The Web Series & Creepypasta That Defined Analog Horror

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  • Опубліковано 31 гру 2024

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  • @RyanHollinger
    @RyanHollinger  Рік тому +81

    *Leave your requests in the comments!* Thanks for watching!!
    The first 1,000 people to use the link will get a 1 month free trial of Skillshare: skl.sh/ryanhollinger06231

    • @axelcordova8262
      @axelcordova8262 Рік тому +2

      How about a review of 'Nope'?

    • @SnailHatan
      @SnailHatan Рік тому +6

      Mister Manticore and Monuments Mythos!!!
      Mandela Catalogue
      Walten Files

    • @michaeljcdo335
      @michaeljcdo335 Рік тому +3

      Analog horror: Monument Mythos, any mascot horror (eg. Harmony and Horror or Walten Files), Vita Carnis, or No Through Road
      Film: X, Pearl, The Menu

    • @darkypiemotica
      @darkypiemotica Рік тому +1

      I have asked before, but I would really like to know your opinion on that brothers Grimm film (the one with Heath Ledger and Matt Damon).
      Also, now that you mentioned it, it would also be interesting to hear you talk about Jumanji, it frightened me as a child, but I couldn’t stop watching the VHS again and again hehe

    • @danielrolon56
      @danielrolon56 Рік тому

      your next video should be on the Mandela Catelog

  • @darkron288
    @darkron288 Рік тому +950

    Channel zero was such a underrated show, its so sad it had to be on syfy of all things, it got cancelled after only like 4 seasons, and the creator openly said if they had contuined they would have attemped to get the rights to creepypastas like the russian sleep experiment. IT says something that a small budget show on syfy showed more respect to creepypastas then the slender man movie

    • @jonathanjoestar4337
      @jonathanjoestar4337 Рік тому +45

      The butchers season was sooo goood and mindblowing

    • @sjc4
      @sjc4 Рік тому +57

      No end house is legitimately one of the most engrossing and thought-provoking seasons of TV I've seen.

    • @creed8712
      @creed8712 Рік тому +9

      To be fair slender man isn’t a creepypasta nor does it have any solid lore or story that would lend itself to being a “good” movie

    • @Zylthis
      @Zylthis Рік тому +14

      I loved the first season but I found that, much like American Horror Story, they dropped the ball each and every season. Hell the Butcher season turned into a cartoon at one point.

    • @trentfarrell
      @trentfarrell Рік тому +20

      Oh shit, a Russian Sleep Experiment season would have been sick.

  • @gota7738
    @gota7738 Рік тому +286

    The Candle Cove text story used to freak me out because I had a vauge memory of a show about pirate puppets that no one else could recall and could find no evidence of it's existance.
    Turns out it was called Captain Abercromby and there wasn't even a skeleton pirate so that's all right.

    • @shortinsomniac76
      @shortinsomniac76 Рік тому +12

      Omg same! There is a pirate show from my childhood from wich i only remember the name of their dog, luckilly wasnt a puppet show lol if it was i would be shitting bricks

  • @tremorsfan
    @tremorsfan Рік тому +323

    What I love about Candle Cove is how ambiguous it is. A good creepypasta should be just realistic enough to make you think it could happen.

    • @Gummy_Pop.
      @Gummy_Pop. Рік тому +19

      Exactly. I had to make revisions of other creepypastas cause of how cliche they are and unrealistic.

    • @natalie_the_ratalie
      @natalie_the_ratalie Рік тому +4

      @@Gummy_Pop.you’re doing god’s work

    • @t.r.s.5129
      @t.r.s.5129 Рік тому +12

      To be honest, I totally bought into Candle Cove for years. I thought it had really existed. I really did.

    • @marianasobrenome3316
      @marianasobrenome3316 Рік тому

      ​@@t.r.s.5129same

    • @fluffywolfo3663
      @fluffywolfo3663 Рік тому +15

      Maybe "realistic" isn't quite the right word, because "my son and other children collectively imagined a puppet show, stared at static, and believed it was real" is a little out there, but... the best word is _grounded_ . A lot of the stuff about candle cove -a low-budget local show that's unnecessarily creepy, lost media you can't find, shows that feel half like you dreamt them, these are all things that could happen. Candle Cove just takes them to the most unsettling conclusion.

  • @Tanner-Gillman
    @Tanner-Gillman Рік тому +305

    it’s insane to me that in the creative boom that has been Analog horror over the past couple of years, Local 58 rarely gets mentioned. don’t get me wrong- i love the mandela catalogues, backrooms and even some OG slender man stuff as much as the next guy- but i really do feel like Local 58 was FAR ahead of its time on the digital front, and a lot of its scares stick with me more than the newer stuff does.

    • @sludgeskin
      @sludgeskin Рік тому +21

      I remember when local 58 first came out and I forced my boyfriend to watch it because it was so different at the time lmao he wasn't into it but it was so exciting back then

    • @QuintessentialWalrus
      @QuintessentialWalrus Рік тому +16

      I'm always surprised when people -- our boy Ryan included -- say Local58 is not the scariest "analog horror" series to this very day. It sure is for me! Beyond its historical importance for essentially creating a new horror subgenre, it has depth and craft put into its scares and concepts that other series haven't matched. Analog horror is generally made by and for teenagers because it's cheap to make, but Kris Straub is an accomplished artist with years of prior experience and it really shows. I enjoy analog horror as a whole but Local58 and Kane Parsons' Backrooms are the only shows that achieve true greatness IMO. There's genuine quality filmmaking here that's hard to find online.

    • @relser187
      @relser187 Рік тому +6

      Local 58 was my first analogue horror experience and it lead me to the amazing community analogue horror has today with all the incredibly creative and horrifying other series within it like Mandela Catalogue, Walten Files, Gemini Home Entertainment, The Backrooms, and so much more. Even to this day, Local 58 is one of my favorite analogue series, and it only continues to age like wine as you pick up on more and more of its subtle horrors

    • @Celestein
      @Celestein 9 місяців тому +4

      Agreed. To me Local 58 is a 10/10 analog horror, probably for its efficiency and simplicity. I find a lot of subsequent series get a bit too convoluted with their lore and it ends up dampening the sense of mystery and wears its welcome. Local 58 gives you just enough to suggest some cosmic horror event but not too much as to become clunky or too 'plot heavy' than necessary. Perfect example of less being more.

  • @kingbash6466
    @kingbash6466 Рік тому +140

    Local 58 hasn't made me this unnerved of looking at the moon since Majora's Mask. The skeleton man episode still freaks me out to this day thanks to how deceptively cute the character is.

  • @onewingedangel9189
    @onewingedangel9189 Рік тому +86

    Candle Cove being on Local 58 really should be a bigger deal to people than it is. It honestly kinda feels like people aren't covering the whole story when they tackle one without the other, so I'm glad that you are.

  • @amethystimagination3332
    @amethystimagination3332 Рік тому +58

    I like how Candle Cove manages to be unsettling and threatening without anything all that bad happening. Nobody dies or gets dismembered, there’s no evil spirits or monsters. It’s just adults reminiscing about a creepy kid’s show (lots of old kids shows are kinda creepy) and realizing they’re might be something more to it, but there’s no real way to know what was going on or why. It’s a fascinating piece of horror writing.

    • @boxman7044
      @boxman7044 Місяць тому

      The second part of candle cove (The Grimes Home) goes way more into the mystical part

  • @thedman-zx1ip
    @thedman-zx1ip Рік тому +388

    I love me some analog horror. My personal recommendation is MONUMENTMYTHOS, because it’s absolutely FUCKING loony. Giant monsters living under US monuments, James Dean as President, and a lot more weird concepts.

    • @hazmatter0634
      @hazmatter0634 Рік тому +31

      That’s not even considering the fever trip that is the nixonverse, and all the fan spin-offs/idea interpretations from it like the shoreside mirages

    • @mobius273
      @mobius273 Рік тому +19

      Omega chad president dean

    • @elwesson1077
      @elwesson1077 Рік тому +7

      Damn I just finished a deep dive into MM today and it really is so weird that you can’t put it into words.
      An absolute treasure of alternate universe shenanigans.
      Don’t even get my started on the Cornerfolk.

    • @TvTrollByIvy
      @TvTrollByIvy Рік тому +1

      YES! More people recommending The Monument Mythos!!!!
      It's so good, dense with lore, rich in development... IT'S JUST SO FREAKING GOOD!

    • @TvTrollByIvy
      @TvTrollByIvy Рік тому +2

      @@mobius273 Yeah, Wendigoon fucking hates him... lmao

  • @ItsCamille735
    @ItsCamille735 Рік тому +46

    A fun fact about Jeopardy was its first season was originally meant to educate kids about survival in the bush. Hence why most of the threats were naturally occurring. The alien/red eye virus plot wasn’t really a factor till later on.

  • @wstine79
    @wstine79 Рік тому +771

    Ryan Hollinger is the Nightmare Nostalgia Critic. He remembers it because we are afraid to.

    • @0856401
      @0856401 Рік тому +76

      99.9% less agonizing to watch, too.

    • @kitsunefox2023
      @kitsunefox2023 Рік тому +3

      You are, but I’m not.

    • @elmagnificoco2393
      @elmagnificoco2393 Рік тому +6

      Hope there's never a tell-all released titled "Not So Holly"

    • @MultiLaughingMan
      @MultiLaughingMan Рік тому +24

      The gap in quality between these 2 is huuuuuge

    • @douglasdiggins8296
      @douglasdiggins8296 Рік тому +21

      Except Nostalgia Critic is a cringy meme and Ryan is a great content creator.

  • @brianstiles1701
    @brianstiles1701 Рік тому +101

    Max Headroom was hugely mainstream in the late 80s both in the US and the UK. He was played by genre legend Matt Frewer. I am really surprised Ryan has so little awareness of the character.

    • @kuromameshiba4418
      @kuromameshiba4418 Рік тому +5

      Me, too. I never thought of Max Headroom or Matt Frewer as obscure.

    • @freakkyser
      @freakkyser Рік тому +2

      From the sounds of it I grew up in the same time slot Alex did and I have never heard of Max Headroom either, I heard about the hoax but that was it, nothing more
      Might just be a generational thing

    • @skylx0812
      @skylx0812 Рік тому +8

      Tbf, at the time Headroom was popular, Ireland was in a real war with the IRA and so on.
      Frewer did have longevity, tho. He was Trashcan Man in the 90s The STAND miniseries and he was in the film Watchmen.
      I had a theory that 80s techno shows like Headroom and the shortlived X-Files precursor Probe had to have inspired the Oliver Stone produced 1993 miniseries Wild Palms.
      Wild Palms was about govt population control and manipulation via virtual reality and a computer based mass religion. It was pretty out there for its time and is loaded full of US pop culture references.

    • @pan-semitistcommunist4181
      @pan-semitistcommunist4181 Рік тому +4

      ​@@skylx0812 Wild Palms goes so hard, it's like Cyberpunk Twin Peaks.

    • @bubblegum1366
      @bubblegum1366 Рік тому +1

      I'm around the same age as Ryan (USian though) and I've never heard of him either. I knew of the incident but didn't even know it was named after the mask character until now.

  • @KickinRadTopHat
    @KickinRadTopHat Рік тому +55

    Been a fan of Kris Straub's stuff for a while. Candle Cove really stands out as one of the few Creepypasta stories that hold up after you first read it as a teenager, such a great and simple idea.
    Anybody interested in old horror webcomics should check out another one of Straub's projects, Broodhollow, which the little skeleton guy Cadavre is from.

    • @Duragizer8775
      @Duragizer8775 Рік тому +7

      Loved _Broodhollow_ . Staub appears to have abandoned it, which is a shame.

    • @enerioffutt1881
      @enerioffutt1881 Рік тому +2

      I love Candle Cove. I mean, in a way it's so simple, but there is so much packed into it. It speaks little but it says a LOT

  • @MacabreOctopus
    @MacabreOctopus Рік тому +18

    Seeing as you've been on an analog horror exploration, I would love to see you look at Kraina Grzybów TV, a Polish series that isn't fully analog horror but definitely is in the same neighborhood. The whole thing is in Polish but has really good English subtitles put in by the creators. The series is going for that same nostalgic feel that a lot of these sorts of series do, but in this case, it's nostalgia for children's shows in Poland during the late-Soviet/early post-Soviet era, when Polish society was going through massive changes.
    Without going into spoilers or anything, the series focuses on a girl named Agatha, who is presented as the main character in a kids edutainment show. Things start to seem off almost immediately, and occasionally we're shown footage unrelated to the show that hints that something more is going on. The overall vibes are very unsettling and surreal, and the series features a fantastic original soundtrack that feels both comfortably nostalgic and depressingly gloom all at once. Also worth mentioning: this series actually predates Local 58 and thus doesn't have a lot of the same DNA in it that other similar series do, which gives it a different feel from some of the others, especially in how it leans more into surreal psychological themes over the explicitly supernatural or alien.
    In short, if you're interested in a take on the genre (or something adjacent, at least) that isn't from an English-speaking country, this is a great one to start with.

    • @beefromashroom
      @beefromashroom Рік тому +1

      omg yesssss I'd love to see his take on it, or honestly anyone outside of Poland's take on it. I'm Polish and pretty much grew up with this series, following it since the first episode ages ago, though I admittedly lost interest after ep6 I think, I really need to revisit it. I wish it was recognized more outside of here, I remember being absolutely terrified of it, it was so good

  • @jinkiesbtch
    @jinkiesbtch Рік тому +86

    channel zero is criminally underrated, I hate that they cancelled it after just 4 seasons it had so much promise!! my favorite will always be No End House.

    • @DeeEyeAyeEnAye
      @DeeEyeAyeEnAye Рік тому +2

      I hated that one, because it was so messed up 😅😅

    • @justfellicitya
      @justfellicitya Рік тому +2

      @@DeeEyeAyeEnAye But it has SUCH a satisfying ending.

    • @UncommonDabfish
      @UncommonDabfish Рік тому +3

      No end house was a harrowing watch and despite the occasional goofy subplot it was overall a really enjoyable time

    • @adriennebiscardi6626
      @adriennebiscardi6626 Рік тому +1

      I loved Season 3 so much! I agree, Channel Zero is seriously underrated and I hope Ryan reviews it 🙏

    • @qmonk5108
      @qmonk5108 Рік тому +1

      Yes yes yes the no end house I still think about it today... such a great concept...

  • @peblezQ
    @peblezQ Рік тому +41

    Contingency still to this day gives me chills. It's such a great level of physiological horror that I have yet to see recreated since it's release. It's easily my favourite episode in Local 58

    • @andysmith5806
      @andysmith5806 3 місяці тому

      Contingency is when I thought, "oh yeah, this is going to be wild."

  • @sherbertgerbert.
    @sherbertgerbert. Рік тому +13

    Local 58 holds a special place in my heart. It was the first post-creepypasta era internet horror I was exposed to. I always get a bit sad when people (rightfully) praise more current series like The Mandela Catalogue, but seemingly forget or are just unware of Local 58's existence and importance.

  • @emily-alicewolf196
    @emily-alicewolf196 Рік тому +12

    Jeopardy is a legitimately DARK sci-fi horror series and it’s a shame no one will ever do a deep dive into it. That ending theme where the camera pans back to an overview of Australia with that music still haunts my nightmares. And it was a pretty excellent form of found footage, with most of the filming being handheld camera.
    And Max Headroom deserves a whole video on its own. A British cyberpunk satire film transplanted to the US as a tv series and then it took off just based on the performance of underrated character actor Matt Frewer alone. He went on to make advertisements and even a talk show on MTV which, considering the original satirical target of the film/series.

  • @crod9905
    @crod9905 Рік тому +80

    Personally, I found Local 58 a lot scarier and creepier than Gemini. I think it was because of the late night broadcast format Local 58 used.

    • @QuintessentialWalrus
      @QuintessentialWalrus Рік тому +25

      Agreed. Analog horror is usually a sister subgenre of found footage horror, but something I often ask when I watch analog horror shows is "Why was this recorded? Who edited this video in-universe?" Local58 completely sidesteps this problem because the series uses a late night TV broadcast as a consistent framing device. IMO this is a really important and underrated aspect of Local58 -- it's grounded in reality to enhance the scares.

  • @housewilma4904
    @housewilma4904 Рік тому +27

    and let the 12pm in the morning horror BEGIN.
    thanks for the video ryan this was a real great thing to wake up too and start the day.

  • @highstrangetv
    @highstrangetv Рік тому +13

    Local 58 is forever my favorite series in the genre. The amount of different ideas is incredible

  • @Davey_Da_Vinci
    @Davey_Da_Vinci Рік тому +25

    I actually prefer local to Gemini, but I love them both. Its blunt satire, and terrifying imagery, get me every time. Analog and UA-cam horror, creepypastas, SCPs, can and should be pumped into my veins

  • @ShwintyKat
    @ShwintyKat Рік тому +7

    My candle cove was an episode of a Nickelodeon reality/game show, all I remembered was a boy drowning at a camp because bullies threw his pet frog into a swimming pool and that his spirit was haunting the grounds (but plot twist, it's his twin's spirit)

  • @sjc4
    @sjc4 Рік тому +62

    You could do more seasons of Channel Zero if you get around to watching them! Season 2's No End House is legitimately one of the more unsettling and thought-provoking things syfy ever produced.

    • @rickrische557
      @rickrische557 Рік тому +6

      No End House is legitimately great. The best season.

    • @mrheisenberg83
      @mrheisenberg83 Рік тому +5

      @@rickrische557 That is the one that takes heavy inspiration from House Of Leaves, no?

    • @sjc4
      @sjc4 Рік тому +1

      @@mrheisenberg83 yes

  • @Luipaard005
    @Luipaard005 Рік тому +12

    Wendigoon did a great video about Local 58 and he figured out that the flashing faces thing is a real psychological trick that will give you nightmares if you do it along with the video. He also has a very good take on what's going on with the moon that's very different from what I've seen other people say.

  • @Lovely2291
    @Lovely2291 Рік тому +30

    Mine is the Discovery Kids show with Michelle Trachtenberg, she would talk about urban legends and weird stuff...I don't remember what it was called but I loved it. It came into my little bubble when I was about 14 and totally into reading scary stuff and watching spooky shows on tv

    • @benamisai-kham5892
      @benamisai-kham5892 Рік тому +3

      Omg I forgot about that, I used to love discovery kids. I also do not remember the show name.

    • @AspiringDevil
      @AspiringDevil Рік тому

      I used to watch that perfect baby bat feed

    • @EddieGaster
      @EddieGaster Рік тому +13

      Just looked it up, it was called Truth or Scare.

    • @Lovely2291
      @Lovely2291 Рік тому +4

      @@EddieGaster THATS IT!!!! omfg years of not knowing what it was called!!

  • @fconstraints
    @fconstraints Рік тому +33

    I love Candle Cove. Easily the best and most impactful creepy pasta I've ever read.

  • @pepsicola2536
    @pepsicola2536 Рік тому +11

    It's really refreshing to see this sort of content talked about in this way, previously I learned about this series via 2hour long videos that talk indepth about what goes on in each episode, but I think this sort of content really needed your type of content to be thrown in the mix! Analysis and discussion on what it means instead of a long rundown of the show, bringing up other pieces of media similar to it in themes is also really appreciated, gives more perspective. In general it feels like a discussion rather than a summary, and I really like that, love seeing you talk about this sort of projects, your takes on media are always so interesting and cool to listen to!

  • @andyshutes7406
    @andyshutes7406 Рік тому +22

    Hey Ryan, long time fan! Have you ever seen any of the “Infomercial” short films on Adult Swim? They’re usually comedic (“Too Many Cooks” is a well known classic) but there are some that are truly terrifying (I recommend starting with “Unedited Footage of a Bear”) they used to air at 3am with no warning. Can’t tell you how many times I was traumatized by them as a kid 😂

    • @Tteaspoon1031
      @Tteaspoon1031 Рік тому +2

      Would love to see that. I put on unedited footage of a bear during family Christmas while know one was paying attention and it caught em off guard for sure.

  • @DulcieLuv
    @DulcieLuv Рік тому +7

    One kids show I remember creeping me out was Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids, mostly because of Uncle Grizzly. Dang that puppet gave me nightmares.
    One movie I'd love to see you cover is the 2019 Hole in the Ground, partially because it's a Irish/Finnish co-production ;)

  • @JannieJubilee
    @JannieJubilee Рік тому +7

    Omg, Black Hole High! 😅 I haven't thought of that show in 18+ years!
    For me, it was Nickelodeon's Scaredy Camp and the Mark Twain claymation that I caught once on HBO even though it was supposedly banned from airing.

  • @nota-real-person
    @nota-real-person Рік тому +2

    THE ZACK FILES! This show was huge in Australia TV, like it played every Thursday afternoon, just on the edge from the really like, small kid shows, to the pre-teen to early teen more mature shows! It was my absolute favourite! The episode about Alice in Wonderland and how they are inside of the books and yet when they books get destroyed, they manifestations of them start dying the same way, is just, BURNED into my brain.
    That being said, man I'd LOVE you to ever talk about Around The Twist. Talk about the weirdest kids show Australia ever made, yet with the most BANGER opening theme.

  • @Scrofar
    @Scrofar Рік тому +9

    My dumb American brain definitely thought of a very different game show called Jeopardy when he brought it up, lol
    Although to be very honest, I wouldn't mind learning more about your Jeopardy as well as the Zach Files if you ever decide to make vides on them. I love learning about obscure tv shows and lost media, and pretty much the reason why I love this channel in the first place!

  • @derricksilva1355
    @derricksilva1355 Рік тому +21

    Aah, yes, Local 58. Brings me back to my first time watching it tripping balls and feeling an overwhelming sense of existential dread 😌

    • @benamisai-kham5892
      @benamisai-kham5892 Рік тому +4

      That's....the last thing I'd wanna watch tripping honestly. I'd be scared of getting acid flashbacks of local 58 horrors and being in terror for months LOL

  • @AmelieCLanglois
    @AmelieCLanglois Рік тому +24

    Highly recommend more Channel Zero stuff to anyone that hasn't seen it. Every season is so amazing, particularly season 3, Butcher's Block for its take on cosmic horror. Such perfect cinematography and atmosphere. Sucks it got cancelled so early though, they were looking at doing the Left Right Game at some point :( Antosca's Brand New Cherry Flavor adaptation is basically another season though, and shares some of the same actors/effects/general mood.

    • @madtheorist1856
      @madtheorist1856 Рік тому

      I think the show does a lot of cool things with the creepypasta premises, but is at its best when the mechanical execution meshes with the emotional, human half of the story. That's why Candle Cove kinda stumbled at the end for me personally and No End House is the strongest so far. Butchers Block (haven't finished) gets a lot of biased points from me for the stairs in the woods though, I love the search and rescue stories and would have loved a Missing 411-esque mockumentary horror

  • @sxblck
    @sxblck Рік тому +5

    Loved hearing you chat about Kris Straub and his little corner of internet horror. I’ve been a fan of him for years and his unique brand of both horror and humor. As another non-US person, I agree on how unnervingly close to real Contingency Plan felt when I first watched it a few years ago.

    • @HamazuraGOD
      @HamazuraGOD Рік тому

      Let us as fellow Straub fans to pray for the eventual continuation of Broodhollow

  • @arcadia7459
    @arcadia7459 Рік тому +5

    Been loving all the found footage and analoge horror videos!

  • @MojiBeau
    @MojiBeau Рік тому +4

    I didn’t realize Local 58 was the same guy who did Candle Cove, by far my favourite Creepypasta. Been following them forever, always get so excited when they post a new video, though it’s few and far between

  • @AnthonyLBarnes
    @AnthonyLBarnes Рік тому +4

    This was a fantastic upload, well done!
    You established and kept a tone and throughline even through the tangent. Felt like it was gonna end too soon and I wanted more the whole time.

  • @hello_robot
    @hello_robot Рік тому +2

    There are so many Australian, Canadian, and British/Australian kids sci-fi and horror shows I vaguely remember from my childhood. Black Hole High and Zack Files are up there as high points of childhood nostalgia and vague times of absorbing those shows during random hours of the day. If you're lucky you can find them on UA-cam, but some of them are lost to time unfortunately. What I miss about analog tv is that the lack of choice forced you to absorb certain pieces of media over and over again, until it completely saturated your mind. Stories and themes that might not hold water to today's standards of high budget / prestige tv were absolutely fascinating back then. The surreal part of analog tv was that the episodes never seemed to air in order, and the seasons never really finished airing. So my memories of these shows is like being trapped in a time loop. Every couple of months I become obsessed with trying to find them and watch them.

  • @LogeenthLive
    @LogeenthLive Рік тому +3

    Although it feels like it will take a long eternity before we see any developments to Local58, it is nice to see others carry on the torch. Stuff like Gemini Home Entertainment has been really upping its game to give us a taste of eldritch horrors, and the fact we actually got to see someone infected of Deep Root Disease ever since that precaution video about its effects is proof that the creator's craft is only getting better by the day

  • @Jank_Hill
    @Jank_Hill Рік тому +6

    Honestly, after hearing you talk about Candle Cove, I would love to see you cover other creepypastas. There are so many great ones to break down and bad ones to laugh at. The rabbit hole of bad emo boy/girl killer stories started by Jeff the Killer is a really fun one to go down.

  • @zatchaeus
    @zatchaeus Рік тому +8

    Awesome to see you jump into web based horror! Would love to see more of it.

    • @HoneyBeeFlanzman
      @HoneyBeeFlanzman Рік тому +1

      For sure! This is a form of media I was completely unfamiliar with before I saw *A* video by windigoon a few months ago... Love the exposure and your takes on everything!

  • @lavender3717
    @lavender3717 Рік тому +1

    I love the direction this channel has been going in recently with videos like this. One of the best video essay channels on youtube

  • @hopegallows1392
    @hopegallows1392 Рік тому +3

    Ooo this reminds me of my childhood media trauma. When I was like 5 years old and my mom was the account for a local church. Like once a month she had to stay late so my bus would drop me off at the church and I had to entertain myself until 6pm.
    The church had a playroom which was connected to the office my mom worked in, so I could play and she could watch me through the open door. They had an old box tv and the huge vcr. I was old enough to know how to use the vcr and I watched the tapes they had. They mostly had old cartoon compilations, Davie and Goliath, and a few unlabelled tapes.
    I don’t remember which tape this short came from but I remember it pretty vividly. It starts with men at war, they were a strange mix of soldiers from both world wars. Think gas masks end men bayonet charging while wearing WWII soviet uniforms. There’s mortars being fired, pillbox machine gun nests, barbed wire everywhere. The battle ends when the last two soldiers kill each other.
    Then there’s a time skip of nature reclaiming the battlefield, plants and animals returning to the area. And on the stump where the last soldiers died a bible appears, brought by an angel or maybe god?
    An animal asks why humans killed each other for no apparent reason and the angel explains how men have lost the lords words. It then turns into the angel retelling Bible stories.

  • @Chicagocanine
    @Chicagocanine Рік тому +11

    I loved the tv show “Max Headroom” when I was a kid. Matt Frewer is great and an underrated actor IMO. I also really liked him in the 90s sci-fi show Psi Factor, and the Stephen King based TV movies Quicksilver Highway and The Stand.
    The character Max Headroom was an 80s tv personality played by Matt Frewer, who starred in a few tv shows and some Coke commercials. The character was supposed to be an artificial intelligence which used a computer generated face, and first appeared on British tv as a comedic tv host and presenter, and introduced music videos.
    The Max Headroom character later starred in a US sci-fi tv series also called “Max Headroom”. It was about a future where the government was controlled by corrupt corporations, and a journalist who fought back against them with the help of Max the AI.
    Funnily enough, the character actually was made using mostly practical effects (Matt Frewer wearing makeup/prosthetics, video editing) and was not really CGI at all.

  • @gota7738
    @gota7738 Рік тому +9

    JEAPORDY!! YES! I'm pretty sure I might even have a few episodes recorded on VHS if I dug them up.
    I remember being slightly confused at one point and thinking the cast and setting changed a la Queen's nose for some reason. I also remember an episode where one of the dudes sort of sold out the group to the secret agents and so the gang locked him up out cold in an old freight train carriage, only for it to set off while he was asleep and the camera revealed that there was some deadly scorpian creeping towards him. To this day not knowing what happened next bothers me.
    So if you ever do want to do a full Jeapordy video I for one will be tuning in!

    • @grimreaper9350
      @grimreaper9350 Рік тому +1

      if you want to know what happens in the end, he's started that the full show of Jeapordy is found on youtube.

  • @insertgenericusernamehere2402
    @insertgenericusernamehere2402 Рік тому +14

    Would be fascinated to see your take on the series "Don't hug me im scared" both the youtube and TV show.

  • @NickRoseDONTTRIP
    @NickRoseDONTTRIP Рік тому +3

    would love to see a video on Joe Dante's 'The Hole' (2009) - I remember seeing it on Netflix being much younger & I feel like it'd be interesting to explore such an acclaimed director making a potentially interesting, but ultimately forgotten B-movie at that point in his career

  • @heathermoss1523
    @heathermoss1523 Рік тому +1

    it was called Blake Holsey High where I'm from and its one of the only 2 shows that I loved enough to figure out how to time a recording on my VCR player so I'd never miss an episode lmao. Wish I still had those tapes.

  • @_Jay_Maker_
    @_Jay_Maker_ Рік тому +4

    Good. I'm glad you're highlighting Kris Straub's work, because he's basically one of the founders of the genre.
    I still watch "You Are On The Fastest Available Route" every Halloween.
    I know you stated in the beginning that Local 58 isn't as scary to you as GHE seems to be, but as an American, "Contingency" is legitimately terrifying in that it's extremely reasonable to consider that the U.S. Government probably would've had something similar in mind should a foreign invasion ever occur. While unlikely, the fact that it's not impossible is what's terrifying about it.
    There are no faces. The 51st State is not a place.

  • @KwikTripCryptid
    @KwikTripCryptid Рік тому +7

    While it may be a fairly new series, I would LOVE to see you cover Vita Carnis. I haven't seen a lot of people talking about it yet which is a shame because it's one of the best analog horror series in a while and has genuinely managed to freak me out (which is saying something because I've become pretty desensitized to Analog horror/Unfiction series). Darion Quilloy just wrapped up with season one so now is the perfect time to give it a look!

  • @CatChaos369
    @CatChaos369 Рік тому +2

    mandela catalogue is so brilliantly unnerving love to see you explore that!

  • @emilyonizuka4698
    @emilyonizuka4698 Рік тому +5

    I was a scaredy cat as a kid (still kinda am) so the only scary thing I watched was mystery hunters. it was a canadian show where, well, they went investigating mysteries. there were two kids who would go off and this adult comedian played a skeptical scientist back at the lab who explained things like why your house creaks at night and auras. anyway, idk if it's quite up your alley of things to cover on this channel, but that's the only childhood recommendation I have.

  • @braedenbumaro828
    @braedenbumaro828 Рік тому +4

    God I hope he gets to Monument Mythos, I cannot WAIT to see what he makes of it

  • @mikeosredkar8804
    @mikeosredkar8804 Рік тому +2

    Max Headroom sold us in the US Pepsi in the '80s. There was also a TV show that I barely remember.
    But Local 58, I love! Finally one of these analog horrors that I have seen. "The Fastest Avalaible Route" was one of my absolute favorites, and the weird creepy cartoons, and the "America surrendered" videos really got under my skin.

  • @theclarkmaster3642
    @theclarkmaster3642 Рік тому +20

    Ryan Hollinger analog horror is fantastic.

  • @Imaproshaman7
    @Imaproshaman7 11 місяців тому

    I remember watching this before every episode was out and it was legit terrifying. It has this sort of otherworldly, almost apocalyptic, unsettling vibe that I absolutely love. It's so hopeless and eerie. This show was way ahead of its time and I'm so glad you finally covered it! I meant to comment on this a while ago so I might as well now.

  • @ilovemarvelstudios1569
    @ilovemarvelstudios1569 Рік тому

    so glad you made a video about this! as someone who, oddly enough, doesn't watch horror for the scares, but the mysteries instead, I really love local58's style of storytelling (and that's why I like analog horror in general)

  • @pkpong
    @pkpong Рік тому +3

    Anolog horror is one of the horror genres that just really works for me and that I really enjoy

  • @kayleighstokes2799
    @kayleighstokes2799 Рік тому +1

    Channel Zero has such a huge place in my heart because it’s filmed in my province! Seeing so many nostalgic spaces, specifically in candle cove, brings the whole thing to a different level for me. I wish they were able to continue❤️

  • @TheDataByteChannel
    @TheDataByteChannel Рік тому +4

    I was a 2000 kid and when I was a kid, the CW had a late night advert of a cemetery and a creepy angel being focused way too much.
    So, Analog Horror gets me way more than the horror films of then & now.

  • @Adakechi
    @Adakechi Рік тому

    I’m SO happy you covered this!!!!! My absolute favorite. ❤

  • @millipede8602
    @millipede8602 Рік тому

    So cool to see you mention Jeopardy, that show was my first introduction to found footage horror and was probably where my fear and fascination for aliens and ufos started.

  • @curiositykilledthecat5118
    @curiositykilledthecat5118 Рік тому

    40 something year old here. Max headroom was a low budget dystopian cyber punk show from the 80s about a news anchor who is nearly killed by an evil conglomerate after he uncovers their accidental murder of several people through beaming ads into their skull. Max was an AI derived from the news anchor when his body was found and max is sentient and basically escapes into what they thought the internet would be and does social commentary. Max became a huge marketing tool for Pepsi(irony)

  • @carnivalesque___
    @carnivalesque___ Рік тому +3

    Candle Cove is one of my favorite stories to revisit, it just makes my heart so happy whenever I get to talk about it/read it/share it with friends!!

  • @grunika5120
    @grunika5120 Рік тому +1

    I absolutely have to recommend Emesis Blue. It’s an animated nearly two hour long film here on UA-cam. It uses the setting and lore of the video game Team Fortress 2 as its basis so you might want to be a little familiar with it before watching. It pays homage to and references plenty of classic stories (Most prominently The Shining and The Jaunt). It’s not an analogue horror but I have to mention how incredible it is that a pretty silly and wacky shooter like TF2 was turned into a psychological horror film.

  • @izzyackrill2531
    @izzyackrill2531 Рік тому +3

    My mum told me about a show she used to watch as a kid, called the Singing Ringing Tree, I found some of it on UA-cam and it's rather creepy

  • @andriesoliviier9529
    @andriesoliviier9529 Рік тому +1

    South African here. I remember sometime in the mid-to-late 90's show from Australia called "Girl from Tomorrow" or "Future girl" or something like that. The premise was straightforward and the series itself was aimed at kids... but gotterdammerung! The atmosphere was so unnerving. You spent each episode waiting for some "horrible terrible event" that never came until you would settle for an atomic holocaust just for some catharsis. Anyway, that's my villain origin story.

  • @dogerogue6621
    @dogerogue6621 Рік тому +2

    Jeopardy is an under appreciated gem, I felt so grown up watching it as a kid

  • @MetaGiga
    @MetaGiga 9 місяців тому

    Analog horror has to be my favorite kind of horror. A hint of a concept that’s in each bit that fits together to make an even bigger story once they’re all laid out, all the while giving an underlying sense of unease and squeamishness… I’m an adult and I’m feeling uncomfortable thinking about it. I can’t help but really love this kind of premise though and it’s enough to really keep me on edge. Definitely a fan of Local 58’s horror!

  • @rupitbhandari-studio.death8100

    Didn't expect the Josh Homme reference, but glad you're excited for their new album!
    Great vid as always, keep it up!

  • @mattnash89
    @mattnash89 Рік тому +1

    When you started mentioning Jeopardy being as the British /Australian show you watched as a kid, I really thought you were going to talk about Round the Twist

  • @HeavyMetalHindu
    @HeavyMetalHindu Рік тому +1

    Anyone remember the creepy saban Pinoccio anime? Every episode feels like the buildup in a Lost Episode creepypasta and they weren't afraid to go hard with Pinoccio's lack of a conscience. Like he legit attempts murder a few times.

  • @aqfanatic
    @aqfanatic Рік тому +2

    as an american, the “littlest patriots” line is so uncomfortably real

  • @MolinaKojima
    @MolinaKojima Рік тому

    You’ve been killing it recently

  • @deigning
    @deigning Рік тому +2

    btw another weird canadian series that is creepier than it intends to be is Read All About It, an educational grammar program that starts off relatively grounded and goes full blown space bonkers by the end

    • @deigning
      @deigning Рік тому +1

      also Dudley the Dragon, the toxin and UFO episodes. wicked nightmares from those as a kid

  • @GallowglassVT
    @GallowglassVT Рік тому +1

    15:04 that's not entirely the meaning of the quote. It's more that religion serves a practical function in a society of mass exploitation of the working class in a similar form to opiates. The entire quote reads "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people." Maybe I'm biased as both an anarchist and pagan, but that's always how I interpreted the line in terms of personal spirituality as opposed to organised religious institutions.

    • @newwick
      @newwick 3 місяці тому

      Was looking for someone to correct this on the comments

  • @kingsleycy3450
    @kingsleycy3450 Рік тому +1

    I didn’t even realize I saw Jeopardy until the doppelgänger scene. What a trip

  • @wylon87
    @wylon87 Рік тому +1

    I cant get that Queens of The Stone Age comparison to Max Headroom out of my head now. You're so right about that! 😂

  • @hdervish2497
    @hdervish2497 Рік тому +5

    Eerie, Indiana is my nostalgia bomb show. It's all up for free on UA-cam. The Tupperware mom was so creepy

  • @niospartan
    @niospartan Рік тому +1

    I watched a resident evil retrospective that mentioned the voice actor for Claire redfield was the main character for a public access show called the big comfy couch which sounded familiar and when I googled it it brought back WAY long forgotten nostalgia for pre cable television I used to watch as a child. Easily the strangest version of nostalgia to experience.

  • @joshuagunn5746
    @joshuagunn5746 Рік тому +1

    Jeopardy’s first season was really good. It scared the shit out of me as a kid.

  • @staytuned2L337
    @staytuned2L337 Рік тому

    This series was my first look into analog horror. I very much enjoy this one and am happy to see Ryan cover it!

  • @Greycatuk
    @Greycatuk Рік тому +4

    Max Headroom is actually pretty subversive - very much like They Live. It started as a comedy skit thing, and then got one TV series. Dated now, but it reminds me of the cyber-dystopia of Robocop - worth seeking out if you can find it.

  • @nerdfatha
    @nerdfatha Рік тому

    Another great video! and This one brought up memories of a very random British (i think) TV movie that was on Nickelodeon in the late 80's early 90's. I only got to watch cable once a week at my Grandparents house because my folks were cutting back on spending at the time. So when i was over there, I watched whatever was on Nickelodeon since it was my only chance to see it. It was live action and a group of kids stumbled onto some weird gold hexagon coins and they had something to do with an underground space ship. the aliens all wore helmets and capes that made them look like black knights. I think the whole thing was very anticlimactic, but I was like 8 or 9 years old and I'm in my 40's now so my memory is a little fuzzy. I have tried searching for it but could never find anything.

  • @FloodclawKupo
    @FloodclawKupo Рік тому

    Real Sleep on Local58 is one of the only analog horror videos that really still spooks my guts off. Elsewise, it's just a really cool series that laid the foundation for a lot of current trends. I agree with a lot of what you said, but man, I'd kill for a full video covering Channel Zero if you'd be interested in that.

  • @Cuiasodo
    @Cuiasodo Рік тому +1

    Contingency creeped me the hell out. Something about the tone hit that uncanniness where it felt off but just real enough that it could pass for something that was made during the cold war as an absolute last resort EBS announcement.

  • @Iridescent_One
    @Iridescent_One Рік тому

    I’ve really been loving all the analog horror and found footage videos recently!

  • @oxitape1563
    @oxitape1563 Рік тому

    I remember watching “Contingency” for the first time and the absolute chills and goosebumps I experienced from it. Everything about it is absolutely perfect and shows you how terrifying analog horror can be when executed right.

  • @MrsSmith99st
    @MrsSmith99st Рік тому

    Support from Hawai’i ❤ Love the Videos

  • @twinvortex
    @twinvortex Рік тому

    IM SO HAPPY YOU’RE DOING ALL THE GOOD STREAMING UA-cam HORROR SERIES

  • @Xamthekingofswing
    @Xamthekingofswing Рік тому

    Love this stuff! Find it really unnerving and the point you’ve raised about tapping into your childhood memories really struck me and I’ve just realised is the reason why.
    Do you think there has been any of this analogue horror used in modern cinema? I know the majority is on UA-cam but I wonder how this would translate into the cinema world. I can only at the moment think of await further instructions where the TV keeps transmitting messages to the family trapped in the home.

  • @chriswelter3859
    @chriswelter3859 10 місяців тому

    I love those blast from the past shows that i suddenly remember:
    -Spellbinders
    -Eerie, Indiana
    -Around the Twist
    -This other show that syndicated on Nickelodeon and was about psychic kids who could teleport and were being communicated to by a submerged alien ship?

  • @whosdooley
    @whosdooley Рік тому +3

    I would love to see your take on The Mandela Catalogue next if you’re interested in analog horror

  • @Jaciekakes
    @Jaciekakes Рік тому +1

    I wonder if it's because I'm Aussie and Jeopardy was shown on ABC which is a free to air channel here, but it's is pretty well known here for people around my age. Those Scottish accents were iconic, I would happily watch if you did a video on it

  • @TheMightyKawama
    @TheMightyKawama Рік тому

    8:35 I didn't expect it but I'm one of said tiny portion, you unlocked some memories of mine the second the logo dropped

  • @docsaico
    @docsaico Рік тому

    OMG!!! I was SO EXCITED to click on subscriptions and see the local58 logo and the Crystal Cove skull. 😍😍😍 YESSSSSSSS

  • @TheGrayEsteban
    @TheGrayEsteban Рік тому

    7:50 I think that aspect is interesting as well when we think about the way we experience fear as children and how we experience it as adults. When we're kids we don't actually realize what we should be afraid of based on reality, since we still don't have that much of a grasp around what should and shouldn't be considered reality, or even normal. As children, as terrifying as it may be when we think about a villain that steals the skin of children, we don't fully get the scope of what that can mean, all the possibilities of pain and cruelty that could entail. Also, a child usually is not equipped to immediately know what content is appropriate for them, so we really don't get all the nuances of horror that can be in the media we consume.

  • @NerdySatyr
    @NerdySatyr Рік тому +2

    Considering it just finished it's Season 1, I definitely recommend looking into Vita Carnis, such an interesting and 'believable' world!