A Descent into Madness: A Theater Experience Gone Wrong

I remember taking my seat at the theater, excited to indulge in a good movie and forget about my troubles for a couple of hours. As I settled in, I began to feel a sense of unease, as if someone was watching me from the shadows. The lights flickered and the air grew thick with an eerie anticipation. Suddenly, the screen behind us came to life, displaying a message that seemed to be addressed directly to me: "Great picture I took.... Alrig', that, that'll... That's a memory that's gonna..."

I tried to shake off the feeling of unease, but it only intensified as the movie began. The images on the screen seemed to blur and distort, like my own memories were being manipulated before my eyes. The sound design became more intense, with the whispers in the background growing louder and more menacing. I felt myself becoming disoriented, as if I was trapped in a never-ending loop.

As the movie continued, I started to notice strange details around me. The seats seemed to be closing in on me, the armrests digging into my skin like claws. The air grew colder, and I could see my breath misting in front of me. It was as if the theater itself was turning against me, conspiring with the movie to drive me mad.

I tried to focus on the screen, but it kept shifting and morphing, like a funhouse mirror reflecting different versions of reality. The images became more surreal, with characters that seemed to be made of smoke and mirrors. I felt myself losing grip on reality, as if I was trapped in a dream from which I couldn't wake up.

And then, just when I thought things couldn't get any weirder, the lights went out and the screen flickered back to life. This time, it displayed a message that seemed to be from another dimension: "So whose fault is it really? You don't even have a concession stand in here." The words seemed to pulse with an otherworldly energy, like they were alive.

I felt a surge of panic as the lights came back on and I saw that I was no longer alone. A figure stood before me, its face twisted into a grotesque grin. "Movie enjoy, please," it said, its voice like a rusty gate creaking in the wind. "Thank you movie movie. Please. EnjoyOkay nevermind-Thought I saw something interacta'bibble . Oh hiI'm sorry."

The figure began to speak in a series of rapid-fire sentences, each one more absurd than the last. It talked about memories and reality, about the nature of existence and the meaning of life. I felt my mind reeling as it tried to keep up with its maddening stream of consciousness. "Okay nevermind-Thought I saw something interacta'bibble . Oh hiI'm sorry."

As the figure continued to speak, the theater around us began to distort and writhe like a living thing. The seats seemed to stretch and contort, like they were made of rubber. The air was filled with an electric charge that made my skin tingle. I felt myself becoming one with the universe, as if all boundaries and distinctions had broken down.

The figure finally stopped speaking, its words hanging in the air like a challenge. "I'm sorry," it said, its voice barely above a whisper. But before I could respond, it spoke again: "You don't even have a concession stand in here." The words cut through me like a knife, and I felt my mind shatter into a thousand pieces.

As the credits rolled on the movie, I knew that I would never be the same. I had caught a glimpse of something deeper and more fundamental than reality itself, something that lay beyond the veil of sanity. And I knew that I would never be able to shake it off, no matter how hard I tried. The experience had changed me, like a key had been inserted into a lock that could never be opened again.

Years later, I would still find myself wandering through movie theaters, searching for answers to the questions that haunted me from that day on. But every time I found myself at the concession stand, waiting for my snack or browsing the menu, I felt a familiar sense of unease. The lights seemed to flicker with an otherworldly energy, and the seats seemed to close in around me like a trap.

And then, one day, I stumbled upon a note that changed everything: "You have to say the word you have to say the words to me BarryLook, I know I was rude to you. But please Barry.The games just closed no! No!I'm not done!NONo... Huh? Oh...oh hi.That didn't look goodThat looks...That looks less than good. Whatever that is. OhOhOh...Oh no...Don't? Eh...Okay. All right. Well WowOkay, well that answered all of my questions I am so glad to be alive."

The note seemed to hold the key to everything that had happened in that theater, a message from an unknown ally who had been watching over me all along. And as I read those words, I knew that I would never forget the lesson they taught me: that sometimes, the line between reality and madness is thinner than you think, and that the only way to survive is to say the word that sets everything right again.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enMark: Maybe in the-in the toiletsAnything change in the toilets?Mark: AAAHHHHHHHello everybody. My name is markiplier and welcome to the theaterNow this game is based on a creepypasta made a long time agoAnd if this game seems familiarIt's because I played a game based on the very same creepypastaand I still to this day, could not tell you what that story was all aboutbecause the game was so trippy and weird...but this one is remastered with better graphics better detail and more true to nature to the true creepy factor ofthis story of which I know next to nothing about--hi.Oh... Oh, it's a point-and-click. Oh, well, I see - ohNine-one-oneHello? please, please I need four-one-one operator. No, okay. All right cog wheelOh, this looks cheerful. This looks really cheerful. HelloHi, I can go left and right but I won't because I want to be polite.Ticket-Taker: Thank you, please, enjoy the movie.Mark: Whoa, hey. Oh, I will thank you sir. I re- Oh.Ahhhhh.Ticket-Taker: Thank you, please enjoy the movieOh no...I- Ah..Something tells me I'm stuck in a time loop. Either that or I really love movies and this is day by day. Okay.Oh! This is.. not what I was expecting.Oh good! Only good things happen in bathrooms in horror games.But I'm gonna piss in my eyes again. Hello. Oh, I don't like those mi- Why am I looking in those individual mirrors?That's... that's clearly not goodOkay, that's super weird. Oh, that's so weird. Oh THAT'S SO WEIRD.Oh.. Hey.What a....Okay, alright, I guess I gotta check theseindividually'cause this is my job now.Oh.(whispers)Nothing.Great, you know, that's that's real good. Okay. Alright. Well, I did my inspection. And, uh, I'll see you later.Oh.Hi diddly, ho ho how are you doing? W-wasn't- how's it going in here? A lot of nothing, huh?Oh can't leave. That's good, you know, I didn't want to leave anyway.Oh...Hi.OH?! That's not how physics works!Oh.Never reach the other levels. Well screw you!For trying to tell me what I'm supposed to not do yeah. Hello?Okay, looks like there's... might maybe be a movie hereOkayTicket-Taker: Thank you, please, enjoy the movieMark: I will thank you. No. Thank you, sir. Thank youYou do the hard work around here. I just enjoyed the place. Oh boyOkay, so what do I do?It's just uh the same thing over and over again, it's mildly disconcerting that nothing's happeningOkay. All right. Do I just...Do I just keep going?Do I just keep going in a loop?Ticket-Taker: Thank you, please, enjoy the movie.Mark: I think this is part of the original story, like you were just stuck in a loop and thenthen as you kept looping things gotwhoa!That's what I was talking about as you get stuck in the lore.I want to watch...I want to watch the movie? Thank you.Don't whisper in my ear. Okay, let's go to the bathroom.Nope, apparently not, okay.Let's go. Okay. No. All right. Let's go. Enjoy the movie then.Oh!Hi.Totally fine.Everything's fine...Oh.Oh! Hum diddly, hoho, or where... we're all good then?Nothing's changed at all, huh?Everything's all the same. Everything's all the same, huh?Yeah, probably. Yeah, totally definitely this is-Ticket-Taker: Thank you.Mark: Thank you!Ticket-Taker: Please enjoy the movie.Mark: You know, why don't you come in with me, man?You work here all day. You never get actually get to see the movie always get to hear itWhy don't you come on in? Oh we gonna have a good time.Mark: Hey take me up on that offer again?Ticket-Taker: Thank you,Mark: You wanna come in and see this movie with me? I know you do. Oh, yeah you do.Ticket-Taker: Please, enjoy the movie.Mark: Okay. All right thereHEEEEYYY BUDDY!Mark: Hey Barry, how you doing?Ticket-Taker: Thank you.Ticket Taker: Please enjoy the movie.Mark: Oh Barry, you're always such a such a lovely, lovely, lovely manSomething must have changed right?Something... something had to have changed maybe in- in the- in the- in the toilets?Anything changing the turlet?Mark: Woah! Oh! Hey! Hey! NO! Hey!Girl:Mark: Alright, thats a little weird!Girl:Mark: I dont know why I'm looking at-Ok-Well..That was a thing-Still there? All right. Alice! Get back to WonderlandAlright, well that was..That was uncomfortable.I mean I'd be shocked too. If someone walked in on me when I was going to the bathroom, but..Little uh a little overdramatic wouldn't you say? Alright, what else do I need to do? What else do I need to find?What else am I gonna find? I don't have to go to the bathroom again. I've already pooped my pantsSo I think I'm good.Well, good. Okay. We're all good here. We're all good.I didn't expect that to be uh- interactable...Ah....And what are we doing hereNothing? OhIs that me?Why was I doing that or was there someone else doing it on the other side?'Cause one of those options is much more concerning than the other oneAll right. Now it's it's definitely lockedMark: Wasn't before.Ticket-Taker: Thank you.Ticket-Taker: Please, enjoy the movie.Mark: I mean as far as hells go it's not that badYou just get to watch a cool movie every nightAnd then, you know you have to deal with strange people in the bathroom, but you got do that like anywayYou always run into weirdos...In bathrooms.Mark: Just guard the door.Ticket Taker: Thank you.Mark: Thank you,Ticket Taker: Please, enjoy the movie.Mark: Thank you, please enjoy the movie, I get it.What else am I supposed to do?I'm just gonna go for it. I'ma go for aMark: mad sprint.Ticket-Taker: Thank you.Ticket-Taker: Please, enjoy the movie.Mark: I will..I- I will, I will, I will..Hey, whoa no, nono, what'd you do with barry. What'd you..I can't do anything. Oh, yes, I can..Hi.You don't have a..Neck.The Swirly Man: Never Reach The Other LevelsOkay, all right then well I wasn't gonna but now I want toMark: Now I really want to!Ticket-Taker: Enjoy the movie.You're welcome. Got to support the local theaters. You know what I'm saying? OhOh, whe- wai- wh- Oh!!! yay, I'm out of-Woman (Over telephone): Something is very, very wrong.Oh.. Thank you for that informational blurb, thank youThank you. Thank you.Ticket-Taker: Thank you, pleaseMark: Thank you.Ticket-Taker: Enjoy the movie.Mark: Thank you.Mark: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you all! Everyone is so helpful in this theatre.Ticket-Taker: Enjoy the movie.I will I'm just assuming if I just keep plowing forward like straight through like portal. I'm gonna get to something that'sgonna beWhoa, whoa whoa. Whoa, I didn't want it. I didn't know I didn't want it until start happeningOkay, um, I'm a brave boy ohWow, no, don't do thatNo, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.Okay, all right, oh this is the hallway of moaningMark:(We should call an ambulance for Mark.)System(Over P.A.): Access Denied.Denied? There sure are a lot of scratches on that door. That's...moderately discouraging.. but not that discouraging I'm not discouraged enough to stop trying.I will uh...Persist until something doth tell me not to persist by probably killing me.WHOA! Wha- I didn't even know Iwas in a hurry.I just- I'm inside this shadow lady. AhThat's a problem. Hey, I've literally I was standing right in in you and I'm sorry. Were you in the bathroom earlier?That was not my fault. That was you should have locked the door. That's..normal, I guessThey're normal normal totally normal. Okay.Ticket-Taker: Thank you. Please, enjoy the movie.Mark: Nermal, absolutely nermal.Mark: I will thank you.GreatThis is going wunderbar. Alright, let's go back to the tourMark:whoaMark: I didn't know you were having this much fun in here.Children: Ring a round the Rosies, pocket full of posies.Children: Ashes, Ashes, we all fall down!Mark: No, okay ring around the.. that. Okay that happened that wasCan I go to the toilet?Ticket-Taker: Enjoy the movie.Mark: My hero, my hero if there ever was oneMark: Maybe this is the movie. Maybe we're we're the movie is that what it is?Are we the movieIs that how wait a minute? Hello?Oh, I see the view of the theaterBut I do I dare to find a way down from up here suicide might be a way out of this so-called mazeI'm stuck in but I'm not ready for death. Maybe I'm already deadmaybe I'm stuck in a certain stage of death and I have to find a way to get to higher levels, butBut I was told veryexplicitly not to go find higher levels. That was that was made very clear to meAnd if I am one thing I am a follower of rules. I like rules. I like orderI do not like chaos and I want everything to make sense, especially in my movie-going experienceI just gotta go. I've been going on a complete loop for a while. There's got to be something that's changed, right?That's how this works. You change something. I know about it, right? I find it with my eyes. ILooky-loo, and then I find the loo right? That's goodGod, damn it. Damn youDamn youWell, you got fuck you you're getting taller by them by the encounter that we haveAnd I don't appreciate that. Look look lady. If you are a lady IDon't appreciate you intimidating me with your height. AhHelloHow niceOr you play me soothing music?That's nice. OhIt's getting marginally less soothing. AhOkay. All right. That'sThank you. That's enough. I will not be leaving a tip. YeahI'm gonna give you a two star on Yelp. God, I need to get life Li all I'm doing is seeing moviesWhat the hell is happening to me?What am I doing? I'm realizing I'm living my life vicariously through moviesAnd I'm not actually living I got a, a- that's- that's all moral the story, all right? I got- I'm not living my best lifeI'm- I'm stuck in a loop.AAAAAAHH!Woah, my?????????????????Knew something was happening!Anybody else, huh?Anybody else wannadropout? In the mirror? I knew something was up. I knew itI knew something was up and you set me on edge for some buUullshit reasonI'm not enjoying this movie as much as I thought I wouldI'm not nearly enjoying it as much as youSuggested it would bethe trailers really didn't say something about this movie that I was really knowing about(mocking) Oh, enjoy the moviehhYou know, I'll enjoy your movie. Enjoy your movie on with it. (???)Your grave I'm gonna enjoy your grave this oneGreat!(mocking(again)) EeyuuenMovieeeeeEuh, thank you,(weird voice) I will enjoy your movie.Oh wait, never mind. I was fine. I didn't mean playing like that. Uh, I'm fine actually, uh, I'm good with the same movieI don't need another one. I was totally fine with that. So if you could just okay hiOh, hey, we're gonna drama-I'm the creepy one here!(?)(quick inhale)Oooh, peekabo!(Weird dude at the door) What are you waiting for? Wake up.Uh, no, thank you if this is a dream I don't ever want to wake up you are a dreamboat and oh hey howdyHow do you do do you?pleaseEnjoy the movie. Thank youI will why are you the only one that's subtitled because everyone else who talks to me or screams at me?They don't have their screams and subtitles. It's not-(weird noise)at the bottom of the screen, its just you!(ACTUALLYMARKHASSUBTITLESBECAUSEWE'REEDITINGTHEMRIGHTNOWANDTHISMIGHTBEINTHEVIDEO)I mean, I'm trying to get any detail that I possibly can out of this but it doesn't seem like there's a lot of detail to be had aboutit's just likeIt's the same thing over and over againAre you- do you ever go home?Do you have any other social life besides this?Do you- do you have any other thing to your existence than this environment that we're inplease talk to me(Ticket Taker) Enjoy the movie.Oh, I will. Oh, you little scamp. Oh, you know I will. I'm all about this movie.(whispering) I'm all about-(whispering) uh ohNo, see again, I was fine. Is this like some kind of test I can't even click towards you- now I can hello(weird dude at the door(again)) You are still dreaming. Wake up.(inhale)Um bah- bah well..Okay.Alright, well I, uh buhOh.Okay, do you have anything action-packed that'll really, you knowSmack me awake some they'll really give me an adrenalin rush the likes of which I've neverNever seen before enjoy the movieThree seems to be the magic number for things changing in this world. So I'm gonna assume that something's changing... Oh, wow. That's oh(tick)(tock)(tick)Hmm I have many questions about the wholeOrganization that you got here.Oooh, what's uh, don't- don't mind meI'm gonna just explore the space(inhaleOooh, i likeI like I like!Well, what what wondrous world- the world of art?Okay, nothing. Great. Why am I here?Hi, oh, you're a movie man(Ticket Taker) They're watching you.I think you're watching-AAHHi.(mark mocking jumpscare)I can do that, too(mark continues mocking jumpscare)(still going at it)You know when you run into someone in the streets that you usually see in like a store or something that's so weirdSeeing someone out of their normal place in your existence is like oh shit. You're you have your own lifemister spinning head manMm. I guess I gotta go in the bathroom again. Okay, ho boy I can't wait for the bathroom.(hi there)Oh. Hmm..Well, well, well.Oooh hohohoooWooaaaahh!Hi!What the he-hell(mark imitating the jumpscare(again(again)))Practicing your yodeling I see.Alright, well.Okay, cool. Yayayayaya indeed.It was pretty good. I'd give it a solid b-minusPlease let me out. I just wanna go homeI don't know who this weird swirly face man is and I don't know what he has to do with you and why you're trapped inhere with me(Ticket Taker) Enjoy the movie.(Mark) I wiiilll!Thank you. Please enjoy the movie. Thank you. Please enjoy the movie. Thank youPlease enjoy the movie!(Ticket Taker) Please,Enjoy the movie(Mark) He said the thiiing!OhEugh- umm?????????(cliche sheet ghost laughing)Oh no! That, that magical sheet! Oh, it lost all it's magic.Well that's,a a awoah hEY WOAH HEY WOAH WOAH WOAH WOAH WOAHAlright well that was a little unnecessary(Ticket Taker) Thank you.(Mark) hmm(Ticket Taker) Please,Enjoy the movie.(Mark) Wow wow wow!Wow. Wow Wow. Yeah. Yeah. Hell yeah. Oh, yeah, you hear that guys. We're gonna enjoy a movie nothing's happened in a whileI've looped through many times. Thank you. Nothing's changed. I'm stuck until I wake up.I got it dude, wake up.One day I'll wake up. Oh, yeah, we're way whoa. Hey, whoa, take it easy thereDid that mean something changed or is nothing changed or am I just stuck in a perpetual loop again? Thank you(sung) Please enjoy the moviePlease enjoy the movie. Please enjoy the movie-Movie. And then the chorus line comes out.(Can-can plays) Thank you. Please enjoy the movieNow- thank you, Please enjoy the movie. Yes, please. Enjoy the movie.Thank you, pleaseEnjoy the movie Oh, oh shit. Oh you're open againOkay...Oooh. Oh, this is different and then there'sThat... The whole string section deciding to pluck pluck behind my ears.Oooh I can't do...Hello?Okay, that one's locked. It's like the bathroom stalls! It's again the peekaboo*small laugh*Peekaboo-Okay, last one.Peekaboo-- Ooho-I didn't want to play peek-a-boo. I did not want to play peek-a-booI do not want to be in this room and I did not want to play peek-a-boo. I'm sorry I came in hereI'm sorry, I'm gonna go back to the movie Oh NoOh no-Y'know, we don't need this-Oh, that's-Oh, that's awful...Oh no...Oh my god...Oookay...Hey...Oh, hi-How you doin'...?Eugh...You good, bruh?Okay. Alright. Great picture I took.... Alrig', that, that'll... That's a memory that's gonna...I'm trying to- I'm trying to wake up but your movies so goddamn boring. I keep falling asleepSo whose fault is it really? You don't even have a concession stand in here. Movie enjoy, please. Thank you movie movie. Please. EnjoyOkay nevermind-Thought I saw something interacta'bibble . Oh hiI'm sorry. OhUhhhhhh...Okayyy...Augh-oooohHiii. You got so taaaaaall-Right. That was a little oddBut I'm okay with that because I saw another person and they looked lovely. They lookedlovely, they seemed to be playing a computer game and where they were they were going to a theater and then they were watching aMovie over and over again then they were stuck in the theater forever. And that's kind of what's happening to meHey, I was just having a revelation here you kind of possessedabout 30 minutes of my life and I feel like Iuh...Yeah, well, tha-My mind is a- aaaalways in a void of nothingness sirHow dare you assume it was not!my mind is emptier than a hole in the ground and the longer I live the more I dig that hole emptier andEmptier it's just an empty void. It's a vacuum of nothingness, but me screamin' my own nameThat's what I like it to be. So don't you try to change it!Okay, something must've changed.somethingNothing ever changes up there nothing except that noteUh oh...Oh-I thought it was enough- Oh-*GASP*bye-bye, bye-bye-aaaauhOkay. All right. Oh you wanna- oh ohh-Oh my- Uh oh- Oh you want to be, you know be sassy about this all I'm gonna be sassy...Did not expect that to workOh-Hahahahaha- *nervous laughter*Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha- -You-Uh...Uh oh...Hmmmmm...I'm in a padded room OhWhat am I waiting for?I don't know if I want to wake up. I like it better in the theater than in my padded cell!Okay, guess no answers for me. I'm trying to wake up! I'm trying but it's so hard, I'm so tired!I've been working all dayI'm just- I want to come home and I just want to see a nice movie and I want to relaxYou're-you're trying to stop me from being me and I don't appreciate that. I haven't checked the bathroom in a whileBet there's something coolNope, okayHuh?UHU H?Okay. All right. Well then no more cheap bathroom scares for me, huh? What about the phone scare?Boo!No?Okay, alright. Well,Guess I'll go. Whoa- WOAHWOAHWOAHWOAHWOAH WOAH WOAH(rushed) Thank you, please enjoy the movie?I don't feel good when you don't say that to me, no, no say it. Say the word. You say the words. No!Barry no...You have to say the word you have to say the words to me BarryLook, I know I was rude to you. But please Barry.The games just closed no! No!No! I'm not done!NONo... Huh? Oh...oh hi.That didn't look goodThat looks...That looks less than good. Whatever that is. OhOhOh...Oh no...Don't? Eh...Okay. All right. Well WowOkay, well that answered all of my questionsI am so glad I went back in and saw that there's nothing here happening. It's just okayAll right, Wow, that's just that's what it is. Okay, I'm not gonnaDo that again. That wasThat was weird. There's got to be something else, right?There's got to be I didn't get an answer. I didn't see an answer online. There was no there was nothing that anybody saidThere's gotta be an answer right? That can't be it!That can't just be it. Oh, no, it's back here and back in the beginning. Ugh!!But what did I do wrong?What did I do wrong?!There's gotta be something more. What did I do?Tell me! What did I do wrong?I'm playing through the whole thing again, and this is actually a new noteI haven't seen this \"My mind starts to develop at every walkthrough, but nothing else changesI start to question the current reality that surrounds me it could be relatable or it could be just a recurring nightmare\"Does that like.. Does that point to the thing about how I'm actuallyYou know, playing through this over and over again for whoaIt didn't do thatWoah!WhoA!WhOa. WHoa. All right. I'll come back once I figure it out. I am playing through it againI literally am, so I'm getting it.Wait a minuteWait, this is new. It's just a brick wall. But what does that mean?The magic pills. Oh, yeahThose usually helpLet me just shove a couple of those down my gob and see where it takes me, where you guys take me. Someplace funI hopeTo the movies?! Oh boy, I love movies! I always enjoy themOr not, okayHello?Super weird. I will okay. Thank you. Is there a point to all this?I'm gonna lose my mind-I'm gonna lose my gourdCould I at least just get some popcorn with this? Could I please please pretty please just get some goddamn popcornA-yoy, A-yoohooHow do you know my maiden name? What the hell... Oh, yeahI went to the ticket taker, is that what I was supposed to do?Wait, you mean, I actually get to see the moVIE?!OH BOY! Oh good, where- I can't click nothingI'll stay in the hall Oh, I wanna be punished.Oh I will! You know I will. Okay. Oh boy!Uh-huh. Okay. Still excited!Oh...I love this movie! I think...Okay... is that the lady I saw in the room or is that me? Is it supposed to be a representation of me?Whoa, oh what lovely art I do! When you're on the magic pills...Oh...Oh no!The horrible truth is revealedThe ticket taker was my doctor? Or is that even still me? I'm sure that's me, right. Is that the horrible truth?\"And so the nightmares continue\" Did I not find the good ending? How could you find any ending?I don't understand, was there a good or bad ending? Was such as a bug when it crashed? I'm so confused.I'm so confusedI like it? OhHey, how's it going? Friend? Oh, I like it a lot. It was goodLike it was a bit repetitive, but that was the pointI wish it was just more random when I went through it again after the crashI was very obvious that everything was linear scriptbut if it was likebased on randomEvents that occur like whenever you could go somewhere and it's like something happens and maybe some people see some of it but not everyoneWill see everything they have to play through it again, and it was like multiple endings depending on what you seeThat would have been really cool, but it was still cool nonetheless. So that was the theaterI had to go through it all over again because of a bug but hey with these indie gamesSometimes there's bugs and you have to deal with it and you have to just deal with it as it isBut this was still good. Based off of a really cool creepypasta that someday I will actually readOr maybe not, I won't. But either way thank you everybody so much for watching. Let me know you fought down the comments belowAnd as always I'll see you in the next video. Buh-bye!\n"