True its so much better then most of Hollywoods generic horror movies. I got Jumpscared so hard, although I'm not a person that gets scared easily, but the atmosphere and background noise and quality of the video gives me anxiety. Best horror movie of all time no shit!
I appreciate you going into the intricacies of what makes it work and what doesn't. It is a very difficult balance to get right, which I'm sure a lot of people don't really think about when watching "THE SPOOKY VIDS" But yes, thank you for the kind words, I appreciate it a ton. 👍
Thank you for the shoutout about the FNaF video!! And great breakdown of the subgenre, discovered Gemini Home Entertainment last year and have been hooked on it ever since. 😄
You are amazing Scruffy!!! I watched your Pikmin content a long time ago as well as your Fnaf videos and Im super happy Mark saw one of your videos as well!!!
His presence already attracts an extreme amount of people into this horror genre and in turn those people recommend better, and more popular series I'm willing to bet the walten files will be made into a video sometime soon, if he continues
Guys Mark my inspiration my parents said that if I get 2k likes on any of my videos then they'd buy me a pc I really need it I'm begging y'all legit begging
I love how at 25:42 there is a recording of the last castrato singer singing “Ave Maria”. For those who don’t know, castrato singers are males who are castrated before hitting puberty. It was a common practice in the late renaissance/baroque era. I heard this piece in my music history class and brought such an uncanny feeling to the room. Just the application in this context makes it for me.
Degrence: A feeling of pure, absolute euphoria, magnitudes better than what any drug other than Thalasin + can do. It is combined with the extreme satisfaction over everything, even the most mundane of things. Accompanied by a minor drop in blood pressure. Humber: Extreme confusion. The literal form of someone saying something so stupid that your brain hurts. Nage: A feeling of forced friendliness, to the point where it becomes psychotic. Dorcelessness: The best term that can describe this infamous emotion is literally 'nothing'. It's a giant void in the part of your mind that controls emotion. Numbness of the mind. Notice the flattened skull in the Dorcelessness portrait? That represents the figurative loss of the parts of your brain that trigger emotion, a part of your brain is gone. Andric: If normal cringe was being hit in the face with a paper ball, Andric is like being hit in the face with a nuclear bomb. It's like that pain you get when you hit your funny bone, but amplified by many magnitudes. Varination: The reason there are two portraits is to show different intensities. Varination 1 is like being frozen-in-fear. Like you are home alone and something breaks in the kitchen. Varination 2 is like you are bracing for something terrible to happen, like you are sinking back into yourself, just ready for it. Ponnish: The feeling you get when witnessing something that just destroys your soul. The best thing to compare it to is the sadness mixed with fear that a lot of Public Service Announcements give off. You just sink back upon being hit with something Ponnish-inducing. Harfam: It's like your brain can no longer comprehend the mere existence of itself and everything around it. Your brain just crashes. Kyne: Kyne is like you have suddenly and instantaneously acquired all knowable information in the universe at once. So much information that your brain just collapses in on itself. Equivalent to scoring an infinity on an IQ test. Trantiveness: An extreme connection to nature. The feeling that you have become one with nature, and this is reflected in the two Trantiveness portraits, which show human characteristics melted with various things in nature (First one represents a tree, second one represents a flower) Teluge: The feeling that you are going to die and/or everything will be annihilated. An extreme feeling of dread, to put it lightly. Onlent: Pure white-hot anger. The feeling like you must obliterate every single proton, neutron, and electron of someone or something. This emotion suppresses all others, and like primal instinct, results in you attacking whatever you feel Onlent towards. Loric: Similar to Dorcelessness, in a way. The pure neutrality of all emotions. To put it into an analogy: if all emotions were mapped on a coordinate grid, Loric will be dead in the origin point, or (0,0). You don't feel anything. You don't even feel as though you don't feel anything. [REDACTED]: The unlabeled emotion is not an emotion. It is a grim reminder to everyone regarding drug abuse. This leads me to believe that this commercial is not meant to advertise a product. It is a PSA. A drug abuse PSA. It shows what happens when you take the seriousness of drugs lightly, though the uncanny valley of the Thalasin + emotions... -TheDinosaurKing 777
This is no joke: one of the ads that played while I was watching this was an anti-vaping ad, and I shit you not, it was right after the bit about THALASIN and the REAL anti-vaping ad started out by saying, "If you love anxiety, you'll love depression." They were, of course, harping on the fact that vaping can lead to an increase in those emotions, but still. Very unsettling timing.
I felt that after watching Vita Carnis for the first time, especially after the Mimic episode, and the nocturnal screaming in the "How to Care For Your Pet Trimming" video. The Mimic in particular had me wary of like every odd sound in my house and every slightly cracked doorway for like a straight week. I don't know why it got to me in that way, but it also made the Alternates in Mandela Catalogue Vol. 2, 3, and 4 even creepier to me and feel similarly unsettled when I'm alone or in the dark, particularly in hallways or near doors and stairs in my apartment and my parent's house. Probably going to regret it later this week but I'm about to go watch the Tangi Virus video(s?) now; wish me luck. EDIT: forgot to come back after I watched the Tangi Virus stuff, most of it I felt was pretty tame and didn't really affect me, but I do admit the logs by the researcher who discovered and named the Tangi Virus were pretty well done. It's an interesting and terrifying thought to be poisoned with the virus you yourself discovered and want to get the word out about, so you know exactly, in excruciating detail, what is going to happen to you, and having no way to stop it, while simultaneously having your whistleblowing attempts thwarted at every turn because you're basically surrounded by people who are in on the conspiracy. Didn't scare me, just chilled me pretty good. Those logs alone would have been an excellent short story. Everything afterwards kind of lessened the terror for me personally, but I still enjoyed it.
@@lykonic1763 bro there is this one analog horror called the painter that gave me the same feeling I haven't watched it in a week and I'm still getting sleep deprivation from it lol
@@Lilythetcccreference Is it the one where the murderer keeps leaving horrific paintings of their victims and even a few self-portraits? Ones with titles like "Daniel After The Fire" and "Long-Necked Angel' and "Man in the Pipes"? Because I think I saw someone's video talking about it back when there were only like six or eight episodes out yet for it. Didn't exactly scare me per se, but definitely one of the most unique and awesome analog horror series I've seen so far; the emphasis of the disturbing art being an important in-universe plot point *made by the killer* is so interesting and neat to see.
I genuinely love when Mark just goes off about stuff he is interested in. This video weirdly has the same energy as when he applied his engineering experience with the bridge building simulator. Idk, I just love seeing Mark be genuinely passionate about cool things like this and getting to share it.
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Yeah that stuff is probably the scariest fear to me, I mean sure dark figures chasing you around in abandoned shelters is scary but body disfiguration! I mean imagination the process of while alive being chipped at or forced in a mold to make your body look physically impossible, stuff of nightmares man.
@@Zayzanater i think whats worse is analog horrors like the smile tapes. feeling your body slowly contort. its not physically painful. but the mental torment is insane as your body becomes a mangled smiling mess
There’s a horror movie called “Await Further Instructions” where a family is sealed in their house and gets instructions from the TV that get more and more violent. They think it’s the government giving them emergency warnings and keep going with it even as the instructions becomes insane. It really follows with what Mark was saying about how you’re seeing something weird through a normal medium like an emergency broadcast and don’t know if it’s real or not.
spoilers for the movie: turns out the broadcast was coming from an alien species. that movie also reminded me of the “To Serve Man” episode of The Twilight Zone. idk why tho haha
I think what makes this terrifying, at least to me, is the idea of supernatural, uncontrollable forces happening to my natural, controllable world. The monkey one doesn’t give that uncontrollable feel, so that’s where I think it doesn’t work.
Because it was dumb, with no sense of realism and an attempt at breaking the fourth wall with messages that might as well read "boo. got ya, spooked ya."
I love the component of the “uncanny valley”. Not necessarily that it’s a person that feels off, but like Mark said it’s about things we recognize and messing them up just enough that our brains think “there’s something wrong here… I just can’t figure out what”. It’s a very primal fear that can really only be triggered in specific situations. I love it!!
I love seeing this component come out in more games as well! I have the worst experiences of "uncanny valley" ever since I was a kid (that and masklophobia which has some similarities). Recently my bf and I went to Grounds for Sculpture and some of the statues made me so uncomfortable I couldn't go near them. Especially if it's something WAYYY bigger than you are!
@@MasqueradeofAngels it’s wild that a concept that’s as modern as Mandala Catalog or things of that nature stem from something so ingrained in our natural instincts. The only thing I can compare it to is being chased or the fear you’re being watched/pursued. But again, that’s another caveman fear! This whole genre is totally fascinating
I think that’s what makes the horror aspects of Undertale and DDLC work so well, too. In Undertale, we know how the game is supposed to work and Flowey breaks it. We know what the graphics are supposed to look like and Flowey makes an amalgamation of actual photos. In DDLC, we’ve already played through this dating sim for several hours, and now we have to play through it again but now it’s broken and glitching.
It makes you question whether or not the fact that you can't quite identify what's wrong might indicate that there is something wrong with your mind, which cannot be detected from the inside. Becoming aware of something you cannot detect means something is wrong with your detector, and that means you are not safe and cannot trust yourself. Losing faith in yourself is a very scary thing when you feel you are in danger.
Funny how our minds think that way.... Makes you wonder what happened thousands of years ago that made every human mind have some an ingrain feel of ... The ever so slightly off
also something that was once a comfort twisted into something grotesque and foreign, like something from your childhood you don't quite recognize any more
Anolog horror misses me quite a bit but when it sometimes hits, oh my god does it hit. Most anolog horror is right in your face and very obviously "oh look at me im supernatural and something is wrong" but sometme analog horror hits just right with "yeah you expect things to be wrong, but everything seems right, then we give you subtle hits to something being very wrong, then you no longer think anything is right, but know you think its right"
“You just look at it and go ‘I don’t like that’, and then it gives you more of that” Congratulations, Mark, after years playing horror games you finally summed up what horror is.
@@creatorglitch rightfully so, to be honest. Amazing character design, the psychology of the characters is on point, the music is super good and I'm sure that tadc is gonna be such a fun show
Am I the only one that would love to see Mark turn this into a series? Not specifically the whole analog horror thing, but just analyzing why scary things are scary.
“You just look at it and go ‘I don’t like that’, and then it gives you more of that” Congratulations, Mark, after years playing horror games you finally summed up what horror is. 💖💖💖
Mark: “There is an entity that looks just like you that’s trying to take over your life” Me: “I don’t know why it would want me, I’m broke and home all the time”
Dude my best friends cousin said that there's someone who looks EXACTLY like me that lives in California and I freaked tf out...like she literally thought that she knew me and that I lived in California AND WENT TO HER SCHOOL. Same name too, i was so wildly uncomfortable I've never lived in california, i've never been to california. I've lived in Indiana my whole life.
How he mentioned the Alternate thing, and how someone who looks almost just like you could take over you, etc., I thought of Dark. I mean he looks like Actor Mark, only with a suit and gray skin. Idk, stupid thought
25:44 - If I'm not mistaken, the music playing at this point is actually the only known audio recording of the last ever castrato singing, which has also featured in many YT videos listing the creepiest sounds ever recorded. That's a really awesome touch to be honest
@@thefinalgirl6907 So it's not castrato singing, castrato was a category of singer. It was this horrible practice dating back centuries and was made illegal around the end of the 1890s (if I recall correctly). Basically it was when certain choir boys whose voices were so praised that they were castrated before they hit puberty (hence the term 'castrato') so that their voices stayed in that clean, flawless, child-like range. So the castrato recording in this game, although he sounds like a young boy, he was actually in his 40s or so when the recording was taken.
Mark: *talks about the motif of propaganda in analog horror* Me: “ah yes, the 3 F’s. Front lawn, face up, feet together. Infants and Pets are the smallest of patriots.”
Analog horror is *almost* scary, that’s where it’s so perfect. If you look at all of really good analog horror it doesn’t have much in the way of jumpscares or gore like traditional scare factors, where Mark says some of the videos fall flat is because they lean too hard on the “scary skinwalker comin to get youuu”. If you make it so your scary thing is completely normal, then you can trust the audience to make the rest of it scary. So when the final twitch happens the audience is like YEP SEE I KNEW SOMETHING WAS WRONG and then they feel that horrified validation that something is absolutely wrong and it’s been here this whole time. It’s taking advantage of the fear of the dark. “That small corner of my room is dark, there is absolutely someone or something standing in there and I cannot go to sleep but I won’t move or else it will get me”. If the corner started doing chippa chimp goofy stuff then you’d just tuck the covers up or call for someone. What makes that dark corner terrifying is that until it does something, you *cannot* look away. You are not *allowed* to look away. Keep looking. Keep looking.
I just wanted how funnily similar it's to what I've just experienced It's around 2am. I've just finished watching this, but I had to put the phone down for a moment. No light, great. Turned away to the pillow, closed my eyes. And then it began. My mind involuntarily visualized faces. I've felt the presence in the room, creeping closer to my bed. Hanging over me. Staring. Ready. After a moment of panic I was able to focus, and with eyes still closed, I've grabbed my phone and light up the room. 'Oh, fuck you', I've said, as if I was talking with a friend. They're always here. I can't let them get to me and my mind. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this little creepy story ooooo :3c if it adds sum to it, the faces were of the, well, ie. The Boiled One himself ehehe
@ dude that is exactly what I’m talking about. Make friends with your Monsters so you can get them to trudge away in the corner when they bother you. That’s kickass.
I saw it on that playlist and yelled out loud for him to watch it. It was my first experience with analog horror from NexPo. And it just was so unnerving
that feeling of “i should recognize this but i don’t/something is off” is called jamais vu! (basically the opposite of deja vu) it works really well for horror because it twists our sense of familiarity by changing it JUST enough that we feel confused and worried but not enough that we don’t recognize it at all. like if your childhood home suddenly had your bedroom door just a few feet to the side, it would freak you out just enough that your senses would spike that something is wrong, or not fully real or true
@@jackgooge2601 exactly!! it’s why paranormal activity may not have been an amazing movie, but it was so familiar until it WASN’T because it could be any house in america or a ton of other countries as well! also the added fact that footage taken (especially on older video cameras) were typically happy and innocent moments or a kid messing around or a birthday. blair witch messes with that REALLY well
@@lightworthy It's also why the best found fottage ones, are those short films you find on youtube. They aren't made for a massive budget, it's supposed to remind you of similar stuff. Especially ones in houses, cause ;like everyone's heard stuff in their own house they don't recognise and were worried about but brushed off. The found footage does great at reminding you of what if something was there and you didn't check.
15:46 Something else I'd like to add is that all of those counties being listed are actual counties that exist in Texas, further helping the "rooted in reality, but also kinda not" point.
Not sure why, but Mark talking about his "research" reminded me of the comic that's like Philosopher: can we ever be sure if an observation is true? Engineer: yep. Philosopher: how? Engineer: lookin'.
I'm a night time security guard. I'm watching this at work. No one is on this site that I'm at but me. You can imagine the horror as I start seeing people out of the corners of my eyes thanks to the old hunter instinct we have
I have never, ever been so terrified in all my life than due to analog horror... So I used to listen to creepy pastas and other spooky stories before bed. I was home from college and decided to stream to the TV in the room I was crashing in. Not my old bedroom, rather basement where it was cool during the summer. I fell asleep all good and peaceful. I was listening to creepy pasta stories, soft-spoken, ASMR - like readings. Stuff was calming to me and the stories never spooked me. Streaming these to the TV wasn't too stimulating either, usually a slow looping gif of a forest or what not. Actually quite peaceful to me... That was until hours into the night, well after I am deep asleep, UA-cam autoplay throws on a classic Analog horror, title something like, "Do Not Look At The Moon." TV was decently up in volume as the creepypasta guys are soft spoken... So I am jolted awake by the blasting of the emergency broadcast noise blaring in the basement. I wake up confused, afraid and disoriented, not being a place I sleep normally, I have no idea where I am. I only hear the emergency broadcast, and I can only see the words, "DO NOT LOOK OUT SIDE, ADVOID ALL WINDOWS, DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON" Flashing on the screen frantically. And I can also see a full moon shining through the basement window Only time I have ever screamed in genuine fear of my life
Something I absolutely love about the Mandela catalogue, it builds up tension and makes you think there will be a jump scare. Like those sudden pauses make you think something will jump out and scare you, it then gives you a lot of anxiety thinking "when will it come?", but it doesn't scare you.
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7:54 decided to watch this vid again after a long time and this part just had me bursting out laughing, Chippa just looks like he's realised he is about to have some explosive diarrhea
i really hope we get a video of mark finding the channel. especially since we know he absolutely LOVES space, too. so cosmic/analog horror would be right up his alley
Mark: "Let me know what scares you~!" Mandela Catalogue: "Do not speak too much. You might accidentally reveal your fear. (NOTHINGISWORTHTHERISKNOTHINGISWORTHTHERISKNOTHINGISWORTHTHERISKNOTHINGISWORTHTHERISK)" Nice job of slipping that in there.
This is exactly the type of psychological, unsettling media I occasionally partake in. I enjoy the occasional jump scare, but it's so much harder to set someone's own mind against them.
The existence of the uncanny valley strongly implies that there was a point in history where it was evolutionarily advantageous to be scared of something that looked human but wasn't.
@@seven07777 I hate that you have a point... One sentence horror story right there. The mental images it gave me are shudder-worthy. Huddled in a cave, our early ancestors see a figure limping slowly towards them, silhouetted by trickles of moonlight. It's outline resembled an adult person's but it hobbled and staggered like a spring lamb unsure on its feet - *almost as if it wasn't meant to be walking on two legs...* Hollow, rattling breaths echoed painfully from the facial area, obscured by a cloak of shadow. It's own silhouette betrayed it, however, as the outline of a nose was clearly absent and the limbs were noticeably emaciated. Only when it came too close was the terrible truth unveiled by the dim embers of the group's earliest fires. Lidless, glazed eyes stared hauntingly back at them, as the thing dropped to all fours and scuttled towards them, more agile than before. Shrieking its war cry with a mangled jaw stretched wider than a dinner plate, the tombstone-like teeth made short work of humanity's prototypes.
@@seven07777 I hate to be to be the one to ruin the mood, but it is very possible that the "uncanny valley" evolved in order to protect people from going near sick people, dead corpses, and other people who look "different" (such as missing limbs, altered facial features, etc.) so that healthy individuals may be protected from disease.
Local58 is legendary. The only series I can think of that holds a candle to them is Gemini Home Entertainment. Most analog horror series out there are made by someone just googling and photoshoping some images and editing some videos, but these two series really put the effort to create something special, to stand out from the rest. They know how to make it work.
it’s weird because some of this makes me genuinely laugh, some of it makes me wanna cry from pure fear, and some of it makes me laugh because i’m uncomfortable. there’s a lot to this genre of horror, i like it
"There is an entity that looks just like you that is trying to take over your life" Well I for one welcome our new overlords, maybe they can get my shit together.
I think one of the best horror things I've found is something called "the sun vanished". It's not really analog horror, but a twitter thread of this guy documenting from within his house as days pass by in a world where the sun is gone. Neighbours start acting strange and he sounds genuinely terrified in some of the videos. Its presented as something that could really happen but things start getting weird after a while. It's really good and would recommend it to anyone who likes horror.
I'd say the best person at this type of horror is Local 58, not only does each video have amazing quality, but the fact that they do different types of these videos almost every time. Plus it has an actual story.
Someone please for the love of god give walten files some well deserved love. It’s criminal how screwed over that series got in terms of the popular AH’s out there
I think it’s supposed to do that. Like, they used psychology to engineer it on purpose, so that you pay attention when you hear it. That way, you don’t miss an important message about weather or something.
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Guys Mark my inspiration my parents said that if I get 2k likes on any of my videos then they'd buy me a pc I really need it I'm begging y'all legit begging
There’s always something especially creepy about “instructional” or “warning” tapes. For me, it’s because they are telling you about something dangerous (a monster or disaster of some kind), and how to avoid it or save yourself. In many of these analog horror videos, for example the Mystery Flesh pit National Park video Mark showed, the safety instructions or warnings are interrupted by events or visuals that prove the existence of the danger or monster. Often these attempt to distract you from the warnings or safety instructions, or interrupt/pause them all together, which instills a sense of urgency in the viewer. This dreadful feeling of “please hurry and just tell me what’s going on because I think it’s coming” just overtakes you, but your are trapped in locked viewpoint of the camera with no choice but to sit there and let the inevitable unfold.
yeah, I have anxiety and I've had it since I was born, so it's especially terrifying, because when I was younger, well I wouldn't say it was often, but occasionally I'd hear alarms from my iPad or the TV downstairs, and I'd run down the stairs just purely terrified because I always think that someone went missing or such, but it was always just a tornado or a storm, but then once a kid my age went missing, and I'm pretty sure it was the kid of someone my mum knew, and that's ingraved in my brain now so everytime one of these videos come up, I feel that same exact fear I did when I was younger
One point i watched the mysterious house, from The Walten Files, by Martin Walls, i was watching the end where the pumpkin rabbit was about to kill tammy, i was gaining anxiety of a jumpscare, it did happen but i wasn't as scared as i expected myself to be, so yea, ive been through that before
For me, the scary thing about the 'alternate' concept is that we likely wouldn't recognize our doppelganger on sight - it would be more of a 'that person is creepily familiar, wtf??' - because we're so used to seeing ourselves in mirrors that we rarely recognize ourselves when we see ourselves 'correctly.'
Imagine if you had a fraternal twin though, someone who already looks like you with minor differences. So potentially thinking the alternate is your sibling lmao
@Kaburii actually they are flipped. When you take a picture with your front camera, the picture comes out flipped. THAT'S how the world sees you. In the mirror, when you see yourself that is the false reality.
@@earthing3696 Well, the implication is that we have seen photos of ourselves, and therefore we've seen what we look like to others, which is... the point, we know what we look like to others, so it's not like it'd be a thing that'd take a moment to recognize, generally.
i could not stop thinking about brian david gilbert's "Teaching Jake about the Camcorder, Jan '97" video after i watched it. the way he effectively uses not just the vhs medium, but places you in the perspective of someone watching old tapes really immerses the audience into a false sense of security that escalates into an unsettling, otherwordly horror. it's at just under a million views which is an absolute shame. i strongly recommend it to anyone interested in live action analog horror that will leave you craving more.
One of my favorite analog horrors is "don't you want to become a cult leader?" Idk if it has a visual aspect at all, I only know the audio, but it's so good and the ambiance is amazing
I feel like it's impossible to overstate how important The Blair Witch project is/was to the found footage and analog horror genres. Another series I think was absolutely vital is Marble Hornets- it's too bad Slender Man became as mainstream and silly as it did, because Marble Hornets is absolutely terrifying haha. For believable and unsettling infographics, Local58 news is amazing! I never saw that Thalasin video, but I LOVED that
Man I remember when Blair witch project was released I wanted to see it in the cinema but they didn't let me in because I was underage. So some months passed and I was a the beach with some friends and wanted to see a movie. So we went into this cheap VCR rental store and I spotted the Blair witch project. We watched it on my vcr player with shitty ass quality to the image as if it is already shitty to induce the realness of it. I didn't know much about the theme of the movie so we though it was a documentary all the fucking way. When the movie ended we didn't know what to believe and I was terrified for days maybe even more. Back when I look at it it makes me feel nostalgic of the pre internet era and how sometimes we didn't have the privilege of going online like on a cellphone and research on Google if the shit was real or not.
Marble Hornets is great, and it has rewatch value as well because you sometimes notice things you didn't before or something suddenly makes sense the second time around. Similar ones in the Slenderman ARG style is EverymanHybrid (I can't remember if this one or another one I currently can't recall is still ongoing or not), Tribe Twelve, and MLAnderson0. Some are better than others, but you gotta love the vibe and the style.
The Blair Witch Project spawned the entire genre of found-footage! And while I agree with Slenderman, personally, I find him much better than Sirenhead. Sirenhead is too much on your face, and all it has going for him is being big and capable of replicating sounds and voices. And then it chases you and eats you? The design and lore behind Slenderman is much more menacing and I wish it had survived longer, but the internet and that one murder really put him under.
I highly recommend The Walten Files, Local58, Gemini Home Entertainment, The Monument Mythos, and the FNAF Tapes/Battington Tapes if you want some *REALLY* good analogue horror shit. Something you could also do on a livestream or something is watch the series Marble Hornets (the progenitor of all these modern analogue horror series, in my opinion).
local58 got me into it & is always gonna be special for that reason, but gemini home entertainment is a benchmark i haven't seen touched yet. the mythos it sorta.....silhouettes, the build up, the tension, the exploration of the space. so, so good. it also has the single scariest scene i've ever encountered on youtube, and it's because the lead-up is impeccable. fr hope it gets more attention.
I really like the Thalasin one because the plus version of the drug induces “emotions” that are actually different states of being (hence the drastic physical changes.) Heck, even the regular version of the drug I could see being used practically (actors taking Thalasin to perform better). Also, I can see the drug being linked to the Alternates (biologically impossible appearances.)
I thought those faces were just representative of what's going inside your head and doesn't literally result in transmutation. Kinda like how nervous/anxious/embarrassment is portrayed with the #-like blue symbol in anime, but that doesn't mean they literally sprout a hash out of their head.
@@comradepeter87 Yeah, but anime and other cartoons will show that imagery for artistic, non-realistic reasons. Showing facial expressions based on emotions generated in our brains is real. If the brain can be changed by a drug then maybe the rest of the body will change.
“Contingency” did such an amazing job at unnerving viewers so much (without the need of a single jump scare). It’s one of my personal favorites to watch
as a kid the emergency warning sound over the radio and television freaked me out to an extreme level. once i got into analog horror every time i hear that i brace for the actual worst scares possible
I think it’s because, as kids, we would associate that sound with something bad happening, since it acts as a warning. You only hear that sound if there’s some type of natural disaster, or if it’s just a test alarm, and you never which is which until a few minutes in, so you just have to sit there and wait for the person talking to say it.
i like how when the footage glitches out, mark doesnt just say "damnit! welp gotta record it again and hope it doesnt glitch!", lixian just plays it off as intentional, with the glitch effects on screen, and i believe that is a very good idea, really shows the creativity
Who else here would love to see this as a series? Suggestions: “Backrooms found footage” and “Teaching Jake about the Camcorder” Edit - Additional Suggestion: absolutely adore Squimpus McGrimpus’ FNaF videos, and im sure Mark will adore them too.
The thing that immediately stood out to me with Chimpy Chippa’s was how weirdly high quality some of the elements looked: stuff like the logo in the beginning was too high fidelity and didn’t match the rest of the video. This also goes for the logos on the menus. It just doesn’t fit in, and breaks the immersion. It’s also simply too high-energy in the wrong way. It’s difficult to describe, but something about the swearing and general tone make the parts that are meant to be scary harder to take seriously. It also makes them feel like they were just chucked in there, tone deaf to the rest of the video in a way that isn’t scary, but just confusing. You don’t feel frightened, offput, uneasy, or anything really. It just makes you say “eh, whatever” and move on, which goes completely against the point of most analog horror- as you put it, getting stuck in your head. Some things just generally don’t work for analog horror, and unless you’ve had enough practice or are just incredibly naturally talented, it’s very difficult to make it work. Chimpy Chippas is an example of someone who had some good ideas, but was simply too ambitious and couldn’t execute them well enough yet. I have no idea where this rant is going anymore, so I’ll end it here now. Yes, this comment was a wall of text. Yes, it does go on for way too long. Yes, I have minimal knowledge on the subject matter and am basically speaking out of my ass here. But I felt the need to write out my thoughts.
I know this is a little old but I have the video that answers some of how you feel, if you look up about Rax and its cartoon mascot Mr Delicious how things should look is lost on people that didn't see things over broadcast on the tube. Also RIP Noble Roman's.
Chimpy's Chippas should've leaned into humor more. If it was just presented as outtakes from the commercial where the narrator keeps swearing and flubbing his lines because the Monkey looks creepy (to him) without the tacked on horror it would be goofy fun
Chimpy Chippas is actually a game series, the reason why the video is like as it is, is because it's not meant to be humorous or scary, it is simply just a way for the entities within the video's realm to travel to our own. It is a macguffin, not much more.
I would love to watch Mark check out some more of the popular ones such as Gemini Home Entertainment, Local 58, or the Walten Files. So glad any are being explored, though!
The Mandela Catalogue was so unnerving when I first watched it that I had to remind myself that a person made it for people to enjoy, or else I'd struggle to sleep at night. That stuff gets under your skin.
Definitely. When I first watched The Mandela Catalogue, I was so unsettled by it. I don't what it was that did it for me, but it was the only series that had ever truly scared me. Gets under your skin and *stays there.*
The Backrooms Found Footage is a really good one. Idk if it’s exactly analog horror but it does have that VHS recording and creepy vibe to it.
True its so much better then most of Hollywoods generic horror movies. I got Jumpscared so hard, although I'm not a person that gets scared easily, but the atmosphere and background noise and quality of the video gives me anxiety. Best horror movie of all time no shit!
YES
He saw one backrooms video but ignored it
I love the backrooms. It's an amazing !
Why do I feel like that guy is gonna become solely a backrooms youtuber because of how much interest his backrooms video got
I appreciate you going into the intricacies of what makes it work and what doesn't. It is a very difficult balance to get right, which I'm sure a lot of people don't really think about when watching "THE SPOOKY VIDS"
But yes, thank you for the kind words, I appreciate it a ton. 👍
Gooseworx in the flesh
Loved your vid! Those faces were fucking creepy.
It’s her! It’s the ঈশ্বরের দৈত্য woman!
GOOSE
That video was very well made. Well done!👍👏
Thank you for the shoutout about the FNaF video!! And great breakdown of the subgenre, discovered Gemini Home Entertainment last year and have been hooked on it ever since. 😄
blep
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Hello
You are amazing Scruffy!!! I watched your Pikmin content a long time ago as well as your Fnaf videos and Im super happy Mark saw one of your videos as well!!!
Your videos are so well made, you could talk about dirt and make it interesting!
He was so close to watching Local58, the actual maker of Analog Horror.
RIGHT???? I wanted him to talk about it so badly
No
@@kapakabibium you must be real fun at parties
H I S T H R O N E
Local58? I’ve seen it in corykenshin’s SSS intros
Every analogue horror creator is named Alex and everyone who dies in an analogue horror story is named Mark
welp, we lost him
Balanced as all things should be
My dad's named Mark and I showed him The Mandela Catalog, and I forgot someone is named Mark in this.
ianated uh oh! Bad decision, Mark (‘s child)!
Sounds like a weird gay manga plot
Oh boi it’s happening
Highly recommend the Walten Files, several of the scares stuck with me
Seems so
His presence already attracts an extreme amount of people into this horror genre and in turn those people recommend better, and more popular series
I'm willing to bet the walten files will be made into a video sometime soon, if he continues
Ah hell yeah, it's Wendigoon. :D
keep up the good work dad love your videos
Ayoo wendigoon 🤙
It was only a matter of time since Mark explored this genre of horror. We’re in for a treat.
Guys Mark my inspiration my parents said that if I get 2k likes on any of my videos then they'd buy me a pc I really need it I'm begging y'all legit begging
I think you shaved your mustache
Omg there is literally so much bots but yeah I love this type of horror
You stalker
bro 11 out of 12 of the replies are bots 💀
I love how at 25:42 there is a recording of the last castrato singer singing “Ave Maria”. For those who don’t know, castrato singers are males who are castrated before hitting puberty. It was a common practice in the late renaissance/baroque era. I heard this piece in my music history class and brought such an uncanny feeling to the room. Just the application in this context makes it for me.
do you know the name of the song
@@llama__5128”Ave Maria”
@@llama__5128 the song is ‘Ave Maria’
What does it mean to be castrated
@@Lilythetcccreference when someone has their balls cut off
I wish this was a series, hearing Mark talk about things like this is suprisingly entertaining
Wtf 9 hours and two hours?
@@izanyzam5308 years
9 years ago and 5 hours??? And their channel is 5 years old
@@RG-rm6ih it's a name trick, pretty neat
Yeah it's crazy he should start a podcast or something.
Degrence:
A feeling of pure, absolute euphoria, magnitudes better than what any drug other than Thalasin + can do. It is combined with the extreme satisfaction over everything, even the most mundane of things. Accompanied by a minor drop in blood pressure.
Humber:
Extreme confusion. The literal form of someone saying something so stupid that your brain hurts.
Nage:
A feeling of forced friendliness, to the point where it becomes psychotic.
Dorcelessness:
The best term that can describe this infamous emotion is literally 'nothing'. It's a giant void in the part of your mind that controls emotion. Numbness of the mind. Notice the flattened skull in the Dorcelessness portrait? That represents the figurative loss of the parts of your brain that trigger emotion, a part of your brain is gone.
Andric:
If normal cringe was being hit in the face with a paper ball, Andric is like being hit in the face with a nuclear bomb. It's like that pain you get when you hit your funny bone, but amplified by many magnitudes.
Varination:
The reason there are two portraits is to show different intensities. Varination 1 is like being frozen-in-fear. Like you are home alone and something breaks in the kitchen. Varination 2 is like you are bracing for something terrible to happen, like you are sinking back into yourself, just ready for it.
Ponnish:
The feeling you get when witnessing something that just destroys your soul. The best thing to compare it to is the sadness mixed with fear that a lot of Public Service Announcements give off. You just sink back upon being hit with something Ponnish-inducing.
Harfam:
It's like your brain can no longer comprehend the mere existence of itself and everything around it. Your brain just crashes.
Kyne:
Kyne is like you have suddenly and instantaneously acquired all knowable information in the universe at once. So much information that your brain just collapses in on itself. Equivalent to scoring an infinity on an IQ test.
Trantiveness:
An extreme connection to nature. The feeling that you have become one with nature, and this is reflected in the two Trantiveness portraits, which show human characteristics melted with various things in nature (First one represents a tree, second one represents a flower)
Teluge:
The feeling that you are going to die and/or everything will be annihilated. An extreme feeling of dread, to put it lightly.
Onlent:
Pure white-hot anger. The feeling like you must obliterate every single proton, neutron, and electron of someone or something. This emotion suppresses all others, and like primal instinct, results in you attacking whatever you feel Onlent towards.
Loric:
Similar to Dorcelessness, in a way. The pure neutrality of all emotions. To put it into an analogy: if all emotions were mapped on a coordinate grid, Loric will be dead in the origin point, or (0,0). You don't feel anything. You don't even feel as though you don't feel anything.
[REDACTED]:
The unlabeled emotion is not an emotion. It is a grim reminder to everyone regarding drug abuse. This leads me to believe that this commercial is not meant to advertise a product. It is a PSA. A drug abuse PSA. It shows what happens when you take the seriousness of drugs lightly, though the uncanny valley of the Thalasin + emotions...
-TheDinosaurKing 777
this deserves to be top comment or better, pinned
Wow awesome analysis
Degrence seems like it would be quite nice for a short while, it would get a bit much though
I like how Kyne is "like" that, implying that it's not actually true and you just feel WAY more intelligent than you actually are.
I was searching for a word to express my utter and absolute embarassment.
This is no joke: one of the ads that played while I was watching this was an anti-vaping ad, and I shit you not, it was right after the bit about THALASIN and the REAL anti-vaping ad started out by saying, "If you love anxiety, you'll love depression." They were, of course, harping on the fact that vaping can lead to an increase in those emotions, but still. Very unsettling timing.
I seen that ad before 😰
I keep getting those ads. I don't even vape. Btw the company is Truth
I got an ad for little Cesar’s after the pizza monkey one, was a bit on the nose tbh
Lmaooo made it 10x more real
The fact I know the exact ad ur talking about
Mark: I want to dissect why this works
Matpat: the idea that things that are familiar to you are unsafe is a disturbing thought.
222 likes, nice
Me: "why would someone buy anger pills??"
Mark: "where is the horny option??"
Me: damn, I am asking the wrong questions here..
Horny already exists. It's viagra...
@@FalloutJack viagra doesn't make you horny tho
@@nathannguyen1431 true, just allows you to do something about it.
@@nathannguyen1431 No, no... That would be really irresponsible if it did.
*They Suspect Nothing.*
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We'll know Mark is an alternate when he pronounces "room" correctly.
And "tutorial"
:scream:
nothing is worth the risk nothing is worth the risk nothing is worth the risk
He is from the Midwest so it will never happen
Ruum
Thalasin: Lists almost every possible emotion.
Mark: *Where's the horny option?*
Viagra
T E S T O S T E R O N E
TBF, I was thinking the same too XD
Horny is not an emotion. It's a state of being.
@@unduloid You speak the truth!
The Tangi Virus one absolutely terrified me, and I haven't been scared in literal years
I felt that after watching Vita Carnis for the first time, especially after the Mimic episode, and the nocturnal screaming in the "How to Care For Your Pet Trimming" video. The Mimic in particular had me wary of like every odd sound in my house and every slightly cracked doorway for like a straight week. I don't know why it got to me in that way, but it also made the Alternates in Mandela Catalogue Vol. 2, 3, and 4 even creepier to me and feel similarly unsettled when I'm alone or in the dark, particularly in hallways or near doors and stairs in my apartment and my parent's house. Probably going to regret it later this week but I'm about to go watch the Tangi Virus video(s?) now; wish me luck.
EDIT: forgot to come back after I watched the Tangi Virus stuff, most of it I felt was pretty tame and didn't really affect me, but I do admit the logs by the researcher who discovered and named the Tangi Virus were pretty well done. It's an interesting and terrifying thought to be poisoned with the virus you yourself discovered and want to get the word out about, so you know exactly, in excruciating detail, what is going to happen to you, and having no way to stop it, while simultaneously having your whistleblowing attempts thwarted at every turn because you're basically surrounded by people who are in on the conspiracy. Didn't scare me, just chilled me pretty good. Those logs alone would have been an excellent short story. Everything afterwards kind of lessened the terror for me personally, but I still enjoyed it.
@@lykonic1763 bro there is this one analog horror called the painter that gave me the same feeling I haven't watched it in a week and I'm still getting sleep deprivation from it lol
@@Lilythetcccreference Is it the one where the murderer keeps leaving horrific paintings of their victims and even a few self-portraits? Ones with titles like "Daniel After The Fire" and "Long-Necked Angel' and "Man in the Pipes"? Because I think I saw someone's video talking about it back when there were only like six or eight episodes out yet for it. Didn't exactly scare me per se, but definitely one of the most unique and awesome analog horror series I've seen so far; the emphasis of the disturbing art being an important in-universe plot point *made by the killer* is so interesting and neat to see.
@lykonic1763 yes that is the one. The specific image that terrified me the most was the paint called "Ian the pig" it was scary
real
Mark: *laughs at the scary faces*
Dorclessness: And I took that personally
Dorclessness: "And I took that emotionally"
Dorclessness: "And I took that Dorcelessly"
(Finally fixed the typo, my bad)
Tbh I laughed at it too 🤣 also the idea of somone taking over my life kinda seems stupid to me I mean what if your life is a living hell?
@@Gorgon-lf3vj take my life then lol
@@ItsMeLarky and I t00k that *D0RC3L355lY
26:38
shit
I-I-it’s you..
Holy shit, nobody is here yet...
Ikr
The master himself.
Keep up thje good work Alex!!!
I genuinely love when Mark just goes off about stuff he is interested in. This video weirdly has the same energy as when he applied his engineering experience with the bridge building simulator. Idk, I just love seeing Mark be genuinely passionate about cool things like this and getting to share it.
i get that, i feel the same really
Me with a fear of body disfiguration: this’ll be fun
Also me after: **soft anxious crying**
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@@morphotechwhat about me?
Yeah that stuff is probably the scariest fear to me, I mean sure dark figures chasing you around in abandoned shelters is scary but body disfiguration! I mean imagination the process of while alive being chipped at or forced in a mold to make your body look physically impossible, stuff of nightmares man.
@@morphotech huh-
@@Zayzanater i think whats worse is analog horrors like the smile tapes. feeling your body slowly contort. its not physically painful. but the mental torment is insane as your body becomes a mangled smiling mess
There’s a horror movie called “Await Further Instructions” where a family is sealed in their house and gets instructions from the TV that get more and more violent. They think it’s the government giving them emergency warnings and keep going with it even as the instructions becomes insane. It really follows with what Mark was saying about how you’re seeing something weird through a normal medium like an emergency broadcast and don’t know if it’s real or not.
Await Further Instructions! Really cool movie
spoilers for the movie: turns out the broadcast was coming from an alien species.
that movie also reminded me of the “To Serve Man” episode of The Twilight Zone. idk why tho haha
bad movie. the ending literally made no sense at all.
I liked up until the end but the ending blows.
@@mandalorian1282 I agree, but the movie’s idea is interesting! sadly it wasn’t presented well
It would be great to see Mark cover the Walten files, now THATS some good analogue horror
You mean dollar tree five nights?
Also the Fnaf tapes by squmtious. Those are amazing as well
I was gonna say, how come Markiplier hasn't discovered the Walten files yet.
And Gemini Home Entertainment!!!
I hope he does the walten files is a good series
Im deeply terrified of analogue horror, but watching with Mark and having him talk about them after makes me more comfortable.
yeah same, I have nightmares if I watch this alone. With mark, there's none of that
Very pog and true 😎😎😎
i just hate how he watching in silence with no expression, its creeepy
same
man we need mark to react to squimpus's tapes or even battingon's version of them
There are four types of analog horror:
1. Something's off
2. News about weird stuff
3. Person telling a story
4. Found VHS tape
And common traits are often something like: Expecting a jumpscare at any moment, but it’s never there because it doesn’t need one to freak you out.
@@n0va_starr I feel like the anticipation of one in of itself is more terrifying than the jumpscare itself
@@mamadrxgon exactly, it’s one of my favourite things about analogue horror because they somehow manage the effect perfectly
I think what makes this terrifying, at least to me, is the idea of supernatural, uncontrollable forces happening to my natural, controllable world. The monkey one doesn’t give that uncontrollable feel, so that’s where I think it doesn’t work.
Which is also why murders are down right terrifying. Something intruding on your typical routine and threatening to change it permanently.
Because it was dumb, with no sense of realism and an attempt at breaking the fourth wall with messages that might as well read "boo. got ya, spooked ya."
I love the component of the “uncanny valley”. Not necessarily that it’s a person that feels off, but like Mark said it’s about things we recognize and messing them up just enough that our brains think “there’s something wrong here… I just can’t figure out what”. It’s a very primal fear that can really only be triggered in specific situations. I love it!!
I love seeing this component come out in more games as well! I have the worst experiences of "uncanny valley" ever since I was a kid (that and masklophobia which has some similarities). Recently my bf and I went to Grounds for Sculpture and some of the statues made me so uncomfortable I couldn't go near them. Especially if it's something WAYYY bigger than you are!
@@MasqueradeofAngels it’s wild that a concept that’s as modern as Mandala Catalog or things of that nature stem from something so ingrained in our natural instincts. The only thing I can compare it to is being chased or the fear you’re being watched/pursued. But again, that’s another caveman fear! This whole genre is totally fascinating
I think that’s what makes the horror aspects of Undertale and DDLC work so well, too. In Undertale, we know how the game is supposed to work and Flowey breaks it. We know what the graphics are supposed to look like and Flowey makes an amalgamation of actual photos. In DDLC, we’ve already played through this dating sim for several hours, and now we have to play through it again but now it’s broken and glitching.
It makes you question whether or not the fact that you can't quite identify what's wrong might indicate that there is something wrong with your mind, which cannot be detected from the inside. Becoming aware of something you cannot detect means something is wrong with your detector, and that means you are not safe and cannot trust yourself. Losing faith in yourself is a very scary thing when you feel you are in danger.
Funny how our minds think that way.... Makes you wonder what happened thousands of years ago that made every human mind have some an ingrain feel of ... The ever so slightly off
Mark: "Where's the horniness option?"
Me: That's called Viagra, Mark.
are you feeling dorceless? it's clearly teluge he was after.
@@hellsonion514 i think the guy is high on harfam
@Zote from the hit indie platformer, Hollow Knight Nah, he’s zooted on that ponnish
@@hellsonion514 nah he wanted that Degrence
i though viagra just makes you hard, not horny
Analog horror is the antithesis of nostalgia and I think that's why it strikes us all so hard
I've never heard it described this way and I love it. Thank you.
The unknown, the uncanny, and the feeling that you're seeing something horrible that no one else knows about. These make good analog horror.
also something that was once a comfort twisted into something grotesque and foreign, like something from your childhood you don't quite recognize any more
Nice Elder Sign pfp
It’s like the realisation of Cthulhu stories on certain levels.
hey inshallah
@@kamalindsey Deus vult.
I’m so glad Mark hasn’t been replaced by an Alternate.
what up yello
Or has he?
Unless..
*yet
Thats what he wants you to think
Fun Fact!: Alex Kister actually made his series just from his phone, he also made the TV Man by actually buying an actual TV!
His friend has a CRT TV and he used that by connecting a laptop to the TV and playing the video
That’s the one on the flesh pit thing right?
@@TexasRed281 no señor, is the guy of Mandela Catalogue
I would have never believed you if you didn't use the word "actual" twice!
Excuse me. His PHONE!?
Anolog horror misses me quite a bit but when it sometimes hits, oh my god does it hit. Most anolog horror is right in your face and very obviously "oh look at me im supernatural and something is wrong" but sometme analog horror hits just right with "yeah you expect things to be wrong, but everything seems right, then we give you subtle hits to something being very wrong, then you no longer think anything is right, but know you think its right"
“You just look at it and go ‘I don’t like that’, and then it gives you more of that”
Congratulations, Mark, after years playing horror games you finally summed up what horror is.
*Don't go to my about, because there is a suprise:)* 😊😊😊☺️☺️☺️😊☺️😊
@@dontgotomyabout5294 ok, I won’t .
@@chickfilaemployee6149 thank you chick fil a employee
@@dontgotomyabout5294 ok
On a comedical note, imagine being in an argument with someone and you pause to go "Hol on I need to take my angry pill rq."
Or someone killing you and being like “hold up let me take my fear pill”
Lemme pop a dorslessness, gimme a sec!
Gooseworx is an amazing writer and super cool person, honestly
well didn't expect someone to comment something so recent here about gooseworx, who's work tadc is blowing up at the moment
@@creatorglitch rightfully so, to be honest. Amazing character design, the psychology of the characters is on point, the music is super good and I'm sure that tadc is gonna be such a fun show
@@Kitty_Kat101 It would be cool to see a reference of Gooseworx's analog horror in TADC, tbh.
@@Memechannel605 GOD YOU'RE SO RIGHT OMG
Am I the only one that would love to see Mark turn this into a series? Not specifically the whole analog horror thing, but just analyzing why scary things are scary.
Yeah I would watch a series like that.
yess he has so much experience with horror and is able to analyze it so well
The ocean
scary is subjective. what one person finds scary another person wont. I didn't find anything in this video creepy or disturbing, etc.
*Don't go to my about, because there is a suprise:)* 😊😊😊☺️☺️☺️😊☺️😊
“You just look at it and go ‘I don’t like that’, and then it gives you more of that”
Congratulations, Mark, after years playing horror games you finally summed up what horror is. 💖💖💖
1:51 mark explaining himself༼ つ ◕‿◕ ༽つ not kidding I can't sleep. See 6:10. What happened 9:05. I mean 21:03
Crazy stuff, really
Did you now-. COOCK CK CCKN CK
Mark: “There is an entity that looks just like you that’s trying to take over your life”
Me: “I don’t know why it would want me, I’m broke and home all the time”
Because no one would notice
I just thought of depression or anxiety immediately
Because you’re possible resistance. Even if you’re not, it’s not going to take that chance
You, your mother, your father, and your siblings are still tasty, delicious, fearful meat.
Dude my best friends cousin said that there's someone who looks EXACTLY like me that lives in California and I freaked tf out...like she literally thought that she knew me and that I lived in California AND WENT TO HER SCHOOL. Same name too, i was so wildly uncomfortable
I've never lived in california, i've never been to california. I've lived in Indiana my whole life.
I think Teluge is just the name for the feeling you get when you sit on a toilet seat that's already warm
After watching this video I can only say one thing. We want more genres of horror from Mark!
I didn't know a channel about kidneys could be so algorithmically poignant, must be those thumbnails haha
@No 🔥 ratio
@Don't read profile photo Don’t get bitches!
How he mentioned the Alternate thing, and how someone who looks almost just like you could take over you, etc., I thought of Dark. I mean he looks like Actor Mark, only with a suit and gray skin. Idk, stupid thought
Why you comment a lot
25:44 - If I'm not mistaken, the music playing at this point is actually the only known audio recording of the last ever castrato singing, which has also featured in many YT videos listing the creepiest sounds ever recorded. That's a really awesome touch to be honest
holy shit i never noticed that
Wait wait what's "castrato singing"?
@@thefinalgirl6907 So it's not castrato singing, castrato was a category of singer. It was this horrible practice dating back centuries and was made illegal around the end of the 1890s (if I recall correctly). Basically it was when certain choir boys whose voices were so praised that they were castrated before they hit puberty (hence the term 'castrato') so that their voices stayed in that clean, flawless, child-like range. So the castrato recording in this game, although he sounds like a young boy, he was actually in his 40s or so when the recording was taken.
@@xdemon5015 anything to keep the girls away
It just sounds like someone going "oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah"
Mark: *talks about the motif of propaganda in analog horror*
Me: “ah yes, the 3 F’s. Front lawn, face up, feet together. Infants and Pets are the smallest of patriots.”
oh god Contingency is one of the most scary things I have ever seen.
glad I’m not the only one who thought of local58
There is 1 more F you’re missing and that’s FNAF
no sacrifice too little
VICTORY POSE
Analog horror is *almost* scary, that’s where it’s so perfect. If you look at all of really good analog horror it doesn’t have much in the way of jumpscares or gore like traditional scare factors, where Mark says some of the videos fall flat is because they lean too hard on the “scary skinwalker comin to get youuu”. If you make it so your scary thing is completely normal, then you can trust the audience to make the rest of it scary. So when the final twitch happens the audience is like YEP SEE I KNEW SOMETHING WAS WRONG and then they feel that horrified validation that something is absolutely wrong and it’s been here this whole time. It’s taking advantage of the fear of the dark. “That small corner of my room is dark, there is absolutely someone or something standing in there and I cannot go to sleep but I won’t move or else it will get me”. If the corner started doing chippa chimp goofy stuff then you’d just tuck the covers up or call for someone. What makes that dark corner terrifying is that until it does something, you *cannot* look away.
You are not *allowed* to look away.
Keep looking.
Keep looking.
Holy fucking shit dude
I just wanted how funnily similar it's to what I've just experienced
It's around 2am. I've just finished watching this, but I had to put the phone down for a moment.
No light, great.
Turned away to the pillow, closed my eyes. And then it began. My mind involuntarily visualized faces. I've felt the presence in the room, creeping closer to my bed. Hanging over me. Staring. Ready.
After a moment of panic I was able to focus, and with eyes still closed, I've grabbed my phone and light up the room. 'Oh, fuck you', I've said, as if I was talking with a friend.
They're always here. I can't let them get to me and my mind.
Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this little creepy story ooooo :3c
if it adds sum to it, the faces were of the, well, ie. The Boiled One himself ehehe
@ dude that is exactly what I’m talking about. Make friends with your Monsters so you can get them to trudge away in the corner when they bother you. That’s kickass.
Local 58 is so good, just the hint of mystery yet somehow staying, in a sense, familiar in each episode is just absolutely perfect
*Don't go to my about, because there is a suprise:)* 😊😊😊☺️☺️☺️😊☺️😊
I saw it on that playlist and yelled out loud for him to watch it. It was my first experience with analog horror from NexPo. And it just was so unnerving
Agreed
I love it too, but I love Gemini Home Entertainment even more
God I love Local 58 so much
Mark: "It could be anyone! It could be me....not really *ding*"
**flashes back to the "Markiplier is not real" crisis**
It could be you! It could even be *gunshot*
that feeling of “i should recognize this but i don’t/something is off” is called jamais vu! (basically the opposite of deja vu) it works really well for horror because it twists our sense of familiarity by changing it JUST enough that we feel confused and worried but not enough that we don’t recognize it at all. like if your childhood home suddenly had your bedroom door just a few feet to the side, it would freak you out just enough that your senses would spike that something is wrong, or not fully real or true
It's why found footage works really well, especially if you live in an area like where the video takes place
@@jackgooge2601 exactly!! it’s why paranormal activity may not have been an amazing movie, but it was so familiar until it WASN’T because it could be any house in america or a ton of other countries as well! also the added fact that footage taken (especially on older video cameras) were typically happy and innocent moments or a kid messing around or a birthday. blair witch messes with that REALLY well
@@lightworthy It's also why the best found fottage ones, are those short films you find on youtube. They aren't made for a massive budget, it's supposed to remind you of similar stuff. Especially ones in houses, cause ;like everyone's heard stuff in their own house they don't recognise and were worried about but brushed off. The found footage does great at reminding you of what if something was there and you didn't check.
Imagine a creepypasta where all the doors in your house switched
Wow, thank you for explaining this! I couldn't exactly understand but now I do! Never knew this existed and could exist in someone's thoughts.
15:46 Something else I'd like to add is that all of those counties being listed are actual counties that exist in Texas, further helping the "rooted in reality, but also kinda not" point.
Not sure why, but Mark talking about his "research" reminded me of the comic that's like
Philosopher: can we ever be sure if an observation is true?
Engineer: yep.
Philosopher: how?
Engineer: lookin'.
This sounds like a possible TF2 conversation and I'm giggling
@@thedoozydan absolutely. Ms. Pauling puts up with so much shit lol
I'm a night time security guard. I'm watching this at work. No one is on this site that I'm at but me. You can imagine the horror as I start seeing people out of the corners of my eyes thanks to the old hunter instinct we have
I hope that metallic doors do not use electricity
do you by chance work at a pizzeria with animatronics as its main attraction
@@bravelilbirb160 nope, but I've worked in a hospital while it was almost empty
@@gingervk7407 It's even creepier tbh
You’re a very brave person I could never holy shit lMFAO
I have never, ever been so terrified in all my life than due to analog horror... So I used to listen to creepy pastas and other spooky stories before bed. I was home from college and decided to stream to the TV in the room I was crashing in. Not my old bedroom, rather basement where it was cool during the summer. I fell asleep all good and peaceful. I was listening to creepy pasta stories, soft-spoken, ASMR - like readings. Stuff was calming to me and the stories never spooked me. Streaming these to the TV wasn't too stimulating either, usually a slow looping gif of a forest or what not. Actually quite peaceful to me... That was until hours into the night, well after I am deep asleep, UA-cam autoplay throws on a classic Analog horror, title something like, "Do Not Look At The Moon."
TV was decently up in volume as the creepypasta guys are soft spoken... So I am jolted awake by the blasting of the emergency broadcast noise blaring in the basement. I wake up confused, afraid and disoriented, not being a place I sleep normally, I have no idea where I am. I only hear the emergency broadcast, and I can only see the words, "DO NOT LOOK OUT SIDE, ADVOID ALL WINDOWS, DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON" Flashing on the screen frantically. And I can also see a full moon shining through the basement window
Only time I have ever screamed in genuine fear of my life
I believe that was Local 58 you were watching, but that sounds like a horrifying experience
That sounds traumatizing and awesome.
Something I absolutely love about the Mandela catalogue, it builds up tension and makes you think there will be a jump scare.
Like those sudden pauses make you think something will jump out and scare you, it then gives you a lot of anxiety thinking "when will it come?", but it doesn't scare you.
Can’t wait to see those unnatural emotions as a “tag yourself, I’m Loric” template
I did it on my Facebook.
oh you have no idea
tag yourself im teluge
tag yourself, i'm l o r i c
I hate that I busted out laughing, the combination of the deadpan saying of nonsense words along with some of the pictures just hit the funni bone XD
5:56 Loric is the emotion you feel when you are watching shit hit the fan on the news but deep down you kinda want it to happen
Fair.
Loric is how Mark Zuckerberg feels all the time
._.
loric is the emotion the "this is fine" dog feels at all times
nobody talking about 27:27
The way Mark explains things is so relatable, the psychology he's familiar with, the passion as he geeks tf out, I talk just like this, lol
i could listen to him talk about literally anything its so nice
5:08 So is this where he got the inspiration for the wonky side effects of what drink that was in his short analog horror thingamajig?
Probably
Markiplier: Breaks down the lore.
Also Mark: Menacingly telling us to stick with the plan.
618 likes and no bot replies? surprising!
@@ZGold-v9s Nice
@@ZGold-v9s just wait
*Don't go to my about, because there is a suprise:)* 😊😊😊☺️☺️☺️😊☺️😊
@@dontgotomyabout5294 there it is, the bot comments it also spelt surprise wrong lol
Child: *goes missing*
Mother: *starts going up*
Mother: *hangs themself*
Mark: every time!
I have a question why did you use a genderless term for herself
@@edgardanimate3552 Perhaps because it's implied that this has happened multiple times, implying multiple mothers hanging themselves?
@@isaacq4392 then you should use themselves
@@edgardanimate3552 Probably. However, I did not write the comment and I cannot change OP's comment. I was giving a possible and/or likely answer for your question.
@@isaacq4392 you can click in the 3 dota to edit the comment
What makes that Brazen Bull distressing meme at the end worse, is that it was real. It's just a real historical story they turned into a creepy meme.
L
And funnily, the guy who made the Brazen Bull was its first victim
@@LiterallyMe91 yep. Dude got pushed into his own invention
@@LiterallyMe91 And only victim. True to the king's word he never used it as he found the idea too horrible.
@@LiterallyMe91 that is not true.
7:54 decided to watch this vid again after a long time and this part just had me bursting out laughing, Chippa just looks like he's realised he is about to have some explosive diarrhea
I think Mark would really enjoy “Gemini Home Entertainment”. Probably one of the creepiest things I’ve ever seen in my life
The one that leans the most on presenting itself like the things happening are completely normal, only to throw the most insane curve balls.
i really hope we get a video of mark finding the channel. especially since we know he absolutely LOVES space, too. so cosmic/analog horror would be right up his alley
yes!
GHE is like the How to Basic of analogue horror.
Yea
Mark: "Let me know what scares you~!"
Mandela Catalogue: "Do not speak too much. You might accidentally reveal your fear. (NOTHINGISWORTHTHERISKNOTHINGISWORTHTHERISKNOTHINGISWORTHTHERISKNOTHINGISWORTHTHERISK)"
Nice job of slipping that in there.
Oh now youve said that, i just realised that Mark is under my desk
@@diegobrando3373 mine too
@@fleurpayne3620 my mark is feeling a little, teluge yours?
@@diegobrando3373 ah, mine is feeling a bit dorceless.
i should probably get that checked out, y'know?
@@cylarious why mine look a bit sus im scare
This is exactly the type of psychological, unsettling media I occasionally partake in. I enjoy the occasional jump scare, but it's so much harder to set someone's own mind against them.
The existence of the uncanny valley strongly implies that there was a point in history where it was evolutionarily advantageous to be scared of something that looked human but wasn't.
@@seven07777 I hate that you have a point... One sentence horror story right there. The mental images it gave me are shudder-worthy.
Huddled in a cave, our early ancestors see a figure limping slowly towards them, silhouetted by trickles of moonlight. It's outline resembled an adult person's but it hobbled and staggered like a spring lamb unsure on its feet - *almost as if it wasn't meant to be walking on two legs...*
Hollow, rattling breaths echoed painfully from the facial area, obscured by a cloak of shadow. It's own silhouette betrayed it, however, as the outline of a nose was clearly absent and the limbs were noticeably emaciated. Only when it came too close was the terrible truth unveiled by the dim embers of the group's earliest fires. Lidless, glazed eyes stared hauntingly back at them, as the thing dropped to all fours and scuttled towards them, more agile than before. Shrieking its war cry with a mangled jaw stretched wider than a dinner plate, the tombstone-like teeth made short work of humanity's prototypes.
@@casualhavoc Fuck me, that was worse than I thought
Freaking terrifying
@@seven07777 I hate to be to be the one to ruin the mood, but it is very possible that the "uncanny valley" evolved in order to protect people from going near sick people, dead corpses, and other people who look "different" (such as missing limbs, altered facial features, etc.) so that healthy individuals may be protected from disease.
For the Thalasin vid, I was getting kinda creeped out but Mark made me laugh at the “I want some Onlient!”
There's been some good contenders, but Local 58 TV's "contingency" is still the most haunting analogue horror I have ever seen.
Local 58 is the best
Came down here looking for this
Local58 is legendary. The only series I can think of that holds a candle to them is Gemini Home Entertainment.
Most analog horror series out there are made by someone just googling and photoshoping some images and editing some videos, but these two series really put the effort to create something special, to stand out from the rest. They know how to make it work.
Yesss I watched all of it last night its sooo good
Local58 is some of my favorite UA-cam horror along with HiimMaryMary
it’s weird because some of this makes me genuinely laugh, some of it makes me wanna cry from pure fear, and some of it makes me laugh because i’m uncomfortable. there’s a lot to this genre of horror, i like it
"There is an entity that looks just like you that is trying to take over your life"
Well I for one welcome our new overlords, maybe they can get my shit together.
Idk man something breaking your skull open to replace you doesn't sound like a good alternative.
If they can land me a job better then I can, they can take over my life for me. I'll just play video games.
@@usagifang you know they kill you to take over your life, right?
@@usagifang Highly doubtful
@@asra8585 even better
9:21 lol is it just me or does it look like the rock eyebrow raise
But it does
just you
Don't be so salty over nothing, it is not just them. @@divanotfamous
It's that photo just heavily edited
that's because it is
Does anyone remember how Mark's door would randomly open but only when his back was turned?
That’s no longer Mark.
@@adorableagoraphobe wha what??
Uh oh! Bad decision Mark.
That was the alternate trying to get in, it succeeded
@@future1894 Nobody came for me, Seán.
I think one of the best horror things I've found is something called "the sun vanished". It's not really analog horror, but a twitter thread of this guy documenting from within his house as days pass by in a world where the sun is gone. Neighbours start acting strange and he sounds genuinely terrified in some of the videos. Its presented as something that could really happen but things start getting weird after a while. It's really good and would recommend it to anyone who likes horror.
it’s so good! definitely sticks with you for a while.
That reminds me of Tribe Twelve's UA-cam, back when slender was big. Definitely recommend.
anytime I hear something off about the sun, it reminds me of that one SCP tale
@@wholehorse331 SCP 001: When Day Breaks?
One Shot
I love the little banter between Matpat and Mark recently. He's like the cool kid picking on the nerd who chose Monty golf.
😂😂😂
I don’t know what attracts me to these videos. They’re freaky and i always watch them when I’m alone at night even though I already a paranoid person.
It could be a lack of serotonin.
I'd say the best person at this type of horror is Local 58, not only does each video have amazing quality, but the fact that they do different types of these videos almost every time. Plus it has an actual story.
@@3eiii gemini home entertainment is SO underated
monument mythos has entered the chat
The quality is on another level🙏🙏 and its just so unnerving
Someone please for the love of god give walten files some well deserved love. It’s criminal how screwed over that series got in terms of the popular AH’s out there
@@Bellitchi what? It’s like the most popular one lol.
Mark is the only one that could make me sit through a 30 minute video and keep me entertained
Godamn that's a bad attention span
Trutru
Same
jesus christ dude
He should do podcasts.
The sound for the emergency alert system is just terrifying to me. Idk why, but ever since I was a little kid it just freaked me out.
I think it’s supposed to do that. Like, they used psychology to engineer it on purpose, so that you pay attention when you hear it. That way, you don’t miss an important message about weather or something.
Hard same.
I had to listen to music to fall asleep, so when I listened to the radio, I wouldn't sleep for hours.
Imagine just waking up and hearing emergency sirens everywhere and you have no idea what in the fresh hell is going on.
For some reason error messages freak me out since I was a kid. Even the word “error” gives me anxiety and slight fear.
Me and my lil sis love watching ur vids, even when scared. So thanks for keeping it up Mark! :)
Marks intros makes me feel like I’m watching a real horror movie
Guys Mark my inspiration my parents said that if I get 2k likes on any of my videos then they'd buy me a pc I really need it I'm begging y'all legit begging
Guys Mark my inspiration my parents said that if I get 2k likes on any of my videos then they'd buy me a pc I really need it I'm begging y'all legit begging
Shut up
@Sean Robison You right.
God fake accounts like your's are so fucking annoying.
There’s always something especially creepy about “instructional” or “warning” tapes. For me, it’s because they are telling you about something dangerous (a monster or disaster of some kind), and how to avoid it or save yourself. In many of these analog horror videos, for example the Mystery Flesh pit National Park video Mark showed, the safety instructions or warnings are interrupted by events or visuals that prove the existence of the danger or monster. Often these attempt to distract you from the warnings or safety instructions, or interrupt/pause them all together, which instills a sense of urgency in the viewer. This dreadful feeling of “please hurry and just tell me what’s going on because I think it’s coming” just overtakes you, but your are trapped in locked viewpoint of the camera with no choice but to sit there and let the inevitable unfold.
yeah, I have anxiety and I've had it since I was born, so it's especially terrifying, because when I was younger, well I wouldn't say it was often, but occasionally I'd hear alarms from my iPad or the TV downstairs, and I'd run down the stairs just purely terrified because I always think that someone went missing or such, but it was always just a tornado or a storm, but then once a kid my age went missing, and I'm pretty sure it was the kid of someone my mum knew, and that's ingraved in my brain now so everytime one of these videos come up, I feel that same exact fear I did when I was younger
One point i watched the mysterious house, from The Walten Files, by Martin Walls, i was watching the end where the pumpkin rabbit was about to kill tammy, i was gaining anxiety of a jumpscare, it did happen but i wasn't as scared as i expected myself to be, so yea, ive been through that before
@@ViktorySubliminalsalso i feel very sorry
It’s the same feeling you’d get as a kid when you’d hear extreme weather alerts blaring in the middle of the night while everyone else is asleep.
Yeah Mandela scared the actual poop out of me
For me, the scary thing about the 'alternate' concept is that we likely wouldn't recognize our doppelganger on sight - it would be more of a 'that person is creepily familiar, wtf??' - because we're so used to seeing ourselves in mirrors that we rarely recognize ourselves when we see ourselves 'correctly.'
Imagine if you had a fraternal twin though, someone who already looks like you with minor differences. So potentially thinking the alternate is your sibling lmao
But we've seen ourselves in photos, haven't we? Those aren't flipped like mirrors, are they?
@Kaburii actually they are flipped. When you take a picture with your front camera, the picture comes out flipped. THAT'S how the world sees you. In the mirror, when you see yourself that is the false reality.
me who almost never looks into the mirror :
@@earthing3696 Well, the implication is that we have seen photos of ourselves, and therefore we've seen what we look like to others, which is... the point, we know what we look like to others, so it's not like it'd be a thing that'd take a moment to recognize, generally.
Cant believe the same person who made the Thalasin thing is currently making The Amazing Digital Circus
i could not stop thinking about brian david gilbert's "Teaching Jake about the Camcorder, Jan '97" video after i watched it. the way he effectively uses not just the vhs medium, but places you in the perspective of someone watching old tapes really immerses the audience into a false sense of security that escalates into an unsettling, otherwordly horror. it's at just under a million views which is an absolute shame. i strongly recommend it to anyone interested in live action analog horror that will leave you craving more.
That video really stuck with me. I literally thought about it for weeks-
I just watched it and wow
*Don't go to my about, because there is a suprise:)* 😊😊😊☺️☺️☺️😊☺️😊
I love BDG's horror videos.
Well, honeslty, i just love any BDG video, but i like how his horror videos have developed over time.
One of my favorite analog horrors is "don't you want to become a cult leader?" Idk if it has a visual aspect at all, I only know the audio, but it's so good and the ambiance is amazing
YESS i don’t know if there’s a visual or not either but the audio is great
Seriously it's so unsettling
@@sleepsey there is, if you look up the quote from the audio it'll take you to a roughly ten minute video :-)
@@luxrayluv omg thank you! i’ll try and find it
The original video is called Mind Control Made Easy by Carey Burtt, you can look it up on UA-cam
I feel like it's impossible to overstate how important The Blair Witch project is/was to the found footage and analog horror genres. Another series I think was absolutely vital is Marble Hornets- it's too bad Slender Man became as mainstream and silly as it did, because Marble Hornets is absolutely terrifying haha. For believable and unsettling infographics, Local58 news is amazing! I never saw that Thalasin video, but I LOVED that
Marble Hornets was just an amazing analogue horror series that unfortunately, with it's success, had blown the Slender Man into mainstream media.
Man I remember when Blair witch project was released I wanted to see it in the cinema but they didn't let me in because I was underage. So some months passed and I was a the beach with some friends and wanted to see a movie. So we went into this cheap VCR rental store and I spotted the Blair witch project. We watched it on my vcr player with shitty ass quality to the image as if it is already shitty to induce the realness of it. I didn't know much about the theme of the movie so we though it was a documentary all the fucking way. When the movie ended we didn't know what to believe and I was terrified for days maybe even more. Back when I look at it it makes me feel nostalgic of the pre internet era and how sometimes we didn't have the privilege of going online like on a cellphone and research on Google if the shit was real or not.
Marble Hornets is great, and it has rewatch value as well because you sometimes notice things you didn't before or something suddenly makes sense the second time around. Similar ones in the Slenderman ARG style is EverymanHybrid (I can't remember if this one or another one I currently can't recall is still ongoing or not), Tribe Twelve, and MLAnderson0. Some are better than others, but you gotta love the vibe and the style.
i completely forgot about marble hornets man
The Blair Witch Project spawned the entire genre of found-footage! And while I agree with Slenderman, personally, I find him much better than Sirenhead. Sirenhead is too much on your face, and all it has going for him is being big and capable of replicating sounds and voices. And then it chases you and eats you? The design and lore behind Slenderman is much more menacing and I wish it had survived longer, but the internet and that one murder really put him under.
Amazing how the creator of Thalasin also directed The Amazing Digital Circus!
I highly recommend The Walten Files, Local58, Gemini Home Entertainment, The Monument Mythos, and the FNAF Tapes/Battington Tapes if you want some *REALLY* good analogue horror shit. Something you could also do on a livestream or something is watch the series Marble Hornets (the progenitor of all these modern analogue horror series, in my opinion).
I was just coming to recommend these, especially the Walten Files. We need to find someway for him to watch those.
I also recommend these, specially Local58 and Gemini Home Entertainment!
Would POSTcontent fall under this category or is that just an ARG?
Black Drag0nfish is also very cool in my opinion
local58 got me into it & is always gonna be special for that reason, but gemini home entertainment is a benchmark i haven't seen touched yet. the mythos it sorta.....silhouettes, the build up, the tension, the exploration of the space. so, so good. it also has the single scariest scene i've ever encountered on youtube, and it's because the lead-up is impeccable. fr hope it gets more attention.
I really like the Thalasin one because the plus version of the drug induces “emotions” that are actually different states of being (hence the drastic physical changes.) Heck, even the regular version of the drug I could see being used practically (actors taking Thalasin to perform better). Also, I can see the drug being linked to the Alternates (biologically impossible appearances.)
I thought those faces were just representative of what's going inside your head and doesn't literally result in transmutation. Kinda like how nervous/anxious/embarrassment is portrayed with the #-like blue symbol in anime, but that doesn't mean they literally sprout a hash out of their head.
Alternates take Thalasin so they can blend in just a bit better :)
@@comradepeter87 Yeah, but anime and other cartoons will show that imagery for artistic, non-realistic reasons. Showing facial expressions based on emotions generated in our brains is real. If the brain can be changed by a drug then maybe the rest of the body will change.
The "FNaF VHS Tapes" series by SquimpusMcGrimpus is some of the best analog horror I've seen thus far. That, and LOCAL58TV's "Contingency" video.
Walten Files.
“Contingency” did such an amazing job at unnerving viewers so much (without the need of a single jump scare). It’s one of my personal favorites to watch
@@ArtseyHayton06 the goats
Contingency is my absolute favourite. Perfect combination of reality and horror.
Local 58s moon videos literally PLAGUE my dreams.. if it's night I cant even leave the house without the moon outside looking creepy ;(
5:36 WAIT HANG ON WHO?!?!?!? *amazing digital circus theme plays*
@@neptuneknows HAHA YES!
Jump
as a kid the emergency warning sound over the radio and television freaked me out to an extreme level. once i got into analog horror every time i hear that i brace for the actual worst scares possible
I would always rush to turn off the TV until I think it stopped
When the Amber Alert became a widespread thing on phones, I would always be so tense about the “random siren” going off as a kid 🥲
I think it’s because, as kids, we would associate that sound with something bad happening, since it acts as a warning. You only hear that sound if there’s some type of natural disaster, or if it’s just a test alarm, and you never which is which until a few minutes in, so you just have to sit there and wait for the person talking to say it.
What do you mean as a kid? That shit scared me almost anytime
Mark: *Watches a brutal death by being burnt alive*
"Anyway, having fun, memes SO COOL-"
that part was awful
@@benjaminramsey498 haha ... ha ... ha
Mark could be a media professor and I'd be down to take the class, his explanations are very thorough and keep us interested
Nice profile picture you got there, mate. Taiga best girl.
Facts
@@Diabolo481 Damn right she is
4:52 I love mark's instant transition from laughing and straight up fear
i like how when the footage glitches out, mark doesnt just say "damnit! welp gotta record it again and hope it doesnt glitch!", lixian just plays it off as intentional, with the glitch effects on screen, and i believe that is a very good idea, really shows the creativity
thank you for mentioning this, i thought i was going crazy lmao
That was the point, as Mark said in the video "Weird shit happening but everything continuing as normal is really terrifying"
Who else here would love to see this as a series?
Suggestions: “Backrooms found footage” and “Teaching Jake about the Camcorder”
Edit - Additional Suggestion: absolutely adore Squimpus McGrimpus’ FNaF videos, and im sure Mark will adore them too.
BDG, BDG
walten files, anyone?
TEACHING JAKE ABOUT THE CAMCORDER
Channel 58
Monument Mythos c:
Literally the definition of the feeling “uncanny”.
Mr Incredible 👀
Mr incredible but Mandela
.
I love how Mark opened this video like he was welcoming us to a very important meeting on a very important subject.
The thing that immediately stood out to me with Chimpy Chippa’s was how weirdly high quality some of the elements looked: stuff like the logo in the beginning was too high fidelity and didn’t match the rest of the video. This also goes for the logos on the menus. It just doesn’t fit in, and breaks the immersion. It’s also simply too high-energy in the wrong way. It’s difficult to describe, but something about the swearing and general tone make the parts that are meant to be scary harder to take seriously. It also makes them feel like they were just chucked in there, tone deaf to the rest of the video in a way that isn’t scary, but just confusing. You don’t feel frightened, offput, uneasy, or anything really. It just makes you say “eh, whatever” and move on, which goes completely against the point of most analog horror- as you put it, getting stuck in your head. Some things just generally don’t work for analog horror, and unless you’ve had enough practice or are just incredibly naturally talented, it’s very difficult to make it work. Chimpy Chippas is an example of someone who had some good ideas, but was simply too ambitious and couldn’t execute them well enough yet. I have no idea where this rant is going anymore, so I’ll end it here now.
Yes, this comment was a wall of text. Yes, it does go on for way too long. Yes, I have minimal knowledge on the subject matter and am basically speaking out of my ass here. But I felt the need to write out my thoughts.
I know this is a little old but I have the video that answers some of how you feel, if you look up about Rax and its cartoon mascot Mr Delicious how things should look is lost on people that didn't see things over broadcast on the tube. Also RIP Noble Roman's.
A wall of text? Investment into the uncanny and horror? General talking out of the ass?
Yup, man after my own heart.
“I’m so hungry”
Me: * obligatory scared noises*
Chimpy's Chippas should've leaned into humor more. If it was just presented as outtakes from the commercial where the narrator keeps swearing and flubbing his lines because the Monkey looks creepy (to him) without the tacked on horror it would be goofy fun
Chimpy Chippas is actually a game series, the reason why the video is like as it is, is because it's not meant to be humorous or scary, it is simply just a way for the entities within the video's realm to travel to our own. It is a macguffin, not much more.
I would love to watch Mark check out some more of the popular ones such as Gemini Home Entertainment, Local 58, or the Walten Files. So glad any are being explored, though!
YES Local 58 is something Mark would LOVE
Oh I'd love to see Mark react to the Walten Files
Local 58 definitely
walten files is a great series, im sure he'd love it
perhaps "the monument mythos"? it is small rn but i would like to see his reaction to it
The Mandela Catalogue was so unnerving when I first watched it that I had to remind myself that a person made it for people to enjoy, or else I'd struggle to sleep at night. That stuff gets under your skin.
I can only watch Mandela Catalogue through others, such as Mark or Jacksepticeye. Or else I know I will not sleep
Definitely. When I first watched The Mandela Catalogue, I was so unsettled by it. I don't what it was that did it for me, but it was the only series that had ever truly scared me. Gets under your skin and *stays there.*
4:52 I can't help but notice Mark looks like he's experiencing degrence as well
The chefs from little nightmares are loving that “Teluge” pill.
My sister is a huge Little Nightmares fan and that's exactly what she says about Teluge.
Honestly
Can't blame them, they just wanna cook and Six is running around killing their boss n shit
@@eldritchblaaa9395 "The Maw, Six, Televisions. I just wanna grill for God's sake!"