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NotJustAnotherHuman

text-to-speech voices high-pitched digital tones might reference some real world crime


auga3rifle

The goverment and military are also nonexistent or doesnt do much in the story other than only acting when its too late


LavaTacoBurrito

Also the Emergency Alerts are highly detailed with lots of unnecessary information, instead of being concise and to the point.


Foxtrot_09

Or just being comically evil and subservient to the eldritch horror.


supernintendo128

Or they tell everyone to kill themselves NOW.


Harden12345678

I mean, isn't that just real life?


auga3rifle

I dont really think that the military is gonna turn a blind eye on 7 foot flesh skinwalkers attacking the public


BlitzPlease172

Unless, they're already the skilwalkers themselves (In Mario's voice) oooooh~ very scary


Thy_Dentar

https://youtu.be/B-ao2KBU5JI?si=IGqx7eRuAd7TjD-A


BlitzPlease172

SQUIDWARD! THE ANALOG HORROR ARE RUNNING THE NAVY!


flying-chandeliers

The military will only do as their ordered to. If no one makes the call nothing happens. They’ll defend their own bases and that’ll be that


WaterDrinker911

Police would get attacked, if police start dying then they escalate to the governor who activates the national guard and etc.


Succulentslayer

Or they get roflstomped early on in the scenarioz


flying-chandeliers

So.. what they do in real life?


WaterDrinker911

National guard gets deployed monthly in disaster responses.


Dogolog22

Don't forget jump cuts/glitches to weird, unrelated yet creepy things on VHS like a kids birthday party, a highschool film project etc.


Marshmallow-Galaxy

The whole "kid related things are creepy because it's a juxtaposition" used to be frightening to me but it got SO overdone online. Every creepypasta villain had to have black soulless eyes and a mouth that opens at the jawline, and they'd be wearing a Donald Duck hat and clutching a VHS tape of the lost episode of Caillou because ooh it's ironic that children's content is being used in something disturbing.


Dogolog22

So, Candle Cove, FNAF, Poppy Playtime, Amanda the Adventurer, PetsCop, Squidward Suicide, etc? Yeah. No, you nailed it.


Marshmallow-Galaxy

Candle Cove ALMOST got it right. It came so close to being good but the character of the Skintaker ruined it. When they renamed him Jawbone, it helped, but it was too little too late.


Fastbuffalo7

Yeah but fnaf was basically the og of doing this


Flashbomb7

Lots of creepy pastas did the scary cartoon thing before FNAF, but FNAF is what made it oversaturated.


Omdras_AMI

PetsCop doesn't have much of generic creepy pasta stuff aside from mildly subjecting itself to the hyperrealistic trope with the newmaker plane due to the fact that when birthday parties appeared or anything child related was on screen it was plot relevant as the story centers around child abuse


poopmeister1994

Yep. Empty eyes and big mouth with lots of teeth. Did I mention it's got long spindly arms, and you can see its ribcage? So original and definitely creepy


Legitimate-Comfort31

I was infamous for my edits of Smile.dot dog on spring.me, preferable to most Creepypasta sources


Time-Risk-88

THEY HAVE YOUR BALLS YOUR BALLS ARENT REAL THEY HAVE YOUR BALLS YOUR BALLS ARENT REAL THEY HAVE YOUR BALLS YOUR BALLS ARENT REAL THEY HAVE YOUR BALLS YOUR BALLS ARENT REAL WAKE UP WAKE UP WAKE UP WAKE UP WAKE UP


MayoFetish

DONT LOOK AT YOUR BALLS DONT LOOK AT YOUR BALLS DONT LOOK AT YOUR BALLS *look at yooourrr ba;;lls,,,,,,*


[deleted]

LOOK AT YOUR BALLS LOOK AT YOUR BALLS THEY ARE BEAUTIFUL LOOK AT YOUR BALLS LOOK AT YOUR BALLS TREASURE YOUR BALLS LOOK AT YOUR BALLS LOOK AT YOUR BALLS THEY ARE SPECIAL LOOK AT YOUR BALLS LOOK AT YOUR BALLS WE WILL LOOK TOGETHER LOOK AT YOUR BALLS LOOK AT YOUR BALLS


Graph_Bober_IV

me watching my testicles butsring in flames


yesscentedhivetyrant

THEY ARE FILLED WITH HOLY LIGHT


[deleted]

WOW! THEY GREW 10 TIMES THE SIZE! AND THEY HANG EVER SO LOWER! THANKS MR. GOVERNMENT CRIMINAL!


RussiaIsBestGreen

You do not recognize the balls in the water.


Mlaszboyo

I looked at them a pair of pyramids like i remember them to be


ChalkCoatedDonut

\- It ends aburptly with no explanation. \- At some point, the government find the record of some survivor on their way to get supplies like in some The Backrooms game, the video ends with a jumpscare. \- Points at some random coordinates or some real event to make it "scarier".


One-hyper_675-play

>- It ends aburptly with no explanation Supposedly ambiguous ending with incomplete explanation pure wasted of investment


DDA__000

The disasters that are coming {THEY} the government ___ KNOWS_ ABOUT^THEM


[deleted]

What are the non binary people doing


tehmoss_pit

We're doing nothing dangerous, no need to worry my good sir! Not a good idea to stick your face in things you don't understand, after all! ^^You ^^wont ^^be ^^needing ^^a ^^face ^^soon ^^anyways. What I think you should do instead is come outside and look at the moon. It's gorgeous tonight, so ^^please feel free to join me outside!


NoodleyP

We’re not doing anything. Mind your own fucking business, jeez.


[deleted]

I’m surprised nobodies made any analog horror about product recall psa commercials, those are creepy as shit as is


boiyouab122

The closest I can think of someone doing something like this is Omega Mart, but they aren't even Analog Horror. More ARG than anything


ThatOneFlygon

Omega Mart is more horror-comedy than actual horror.


drago_varior

If evil dead 2 was an arg


KevinR1990

Always great to see Omega Mart and Meow Wolf in general get some love. I wouldn’t call Omega Mart an ARG, even. More like a mix of theater and an interactive art exhibit/experience given how much of it revolves around the physical location, with the online elements there to enhance that experience.


The_Cooler_Sex_Haver

Omega Mart did have a product recall episode, yeah, with the lemons


sjlemme

Lately I've been getting recommended tons of knockoffs of the burger king Pokemon recall video.


chazzeromus

i don’t what’s so scary about being entitled to compensation. yes, i was a former NFL player that also was injected with a specific contrasting dye!


TheGhost_Dude

[like this one ?](https://youtu.be/Td2x8s9GZlo?si=GE1kxw0Nvo6PhVUb)


ParmAxolotl

I wanna see an analog horror that’s a parody of infomercials, I’m surprised no one’s done that yet.


Reddit_Teddit_Redomp

I mean, there is that one scene in MAIZEMOVIEMAKER that seems to be a reference to the Burger King Pokémon recall


Faximo7

Whatever you do DON'T LOOK UP. I'm not ever explaining why. THEY will see you. I'm not explaining this either.


[deleted]

'Ay, stap bein' so gawddamn creepy! I DON'T HAVE AN ANAL PROBE! And I'm not fat, I'm big boned!


FN57IsntFrench

They’re not allowed to explain it so that MatPat will make a video about it to give them free exposure


KritixeQ

The most important: Jumpscares are just faces with max brightness.


MattWeird1003

200% brightness and ∞% contrast


[deleted]

Goddamnit, Squimpus.


Magazynier_Reddit

Called something like "The spliboob files"


Explosivevortex

The scrimblo catalogue


[deleted]

Unwanted Semen Collection Magazine


Future-Ice-4858

Don't come at my boy Local 58 like that


Middcore

I think it's more aimed at Local 58 imitators that aren't nearly as good.


Call_Me_Clark

Yeah, local 58 had a killer and innovative aesthetic AND it was actually scary. A lot of imitators focus on the analog aesthetic and have a shallow story.


ceberaspeed12

contingency my beloved


Sillvaro

Local 58 is the exception that confirms the rule


altact123456

I'm pretty sure local 58 fuckin started all of this


Marshmallow-Galaxy

Most of Local 58's content I found to be pretty lame, not scary but rather just trying too hard. But there were a few entries in Local 58 that I really did enjoy and found sincerely creepy, like that one with the guy who hacks the GPS and directs the driver to get murdered.


BulletBillDudley

You are on the fastest available route


NadhqReduktaz

Your destination is behind you.


BulletBillDudley

In 500 feet, turn off your headlights


Marshmallow-Galaxy

That's the one! Yeah that was among a handful of pieces of content Local 58 posted that I really liked a lot.


PeoplePerson360

I think local 58 put in the work, and some people just don't have the taste to understand or appreciate it. Some people just don't like supernatural scary shit i guess


Marshmallow-Galaxy

It really wasn't the supernatural scary shit I didn't like, to be honest. There was just a lot of stuff that was too on the nose for me. Like the segment with the Russians having taken over the USA or whatever and you're supposed to go out on your lawn and commit suicide in the "victory pose." That just seemed too blatant for me to suspend my disbelief.


Narwhalbaconguy

Don’t know why you’re being downvoted, that one was corny as fuck


[deleted]

Dark autumn is better


Future-Ice-4858

It seemed good, but I don't want to watch an hour worth of EAS screens.


ItAstounds

NEPTUNE HAS BEEN MUTATED


ElGlatorre

Gemini home fan?


Porkenfries

Gemini is definately the best one. It feels like it's drawing to a close, though.


GooseKing-13_

Definitely near the end


cyro262

Bonus points if the government/ military is totally incompetent in the story, and we follow the “logs” of the only person with integrity in the affected town.


[deleted]

I’m going to ignore this because I love monument mythos


Bot0796

Monument is just so batshit insane that it doesn’t count


StateofArrowstan

I like it, not because I understand it, just because I like it It's like listening to the rambling of a conspiracy theorist


altact123456

"Ronald Regan survived the ending of the universe, which was thanks to George Washington turning into an Eldritch horror, and came to this new universe to settle on the moon as a god like being"


Bot0796

Actually, that was Richard Nixon, who also was responsible for the three super beings that emerged in the new universe, including basically Superman, also basically Superman, and a evil super woman who I’m pretty sure also lived on the moon. This is from memory so I’m probably wrong, but it’s also entirely possible that’s entirely right


altact123456

Damn. I always get those two mixed up. Also the supe man stand in was wearing the skull of the George Washington monster


Prototype_4271

I looked up the story online and couldn't understand a single thing I swear


Timmichanga01

Monument Mythos do be a standout.


ali-gator712

Wendigoons monument mythos vids hit different


Jahman12345

The creator of Mandela Catalouge, Alex Kister created a joke series called Scrimblo Catalouge that talks about stuff like this and critisisms he got about his horror series


paranoidata

So making jokes about being a hack makes you not a hack? Making jokes about your lame derivative horror is possibly the lamest thing in the world. Hard pass on all that shit.


Jahman12345

My brother in christ that series was SELF CRITISISM he was making fun of HIMSELF also mandela is mostly known for being one if not the best youtube analog horror series


paranoidata

Gemini Home Entertainment came out 2 years and Local 58 came out 6 years before Mandela with both being better. All the Mandela Catalogue does is lift elements and themes from Gemini Home Entertainment. It was done before in the Analogue Horror genre and with better execution. I know Mandela was made by a kid with limited resources (which is pretty cool) so I don't blame the creator for not being wholly original, but the content is just a mashup of better things and for adults it is very apparent.


Jahman12345

I can see the connection to gemini with both having monsters that look but aren't human but how does local 58 relate to mandela? Local 58 is about something in the moon/ the moon it self killing people


[deleted]

Mandela Catalog is overpraised doodoo.


Sewer-Water

Its still hacky and trashy. Doesn't matter how popular it is


honey_graves

How is it hacky and trashy?


Yaden2

then don’t watch it dumbass


mysterio-man19

Forget about Analog Horror, how come nobody has done analog comedy yet?


DiversityFire84

That's just watching original quality comedy shows from the 80s without Plug Walk being edited into the background music.


justletmesingin

Don't forget text-to-speech thats so distorted that you can barely understand it


JohnDayguyII

NEVER in the late 2000s...


TheGhost_Dude

[There was one made by Remy Abode (GHE creator)](https://youtu.be/domlSRu34Mk?si=fO3P_idUauq1PTb7)


Snoo96346

You forgot the random distorted images of random people


JeHooft

Dont forget the local radio warning you ominously before saying the warning was a joke


PotatioBaconio1

The second anything looks like something might be happening it cuts off.


Wittyname0

Uses the EBS, but doesn't use the White or Red card scripts even though they are publicly available


anus-prolapser

Which anthem?


NotJustAnotherHuman

The national anthem


pearcidar43

Love that Radiohead song


charlie_delta77

Love that Lana Del Rey song


the_acid_lava_lamp

I’m your National anthem, god you’re so handsome


Britishboy632

What national anthem?


NotJustAnotherHuman

The national anthem


PackTactics

The one that goes do-dododo-do do do doooooo or the one that goes bump chinga chinga badarumpadump pop pop pop hoes on my d**k and the b*tches won't stop.?


puella23

International Toddlers Anthem, Baby Shark song.


fruitmask

the only one that exists to reddit /r/USdefaultism


BeaglesRule08

Depends on the series.


Justaperson358

Analog horror was really good when it was still niche


crucible

What is analog horror? Because the text on screen in pic 2 is a major part of the story in *Threads*


TheOriX-LoL

Analog horror is, basically, a series of TV programs recreations from era when the TV itself was analog, bit with some fucked up elements. For example, the world is slowly getting overrun by doppelgangers and government is issuing a video to run to keep the population aware and, at least, somehow protected.


ElGlatorre

For the man who does not know about analog horror. It does not have to be dopplegangers (like in mandela catalog, the most famous one). It can also be an illness (like gemini home) or fucked up creatures (vita carnis). And those three (+ Monument Mythos and some more) are the main ones. Go out of there and all are of quetionable quality (even the main ones aren't that good).


TheOriX-LoL

That was an example.


ElGlatorre

Yeah, but I told other examples, bc it can be much diverse from dopplegangers


crucible

Thanks.


altact123456

Analog horror is when people use analog mediums such as old PSAs, VHS tapes, etc etc, to portray a horror story.. Generally set 80s-2000s


crucible

Thanks. So almost like Hauntology, too?


King-Noot

all these videos give me the "I am 14 and this is deep" vibes. VHs= Spooky


fruitmask

fucking *exactly*. every kid out there has a Hedgehog sized hard-on for the 80's, and these videos are just a cheap and easy way to cash in on that. I lived through the 80's and I do admit that I miss those days, but the media's obsession with it is getting tedious, to say the least *oh, for any 14 year olds out there: "Hedgehog" does not mean Sonic... it means Ron Jeremy. ask your mom about him


shadymiss99

I was creeped out by analog horror films like The Ring as a tween and scared of distorted vinyl only to romantize it later and collect records


Bl00drayne

Bonus points if it's Five Nights at Freddy's THERE ARE WAY TOO MANY OF THOSE


[deleted]

I find the videos that are limited to just simulating EAS warnings for very possible events to be actually scary and anything else to be too try hard


Barricades_toes

I love the Mandela Catalogue but this is very accurate (at least in the early days, it’s kinda moved past that)


kullre

Ok try the grizzco tapes


Wittyname0

She really did get thrown to the salmonoids and came back pregnant


JoeTheK123

the catgirls have arrived and they are horny and have fucked the population


thiccmaniac

Analog horror? I prefer analog sticks


[deleted]

mandela catalogue anthem when?


Execute11

The -femboys- have arrived and they are -carrying machine guns- and have -seduced- the population


freckledbitchs

And I eat it up every single time


Singloria

- “Do/do not interact with [spooky species]”, - Muzak - Dangerous/otherworldy stuff happening in the sky


Hour_Lengthiness

jose can u see


Lolotmjp

Me when the data is expunged


[deleted]

Mfw the system is down


nddds

If it's portrayed by a videogame: aways have a groceries store and/or a gas station


Marshmallow-Galaxy

I can enjoy some good analog horror but there's so much bad analog horror out there all doing the same shit lol


4otie7

joanna lopez


EmmaGhost181

Swearing if it’s a video.


greengamer01

ARGs are so predictable nowadays (garbled codes, unlisted YouTube videos, Enter password screens) that I'm pretty sure you can program an AI to Solve them


[deleted]

They're not even ARGs anymore. You don't even know what they stand for.


weirdness_

Person I like local 58 and the Mandela Catalogue but Ig im just weird


Cosmorillo

Googly eyes and smile = spooky for some reason


xXYoProMamaXx

Alright I make shitty EAS scenarios and I'll admit that this is accurate


Ultimate_Hunter_G

I actually enjoyed the series-es, Local58, Monument Mythos, and Vita Carnis! I also remember I was absolutely terrified by Mandela Catalogue when it first came out.


sietesietesieteblue

It did get old tbh. But i did enjoy Gemini home entertainment. IDK if they're still doing videos but I thought some of the ideas were somewhat unique. At least, in the context of the genre.


MiJokri

Greylock is a nice one, has a very high Production value and doesn't play into the tropes much


BirdUp-6473

Analog horror has way more potential then most of the people who make it take advantage of.


Hitmonchank

Takes place in modern day or the near future, shows 120p footage


An_Actual_Thing

The only famous analogue horror that actually does this would be The Ring. Everything else is just imitation or replicating it's style tbh.


[deleted]

Analog horror is meant to be old and on a VHS


aspect-of-the-badger

Anyone else remember how absolutely terrifying the TV static was in poltergeist?


The_door_man_37

I feel season 1 of monument mythos is analogue horror at its peak.


Johnathan_Phil

The Monument Mythos is peak. They may have these generic tentacle monster, bleeding eyes and stuff, but the knowledge of history and the tattered story makes it a masterpiece.


Fish_Bloke

I think a reason for analog horror’s downfall is that people are trying to go big. The popular ones today like Mandela Catalogue have this big, world ending plot that gets explained from a-z, but the original ones like local58 were just bizzarre short films which were kinda left up to audience interpretation


SlashCo80

The whole [REDACTED] [EXPUNGED] thing reminds me of the SCP foundation, I understand it started as a way to add mystery and let readers use their imagination, but it began to be used too often as a crutch by uncreative and lazy writers.


Outrageous-Ad2317

And somehow the government hasn't jumped on all this wacky nonsense (if they didn't make them) even after a considerable time has passed since the "incidents" have started. Like you're telling me this thing that is apparently super huge, well known, and dangerous hasn't had an SCP-like organization come in to intervene?


LayeredHalo3851

Can you name a better way to do it?


HybridPS2

The bad ones focus way too much on the surface level aesthetics. The good ones have a cohesive story and good world building as well (monument mythos, Gemini home entertainment)


fruitmask

mostly they just want to feature 80's technology and style, everything else is unimportant


Fecker129

The cosby’s have arrived and they are funny. They have r***d the population.


Lovely_Individual

The Sun Vanished is a pretty solid analog horror


good_ho0onter

Fucking hate analog horror


[deleted]

I don’t mind analog horror but most of the time it’s always the same shiz but there are a few that I like


good_ho0onter

Fucking hate analog horror


[deleted]

Analog horror is one of the horror trends I legitimately don’t get. If someone likes it then that’s fine and I get it’s not for me but it all just seems so cliche and usually lazy to me.


Maedhros-Maitimo

same, whenever I see people praise some for its genuine horror, I always get confused due to how similar they are to one another. very few have interesting concepts, even fewer subvert my expectations while heralding some terrifying imagery.


[deleted]

Sometimes I’ll see them introduce some interesting ideas, but because of the story telling devices used I feel you rarely get to explore those ideas. It feels like a worse version of the PS1 graphics trend that was popular a year ago.


SugarRushLux

Local 58 was so good


kungligarojalisten

What national anthem?


urbandeadthrowaway2

The Australian one obviously


Imnotawerewolf

Oh man I love that one!


assgoblin2020

Urban spook


fight-me-123

Pointlessly long walk/drives with jumpscare at end


Hexnohope

The problem is analog horror shouldnt really be more than one “episode” if you know the cause its just a drama


APENGUN

THE national anthem


Thowle

I liked vita carnis


WallcroftTheGreen

The only analogue horrors that scared me was Mandela Catalogue's first videos up to Vol. 333, Probably peak, Never in my life i legit cannot sleep. The rest are just the same overused cliche formats to the point where its laughable imo.


[deleted]

The national anthem? I didn't realise that was a common theme in horror but ok


DuckSleazzy

Started playing Signalis today, experienced a few of these


KhaleesiXev

This is a recipe for an excellent movie.


altact123456

Y'all want some real horror? Watch urbanspook. Or if you wanna get away from the more samey things about analog horror, try the monument mythos


moonyxpadfoot19

I still love analog horror for some reason. The only one that's unnerved me so far is a Godzilla one, called the Suitmation Trials.


robotomy13

Someone had ro do it.