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Since its Spooktober, I think its a good time for a thread about posting horror themed videos Here are some good videos to start. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh09uIN6tl0 (ＬＯＣＡＬ５８ＴＶ - You Are On The Fastest Available Route) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gMjJNGg9Z8 (Unedited Footage of a Bear) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWXnt2Z2D1E (My house walk-through) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4PR9NZlAB4 (The Cat with Hands) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C_HReR_McQ (Don't Hug Me I'm Scared)
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The internet has in recent years become fascinated with a genre of horror which has been classified as “analog horror”. I dislike the genre in terms of content and definition. In terms of content, there is a glut of tired tropes and cheap jumpscares with little originality or substance to be found. I have little doubt the popularity of the genre is primarily driven by children, who are unbothered by cliche and laziness because they do not have the experience to recognize when something has been done over and over, so for them it is all new and novel. Good for them, but I can’t see it from that perspective. As for the definition of the genre, it is a descriptor of some of the most surface-level aesthetic characteristics of the media rather than anything really meaningful. It reminds me of how in video game communities “first-person shooter” and “third-person shooter” are considered genres when really that is like saying that “widescreen” and “standard definition” are genres. So as “analog horror” goes, there are only a few instances of the genre which I have found to be effective. The first is, collectively, the work of Kris Straub with his Local 58 series. The one linked in the OP is very good but perhaps not representative of the series as a whole, which is more in keeping with the “analog horror” aesthetic in that they usually look like the contents of tapes one might find in some forgotten basement. My favorite is Real Sleep, which I feel provides a good contrast to “analog horror” as a whole. Most videos in the genre use thing like Weird Scary Faces™ and distorted voices for a cheap spook, but this one uses them to amplify the actual scary thing: speculation as to the origins of this bizarre pseudoscientific tape and what it actually did to the intended viewer. It’s a little goofy and over the top, but pretty effective overall. ＬＯＣＡＬ５８ＴＶ - Real Sleep https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZ-vBhGk9F4 The second analog horror thing I have liked is BLUE_CHANNEL: THALASIN, the one-off horror film turn from musical artist and humorist Gooseworx. It is undeniably a horror-comedy, and I think it strikes a very good balance between funny and disquieting with ideas like “people all over the world are losing the ability to feel things and the best solution anyone has come up with is Emotion Pills” and “The emotion pill company is trying to expand its profit margins by creating pills that make you feel New Emotions”. Once again it seems that analog horror is inextricably tied to Weird Scary Faces™ but this time those faces are really good with original art, and once again they only serve to illustrate the concept which is the actual creepy thing. BLUE CHANNEL: THALASIN https://youtu.be/Td2x8s9GZlo Finally there is the one analog horror piece that has ever unequivocally and completely worked for me. It’s called SWEET_DREAMS: NEUROCAST by burgerScum. I’m not sure why it works so well for me, it just does. I felt unnerved by it from the very beginning and was on edge the whole time. The first time I watched it I literally held my hand up between myself and the screen because I was terrified of what would break the tension I was feeling with every new detail introduced. Please just take a few minutes to watch it, ideally in bed at night. SWEET_DREAMS: NEUROCAST https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ez3lTdYPx8U I think the effectiveness of this one is demonstrated by the fact that it is the only analog horror thing, and in fact the only internet video in like a decade, that actually got me with the Weird Scary Faces™. It wasn’t even a jumpscare, really! Just fantastic timing, and the payoff to a sense of intense dread expertly instilled up to that point. Then once that is paid off and you let a breath out, the creator in a very short time and few words conjures up the idea of being trapped in a dream with a mysterious figure you must not allow to touch you, only able to escape with an “emergency wake-up procedure” from the manual you almost certainly did not read, and then BOOM it’s over. You don’t get a payoff for that one, it sticks with you. So that’s that. If you see an analog horror video that’s not one of those, you can skip it because it will definitely suck. Probably.
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Oct 10, 2023 18:57
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I think analog horror is popular is because its something that can be very easily made by one person, and they often make heavy use of stock footage. You don't need to worry about getting actors or creating difficult special effects. I think Unreal 5 might make things more interesting. Kane Pixels did a non backrooms thing that is actually pretty cool https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjY897CCu4g, and I'm pretty sure he used Unreal Engine 5 to do it.
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Oct 10, 2023 19:32
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The Hopewell Haunting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sImMmdeO0c There is nothing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns1SGo3WCF4
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Oct 10, 2023 23:22
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Ariong posted:
The distorted faces were fantastic, but I did find the last figure somehow lacking. But I did enjoy it!
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Oct 11, 2023 07:45
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This is the best horror short I've seen in years, despite the last 10 seconds or so: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhazCS14Tas
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