When Gnomes Attack!!

[spiritworldthomas]

Yesterday I got an email from (a fan? fan mail??) a reader of NFSW via my Facebook page for my writing.

Seems the gentleman in question, who is originally from Poland, wanted to ask me about a You Tube video he had seen:



This was my reply:

...as for the video you sent me, I am afraid Chris I think it is a fake, and the key was right next to the video you sent me in the text preview:

"Teaser for upcoming feature film, Gnomes Attack! Produced by Josh Butt and Joel Kohn Directed by Joel Kohn DOP: Joel Frances Post Produced by Tim Isaacson and the team at Method Studios."

So it is promotional material for a film made in Australia.

I watched it first however and even without the description it is obviously CGI that creates the "Gnomes" that come out of the trunk of the Automobile.

I also suspected it at as well before that point in the video as the police officer's procedure seemed wrong in terms of being professional and safe when approaching a known stolen vehicle with both doors open.

To my knowledge, they would have waited for backup or approached the car from both sides, guns drawn, from the rear, and sending a lone man who just walked up to the open car like there was no danger seems plain wrong.

If the CGI effects were not so obvious, I probably would have asked a police officer their opinion of the police behavior in the video to check my theory.

Anyway, just thought I'd share...Chris runs this blog here, which can be translated via Google Translate from Polish to English, so check it out!

[pickinduck]

On one of the paranormal shows a few months ago they had reoccurring gnome stories at the same home by different owners. It was by some river (or what we here would call a stream) and they thought it had to do with local folk lore of water babies. They reported it was dressed like a gnome with that hat.

[sherlew99]

Looks like they had fun making this. lol

[spiritworldthomas]

Really?

Do you recall the show?

I would like to hear this one...might explain where all those damn garden Gnomes go when they take off and visit all those landmarks and such!!

[draculasguest]

This video is funny lolz.

Little tiny ass gnomes leaping for peoples throats, stealing cars and attacking the police!

Never piss off a garden gnome!

[sherlew99]

Hey, check this out.

Gnome Attack Book

[pickinduck]

I think it may have been Paranormal Witness on SYFY. I think they used the same title you used.

[draculasguest]

Mar 31, 2014 10:17:02 GMT -6 sherlew99 said:

Hey, check this out.

Gnome Attack Book

HOW TO SURVIVE A GARDEN GNOME ATTACK (Ten Speed Press / Random House, Sept. 2010) is a survival guide that will save not only your life, but the lives of your children and loved ones. Congratulations on taking this important step toward safety and a gnome-free life. (Buy it here on Amazon!) In 2009 alone, there were 987 attacks recorded by the Gnome Attacks Hotline based out of Berlin, Germany. Don’t bother asking your local authorities about these attack–they can’t corral the data like we can. The fact is that if the public knew about how many gnomeowners are mauled and attacked each year by their own statues, the public would erupt into mass chaos. The website all about this book is www.gnomeattack.com.

LMFAO!!!!!

That is crazy...the rest of it of course confirms it is a joke but this is very funny! 

[sherlew99]

Garden Gnome Defense League

[sherlew99]

The movie is still in development.

Movie Insider

[sherlew99]

Robert Zemeckis Sets Writers For ‘Garden Gnome Attack’ Film

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday November 7, 2011 @ 8:34am PST

Tags: Alexandra Milchan, Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Jack Rapke, Joe Roth, Robert Zemeckis, Sony Pictures Animation, Steve Starkey

EXCLUSIVE: Chad Damiani and JP Lavin have just been hired to adapt How To Survive A Garden Gnome Attack for Robert Zemeckis and his Imagemovers banner. The film is a live action film (the garden gnomes will be animated), based on the Chuck Sambuchino novel, which was optioned by Sony Pictures Animation.

Click here for more.

[pickinduck]

This sounds like the story that the show I was telling you about was made from.

mysteriousuniverse.org/2013/04/encounters-with-gnomes-part-2/

[spiritworldthomas]

Mar 31, 2014 11:36:29 GMT -6 pickinduck said:

This sounds like the story that the show I was telling you about was made from.

mysteriousuniverse.org/2013/04/encounters-with-gnomes-part-2/

Great find PD, may even be worthy of a write up on NFSW at some point.

insert quoteWhen Tammy moved herself and her three children to the country house by the Tule River near Porterville, California, she didn’t know something wicked waited for them. “We always got the feeling of being watched,” Tammy said.

One spot on the farm especially put her on edge, the barn. The family animals, dogs, a cat, turkeys, chickens, and ducks avoided that rickety, dark building. “We had had a lot more chickens and ducks but they had started disappearing,” Tammy said. “I also noticed that none of the neighbor’s animals, or stray animals for that matter, would go anywhere near that barn. It was without a doubt just creepy.”

She soon discovered why. “One evening my son, who was seven years old at the time, and I had just come back from grocery shopping,” Tammy said. “We parked and got out of the car and as I was opening up the back to get the groceries out I noticed a movement out of the corner of my right eye.”

As she lifted a grocery sack from the car, she saw the movement again. “This time I heard a very freaky, very evil-sounding chuckle,” she said. “I looked in the direction of the sound and there standing about 50 yards from my son and I was what I can only describe as a gnome.” here

It is an odd story, but I wonder what was really going on there?

I think it may have been Paranormal Witness on SYFY. I think they used the same title you used.

Great minds think alike?

[pickinduck]

That link I gave was Part 2 of the story.

[spiritworldthomas]

Cheers PD!