Analog Horror/World Building general - A tranny boys club deciding what should and shouldn't scare zoomers + geek out about cool projects made by people with real talent

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I've read the Darkplace novels, Holness manages to do for print horror what Darkplace did for low-budget TV horror.

I enjoyed the original series because, among other details, Holness really captured, with Garth Marenghi, one of the worst kinds of hacky "creatives", the hacks who believe they are artists and geniuses.
 
Commander X said:
I've read the Darkplace novels, Holness manages to do for print horror what Darkplace did for low-budget TV horror.

I enjoyed the original series because, among other details, Holness really captured, with Garth Marenghi, one of the worst kinds of hacky "creatives", the hacks who believe they are artists and geniuses.
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There were actual novels? I thought the shit Garth reads in the intros were just made up.
 
TheAmbiguousLurker said:
There were actual novels? I thought the shit Garth reads in the intros were just made up.
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Well those are made up, but Holness decided to write some actual "Marenghi" novels, such as Garth Marenghi’s TerrorTome

When horror writer Nick Steen gets sucked into a cursed typewriter by the terrifying Type-Face, Dark Lord of the Prolix, the hellish visions inside his head are unleashed for real. Forced to fight his escaping imagination - now leaking out of his own brain - Nick must defend the town of Stalkford from his own fictional horrors, including avascular-necrosis-obsessed serial killer Nelson Strain and Nick's dreaded throppleganger, the Dark Third.

Can he and Roz, his frequently incorrect female editor, hunt down these incarnate denizens of Nick's rampaging imaginata before they destroy Stalkford, outer Stalkford and possibly slightly further?
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And Incarcerat, with a third volume coming out in October.
 
It has been a while but I have this thing I wanted to share with youse.

Around the time I wrote my summary of TMITS, this video showed up in my recommended. SEVERAL TIMES.

Yes, I'm writing just now about something from that long ago and if I had the time I would tear to shreds for youse. But I waited and then this guy made a video on Dog Nightmares too.

Analog horror is dying out but it's still around. This guy released a video a week ago about an AI made anaslop and apparently now using AI is ok-ish.
 
Blue Gem Kosher Queen said:
Analog horror is dying out but it's still around. This guy released a video a week ago about an AI made anaslop and apparently now using AI is ok-ish.
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That video is entirely him continuing to shit on AI and that the villain of the story unintentionally works as an analogy for AI users all being uncreative hacks conning people and destroying their humanity with artificial miracles.

My problem with AI, in creative areas at least, is how lazily it's applied and how pretentious people get about it. Like you have people who AI the art, the sound and the writing, at that point you're literally the shitty manager no one likes but takes all the credit. I'm not gonna be impressed that you typed in a prompt a few times, but so long as you're not a twat about it and you don't try to pretend it's not AI, I'm fine with it.

The storytelling in this series ain't good, but I can actually enjoy how they used AI at points. It's mostly consistent, and it's more than just typing out a prompt and then slapping the result on screen, they use the AI to make assets, putting them together, and play around with them to make some neat minimalist animations.

As I've said in another thread, how is this any more stealing or lazy than taking pictures off google and using those? Or the many analog horrors that use real pictures or take entire clips from kids shows with a spoopy filter over it? If I traced over AI art, would that suddenly make it okay?
 
Probably the only ongoing AH that's worth watching at this point. IMO of course.
Blue Gem Kosher Queen said:
Analog horror is dying out but it's still around. This guy released a video a week ago about an AI made anaslop and apparently now using AI is ok-ish.
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I don't know what exactly I dislike about this guy but for the longest time I just couldn't stand him.
 
Toji Suzuhara said:
New Vita Carnis
https://youtube.com/watch?v=V040EGyTEcEI'm liking this quasi-SCP way of presenting the tapes, and the usage of practical effects for the creatures is worthy of praise.

Edit: So now we know how the Nutrire cult started. Long-term exposure to host spores causes people to lose their minds and start worshipping the singularities. Interesting.

Also, some scenes are now presented using PS1 3D models, as if it were a cutscene. No wonder that new videos take so long
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Not a big fan of Quilloy steering more towards CGI, IMO the practical effects were a big draw of his series and what made it unique in the space. Going out of your way to create paper-mache of your meat monsters to put in a few seconds of your video is the effort that was the core value of Vita Carnis. Though two parts of this video I do like:
-the venom extraction clip. The tension knowing what the Harvester can do, and having a human hand being that close to the tendrils, thinking that whatever they used to sedate it was too weak, it'll wake at any second and murder the poor sod harvesting the venom.
-the execution sequence. The lengthy explanation how the neurotoxin doesn't just paralyze you, but also slowly destroys every single nerve in your body as you feel the excruciating pain of it, then noting how the anti-coagulant venom eases it as you bleed out first. Then injecting the guy with just the neurotoxin. Fucking diabolical.

Also great sound design, really makes you feel like you're the one getting injected with the distorted screams and the heartbeat rhythm that slows down. I like it, a little bit of terror in your horror. It's fun when instead of the usual suspense and release cycle you just get slammed in your face with pure uninhibited fear and terror like you're Alex undergoing the Ludovico technique.
Tri-Tachyon'sClown said:
Probably the only ongoing AH that's worth watching at this point. IMO of course.
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When the Jurassic Park fan decides to make an analog horror series.
That is one big pile of shit.
Like, come on. It's clear where he takes his inspiration from. Also, fantastic sound design. All of those guttural blood coughing sounds and primal screams. Everyone always overlooks audio in everything. Games, movies, online series, YouTube slop, you name it. Shit's important, and when you nail it, it really elevates your work.
 
Gay and late but this fag got worse.
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> feet pic joke
> 'won't yuck your yum'.
> cat dick joke
> pretty sure there was originally a femboy joke.
 
Someone gave me this at a rave and I keep forgetting to share it with youse.

Also for my specevofags, here's almost all the episodes of The Future is Wild for your free consumption right on YouTube.

Also late and gay, Wendigoon sucking up his friends for potential movie deals. For those that forgot, a while ago Kister was pretty much begging for legit film producers to make his shitty movie ideas a reality.

And provided this thread isn't completely dead when I come back, I've a treat for you to get us back on the main topic.
 
Sneaky lurker said:
Were zoomers even around to watch analog tapes? A huge 'draw' to the genre seems to be nostalgia+horror.
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Nope CD would have replaced VHS by the time they are old enough to have memories. Nostalgia gets misused alot by zoomers when it is more of a case of "I was born in the wrong generation" than recalling actual experiences. Analog to them is just became a catch all for grainy video.
 
I was wondering what happened to Gemini Home Entertainment. Turned out Remy's computer broke, all Gemini assets lost and he seems to be a zoomer with no stable income. The patreon makes around 400 dollars per month, which is really bad for a solo animator to sustain himself. I fucking hope this is not the end because it is one of the better youtube horror series out there.

 
Something based on the Bloop (even though it's literally just a sound from an ice fall in Antarctica) could be interesting, but the knowledge that Alex Kansas trooned out sours it immensely.
 
Going back to Analog Summaries and I don't know if it's because I was caught in a relatively good mood because of previous posts but this will read as more positive than how I felt about Prehistoric Emergence even though I feel both are pretty even in quality. Tonight, I pick on the new cool analog all the kids are talking about: Mr. Friend's The Moon Woke Up.

It is pretty comedic so this won't be like most of my summaries where I ruthlessly kick kids around. Title gives it away, during the Apollo 10 mission the Moon literally woke up and collided with Earth, killing 90% of humanity, with the series being a semi-comedic world building take on cosmic horror. Like with Prehistoric Emergence, I've to go acksually to say anything negative and even then it is usually addressed in-universe. For example, if you religiously think about Ronald Emmerich's Moonfall, you may know that the mere fact the Earth moves from where it is would mean disaster yet collision is treated a bit like if it was merely an asteroid in the first episode, yet tidal influence ends up playing a role in later episodes. Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus also end up getting close to Earth, locking it on a three body gravitational pull, then disappear and the increase in asteroid hitting Earth is acknowledged. There's some good attention to detail, like the death toll is consistent with Earth's population in the 1960's and keeping consistent that what remains of Earth is scattered to the point Cairo is ground control for space missions. Yet, there are inconsistencies, like how the Moon is supposed to have collided in the middle of Africa in one episode but in another it looks like it did in central Europe.

Something that makes The Moon Woke Up special is that is entirely animated so this isn't your run of the mill spoopy Powerpoint or training tape. It looks solid but there are many times when this dips into fucking Skibidi Toilet territory. Mr. Friend actually has many astrophobia animations and stop-motion but this is by far his greatest hit and the fact that it got popular with those derpy, spooky faces is probably going to play a a role on if you enjoy this or not. Also, the voice acting. The main voice is pretty solid, sells the detached and comedic energy of the whole thing but every other voice is in The Right Opinion in Internet Historian's The Swedish Job or Hunt Down the Freeman territory. I can't figure out if they are going for Russian or Scottish half the time.
 
Valstrax said:
Something based on the Bloop (even though it's literally just a sound from an ice fall in Antarctica) could be interesting, but the knowledge that Alex Kansas trooned out sours it immensely.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Bq-uUeSXpbY
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I couldn't care less about who he is behind closed doors. However, most of this guy's works are terrible. He can never decide if his youtube series is supposed to be horror, dark comedy, capeshit or straight up middleschooler's babbles.
 
Citus Atro said:
I couldn't care less about who he is behind closed doors. However, most of this guy's works are terrible. He can never decide if his youtube series is supposed to be horror, dark comedy, capeshit or straight up middleschooler's babbles.
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I thought The Ningen was interesting and the first season of Monument Mythos was pretty neat, but then it devolved into AMERICA BAD and other bullshit.
 
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