I'll admit to owning a Palm Treo before the iPhone came out. I'll also admit to wondering how long it'll take to get the WebOS on my old Treo so I can play around with the OS. I'm intrigued by the new OS and while I find the hardware design of the Palm Pre sexy and infuriating at the same time, I'm happy to welcome Palm back to the smartphone market.

That being said, it's not going to replace my iPhone.

So while Palm is enjoying a much-earned resurgence in the smartphone market, they should really find the person that created the Palm Pre ads and throw them down a well. If possible, the well from The Ring. I'm quite sure this person would enjoy the terror of a J-Horror child walking menacingly toward them. Why do I say that? Check out the Flow commercial from Palm below.

 

This is the scariest thing on TV right now. I'm not kidding. Turning your back to an audience causes the audience to become agitated and fearful of what will happen once the character turns to face them. Having an actress that may have given two pints of blood before the shoot doesn't help. It's freaky.

The script isn't soothing either. Bing, bing, bing, has officially replaced the Freddy Kruger nursery rhyme in my nightmares. If you're goal was to frighten people, mission accomplished. I can't even look at a Pre now without ending up in the fetal position under my desk mumbling about green lights and flow.

Maybe I'm the only person that leaps for the TiVo remote when these commercials appear. What is your take on the new Palm commercials? Has Palm created a new horror genre known as the Pre-Horror?