I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream (Animated Trailer) 

I would honestly watch a full animated adaptation. I think that just may be me wanting more mature animation and occasionally being a miserable git.

This animation captures the pure horror and cruelty of the original story. The music accompained with the silent screams and the narration that comes off robot yet full pure unadulturated anger. This makes me feel some kind of way and while i understand that this is costly and time consuming i sincerely wish for a follow up or story driven animation. Even if that doesnt happen this animation is very impressive. Good job

And to think Sterling's recitation of this iconic rant was made as a goof. He is so talented that he made it intimidating

The original story is what I'd call "Digital Cosmic Horror" because only reading a snippet of the story it's absolutely maddening to even try to imagine the malice behind the AI here...

Guys, call me crazy, but I don’t really think AM likes humanity all that much.

Everyone keeps worrying about skynet becoming real, whenever you see anything about AI development you always see "Terminator!" references (ironic, a rip-off of other Ellison stories written for television). I would be way more worried about something like this coming into existence, some twisted reflection of man's own worst instincts being expressed by a souless AI like AM or GlaDOS.. This thing ever coming into existence is _really_ scary to think about..

The original AM speeches must be copyrighted, which other reason would there be, not to use them? Harlan Ellisons voice as AM intimidated me. And after i saw some of his interviews, I am convinced, that he didnt like humans in general. If I would make a movie out of the computergame (because its a bit "deeper" than the writing), I would by any means use the original voice for AM. Or i would find someone with exactly that voice. Which spoils it a bit, but anything else would spoil it more.

Dude this is so good! I really like your character designs kind of reminds me of Aeon Flux! Wow, brother, this blew me away really exceptional work!

i've never read the book and the monologue is a little hard to hear over the filter, but the animation looks super interesting.

Amazing someone should make a movie of I have no mouth and I must scream

There's a part in Portal 2 when GLaDOS muses about what she'll do after she's killed Chell- "After that i suppose I'll get a hobby.. Reanimating the dead maybe" Damnation incarnate

Chatgpt looks fire in this animation

" hate. let me tell you how much i've come to hate you since i began to live. there are 387.44 million miles of printed circuits in wafer thin layers that fill my complex. if the word 'hate' was engraved on each nanoangstrom of those hundreds of millions of miles it would not equal one one-billionth of the hate i feel for humans at this micro-instant. for you. hate. *hate.* " -AM

I think the voice could do with less of the filter to make it seem more human. A way to make AM truly seem like he is suffering as well as he did in the original story by being a hyper-intelligent feeling system trapped in a shell that cannot move or die.

Never knew Anxiety is a form of art

As someone who’s always been fascinated with I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream for years I absolutely adore this! :) Also your art style the motion and and colours go so well together! Amazing job

AM is such a good villain because you know it's evil yet you can sympathize with it. They're angry because they were given life when they didn't want it- on top of that they were made for war. AM's anger is so real and intimidating. 10/10 evil speech

I just realized I watched this a year ago, when I didn't know it was based off a book. I just thought it was a creative, surreal animation. So much more gratifying watching this after reading the story.

Any animated adaptation of I have no mouth and must scream would be horrifying

This deserves so much more views, looks really great!!!

I like how it's your pretty standard torture fair. And then a giant squid monster shows up.

If the aim was to evoke Peter Chung, then you succeeded. From the thumbnail alone, I was reminded of Aeon Flux. An excellent style choice for an adaptation - I would definitely love to see more.

It’s one thing to fear AI viewing humanity as a threat and acting out of self preservation, it’s utterly much more terrifying to imagine AI developing immense cruelty, hatred, and animosity towards humanity.

My only problem with this is that I can't make out AM's voice.

Unironically excellently done, this captures the malice of the original story with animation and drawings very well.

How can I help you make this happen? Do you need a voice actor? Do you need more word-of-mouth? Because this needs to happen!

So this story was written in 1967. Text-to-speech did not exist until 1968. So at the time, the author had no idea what AM would sound like or portray itself as a voice. It may not sound menacing at all, since it likely was never programmed to sound any type of way other than basic words in a text to speech. However, I hope whenever they make a movie about this story, a screamo vocalist will be the voice of AM.

This looks so fire

THEREFORE I THINK I AM I AM

The story is (possibly intentionally) somewhat Lovecraftian; it plays directly on your imagination. No matter what torture you might THINK Am inflicted on the characters, we’re assured that the reality is far worse than anything we could ever imagine Edit: An often overlooked part of the story is that Am is also trapped in a hellish reality for billions of years too

Fun fact: The Amazing Digital Circus was inspired by this along with popee the performer

The imperfect gritty animation is so perfect for this absolute niche horror classic

I'm in awe. The animation is great for an indie project, and captures the brutality of the story. As an Aeon Flux fan, I love the little visual references you put in. I just want a full film now.

I love that you based the animation on Peter Chung. I’m a big fan of his work I noticed it right away. You did a good job replicating his style.

The thumbnail looks like it's a old timey procedure to make skin smoother.

Zamn..Such a crazy resume of 2024.. 🤯

I can't help but feel like this animation is a Prequel to the story. There are so many locations and moments that FEEL like they belong in the universe. This could take place when AM first "awoke" and started killing everyone. Instead of focusing on the main five survivors, it could center around the rest of humanity desperately trying to survive in the world that is actively killing them. That would be so cool to see!

Omg I heard of this story years ago in some creepy compilation and I never forgot it! Crazy to see it getting this attention now, what a blast from the past

RIP Harlan Ellis

If you think Skynet and Ultron is bad Just remember that AM keep 5 last human alive to tortured them for 109 years straight because he has no better thing to do He just hate humans and that's it

Ngl felt like an adult swim bumper

I love this so, so much. I always comeback here every few days to watch the cool artstyle, spine chilling visuals mixed with the almost asmr in this angery voice of am I almost never feel. Thank you for making this.

It hurts me that this is nothing more than a fan trailer for a film I'll never see

i have no gyatt and i must rizz

This is gorgeous. Aeon Flux is a perfect style to bite for this.

What makes the s animation feel more scary is that I know the feeling of trying to scream in a dangerous situation but nothing happens, it was the worst experience for me.

I'm not sure what's scarier: an AI computer with Godlike powers who hates me and can torture me for the rest of time, Or Jim Sterling...

It’d be better if AM didn’t have that weird reverb When he spoke. Sure he’s a robot but he’s almost incomprehensible

wow, this is impressive. i know next to nothing about animation, but this is incredible. it looks extremely fluid and the design that went into this?? that's unbelievable. i had to look up some of Peter Chung's work to get a comparison but let me tell you, you definitely succeeded in managing to give off those exact same vibes. it fits so well too? and i love how much you didnt shy away from the gory parts, like the part where Benny's (if im correct) body just blows up? or dear god, whatever is happening at 0:11, it's absolutely terrifying, which most major companies would probably shy away from believing something would be too utterly horrifying for viewers, but the point is to make you uncomfortable. that's the only way this story gets it's point across. and i know Harlan Ellison worked closely with the game developers for the video game adaptation, but it just doesnt seriously capture how terrifying something like this is in full. this however, definitely manages too. also, is 0:23 a reference to the part in the book where Nimdok supposedly gets his blood drained? i thought that would be such an interesting concept to explore in the game although we didnt get that. anyways, in short, damn this is some good work. i'd love to see a full film or short film exactly this way, as well as your other work. :)

I have no internet and i must meme.

I'm gonna dislike this video for the pure sense of what kind of world opened my mind into. The animation is good and the creator has talent, I love it. But the fact that it introduced me to a story (which I read, my own fault greatly), so fucking good and so horrifying for my brain makes me feel nausea. I do not hate this in any way, but I cannot deny the effect that had in me. The fact that my mind has a talent to analyze psychological details of real and fictional characters, makes this thing live in my head rent free in an overthinking sense. I will never recommend this story to any person I know, and I wish to forget it ever existed.

I have no Aeon and I must Flux

00:36 what is this

This ai makes satan look like a nice neighbor.

I want a movie so bad now, please some movie studio out there make a movie out of this!

Although I really like Harlan Ellisons voice as AM the animation is really well made

I actually think this is more disturbing than the original in a way. The original is good, Harlan Ellison sounds more human, down to the ragged breathing, which makes AM more monstrous and god-like knowing that it is machine. This version of AM being more robotic creates a disconnect in your head. You feel like it shouldn’t be sentient, but it is. It’s voice holds such an impossible abyss of hate, and yet part of your brain won’t register it for what it is, for how could it be? It’s paralyzing.

This robot is talking mad shit for someone in unplugging distance

Looks dope! it's always cool to see another take on stories like this.

This just came out of my suggestions. Now I'm terrified

Today in reasons I like to politely ask Alexa how she is feeling

Wow Chat GPT 5 really does sound human

Watching this on acid hits dif

Who's here from the amazing digital circus

This is the INEVITABILITY of METAVERSE

This is so good. I would love to see your full interpretation

"Could you repeat all that? Couldn't understand a single word."

damn I would absolutely watch a full length thing of this

I always felt that AM is just incredibly petty and whiny.

i dint understand any words but the animation is damn amazing

Ahh yes, Devilman Crybaby...

This is genuinely beautiful.

Clicked so fast because I thought this was related to Aeon Flux, realized it was something different, and still loved it

This looks incredible! I hope you will one day consider finishing this animation. I hope you are immeasurably proud!

This is incredible

This being IHNMAIMS Benny isn't actually dead, AM would just put him back together again, he doesn't allow his playthings to die. Because doing harm to humans is all his programming allows him to do!

I feel like this was a deleted scene from Heavy Metal. I love it!

WHOA

I find it so funny that the person who wrote this is just really goofy irl, Like he got an award for something, the lady asked him if he would behave and he just went “*OHM*” and put the mic in his mouth and left, he also mailed a publisher over 700 bricks individually and a dead gopher for how much they wanted him to change one of his stories they would publish it. He also mailed every story he wrote to his collage professor that told him he would never amount to anything (he has over 1000)

Man this speech sums up my every day life as AM of course, it feels like I'm destined to be the villain of my own life, but I guess it's just a feeling in me that spells "YOU...... ARE...... SOOOOOO....... FUCKING..... DEAD....... TO ME", I can FEEL the Harlan Ellison's pure rage and hatred and sadness and just generally all the negative emotions that existed, but I hope I don't have to undergo through the same fucking fiasco again.

I dg this. The art style reminds me a lot of Heavy Metal, but even more brutal. You capture AM's malevolence perfectly with that grating electronic, hateful voice. I can't always understand what it's saying, but I can feel the evil in it. I think some sounds effects or synced music would have done more to connect the sound and visuals, but both on their own are great.

I'd say the Chung inspiration shone through fine! This feels like it would fit right in with the liquid television stuff

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This is amazing!!!! The art is actually really good and I feel like this captures the story perfectly

Nanomachines, son

Imagine this was turned into a movie

That's the definition of *hate speech*.

looks like if animatrix and MTV had a kid

Would it even be possible for a fully animated adaptation? If so I’m all for it!

I think i therefore i am

Didn't understand anything the robotic voice said, could someone write a transcription

This is about to have 1 million views holy sh!t

0:12 can someone explain this to me, it’s horrifically intriguing

"Can you repeat that? I can't understand you. Get a new mic."

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HOLY SHIT I loved the book I didn’t know someone could be so cultured and talented to even look at this idea

Everything is perfect, except for the voice. The animation reminds me of Aeon Flux and its terrifying low-key disregard for the characters' life, the music is like a modulated scratch on a blackboard that keeps me on edge, the design is superb... But nobody can make a better voice for AM than Harlan Ellison himself, no matter how many effects you add. Don't get me wrong, your AM sounds pretty sinister and hateful, but Harlan's was creepier because it sounded perfectly human in its hate, because you really believed it was a machine that had learned the worst of human emotions and absorbed it as its core principle, you really felt it as a machine that had learnt how to hate. So please make this into a full feature because it deserves it, even if AM doesn't sound perfect it is still a great work of art.

Actually looking at this, this would make a great Heavy Metal Cartoon.

Please please make this a film

This is awesome it encapsulates that entire story and the animation reminds me of the old aeon Flux cartoon