# The Green Marker Scare **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 10, 2019, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-green-marker-scare/830865 "2019-03-10T02:00:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2019, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-green-marker-scare/830865/1 "2019-03-10T02:00:58Z")
Was mentioned on Wikipedia’s feed a couple of days ago so I gave this ~75 minute animation a look on YouTube. Disturbing. For spoiler’s sake I won’t even discuss it in this first post but I’d like to ask a few questions of anyone else who’s seen it. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2019, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-green-marker-scare/830865/2 "2019-03-10T02:20:50Z")
If you post a link, it will make it easier for us to guess what you are talking about. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2019, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-green-marker-scare/830865/3 "2019-03-10T02:38:40Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > If you post a link, it will make it easier for us to guess what you are talking about. It is a movie about a guy who painted the edge of his CD with a green marker, and _it didn’t make it sound better_! [Or possibly this](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Green_Marker_Scare). ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2019, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-green-marker-scare/830865/4 "2019-03-10T02:56:30Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > It is a movie about a guy who painted the edge of his CD with a green marker, and _it didn’t make it sound better_ Now _that’s_ scary. I know people who say it did. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2019, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-green-marker-scare/830865/5 "2019-03-11T22:29:01Z")
Sorry, I presumed anyone interested could find it easily enough: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/csh454VL550/maxresdefault.jpg "Irish Horror Movie Animated By Children") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csh454VL550) ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2019, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-green-marker-scare/830865/6 "2019-03-11T22:44:06Z")
Like I’m going to watch a 75 minute YouTube video without context? Fuck, I won’t even watch it with context. ---
**Author:** ![Shakester](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shakester/32/437_2.png) [@Shakester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shakester)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2019, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-green-marker-scare/830865/7 "2019-03-12T02:56:24Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Like I’m going to watch a 75 minute YouTube video without context? > Fuck, I won’t even watch it with context. Same, but [here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Green_Marker_Scare)’s the context if anyone else cares. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2019, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-green-marker-scare/830865/8 "2019-03-12T05:02:58Z")
> [@Shakester](#): > > Same, but [here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Green_Marker_Scare)’s the context if anyone else cares. Is it possible a word is missing from this description? “The children did know that they were part of a horror film’s production, and the rest of the film’s content was not shown to them.” ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2019, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-green-marker-scare/830865/9 "2019-03-12T07:45:21Z")
Lumpy, could you spoil one thing for me (in a box is fine): when the creator says “The penny still hasn’t dropped about Ritual Abuse in the 21st century”, do they mean the idea it’s a load of hysterical claptrap, or does the film lend itself to reinforcing that harmful shit? i.e. is it pro- SRA being a real thing? ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2019, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-green-marker-scare/830865/10 "2019-03-12T13:42:41Z")
I watched the first 10 minutes or so - It sure doesn’t look like 9 -11-year-olds did the drawings to me. They must have been chosen for their drawing abilities. They weren’t just random kids. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2019, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-green-marker-scare/830865/11 "2019-03-12T15:18:46Z")
OK, full spoilers: It begins as a late-teen/ young adult equivalent of Nancy Drew begins investigating her father’s suspicious death. What she finds is an entire underground culture of ritual child abuse (it’s “Satanic” mainly for symbolism purposes). She tries to get to the bottom of it only to discover that it has no bottom: apparently from time immemorial pagan practices survived underground and the traditions of ritual sacrfice and sexual initiation have been there forever, in it’s modern form morphed into SRA. There’s no one to expose it to- the fix is in up to the highest levels of society and government. In the end to keep from being murdered herself she’s subsumed into the cult. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2019, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-green-marker-scare/830865/12 "2019-03-12T23:33:04Z")
For a large group of nine to eleven year olds, it is amazing how alike their styles are. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2019, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-green-marker-scare/830865/13 "2019-03-13T05:06:30Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > OK, full spoilers: OK, hard pass. ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2019, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-green-marker-scare/830865/14 "2019-03-13T14:16:42Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > For a large group of nine to eleven year olds, it is amazing how alike their styles are. Agree! ---
**Author:** ![Felligo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e8c25b/32.png) [@Felligo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Felligo)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2021, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-green-marker-scare/830865/15 "2021-12-17T17:16:30Z")
I just assumed the disclaimer at the start of the film saying kids animated it was horseshit - like the ‘based a on a true story’ thing at the beginning of Fargo ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2021, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-green-marker-scare/830865/16 "2021-12-17T17:47:37Z")
For that matter, Star Wars was based on a true story. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2021, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-green-marker-scare/830865/17 "2021-12-17T17:50:56Z")
> [@Felligo](#): > > like the ‘based a on a true story’ thing at the beginning of Fargo > [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > Star Wars was based on a true story. Then there are the unsettling recent developments in the use of the word “literally”. ---
**Author:** ![Ranch\_Dip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranch_dip/32/5238_2.png) [@Ranch\_Dip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranch_Dip)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2021, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-green-marker-scare/830865/18 "2021-12-17T18:06:02Z")
I haven’t watched it, and won’t. But the spoiler sounds like Q stuff. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2021, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-green-marker-scare/830865/19 "2021-12-17T19:41:23Z")
I have been watching it since the OP was posted. Admittedly, only at the rate of 2 minutes a month but I should be finished soon. I will let you know what I think then.