HIDDEN LAKE COLORADO-2016: Scary Unwelcoming Dirty Rough Deserted Desolate Bleak
About this clip
This unsettling home movie footage captures a desolate and abandoned playground in Hidden Lake, Colorado. The scene exudes a bleak, unwelcoming atmosphere with decaying structures, overgrown vegetation, and a sense of eerie stillness. Filmed with an amateur aesthetic, the clip conveys a raw, gritty texture ideal for horror, documentary, or post-apocalyptic storytelling. The abandoned setting and rough visual quality evoke a sense of decay and isolation, making it a powerful backdrop for narratives exploring neglect, urban decay, or psychological tension.
Clip Intelligence
- Production use
- Useful for documentary, horror, social cut, or agency mood reel work needing an overhead view of a deserted concrete recreation area in Hidden Lake, Colorado.
- Edit role
- Works as a short insert, transition, or texture beat between wider neighborhood drone shots and closer decay details, with enough duration for a quick uneasy pause.
- Visual details
- The frames show a high-angle view of a tall metal structure beside pale concrete, dark shadow, curved grass edges, surface stains, tire-like marks, and no visible people.
Shot slate
- Resolution
- 3840 × 2160
- Frame rate
- 29.97 fps
- Duration
- 5s
- Codec
- H.264 MOV
- File size
- 40 MB
- Location
- Hidden Lake, Colorado, United States
- Year filmed
- 2016
- Published
- Oct 2016
Still Frames From This Clip
2 frames exported from the 4K master of this clip, in timeline order. The licensed download is the full-motion master, not these stills.
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