Salad Fingers 5: Picnic
This animation is carried along not by storyline, but by sound and style. Salad fingers is a series of horribly disturbing cartoons, in which the main character, salad fingers, plays out his delusions in an imaginary world, through his decayed and decrepit surroundings. It is this decay that makes the style of salad fingers so intriguing, including a color palate which runs the gamat from rotten meat to spoiled lettuce, with tones of grey and brown making up most of the backgrounds. The mouth of salad finger is perhaps the most disgusting thing in the entire film, as it moves more than any other object, thus drawing your attention. The rotted teeth with green plaque and a tounge that makes an awful smacking sound, make one want to retch when they look at it. Thankfully, the animator has hand drawn a 2 frame repeating animation of the words he speaks so we don't have to watch the mouth the entire time, but also adding to the feeling that something is not right here. The sound is also key in this animation, as the ambiance adds to the creepiness of the whole package. The soft plink of piano keys, and a heavy at times echo effect, along with the smacking lips of mr. fingers, leaves your skin crawling by the end of this film. I give it 4 out of 5 "splats" for almost pure creepiness.
