The Scream
by Eric March on November 4, 2008 at 10:16 am
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App Name: The Scream
Developer: City41
Category: Entertainment
It’s a bit late for Halloween, but at least it’s the sort of thing that you can prank people with at any time.
The idea here is that you take a snapshot of an app — any app, but preferably one you’re intending to show someone — by holding the HOME button as you press the SLEEP button. Then load up The Scream, select the image, and let it sit there, making sure the volume is maxed. When your victim attempts to use the “app” you have loaded, it’ll let out a bone-chilling scream in a rather unexpected fashion, like those Flash-based maze or “find the hidden object” games that were all the rage a couple of years ago which lulled the “player” into getting into the “game” before switching it all out for that scary pic of Regan from The Exorcist (or some other horrifying image) accompanied by a scream and an image.
Yeah, perhaps it doesn’t have quite the same level of unexpected, encompassing terror that’ll have your victim blowing a hole in your roof with a ballistic cannon of piss, but it might give them a little jolt anyway. The app can be configured to scream once the screen has been tapped twice, or immediately upon being picked up, and you can set the style of status bar for added realism. By default, the image displayed during the scream is (wait for it!) Edvard Munch’s famous painting, which I’m sure you’ll agree is not particularly scary. Fitting, yes, maybe even a little haunting in an abstract way, but scary? Not so much. Fortunately you can change this image to whatever you like as long as it’s on your camera roll. (May I suggest a mocked-up image of Sara Palin as president of the United States? Or maybe a Canadian federal government headed by Gilles Duceppe? Either of those would scare the crap out of me.)
A cute little app, I’ll admit, bit if you do happen to be pranking someone who is easily frightened and prone to spazzing out, you may want to hover nearby in case they try to put considerable and rapid distance between themselves and the app — both for their own safety and that of your iPhone.
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