The Latest UrbanSpook Episode is..... Interesting (Review)
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- How have all of you been doing! This week I analyzed the latest urbanspook video, as many people are wondering whether this episode is good or bad, or is it just somewhere in between. Make sure if you liked this video to like and subscribe and let me know your thoughts down below, and I'll see you all next week.
In my opinion, this was one of the greatest episodes by far, mainly because I feel like urban spook actually listen to the criticism, but instead of lashing out against anyone again or just ignoring the criticism, he took it hard and still did what he normally does, but actually put effort into what he made. I truly do believe urban spook is talented and knows how to do analog horror and just needed to realize that they had to listen to criticism and take it to heart.
@Welcome2MyWurld FAX there was actually story behind this video and nathan could be are main character
During his Reddit AMA, he stated,
"No, I just created what I had in mind from the start. Haven't paid too much attention to the criticism, and I'm actually not sure at all what I did different in this episode compared to the other ones except having moving images."
Which makes sense. Most people admit Urbanspook has a lot of good ideas surrounded by stale writing.
@@katz7609the writing is stale but uses more realistic themes than most series, that's what got me hooked to it, because it doesn't use anything supernatural, not throwing any shade tho because do love a supernatural series.
It has improved in quality, but the writing is still as bad as it used to be imho, which is what brought this series down in the first place.
@ I actually don’t mind that, even if urbanspook didn’t really care about the criticism I think he should do what he wants and let the writing be as bad or as good as he wants it to be.
As long as he handles intense topics correctly I don’t really care about the writing
I really liked how UrbanSpook was ballsy enough to kill off one of the killers. It would have been expected of him to stretch this out and have him be resurrected like some edgy 2011 CreepyPasta that people compare this series too but no. The cop shoots him dead and the slow pacing of Mona surrendering is really unsettling. It almost makes you believe it's happening and it cutting to the picture of the victim while she's screaming is genuinely unsettling.
It's no Monument Mythos but it's still pretty neat I'd say.
@nono9543 it's a picture of mona, not Tina
@@nono9543 good to see a fellow monument mythos enjoyer here. That series is so peak.
Its almost as good as smile tapes, it could improve and potentially become like vita carnis, but it'll never reach the level of Gemini Home Entertainment, Walten Files, Monument Mythos and the Mandela Catalogue.
@@Jerome_M_0 It's peak fiction man. Statues coming to life is honestly haunting. Surprised it hasn't been done more since Doctor Who.
@@UltraFire538 I mean yeah honestly Urban Spooks has talent. Dude knows how to draw and how to build atmosphere.
If it weren't for his Twitter meltdowns he'd probably be a lot more well received. I totally get critique getting to you but it's like, bro just keep doing what your doing and you'll grow an audience.
From a technical standpoint the series is great, but from a narrative standpoint, it's like a blank sheet of paper. It's like the Analog Horror equivalent to a Bayformers movie
@@JulianEnsor from a technical view, it isn’t great, though. It’s the exact same thing every time. Slide, fucked up caption, next slide. Nothing of substance at all. The story and the telling therein are both just edgy shock content written by someone who doesn’t know a thing about writing.
@@ridleysomeliana-lauer5814 Hey man sorry to inform you but the canned anti-spook arguments are starting to become dated and they're not really lining up with reality anymore
@@GrugTalks hey man, sorry to tell you this but pretending to like this dogshit isn’t gonna make you any friends
For sure. That's some legit criticism. It feels like he has really good technical skills but doesn't really have a core story together. Even as a fan of his this is pretty legit.
@@GrugTalks disagree, latest episod has some useless plot points
Ending was great, but other part of episode is just medium (and also plothole: cops not protecting Tina)
I feel like a lot of the media that uses the "this is the photo" formula before flashing an edgy image is trying to imitate Junji Ito-style presentation while utterly failing to understand why and how it works.
Actually, at some point it tries so hard that it dives straight into a torture/gore fetish territory.
blair witch, perfect example of this concept being used. urbanspook is his own genre and is perfect in the sense of how unique it is
exactly!!
Definitely. Disgusting and disturbing for the sake being Disgusting and disturbing, it has no substance, the narrative is wack and as the creator put it, it's really comical. That last minutes of the recent episode was the best from the series sad to say...
@@beckyanderson23uniqueness can only take a story so far. It's like listening to death grips because it's "experimental" not because you find it enjoyable. There's plenty of movies that do disgusting and disturbing in a much better fashion than urbanspook. The analog genre isn't the best place to do something like this. If you want to maintain uniqueness, you need to expand on your ideas, and with how shallow the narrative is, there's little to expand on. Urbanspook wasn't fully realized until the last minutes of the recent episode, and it's a shame we got more of the same, especially with the creator being on hiatus.
I’m happy to see Urbanslug is improving his series and expanding on its presentation. It still utilizes the signature shock value horror, but with the more varied presentation and intense execution, it works better than it did before. I always thought that he had a lot of potential and more of that seems to be showing. The bodycam section and 3D is really cool and unique for analog horror.
It hurts to see urban spook do some really awesome and very cool stuff with his series but still be plagued by the same problems that make his series hard to watch
REAL
Thats on you brother.
it’s still better either way tho
Easy solution ether don’t watch or learn to like it or just force yourself to love it I guess
Why would it hurt? Were you guys invested on his story when he was way worse?
UrbanSpook should do a complete reset and start a new series with this found footage style. I'd be so down to follow another fictional killer, but he's gotta tone it down. The extra grotesque kills should be saved for the end
then it would be like every other series
@@beckyanderson23 he’d be getting a lot more positive attention than this is. Like he actually tired which good on him but it doesn’t change the fact that he made a horror and went in the direction of what is effectively just gore and more gore.
I think he should delete the older episodes and revamp them to add story and a little bit of footage, I really couldn't care less if he keeps the gore
@@AGMKnight01 I mean he can keep the gore but should probably remove all the minors being brutally killed.
@@AGMKnight01 too bad hes gonna keep uploading as he is and remain one of the most unique series
Personally, this episode is so funny to me just because one of the serial killers were just shot and the other was just like: 😦
One detail I'd say I do like is how Mona reacts in the body cam footage when Collins gets shot. We see her flinch, a human response. One thing that made me like UrbanSpook's series at the beginning before it started doing too much was the way it was presented. It was hinting at The Painter being an actual person and not some supernatural being or force that many other Analog Horror series had established. Seeing Mona flinch, to me at least, helped remind us that even after all of her actions, she's still a mortal. UrbanSpook's is far from being my favorite Analog Horror, not even in my top 10. I was really interested in the premise at the beginning but got tired of the shock gore 3 - 4 episodes in and I would just check back in for anything note worthy. However, I will give UrbanSpook credit where credit is due, especially in a small detail like that.
Idc much for the actual series itself but deriding any darker themes as just edgy is why analogue horror struggles to move past copy-paste humanoid creatures and cartoonishly edited faces
True, the reaction and dogpiling to UrbanSpook being the first series to find success in a new formula that finds new purpose for a lot of traditional horror elements and isn't afraid to show the worst possible case for human nature is the exact reason why Analog Horror is a dead genre
It had so much potential to be an amazing genre if it didn't quickly devolve into wannabe SCP Foundation stories where everything needs to be classified and systematically explained to the audience relying on "Woaahhh so psychological so scary" instead of putting anything actually terrifying on the screen, also trying to pander to 'fandom culture' by adding fanservice and 'characters' with flashy personalities that add nothing to the horror, it quickly became authors saying "I could make Analog Horror! I just need to grab Mandela Catalog and add my shitty OCs into it! Everyone will love it!"
US is trying to end the series. The formula is repetitive at this point, and by throwing a creative wrench in at the end of the episode he is basically heading towards the end of the series. There is no way that Mona will break out. Maybe she will commit some heinous crime in prison, but surely, she will meet a violent end in there. Bill is dead. And the only way to really keep the series going is by revealing that there is a third killer, or by having someone be inspired by the two killers commit their own series of crimes decades later. If it is the second option, it can keep the story going while allowing US to shake up the formula - be it introducing more acted out segments, switchintg the perspective from the police to the killer entirely, or something else.
We rarely if ever see a horror from the POV of the killer. It'd be nice if I was right with this, and we knew the entire time who the killers was, see him hiding on the sidelines, watching the other characters struggle to reveal their true identity.
Pretty sure that a community post confirmed that the next tape will be the last one, concluding the series.
@@kane8649 Mona’s finished she’s a wuss without Bill, she doesn’t have the balls to escape
I’m curious if Urbanspook is wrapping up this series so quickly to try and make a new series with newfound improvement and actually taking criticism. This episode was very good as we got a ton of information and there was an actual story involved. I hope US will improve on storytelling and make a better series as they are talented
honestly shocked hes still making this. i figured he stopped bc he was butthurt
the people "butthurt" are just twatter and plebbit
Spite is helluva motivator.
@@axonaxonaxon yall acting like he has 0 fans and everyone hates him
@@bludser aw crap, his one fan is here
@@axonaxonaxon I dont like most of the episodes in this series but it's just messed up to not praise a man for trying to improve
Exactly my thoughts on the episode. I was shocked that I found nothing for praise for it on the Analog Horror subreddit just because of the body cam footage, which is only a small part of the episodes after he gave us more of the same for most of it.
there's footage the entire episode.
@@harryvass9018It is, yes, but before the bit at Tina's house it's still the normal formula of describing what happened.
@@vb6523 yeah but it's not just a black screen with text the whole time, having visuals bumps it up.
The recent installment was a step up in the same way that a restaurant that mostly serves raw ground beef and onion skins on paper plates would be "stepping it up" by using ceramic plates and letting the meat get a little bit browned for once. Like yeah, they cooked a little bit here and that's an improvement, but it's still mostly undercooked and disgusting, even if it's different than what most restaurants serve. The last minute or so of the video was refreshingly better than every installment before it but the story is still bare bones, the format was still the same variation of "victim had something shoved somewhere/were dismembered and sewn with something/was partially eaten/endured some level of sexual violence. here's a painting btw" on a black screen. People are glazing abt how Mona is "humanized" by showing fear and flinching but like? It was a split second of a fairly standard reaction to a loud shot and a gun being pointed at you, it's not like it was groundbreaking character development.
I'm never gonna say that urban isn't a talented artist but I think he should've just posted his artwork with no explanations instead of attaching a half baked storyline to it. The story only drags down the art because instead of just being able to appreciate it, you have to sit through a slideshow of a clinical description of edgy torture followed up by more slides that ultimately conclude with "yeah so the killer is at large still lol hope we find em!"
So after an entire series of the killer(s) leaving tons of physical evidence and never being caught, they're finally apprehended by complete coincidence. Great storytelling.
That’s how criminals are caught sometimes in real life it’s these times where they aren’t even figured out but like events where they are seen by complete accident that ends their crime wave
@ryanlozano9086 ... okay? And you find that to be a satisfying story? or an interesting subversion of expectations that were carefully set up to be subverted, and find it was subverted meaningfully?
@ an interesting subversion of expectations
@ryanlozano9086 And you think that subversion is meaningful and actually set up? You were expecting the killers to be caught by evidence and were surprised when they weren't? And you feel that this was explored meaningfully, perhaps as a commentary on police work or crime?
@@connorscanlan2167 it is satisfying. ted bundy was caught for numerous traffic violations. dennis nilsen was blocking the drain in his apartment. david berkowitz was caught because of a parking ticket.
at the end of the day they’re human beings. the painters were caught in the middle of a crime and were killed/apprehended.
edit: you could have all the evidence in the world. that helps you identify them. doesn’t mean you’d find them, even if you plastered their faces all over the media. it’s not like they’re walking in broad daylight.
I dont get why people like this new episode as much. There is a lot more care put into it and I loved the 3D animation, but this episode just felt like urbanspook saying “fuck it, ill make it as violent as possible.”
@@SoftKernel Honestly, ever since he did a double down and brought back Cory's case it made me think that his goal was to prove that he could improve his series and at the same time give the middle finger to everyone by keeping that intense gore/snuff stuff.
Yeah, honestly it's like taking a pile of garbage and shaping it into a slightly appealing shape. Yeah it looks better but it doesn't excuse the fact that it's still garbage under the pretty shape.
I’m a die-hard fan of The Painter for its very subtle storytelling and improvised plot, but I also acknowledge the criticisms of the series because I know gore and violence isn’t everyone’s cup of tea. That being said, I really loved this new episode. If Urbanspook does a remake at any point, he should absolutely follow this grainy body cam footage style!
You claim that Urbanspook can’t handle criticism but you don’t bring up that fact that the most prominent “criticism” was the moral outrage and even some critics like the Mandela Catalogue guy attacking his character based off of fiction he made. People accuse him of having meltdowns but no one bats an eye at Chezzkid being so emotional as to break character over a situation that didn’t involve him.
As for sensitive topics, he’s not obligated to handle anything the way that strangers want him to. The story is about depraved killers, it’s the viewer’s therapy session.
That being said, you’re right that not much changed with the writing and I hope he gets better for his own sake. But I’m glad that he doubled down on doing what he wants.
@@TrueAfricanHero more so was talking about it from my perspective with dealing with urbanspook considering he had an interesting response to say the least to my original video which criticized him for his poor writing, not really about the other stuff as I don't care to get into drama. I really don't really care how someone handles sensitive topics, but if you really care about the quality of your writing, then you should learn how to talk about stuff in realistic way, which urbanspook doesn't despite claiming that his series is about depraved realism.
@@ABAShortfilms Ah! Gotcha. Your statement about him was more general and you mentioned Twitter, so my mind went to the Pastra situation and another guy who actually deleted his original video. I knew he would troll and has beefed in the comments, but if he is lashing out to legitimate criticism then shame on him. I don’t care about people calling the series bad, I just find a lot of complaints bad faith, as they’ll tell him that he has to delete this or stop selling his own work. His videos were improving even before the latest episode despite what people say.
And yeah, I agree that he as the writing is responsible for being able to convey what he’s going for properly, instead of simply declaring what it is. I’m not sure if the series is realistic, but it’s relatively more grounded compared to the usual analog horror. Hyper violence is a thing in real life.
seems that urbanspook is just an artist, not a writer.
He made the music aswell tbf
So happy that this series is back, this last episide was the best one honestly
though the series finally steps things up beyond "oohhhh pictures and text oooooohhh!!!!" i honestly think people r glazing a. the production quality is now more than half assed but it's still a disgusting (not in a good horror-y way) series that refuses to see it's characters outside of turning their deaths into spectacles. its still senseless shock horror, just tied with a fancy little bow this time
Not the finale a tenth episode is in the works
@ you make a very good point!!! medias CAN have meaningless violence, i’ve seen a few pull this off. but here’s the thing, the painter doesn’t cover run-of-the-mill bloodshed and instead brings content like CSA/rape in general, beastiality, etc. i feel like there’s a huge line stepped over with this- sa isn’t something you can just throw around for the sake of shock value. it’s a serious, horrific thing that isn’t universally experienced the way death is. it’s extremely disrespectful and invalidating to actual people who have to live with the trauma of sa/csa to treat it as if it’s some plot device. it HAS to have a reason. you don’t just watch that shit “for fun.”
sorry to launch into video essay mode but i’m very passionate about this subject
Dude that's the point it's SHOCK HORROR
@ good point, very good point. cant really argue with that so thank you for bringing your interpretation to the table
@TechnoticPlateif there's an npc, there's still the player and protagonist to follow. Here, there's nobody to follow and it's just a slideshow in each installment about random people having horrible things happen to them, and nothing to keep you invested besides seeing what mad libs combo of torture acts will be put together next
I like how everyone has kinda fallen to the "the story is so bad!" cope argument to criticize Urbanspook when it's story is the same if not better than most other pieces of Analog Horror, they're all lackluster and rely on infodumping and audience imagination to fill in the gaps, the only difference is that Urbanspook doesn't shy from showing the worst parts of these stories and keeps it grounded instead of making it some big apocalyptic scenario, and since it's more grounded/closer to reality and it's so much more gritty than the average Analog Horror slopfest, the audience reaction is to find issues that they'd never find in their favorite series because their series is so much less daring and out there in it's presentation
The art, the presentation, ESPECIALLY the sound design, are all flawless and paced perfectly for an insane first time experience watching any of their videos, it's genuinely the only Analog Horror story that comes even close to being somehow scary, which is why so many hate it and find cope arguments to justify it, they just don't like that it takes so many more risks than the rest of the genre even though it's on the same level of quality as the rest of it in every quantifiable metric
Plus, the most annoying part of the criticism is that it's born exclusively from the earlier videos in his channel, which weren't even intended to have a story or to be an "ARG", it was just a creative way of showcasing the guy's art which he then got pressured by his audience into adding more of a story to because people don't understand that something doesn't need an expansive 24 episode narrative with characters and drama to be SCARY, which is the point of HORROR
@@Sheoll6 Gosh, finally someone said it! 100% agree
Gonna be honest, the bar is incredibly low on being the best of this series. This sure is an improvement, but it’s lipstick on a skeleton.
The best way Urbanspook could have been improved on is if the killing was limited to a select few. It's obvious some episodes were just here as "filler" that's just here to play out crime scene ideas and be shocking, with nothing to offer to progress through the investigation.
Remaking the tapes to be monthly police reports would at least give the killings last 9 months instead of 5 years, and because fewer killings would have been made, it gives a reasonable excuse on why the investigation took that much time. Not just that, it would make each of these few deaths more impactful. I mean Tina and Isabelle were most impactful because they got much more screentime than other victims. If every digit of that shortened kill list got as much attention, it wouldn't have given us enough to get us desensitized by that latest entry.
If having the factory be the crime scene with the most bodies is that important, then what should have been done is have every one of those bodies be all (and only) the victims that disappeared over the course of the series. He got the right idea featuring Jim, the other halves of the Becks and Sarah and her husband. But the rest are randoms we never got to know, so of course nobody cares about their death.
I was shocked because it’s actually pretty good, he’s improved
what is up with all the sudden comments glazing urbanslug 😭 Now don't get me wrong he is incredibly talented with his art and animation skills a lot of his art is fantastic and I love looking at it but this story isn't good and that's fine. it's his first story and so it's understandable that it isn't good. If I was him I'd wrap up the story and leave it in his past and begin a new story with genuine effort it feels like the painter was started as a slideshow of his cool art with a silly edgy premise then when it got traction he attempted to turn it into an actual project. overall i'd give the art a 9/10 and animation a 8/10 and the story a 2/10
HELL is actually GOOD lmaoo, props to urbanspook for coming back and cooked!!
I always loved the painter, was refreshing compared to other analog horrors.
A lot of people are creaming their pants over Urbanspook in the comments and reply section,aren’t they? It’s just another Urbanspook video and it’s mediocre. Not great,not horrible,just mediocre. The bodycam scene was cool and his art is still unique but it’s not the Mona Lisa of analogue horror.
Edit: The fact that there’s idiots choosing to defend Urbanspook is laughably pathetic. He’s not gonna personally thank you twats for talking shit to people that hate him. Get off your high horses and just accept that some people hate him.
preach into the choir
i mean... it did have mona in it
The problem is ego. The haters don't want to admit something improved because they find being against emotionally satisfying... besides, I think people are getting tired of the FNAF/Scaryface rigmarole. It's different and technically impressive and invalidates 90% of the criticism leveled at spook and the series
@@GrugTalksSo,from what I’m hearing from your comment,people only hate Urbanspook because of ego,some bs excuse about people being tired of another analogue horror series,and just being a hater? Because that’s what I’m gathering and i’m a “hater” towards Urbanspook because he’s an asshole who can’t handle criticism. Granted he’s a talented artist but his series is total dogshit. Just because he produced one or two good episodes doesn’t automatically mean he’s a master of analogue horror and his series is all of a sudden amazing.
@@GrugTalkswhat improved? It’s literally the same fucking story dude. Murdered body gets discovered,oh look a creepy bloody painting! Definitely improvement there,and totally not something we saw eight fucking times in his series before. The only difference is the body cam footage and the fact that he finally ended the series by having a coincidental cop show up to kill one of the killers and arrest the other one.
Generally I'm pretty in the middle about it.
The Painter has alot of flaws (though granted, its the creators actions that weigh it down for me), but it still does some things well, whenever US move out of his usual format.
Generally I've seen both people praising it and people who get mad at the people praising the only good parts of it, calling it Glazing which. Isn't. True?
Find the positives where ya can. The fact he put more effort into this episode shows he's at least on a good path, and hopefully he's matured a bit too. But as I've said, it's nowhere near a favorite or even liked series of mine, even with the occasional enjoyment of Splatterpunk media which, I feel like The Painter fits into. Both /pos (for it's detailed gore) and /neg (for it's shock value and needless inclusion of CSA and RPE)
Im glad he's moving on from the series. It's something he's definitely learned a lot from but at this point I think it's only holding him back and that's why all the tying up loose ends seems so rushed and uninteresting. It was something that was made when he had unformed skills and the skills are slowly taking shape but it just doesn't fit for this sort of thing anymore. I think people are way over critical (i thought u were fair) or doing the opposite. I just see this as an artist developing his skills and altho his current work isn't the best the most entertaining part is seeing the guy slowly improve.
I totally agree!! I’m curious if Urbanspook is wrapping up this series so quickly to try and make a new series with newfound improvement and actually taking criticism. This episode was very good as we got a ton of information and there was an actual story involved. I hope US will improve on storytelling and make a better series as they are talented
@@RivetRiv It was always part of the plan for it to be 10 episodes and we only have one episode left. I have to give him credit for not just the increased production value, but also for the plot actually going somewhere and having both killers be caught and one of them killed instead of escaping again. It could've gone the route of all those Jeff the Killer fanfics and ripoffs where the killers are so unstoppable despite the ridiculousness of it all. It seemed like it was going that route, but then this happened and applaud Urbanspook for that.
The time has finally come
This episode was mid but the once you go to hell sequence with the body camera was genuinely good ngl
y everybody hatin i thought the vid was fire
It's really not
@@dorkyalien5059 it really is though, no one cares for your opinion if you're going to try putting it on others
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@@dorkyalien5059 it is bro just because you think shitty fnaf tapes are scary doesnt mean u gotta shit on one of the most unique series 💀💀
@@Glitchberry my guy you deserve a Nobel Peace award for that comment
Listen, the story isnt the best and gives you the feeling the creator just needs a hug but damn, he can draw/paint. The visuals in the latest episode was a huge improvement. The 3d animation section was done greatly. As far as i know urbanspook didnt create live action shit much he just added things to photos and made audios. Towards the end where the victim is screaming it filled me with dread, guilt, sadness, and just ill. The descriptions were brutal and didnt add much but damn. I truly feel that he actually tried with this one and, the paintings weren't that bad, they were obviously shocking but hes good at the art aspect.
Very proud of Urbanslug for finally reaching the bare minimum for the format, I will admit I didn't expect there to be actual footage but it's much more welcome than the usual "we did 7 looney tunes bits to this guy I named after someone who left me a mean comment, here's a painting you can pay me to put on a shirt" shtick sadly present within the same episode as the footage
I'd like to imagine of more time was put into the story, it would have gone to a SAW sequel snuff fest, to almost Stephen King levels of horror. The artist UrbanSlug's art, and experimentation with different mediums is probably the best thing about this series. The story however ain't the best, unfortunately. However if given enough time, and dedication, I feel like it could be something good. For the longest time, my headcanon for the series was that the Painter, Mona Lanius, is a psychic that must ensure that the death of her victims align with her visions of the future. I feel like my headcanon isn't gonna match up with the final product at all, but I feel like this story would benefit heavily from a redux. Maybe instead of an analog horror, it can in instead work better in other mediums.
the new episode’s screams at the end are the scariest part.
if there wasn’t any screaming, then it wouldn’t be as scary
One thing I can say about urban spook is his art and his ambience is phenomenal but the story is just gore for the sake of gore he has potential but he needs to move pass shock value maybe even having someone write for him would help a lot
To be fair, this is the first urban spook episode that I was totally scared of. The rest pf the series was just trying tk solve a puzzle until I realized there was no story. Until thia episode
Maybe you could have someone reading out the description of the crime scene. Occasionally, he could gag or say "I can't read this anymore" before reluctantly continuing, and possibly have some banter in the background.
That way, we can have a have an important character who isn't just a faceless victim who gets butchered.
I feel like if the story was set up like a saw movie where 1 half is a cop plot and the other is the trap plot it would do wonders
most of the video was still 'John smith was stabbed sixty nine times in the balls, here is the painting' nonsense that we've been mocking for years
slightly better presented nonsense is still nonsense though
Honestly I feel like the entire series needs a complete overhaul, the recent found footage type episode was actually creative because it actually felt like a police investigation with police body cams and the phone call instead of just a black background with white text and images for 100% of the series
This feels like a finale.
This is the first anti urbanspook review that is just riding a hate wave with no real criticisms.
Ill be honest, this is objectively the best thing urbanslug had made with this series... but its still not that great??? I mean its better than the rest of the shit he made, but its still following the same format from the earlier episodes that kinda take you out of the horror, over the top murders (not a bad thing necessarily but its way too edgy) over explained for no reason, the plot being all over the place, and a few "why?" questions still not answered.
Like, why did Isabelle tell the operators the wrong address??? And also, why did Bill and Mona do all this shit? I assume those two will be answered in the last episode, Slug cant leave those as unexplained because then it would ruin the series even more. There were always "reasons" for serial killers irl for why they did what they did, trauma or a mental illness, whatever, there was always a reason why, and there needs to be a reason why Bill and Mona did these vile things to make them more... realistic and not some supernatural, in-human forces that killed these people for the sense of evil or "just because"
Okay yes he has improved wow amazing that's great to see! The found footage is fun. But that doesn't make the series good. It's still so cheesy. It's still so over the top that it makes me roll my eyes. I love shock horror and extreme horror. But it never has the escalation that extreme horror needs!!! It starts with a billion crotch stabs. Where do you go from there???? It's just silly, not shocking.
The only episode (beside the second latest) worth watching as its really interesting
At least he's actually improved but i think he has to delete all the previous episodes and revamp them (keeping all the gore) to have them actually make sense and to have some story
Personally i would say if they cut out the Stone loop and the Jones family section this episode would be like a 8/10 but no we have to have human centipede as told by Urban. Like he was so close to cooking why'd he have to mess it up
It's his signature bro wdym?
@vladimiraehben2308 well his signature is what made his series bad in the first place. The body cam footage is so good and genuinely scary. The section on the Stone family wasn't. To me it was just boring. Like "how they're tied together head to mouth human centipede style" how spooky. I thought he ditched the power point horror and him just coming back to it when everything else was actually scary was really dumb.
@@Jerome_M_0 I mean he said that he got his inspiration from Terrifier 🤷
@@vladimiraehben2308 unironically my opinion on this series has fully changed an hour after I posted that probably gonna delete this. Think urbans work is pretty good now
I understand this isn't your type series but calling it not scary is overblown because there are moments where the series hits to close to home.
The reason why it looks rushed is because people were harassing him.
Extreme cruelty isn’t inherently scary. Being incredibly fucked up is not inherently scary. Saying it’s overblown to say it isn’t scary is laughable.
@ridleysomeliana-lauer5814 I see where you're coming from, and while I'm personally scared of it, I can agree that shock value does not equal horror. That being said, there is one thing in particular in this series that scares me more than anything else I have ever seen. That being self portrait in episode one. It's so horrifying to me to think that Mona doesn't see herself as human but instead some sort of creature. She's so detached to the rest of humanity that her own self portrait is more of her internal thoughts then her actual appearance, and that terrifies me. That single portrait tells me that the internet is missing an entire secondary narrative of the story outside of the gore, and we just need to look a bit harder to find it.
@@ridleysomeliana-lauer5814 Nothing is "inherently" scary. Fear is subjective , somebody could be scared by Urbanspook and they aren't wrong for being so.
Finding something scary is subjective. It is a View that can be shared, but ultimately it comes down to the individual. And tbf this Series has been about aß scary as a Mortal Kombat Fatality Compilation. Starts of kinda intense, but after about 20 minutes of the same stuff you get used to it and it starts getting a bit dull, and it goes Downhill from there. The main Thing keeping you watching is a certain Hope it gets better.
Yeah, the Argument May be overblown a Bit, but If a large amount of people feels that way, why should they be dishonest?
As for the harassment, that is quite unfortunate, but i have the impression that He partly brought it on himself. There are a few people He could have treated differently.
@vb6523 I don't have an issue about people expressing their opinion, but seriously, some need to understand that it's their opinion, not we or I. Plus, I seen scary movies with similar gore aspects, if I have name a few I would say like "saw" or "terrifier".
It’s been improved quite a lot but it’s still ass so far
Honestly while i can appreciate the bodycam footage and the phone call, it doesn't make me enjoy urbanspook at all. Honestly it makes me hate his series more because it shows he HAS talent, but chooses to waste it on literal depictions of csa and z0ophilia. The fact he used autism as an insult during his crashout just makes me not want to support him more. Like, seriously you could take out all of the parts of the series that involve animals and kids/babies being killed or sexually abused and you still have the same concept he was going for. It isn't the fact that he's depicting stuff that does happen in real life, i can actually appreciate he's doing that and not going the scary monster route. It's the fact that he involves children and animals that makes me hate it. While this does happen with a lot of real life killers, THERE IS A REASON PEOPLE DON'T DEPICT IT IN FICTIONAL KILLERS AND THIS IS THAT REASON.
Wait ok girl power
While I think the series still sucks, basically just being Mortal Kombat fatalities that just cut to black and tell you what happened with some extra depravity, I gotta give UrbanSlug props. This episode had a lot of effort put into it with the animation and voice acting, and he had the balls to actually kill off one of the painters.
The lashing out wasn't entirely his fault, when Pastra, with his huge following, publicly shit on him and his work, saying it was irredeemable, and getting a mob on Twitter to attack him, as well as other analog horror creators. You can dislike it, but to publicly shame him in such an open place to hate on him is disgusting behavior. Everyone has different tastes in horror, and there are so many with the same tropes, and he went in a different direction. Yes I didn't like some of his episodes, but he even said it himself, he's an artist first, writer second. Pastra is an incredibly rude individual to get him harrassed like that.
@@nektrune3381 Pastra gave a very even and reasonable critique, he didn't shit on US at all. US is the one that chose to call people "autistic gay furries" or whatever because he got mad that people said his videos were repetitive and lacked strong storytelling to justify or go alongside all the "victim was found with [blank] body part sewn to/removed/shoved in [blank], here's a painting the killer made abt it with a cheeky title." The lashing out was 100% Urban's fault because he didn't know how to handle criticism
When was giving criticism attacking someone lol
I don’t wanna ask what treatment “mark the machine” got 😐
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UrbanSpook is better as a visual but not as a story. He is really good at showing disturbing and gory visuals but never good at making an interesting story that makes the series watchable. I think hes better of working as the visuals rather than also working on the story.
Bro I'm just tired of analog horror plot of "oooohh~ Someone is copying me" and fnaf but not really.
Analog Horror fandom is like children who don't like being called children but have no guts on leaving their comfort zones.
I never treated this series like some indie artsy film about someone's life. It's a youtube video. You click on it, watched it, appreciate what can be appreciated, then move on. I get my entertainment with it during my break hour and I'm satisfied.
Deadass
Body cam footage carries
wow youre cool
The hell are you talking about?
@NaimChowdhury-cj4kkExpression of Personal opinion? Acurate summary of a fandom that basically is the early 2010's Creepypasta fandom again? Sharing of a quite mature View over a Series where both Sides of the Argument have been making a whole Lot of ruckus over basically nothing?
People who say this series is bad is the same people who thinks Skinamarink is good (the movie where you just stare at random grainy shots around a house for an hour). They don't seem to understand that there are different types of horror and not all horror is for everyone. I know there are close-minded people who may try pushing their opinions on to others so I'll say this: If you don't like it, why did you keep watching it? I don't care what any of you may have to say about it, my mind won't be changed. Go on, drop your UrbanSpook rumor talk, why you think it is bad or anything of the sort. But don't dare push that shit on anyone, let's be civil now.
I thought skinimarink was ok personally. not bad but I think the guy's older short "Heck" was a better execution of the concept.
To be fair skinamarik also sucks ass but that doesn't mean this series is good outside its current final episode , i hope he gets improving.
This comment feels weirdly ironic as you tell people to be civil and that not all horror is for everyone while throwing a random ass movie with a niche form of horror under the bus in the process. The Painter isn’t bad because it isn’t subjectively scary, it’s loathsomely average for how much praise people bring it because the guy decided to three-fourths ass the story instead of half-assing it. You ignore the reason many think it’s actually subpar.
@@murkysaltwater3646 Yeah buddy, that's called "an opinion" (it sounds harsh on paper but that is just how I communicate) and gives a good example of how some horror suckers are nowadays. Unlike them you don't see me making drama about the creator over how I think it is bad. You can see most people talking about the topics and images saying "it's only just shock value" or that "the topics are too disturbing" or even about the story being shitty as hell because they're too impatient to wait a little longer to make sense of it and let it keep developing because they're so busy thinking about the first two things said in this sentence. The reasoning wasn't ignored, in fact there was no reasoning to ignore, you just simply ignored the point and question of the comment entirely.
> "Lets be civil now"
> "People who say this series is bad think Skinamarink is good"
At least try to practice what you preach lil bro 🤣
I honestly dont have a problem with really graphic horror. There was a point in time in the horror genre where it got old because everyone was doing it
Watching this instead bc I don't wanna support bro
missing out tbh
Missing out
What a childish way of thinking lol, you’ll keep up with a series but refuse to watch any part of it in it’s entirety?
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@@anthonygaytan620 fellas, is it childish to support a creator you like but choose not to support a creator you don't like?
To me personally the reason why I sort of like this series is because my morbid curiosity, of how creatively can the human body be mutilated.
Other than that I can just turn off my brain and enjoy whatever is on the screen as long as it's high production-ish
@@2-AZ1-BE no offense gang but you are one strange guy
@DopeisCold6 yeah, np lad.
But yes I essentially agree with the point that this series has not mutch value to it other than gore.
“Creative” is doing a lot of work in that sentence.
I also agree, I don't really like the story but Golly am I a sucker for some good body horror and some creative shit at that too, love me some visuals that stick in your mind
@@2-AZ1-BE i’d say this analog horror series is like an Analog Horror equivalent to the Terrifier movies lmao (I like Terrifier)
This episode is still bad, in my opinion. I went into it being cautiously optimistic, and was let down by the same problems as the rest of the series (Overreliance on gore, bad pacing, lack of characters, etc.).
He should give up, he's wasting his time thinking the painter will ever get good with any amount of effort.
@pokechimp1544 Took the words out of my mouth.
@TechnoticPlate I _did._ I only gave him another try because I heard this episode was _good,_ and it wasn't. I'm done with UrbanSpook, so I'm gonna continue with Greylock, Vita Carnis, you know, all the GOOD analog horror series'.
@TechnoticPlate I actually _do_ like slashers, The Painter is just a _bad_ slasher.
@TechnoticPlate No characters, bad pacing, very little plot, overreliance on gore to carry the horror, need I go on?
My opinion: it had bad writing and this and the first was the only episode you could take seriously
It was boring to watch just white text on a black background
The criticism about “fuck toy Cory” is over reaction and if you want a explanation I’ll give you one
This episode was the best one and it actually scared me at the footage of them catching the killers
I just wish that the other episodes had good writing and actual visuals like this one
I mean, the story is still ass, but the visuals are insanely good
It’s the best episode from urbanspook’s series but should we really be praising him so heavily for basically doing the bare minimum for a horror series???
i feel like having the expectation of being scared or unsettled all throughout these videos is a really easy way to be let down by the content. while there are obvious moments where Urbanspook wants your imagination to take over and make you wonder what kind of person(?) could commit these horrific crimes, i think these are mainly supposed to be atmospheric police briefing-esque videos, to the point where id say that 80% of the duration of the videos is supposed to give off something akin to a spooky campfire story, with the other 20% grounding you in the reality of these murders and progressing the story and ongoing investigation further. looking at it with a blanket analog horror perspective feels like a disservice
Who knew cringy edgy storytelling can improve with a better budget (still, we are plagued by the over the top grafic descriptions that just become silly for being too specific) 🙄
People should be ashamed of themselves for bashing on a beginner writer like UrbanSlug. Seriously, he was just a kid!
lowkey feels like he decided to rip off terrifier. sole survivor of the titular killer is horribly disfigured, goes insane after giving an interview about the horrors they survived, writes insane shit on the wall and becomes the killers accomplice. hell, she lowkey even looks like victoria
@@AbyssfmPf1KVq6 well tbf he did say it was inspired by terrifier
Hey look, a budget! But in all seriousness, this is the only one I can say is good. Mainly because it actually HAS something happening in it. It’s not a black screen with a photo. I also do like the twist with Bill being one of the killers, and brainwashed into being one. But, the main problem is that it’s underneath a bunch of garbage videos before this one, especially the one with Cory, Pigs, and Meat. But, other then that, it’s good.
It goes to show analog horror is dead and its "fans" killed it. I dont keep up with the series but the hate I see people give the creator who genuinely has talent is insane. Channels like this dont help, the creatively bankrupt, boring commentary channels are the issue. Theyre a dime a dozen regurgitate what the last guy has said. Its just sad to see people hate actual creativity.
Videos like these by people who don't make their own content but instead comment on the things other people create reminds me of a great quote
"You are not smarter than the art you critique"
@@WastedMailman oh please. Plenty of popular things get shitty fans and recreations. There are still plenty of amazing analog horror series currently being made
No one hates the creativity and everyone who dislikes the series has at the very least, praised US' artwork and music for the videos as being genuinely well made and unnerving. It's the fact that the format was repetitive and seems like it was trying to have a nihilistic, "Se7en" style vibe but came out being more "The Human Centipede vol 2" but if it was in slideshow format and had no protagonist or characters to follow lol
There is a lot of great analog horror out there. This one just ain’t one of them
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True Crime fan here, we don't find it interesting either.
you don't speak for everyone lil bro
Bro thinks he's a spokesperson
@@percyc27 don't speak for me lil bro
u dont speak for us lil nigga
We?
I think the main issue you are having is that the horror is not for you really, since you are obviously not into whatever he is trying to do. I feel like you are criticizing John Wick for having too much action. Urban is obviously not trying to achieve any sort of super deep story or whatever, it's simply meant to be a kind of unnerving shocking slideshow of gruesome and creative killings with no holds barred. Call me sick, but I really like the "Stone Loop" or whatever the painting was called in this one, Mona really is a twisted yet humorous woman. Another thing I think the series achieves is a intrigue, since we know so little about the murderers and the police always seems to be completely in the dark, you always wonder if they are finally going to slip up somehow (Which is kind of what happens here). This entry also did an amazing job of humanizing the killers, because despite their elusive, almost untouchable force of nature feel they had until now, one of them is killed when shot in the head while the other flinches from the gunshot and surrenders in fear... really cool stuff
Mfs this is peak analog horror rn
Bro took 8 episodes to make the show good
Regarding the creator having a crashout on Twitter. The one thing of note that you should never do is to open that dogshit app to begin with. Now, a lot of the criticisms levied against Urbanslug is valid. However, that does not give anyone any right to bash the guy over and over again in Social Media. What may have started out as criticisms turned into heedless bullying and harassment, it really isn't hard to wonder why Slug reacted in the way he did.
What *THOSE* "critics" have to understand is that: a.) there is a proper way to criticize someone and b.) as Anton Ego in Ratatouille puts it: "In the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than our criticism deeming it so." That is to say, it's much harder to create stuff than to critique it.
But with Urbanspook showing commendable improvement, I am glad that he did listen to the criticisms. Wendigoon being chief among them, I think, as the Iceberg Boy was one of the only few that didn't skullfuck(ironically) him with negative comments and ceaseless bashing over Dogshit Bird App. And same as him, I do hope Slug could see through his vision for the series in a more refined and polished presentation.
>get valid criticism
>take the exact same cons
>make something really good out of it
>profit
Totally not watching this instead of checking out the update because I dont want to give UBS my view but Im still curious about what’s changed with the series
essay of a child
The walten files and greylock
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@ I like my cheese drippy bruh
Mandela catalog is unwatchable after the fourth installment
@@psychobuff5434 Ik I only put Mandela catalog so no one asks “where’s the Mandela catalog🤓☝️” I only added it because the first 2 episodes
@@MrNonexistant so all you're saying is "first two episodes of mandela catelog because the other 2 are bad"
This is the most boring video I ever watched
No kidding. UrbanSpook doesn't understand that "a random guy was brutalized" isn't scary.
That Skibidi Toilet thumbnail goes hard bro
@@connorscanlan2167 other analog horror like the walten files arent any better
@@connorscanlan2167 "Understand" as if what's "Scary" or not is based on some kind of knowledge and not subjective experience
@@WbedLBed ☝️🤓📘
The people that complained about this entire series is basically complaining about real life. The horror you're used to is scary monsters, ghosts, and other stuff. This is REAL horror. Its REAL horror and its a REALISTIC horror series. The entire story was great. But dont get me wrong, i do not approve of Urban Spook turning Cory into a merch.
@@BrsAykt0019 possibly but that doesn’t really change the fact that it still feels like an old edgy creepy pasta, where most creators of those thought that the more blood and gore there story had the more scary their story will be.
Also “realistic” maybe but for how over the top the murder details can be it feels like it strands away from that. It feels Like terrifier if it was in a analog horror format which……..I don’t know if that really works or at least in the way it’s being done throughout most of this series’s, besides a few good moments here and there throughout the episodes.
@@BrsAykt0019 this is so far from realistic. what
@@aregularfanofmedia4184 I think Urbanspook himself said he got inspired by Terrifier but that doesnt break the fact that its realistic.
@@dono5529 Its not. Appearantly you think of murders at stabbing or strangling at max. The police wont show you these types of things because, well lets be real. Most people cant handle the sight of what these people have to deal with. People deal with these types of things almost on a daily basis. Sure, maybe not as violent as these murders but in some cases, even if its rare, they see this type of thing. So it IS realistic.
@@BrsAykt0019 literally not true, I’m not talking out of my ass either. Show me a few cases in the past 50 years that comes close to shit like forcing someone to choke to death on their unborn child or giving a horse viagra to have it fuck them to death. There’s a lot of horrible murders, look at Albert Fish for example, but urbanspook often goes over the line so hard that there’s no way these people would get away with how much physical evidence they’re leaving behind.
Dang, I prefer old analog ngl
i thought the series was pretty bad up until this point, and i still think the series as a whole was still bad. this final episode was a big step up. still not an amazing episode by any means, but the set up and pay off at the end was actually quite solid and the final bodycam footage was legitimately really unsettleing. explaining that the victim didnt know she was being rescued for 20 mins and that she kept screaming even after the footage was done for, along with still hearing her screams after the footage is cut off was pretty stomach churning.
overall even though the episode wasnt perfect, this is the best pay off a series like this could have gotten
honestly, i'd like to criticize your criticisms.
as a writer, i feel like you're looking into it way deeper than the general audience does, i mean sure a lot of people don't like urbanspook but at the same time a lot of oepople DO like urbanspook
Urban spook is the best and the hive mind is W R O N G
You pretentious anti artist don’t just deserve by desire the cannibalism of culture
first you learn as a writer that u have to write stories that u think WILL AFFECT PEOPLE. urbanspooks did it very well;)