Monster, Chiller, Horror Theatre, with your host Rick Santorum.

We're not even through the primary season and we're getting a preview of what the fall may bring in the upcoming US Presidential elections.

Rick Santorum, currently seeking to sideline front runner Mitt Romney has been busy priming the pump that brings forward the theme that a Romney nomination will more or less secure the Presidency for Barack Obama, a fate which the fine film makers over at Santorum Productions foresee as almost apocalyptic in nature.

With a Rod Serling like narrator and a Twilight Zone theme of the horrific of the unknown, it tis but one of the strangest ole political ads in recent times and if anything we've learned that the strange is the domain of the American political cycle.



The ad clearly plays to the Tea Party base of the Republican party, the folks that seem to be fuelling the fanciful thoughts of Mr. Santorum as he continues his quest to back the moving vans up to 1600 Pennsylvania.

Of course, when you provide a bit of a media sideshow with such a foreboding theme, you are kind of painting yourself as a rather gloomy ole candidate, thoughts that more than a few commentators and observers have shared since the political ad first surfaced.

National Post-- Santorum's campaign shows dark side with 'Obamaville' apocalypse advert
Washington Times-- "Welcome to Obamaville" is Rick Santorum's "Hunger Games"
Reuters-- As pressure builds, Santorum shows a dark side
Rolling Stone-- Rick Santorum's Obamaville': It's Mourning in America
Politico-- Santorum preps grimm 'Obamaville' video
New York -- New Santorum Ad Superimposes Faces of Obama, Ahmadinejad
The Atlantic Wire-- Rick Santorum's Horror Movie Attack Ad Steals from the Best
Gawker-- Let Rick Santorum Try to Scare the Shit out of You
NPR-- Dissecting Santorum's Ominous 'Obamaville' Ad

And of course an ad that is so over the top as this one is, just couldn't slip by the attention of Jon Stewart, who provided some commentary and satire into his review of the Santorum production.

We're not sure that the approach is going to secure the nomination for Mr. Santorum, he has appeared of late to let his anger and frustration get the better of him, the Obamaville ad, while creative certainly doesn't change the tone of American politics which just seems to get nastier and nastier with each passing election cycle.

Somewhere in America we imagine is a great collection of voters and citizens wandering the nation looking for the middle ground, the common ground if you will, somehow I don't think that seemingly utopian location is located anywhere near what Santorum fears in his video presentation.