User blog:AustinDR/Quick Thoughts: The Secret Door!

What the f**k did I just watch? This episode was something else. In it, Mario and Rosalina decide to play hide and seek with Jeffy, but when he ends up opening the door that the Brooklyn Guy explicitly stated should never be opened, well....expect nightmares.

Honestly, this was probably the most messed up SML video I had ever watched. It was shocking, grotesque, disturbing....words alone cannot begin to do the episode justice. Prior to this episode, many fans had speculated on what could be behind the door, some ranging from it being a torture room and the like. Well, it turns out that the room is filled with the corpses of the twenty-six people who had previously owned the house before Mario and company. When they call the police to investigate, the Brooklyn Guy reveals himself as a psychotic serial killer, and takes the three of them hostage. Besides the gruesome display of bodies, the Brooklyn Guy himself is nightmare fuel on two legs. He's demented, keeps pictures of all of the victims that he murdered, hits Rosalina with a hammer to shut her up, etc. He's definitely up there with Nancy as being horrifying, but in a different regard. Of course, the twist of the Brooklyn Guy being out for seven months, and who was thought to be him was actually his identical twin brother, kind of muddied it for me, but that's a minor gripe. I also felt that the reveal of what was behind the door was predictable. I had figured out before watching the episode that there would be bodies scattered throughout the room, but I honestly wanted to be wrong on that.

Besides that, the editing for the video was also great. It really added on to the nightmarish atmosphere. So overall, it was a great video, even though I already knew what was going to be in it.