most of all is SCP-106 also known as "The Old Man". SCP-106 is a literal living embodiment of dislocation, the rules of reality mean nothing to him, he can move through matter by making the world corrode, he can't be killed or even hurt just stalled and he always comes back. To put it simply he is an immortal, implacable nightmare brought to life. To make him even scarier it's impossible to say what he looks like the best the site can manage is an artist interpretation(see below) and there's a file on the site that implies that the SCP had a blast during the second world war and was simply forgotten due to the atrocities committed.

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(SCP-106 Mid Emergence)


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 (SCP-106 when he was known as Corporal Lawrence)

His ability to be anything and nothing does a lot of favours to me as for filming purposes SCP-106 doesn't need to look like a unholy abomination. He just needs to have the air of one. This means he could appear in his humanoid form and still be just as scary, he might not even appear at all just make it known that he's there. Making the audience fear something that can be anywhere at anytime and pull you into a world of its own design till it's done toying with you right? Right?



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