We TESTED HORROR Slasher Weapons, the results were SHOCKING!
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- Halloween special where we test horror weapons!
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Don't ask me how I know this, but I can certainly say that the hook isn't likely to be taken seriously until you get someone with it and suddenly they understand what it's like to be a caught fish. The knife just immediately turns on a person's fight or flight mode, while the axe and machete send a very clear message that all possible pretense has been dropped and that you're taking your life in your hands by not getting the fuck outta there on the double.
@acebigaloo7991 I could say a Dark Knight quote in regards to guns lol
As someone with a cat that naturally has 18 sharp hooks, I can confirm this.
Though I will point out that the setting matters too. Take a look at The Shining, being trapped in an isolated location (especially in a supernatural setting like the hotel) with someone targeting you with an ax, and with no means to receive any aid is a terrifying prospect. There's a reason the "Here's Johnny!" scene is as iconic as it is.
@@taqresu5865that's kinda not the point of the original comment tho
@@massgunner4152 I was trying to flesh out the point, despite my poor execution of my comment.
@acebigaloo7991Dead
As a man who has experienced the horrors of being hit with an axe and sustaining a critical injury from it I can say that the axe is a terrifying and brutal horror trope weapon and efficient both for murder and combat.
Not disagreeing entirely, but if the axe wielder is swinging with such windup as shown here I think a fellow would have a good chance of being able to run in close during the windup and get in a couple throat punches or a pocketknife stab while making the axe relatively useless
Bro above literally said skill issue 😔
@@WilliamNybergwell I’m sorry dear sir, not all of us have been knighted, nor trained in the ways of killing, or even taught the forbidden techniques such as pocket sand & ‘up the alley’.
Well sir, you must have had quite the life. I do not envy you.
@@kelduarjudgester9083 to be clear i said "a fellow", I never said which fellow.
So, Tyranth tries to test things seriously but is secretly insane, Nathan has the experience in combat and the madness rubs off on him, and Shad is just insane 24/7.
Noted.
Welcome to Shadiversity! We've been expecting you. 😉
*sings Macabre - Vampire Of Düsseldorf*
Such fitting lyrics
@@m0-m0597Düsseldorf wieso?
@@Bokuto7.9it is the name you dummy
Not 24/7 25/8sound more like it
One factor not really into account here was concealability. Now, most "traditional" horror killers aren't particularly subtle, but in terms of psycho-serial killer motive, where the goal is maximum deaths over time, a knife or hook is easier to get into places it shouldn't be. The surprise factor of just whipping out a kitchen knife or a hook and just disemboweling someone is chilling, to say the least. Who hasn't heard of stories of so-and-so who got stabbed 20 times in the chest in the span of a minute, and bled to death gruesomely. Absolutely awful.
3 seconds per stab is kind of slow if you think about it
@@OmniscientlyMefirst 3 fast accurate terror.
Last 3 slow excruciating sorrow.
@@OmniscientlyMe Not if you're trying to be thorough about each one. Get it up to the hilt, drag it around a little, maybe twist it, then pull it out, find another good spot, repeat.
Depends on the context. It a lot of "traditional" slasher horror films, the isolated setting *is* part of the horror. The Shining is an excellent example here. Having no one and no where to run to. So depending on the story, being inconspicuous serves no purpose and being overtly monstrous becomes more effective.
Prison inmate with a sharpened toothbrush says “hold my beer.”
Safe to say Shad himself is the scariest weapon y'all tested.
sharpest tool in the shad
@@anukthotawatta982 sharpest tool in the shadlands?
@@crustybomb115 eyyyy! BA DUN TZZ! 🥁
I think you missed one important test - against the environment (for example doors). In many horror movies the protagonists/victims try to get away and lock doors , inside a car or the like. So something like the axe adds a "can't get away' factor.
Yeah, this; and if you're a hero, you might need to escape the zombie horde or whatever, and you can use the axe to do it. Along with all the factors brought up in the video, I think the axe is the clear winner in both a "used by a hero against zombies/monsters" and a "used by a slasher to hunt teenagers" context.
Yup! That and try swinging an axe or a machete with wide swings indoors or a thick forest, you're probably going to hook on everything. Environment would totally be a factor. Machete might actually be even better in a forest chase scene as it could be used to clear debris in their paths, but a hindrance in say, a densely packed pine tree area near walls and fences in a park.
Agreed same with machete.
That hook is also capable of pulling or hanging you up. and that slow death is just so much more frightening. The second would be an axe for the sound of that "thud" followed by the cracking of bone as it hits you.
Someone's played Dead by Daylight.
@@deanospimoniful or seen I Know What You Did Last Summer
Speaking of sounds, you can drag the axe behind and make spooky noise this way too
There is something viscerally terrifying about the hook. Once it hits you you cannot move without maiming yourself. The other ones will kill you pretty quick, the hook is going to be bloody and slow.
there is a reason its called a butchers hook....
its usually used to move/hang carcasses in a butchery.
nowadays it might be less present in the minds of younger people that have never seen meet anywhere except in a supermarket freezer, but the image of hanging on that hook squealing in pain like a pig as you struggle to get away and the thought of hanging on such a hook, alive but unable to free yourself waiting to be butchered like an animal have something horrifying that a quick death from a blade just do not bring to the table
I think that some people have linked the fear of something like a hook to some deep ancestral fear of the claws of a predatory animal. Humans have been prey for much of their history.
They were all having way too much fun with the hook. The other three weapons are of course going to cause a lot of damage, but they were having some sadistic fascination with that hook. They might want to try a hook hand wielding an axe in the other hand.
Something ive always wondered if it would make an effective weapon or not is a gauntlet with 'claws' on each finger. Or heck even just 'pointy' tips on an armoured gauntlet. Would it cause any damage or not? If anything it would look intimidating but im wondering if its practical.
@@demoulius1529 I have wondered the same thing too. I always wanted a gauntlet with raptorial claws on the digits that resembled a bird of prey's "talons", even though it's for the hand. In battle, I think it would add little to the sword or other elongated weapon one is wielding, but if one was otherwise unarmed, it would be a great thing to have.
If the Shadiversity team ever gets access to a Discovery Channel level budget, I'd love to see them try these weapons again on realistic gel dummy human analogues, as well as a chainsaw (Leatherface), a Buck 120 bowie knife (Ghostface), and a barber's razor (Sweeney Todd). I think the 3 main categories that should be judged are Lethality (can this weapon quickly dispatch a victim right before he/she escapes), Fear Factor (how gory/pain-inducing this weapon can be when used to maim trapped or fleeing victims), and Practicality (how manageable is it to wield or stow this weapon while chasing down a victim or sneaking through a building/forest to catch the victim unawares)
Something to consider here is that in many slasher films the killers have a tendency to improvise. Michael Meyers in Halloween II often improvised with other items as weapons. He was in a hospital and he dispatched people with a syringe, scalpel, cord for strangling, a hot tub, a blood transfusion needle and tube, and a kitchen knife stolen from an old woman's kitchen. Jason wasn't restricted to machetes (his signature weapon), he could use a spear improvised from a gate, garden tools, and spear guns to name a few.
Jason even made a kill using a Sleeping Bag and a Tree.
Jason killed someone with a bow and arrow I believe
Indeed and even tho Ghostie uses his famous modified Buck 120 knife, he can improvise and use a shotgun.
@@just-usofficialyoutube5480 Used about a hundred different things over the course of his Horror Movie Killer Career. Never a Gun though, closest thing was a Spear Gun.
Oh yes, among other things as well, he's very resourceful. @@just-usofficialyoutube5480
Skallagrim made a similar video a while back. Two of them in a row actually. The way you are using the hook makes a big difference. Skall points out that if you use a hook with a horizontal grip like usual, you run into the issue of the hook digging in between your fingers, limiting how much power can be put into your strikes.
My favorite for a spooky weapon would be a sickle.
Oh absolutely yes. The sickle/scythe should have been here.
aslo sickle is like common in " reapers " weapons.
@@Destroyer_V0 agree
Always a good day when Shad drops a Halloween themed video in your feed today. XD
8:14 Shad is just slowly becoming an insane person
Becoming?
Slowly?
Just?
Person?
Shad?
Shad is having waayyy too much fun with the maniacal laughter and I am here for it😂
I lost it less than a minute in when Nate took off the wig and Shad and Tyranth freaked out. Haven't laughed that hard in a while. Comedic timing at its peak.
I think the strength of the hook/claw in horror is how "personal" it would feel for the killer.
The axe, the machete and to a lesser extent the knife are just things you use they separate you from the target.
Meanwhile the hook/claw feels like it's a part of you.
the hook is definitely the most "horror" one of the bunch.
we have a natural fear of being grabbed by hook like claws cause it reminds us of our natural predator (big cats) the hook can be a great secondary weapon where the villain grabs someone with the hook and then deals the killing blow with something else.
All this proves is that someone could d1e from laughing at Shad’s overzealous nature of the hook.
It looks like they all had extra fun making this one.
@@philipstehno1495 true. That’s what makes it entertaining
I just finished reading this as shad did his first hook! Pmsl 😂😂😂
@@DaftFader 🤣
This was the funniest one
That pool noodle catch at 6:37 was one of the most epic things I've ever witnessed! It was astonishingly smooth and elegant. I had to rewind a few times to make sure you guys hadn't back-wound it to do it. Fantastic. I'm a martial artist and I'm just geeking out over it :)
Maybe im missing something here but it just looks like he catches it?
@@demoulius1529 He does. It's just a perfect catch, like the thing was on a string and pulled into his hand.
Kitchen knife is always a classic but if you're looking for max carnage then Leatherface's chainsaw wins every time 😂 fun vid lads
This video really HOOKED my interest. This answered many questions I had AXEd in the past. Good knife and Happy Halloween. (Couldn’t think of anything for a machete)
Here's the thing.... they are all terrifying me to the bits, but the machete seems like the least scary to me simply because, unless the killer is trying to torture me, its the most merciful weapon, it'd simply chop my head off and thats it, while the other ones will: shatter my bones (axe), gore me and likely leave nasty wounds (hook) or make me bleed to death (knife), all of which are horrifying to the bits :'>
I feel like because the actual danger area of an axe is smaller that it would be harder for a killer to use and less deadly. Because if he misses the actual axe bit he might as well have just hit you with a stick.
Having been hit with an axe handle I can tell you it damn near broke my arm and it didnt even have a 2 lb axe head on it.
You underestimate the mighty stick? The reason the axe even has its metal head is simply to restrain the unbridled power of STICK.
Despite being the hardest to conceal, it benefits the most from surprise attacks and backstabs (despite little stabbing involved).
Fun fact: when actually murdering with axe it's more common to use blunt side maing it more of an improvised mace.
Man, it's videos like this when I really wish they had a ballistic dummy sponsor.
shad had a concerning amount of fun with this
Machete is my favorite tool to use in the garden. Cuts well and people stare at me like I'm a mad man. It's a lot of fun to use too!
I'd like you to revisit the axe as a weapon by using the blunt side of it. In the spirit of Halloween, one of the scariest serial murders that took place in america was done by an axe wielder, but he used the blunt side. The man said that he did this because otherwise the axe would be more likely to get stuck in what he was swinging at. So I think in terms of deadly/horror, I'd go axe if you included this. Otherwise, machete is likely the most versatile and deadliest.
In horror movies the whole point of the weapon is to cause psychological horror rather than specifically the how damaging the weapon is.
Hench, probably the most horrifying is actually the hook.... The fact it can tear into the flesh and cause a wound that will cause the person to bleed out would be the more terrorising, especially if grabbed from behind and dragged..
I imagine a hook/knife combo would be very effective.
So a sickle?
A proper sickle doesnt go all around like a hook but pretty much like it, i imagine a hook tip thinning into a bladed curve wouldnt work well.
What about a hammer
I believe he is suggesting a hook in one hand, knife in the other
@@malucoblz588 you could hammer out a hefty edge. in europe, namely the alps region where I have seen it, they don't use wetstones to sharpen a scythe blade, but they hammer it out. somethign like a cold smithing. it holds up a good while, co nsidering you could drive it into the soil or a stone when not paying attention.
A hand scythe or sickle would be more Halloween themed, Reeping the dead and all that classic celtic/gothic murder.
Darn no Freddy's glove 2:22
This is the type of energy we love to see from you guys lol
Is it just me, or does their homemade "hook" look like a velociraptor toe claw made into a karambit?
Something you haven't considered is precision. I mean, most of the tests would be for a film like friday the 13th, where the killer usually kills a victim near instantly. But other horror movie villains profit somehow from the fear, and I guess a weapon like a knife or the hook, which doesn't (have to) kill instantly would be better for those.
Tyranth's sarcasm was everything.
Gotta say, Tyranth had a good edge alignment with the axe against the bottles.
Super cool that Shad & friends have made this prequel to the most terrifying Halloween tale, Man Door Hand Hook Car Door. Love to see these additions to the lore!
Something I'd love to see you guys do: debate the ultimate anti-vampire weapon, operating on the assumptions that vampires can only be disabled by either severing the spinal cord (which for the sake of argument should be assumed to be temporary if the neck is not completely severed) or disrupting the heart (same deal, temporary unless fully removed), resulting in a debate over the best weapons to decapitate and/or open a rib cage.
That opening segment 👏
Honestly what I look forward to in every video!
I love how you guys couldn't find a meat hook and just made one. Extra props for that.
The punchline to your opening skit was hilarious. If He-Man was revealed to be a bald man with a wig, Ibet even Skeletor would be terrified as well.
The point about the machete being a slashing weapon makes it scarier than the knife to me, the idea of a victim getting cut multiple times, having a blood trail and a ‘survivable’ wound makes the victim weaker and the stakes higher… whereas an axe or knife is going to incapacitate the victim from the first stab and be a one encounter kill
Its always a good day when Shadiversity posts!
You guys should have tested the baseball bag with barbed wire wrapped around it from The Walking Dead. Lol
Hooks are also inherently spooky because it reminds you of a lion claw or a large fang or raptor toe, affecting us instinctively!
this is one of the best videos ive seen on the channel in a while. I really like the pop culture delve you guys have been doing into swords etc recently and this one seemed genuinely fun
9:05 the way that tyranth sabbed the bottle here makes me think that he is afraid of getting "blood" on his clothes lmao
I feel like hook is one of those weapons that most people wouldn't feel *too* threatened by, unless its like comically oversized. Meanwhile the other weapons you instantly know that they just kill. Maybe for the hook you should've tested a sickle or something.
For Horror value would be the look of Shads face when all he has in a zombie apocalypse is a nunchuck.
I would say Axe or Machete on top of being blunt force and messy if you are hiding the axe can be used to break through doors, and the machete is messy too, SO fast, has reach, huge cutting surface and is hard to block with house hold items both would be terrifying and hard to deal with
12:33 *Uses the hook as a knife insted of a hook*
Hi shad you are amazing thank you for all your hard work and educating videos
One thing I’m a little surprised about is the fact that all this time, including slasher films, and they haven’t tried the Predator’s kit or the Xenomorph’s.
Hooks can be bought from farm supply stores. Bale hooks. Exactly what they tend to use in a horror film. Grew up with them. 😁
Love the content, guys!
8:20 Shad's getting that "my precious" look again.
Keep in mind that long heavy machetes like that, and especially two-handed machetes, can also be brutal when the blunt side is used, or when doing a mix of slashing or thrusting with the back edge of the tip. You can absolutely knock branches off trees by using the blunt side of a machete even when the sharp side will not go through them.
this would have been the perfect episode for destroying pumpkins lol maybe next year!!
I honestly feel like shadiversity has never been better. The content is a 10/10 every damn video. You are all keeping things light in some dark times my friends. Also, katanas are the best swords ever made!
I can’t believe you didn’t test the most famous horror weapon of all, The Bladed Glove.
about the Hook i wanted to add those that you mentioned at the start with the handel are mostly used by farmers to stack small sized hay or straw bales on a flatbed trailer behind a tractor, i spent many a summer working with them and can say they are taxing on the wrists and in 80% of the cases they arent sharp.
The opener has me convinced that Shad should do Halloween as General Kael.
Yeah it depends on what you're after, as a slasher. Efficient killing in one hit? Machete. Are multiple quick hits okay? Knife. Close quarters, from stealth? Also knife. Are you after prolonged pain, or shock factor? Hook. Are your opponents defending themselves, including armor or just closing doors on you? Axe. There's so much overlapping there too, like if you go for the throat a knife is also entirely capable of one-shotting someone.
Shad was in his zone something about shad laughter just makes him seem like a psychopath and I absolutely love it 😂
Its fun to see youall working on those tools
"You would not want to get stabbed with this." A statement that holds true for nearly all values of "this".
What Tyranth is referring to is generally known as a Meat Hook. Though it is known by different names as well. Used in a variety of Industries. In the Meatpacking Industry it is used to help move around large pieces of meat or to hang pieces of meat in a commercial freezer. It is used in the Commercial Fishing Industry and by everyday Anglers, and also has a variant that was made specifically for this Industry. A large hook is attached to a long stick or pole. Called a Pole Hook, Fishing Gaffer, or Billhook, it is used to bring a fish up on to the Boat Deck.
For seeing it coming for you horror, i think the machete is the most terrifying.
Oof, Boromir is starting to look like he’s been through every horror movie ever made. Don’t know if he’s gonna last much longer.
3 regular tools that CAN be weaponised. Shad: "Guys! I brought the velociraptor talon knife!"
man, Shad screaming was so hilarious - that cought me off guard :D
In horror pop media, the victims are usually unarmed, or there's a super rare improvised weapon, while the killer often has super strength and survivability.
I'd say the axe is the best.
"The classic kitchen knife never goes out of style"
-Chucky the Doll.
I like how shad is both the most and least professional one depending on his mood
LMFAO "I should ask for the manager" had me laughing..perfect
There is one more weapon to consider as well and plays a BIG part. The Killer themselves. Another interesting one is where the Killer doesn't use any specific weapon at all. A Killer who not only improvises, but is seasoned is the deadliest, only because they are able to make thought out decisions and have that built up through trial and error the more effective and efficient ways and use of implements to make their kills. Those would be the ones to watch out for, as their flexibility and confidence in not just their skill, but their confidence they can use anything to make a kill with high proficiency.
The tool they are speaking of is the icehook. Its meant to be sharp and pointed for grip for its original function or in the case of fishing meant for piercing and pulling in.
The hook is the serial killers version of playing with their food. Momma Vorhees would not be amused
Simple, well build kitchen/chefs knive. I have a couple of them, so versatile, sharp and easy to handle in the kitchen. Let alone if a person does have bad intentions with a kitchen knive..... Well scary weapons, easy to cary also.
6:31 Tyranth looks extra deadly in that flowing cloak thing. He looks like a Big Bad on Buffy.
For sheer horror inflicted on others, the hook is really the winner. I would place knives 2nd and the axe and machete tie for 3rd. I've seen a lot of horror movies over the decades and the more 'personal' the weapon the more horrific it is. Although is must be pointed out that almost anything can be a horror weapon from a hammer to a torch used for sweating copper pipes.
I live in the uk where houses and buildings in general are quite small and tight. The abilty to swing an axe or machete is limited. So in doors I'd say knife or hook
What a simple kitchen knife did to the pool noodle is actually quite terrifying. No wonder so many stabbing victims end up dying.
Hook if sneak attack, Knife if really close quarters, Axe if you have something to block with, and Machete if you don't have much protection. If you can have 2 at once Hook + Machete or Knife is probably the worst. Replace Machete with Axe when dual wielding if the slasher villain is strong enough to not be slowed by one-handing the Axe too much.
Also, press 5 and thank me later.
😂 " i said, DON'T OUCH THE HOOK ..." O love Halloween.🤣
Stabs can also be surprisingly survivable. I heard somewhere that even getting stabbed directly in the heart is still survivable if you get prompt medical attention a third of the time. And everyones heard the news stories of someone getting stabbed and not even noticing, or getting stabbed dozens of times and surviving.
I think that the most effective would be the COMBINATION of the knife and hook. Concealment for stealth. Control with one to be strategic with the other. In a fight, you can distract or parry with one and wound with the other. The ax and machete are best when there is enough space to swing.
Living on an old farm I have a few bail hooks, those things are big and nasty.
As scary as being dragged to your death on a hook is, an axe is a tool. It can bring down doors, walls, padlocks and even most chains that keep gates closed. Most the time, you trying to find sanctuary is just you finding an enclosed space to die in
This has to be the greatest TH-cam thumbnail I think I've ever seen.
That skull looked so realistic lol
LMAO, that Fabulous Secter Powers reference is amazing.
So if you want to be scary and a little bit stealthy, with a concealable weapon, go for the knife for efficiency or hook for terror. If you want to look more menacing and efficient, go for the machete. But if speed isn't your priority or you're strong enough to run with an axe, definitely go for the axe. Even a blunt one.
Getting appreciation for small blades like knives. I like the hook too.
hook in one hand and knife in the other and that's the scariest combo. hooked in and finished off as efficiently or inefficiently as the wielder desires
The important thing about *any* improvised weapon, is if you can use it effectively, without needing to modify it. Baseball bats (and their kin), axes, machetes, and other such things that you can just grab, and swing in either a smashing or chopping motion, tend to be really good. Thrusting, in a stabbing motion, might cause an issue or two.
On the plus side, plenty are already battle-tested, and proven.
If the neighbors weren't afraid of Shad before, they certainly are now...
I could see the hook being a funny subplot in epic adventure quest. It’s possessed and makes anyone who wields it start calling themselves “The Hooker.”
Hearing the words "the hook seems to be having a weird effect," was a laugh. We will perhaps need more study of this strange phenomena.