Looking For a Creepy Web Series? Meet Me in the Graveyard

Viola’s post is the first in a series of video love letters between the unlikely couple. As Ace and Viola start to regularly post weekly messages to one another, they become more attached, while the question of an actual in-person meeting remains to be seen. Without spoiling too much of the story, I can tell you that week by week, we learn more about Viola, a troubled but lovely woman-child, whose mother’s suicide has sadly impaired her sanity, and Ace, a loose canon, living in a halfway house in California.

Truth be told, they’re both nuts.

Conceptually speaking, Viola and Ace exist on MySpace in a very unassuming way. While the series is on MySpace TV, Ace and Viola primarily live within two below-the-radar individual profiles. Each profile is constructed to flesh out the characters. Viola’s page has the tinkling, yet haunting accompaniment of a music box, while Ace’s profile, nicknamed “Rosehill Cemetery,” is set against the backdrop of a graveyard photo and a Johnny Cash tune. The meta-fiction spreads to each person’s friends – of real and fictional people – comments, and profile details, but could do more with blogs and photos.

In reality, some folks could – and do – think that the video posts in the Meet Me in the Graveyard series are true.

Meanwhile, for this break-out writer/actor (who also plays the loony PYT), the series perfectly captures Sanders interests and influences as an artist. “I love the genre of domestic horror, people in their spaces, stories about men and women – all with gothic influences…There’s always the possibility of the supernatural.”

When I asked Sanders if Viola and Ace will ever meet face to face, she wouldn’t reveal to me one way or another, but did say that in her most recent installment, Viola pulls a 90DayJane and sets a “suicide clock,” thereby upping the ante.

Finally, some action!