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00:00The following 20 scenes, all of which come from pretty darn terrible horror offerings,
00:06are prime examples of scenes that are just so bad you wish you could scrub them from your memory.
00:13They vary heavily, ranging from bad special effects to poorly executed scares,
00:20from ghastly bits of dialogue to rock-bottom bits of filmmaking
00:26from one of the most infamous directors in the industry.
00:30So, without further ado, I am Gareth, this is WhatCultureHorror,
00:33and here are 20 awful horror movie moments you wish you could forget.
00:39Number 20, The Haunting of Sharon Tate, The Reenactment of the Murders.
00:44Horror films do sometimes explore real-life tragedies, and, well, that's all well and good,
00:50but it has to be done respectfully, right, and in a way that isn't exploitative?
00:56Yeah, The Haunting of Sharon Tate most definitely did not get that memo.
00:59This risible horror film, which sees Sharon Tate experiencing premonitions of the murders
01:06before they happen, received several Razzie nominations, and it was definitely deserved.
01:14In 2019, we already saw the Manson family murders reduced to a silly fight sequence
01:20in Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,
01:22and somehow, that very same year, we got what some see as an even more infuriating treatment.
01:30The premonition of the murders comes in the form of an abysmally executed load of gratuitous,
01:36exploitative violence.
01:38Like, at one point, while victim Abigail Folger is being stabbed,
01:42she literally says aloud,
01:44you got me, I'm already dead.
01:46I mean, who wrote this?
01:49The Haunting of Sharon Tate was quite possibly the most offensive movie released in 2019.
01:54Number 19, The Final Destination, The Franchise's Worst Death.
01:58So, The Final Destination franchise is best known for those brutally suspenseful,
02:04darkly hilarious death scenes,
02:07which will make you terrified of innocent, everyday objects,
02:10and send your anxiety levels just through the damn roof.
02:14There's a reason why so many people are scared to drive behind a log truck now.
02:17Alas, not all Final Destination deaths are created equal,
02:21and the absolute worst of the lot is the death of Jonathan Groves in 2009's The Final Destination,
02:28which is near universally acknowledged as the franchise's worst film.
02:32The entire scene in which the unfortunate Jonathan is crushed by a hospital bathtub
02:38is exactly what a Final Destination sequence should never be,
02:42and that is abhorrent.
02:43Furthermore, the key to a great Final Destination set piece is
02:48it playing on universal fears or seeming almost believable.
02:53But there is none of that here.
02:54A hospital bathtub would just never behave in this way.
02:57And no trained doctor would leave it running like that.
03:00What were they thinking?
03:01And just when you think it can't get any worse,
03:02it is actually ripped off from somewhere else.
03:04Yeah, in the 2000s, Black Flame released a series of Final Destination original novels,
03:10most of which are actually pretty darn good.
03:12But one of them, called End of the Line,
03:15features a death scene almost identical to, you guessed it, this one.
03:20Further showing just how lazy this whole set piece really, really was.
03:24Number 18, Child's Play 3, Tyler's Endless Whining.
03:28Is this guy the most annoying horror movie kid ever?
03:32In the first two Child's Play films,
03:34Chucky, the killer doll, went after Andy,
03:37who was, of course, a young kid who got the possessed doll for his birthday.
03:41Now, kid characters are always a little bit tricky, aren't they?
03:44So Andy was a breath of fresh air in that he was, first off, likeable, which is always good.
03:51And secondly, excellently played by Alex Vincent,
03:54who was a child actor wise beyond his years.
03:57The third film takes place a few years later,
03:59with Andy now a teenager in military school and played by Justin Whalen.
04:04But Chucky actually goes after a new kid, a fellow cadet, called Ronald Tyler.
04:09And this kid, oh boy, this kid is so damn tiresome.
04:13As well as being foolishly trusting of Chucky, even for a young kid,
04:17his endlessly whiny demeanor is grating to the bloody extreme.
04:23Furthermore, while one always does feel a little bit reluctant to criticise a child actor,
04:29I mean, few children can act and demote in the same way that an older,
04:33more emotionally experienced person is able to, right?
04:37Still, Jeremy Silver's performance is profoundly irritating.
04:41Thankfully, Tyler never returned in any of the sequels.
04:44Number 17, It Chapter 2, The Witch.
04:47It Chapter 2 is a very weak horror sequel indeed.
04:51More so than you might remember, actually.
04:53As well as being overlong and overstuffed,
04:56it was also a failure in the scares department.
04:59Nowhere more so than right here in this scene.
05:03In this sequence, Beverly goes to her childhood home
05:06and finds an old woman living there.
05:08Only for it to turn out that this woman is actually a witch
05:11and a form that It slash Pennywise has taken.
05:14Now, this scene was in the book, so it had a reason to be in the movie.
05:18A giant naked crony rendered in god-awful CGI
05:23just running towards Beverly in the goofiest of ways.
05:27This was far from the only iffy moment in It Chapter 2.
05:32There was also that scene where Juice Newton's Angel of the Morning
05:35started blaring out when Pennywise was attacking Eddie, remember that?
05:38Well, this is definitely the movie's lowest point right here.
05:41Number 16, Alone in the Dark, The Opening Crawl.
05:44German director Uwe Boll is deservedly recognized
05:48as one of the worst directors of all time,
05:51thanks to his filmography of turkeys
05:53and his disturbing ability to make the wrong creative choice
05:57pretty much every single time.
05:58There's a saying that even a broken clock is right twice a day,
06:02but that just does not seem to be the case with Boll.
06:04That clock is permanently broken all day long.
06:06This comes through right at the beginning of his 2005
06:10Turkey Alone in the Dark,
06:12which opens up with this torturously overlong opening crawl,
06:17one which completely goes against the rules of, you know, good storytelling.
06:21Rather than following the simple rule of show, don't tell,
06:25this opening crawl vomits out a colossal exposition dump,
06:30conveying information that would have been better shown
06:32via on-screen worldbuilding, maybe? I don't know.
06:35A narrator also reads the entire thing out,
06:38making it feel like the film is just being condescending towards its audience.
06:42And hearing some of these lines spoken aloud
06:44only highlighted just how ridiculous many of them really were.
06:48Lines such as the Abkhani believe there are two worlds on this planet,
06:52a world of light and a world of darkness.
06:55Don't exactly roll off the tongue now, do they?
06:58Number 15, Alien Covenant.
07:00I'll do the fingering.
07:01Michael Fassbender's magisterial dual performance in Alien Covenant
07:06is one of the most brilliant things in a just sort of their movie.
07:12And one of the many, many things that Fassbender deserves praise for
07:15is managing to deliver this line without bursting into hysterical laughter.
07:20Granted, this is a very, very brief moment,
07:22but there's a good reason it is so widely remembered even now.
07:27In this moment, android antagonist David is teaching fellow android,
07:31Walter, both played by Fassbender, to play a flute.
07:35He puts the flute to Walter's lips and says,
07:37I'll do the fingering.
07:40Oh boy.
07:40The reaction will depend on the viewer, of course.
07:43Some will just burst out into laughter.
07:45Others will just grimace until their face hurts.
07:48How did this get past the massive, massive team
07:51working on a big-budget Hollywood tentpole like this?
07:55Then again, perhaps that's a bit of a silly question
07:57as this was a film full of, um,
07:59iffy decisions that were somehow allowed to slide.
08:02Number 14, Jaws 3D.
08:04Breaking the Glass.
08:05Plenty of today's big-budget movies feature
08:09awful special effects, let's be honest.
08:11And that is always, always jarring,
08:14especially when considering just how much money goes into these movies nowadays.
08:17And then, you look at a scene like this from 1983's terrible Jaws 3D,
08:25and most likely, you'll feel some newfound appreciation
08:28for the special effects of today.
08:30They're not too bad.
08:31In this scene, Leeds, Michael Brody, and Kay Morgan
08:34are in an underwater control room
08:37when the villainous shark suddenly appears in front of the window.
08:40Essentially, what looks like a still image of a shark
08:44floats along towards the window.
08:46Eventually, it opens its jaws a tiny little bit,
08:50and then it stops,
08:51just as the unconvincing glass breakage special effects are shown.
08:55Once again, CGI in modern Hollywood
08:58can be pretty hit or miss at times.
09:01But it would be difficult to say any of it looks half as bad as this.
09:04This is something else.
09:06Number 13, Black Christmas 2019.
09:08Not all men.
09:10Why are you allowed to say all this S-word about men
09:12and we're supposed to just sit here and take it?
09:14Because men have all the power.
09:16Not all men are R-words.
09:19Chris, I'm not.
09:20You just lump me in with the bad ones because I'm a man.
09:23Yeah, this dialogue does sound like some people just having an argument on Twitter,
09:26but oh no no, this is real dialogue that actually got put in an actual movie.
09:32Yikes.
09:32I mean, kudos to the actors in this scene,
09:34at least Shannon and Simon Mead,
09:36for delivering this dialogue a little bit convincingly.
09:39And with a straight face, to be honest,
09:41because that must have been quite the challenge.
09:43Number 12, Saw 3D.
09:44You call that a franchise ending?
09:46Alright, it's time to drop a massive hot take now.
09:49Are you ready?
09:50The reboot of the Saw franchise in 2017 was...
09:54kind of justified.
09:56I mean, who'd have wanted to leave things like this, really?
09:58Saw 3D is one of the worst franchise endings of recent times.
10:04Like, compared to this, Rise of Skywalker looks outright masterful.
10:07Yep, I said it.
10:08In this one, Mark Hoffman is trying to capture and kill Jill Tuck,
10:12Jigsaw's ex-wife, in revenge for her trying to kill him.
10:16While one of the most annoying cops in horror movie history chases him.
10:21Eventually, Hoffman manages to kill Jill,
10:24but then he's punished for this by being left to die in the bathroom
10:27from the first movie by none other than Dr. Lawrence Gordon.
10:33As pretty much everyone guessed long before the fact,
10:36Lawrence Gordon is indeed another Jigsaw apprentice.
10:40Yay.
10:40Which was a classic case of logic being sacrificed in favour of fan service.
10:45Why would Gordon join forces with the man who nearly killed his family?
10:49Nothing about this feels like any sort of an ending to the overall story.
10:53It was later revealed that there was meant to be a Saw 8, actually,
10:56to finish everything off,
10:58but after Saw 6's box office returns dropped,
11:02they hastily reworked the finale into just one movie.
11:06Number 11, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, Ben's Son.
11:09I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, what a silly title that is,
11:13features one of the all-time worst killer reveals.
11:17Which brings with it one of the cringiest lines ever heard in a movie as well.
11:21You don't get it.
11:22Will Benson.
11:24Ben's Son.
11:25Hi, Dad.
11:26Will, seemingly a new friend of protagonist Julie,
11:29says this just as Ben Willis pops up behind him.
11:33As it turns out, Ben survived the original film,
11:35and now he and his son are working together.
11:38Yay.
11:39As a general rule of thumb,
11:41giving a twist villain a giveaway name
11:43that hints at their true nature is a pretty bad idea.
11:47For example, a similar thing happened with Incredibles 2,
11:50calling its twist villain Evelyn Devor,
11:52which, of course, sounds like evil endeavor, doesn't it?
11:55Ha ha ha ha.
11:56This kind of twist is already iffy.
11:58But saying it aloud like this is just,
12:01uh, cringeworthy myself.
12:03This was a dud of a horror sequel all around,
12:07yet nothing else has left quite such a stain in the memory
12:10as this moment right here.
12:11Suddenly, a certain controversial twist from the 2025 reboot
12:14doesn't look quite so bad, does it?
12:16Number 10, Fantasy Island, the whole finale.
12:20Fantasy Island is one of the very worst horror films
12:23of, yep, the 21st century.
12:25Pretty much everything about it is infuriating,
12:28and, and yet, and yet,
12:30just when you think it can't get any worse,
12:32it outdoes itself with this climax.
12:35The unconvincing special effects,
12:37the wasted cast, the head-smackingly dull PG-13 scares,
12:42the groan-worthy attempts at emotional manipulation,
12:45the convoluted, never-ending twist.
12:48Oh, yep, it's all here, baby.
12:50This finale, with its uber-generic zombie monsters
12:53and total lack of grit,
12:55could not have been any less scary if it tried.
12:58And worst of all, it throws in one final twist,
13:00the most infuriating one of all.
13:03It's revealed that Melanie, one of the people trapped on the island,
13:06actually orchestrated the whole thing,
13:09what is she like?
13:10Bringing the other characters there
13:11because she blames them for the death of a guy
13:13that she was meant to go on a date with one night.
13:15As well as feeling totally forced,
13:18Melanie's motives were petty in the extreme.
13:21If this had been a parody,
13:23and the joke had been that the villain had silly motivations,
13:26then this would have probably worked a treat.
13:28But much like with everything else
13:30in this unbearable trainwreck of a movie,
13:32it is all played far too straight.
13:35Number 9, Jason X, KM-14 vs. Jason.
13:38If decades ago, Friday the 13th fans
13:41had been predicting the future of this series,
13:45well, few would have had a movie
13:46where Jason Voorhees goes to space,
13:48is turned into a cyborg,
13:49and then embarks on a rampage
13:50aboard an interstellar spaceship.
13:52Why?
13:53Because it was a terrible idea.
13:55And indeed, Jason X is arguably
13:56the worst movie in the entire series.
13:58It's a largely wretched affair
14:00with a small handful of strong scenes.
14:04Most notably, the liquid nitrogen death scene.
14:07And many, many, many, many, many, many terrible ones.
14:10Including this sequence,
14:12in which KM-14 destroys Jason
14:15in one of the cringiest fight scenes
14:17you'll ever see in your life.
14:19From KM-14's Matrix-style flipping
14:22to the risible special effects
14:24from the goofy fight choreography.
14:27In a series that, to give it credit,
14:29is reasonably short on notably awful scenes.
14:32This right here stands tall
14:34as the worst sequence in Friday the 13th history.
14:38Number 8, Truth or Dare, The Grinning Ghosts.
14:41Someone needs to stop director Jeff Wadlow,
14:43like stop him now.
14:44In the decade since he killed the Kick-Ass franchise,
14:47he's inexplicably been given the reins
14:49to several other projects.
14:51And none of them, absolutely none of them,
14:53have worked out.
14:54Now, the aforementioned Fantasy Island
14:56is what many would class as his worst one yet.
14:59But he made another infamous work in 2018.
15:02One which features a creative choice
15:04so misjudged it is a total mystery
15:07as to how it ever got past a team of producers.
15:10Whenever someone's possessed by the villainous demon,
15:13they do the goofiest smile imaginable
15:15and then say, truth or dare, hmm.
15:18But if this was meant to be scary,
15:20well, it absolutely wasn't.
15:22It was actually unintentionally funny
15:23and most screenings probably had quite a bit of laughter in them.
15:26It's difficult to understand how anyone thought
15:28this would ever be a good idea.
15:30Hollywood is just a mysterious place sometimes, isn't it?
15:33Number 7, Winnie the Pooh, Blood and Honey, The Opening Scene.
15:37Winnie the Pooh, Blood and Honey
15:39immediately gained attention
15:40for turning a beloved children's character
15:43into a bloodthirsty slasher movie villain.
15:46Well, I mean, that's one way of utilising a property
15:48that's just entered the public domain, isn't it?
15:49It ensured a larger-than-expected viewing audience
15:52for one of the worst horror movies of the decade,
15:56maybe even the century.
15:57Normally, a low-budget British indie horror
16:00doing so well financially
16:02and even launching a whole franchise
16:04would be a triumph, wouldn't it?
16:06Here, though, it's a bit of a tragedy
16:08and one can tell from the very beginning of the thing.
16:11In this sequence, Christopher Robin
16:13and his fiancée, Mary,
16:15visit his old home of the Hundred Acre Wood
16:18and are ambushed by Winnie the Pooh and Piglet
16:21who have turned into vengeful killers
16:23after Christopher Robin left them to go to college.
16:27What a mean guy.
16:28This sequence sums up everything wrong
16:31with the whole movie better than a review ever could.
16:34Viewers will immediately know
16:35that they're about to suffer
16:36through a historically bad horror film.
16:39And I mean, that's if they don't turn it off
16:40as soon as this dreadful opening concluded,
16:43which, come to think of it,
16:45many people might have done.
16:46Number six, Halloween Resurrection.
16:48Trick or treat, mother effer.
16:50Yep, it's time to talk about Halloween Resurrection.
16:52You knew it was coming.
16:53Which is widely considered
16:54to be the nadir of the series.
16:56Now, there are plenty of regrettable moments
16:59throughout the Halloween movies.
17:00The twist that Michael and Laurie are siblings,
17:03Halloween 5's infamous cliffhanger ending.
17:05That ridiculous cult subplot from Halloween 6.
17:09All of Halloween 2 from 2009's pretentious dream sequences.
17:14But 2002's Halloween Resurrection
17:17has more awful moments than any of the others.
17:20Including a ridiculous retconning
17:22of Michael's death in the previous film.
17:24And Michael weightlessly killing off
17:26Laurie Strode at the very beginning.
17:28Impressively though,
17:30there's a particular moment so appalling
17:32that anything else is completely overshadowed.
17:34Impressive.
17:35Busta Rhymes yelling,
17:37trick or treat, mother effer,
17:38in the most jarring way imaginable.
17:41And also karate kicking Michael Myers
17:43out of a window.
17:44Between Rhymes' awful acting
17:46and one of the most terrifying horror movie villains
17:48ever just being made to look like
17:50an incompetent idiot.
17:52Everything, everything about this
17:53is painful to watch in the extreme.
17:56Still, at least we'll always have the original.
17:58Yay.
17:58Number 5, The Ring 2, Deer Attack.
18:022005's The Ring 2,
18:04which ranks among the absolute worst horror sequels
18:06of the century,
18:07I've said that a few times,
18:08but yep, it's that kind of list,
18:09features this unforgettably awful turkey of a scare.
18:15While protagonist Rachel and her son Aiden
18:17are driving along down the road,
18:19they suddenly get attacked
18:21by several unconvincing CGI deer.
18:24Between the sub-par special effects
18:26and the annoying child actor
18:27just repeatedly yelling,
18:29don't stop,
18:30in the same tone of voice,
18:32Rachel does keep stopping the car,
18:33to be fair to him.
18:34This probably had entire cinemas
18:36just rolling their eyes in the aisles.
18:38It's a sequence that's not only devoid of fear,
18:41but it's also of logic.
18:43It is never made clear
18:44why deer are going after them.
18:47Now, previously,
18:48the movie's ghost antagonist,
18:50Samara Morgan,
18:51possessed horses like that happened,
18:53but deer, you know,
18:55are not horses.
18:57Not even director Hideo Nakata,
18:59a master of horror
19:00who actually directed the Japanese ring,
19:02could make this mess work.
19:04Number four,
19:05Texas Chainsaw 3D,
19:07Do You Think Cuz?
19:09Some lines of dialogue
19:10are so, so awful
19:12that they become cemented
19:14in cinematic legend.
19:16And to join the ranks,
19:17we've got Do You Think Cuz?
19:19a piece of dialogue
19:20that has single-handedly secured
19:22Texas Chainsaw 3D,
19:24a space in internet infamy.
19:26Protagonist Heather yells this out
19:28as she tosses Leatherface his chainsaw
19:30to cringe-inducing effect.
19:33Now, Alexandra Daddario
19:35is a talented actress,
19:36as anyone who's seen her work in TV
19:38will definitely know.
19:39But even she couldn't make this sound
19:41anything less than toe-curling.
19:43Heather,
19:43who has turned out to be
19:44a long-lost member of the Sawyer family,
19:46has been tied up in a slaughterhouse
19:48by a corrupt police department.
19:51They want to lure Leatherface to his death,
19:53but he frees Heather
19:55when he realises their family connection,
19:57and she then joins forces with him
20:00despite the fact that he's murdered her friends
20:02and tried to kill her many times.
20:04Right.
20:04Everything about this sequence
20:06is just intolerably ridiculous.
20:08The fight choreography,
20:10the plot holes,
20:11the way that Leatherface
20:12is suddenly presented as the good guy,
20:14while the sheriff's department
20:16are just cartoonish villains
20:17out of nowhere.
20:19And none of it makes any sense at all.
20:21Number three,
20:21Jaws the Revenge,
20:23the finale.
20:24No franchise has ever fallen
20:26as far as Jaws has.
20:27It began with one of the greatest films
20:29ever made,
20:31only to conclude with
20:32one of the worst films ever made.
20:35Ah.
20:35And that film is Jaws the Revenge,
20:37an unbearable sequel
20:39that isn't even so bad,
20:41it's good.
20:42There's pretty much no tension
20:43or action,
20:44while the thing that kills the shark
20:46is Ellen Brody
20:48driving the boat's
20:49bowsprit into it.
20:50Right.
20:51It then explodes
20:52for some reason or another.
20:54Therefore,
20:55it's just an unacceptably
20:56dull climax,
20:58and what makes it even worse
20:59is just
20:59how stupid it all is.
21:01The shark eats a plane,
21:03Hoagie emerges from the water
21:05completely dry,
21:06and of course,
21:07there's the moment
21:07where the shark
21:08rears out of the water,
21:10balances on its fin,
21:11and then roars like a lion.
21:13Sharks don't roar,
21:14they don't even have vocal cords.
21:16Ah, well,
21:17we'll always have
21:18the original Jaws, eh?
21:19That's something
21:20that'll help us forget
21:20this pain.
21:22Number two,
21:23House of the Dead,
21:24the shootout.
21:25House of the Dead
21:26was a film
21:26that put its director
21:27on the map,
21:29but not in a good way.
21:30Rather,
21:31it announced to the world
21:32that the Ed Wood
21:33of the 21st century
21:34had arrived,
21:35and his name
21:35was Uwe Boll.
21:38I've forgotten
21:38how to say that name
21:39and have already said it
21:40once in this video.
21:40What is wrong with me?
21:41It's a weird name.
21:42Yep,
21:43it's this guy again.
21:43And there is a particular
21:45set piece
21:45which serves as this
21:48grotesque microcosm
21:49of all of his shortcomings
21:50as a filmmaker.
21:51In this sequence,
21:52the remaining heroic characters
21:53have a big shootout
21:55with the zombies.
21:56And everything about this
21:57is so incompetent,
21:59it's kind of scary
22:00to watch, really,
22:01but for all the wrong reasons.
22:02Idiotic bullet-time moments,
22:05the rancid editing,
22:06the goofy rock soundtrack,
22:08the atrocious cinematography,
22:10the unconvincing acting,
22:12the total lack of fear,
22:14and worst of all,
22:15the way that footage
22:16from the video games
22:17is just randomly inserted
22:18at several points.
22:20Like,
22:20what the hell are we watching?
22:22It's mesmerizing
22:23in its unrestrained awfulness.
22:25It's like a black hole
22:26of wrong creative decisions
22:28just sucking you in
22:29and never letting you go.
22:31Still,
22:31this moment should be shown
22:32to aspiring horror filmmakers,
22:34I think.
22:35It can show exactly
22:36how not to make a movie.
22:38Number one,
22:39The Devil Inside Web Link.
22:41Is this the worst
22:42horror movie ending
22:42of all time?
22:43You know what?
22:44I think it probably is.
22:45Now,
22:45there are plenty of other
22:46terrible endings
22:47in the genre,
22:48but at least those
22:49actually are endings.
22:50This found footage horror,
22:52though,
22:52which was already
22:53bottom-of-the-barrel
22:54dreck even prior to this,
22:56does not have a conclusion
22:57at all.
22:58It cuts to black
23:00mid-set piece
23:01and then just
23:01shows a weblink.
23:03Describing the case
23:04as unresolved
23:05and directing viewers
23:06to a website
23:07to learn more.
23:09What?
23:09Seriously,
23:10what were they thinking here?
23:11This abrupt
23:12non-ending
23:13was the equivalent
23:14of the movie
23:15just blowing a raspberry
23:16at its audience
23:17and then giving them
23:17all the finger.
23:18Not the good finger.
23:19As they had just
23:20spent their money
23:21on a film
23:21that felt genuinely
23:22unfinished.
23:23Like,
23:23yeah,
23:24just there you go,
23:24there's half a movie.
23:25Unfortunately,
23:26despite the negative
23:27critical reception,
23:28this actually made
23:29over $100 million,
23:31more than 100 times
23:32its budget.
23:33So an awful lot
23:34of people were left
23:35feeling shortchanged.
23:36And to make all this
23:37even worse,
23:38for the very few people
23:39who would have been
23:39compelled to look
23:40this website up,
23:41it's not even active
23:42anymore.
23:43As such,
23:43if anything,
23:44this movie has actually
23:45got more and more
23:46insulting with time.
23:47Fancy that.
23:47Fancy that.
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