Mister Basement doesn't seem like a bad guy until then. He just seems creepily annoying. But then that line happens and you realize that Mister Basement is fucked up and will do anything to talk about basements.
HE STOLE HIS FUCKING HAND AND THREATENED TO KEEP IT IF HE BROUGHT ANOTHER MAN DOWN THERE TO KEEP THEM HOSTAGE. He wasn’t going to let them go normally.
Credits! I can stop nagging!! I am freeeee~~ Another great short, love the editing and camera angles. Also you are the masters of the precision f-bomb strike.
I love I love how he introduced the weird idea of basically underground attic and then explains away why underground attic doesn't exist makes you almost feel like this was a real story
Damn Neil fucked up, he only stayed in the basement 59 minutes and 43 seconds from our observable timeline given by the video, thusly he did not make the full hour required for the $100.
And the title of Mr. Basement gets passed on. Thus repeats the ancient cycle of basement. The only way to stop it now is to find the original basement before it's too late...
i keep on coming back to watch this. the delivery on "your fucking hand!" by ryan is amazing. and i adore the colours when mr basement appears. can never go wrong with some orange and teal
Thanks! We had some trouble getting blue to expose properly on set. In post we were able to get it closer to what we wanted but had to hold back due to some graininess we'd be introducing. Two lessons learned: use gels on set & shoot with Pro Res codecs when you'll be doing serious color correction later.
You had good shadow movement over the lights near the end but the run up the stairs could have used some as well, ending with the light completely blocked off
I genuinely love this one and come back to it all the time. Everything about it is gold but my favorite moment has to be the subtly implied rivalry between basements and attics. It's so small but so good.
yeah I come back here now and then. neil videos are like a warm cuddly blanket but only large enough to cover half my torso and the rest of me is cold and empty.
Most underrated RU-vid channel, and most underrated internet person. I really feel like Neil has made the most consistent stream of content that goes underappreciated. I'm glad he gets what hits he does, but I really wish more of his stuff got attention.
Had to click on this video to find out what a basement was. I saw no basement throughout the entire thing. Come to think of it, there was this blacked out screen for a majority of the time. Was this just an April Fool's joke you forgot to upload?
I showed this to one of my friends, and for a few months or so, we managed to convince the other member of our trio that we didn't know what basements were. She got _really_ frustrated with us, until we eventually showed her the video.
I needed this today. Actually, I need a Kevin/Neil/Ryan collaboration every day. Excellent as usual, guys! Thanks for being my favourites on the 'Tube.
4:47 I just figured out what they were saying (someone has probably already done this but eh) Neil: So I was trapped in the basement and there was a guy in the basement giving all these basement facts and he took my hand and I had to bring him down and he had to kill him. - Kevin: So we were watching a movie and I told him to go down there and when he went down there was this weirdo there and I had to kill the guy
Yay!!! So happy to see a vid from you in my subscriptions! Thanks for this gem! Glad to see the return of your actor/friend who plays Mister Basement. Great character!
I’m way more scared of attics than I am of basements. You can’t fall through the floor but you can fall through the ceiling. Basements have no more to fall but in the attic there is nowhere to go but down.
I saw this under our new short, and in so glad I did lol, at first I was a little skeptical but as soon as the ball started rolling I laughed my ass off! Excellent job guys, Bravo!
