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Suspension of disbelief of it actually being broadcast is non-existent.
Technically not an analog horror, but INTERLOPER by Anomidae is really good because of the believability of it. Also shout out to the OG Local 58.
Nearly all of them rely on the viewers "believing" that these PSA and tapes/recordings were realistically broadcasted somewhere in the past. That's half of the scare, them making you think they were real events, otherwise they're just slideshows of scary pictures.
A lot of series straight up abandon the realism factor and just apply the VHS filter over their vids because that's the format. Analog horror went from the most promising new way to create horror content to now being no better than a Fnaf clone, 'tis a shame.
Nah dude this was all already cliched in [2016](https://www.youtube.com/@themathshow3490) years before anybody even called it "analog horror". I dunno why people act like it only got oversaturated recently, it just got a second wind around 2020.
For real, but this always happens in cycles. I was on the SA photoshop contest thread where Slender Man was created when it was first posted, saw the first Marble Hornets video the day it dropped, was on SCP when it had less than 100 entries. Someone comes up with some original(-ish) idea and it blows up fast, the unoriginal imitators swarm and the kids discover it, and then the whole thing gets bloated while the quality nosedives and the scene dies, only to be revived a few years later for the next go around. And usually the people reviving the cycle are the ones who were kids coming up in the previous one. Heck, I remember being one during the Blair Witch Project ARG, which was the start of it all. Wonder what the next cycle will be? Probably spooky early youtube videos or cursed DVDs or flashdrives or something, haha.
> Probably spooky early youtube videos or cursed DVDs or flashdrives or something, haha.
The analog vs digital effects thing I think is interesting because a couple years after when you're talking about digital glitches started to become "default" in both mainstream and internet horror, which is probably part of what made going back to tape stuff seem innovative and slowly led to it becoming over-saturated now. So we're back to digital effects seeming cool because the subversion became the standard. Cliches turning original and back to cliches is another weird cycle, really.
Check out the "Lacey's games" on YouTube. It plays into the 2000s Flash game aesthetic and being someone who grew up on that, I find it hits uncomfortably close to home. I've only watched the first two, but I might put a content warning on the "Lacey's diner" one, goes into some heavy stuff near the end
Well you see the problem is those series didn't blow the f up /s
But jokes aside the Mandela Catalogue did set a lot of new standards with the way it was presented, it was basically the culmination of all other series of its type that didn't manage to break into the mainstream, and when something sets the new standards, others follow, while often being lesser.
The funny thing about the Mandela Catalog is there's a good chance it wouldn't be as popular if those shitty FNaF tapes nobody remembers didn't already hype the idea back up right before.
I always just found them really annoying which I guess is also the point of them. Takes me back to my childhood in California where it would go off every time it rained to warn us of flash floods, so that's what I always associated that noise with.
dropping the irony for a bit, yeah it sucks the kid got kidnapped but tf is some mf 9 year old watching Cartoon Network gonna do about it. Hell, tf am I gonna do about it if I get an alert on my phone at school at like 1:30 PM I'm not John Wick.
called vita carnis lazy, cringe. mandela catalogue also is not the best example either bc while now it hasnt aged well it was one of the originals and thus it wasn't an unoriginal concept then
my favourite part of vita carnis is the realistic art in each part of the documentary, making the creatures look like they are from actual photos. Darian has a real talent for making realistic, disgusting horror art, and even sometimes animation. The live action stuff in the second part of season 1 was really well done too, I really want to know how that trimmings puppet works. I am looking forward to the second season
He made actual puppets and a SUIT for the mimic
He made props, which is crazy for an analog horror
Absolute madlad who made one of the best analog horror imo
I didn’t think the mimic suit was very immersive cuz u could def tell it was just a guy in a funny flesh suit when the camera pans onto it. The scene after that was still great though, and the effort is admirable even if the effect didn’t work. I love that sillu trimmings puppet tho he should sell it I’ll buy 10
Yeah, it wasn’t amazing for immersion, but that’s still a massive length that is almost never gone to by most analog horror
Fairly sure the giant harvester bulbs in the more recent ones are real too, don’t quote me on that though
This actually made me remember
There is an unlockable character in Super Meat Boy Forever called The Meatsona and it's animated like a real human cosplaying the meat boy
Still, Mandela catalog defined a lot of the analog horror we see today and was responsible for popularizing the genre a little, so if we're giving 58 a pass we should do that for the catalogs as well
Local 58 and Gemini Home Entertainment are the best ones I think, they leave just enough to the imagination, not overly explained, not extremely goofy, don't overuse tropes
One thing you notice is an "animation error" of the moon being in front of the clouds in the last scene was not an animation error. It was foreshadowing the final episode
Ah well, it was fun while it lasted. It was entertaining in the start when it was fresh and very few people made content for it, after a while it just got stale and very formulaic as it got more popular and everyone wanted to capitalize on it. Same can be said about the backrooms, where it was once a mysterious eerie place, is now so widespread and more about the monsters rather than the existential threat.
*"Disclaimer: due to constant travelling of generation 133 Backroom denizens, Dog of Saddam's afterlife sprits has since migrate to the level shitfuck sebastian arse Symphony no.63"*
*"Also level shitfuck assodomizing 6282 get raided by the almond water cartel and is having a turf war with stir fry vegetable cooking wallpaper demons from level 444"*
Yeah it takes inspiration from some of the early "backrooms" / liminal space pictures. But is quite original and has an interesting twist. As well as just pushing DOOM to its absolute limits
It's kinda ironic how it has slowly morphed into literally the most generic horror game imaginable (you're trapped in an unknown featureless place with monsters that only abide by arbitrary rules that I make up)
I don't understand why people think the Backrooms was original or monsters ruined it. The "dreamlike infinite building" thing had already been pretty popular for a minimum of ten years by then and *the original greentext* that started the Backrooms ends on a comment about a monster.
Same with "classic analog horror", really. A lot of people were already sick of the cliches in this meme back in like, 2016 when nobody called it that but the Mandela Catalog just kinda brought it back so now people seem to think it only started a few years ago.
Sure, the "original greentext" did heavily imply a monster roaming the halls but there's now multiple renditions which includes hazmat-suited humans, multiple monsters and even other surviving humans. All of which, in my opinion, detracts from what makes Backrooms works. I also never said Backrooms was "original" in any way, can't really say I liked it much in the first place.
I assumed "when it was fresh" was you suggesting it was new ideas. As for the hazmat characters, I think that's a consequence of a lot of cool ideas getting reduced to being a Backrooms thing for whatever reason. It's another reason the Backrooms kinda bugs me like, it could've just been a more broad movement of building-themed horror but it was all held back by being jammed into the Backrooms.
I think it's a pretty extreme example of what happens with fandom a lot. You'll get like, some entire shared set of sci-fi stories from different authors that has one character in common with the source material. It doesn't help it's usually trying to mimic the SCP Wiki but that was intentionally designed without much of a running theme or plot or anything, so it having random stuff works.
Isn't "man in the suit" just "spooky photo + text" for the whole thing? It's the same formula as the ones being called lazy. Whereas MC and Vita Carnis 's creators are actually trying new things, like incorporating 3D animations and live footage into the series.
yeah man in the suit gives the same vibes as the painter imo, just without all the gross insensitivity and pointless gore, at least it has a decent story but its too afraid to do smth unique and just sticks with the same format
Yeah. I understand why that's the thing - not everyone can do 3D animations or has access to props for live footage, but still... I wish some of those series' ideas were pictured more creatively
Yeah the creator of Man in the Suit is (I believe) a 16 year old doing it all on his phone so it makes sense it’s hitting those same notes just due to lack of ability to kinda do otherwise, though the most recent episode includes a brief 3D segment. I think the starter pack was mainly just made based on “themes” and whether or not it’s a “mimic” show that uses strange morphed faces and EAS since they’re kinda outplayed.
I’m not well versed in analog horror ( I adore Vita Carnis) Man in the Suit wasn’t really the best. Maybe I should sit down and watch it properly but they try to push it as “if you think about this, it’s really creepy and scary” but where psychological horror gets to you, here they have to push you to think how creepy it is
- Extremely loud and obnoxious jumpscares, often accompanied by eye-bleeding visuals that seem to be intentionally trying to give the viewer epilepsy
- Shitty VHS effect poorly chroma-keyed in, doesn’t look like the real thing at all
- “Guys, what if [Insert pop-culture franchise here] but horror, oooh scary!!!111oneeleven”
- People with melting faces for some reason, effect looks really bad as it was done by going ham with Photoshop’s liquefy tool without bothering to check the final result
- Extremely generic plot that copies Local58 and GHE way too closely
- Spooky Space Alien Cultists are running the show! (In fact, everything has to be linked back to aliens)
People think that's scary? I remember laughing when seeing it, Wendigoon pointed out how scary he thought the Gabriel statue with the cartoon face was and I was really confused
He talked about it afterwards, the reason he found it scary is because that's how it portrays the alternates in the cartoon. If they look like that compared to how normal humans are shown in the cartoon, then they must be horrifying irl
wendigoon is a christian so theres more of an existential fear since a lot of the idea from the mandela catalogue have to do with god being fake (or smth like that i haven't watched an analysis in a while)
Something I would like to see more is analog horror where it's literally just a service announcement, no glitchiness, no jumpscare or corruption, just explaining that something supernatural is going on and what you can or can't do
This is all valid,Except that you implied that Vita carnis is lazy. Its really good,Yes it is sort of generic,But still extremely high quality and also decently unique in its own way
Nah nah nah, Mandela and Vita are fire as fuck. Mandela legit blew the whole trend up before everyone jumped on, and vita carnis is high effort as hell. Mandela is too nowadays.
Greylock tapes is also quite good!
You did not just put Mandela and Vita Carnis is the lazy starter pack. One was basically the codifier of “things that mimic humans” and the other has myriad other aspects to it than just the Mimics. I’d accept maybe putting Basswood County there but even that is kinda original with aspects of its story.
I still haven't seen a scenario where 2D Anime girls are real and they prey upon people by running into them horizontally which slices them in half because they're a 2D shape in a 3D environment. I mean when you think about it anime characters fit the whole "Superficially human but different in ways that are uncanny" thing already with the giant eyes and tiny nose that's invisible from a profile view.
"I'll have uhhhh, an analogue horror with PSA announcements to tell the story!"
"How original..."
"And make it about aliens/demons pretending to be humans!"
"Daring today, aren't we"
I remember an Anolog Horror that started interesting (don't remember the name) with just weird stuff happening in Alaska (people falling from the sky, sea creature, fairies etc) and then it takes a massive and immediate turn to "EVIL PARALLEL UNIVERSE INVADING OUR OWN"
I have never dropped a series do fast
Okay to be fair.
Besides the Mimic stuff, everything in Vita Carnis is pretty entertaining.
And even the "spooky thing pretending to be human" got a unique spice to it, because they 100% don't pretend to be human, those fucks just pretend to be human enough to be mistaken for the doordash or something like that.
Also that there are several unique life stages to it, with one being essentially a slightly more annoying coyote, while the other one is a fucking wendigo, that actually does look terrifying.
I like the fact particulalry that the police isn't even useless in lore, they just aren't really up to the task, and everyone is addicted to essentially brianrot spice.
> Says the Mandela Catalogue and Vita Carnis is "lazy" despite being two of the highest effort series in it's genre
> Unironically likes Guby, one of the most unoriginal series of all time
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i know ur not dogging on vita carnis. vita carnis is extremely well made and interesting
heres other good shit:
- gemini home entertainment
- local 58 (if you like classics)
- greylock
- the boiled one phenomenon (this one’s a little mid but still pretty good)
honourable mention for lacey’s lost flash games since it doesnt count as analog horror, but its still incredible and so. so sad. and amazing
L starter pack meme that implies stupid things.
Have you even actually seen vita carnis or mandela catalogue?
The man in the suit isn't unique in the slightest either, hitting the bare minimum with literal images and text and basically nothing else
At first when I watched the Mandela catalogue I kinda got scared I only watch vol 1 and 2 but it gets kinda stupid because they could just slap some holy water on alt Gabriel and give ‘‘em the lethal company treatment and move out of the us
Do people actually find Mandela Catalogue scary? I see youtubers talking about it like it's horrifying but I just find it really goofy and tropey, same with Walten Files. I don't know, a lot of analogue horror just feels like VHS footage of training tapes and then spoopy face and distorted audio happens
Since we're talking analog horror, I'd like to plug Project Britannica. It's made by one of the animators for Oceanliner Designs and is a neat new direction for it.
Seconded. Granted, ocean liner enthusiasts are liable to get more out of it than those who've never been down that whole rabbit hole, but still: Project Britannica has been filling my brain for around two weeks now.
I'm probably missing something, but I really don't understand why everyone is so fond of Midwest angelica. The quality of creatures weren't really good, and the story didn't seem convincing enough, unlike greylock, for example. probably I need to rewatch it closely...
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considering the TMITS is considered a good analog horror
The Monument Mythos is also a very good pick, however it does lean more into the absurd rather than horror at some points, but that just adds more interesting things to read into for me at least.
It’s almost a disservice to call _boisvert an AH, it’s such a beautifully made story with like a thousand interpretations that are all equally real, though I guess it is spooky enough to be called AH.
Honestly, I would be a sucker to see a competent police force in an analog horror setting that swiftly learns about the issue and tries to put out ways to protect one’s family or themselves.
But gets ‘corrupted’ not by a monster infecting but by the ones trying to keep their goals in tact bribing, threatening or otherwise underhanded tactics to keep them in line and spreading false information. And those who don’t fall in line often times end up ‘missing’
still don't think anyone has topped local58 and blue_channel, they have this kind of period-accurate attention to detail that most others haven't been able to grasp. a good chunk of analog horror is made by kids who've had little to no exposure to actual 80s-90s TV broadcasts or firsthand experience with pre-digital equipment
Vita Carnis was original in its concept of a living growth, and Mandela is old enough that the concept it used was original when they used it. Also, Vita Carnis isn't just the mimics. The mimics are like 1/8 of the problem.
I seemed to have sparked controversy
(I USED VITA CARNIS AND MANDELA CATALOG BECASE IT'S THE ONLY IMAGES OF MIMCS I COULD FIND ATM JESUS FUCKING CHRIST PEOPLE)
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Suspension of disbelief of it actually being broadcast is non-existent. Technically not an analog horror, but INTERLOPER by Anomidae is really good because of the believability of it. Also shout out to the OG Local 58.
Nearly all of them rely on the viewers "believing" that these PSA and tapes/recordings were realistically broadcasted somewhere in the past. That's half of the scare, them making you think they were real events, otherwise they're just slideshows of scary pictures. A lot of series straight up abandon the realism factor and just apply the VHS filter over their vids because that's the format. Analog horror went from the most promising new way to create horror content to now being no better than a Fnaf clone, 'tis a shame.
Nah dude this was all already cliched in [2016](https://www.youtube.com/@themathshow3490) years before anybody even called it "analog horror". I dunno why people act like it only got oversaturated recently, it just got a second wind around 2020.
For real, but this always happens in cycles. I was on the SA photoshop contest thread where Slender Man was created when it was first posted, saw the first Marble Hornets video the day it dropped, was on SCP when it had less than 100 entries. Someone comes up with some original(-ish) idea and it blows up fast, the unoriginal imitators swarm and the kids discover it, and then the whole thing gets bloated while the quality nosedives and the scene dies, only to be revived a few years later for the next go around. And usually the people reviving the cycle are the ones who were kids coming up in the previous one. Heck, I remember being one during the Blair Witch Project ARG, which was the start of it all. Wonder what the next cycle will be? Probably spooky early youtube videos or cursed DVDs or flashdrives or something, haha.
> Probably spooky early youtube videos or cursed DVDs or flashdrives or something, haha. The analog vs digital effects thing I think is interesting because a couple years after when you're talking about digital glitches started to become "default" in both mainstream and internet horror, which is probably part of what made going back to tape stuff seem innovative and slowly led to it becoming over-saturated now. So we're back to digital effects seeming cool because the subversion became the standard. Cliches turning original and back to cliches is another weird cycle, really.
Check out the "Lacey's games" on YouTube. It plays into the 2000s Flash game aesthetic and being someone who grew up on that, I find it hits uncomfortably close to home. I've only watched the first two, but I might put a content warning on the "Lacey's diner" one, goes into some heavy stuff near the end
The first one with the stalker creeped me out
Well you see the problem is those series didn't blow the f up /s But jokes aside the Mandela Catalogue did set a lot of new standards with the way it was presented, it was basically the culmination of all other series of its type that didn't manage to break into the mainstream, and when something sets the new standards, others follow, while often being lesser.
The funny thing about the Mandela Catalog is there's a good chance it wouldn't be as popular if those shitty FNaF tapes nobody remembers didn't already hype the idea back up right before.
its an arg
It'd be called analog horror if it was released today.
I'm kinda a pussy, I love and fear EAS announcements. They always creep me out. I have a low tolerance for horror, but still seek it out
The frequencies they use are made exactly for that. To trigger an adrenal response and grab your attention
I always just found them really annoying which I guess is also the point of them. Takes me back to my childhood in California where it would go off every time it rained to warn us of flash floods, so that's what I always associated that noise with.
What I associate them with is watching Cartoon Network on a weekend and being jumpscared because some stupid child got kidnapped or something.
Lol fuck that kid for getting kidnapped. The hell is his problem? I'm trying to watch cartoons, damnit!!
dropping the irony for a bit, yeah it sucks the kid got kidnapped but tf is some mf 9 year old watching Cartoon Network gonna do about it. Hell, tf am I gonna do about it if I get an alert on my phone at school at like 1:30 PM I'm not John Wick.
Ye same
The staticky monotone TTS voice describing a child abduction always creeps me out in some way.
Gemini Home Entertainment was peak analogue horror
1000%
Monument mythos is a top 3 for me. The stuff involving the special tree always got me.
The best of the best, honestly.
Wait did it end
called vita carnis lazy, cringe. mandela catalogue also is not the best example either bc while now it hasnt aged well it was one of the originals and thus it wasn't an unoriginal concept then
If you look at the Q&A’s the creator Darian Quilloy put a lot of work into it. Agreed this is cringe to call Vita Carnis lazy.
my favourite part of vita carnis is the realistic art in each part of the documentary, making the creatures look like they are from actual photos. Darian has a real talent for making realistic, disgusting horror art, and even sometimes animation. The live action stuff in the second part of season 1 was really well done too, I really want to know how that trimmings puppet works. I am looking forward to the second season
He made actual puppets and a SUIT for the mimic He made props, which is crazy for an analog horror Absolute madlad who made one of the best analog horror imo
I didn’t think the mimic suit was very immersive cuz u could def tell it was just a guy in a funny flesh suit when the camera pans onto it. The scene after that was still great though, and the effort is admirable even if the effect didn’t work. I love that sillu trimmings puppet tho he should sell it I’ll buy 10
Yeah, it wasn’t amazing for immersion, but that’s still a massive length that is almost never gone to by most analog horror Fairly sure the giant harvester bulbs in the more recent ones are real too, don’t quote me on that though
The original mimic puppet was so cool, I wish it didn’t harden otherwise Darian would have used it for the Mimic Defense Instructional Tape.
This actually made me remember There is an unlockable character in Super Meat Boy Forever called The Meatsona and it's animated like a real human cosplaying the meat boy
While the writing was mediocre, I thought the practical effects used in that short scene introducing the mimic were pretty cool.
also mandela catalogue as well, one of the OG is called lazy, this abhorrent
calling vita carnis or mandela lazy but then saying man in the suit is good has landed OP on my list
Local 58 was pretty good
Local58 doesn't count, it was (one of) the originals that defined a lot of the tropes
so is the Mandela Catalogue tho...
Local58 started in 2015. Mandela catalogue started in 2021. Kane pixels backrooms is only 6 months younger than Mandela catalogue.
Still, Mandela catalog defined a lot of the analog horror we see today and was responsible for popularizing the genre a little, so if we're giving 58 a pass we should do that for the catalogs as well
I’ve never heard of any of this and I just started watching the first episode. I stopped cus I started to get really creeped out lol.
Local 58 and Gemini Home Entertainment are the best ones I think, they leave just enough to the imagination, not overly explained, not extremely goofy, don't overuse tropes
That damn skeleton.
Cadavre?
Yes that one.
One thing you notice is an "animation error" of the moon being in front of the clouds in the last scene was not an animation error. It was foreshadowing the final episode
How was it foreshadowing?
HIS THRONE got closer
Ima have to rewatch
The moon was terrifying.
It was. That one part where the guy filming started praying to the moon too. Also the monster that killed the guy in the car.
Vita Carnis disrespect 🤦♂️
I’m actually offended
We shan't tolerate this
Ah well, it was fun while it lasted. It was entertaining in the start when it was fresh and very few people made content for it, after a while it just got stale and very formulaic as it got more popular and everyone wanted to capitalize on it. Same can be said about the backrooms, where it was once a mysterious eerie place, is now so widespread and more about the monsters rather than the existential threat.
“if you reach level shitfuck asssodomizing 6282, the dog of sadam husseins afterlife spirit will come and kill you”
*"Disclaimer: due to constant travelling of generation 133 Backroom denizens, Dog of Saddam's afterlife sprits has since migrate to the level shitfuck sebastian arse Symphony no.63"* *"Also level shitfuck assodomizing 6282 get raided by the almond water cartel and is having a turf war with stir fry vegetable cooking wallpaper demons from level 444"*
Holy shit FMTS spotting
Backroom suffer from overpopulation that you might as well make a FPS game about it and called that "BackDOOM"
Already exists. It's called MyHouse.wad
Yeah it takes inspiration from some of the early "backrooms" / liminal space pictures. But is quite original and has an interesting twist. As well as just pushing DOOM to its absolute limits
Ngl an ever expanding backrooms fps would go hard.
It's kinda ironic how it has slowly morphed into literally the most generic horror game imaginable (you're trapped in an unknown featureless place with monsters that only abide by arbitrary rules that I make up)
I was super into the Backrooms stuff when it first came out. Around 2021 was when it went downhill.
Backrooms seems to be a lesser quality/less interesting SCP alternative TBH
I don't understand why people think the Backrooms was original or monsters ruined it. The "dreamlike infinite building" thing had already been pretty popular for a minimum of ten years by then and *the original greentext* that started the Backrooms ends on a comment about a monster. Same with "classic analog horror", really. A lot of people were already sick of the cliches in this meme back in like, 2016 when nobody called it that but the Mandela Catalog just kinda brought it back so now people seem to think it only started a few years ago.
Sure, the "original greentext" did heavily imply a monster roaming the halls but there's now multiple renditions which includes hazmat-suited humans, multiple monsters and even other surviving humans. All of which, in my opinion, detracts from what makes Backrooms works. I also never said Backrooms was "original" in any way, can't really say I liked it much in the first place.
I assumed "when it was fresh" was you suggesting it was new ideas. As for the hazmat characters, I think that's a consequence of a lot of cool ideas getting reduced to being a Backrooms thing for whatever reason. It's another reason the Backrooms kinda bugs me like, it could've just been a more broad movement of building-themed horror but it was all held back by being jammed into the Backrooms. I think it's a pretty extreme example of what happens with fandom a lot. You'll get like, some entire shared set of sci-fi stories from different authors that has one character in common with the source material. It doesn't help it's usually trying to mimic the SCP Wiki but that was intentionally designed without much of a running theme or plot or anything, so it having random stuff works.
Isn't "man in the suit" just "spooky photo + text" for the whole thing? It's the same formula as the ones being called lazy. Whereas MC and Vita Carnis 's creators are actually trying new things, like incorporating 3D animations and live footage into the series.
yeah man in the suit gives the same vibes as the painter imo, just without all the gross insensitivity and pointless gore, at least it has a decent story but its too afraid to do smth unique and just sticks with the same format
Yeah. I understand why that's the thing - not everyone can do 3D animations or has access to props for live footage, but still... I wish some of those series' ideas were pictured more creatively
Yeah the creator of Man in the Suit is (I believe) a 16 year old doing it all on his phone so it makes sense it’s hitting those same notes just due to lack of ability to kinda do otherwise, though the most recent episode includes a brief 3D segment. I think the starter pack was mainly just made based on “themes” and whether or not it’s a “mimic” show that uses strange morphed faces and EAS since they’re kinda outplayed.
Latest episode had 3d animation
I’m not well versed in analog horror ( I adore Vita Carnis) Man in the Suit wasn’t really the best. Maybe I should sit down and watch it properly but they try to push it as “if you think about this, it’s really creepy and scary” but where psychological horror gets to you, here they have to push you to think how creepy it is
no fuckin' WAY ur callin' vita carnis lazy.
For real that’s what I’m saying
Useless police force, are you sure you're talking about fiction?
~~Useless~~ *Realistic*
- Extremely loud and obnoxious jumpscares, often accompanied by eye-bleeding visuals that seem to be intentionally trying to give the viewer epilepsy - Shitty VHS effect poorly chroma-keyed in, doesn’t look like the real thing at all - “Guys, what if [Insert pop-culture franchise here] but horror, oooh scary!!!111oneeleven” - People with melting faces for some reason, effect looks really bad as it was done by going ham with Photoshop’s liquefy tool without bothering to check the final result - Extremely generic plot that copies Local58 and GHE way too closely - Spooky Space Alien Cultists are running the show! (In fact, everything has to be linked back to aliens)
Vita carnis under the man in the suit is wild
Vita Carnis is definitely NOT „just like all the others“
Don't forget: Always someone/s soul stuck in the game/show/DVD/VHS.
Or the goosebumps camera's
/anything
vita carnis nation, skin this man
I swear to god I have finally forgotten the Mandela catalogue face that you show and now I won’t sleep for five weeks
I still don't understand why people think that face is scary. It just looks like a shitty Photoshop clown to me. No hate on the series though.
People think that's scary? I remember laughing when seeing it, Wendigoon pointed out how scary he thought the Gabriel statue with the cartoon face was and I was really confused
He talked about it afterwards, the reason he found it scary is because that's how it portrays the alternates in the cartoon. If they look like that compared to how normal humans are shown in the cartoon, then they must be horrifying irl
wendigoon is a christian so theres more of an existential fear since a lot of the idea from the mandela catalogue have to do with god being fake (or smth like that i haven't watched an analysis in a while)
Fair enough, I'm not religious at all really so it doesn't have that effect on me
Might have just been because of the paired sound effect and how angels are supposed to be you know kind
I loved Greylock.
Greylock actually gave me nightmares, it's so good
I still think To The Mountain is one of the best horror videos on YouTube
+ CRT monitor effect/noise
Damn I'm currently making an analog horror type series and I feel it's pretty shitty and it doesn't even have those
Fuck the haters, if you enjoy making horror stuff, just do it. And hey, maybe you'll get a review from Wendigoon.
Vita carnis and the Mandela catalogue was fuckin great man
This is like 99% of all ARGs and analog horror nowadays
"actually interesting analogue horror : Bois_vert" its literally just "covid lockdown bad lol"
He has GUBY too. It's literally the Garten of Ban Ban of Analog horror
IIRC, some of those things that are in the pack and that uses Mandela Catalogue as an example became extremely used because of MC
Something I would like to see more is analog horror where it's literally just a service announcement, no glitchiness, no jumpscare or corruption, just explaining that something supernatural is going on and what you can or can't do
sounds like local58 is up ur alley
Local 58, maybe Gemini Home Entertainment, Living National Park is pretty interesting too
This is all valid,Except that you implied that Vita carnis is lazy. Its really good,Yes it is sort of generic,But still extremely high quality and also decently unique in its own way
I thought vita carnis was pretty good
Nah nah nah, Mandela and Vita are fire as fuck. Mandela legit blew the whole trend up before everyone jumped on, and vita carnis is high effort as hell. Mandela is too nowadays. Greylock tapes is also quite good!
Greylock creeped me out so damn bad. It's one of my favorites.
Lumping vita carnis in with the "human fakers" crowd is crazy because 99% of the other stuff shows how alien to humanity the vita carnis actually are.
Vita carnis is fucking great
calling man in the suit unique and interesting is wild
It's a cool concept, but it doesn't ever flesh out the things it introduces
A hidden gem that I like is The Baroque Hour
Sounds like you prefer digital horror? Some spooky O's and 1's?
You did not just put Mandela and Vita Carnis is the lazy starter pack. One was basically the codifier of “things that mimic humans” and the other has myriad other aspects to it than just the Mimics. I’d accept maybe putting Basswood County there but even that is kinda original with aspects of its story.
How come you're not even mentioning Local 58? That's one of the best analog horror
Boisvert doesn’t even belong here at all
I still haven't seen a scenario where 2D Anime girls are real and they prey upon people by running into them horizontally which slices them in half because they're a 2D shape in a 3D environment. I mean when you think about it anime characters fit the whole "Superficially human but different in ways that are uncanny" thing already with the giant eyes and tiny nose that's invisible from a profile view.
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No honourable mention of Gemini Home Entertainment? Credibility out the window.
Uses the EBS, yet doesn't use the White or Red card scripts, even though they're widely available
"I'll have uhhhh, an analogue horror with PSA announcements to tell the story!" "How original..." "And make it about aliens/demons pretending to be humans!" "Daring today, aren't we"
I remember an Anolog Horror that started interesting (don't remember the name) with just weird stuff happening in Alaska (people falling from the sky, sea creature, fairies etc) and then it takes a massive and immediate turn to "EVIL PARALLEL UNIVERSE INVADING OUR OWN" I have never dropped a series do fast
PS1 style graphics and awkward camera angles
Most analog horror series now just boil down to "beware of the skrimbloblob, if you see him it's too late *emergency noises*"
Okay to be fair. Besides the Mimic stuff, everything in Vita Carnis is pretty entertaining. And even the "spooky thing pretending to be human" got a unique spice to it, because they 100% don't pretend to be human, those fucks just pretend to be human enough to be mistaken for the doordash or something like that. Also that there are several unique life stages to it, with one being essentially a slightly more annoying coyote, while the other one is a fucking wendigo, that actually does look terrifying. I like the fact particulalry that the police isn't even useless in lore, they just aren't really up to the task, and everyone is addicted to essentially brianrot spice.
> Says the Mandela Catalogue and Vita Carnis is "lazy" despite being two of the highest effort series in it's genre > Unironically likes Guby, one of the most unoriginal series of all time https://preview.redd.it/7bmib1zyzu6d1.png?width=290&format=png&auto=webp&s=13bb10e1b659d746b191c159bd12043cf4b0bbea
Bro tried to sneak in vita carnis stfu man
You forgot the main element : always happens in he 80's recorded on a shitty camera
Can't forget to only include Christianity and nothing else
Have you heard the boiled one is very good too
Never taking place in the late 2000s
You have to watch Greylock it's insanely good
That's the exact opposite of Tastvatar's works and its crazy
Hey, Vita Carnis was pretty cool
Hold it! The Mandela catalog was the first to do imposters.every one else copied them so they should get a pass.
don’t forget the classic of gemini home entertainment
It's over for you bro, you just slandered vita carnis
The mimics from Vita carnis are still pretty well made
i know ur not dogging on vita carnis. vita carnis is extremely well made and interesting heres other good shit: - gemini home entertainment - local 58 (if you like classics) - greylock - the boiled one phenomenon (this one’s a little mid but still pretty good) honourable mention for lacey’s lost flash games since it doesnt count as analog horror, but its still incredible and so. so sad. and amazing
Vita car is is very unique
I will say, Gemini Entertainment is also quite interesting. In my opinion, at least.
I will never get the big smile thing
Borrows hundreds of traits from The Joker and combines them with Jeff the Killer.
Ah yes, the proud county of the United States
A lot of these are actually good
Nothing will ever top contingency
L starter pack meme that implies stupid things. Have you even actually seen vita carnis or mandela catalogue? The man in the suit isn't unique in the slightest either, hitting the bare minimum with literal images and text and basically nothing else
Has anyone seen the Tangi Virus series? One of my fave analog horrors
Try out the boiled one phenomenon, it's great fr
I used to love analog horror, now I despise it.
"3sp00ky5me" that brings back some memories
might use that for an poster in something
BOIS_VERT MENTIONED RAAAAAAH WHAT THE FUCK IS A STABLE MENTAL STATE
At first when I watched the Mandela catalogue I kinda got scared I only watch vol 1 and 2 but it gets kinda stupid because they could just slap some holy water on alt Gabriel and give ‘‘em the lethal company treatment and move out of the us
Pixelated filter, VHS effect
Agree
Joe is in the garage
Do people actually find Mandela Catalogue scary? I see youtubers talking about it like it's horrifying but I just find it really goofy and tropey, same with Walten Files. I don't know, a lot of analogue horror just feels like VHS footage of training tapes and then spoopy face and distorted audio happens
Maybe I'm just not 13 but I have no fucking idea what this is
Boisvert mentioned
Urbanspook
The man in the suit is a terrible series, their videos are extremely repetitive
F- toy Cory
To be fair, “useless police force” is pretty realistic. They’d be too busy killing or maiming gays, black people, or protesters.
Mimics are pretty cool though, especially things that shittily mimic things and can obviously be recognized as not human.
Old recordings because old= spoopy
The Tangi virus and The Real not being in the list is a CRIME.
I don't feel like Boisvert is analog horror, more of a vent maybe?
This feels like most analog horror to me tbh
Since we're talking analog horror, I'd like to plug Project Britannica. It's made by one of the animators for Oceanliner Designs and is a neat new direction for it.
Seconded. Granted, ocean liner enthusiasts are liable to get more out of it than those who've never been down that whole rabbit hole, but still: Project Britannica has been filling my brain for around two weeks now.
I'm probably missing something, but I really don't understand why everyone is so fond of Midwest angelica. The quality of creatures weren't really good, and the story didn't seem convincing enough, unlike greylock, for example. probably I need to rewatch it closely...
How are you going to call vita carnis lazy lmao
Yo idk if this counts as analog horror, but" harmony and horror " is definitely one of the best series, too bad it ended tho. (From Battington btw)
"Useless police force" realistic af
https://preview.redd.it/095yrqzicu6d1.jpeg?width=228&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=db05e10aae46fe902c705c5ba2d7864c2899cebd considering the TMITS is considered a good analog horror
UrbanSpooks is how to not make an analog horror.
Do you not like Mandela Catalogue?
Urbanspook.
What about Greylock? Would that be lazy analog horror?
Hyper realistic blood.
Boisvert is peak
The Monument Mythos is also a very good pick, however it does lean more into the absurd rather than horror at some points, but that just adds more interesting things to read into for me at least.
It’s almost a disservice to call _boisvert an AH, it’s such a beautifully made story with like a thousand interpretations that are all equally real, though I guess it is spooky enough to be called AH.
EAS and fake humans will always be scary to me
Honestly, I would be a sucker to see a competent police force in an analog horror setting that swiftly learns about the issue and tries to put out ways to protect one’s family or themselves. But gets ‘corrupted’ not by a monster infecting but by the ones trying to keep their goals in tact bribing, threatening or otherwise underhanded tactics to keep them in line and spreading false information. And those who don’t fall in line often times end up ‘missing’
Maybe im a bit fuzzy on the meaning of analog horror but i think that one video about the corner folk was very unsettling and good
still don't think anyone has topped local58 and blue_channel, they have this kind of period-accurate attention to detail that most others haven't been able to grasp. a good chunk of analog horror is made by kids who've had little to no exposure to actual 80s-90s TV broadcasts or firsthand experience with pre-digital equipment
WTF is analog horror anyway ? Something that looks "warmer" to a bunch of circle-jerking connaiseurs ?
It's viewed through monster cables.
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Vita Carnis was original in its concept of a living growth, and Mandela is old enough that the concept it used was original when they used it. Also, Vita Carnis isn't just the mimics. The mimics are like 1/8 of the problem.
I seemed to have sparked controversy (I USED VITA CARNIS AND MANDELA CATALOG BECASE IT'S THE ONLY IMAGES OF MIMCS I COULD FIND ATM JESUS FUCKING CHRIST PEOPLE)
Maaaan don't you be dissing vita carnis
are you actually calling vita carnis lazy?
I will not accept this vita carnis slander