Analog Horror thread

[Aldarion]

This is a thread for discussing analog horror, found footage horror and similar horror works.

I'll start with Jurassic Park video:


And my Youtube horror playlist which is mostly analog horror sourced from across Youtube:

 

[TheRejectionist]

Seen the second. Very creepy. If you dig up more YouTube is full of goodies of this kind.

 

[Aldarion]

Seen the second. Very creepy. If you dig up more YouTube is full of goodies of this kind.

Yeah. Analog horror has honestly become my favorite type of horror now.

 

[posh-goofiness]

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC58IKuPHnZkdCZ6T5mSRGCg

Night Mind's a great channel for this. He highlights new and high quality horror media on YT and social media. He also does "explained" type videos if you pussy out of watching the source material.

 

[S'task]

I've got a weird relationship with analogue horror. I don't particularly enjoy watching the base material myself, but I love the deep analytical dives and summary videos that pull together the full story for folks like from the Youtuber Wendigoon.

 

[DarthOne]

Still one of my favorites. No over-blown, over-the-top, inexplicable and often invincible world ending threat. Just, well, see for yourself.

 

[evilchumlee]

I've got a weird relationship with analogue horror. I don't particularly enjoy watching the base material myself, but I love the deep analytical dives and summary videos that pull together the full story for folks like from the Youtuber Wendigoon.

I'm somewhat in the same boat.

I like the idea of analog horror, although I very rarely ever like the execution.

 

[S'task]

I'm somewhat in the same boat.

I like the idea of analog horror, although I very rarely ever like the execution.

For me, it goes to how I like stories told. I'm much more fond of traditional narratives rather than piecemeal narratives or narratives told out of sequence. This is totally a personal taste thing, so I appreciate when people take the non-traditional narratives used by a lot of analogue horror and place it into a traditional narrative structure. It lets me more easily interface and understand it, as I'm not a person who likes having to put together a narrative like a puzzle. Some people do though, and if they enjoy it, I ain't gonna begrudge them it.

 

[TheRejectionist]

Archive 81 it is the only piece of media that can be considered master analog horror.

You guys should watch some of the good stuff like Gemini, Greylock Tapes, Vita Carnis and Liminal Land.

But he is right :

For me, it goes to how I like stories told. I'm much more fond of traditional narratives rather than piecemeal narratives or narratives told out of sequence. This is totally a personal taste thing, so I appreciate when people take the non-traditional narratives used by a lot of analogue horror and place it into a traditional narrative structure. It lets me more easily interface and understand it, as I'm not a person who likes having to put together a narrative like a puzzle. Some people do though, and if they enjoy it, I ain't gonna begrudge them it.

Also it seems everyone who can, have some resources and know how and lots of time to waste is trying to do analog horror.

 

[Bassoe]

Cyberman Maintenance Instruction Video by The Real C'rizz

-we will go over permitted solutions to one of the most common
malfunctions shown by Cyber Workers. Many Cyber Workers may show
symptoms of physical sensation awareness which threatens their
working efficiency and their ability to survive. To alleviate these problems, the emotional inhibitor must be reset.
To locate the emotional inhibitor, first switch the Cyber Worker
into maintenance mode by locating the switch on the left side
of the chest unit. Wait 5 seconds for the oxygen valves to stop.
Next, locate the latches on each side of the Cyber Worker's helmet,
there are four in total. Remove these and use two hands to pry open
the front helmet face. The Cyber Worker's organic flesh may still
be moving despite being in maintenance mode. This is a common symptom
of physical sensation awareness.
The emotional inhibitor can be found at the front of the collar of the Cyber Worker's protective suit. Find the button on the side of this and hold it down for five seconds to
initiate the reset process. This will likely cause the symptoms of
physical sensation awareness to increase in severity. However,
this is only temporary and will not permanently affect the worker's
efficiency or survivability.
After approximately fifteen seconds,
a beep will emit from the emotional inhibitor and all physical
sensation awareness symptoms will subside. Place the front face
plate back again and re-latch the four latches. You can now take the
Cyber Worker out of maintenance mode.
This Cyber Worker is now back
in working order and ready for another expedition to the sur-

 

[DarthOne]

Cyberman Maintenance Instruction Video by The Real C'rizz

Damn meant to share that here. I like it, but it’s got some issues when you sit and think about it.

The Mondasian-derived Cybermen didn't have emotional inhibitors, instead having their brains surgically and cybernetically altered. This is one of my more minor criticisms however.

A larger one is that the video is apparently made by and for the Cybermen themselves. For starters, why would they need such a thing? Wouldn't they have that knowledge automatically included in their database? Additionally, why would they use such crude and primitive means of data recording as analogue videos?

What I would do instead. Because I like to give helpful advice instead of just criticism.

For starters, I would have had the video being recorded by UNIT in the aftermath of the Second Doctor serial 'The Invasion' with that design of Cyberman being used. This explains both the technology being used and why the video is being recorded more naturally.

Now, either what's going on is that the video is being made as an 'on-the-site' recording after the battle for further examination later- as UNIT needs to clean up the signs of battle ASAP- and you've got some soldiers poking at a 'dead' Cyberman. Or instead it's being recorded inside of a UNIT laboratory or something as part of a dissection of a Cyberman 'corpse' to try and learn more about them in case UNIT ends up fighting them again.

However, the Cyberman in question turns out to not be dead, merely temporarily incapacitated and proceeds to become active and cause havoc while escaping. The fact that the 'invasion' Cybermen have the built in ray gun in their chest-unit is particularly convenient in this context.

 

[DarthOne]

 

[IndyFront]

IDK if it's "analog horror" exactly, but I wrote and uploaded this story to the Creepypasta Wiki a few years ago:

 

[Bassoe]

Now, either what's going on is that the video is being made as an 'on-the-site' recording after the battle for further examination later- as UNIT needs to clean up the signs of battle ASAP- and you've got some soldiers poking at a 'dead' Cyberman. Or instead it's being recorded inside of a UNIT laboratory or something as part of a dissection of a Cyberman 'corpse' to try and learn more about them in case UNIT ends up fighting them again.

Alternatively, have it be less official. Sewage maintenance worker John Lumic found a damaged cyberman left over from the invasion, brought it home, built a rudimentary do-it-yourself containment by removing the limbs and hooking it up to an external power source with a manual killswitch, then rebooted it to demand it share technological knowledge in exchange for not turning it into the authorities, allowing him to become England's latest self-made computer billionaire.

With each videotaped "interview", the cyberman increasingly tries to talk him into going into the prosthesis business and fixing it and blackmailing him with threats to refuse to talk now that he's used to a wealthy lifestyle and so forth and so on. By the end of it, the crippled, immobile cyberman has been turned into the new cyber-planner and the ear-pods are Cybus' bestselling product.

 

[DarthOne]

Gorgeous.

 

[TheRejectionist]

Gorgeous.

That's impressive effort done by the author.

 

[DarthOne]

That's impressive effort done by the author.

Yes. It’s also a simple by scary story. Instead of a tangled web of nonsense you sometimes get with analogue horror.

 

[TheRejectionist]

Yes. It’s also a simple by scary story. Instead of a tangled web of nonsense you sometimes get with analogue horror.

If elaborated properly like Kane Pixels it is not a problem.

 

[Bassoe]

analog all tomorrows

 

[ATP]

analog all tomorrows

Creepy,but at least part of them could not feed itself.