Category: Countdowns
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TOP 12: CHRISTMAS PSAs
Whatever way you’re celebrating or not celebrating crimbo, Christmas has also been the time of creepy, disturbing, and soul-crushing PSAs – and you know me, I’d choose to binge on morbid and harrowing PSAs than a revolting, arty-farty mince pie any day. But I do love a good sprout, though (yes, I’m one of those…
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TOP 10: SCARIEST AIDS AWARENESS COMMERCIALS
If you are a fan of disturbing PSAs and classic Public Information Films, then this list of anti-AIDS commercials will be right up your street. And everyone else’s street for that matter. In fact the whole town will be horrified, just like many of the British households were back in the 1980s when the AIDS…
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TOP 10: SCARIEST DRINK DRIVING COMMERCIALS
If PSAs aren’t telling us to drive safely or do drugs, chances are they’re telling us to not mix the two together. I’m no mixologist, but what a very murderous cocktail it can be… well at least according to this set of ads anyway.
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TOP 10: CAR COMMERCIALS
Hello, everyone. Due to many unresolved copyright claims on this particular video (i.e. copyrighted songs), YouTube decided to block it in 6 countries – including the United States. Unfortunately, according to YouTube, I am unable to remove these songs using YouTube’s Editor because the video has “too many views”, which I personally find ridiculous.
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TOP 10: SCARIEST WORK SAFETY COMMERCIALS
Ah, work safety. One of my favourite genres of nightmare-fuel PSAs… and judging by the thumbnail, you can probably tell why. Work safety PSAs are anything but tame, and if you aren’t already familiar with them, by the end of this video you may want to just give up all hope of ever being in a…
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TOP 10: MOST EFFECTIVE BRITISH ADVERTS
Britain has been known for its very macabre and grotesque collection of Public Information Films (PIFs) over the years: including (but by no means limited to) the “Dark and Lonely Water” which showed a black-hoodied figure haunting children who’d succumb to many unfortunate circumstances – and thus their inevitable deaths – by drowning in deep waters, in turn traumatising…
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TOP 50: SCARIEST ANTI-DRUGS PSAs
“Drugs, drugs, drugs – which are good, which are bad?” – as the famous jingle goes. Unfortunately, there are no ‘good’ drugs featured in this countdown, I’m afraid. They’re all bad. On today’s journey, we touch up on things like cocaine, heroin, meth, marijuana… nearly all of it if I’m honest. Now, it’s easy to tell someone that…
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TOP 10: MY FAVOURITE COMMERCIALS
We all have our favourite commercials which we can’t help but love… unless you’re a boring sod and absolutely despise commercials, of course. Not every commercial has artistic depth, I agree (think of those bloody annoying Cillit Bang ads with the overly-obnoxious Barry Scott screaming down your earholes). But to me, commercials aren’t just about the cliché sort of “advertising…
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TOP 40: SCARIEST ANTI-SMOKING COMMERCIALS
Tobacco is the single biggest cause of cancer in the world, killing nearly 6 million people each year – with half of its users gradually being killed by smoking-related diseases. In order to tackle tobacco use and highlight its consequences on not just smokers themselves, but also others around them, hard-hitting anti-tobacco advertisements have been created to…