Advertising Is Good For You

Creepy vintage portraits of vaudeville ventriloquists and the dummies who upstaged them

See more scary vintage photos of vaudville ventriloquists and their dummies here.

Via Found in Mom's Basement

Scary things come to those who don't brush

TV commercial for Crest Oral-b, created by Publicis, New York.

Click here to see the Crest Oral-b commercial.

Movie Poster: The Woman in Black

The eyes alone make this poster scary. Look more carefully and you'll also see a ghoul's face hovering above the children.

Via IMP Awards

Today's most intriguing headline . . .

Doll saves family from fire

Click here to see two funny headlines from April 16th, 2010.

Image via Kind of Creepy

Vodacom ads feature creatures of the night

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Campaign created by Draftfcb JHB, Johannesburg.

Click here to see a creepy ad campaign from Bucharest.

Via Ads of the World

Creepy Doll, what have you done with the Energizer Bunny?

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Don't know who did this Energizer ad.

Might even be student work.

Regardless, I love it for Halloween.

Click here to see a TV commercial that also features a creepy doll.

Movie Poster: Exhumed

Click here to see a series of movie posters for Black Swan.

Via IMP Awards

Woolite commercial from horror auteur Rob Zombie

One can understand Woolite's desire to stand out from other clothes detergents. Not sure Rob Zombie's allusions to torture are the way to go.

Click here to watch Rob Zombie's commercial for Woolite, The Torturer.

A few years ago, my brother talked me into watching Rob Zombie's movie, House of 1000 Corpses. The title sounds like a campy Vincent Price movie from the 1960s. It was actually two hours of graphic torture scenes. And the last time I let my brother pick the movie.

Oh, ick

Via Ads of the World

Ad for Desperate Mom Jeans

Pretty sure I'm in the age group this double-spread ad is targeting. There's a desperation and inappropriateness here I find insulting. If I heard my daughter's boyfriend had told her he thought I was hot, I'd tell her to dump the creep.

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More than a little creepy

Last night, I was at Overstock.com looking at sewing machines.

Today, this ad appeared on my blog.

Ad campaign for garbage bags

The E.R. ad is kind of disturbing. I think that's an eyeball in the lower right corner.

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Advertising Agency: Saatchi & Saatchi, Cape Town

Via Ads of the World

Celebrity Saturday: Jack Black in creepy Gulliver's Travels billboard

The Lilliputians have the right idea.