Microwaved cell phone summons Nyarlathotep

Please do not attempt.

Cellphone in Microwave [Dark Roasted Blend]

[#1 posted by Enochrewt , May 27, 2008 12:22 PM]

I believe the technical is Freaky deaky.

Yowzers.

[#2 posted by Jake0748 , May 27, 2008 12:32 PM]

Coolest thing I've seen all day.

No, I won't be trying this at home.

[#3 posted by Alan , May 27, 2008 12:34 PM]

I'm not trying this at home. I'm trying it at work.

[#4 posted by UnderRat , May 27, 2008 1:14 PM]

All I got was a crappy Shoggoth. Sprint sucks.

[#5 posted by Anonymous , May 27, 2008 2:12 PM]

I would really love to know how they did that. plus not a good thing to be watching when sleep deprived, the tag should have said "do not attempt to watch".

[#6 posted by lightsyrup , May 27, 2008 2:21 PM]

Whoa. I'm not even trying that in the next life.

[#7 posted by superset , May 27, 2008 2:31 PM]

I'm no expert, but I say that is totally fake.

[#8 posted by themindfantastic , May 27, 2008 2:42 PM]

can't sleep nyarlathotep will eat me (with cazed wild eyed expression on my face).

[#9 posted by Abby , May 27, 2008 2:46 PM]

I seriously considered doing this to my razr after I upgraded. A blowtorch seems a better option, though.

[#10 posted by mdhatter , May 27, 2008 2:55 PM]

So that's how you call him!?!

[#11 posted by Dillenger69 , May 27, 2008 3:30 PM]

I bet this is a viral video for some movie coming out.

[#12 posted by RyanH , May 27, 2008 4:23 PM]

It's well done, but I can't help but feel they cheated a little using the white flashes to try and disguise switches between the real/CG and stages of the effect.

[#13 posted by pauldrye , May 27, 2008 4:47 PM]

That's not Nyarlathotep, that's a Dark Young of Shub-Niggurath. Because knowing is half the -- well, OK, it's not going to help. But you'd know.

[#14 posted by noen , May 27, 2008 4:56 PM]

F*cking awesome.

[#15 posted by Scuba SM , May 27, 2008 6:44 PM]

And that, my friends, is why you should never attempt microwave experiments without friendly Mr. 12GA nearby. Not that it'd really help in this case, but if you summoned say, a Doom Imp...

[#16 posted by proto , May 27, 2008 9:39 PM]

Hmm. . . I had a phone just like that -- then I dumped AT&T for one of the lesser Outer Gods (Verizon, I think he's called). Horrible beyond anything you can imagine — but wonderful! Can you hear me now?

[#17 posted by Not a Doktor , May 27, 2008 10:30 PM]

oh hey that reminds me I have to call my mom

[#18 posted by Anonymous , May 28, 2008 3:42 AM]

As fun as this looks - how many really nasty chemicals am I likely to inhale/come into contact with if I try this?

[#19 posted by arkizzle , May 28, 2008 5:30 AM]

YAY! That was quality!

[#20 posted by Camillo Miller , May 28, 2008 7:22 AM]

"And it was then that Nyarlathotep came out of Egypt. Who he was, none could tell, but he was of the old native blood and looked like a CellPhone."

Thanks from your beloved Lovecraft Dork

[#21 posted by clueless in brooklyn , May 28, 2008 12:32 PM]

I'm totally clueless with this one (in brooklyn, of course)

[#22 posted by Zan , May 28, 2008 9:03 PM]

Wow, I have the exact same microwave!

[#23 posted by nex , May 29, 2008 1:09 PM]

This was posted on a couple of popular blogs, but this is the only post I've seen that lacks the clarification that the video is fake.

[#24 posted by Agent 86 , May 29, 2008 2:52 PM]

I hope this is for another Call of Cthulhu videogame!

[#25 posted by appliance , June 4, 2008 2:20 PM]

This is an ad for Tracfone. Not so cool as a Cthulu video game.

[#26 posted by Tenn , June 4, 2008 2:30 PM]

This was posted on a couple of popular blogs, but this is the only post I've seen that lacks the clarification that the video is fake.

It's fake?!

[#27 posted by Anonymous , June 12, 2008 10:33 AM]

If you needed clarification that microwaving a cell phone does not, in actual point of fact, call up screaming supernatural horrors, you should not have a microwave, or anything that makes you a bigger danger to yourself than you already are.

I was impressed by the video, though. I was expecting more of a Bill Beatty-style "you can melt glass in a microwave thing" than the shoggoth, so it was startling.