I saw a similar type of post a few hours ago so I hope this is allowed. I’ve been looking for this everywhere and I’m losing my mind over it. I can remember this so clearly but I can’t find anything about it anywhere... it’s literally like it never existed.
The scene that I remember is a group of people, older teens or young adults, sneak into the woods near an off limits facility to see what is going on inside. The woods are very dense and gives off that blue/green hue when the canopy is blocking direct sunlight. They have to find their way through a chain linked fence into either the area around a science lab or a military base. I think it’s near a dam or other large cement wall.
As they’re going through the area, a portal/force field type thing appears in front of them. One of the guys put his arm through it. When he takes it back out, the part of his arm that had gone through the portal was gone. The portal was a bright blue, not aquamarine but maybe cerulean in shade.
They sneak into this area not thinking anything is going to happen, just kind of looking around. I believe there had been rumors about what was going on and vaguely recall something about secret weapons or technology being created or used. I’m almost positive one of them was recording, I think it was the girl—i believe in the lighting her hair was mostly brown but I could tell it was kind of red as well. I know that the person who lost their arm is a guy, I know he had brown hair, he was young— maybe a young adult playing a teen character or the character themselves would have been a young adult. No facial hair— if anything it was stubble. I think he had a dark blueish (or other deep cool color) hoodie/jumper on, it didn’t have a hood and it wasn’t zip up, something like a plain north face. Other than the guy who loses his arm and the girl who I think was recording, I think there was only one other person, maaaybe two. I think the other person was also a guy, I believe blonde hair or at least lighter in shade than the guy who loses his arm. He was one of those goofball comedic characters, he was joking around with dark haired guy telling him to touch the portal or whatever whereas the girl was like no I don’t think we should mess with that. Dark haired guy wanting to impress chadbro and the girl puts his arm through the portal, takes it back out and is like “see I’m fine” and then realizes his arm is gone and all hell breaks loose. Also, the characters are conventionally attractive per Hollywood standards, they were all fit and not chubby or out of shape, not super ripped either though. I’m pretty sure they were all white and they didn’t have any other accent than American if that does count as an accent.
It wasn’t about aliens, it was more so about the military base or lab hiding what they were working on and this group of people wanted to find out and expose them/get fame from finding it out.
I could be wrong, but I think it would have been part of a horror anthology series or found footage, it might have been a short web series or something of that nature though. Around the timeframe I saw it was when Crypt TV had like 3 episodes of the Look-See out; I looked through the videos on their YouTube but couldn’t find the scene I was looking for, but the timeframe would have been mid to late 2017-early 2018 that I had seen it and it didn’t seem super dated so it wouldn’t be much older than that as far as I’m aware.
I am almost positive it was not a full length film, which led me to believe it would have been anthology/found footage or a short horror film. Also, when I say found footage, the production quality was good and shot on good out of scene cameras, but the characters had a camcorder and were recording—perhaps it isn’t the best label. It was probably around 10 minutes long, definitely no more than thirty. I’ve also looked through episodes of Fringe (the fox TV show) because it was right around that same timeframe that I started rewatching that— there’s a similar scene when kids let loose lab animals that have been experimented on which I vaguely remembered, plus one of the characters seen pretty often, Nina Sharp, has a robotic arm after losing it trying to stop Walter from jumping through a portal from one timeline to another; but it is not either of these. Another reason I keep thinking fringe is essentially the same reason I think it was part of an anthology is at the beginning of fringe episodes it always had a backstory or dramatic scene showing a death or monster or whatever and then goes into the plot for the main part of the episode, fixing whatever the scene in the beginning showed. For this scene, though, I don’t think there was a big backstory or something being fixed or these people being saved; it was them sneaking into the area, joking around, the portal shows up or they find it, dudebro “dares” brown haired guy to put his arm through, he knows brown haired guy has a thing for the lady and knows he’ll do it to impress her, brown hair does it, arm is removed and they panic, and honestly I think he lays down and dies in the forest or at least passes out and that’s it, it switched to a different storyline or just ended. I don’t think there was any real resolution.
It could have been on YouTube, Facebook, netflix, or I could have looked it up after finding it in a list on cracked or ranked and found it online somewhere. At this point it just seems like it never existed and it’s literally driving me mad, especially when a) the storyline of dude trying to impress girl and dying is pretty popular in horror and b) I can see it so clearly in my head.
Also, this is NOT Area 51, The Ritual, or Cabin in the Woods. It’s incredibly likely that it was obscure or not super popular because I was into that kind of thing for a while (shows that weren’t as popular as they should have been or underrated movies, random ass horror movies on Netflix, etc.)
If anyone has any ideas please please please help. I’ve searched every keyword I can think of and am getting nowhere and it’s killing me. Even if you just have a better sub for me to post this on (I’ve tried r/tipofmytongue and r/horror but if you have one that would fit this question please PLEASE send it my way)
Submitted May 27, 2020 at 04:44AM by itsmeandthemoon https://ift.tt/3enBlAc