#morbid industries

[justabitsp00ky]

Lost Media - Halloween Animatronic

One of my most niche interests is Halloween animatronics. Surprisingly, there is even a small community for this that tends to align with haunters- people that operate or work at haunted houses. An interesting rabbit hole to dive down is that, somehow, get lost. It's crazy to think how an entire robot goes missing, but it can happen for a variety of reasons, such as prototypes not being picked up or finished, props being unable to find a distributor (such as Spirit Halloween, Home Hardware, or other pop up Halloween shops), or so few being made due to high cost that they tend to wind up lost in some storage unit somewhere.

One of the most sought after animatronics appears to be the Face Ripper Crying Bride, which would be developed by Morbid Enterprises/Industries (unfortunately, this producer went bankrupt in 2020 and shut down, but you may know them as the people that made the prop infamously featured in the Russian Sleep Experiment photo.)

As the name suggests, the face ripper bride would have hands molded to her face, so as her head lifted it would appear as though she was ripping her face off. Very simple, yet very creepy, definitely would have traumatized me as a kid. So, here's a post dedicated to her.

Let's start with a demonstration of the prop's actions, which could be found with the matching Face Ripper Groom that was produced and sold!

A little bit more popular, a face ripper clown was made, and the only of the three to be sold at Spirit Halloween.

So, what happened to the bride?

Well, we're not entirely sure. We do know that she appeared in a catalogue magazine for the 2009 season, which is where the photos we have come from. That's about all we have. Supposedly a video of the prop in action existed at one point, uploaded by the distributor HalloweenAsylum, but was deleted likely due to the product not being released as planned. The original owner of Morbid said he has it in an email, but the password to the email was lost, so he can't access it.

There was a point where somebody on youtube claimed to have the audio files, however the op claims they were removed for termination, then states that they accidentally corrupted the files. The clean audios were up long enough for people to nab them, so we do know the supposed audio, if not a very good recreation of the audio. You can hear the alleged audio in this video. If you do seek the corrupted audios, be aware of a volume warning, as the audios are very high pitched and loud.

The validity of this audio is debated upon, as there are reasons for both sides. First starters, OP seems to be an archivist for rare Morbid audio. The quotes are faithful to the agreed memory that she says "I'll make him suffer for what he did to me", the audio having a spookier voice halfway through, and the way that it follows the same formula as the clown and groom. However, some people recall her having a Southern accent, which is missing here in the alleged videos of her audio. It's also strange that OP would have the high quality of just the audio from the Halloween Asylum video, only to lose it roughly a week later and somehow corrupt the audio. As well, cross referencing with Halloween Asylum's videos from 2009 to the high quality that was reuploaded by other users (such as the one in the link), makes me rule out that it's unlikely the audio is real. The videos posted by Halloween Asylum in 2009 are obviously not the best quality, far lower than that audio clip. Some demo videos have the audio completely replaced with music (likely props with no audio), while other demo videos have the lower quality sound of the prop as well as a lot of background noise from the store/setup (or wherever these videos came from). To isolate the animatronic's audio from a 2009 video so cleanly and somehow in higher quality would be a difficult task, there would likely have to be some artifacting in the audio. Even these days, isolating vocals from a modern song can prove difficult as you often still hear the surrounding audio. Plus, to lose 14 years of that very rare isolated audio in such high quality to corruption would be more devastating than OP seems to act in their video comments.

So, that's about all we have. Close leads, but not close enough to help us find her. I can only hope that she gets found soon, perhaps the prototypes from the catalogue or the Halloween Asylum video, she has a particular charm to her craving for vengeance.

[formula808]

face ripper - crying bride by morbid industries

[everydaym0nstrosity]

Owen Davis - Morbid Pathology (2024).

[y-rhywbeth2]

Who decided the drow should have so much fucking lore anyway.

('I should've been a drow.' You can't fucking stand Cazador or your 'siblings' you would not fucking want to be a drow. Although I guess Astarion would make a fair Vhaeraunite.)

[javiar]

DAY 0

MORBID BEAUTY

[indizombie]

Tobacco already kills eight million people every year, and, irrespective of any impact of newer products like e-cigarettes, the huge global burden of tobacco mortality and morbidity can be expected to remain for decades to come. Tobacco growing, manufacturing, distribution, and use, all contribute to global warming through the emission of greenhouse gases. In fact, the tobacco product life cycle releases an estimated 80 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent every single year. The tobacco industry’s emissions are larger than those for entire countries, including Denmark, Croatia and Afghanistan, and are comparable to emissions from the oil, fast fashion and meat industries.

‘Plastics, the Environment and the Tobacco Industry’, Tobacco Tactics

[yourlocalmissingtexture]

Ever since I was a girl I wanted to drift wraithlike among the corpses in the graveyard of man’s hubris

[murderboisblog]

MAN THE FUNERAL INDUSTRY IS FASCINATING !!!! You probably already know about Caitlin Doughty's youtube channel but I fucking love her, there's so much complexity to the way we handle our dead and it has so many deep social and political implications that are really valuable to think about!!! It's a great special interest to have and I hope you find a bunch of goth friends who love hearing you infodump about it, godspeed

I LOVE CAITLIN DOUGHTY! Her channel is actually what sparked my interest in the topic, I think she makes a great jumping off point for anyone looking to get into learning about the funeral industry. I've read her books too, I really recommend From Here To Eternity by her for people just starting out and wanting to learn about different funerary practices.

[vonnegutcunt]

not that I want only garbage rag clothes to be affordable but it is concerning to me the amount of practically new clothing items you find at the goodwill wholesale. like people burning through factory made garments at such a rate that thrift stores can't even hold onto the new donations they get and r exporting indiscriminately. the dregs of which are then shipped off to (aka, literally dumped on) other people who want those worse clothes even less. god it's infuriating

[plumpcherry]

What I look like at work vs what I’m listening to.

[glamourslime]

Mmmmmmm I want tattoos I want tattoos I want tattoos I want my whole body to be art and then I want to be allowed to decompose peacefully when I die

[harshr]

New Blitzkrieg Baby, at long last. Only four songs, but I'll take it.

[chaoticzoomies]

I'm falling down the James Leyland Kirby/The Caretaker/Everywhere at the End of Time rabbit hole again. Still not stable/brave enough to listen to the whole thing yet but I'm in the video essays/breakdowns of it again.

[javiar]

Morbid Militarism Blitzkrieg Baby

[slow-drowned-angels]

Having mixed feelings about cadavers