Tip Your Hat to This Creepy Western-Themed Tubi Tremendous Bowl Advert

Yeehaw and yee-ikes! With some advertisers choosing massive celebrities and flashy stunts for his or her Super Bowl ads this 12 months, free, ad-supported streamer Tubi went with one other time-tested technique: good old style nightmare gasoline. Within the new advert that was one way or the other not directed by David Cronenberg, style fandom manifests bodily by way of a fleshy hat-like construction in your head.

The advert chronicles the life story of a boy blessed (or cursed?) from start to like Westerns, as evidenced by the grotesque cowboy hat of flesh and bone rising from his cranium. As he ages, he makes an attempt to reside a traditional life, regardless of fixed bullying and taunting from his friends — not due to his horrific skin-Stetson, however as a result of it’s the flawed hat. Westerns, alas, simply aren’t the ho style proper now. He suffers slings and arrows from fantasy followers, gangster groupies, and horror hounds, however ultimately finds his place: a piece of city populated by like-minded Western followers, though fortunately their hats are fabricated from conventional hat supplies and never human tissue. A billboard for the Tubi-original movie Calamity Jane, starring Emily Bett Rickards because the Wild West legend, is of course featured prominently. Sauntering right into a saloon, he placates his fantasy-loving onetime bullies by altering the channel, making them doff their very own cowboy hats in respect. The industrial ends with Tubi’s slogan: if it’s in you, it’s in right here.

What Is Tubi?

Based in 2014, Tubi celebrates its tenth anniversary this 12 months. The streamer affords a dizzying array of movies and TV exhibits, from canonical classics of cinema to horror films that seem to have been made for the price of an Arby’s combo. Free to look at, the streamer is supported with advert breaks. Lately, the streamer has additionally begun producing its personal authentic programming. Examples embrace a remake of the traditional Eighties slasher Terror Train, the drag-themed horror movie Slay, and the brand new sitcom The Z-Suite, a era hole office comedy starring Lauren Graham. Because it’s owned by Fox, this 12 months’s Tremendous Bowl broadcaster, Tubi can be streaming the large sport this 12 months.

Whereas Tubi could also be free, Tremendous Bowl advert house positive isn’t. A thirty-second advert on this 12 months’s Fox telecast price about $8 million USD this 12 months; with nearly an hour of adverts slated to run through the sport, that’s lots of of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} into Fox and the NFL’s coffers.

Tubi is out there without spending a dime worldwide, with no sign-up wanted. Keep tuned to Collider for future updates, and watch Tubi’s Tremendous Bowl advert above…if you happen to dare.