John and Logan have to survive Dead Man's Hill after John throws their frisbee all the way to the top.
Originally uploaded to YouTube: July 14th, 2014
Logan's Note: Dead Man's Hill was one of the first DarkTriforceFilms videos to really get down our style and structure for our sketches, it feels like the real start of our "classic era". It set a lot of standards for how we'd make videos going forward, it was the first like full sketch to be filmed using my iPhone 4 (I believe, it might've been an iPod at the time) instead of the crappy camera we used in The Jetpack, we used the app Movie Star to film the segment where John and I are climbing the hill to Weezer's "Holiday", which later we'd use the Movie Star app again in the first Buddy Cops to film the music video to Weezer's "Anonymous", and I think was the first video to really nail the overall style of writing that we'd become known for. While The Jetpack was our first scripted video, I think you can really tell that it was, and Dead Man's Hill's script feels a lot more refined. Back in the day, we used to have a lot more trouble with copyrighted music than we do now, I think they were more aggressive back then. When we first uploaded it, Holiday was claimed and the video wasn't able to be watched on mobile devices (which I never understood) but worked fine on desktop, so I used the like YouTube video editor to replace the song with this SUPER loud and out of place royalty free instrumental track YouTube had available. But then eventually that changed and the video was fine, so I put Holiday back in it, but then something else changed and the song "Ride on Shooting Star" by The Seatbelts was claimed and the video was blocked in multiple countries, including The US. NOW I THINK it's all back to normal and able to be watched anywhere and everywhere. I hope it is at least! I really want to remake this video but SCHEDULING IS HARD! (1/13/26)