2AM: The Smiling Man | short film
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2AM
Directed and Edited by Michael Evans
Starring:
Sean Simon as Roamer
Paul Foltz as Smiling Man
Director of Photography: Tom Hinueber
Original Score by Matt Hanks
Screenwriter & Assistant Director: Shun Otsubo
Assistant Camera: Rachael Tajima
Key Grip: Samantha Cook
Production Assistant: Cristiane Evans - ภาพยนตร์และแอนิเมชัน
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Moral of the story: *do not go on a walk at 2 am like a lunatic.*
Urmila Verma that’s how u get caught up with lunatics
seems to me like the guy going on a walk at 2 am like a lunatic is having a grand old time.
I go out and hunt people down.
True. Call an Uber.
I've done this too many times
“He didn’t look drunk. He didn’t look high. He looked completely fucking insane.” Well they certainly nailed that aspect of the story.
My favorite classic No sleep story
That's the scariest part his expression
Sometimes a well-placed punch does the trick
The only bit that didn't work for Me was when He started chasing him, looking too much like an athlete. Would have been better, if the Weirdo had speeded up but stile kept some Kind of unreal movement. Apart from that it wad Very Good
Real life "Smiling man" is Paul Foltz working as an Aquatics Supervisor
at City of Henderson-Public Works, Parks and Recreation. I bet the video was shot in Henderson, NV.
The younger guy smiles back and they forged a great friendship. They were each other's best man at their weddings. I saw them at the hockey game tonight and had a nice chat with them. Good couple of dudes.
Aww cute
Somewhere in Parallel Universe
2023?🔥💯
@@avgb2115 The Twilight! 🎑
I'm going to pretend that's what happened so I can sleep tonight.
Watching it 9 years later, it's still better than most full length horror movies.
Absolutely true
This still terrifies me I remember first hearing about this story I could not sleep for days😂
@@Yahshuaismyeverything It's one of the creepiest video ever.
But it's no better than a FNAF movie.
Fr
Damn you Jim Carey, leave me alone! I don't want to be in your movies!
TheCorporateMoose haha, he just won't take no for an answer!
LOL YES MAN BOIII
TheCorporateMoose he reminded me of Jim Carey too!
LMAO!!
TheCorporateMoose W
"what the hell do you want??"
*takes step closer and whispers*
"would you like to talk about our lord and savior?"
Phan Girl Why the fuck do I see you everywhere?
MANESH
She fallows you like you nightmares CUZ DAT AINT CREEPY!
Phan Girl This is more horrifying than whatever the smiling man really wanted
_rxchel _bxckley_ OH NO
You know it’s a good film when the actor looks down but you want him to hurry to look back up to make sure he’s safe.
‘He didn’t look drunk, he didn’t look high.
He looked completely and utterly insane.
And that’s a very, scary thing to see.’
"What the hell do you want?!"
"Do you have a moment to talk about our lord and savior Jesus Christ?"
TheHeirofCosplay Honestly I would have shit my pants if he actually said that to me.
TheHeirofCosplay juses crust*
Run for your life!
Dermitologists hate me jisos crost
TheHeirofCosplay lol
MAKIN MY WAY DOWNTOWN
okay but in all seriousness, I was dead scared and it's the morning. great job!
parl 😂😂😂
parl me to I watched it in the morning 9:02 am
OMFG THANK YOU FOR THIS
parl walking fast....walkinG FAST.... WALKING FASTER....FUCKIN RUNNINGGGGGGGFF
A classic! The actor who plays the smiling man, was cast perfectly.
after 10 years, i finally gained courage to watch this film
Wuss
You did it! How you feel?😅
@@judec5234 it's not scary at all and i feel proud :3
When he's crouching and then he gets up and starts doing a walk like a "sneaky cartoon hunter" type of thing, that's a whole new level of pshyco, if this was me in real life i would of died right there from a heart attack
RIGHT?? i don't why it scared me more than any monster/screamer/ghost stuff, wtf!
I think the scariest part of that was how fluidly he pulled off the Cartoon Sneak. It was perfect.
The way you described that was priceless!😂👌🏼
Bruh When he started running i had a heart attack
Oh my gosh😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
1:40 me trying to get food from downstairs when everyone is asleep
Nina Lynch I can relate
Lmao Me!
Hellow scry 360 Dr OMG !!! Frends
Lol
Yep
Watched this video years ago and no one can beat this smiling man.
I remember watching this one years ago and I'm here watching it again. 🤣 It caught me off guard the first time lol. This short film captures the essence of the story very well. Excellent work. 👏👏👍
Glad you enjoyed it!
this is me trying to ask a girl out
Gregory Sheperd lmao
Gregory Sheperd this comment made me and my best friend feel better after watching. bless you. 😂😂😂
LMAO XD
Gregory Sheperd omg XD
Gregory Sheperd lmfao
-She is looking, act natural
- 1:06
D'Artagnan Dias Lemos lel
D'Artagnan Dias Lemos FUCK😂😂 this is underrated
Lol😂😂
Lol
D'Artagnan Dias Lemos
God damn this got me good
Incredible performance ftom Paul! That moment where smiles changed his tactic from creepy walk to full sprint was great!
I Aspire To Be At His Level
I was yelling at the main character to keep running and not stop and not try to get into any of the houses. Like…dude, don’t rest! You have a terrifying person who wants to do who knows what! Biggest mistake in horror movies: assume, even for a moment, that you’re safe…
The creepiest part about this and others like it is the fact that it makes no sense. It shouldn’t be happening but it is, and this adds to the confusion of whether you should fight or flee. For years and years since I was a kid, every Sunday evening at 6:40 pm I would suddenly feel a sense of doom with extreme anxiety and panicked paranoia with a feeling like I was both everywhere and nowhere. I got to where I’d deliberately force myself to be asleep during that hour. Never did figure it out and watching this brought back those incidents even though I haven’t had this issue in over a decade now.
Sounds like to me you either had a spirit/haunting attached to where you lived and, or you yourself
OR
there was some demonic elements at play; especially with the specific reoccurring time/internal emotions.
Am I the only one who just reads the comments during these types of videos just to not get scared??😂😂😂
Stella And Paula Pranks weird. Me to lol
Stella And Paula Pranks absolutely not the only one
I didn’t notice I was doing it till now
Stella And Paula Pranks you feel me I guess lol
Not at all
The man walking sounds like when you run on grass in Minecraft
0-0 I said the Same thing /___/
yes
It kinda sound like when you walk in roblox
Dayum u in my brain?
Lol 😂
This was EXCELLENT!!! It's literally EXACTLY like the story. the performances were spot on!
I come back to this every so often . . . props to everyone involved.
Imagine the guy running at you, and out of panic you run full speed back at him, then both of you just face plant into eachothers faces.
daily stuff lol that would be me lol
@@kaitlynwinslow3940 same lol
@@deletedchannel6977 tbh i think i could run away from him if i really tried not only do i run really fast but in panic i run 30% faster and also idk how but whenever i run i run like a mouse im sooooo quiet and if i trip welllllll i never trip im not one of those girls in horror movies who trip over nothing and also im pretty sure if you like are really good in martial artist you two could run at eachother then try to become a fast spinning blade and kick him with your legs
@@velimirmisanovic8647 but then if you're not good at martial arts, like me, you would faceplant into him.
@@deletedchannel6977 or maybe run into eachother stop and say I CHANGED MY MIND and then you run away lmao
I would have smiled back at him and danced with him. he seems like a nice guy
lol
+kenshi channel agreed, to show that we are mentally insane..
😂😂😂
That makes me feel better (:
Thanks dude you made me feel better about strangers running for me and smiling
I love the atmosphere of this short. Amazing job for such a low budget film.
Every few months or so ill randomly get a nightmare about this situation. Every time i do, this short's soundtrack always accompanies it, and i find myself running with the same blaring sirens echoing in my mind.
I dont know what it is about this short's soundtrack that just unsettles me so much, but if it's able to become the OST of my literal nightmares, it has done its job tenfold.
I thought it was Micheal Jackson doing thriller at first
tubby cats LMAO
tubby cats Same! LOL!!
tubby cats More like funny looking creepy Michael Jackson to me
Did Micheal Jackson die then became the smiling man?! *Gasp*
tubby cats I cant agree anymore xD
come on man, the dancing guy is obviously tripping balls and having a great time, we've all been there.
Sean Murray 😂😂🤣🤣
Sean Murray trip trip trippety yup o'l trippin balls
Sean Murray trippin balls on making a *good* video game
Ancient Apple xD American dad lmao
Sean Murray i hate tripping.. i had a bad zero last night spent about 7 Hrs. alone in my bedroom lost in myself. no good lol
Even after a few years, it still looks great ! A classic, much imitated, but never rivalled ! Thank you again, cast & crew !
Wonderfully unsettling, otherworldly and nerve-jangling stuff ! Great, no reliance on the mainstays of horror, just a creepy narrative, both actors very good, to fit this in such a short running time and have that kind of impact in just brilliant ! Keep making films !!!
The guy who played The Smiling Man absolutely NAILED the role
Fr
Yeah your right
He was freak
Sorry he was a freak
plot twist: they hired the actual Smiling Man that showed up
2:43 “wait! I’ll buy half!☝🏻👴🏻”
truly greg I wouldn’t have time to run away
she wouldn’t let me leave
That’s scared me sooo bad and I’m watching this in bed a 1 am
Oh sh- lmao...
Blue Lagoon me too🤣😭😭
Probably my favorite scary short film of all time
Love how accurate this is to the source material
The creepy part of this for me is the fact that you wouldn't really be prepared for anything like this. I feel like I would just freeze up, because it's such a bizarre situation.
YESSS i was thinking the same thing. Like what would i actually do if i saw this!!!
Not in Texas, dude would have been shot the moment he started running at the person lol.
@Brody Milan The gun laws won't ever change. Maybe up in Austin because they're the black sheep of the cities, but nowhere else. It's a pro Military and Veteran state.. always has been and always will be. and us Vets we love our guns.
@@brandonbennett2138 how would you not know what to do? I’d fukin RUN the second I saw him.
I would challenge him to a fight
"Here you dropped your wallet I was just gonna give it to you..."
lmfao
lol
X dont give it to you
here you burger man!
LAMO
The sound and clip of the smiling man sprinting at the protagonist always gives me that nasty gut drop feeling. It's just so unnerving.
Even so many years later that scene where he begins to "sneak walk" to the guy like he doesn't want to be spotted even though he is clearly visible still gives me goosebumps
"What the hell do you want?!"
"Would you like to buy some girl scout cookies?"
I need about tree-fiddy.
***** Well played m'memelord.
Carmen Ramirez yes! XD
Carmen Ramirez niall omg
Smiling man: LET MEH JUST DANCE MY WAY OVER TO THE GIRL SCOUTS CAMP :D
Smiling man: *dances my way*
Me: *confused*
Smiling man: *continues dancing my way*
Me: *dances with him in confusion*
Smiling man: *still dances*
Me: *dances*
*LA LA LAND 2*
G O O B I E bless your soul
a time to dance a time to die , hence beginning the dancing plague
Haaaaaa
this made me and my partner laugh, ty
lol
O que torna isso imensamente assustador é o fato de que isso se parece muito mais verossímil do que qualquer fantasia exagerada de terror.
Bro would get right hooked so fast if it were me at the end, like the second I turn around and saw him it’s boxing time
"what the hell do you want??"
...
"oh hey man sorry i was just a little lost could you give me directions to mcdonalds thanks"
Hahaha. Nice.
I was like . bruhh
"you wanna buy some girl scout cookies?"
***** lol
Have you heard about our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ?
It's just my drunk uncle. We usually get him a beer and he goes away
Lol good one (wait really
@@GlowMeUp. yes really 🤦
David 1K yikes
No.
The reader said so.
He wasn't Drunk.
He wasn't High.
He was completely and utterly insane.
@@kaliyanelson6106 r/woooosh
The audio is amazing, especially the sound of the smiling man's footsteps.
Very rarely do horror films actually creep me out but this one did it
1:40 when i try to sneak food in my room when everyone is asleep at 5 am
Don't copy other comments please
@@tomasdanhel2482 what the fuck is wrong with you? This is the only person I know who wrote this. You need to calm tf down
Why do you sneak food into your room to begin with? Are you not allowed to eat in your room? Are you only allowed to eat at certain times?
Lmfao
@Thicc Lemon I dont mean to go into yalls business but stop acting like children and chill tf out
Who else shivered when he started running
Me
Tempz I was just laughing alot
Me
I started laughing
u got me
I actually genuinely screamed out loud whilst watching this like a big girls blouse girly scream in the middle of the day with sunshine and everything and that was exactly when he started to run BOOM 😮
Completely forgetting this existed until it randomly came up on my Facebook reels. I remember watching this in high school and it’s still just as creepy as an adult 🙃
And this is the horror that actually scares the living shit out of me. Not some dumb cheap jumpscares, blood or shitty slasher mask-guys, but this - unsettling, bizarre, eerie and somehow upsetting vision of something that seems to be harmless, yet turns into horrifying nightmare. Perfect.
I completely agree. This is the scariest!!!
If you think this is harmless ur dumb as shit
eh bud, you missed the point- better go find it.
kind of...IS a "jumpscare" though isnt it?
I know what would make him frown... if I got butt naked and started faping it in front of his face and chasing him...
The part that makes this scary for me is the fact that the smiling man never directly looks at the main character until the end either. He stares at something vaguely above him. For the entire video, you’re waiting for him to lock eyes with the MC or even us (the audience), but his face is just tilted slightly out of reach. It adds to the horror aspect, since a lot of the time, the “monster” in these horror stories usually stares directly at the viewer to make *us* feel like we’re in a helpless situation with the MC. But in this, we kind of want the smiling man to just look at us so we can see some form of humanity within him. But the moment he does, you can’t make out any details on his face because it’s shielded by that manic smile and the lighting. It gives you more of the illusion that the smiling man isn’t a “man”, and more of just a thing that’s pretending to be a man but doesn’t look quite right.
Well said
@sugarplum 111♱ yeah that just added more fear onto my mind
Them media lessons at school has surely paid of I see 😂😂😂
In the original story, it's just a man who is quote "completely insane." Everything about this video is accurate, up to the running. After that, the protagonist got away. There was no jump scare at the end where the guy popped up out of nowhere.
It was a true story of a bizarre and creepy encounter late at night, but the story ended there - after the chase. I think this rendition is really well done, but personally I hate jump scares. They're so overdone, it's not scary for me and just made it seem predictable. Idk.
Ily
This is an awesome video .Short ,but ,yet ,really scary. Conqratulations to the person who did it .The actor also ,who played the smiling man ,nailed it.
More than 10 years later, this video evokes pure nostalgia.
This is like perfect creepy horror , no need for massive jumpscares
Yeah, nothing special(i mean effects), but this idea is so fucking cool
@@xers6704 No, not really
@SM H Ok
Starring pewdiepie from 2012 as the weird smiling man 😁
@@ChilloutLibrary Reallyyyyy??!
Dude said “Minecraft footsteps”
😭😭😭😭😭😂😂😂😂😂
LMAO
Omg yass
Babshjaja
Lol
just imagine: everything is the same, but in the role of a smiling man, William Dafoe
The fact he stands still just looking at him 👀
2:11 when you walk in the wrong class at a new school
See, these are the type of comments I live for...
Hahahhaha that has happened to me
😂😂😂....Yeah
And i wasn't even looking up.. I just walked in the class and suddenly i see different faces speechless lookinh me and i felt sooooooo embarrassed.. Of course everyone was laughing.. So did i... But i will never forget their look on their face lol
Nastazia Official Channel Jesus sounded like you got ptsd from that.
3:27 how I look at my friend when the teacher says pick a partner
🤣🤣😂
LMAO
Me o shit
Thats Just creepy k
Eh scary
This kind of understated performance from your actor is actually quite hard to pull off. From one Actor to another bravo to you Sean.
10 years later and still one the best short horror movies i have ever seen
oh so this is what Jim Carey has been up to LMAOOO
IM DONE😂😂😂
Concetta Roach THAT HONESTLY WOULD BE AMAZING !!!!!!!
Lmfao
LMFAO 😂😭
LMAOOOO
Imagine the Smiling Man listening to Never Gonna Give You Up on Air Pods while he was chasing you, and you can hear it
DatOneNoder this comment just made me not scared of the video 🤣🤣🤣
Eddy Saucedo I too laughed at this
this comment wins 😹😹
DatOneNoder 😂😂😂🤣🤣
Then I would stop running and laugh my ass off
Does anyone else really like the sound of the smiling man’s footsteps 😂
No
I think I saw this short when I was little, I felt an aura of nostalgia from when I was around 4-5 years old.
I would've been tracking like I was in the Olympics
Brandon Cosme right
Brandon Cosme same
Lol same when he stopped runnung I just wanted to yell through the screen and tell that nigga to keep running like hell
He's just advertising his salsa classes
nice copied comment
@@nick9115 not as nice as my bewbs
Lady Diana pics or it ain’t true
@@Makaylah13 Pevert
666th like
Mr Nightmare, anybody? That compilation was scary and terrifying just listening to it!
This is one of my favourite short horror films! I love it! I find it more funny than creepy, but I cant tell if its the smiling man himself that makes me laugh or the absolute weirdness of it all! I swear this is based off a creepypasta too
Probably the weirdness of it, and how we never get a definitive answer as to why he was being stalked and what the Smiling Man will do now that he’s caught up
and this is one o my favorite comment
*am I the only one finding the sound of the steps, satisfying?* 🤔
Sammeeee🙁🙁
Me too but not longer
ASMR steps
meeee
Samee so satisfying
Smiling man: :)
*Me* What the hell do you want?
Smiling man: are you interested in taking salsa classes?
It's a good way to promote your business lol
😃
Pinhead Larry.. I FUCKING LOVE YOU! BRING SPONGEBOB BACK!
Me: sure man
Pinhead Larry IMPOSTER PIN HEAD
When I was younger I watched it once, and it was all it took for me to stay awake at night for several weeks.
There is something really unsettling when humans move in such a weird way, "Us" was a perfect example for that. The way the smiling man moves absolutely terrifies me.
2:43 when the microwave is at 2 seconds but you are on the other side of the room
Gotta stop it before that facking beeping.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
and.its three am
This comment made me laugh so hard🤣🤣😂
LMAO
He looks like he's seeing something amusing above him that no one else can see...
He got a hold of some bad drugs and he’s tripping balls.
Insanity at its finest.
Those danm campers you see in the trees, when you're playing Battlefield-5.
Sweet Epiphany When you’re playing TF2 and you don’t wanna spend money on a hat with an unusual effect so you download a mod for one instead
The Smiling Man sees God himself
I remember watching this when it first came out. this is still one of my favorites
I love how podcast gets live action adaptation, give me more
"run Forrest, run"
IIIllIIIll i get it lmao
IIIllIIIll OMG YESSSSS
IIIllIIIll thats a good one 😂
IIIllIIIll oh i remember
IIIllIIIll oh yah I like that movie
1:39 *TIP TOEIN IN MY JORDANS*
i just choked
Olivia Nurriddin I'm crying 😂😂
Olivia Nurriddin I'm done 😂😂😂💀💀💀
yep lol
I'm your 200th like this comment had me dying!
The way to counter a crazy is to act crazy so if any of you see a man dancing late at night dance with him try to mimic his dance and you and him will rock the dance floor together and become best friends. Trust me.
“You know, I’m something of a crazy Smiling Man who randomly chases people at night myself”.
Plot twist: He’s been hired by local law enforcement to enforce curfew laws
That shit would 1000000% keep me home.
That is something that seems made up by Nathan For You
Oh shit now this curfew thing scares me hahaha
Lmao
@@calambuhayjr.josevirgiliog2094 you shouldn’t be out at 2 am anyway
im not even kidding this looks goofy af at first but it was actually scary holy shit
I am Nothing it would have been much more effectiv if they didn't use any music it's just distracting imagine the moment when the smiling man starts running without any music just silence
😂😂
Well it would be terrifying if you experience this in real life
This is more creepier and scarier than the whole Anabell and Conjuring movies combined
Okay, at first I couldn't reallt take this smiling man quite seriously but after a while, it gets uncanny and when he run towards the guy, it got real.
Nice lil' short film!
I'm having a hard time finding this scary with all of these comments.
Ikr
Same
When one of my friends say smile everybody
Me: 3:24
Dude I'm literally hiding in the comments
@@ygpebbleinthpocket Why are you hiding?
he started running like the dude from get out lmfao
GET IN
I remember reading about this on Reddit a few years back! Well done!!!
When I first heard this story I imagined it way scarier in my head. I think some stories are scarier for just that reason. Being left to the listeners imagination is a good thing sometimes.
Comments
5% About the Video
95% Sarcasms
because 95% actually crapped themselves so they wisecrack to feel better. The cowards!
Mehtap Cosgun I’m willing to admit that ending caut me off guard.
Reading the comments while watching is funnny as fuck! I was giggling like crazy with all those meme-like comments 🤣🤣🤣🤣!!! It didn’t get creepy anymore because my thoughts just went into meme-space 🤪🤪
More like 95 % pathetic circlejerking comments trying to get validation.
And this is why I never leave my house.
Haha
hahahahahha
Cottoncandycutie same
I've watched this like 5 times now because something about it captivates me
Show of hands, who else was legitimately TERRIFIED by this???
🖐️
Kind off I watched the animated so I knew what would happen but this one was just x100 times more scarier
🙋♀️
✋
🙋🏽♀️
anyone in a horror movie: runs from monster, than stops to take a breath
me: you're so freaking dumb, don't you know that breathing decreases your chances of survival?
Waw he caught me off guard
Then **
Oh
This is one concept extrapolated brilliantly. I love it.
Dude. I remember watching this like, forever ago. It truly scared me when I was a kid, well done.
Me: What the hell do you want?!
The Smiling Man: Do you have a moment to talk about our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ?
Red_ iland lol
Copied
Good one
Wow 😂🤦♂️
why does he keep looking back?