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Something I've been doing more lately is watching scary things before bed. This weekend ritual gets me perfectly sleepypilled for whatever reason. But the intention of this thread isn't to find cozy videos, its to find scary things! I want to find more channels related to cryptid/scifi, rather than unsolved mysteries/murders. Here's a few I discovered lately that are exactly my jam: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWNMsZ44ooc Basically "found footage" in some abandoned liminal space mall. Quite horrifying even if the thumbnail gives the scary thing away. I died when I realized the uploader of this is somehow only 18. Definitely want more of this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyDvpwpRPM4 Sort of like Local 58, but a lot more cryptid (and scary imo). Trying not to blow through all the channel's uploads in a weekend. Will take any and all suggestions, but definitely looking for things to make me too scared too leave my bed lest the monsters get me
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Lol, I saw the headline to the thread and came to post the rolling giant video. That poo poo is god tier liminal horror.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWNMsZ44ooc this kid is now making a film with A24 based on his "Backrooms" stuff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4dGpz6cnHo 1000 Sweaty Rikers fucked around with this message at 10:17 on Feb 17, 2024 |
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Kane Parsons, the 18 year old kid who made The Rolling Giant video, is super hot poo poo. He started making Backrooms video content about 2 years ago and his works are by far my favorite. A24 just signed an agreement with him to direct a 'Backrooms' themed film under their label and they gave him nearly total creative control... And he's only 18. Here is the first video in his Backrooms series, and it's a fuckin banger. If you like it, I recommend the whole series. Like I said, the folks at A24 watched this and thought it was good enough to fund him to make a feature. https://youtu.be/H4dGpz6cnHo?si=Qv8glqpVcEEWXXFC As for The Rolling Giant, Kane dropped it like 3 months after the A24 announcement and it's his fuckin opus. He takes the best parts of the backrooms concepts and turns them into his own thing that totally supercedes everything else in the backrooms subgenre. It's seriously the poo poo. Also, The Rolling Giant is technically a 3 part series so far. The first video is kind of a miss and is best to just ignore, but I think the 2nd video is the best place to start. If you have no idea what this whole 'Rolling Giant' thing is, good, I'm being intentionally vague. Don't look up anything about it, it's the freshest idea I've seen in horror and the execution is nearly perfect -- which is rare in analog and liminal horror genres. Just skip the first video in the series, start with the 2nd, and then move onto the 3rd. Part 2 - Beneath the Earth (12:07) https://youtu.be/EjY897CCu4g?si=m2VUN8XWhqBf7HXm Part 3 - The Rolling Giant (46:18) https://youtu.be/wWNMsZ44ooc?si=5jkCho-E6n8dXa3H I watched part 3 in the dead of night and it bothered me so much that I couldn't't get to sleep until the sun started coming up at 5am. It's so loving good, but I don't want to actually talk about it until the thread is a bit deeper and people have had time to see it spoiler free. Stunt-Puffin fucked around with this message at 10:51 on Feb 17, 2024 |
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For videos about non-fictional things, look no further than the YouTube channel Nexpo, particularly his "Disturbing Things from Around the Internet" and "The Darkest Lost Media" series There are many other YouTube channels that do this format or present this type of content, but his production quality and editing really amp up the creepy factor and sense of dread, and are perfect for watching in the dark at night. A movie studio should really hire him as a horror film editor. Also, the fact that the things he's showing actually happened makes them inherently more creepy than works of fiction.
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Feb 17, 2024 11:04
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If you've never heard of The Backrooms, it's a horror concept that was established with a single post on 4chan in 2019 The Backrooms are kind of like the Slenderman in that nobody is sure who owns the IP, so tons of different people have done their own takes on it. It's a cool concept, but a lot of those takes are honestly trash. I like Kane's work the best.
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Feb 17, 2024 11:05
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To push the thread forward, Local 58 TV is a good analog horror channel that has made a number of really disturbing short videos. Here are my 3 favorites of theirs. Weather Service (2:34) https://youtu.be/M75VLQuFPrY?si=FOvhLJ3qyMp0soQC You Are On The Fastest Available Route (3:39) https://youtu.be/jh09uIN6tl0?si=hopTjt3Owf3V8zNu Contingency (3:09) https://youtu.be/3c66w6fVqOI?si=tsLQadYBsJJD58oG
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Feb 17, 2024 11:21
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Local 58 Skywatching is a good one too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BD-ba-aXQo
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Youtube horror is my poo poo, looking forward to more posts in this thread No Through Road is pretty good, especially considering it was really one of the first big examples of this kind of thing https://youtu.be/08rj_ioKNSo?feature=shared I think there are a couple more in the series, which were pretty good iirc but the first one is iconic
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Stunt-Puffin posted:If you've never heard of The Backrooms, it's a horror concept that was established with a single post on 4chan in 2019 Yeah. That was me. It's still hard to grasp that a random post I made at like 3am while trying to find horror content somehow germinated into this whole mass over the next few years, but I'm ridiculously happy it managed to give a creative kid his own career, and a ton of other people games to make and play. Rolling Giant in particular is good to see as a departure from just Smelly Yellow Office Rooms, and he taps right into that evil feeling of being inside huge empty man-made structures of ill intent. I hope he keeps going and exploring other similar spaces and concepts. In relation to the idea of dangerous Out-Of-Bounds places, I always liked this horror short from a decade back. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_Okf__vMI4
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Feb 17, 2024 17:18
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The backrooms idea is great. I also like watching the Dead Mall Series by Dan Bell, who occasionally covers some real-life liminal spaces.
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Feb 17, 2024 17:23
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Black August posted:Yeah. That was me. i may have called you "gay". Sorry
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Check out the channel Scary Interesting if you're like me and find the idea of underwater spelunking utterly terrifying, among other things.
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Black August posted:Yeah. That was me. Wait am I reading this wrong or are you saying that you made the original post on 4chan? If so I gotta ask, whats the source of the original image? Last I checked that was a pretty big lost media mystery, so it would be pretty sick if you had some info on that.
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Feb 17, 2024 19:29
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The Hopewell Haunting is a really well done ghost story made up to look a lot older than it is. Simple and effective, probably filmed in one of those abandoned houses you see off the side of the road in rural areas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sImMmdeO0c&list=LL There's also the much better known "My House Walkthrough" set in Japan which has similar vibes to the new backrooms stuff. https://youtu.be/qWXnt2Z2D1E
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Feb 17, 2024 19:30
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cumpantry posted:i may have called you "gay". Sorry I can forgive a lot of a Depresso avatar.
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https://www.youtube.com/user/welcometonightvale
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dweepus posted:Wait am I reading this wrong or are you saying that you made the original post on 4chan? If so I gotta ask, whats the source of the original image? Last I checked that was a pretty big lost media mystery, so it would be pretty sick if you had some info on that. There is no source I know of. It was a thread of weird spaces and I did a micro-fiction when I saw the image, quoted it, and wrote that post using one of my writing ideas. It’s probably just some empty office somewhere that’s long since been occupied.
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Feb 17, 2024 19:38
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It's got church basement vibes.
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Nexpo was mentioned earlier in this thread (and rightfully so, he is one of my favorite creators in this space), so of course I gotta suggest one of his other channels, Nick and Ryan https://youtube.com/@NickandRyan?feature=shared Nexpo and fellow horror youtuber Nick Crowley set out on a ghost hunting journey to challenge their paranormal skepticism. And as far as ghost hunting content goes, its pretty good stuff. Every time a new episode drops my wife and I get some snacks, turn out the lights and bundle up on the couch to watch
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Black August posted:There is no source I know of. It was a thread of weird spaces and I did a micro-fiction when I saw the image, quoted it, and wrote that post using one of my writing ideas. It’s probably just some empty office somewhere that’s long since been occupied. drat. Well thanks anyway. Its a fantastic post and inspired a ton of great and very creative stuff (apparently the creators of Severence were inspired by it so especially thank you for that)
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Feb 17, 2024 19:46
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McGavin posted:It's got church basement vibes. I hate that I agree with this...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns1SGo3WCF4
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dweepus posted:drat. Well thanks anyway. Its a fantastic post and inspired a ton of great and very creative stuff (apparently the creators of Severence were inspired by it so especially thank you for that) Thank you. I can only hope I can get my own horror writing out there soon. What’s Severance? Part of my complete overwhelm from all of this is that it happened behind my back. I made that post, nobody wrote anything else cool to comment on, I left and never went back until 2 years later I see YouTube recommend me the Backrooms. Absolutely goddamn surreal feeling.
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Black August posted:Thank you. I can only hope I can get my own horror writing out there soon. What’s Severance? Part of my complete overwhelm from all of this is that it happened behind my back. I made that post, nobody wrote anything else cool to comment on, I left and never went back until 2 years later I see YouTube recommend me the Backrooms. Absolutely goddamn surreal feeling. Oh man. I dont wanna derail the thread too much, but I very highly recommend you check out Severence. Its an Apple TV show that may very well be one of the best pieces of media I've ever watched. Its a scifi drama series that explores backrooms-esque horrors but also the horrors of corporate life in capitalism? I couldnt do it enough justice in a forum post, its like 9 episodes so its not a huge time sink if you don't end up enjoying it.
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dweepus posted:Oh man. I dont wanna derail the thread too much, but I very highly recommend you check out Severence. Its an Apple TV show that may very well be one of the best pieces of media I've ever watched. Its a scifi drama series that explores backrooms-esque horrors but also the horrors of corporate life in capitalism? I couldnt do it enough justice in a forum post, its like 9 episodes so its not a huge time sink if you don't end up enjoying it. Oh wait, is that the show with the weird office stuff where people don’t remember the job? I always meant to see that but never did. Had no idea it was Backrooms inspired.
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you know about Eventide Media Center, op? This here's one of my favorites: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7biplCCWBfA the Sisterhood of Salvation LLC doesn't have a lot to it now, but what they have is imo already good enough to recommend, in a "watch this space" sort of way https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI59V41yNj0
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQfDxMikuoY
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Brian David Gilbert usually doesn't make horror stuff, but this video is pretty good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXZy8BbMz_U Then there are these two videos made by Alan Resnick (probably have heard about them) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gMjJNGg9Z8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-pj8OtyO2I
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While not necessarily horror, Ben Wheele is a fantastic animator of bizarre, unsettling imagery with his channel of surreal media: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isdrUOPzyN4 Robert Morgan, however, is all about super-creepy stop motion animation. He's responsible for stuff like "The Cat With Hands" and "CHANNEL X CARTOON SHOW," which is my favorite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYeof4xVpKw
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The thing that blows me away about the The Rolling Giant video is that the entire vacant mall is based on the (now demolished) Valley View mall in Dallas, Texas and rendered almost entirely in Blender from the original mall blueprints; no real set. Same thing with the fully rendered descending staircase in the second part (Beneath the Earth). Like, holy gently caress that is talent and dedication. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lmAHZcpwx0 And yes, The Rolling Giant was actually real.
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Someone here might be able to help me find an old, creepy YouTube series that I saw once. I might have some of these details wrong. I remember it being about a guy and his brother, who I think had some kind of mental illness. The guy basically cared for his brother and made a bunch of short, amateur videos about their life together and their challenges. The first few videos were pretty normal and did a good job of convincing the viewer that it wasn't going to become anything weird, but then things slowly went off the rails. I very distinctly remember one video that was from the brother's POV where he was filming something bad happening from under a bed. Now that I type all that out, I realize how vague it is, and it could probably apply to several different "found footage" style Youtube series. Oh well, it's worth a shot. I first learned about it from a channel that did YouTube horror series deep dives and explanations; I don't think it was Nexpo (who I am also................... a fan of).
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The Horde of Satanic Terror makes excellent unsettling music videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07qnmW_FOP0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBTs8yMFJ-s
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I mentioned Nexpo earlier but wanted to add a few: Mr. Nightmare - Some dude basically just reads "allegedly true" stories submitted to him with some accompanying visuals and sounds. It sounds cheesy, but he just has the perfect voice for creepy stories and that combined with his editing makes them fun to watch in the dark. While most of the stories have no verification and I have no doubt many are fake or embellished, most of the time they are at least plausible and are often cautionary tales about remaining aware of your surroundings and taking note of red flags. Dark Matter, Lazy Masquerade, Nick Crowley, Shrouded Hand: A few channels similar to Nexpo but just not quite as good, but if you like that kind of content you'll surely find something of value somewhere in these as well.
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Greylock is one of my current favorites. It’s newish and feels like a bunch of the best analog horror ideas on youtube put together and executed really well. I sort of wish I had found it later so I didn’t have to potentially wait another three months for the next video. https://m.youtube.com/@greylockhorror
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My House Walkthrough is a classic, it's incredible https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWXnt2Z2D1E The making of video is a great followup, dude put in some work
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This stuff is pretty dumb but I watch it every night with my 8 year-old son and we love it. Good bonding time. We also watch those dumb videos of people with potato cameras seeing a tree at night and insisting it is a demon. "Could this human-shaped silhouette filmed 100 yards away in a snowstorm be a human? Perhaps, but it might also be a Bigfoot or an angel. We will probably never truly know..." The Bible fucked around with this message at 01:02 on Feb 18, 2024 |
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I don't believe in the Giant of Kandahar. I don't think there is a giant snake in the Amazon rainforest called El Diablo that can stun cows by slamming it's head down on them and then drag them away to be eaten. I don't think Vietnam veterans encountered 7 foot tall bulletproof lizard people. Still, some of the stories from Wartime Stories are quite entertaining and spooky. Like encounters with Djinns in Iraq and Afghanistan. It's kind of like a soldiers version of boyscouts telling ghost stories around a campfire except it's presented as 100% non-fiction. You don't have to watch it either, just close your eyes and listen.
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Valko posted:You don't have to watch it either, just close your eyes and listen. this is also how your posting is best consumed
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Worf posted:this is also how your posting is best consumed Aren't you that weirdo pretty boy who couldn't stop talking about how attractive he was in the GBS selfie threads? And then you made a weird satanism themed thread in GBS about womens reproductive rights that didn't go over very well. IDK, didn't read it. Then you got totally roasted when you went to QCS to complain about it while having the username STATUTORY APE? E: yep, I was right. Didn't know dour-rear end Fluffdaddy could actually be so funny. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=1&threadid=3978800&pagenumber=1&perpage=40&highlight=statutory+ape#post517566004 Fluffdaddy posted:This is some real self flaggelating pity party bullshit, op. So imma close it. Valko fucked around with this message at 02:11 on Feb 18, 2024 |
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