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The Man Who Can't Breathe was a formidable opponent for Elise Rainier, but his chilling complete backstory unveils more layers than this wheezing demon might initially perceive.
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Also identified as The Man Who Can't Breathe, this menacing presence hails from the shadowy dimension known as The Further in the Insidious franchise. However, prior to his spectral existence, The Man Who Can't Breathe's origin is surprisingly contradictory. His tale is sketched out through fragments of history, and we have to do some digging in order to learn anything about him, making him one of the most mysterious entities in the history of the franchise.
In this video, we'll be dissecting every facet of The Man Who Can't Breathe, from his sorrowful life trapped by illness, to his conversion into an apparition of fear. We'll examine his interactions with Quinn Brenner, her family, and of course, his fearsome encounters with Elise Rainier that culminated in his final downfall.
0:00 Background of The Man Who Can't Breathe
1:35 Intro
2:07 The Man Who Can't Breathe's Appearance and Purpose
3:00 The Man Who Can't Breathe's Victims and Methods
4:05 Quinn Brenner's Encounter with The Man Who Can't Breathe
6:08 CZsWorld and Youtooz Collaboration
7:17 Attacks on Quinn
11:25 Quinn's Possession
14:13 Elise's Intervention
16:50 The Final Encounter with The Man Who Can't Breathe
17:22 Interpretation of The Man Who Can't Breathe's Fate
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Can you do history of the fiend from insidious chapter 1?
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Can you do a horror history on Freddy Krueger?
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I actually liked the ending When Quinn pulled his oxygen mask off. Got the feeling that the mask symbolized his parasitic feeding on The Souls of others. The reason it killed him is because once it was removed he had to breathe on his own and could no longer depend on the breath he had stolen from others, metaphorically and literally I suppose
I like the idea that along with the souls he literally steals their breath so he can breathe it and survive
nice interpretation .
I took Elise describing the Man who can't Breath as a demon as describing a human spirit who has become so corrupted and evil that they are no longer considered human anymore
Like on Supernatural.
The man who can't breathe, the crooked man, and the key monster from the Insidious 4 Last Key all need their own spin off films.
While I like the Crooked Man, I have a hard time seeing how they plan to make a story around him, seeing as he's not an actual entity himself, just one of Valak's facades. What do you think?
@ArbitraryEverything Understood. There seems to be a lot of hype around the character so the expectation has been built I think they should build off of that.
@@ArbitraryEverythingthe crooked man is valak, and valak’s facade is trapped inside the crooked man toy. Meaning that facade can indeed be its own entity puppeteer’ed by balak
@@joshskrtt8990 Oh shit, that's right. Like in the Nun, even when Valak was banished, the bit of it that possessed Frenchie was enough to keep it on earth.
Well, they did say the crooked man was his facade but there's also the chance the crooked man is actually it's own entity and he copied the appearance off.
I don't remember where but there was a specific phrase in one of the movies confirming that the crooked man is most likely a entity of his own already existing that the demon decided to use as appearance.
Of course as years passed they might have simply decided to not do it anymore and delete the character of the crooked man as entity of his own, but at the start he was actually implied as being a character of it's own given what one of the characters said.
After researching many different types of ghosts, the best conclusion I can come to is that the man who can’t breathe is a Dybbuk. He was once a man who died riddled with cancer completely alone, no loved ones or anyone to care for him at all. Normally within a soul you have Yin and Yang. Yin is the demon part, Yang is the spirit part. If enough hatred occurs during life, and the ghost is neglected with no one to mourn, Yin can take over. The Dybbuk is a type of demonic spirit which has been dislocated from the soul of a dead person and will attach itself to live people to feed off their soul and slowly wear them down overtime. It’s also more likely to occur with male souls and attach to female souls. This is the best conclusion I could come up with regarding this spirit.
Makes sense!
Yes but unsure why you mixed Chinese with Yiddish culture?
There’s gonna be an awful lot of female Dybbuk coming around soon. All thanks to feminism.
@@michaelshattuck1874lol
@METALFREAK03 Yeeeaah I had similar thoughts. Mixing 2 entirely different cultural,religious beliefs & spiritualities together.
7:24 "break her spirit with another tragedy making it easier to absorb her soul" is such a scary scenaroo to imagine, paranormal entities are wild
Thats what they almost always do before possession though
Well in movies, theyre not real
Think a good idea for the franchise would be to make a spin off with these demons/spirits. Like "Insidious: Bride in Black" would be a great idea give us more insight to Parker and why his mother was the way she was but make the main protagonist the person who got away from them, or give us closure to what happened to Allison in the end of chapter 2
Like The Crooked Man from Conjuring 2, I don’t know if he is a separate entity from Valak but the way Ed takes the crooked man story from the family in the end makes it seem like he is a separate entity
@@leadman7600 yeah i liked what they did with the conjuring and with the saw franchise spiral was a good movie, there's so much they could do with insidious if they do it right cause I've heard mixed reviews with the red door
@leadman7600 man I was so hyped when I heard they were going to make a Crooked Man movie!! Sadly is isn't actually happening though.
I said the same think I’m a different vid! A spin off of “the bride in black” would be awesome
@@rigbysoto7896 for real ive always wanted more of a back story with the bride in black
If i was outside and a neighbour said "did i wake you up?" i would assume they made some noise and were worried, or maybe tried to wake me up to ask for something, so i would say something like "i'm not home" to imply "don't worry you didn't disturb me, also you can make all the noise you want right now" or "i cannot help you right now if you need something from my home or you need me to do something physical". "I'm not home" is the fastest way to convey a bunch of information at the same time
yeah it was weird how much that bothered him
I found this demon more disturbing than the red faced demon itself. Nonetheless love the series of films and these fantastic videos regardless.
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The man who can't breathe is pretty disturbing, but I feel the lipstick demon is more terrifying.
Me too! I think it's because the red faces demon has a very stereotypical demon look whereas this one is "too real" because we all have seen people in hospital having to survive on life support ect...
Agreed. The red faced dude has always kinda looked like someone cosplaying as a demon to me 😅
Agreed.
I feel like CZ would make a great host for a horror focused anthology show like twilight zone but darker.
Oh my God that would be so freaking cool 🤩
@@gabriellebraswell3306 right!?
That would be amazing, but he kinda already does this with the horror history playlists. On second thought, that gets us one step closer. Someone write to Lionsgate. We’ve got a pitch for y’all!
Watch out, Jordan Peele.
I think the man who can't breathe having such little lore to him is honestly fitting for what he is. He's a being that feeds on the lowest of people, and because of that he has no true desires, he has no life or love, he has no strength to his character and all he leaves is a bitterness that others have the strength to be happy or at the very least content
Lin Shaye as Elise is fabulous! I would watch her shop for groceries or clean her house. I love her!!
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Her speaking voice for me is so soothing!! I love her parts the most
Lol
Man, if the Winchester brothers were in this universe they'd have no trouble killing these things
lol that’s a crossover I’d love to see
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I subscribe to the idea that Quinn's father was the next target, as many of the actions took by the demon when possessing Quinn's body were directly meant to hurt Quinn but hurt her father more. It makes me think that maybe Quinn would never have been targeted if Grace's husband (the old lady with dementia in the building) did not have the mentally stable outlook about his wife's situation even after her passing as he shows in the film. He makes sure to make a point that yes his wife was being tortured by what she saw (she directly recalls interaction with the man who can't breathe, of course he contributed to her deteriorating condition) but her husband was determined to not perpetuate the negativity and the things she said she saw or the things she may have even said to him when under the demon's influence. Because of that the man who can't breathe went looking for a new target family
“Motherless girl” you didn’t have to do her like that 💀
I would love to see a horror history on Elise for insidious
She is basically the Tobin Bell of Insidious. Without her the movies just become meh and they always try to find a way to write her into the plot. Like her brief appearance in the last one.
@@theblackbaron4119the latest movie was a lame cash grab anyways
me too!
I love you described Quinn as "Motherless Girl" LMAO
As someone who suffers from Major depressive disorder this movie is a great representation of how it is.
Same... Hang in there
Agreed
Depression is a state of mind and rich people
@@Miguel-pv6qldepression is a mental disorder. not as state of mind.
Stay strong my guy,you'll emerge victorious
As someone who isn't a fan of horror, I've always imagined my anxiety as a monster, an entity which feeds on my torment. It's really interesting that a lot of horror stories run with a similar idea. I guess it helps to put a physical form to something that causes a lot of turnoil without a visible cause.
Michael also had the "honor" of playing the diminutive form of Bane in the 1997 Batman & Robin film.
The "spirit that lived in" comment could refer that that it was stuck in the physical realm for some reason, the earlier movies stated that the demons and spirits "lived in" the further, meaning this thing was not originally from the further, but that also implies there is another place that has not been visited yet in the movies a place that the demons are purposefully leaving into the physical world and later find the further as a way to keep the power from the souls they take.
to think there's more beyond the further mentally exhausts me after watching the new chapter. but also why would the red face demon spend so much time in the further, behind the red door? it's obvious he lives there. wouldn't he live somewhere more cut off from other realms?
@@spider-woman9482 If demons go to the further to keep the souls they harvest it makes sense for a stronger one to have it's own inner realm in the further to keep other entities out, we do not know if demons and spirits can siphon souls from one another or from their collection while the entity is collecting new souls or is destroyed, or even if they can devour one another under the right circumstances to gain more power it might be a safety net to his collection in the red room.
I'd imagine it's a manifestation of Hell.
They try and travel upwards (I would imagine like Dante's Inferno) getting more powerful and more powerful and then they break into the Further (Purgatory) where there are a further (no pun in ten did) where there are seven more levels to get through until you get the holding cell (think His Dark Materials) then you have the living.
That's in my own head cannon though. They do seem to suggest The Further is purgatory though.
@@allster0crowly I bet there is a demon who feeds off other demons and ghosts probably. It be some sort of hierarchy like found in the Inferno 9 cycles of Hell. However, those demons (who feed off other demons) have no hope in Hell (no pun in ten did) in coming to the Further as they are too far gone.
@@METALFREAK03 Honestly tying in the conjuring/annabelle lore might just be a sound explanation in itself. There's some sort of hiercharchal system in the conjuring universe. makes sense for red faced demon to be one of the powerful demons who feeds off of weaker entities/ghosts
Aaahh, I can hardly wait for you to do the "things you missed" for red door.
Awesome video as usual. I appreciate all the research that goes into this!!
I thought that it was a separate entity that visited Elise in her home. My theory is that in 4, when Elise opens the red door in the lambert’s attic it allowed the red faced demon to get to dalton, but also to her too. I love this movies. Gonna have to watch them again.
Another amazing video Zac - I have to say the organ to cover up naughty words makes me laugh out loud every time. I love how you can present something that can be so macabre in a humourous way 😂
Thank you! That wall knocking and texting scene made no sense and pulled me out of the movie when I saw it. My friend could not understand what I was on about lol.
Just got back from watching Insidious: the red door and thought of your videos, it's nice to see you still uploading content!
Love these videos man, keep up the great work 🙏🏾‼️
You sir a a true talent. It takes real skill and passion to go this far into the lore of films. I especially love this series, but your Patrick Bateman video was epic
Headed to see the new one in a couple of hours. Can't wait!!! Love these bios. Thank you❤❤❤❤
Sure it makes sense. He assumed that she made a noise which could've woken him up, but he's not at home, so it's impossible for this to have happened. Skip beating around the bush and just say you aren't home.
Or maybe he thought it was a crippled booty call
Agree, totally makes sense to me.
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Easily my favorite UA-cam channel never once considered un subbing you keep politics out your stuff and just do good work thank you for being the best horror movie explanation channels
I keep pointing this out just so you know why we are here as fans. I'm not a massive fan of watching horror movies but I love behind-the-scenes and horror lore. From what I have seen of the Insidious series, the movies maintain a common link but the demons / antagonist as distinctive about how they induce fear. Your presentations are full of information but a lot of fun too.
This guy made insidious 3 my favourite of all of em. How he cradled...Quinn in the further was Creepy and awesome
Your videos are awesome. Keep it up with the good work! ♥
Thanks for making it!
Good stuff, glad to find a new UA-cam horror Channel. Thanks bro
Your content is absolutely top notch. Best horror lore.
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Amazing work as always!
Yuuuuz new CZs video at 2.30am in the night. Perfect!
This video addresses the possibility of the form being based on someone who lived in that abandoned apartment. I believe that not only is this the case, the resident and their family were likely the first victims. Perhaps this resident had a touch of psychic power, and would astral project near the end to escape. The family either thought the demon was their dead relative, or confused the warnings as invitations to join. The neighbor woman who talks about The Man Who Can’t Breathe may’ve known the resident in life, and talked about their ability. Elise may be able to sense the resident, hence the confusion over whether it’s a ghost or demon.
The man who can't breathe is by far my favourite. Absolutely terrifying and so sorrowful.
Insidious is definitely one of those movie franchises that you rewatch and come up with a new theory every time! The man who can't breathe is an interesting character because I could be wrong but he's the only entity that can leave his main haunting location. I know the bride in black had showed up in photos but the man who can't breathe could pop up anywhere Quinn was and not just in the further. Which makes him more terrifying because he presents himself as a weak sickly ghost but if he has the ability to travel outside the further then he's far more powerful than the veiwer thinks.
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The Man who can't breath I always assumed he was once human -and inhabited the flat above Quinn when alive. People use 'demon' often as a blanket term for any evil spirit, especially the insidious franchise which exists in a pretty secular world! I've researched demons a fair bit and their origins vary wildly depending on culture and belief - especially if you step outside Christianity i.e. some theories are they were once human etc, the conclusion I have is that demons (or the concept of them) have various origins, they aren't all the same sort of entity! Also the man who can't breath could be part human - part embodiment of suffering, part ghost, part demon/negative force.
CZ, would you ever do a video on the Terrifier franchise? I love your channel and the movies so I thought it’ll be dope
Omg I used to hate insidious 3 it was the only one that never scared me but thanks to this video I now understand how genius it and the insidious series are and it’s my favorite horror series
I literally rewatched Insidious 3 last night and now this pops up. :)
He was "this" close to getting a new body
"Some psychopath attempting to murder her with his car"
The humor over every video makes it 10x more enjoyable
Always great videos
Are you going to be doing things you missed Red Door?
Keep up the great work, your analysis and video style is the best in the film/tv serial "scope" of youtube!
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That knocking on the wall part makes sense though. If he assumes that she did something right before she texted him then him telling her that he’s not home implies that she did not wake him up because he’s obviously up already.
This one of my favorite insidious movies already knew this was coming.
I swear every time I watch cz’s videos I fall asleep his voice is just so calming💀💀
Great video!
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I think that demons in the further are the souls of humans that don't want to move on and over time they become demons. That's why she refers to him as both. Just my theory though!
Honest to God, I find the Insidious series to be the most hilarious horror franchise. They are the opposite of scary with maybe two good jump scares from across the entire franchise. The scene where she suddenly gets nailed by a car kept me laughing for a while
chapter 1 and 2 were actually insidious, not because we learned the history of the bride in black and humanized what it once was, but because we knew how the hatred festered. after that, they began to show us too much and made it too bizarre. bizarre is just not scary from an outside perspective, even if there's a logical reason behind it
This is the only franchise that is not scary. I still wanna see the newest movie though😭😭
That’s certainly an opinion you have 🙂
Theyre goofy and deliberately a bit over the top, fun though
Chapter 3 is one of my favorite horror movies and Quinn's so cute. The Man That Can't Breathe's so creepy looking too.
5:30 this scene is the one that traumatize me as a kid. I keep imagining it at the street light looking and waving at me.
Always kill with the content mate
I love the amount of Australians that are behind the scenes creating these incredible movies.
yo great vid man
Love your videos
Maybe he was a spirit that did live in the building, but Elise describes him as a demon due to his vengative and cruel ways of acting, parasiting souls, it drags souls. Demons try to cause pain in the physical world, not cause them suicide, would make sense hr is a resentful and cruel spirit
I will always love the worldbuilding of these movies
To those people who wants to understand the entire Insidious franchise I will recommend to start with 3 then 4 then 1, 2 and lastly 5.
Am I starting losing my mind, or there’s an effect on your face like a tear falling almost on the right cheek, though left from our perspective. Anyone else notice that happening multiple times in the video or am I nuts here?
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LMAO I felt the pain in your expression when you said "The Dark Side" at 16:17
I'm really not into horror... but I love these videos XD "Horror by proxy" if you will.
that one scene when she got hit by the car gotta be one of the best jump scares fr 💀
Loved this movie! Was super creepy and it had a cool story!
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can you do the one that scared people the most. THE HASH SLINGING SLASHER !!
Hey brother, I can't watch without acknowledging how Jacked you look, definitely tell you're eating better and working out. God bless from Ireland.
Seems like they regret killing Elise so early with all these movies from the past that she's in and yeah they shouldn't have killed her off when they did
I think James wan only planned on doing one insidious film initially. That’s why he killed her off at the end of the first. Worst decision ever for sure
Love this one
I don't know, I think The Man Who Can't Breathe has more than one manifestation and in chapter 3 we only got one of those manifestations.
As you said, he could be older than 1800s, and that apartment building was built in the 1930s.
I assume he moves around as a spirit attached to male living forms, before splitting off into different manifestations and lairs.
In some legends, humans can eventually become demons. With the man who can't breathe, I always theorized that he was actually a human living in the building and while alive, he was a sexual predator. I feel he use to kidnap women and torture/SA them repeatedly until he either kills them or they kill themselves. Then the victims, never being found or getting justice, didn't get to "move on" or break free from their place of death. Then as the man got sick and died, he too was attached to his place/room and continued his torture w/ the souls as well as luring the living over to his side. This has always been my take on it, especially how disgusting the man was with his touching n proximity towards Quinn - it always gave predator
I thought the exact same thing, good to know I'm not alone.
@@MILZ414 glad I’m not alone too. It’s always good to see different takes overall
That makes a lot of sense. Someone added their take on it and said he was once a man who died but simply didn't have any loved ones, your explanation could be as to why he didn't have loved ones. Cool inquiries!
@@spider-woman9482 I saw something similar like that too! It’s always good to see other’s take
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He’s the only one that makes my skin crawl
My no prize explanation for the demon with a physical world history is that the demon possessed someone in the building, lived out that life and died there, and decided to stick around the general area in the further with his new MO.
Imma be honest. 12:39 scared me here more than it did in the movie.
6:22 that picture has no business going that hard!!
8:03 I’m so confused 😭. What would be a better answer than "I'm not home" if they are always doing this knock thing with each other? Like, what else could he have said to make this scene make more sense?
That's what I'm trying to figure out 😂. The neighbor replying, "I'm not home," would basically imply "No, you didn't wake me up."
@@Terrell101ify I was waiting for someone to tell me I missed something 😭. Glad to know I wasn’t the only one confused,
same lol they literally knock on each others walls every night. guess he forgot that part and why the entity knocking back is so bone chilling
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I think this is my first time watching one of this guy's videos. Does he always do that thing with his right eye? A more prominent blink, almost like an intentional wink, and that's the only thing I can focus on when he's in view.
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I always thought that the implication was that it was a human but the soul is now that of a demon
Just a comment on Quin and her neighbor. They clearly regularly knock on the walls to communicate and have probably woken each other up before by doing so. So that question has been asked before. Therefore, it's not weird for him to answer her that way because he knew she was referring to knocking on the wall to get his attention.
“Motherless girl” I actually laughed out loud 😂