YouTube Had To Remove This Horrifying Ad For ‘The Nun’ Because It Was Too Damn Scary

YouTube has had to remove a truly horrifying six second ad for upcoming horror film ‘The Nun’, because holy shit, it was way too scary.

The ad, which was autoplaying before random, unrelated videos on the site, saw YouTube inundated with complaints from viewers who said watching it nearly gave them a heart attack. If for some reason you want to experience that sensation firsthand, you can see the ad below, but we recommend avoiding it if you’re prone to seizures, panic attacks, or just not keen on jump scares.

this youtube ad for the nun almost gave me a heart attack

please turn down your volume or simply look away if ever this random ad pops up because it’s a jump scare ?

you could just promote the movie without harming anyone @ wb pic.twitter.com/knvkwOQmDZ

— jay (@rendezwolves) August 13, 2018

If you’re not keen on watching it yourself, here’s the general gist: the ad opens with a totally black screen and a familiar Apple volume slider, making it appear as though you’ve accidentally muted your device. Naturally, viewers have been responding to this by raising the volume, at which point a horrifying nun face and sound tear out of the void in the mother of all jump scares.

A tweet warning people to be on the lookout for the ad received over 100,000 retweets, and shortly afterwards YouTube responded to say the ad had been removed for violating its “shocking content policy”, which prohibits extreme violence or jump scares in ads precisely because they have such potential to offend, scare, or even trigger health issues for viewers.

Appreciate you bringing this to our attention! This ad violates our shocking content policy and it's no longer running as an ad. More info here: https://t.co/dOUocjUevh

— Team YouTube (@TeamYouTube) August 14, 2018

How the ad even got past that policy in the first place, though, who knows? Suffice to say it looks like ‘The Nun’ is going to be an extremely scary film. It’s out on September 6.