Analogue Horror 

Every analogue horror creator is named Alex and everyone who dies in an analogue horror story is named Mark

Analog horror can be summed up in one sentence… “That can’t be real….. right?”

He was so close to watching Local58, the actual maker of Analog Horror.

I love how at 25:42 there is a recording of the last castrato singer singing “Ave Maria”. For those who don’t know, castrato singers are males who are castrated before hitting puberty. It was a common practice in the late renaissance/baroque era. I heard this piece in my music history class and brought such an uncanny feeling to the room. Just the application in this context makes it for me.

Thank you for the shoutout about the FNaF video!! And great breakdown of the subgenre, discovered Gemini Home Entertainment last year and have been hooked on it ever since. 😄

I appreciate you going into the intricacies of what makes it work and what doesn't. It is a very difficult balance to get right, which I'm sure a lot of people don't really think about when watching "THE SPOOKY VIDS" But yes, thank you for the kind words, I appreciate it a ton. 👍

Mark: I want to dissect why this works Matpat: the idea that things that are familiar to you are unsafe is a disturbing thought.

Came back to rewatch this and I wanna pop an interesting fact in The Blaire witch project is one of the first "analog" horror projects, but it's also very different. My mom knew one of the actors in the original. The actors were literally given cameras and some supplies, brought into the woods by the directors, and left there. A lot of their reactions were genuine. The directors would come and bang on the tent, without them knowing what it was. They would be left notes, like to throw their map into the river. The main point is, except for the beginning and end, none of it was scripted. It was the first analog horror, but it was also something extremely different, and I want that to be known. It was almost like a real life version

Oh boi it’s happening Highly recommend the Walten Files, several of the scares stuck with me

Me: "why would someone buy anger pills??" Mark: "where is the horny option??" Me: damn, I am asking the wrong questions here..

23:40 lmao i just love that mark literally skipping around knowing nothing and just ended up getting that picture, his face is so priceless💀

the fact that mark's pizzaria is literally my local pizza restaurant, it makes that one a little bit genuinely spooky lol

The Backrooms Found Footage is a really good one. Idk if it’s exactly analog horror but it does have that VHS recording and creepy vibe to it.

Thalasin: Lists almost every possible emotion. Mark: *Where's the horny option?*

Coming back too this video after “RU-vid cut this content” was released really shows how mark grew to love the genre

Me with a fear of body disfiguration: this’ll be fun Also me after: **soft anxious crying**

the thalasin one is so funny because aed is literally just depression and thalasin is antidepressants but worded in a creepy horror way

Degrence: A feeling of pure, absolute euphoria, magnitudes better than what any drug other than Thalasin + can do. It is combined with the extreme satisfaction over everything, even the most mundane of things. Accompanied by a minor drop in blood pressure. Humber: Extreme confusion. The literal form of someone saying something so stupid that your brain hurts. Nage: A feeling of forced friendliness, to the point where it becomes psychotic. Dorcelessness: The best term that can describe this infamous emotion is literally 'nothing'. It's a giant void in the part of your mind that controls emotion. Numbness of the mind. Notice the flattened skull in the Dorcelessness portrait? That represents the figurative loss of the parts of your brain that trigger emotion, a part of your brain is gone. Andric: If normal cringe was being hit in the face with a paper ball, Andric is like being hit in the face with a nuclear bomb. It's like that pain you get when you hit your funny bone, but amplified by many magnitudes. Varination: The reason there are two portraits is to show different intensities. Varination 1 is like being frozen-in-fear. Like you are home alone and something breaks in the kitchen. Varination 2 is like you are bracing for something terrible to happen, like you are sinking back into yourself, just ready for it. Ponnish: The feeling you get when witnessing something that just destroys your soul. The best thing to compare it to is the sadness mixed with fear that a lot of Public Service Announcements give off. You just sink back upon being hit with something Ponnish-inducing. Harfam: It's like your brain can no longer comprehend the mere existence of itself and everything around it. Your brain just crashes. Kyne: Kyne is like you have suddenly and instantaneously acquired all knowable information in the universe at once. So much information that your brain just collapses in on itself. Equivalent to scoring an infinity on an IQ test. Trantiveness: An extreme connection to nature. The feeling that you have become one with nature, and this is reflected in the two Trantiveness portraits, which show human characteristics melted with various things in nature (First one represents a tree, second one represents a flower) Teluge: The feeling that you are going to die and/or everything will be annihilated. An extreme feeling of dread, to put it lightly. Onlent: Pure white-hot anger. The feeling like you must obliterate every single proton, neutron, and electron of someone or something. This emotion suppresses all others, and like primal instinct, results in you attacking whatever you feel Onlent towards. Loric: Similar to Dorcelessness, in a way. The pure neutrality of all emotions. To put it into an analogy: if all emotions were mapped on a coordinate grid, Loric will be dead in the origin point, or (0,0). You don't feel anything. You don't even feel as though you don't feel anything. [REDACTED]: The unlabeled emotion is not an emotion. It is a grim reminder to everyone regarding drug abuse. This leads me to believe that this commercial is not meant to advertise a product. It is a PSA. A drug abuse PSA. It shows what happens when you take the seriousness of drugs lightly, though the uncanny valley of the Thalasin + emotions... -TheDinosaurKing 777

The Tangi Virus one absolutely terrified me, and I haven't been scared in literal years

Analog horror is the antithesis of nostalgia and I think that's why it strikes us all so hard

This is no joke: one of the ads that played while I was watching this was an anti-vaping ad, and I shit you not, it was right after the bit about THALASIN and the REAL anti-vaping ad started out by saying, "If you love anxiety, you'll love depression." They were, of course, harping on the fact that vaping can lead to an increase in those emotions, but still. Very unsettling timing.

We'll know Mark is an alternate when he pronounces "room" correctly.

There are four types of analog horror: 1. Something's off 2. News about weird stuff 3. Person telling a story 4. Found VHS tape

I think Teluge is just the name for the feeling you get when you sit on a toilet seat that's already warm

Ah yes, the horror that consistently makes me scared of the dark again

I’m so glad Mark hasn’t been replaced by an Alternate.

Gooseworx is an amazing writer and super cool person, honestly

My personal favorite analogue horror has to be the monument mythos/nixonverse. It just does everything right. It uses mediums that most people are familiar with to show things that shouldn’t exist, and it goes even farther beyond that because the things it presents aren’t just straight up monsters. It’s monuments. Icons of America that nearly anyone living there can recognize, but twisted into something horrific

It was only a matter of time since Mark explored this genre of horror. We’re in for a treat.

Mark: *laughs at the scary faces* Dorclessness: And I took that personally

9:21 lol is it just me or does it look like the rock eyebrow raise

5:08 So is this where he got the inspiration for the wonky side effects of what drink that was in his short analog horror thingamajig?

“You just look at it and go ‘I don’t like that’, and then it gives you more of that” Congratulations, Mark, after years playing horror games you finally summed up what horror is.

It would be great to see Mark cover the Walten files, now THATS some good analogue horror

Amazing how the creator of Thalasin also directed The Amazing Digital Circus!

For the Thalasin vid, I was getting kinda creeped out but Mark made me laugh at the “I want some Onlient!”

“You just look at it and go ‘I don’t like that’, and then it gives you more of that” Congratulations, Mark, after years playing horror games you finally summed up what horror is. 💖💖💖

I wish this was a series, hearing Mark talk about things like this is suprisingly entertaining

Its funny how Gooseworks is now known for TADC

I don’t know what attracts me to these videos. They’re freaky and i always watch them when I’m alone at night even though I already a paranoid person.

Im deeply terrified of analogue horror, but watching with Mark and having him talk about them after makes me more comfortable.

On a comedical note, imagine being in an argument with someone and you pause to go "Hol on I need to take my angry pill rq."

Something I absolutely love about the Mandela catalogue, it builds up tension and makes you think there will be a jump scare. Like those sudden pauses make you think something will jump out and scare you, it then gives you a lot of anxiety thinking "when will it come?", but it doesn't scare you.

Analog horror is *almost* scary, that’s where it’s so perfect. If you look at all of really good analog horror it doesn’t have much in the way of jumpscares or gore like traditional scare factors, where Mark says some of the videos fall flat is because they lean too hard on the “scary skinwalker comin to get youuu”. If you make it so your scary thing is completely normal, then you can trust the audience to make the rest of it scary. So when the final twitch happens the audience is like YEP SEE I KNEW SOMETHING WAS WRONG and then they feel that horrified validation that something is absolutely wrong and it’s been here this whole time. It’s taking advantage of the fear of the dark. “That small corner of my room is dark, there is absolutely someone or something standing in there and I cannot go to sleep but I won’t move or else it will get me”. If the corner started doing chippa chimp goofy stuff then you’d just tuck the covers up or call for someone. What makes that dark corner terrifying is that until it does something, you *cannot* look away. You are not *allowed* to look away. Keep looking. Keep looking.

Fun Fact!: Alex Kister actually made his series just from his phone, he also made the TV Man by actually buying an actual TV!

Am I the only one that would love to see Mark turn this into a series? Not specifically the whole analog horror thing, but just analyzing why scary things are scary.

Analog Horror becomes even scarier when you cannot find definitive proof that it cannot or has not happened...

I just realized that the person who made Blue Channel: Thalasin is the same person who made/works on The Amazing Digital Circus

Mark: "It could be anyone! It could be me....not really *ding*" **flashes back to the "Markiplier is not real" crisis**

Can’t wait to see those unnatural emotions as a “tag yourself, I’m Loric” template

Mandala catalogue is genuinely some of the creepiest shit out there once you understand what’s going on

Me and my lil sis love watching ur vids, even when scared. So thanks for keeping it up Mark! :)

Does anyone remember how Mark's door would randomly open but only when his back was turned?

Mark: *talks about the motif of propaganda in analog horror* Me: “ah yes, the 3 F’s. Front lawn, face up, feet together. Infants and Pets are the smallest of patriots.”

dude the glitch you added scared me i thought my computer was glitching

I love how Mark opened this video like he was welcoming us to a very important meeting on a very important subject.

Markiplier: Breaks down the lore. Also Mark: Menacingly telling us to stick with the plan.

The unknown, the uncanny, and the feeling that you're seeing something horrible that no one else knows about. These make good analog horror.

8:44 THERES A FUCKING MARKS PIZZA 20 MINUTES FROM MY HOUSE OH MY GOD (sorry these things make me very excited)

4:52 I can't help but notice Mark looks like he's experiencing degrence as well

Child: *goes missing* Mother: *starts going up* Mother: *hangs themself* Mark: every time!

Mark: “There is an entity that looks just like you that’s trying to take over your life” Me: “I don’t know why it would want me, I’m broke and home all the time”

I mean, imagine a serial killer kills someone but no one notices because that person still shows up to work the next day. It could make a great horror story, you think that it's a horror story from the point of the murderer, but it ends up being something different. OR, it could be a comedy where there's a serial killer that keep accidentally being the good guy by coincidentally and constantly killing alternates when he meant to just kill people, and is hailed as a hero, as the killer becomes more and more frustrated because he wants to be known as a serial killer.

27:51 Imagine discovering a new species as a gynecologist though

There’s a horror movie called “Await Further Instructions” where a family is sealed in their house and gets instructions from the TV that get more and more violent. They think it’s the government giving them emergency warnings and keep going with it even as the instructions becomes insane. It really follows with what Mark was saying about how you’re seeing something weird through a normal medium like an emergency broadcast and don’t know if it’s real or not.

Mark: "Where's the horniness option?" Me: That's called Viagra, Mark.

4:52 I love mark's instant transition from laughing and straight up fear

5:36 WAIT HANG ON WHO?!?!?!? *amazing digital circus theme plays*

I think what makes this terrifying, at least to me, is the idea of supernatural, uncontrollable forces happening to my natural, controllable world. The monkey one doesn’t give that uncontrollable feel, so that’s where I think it doesn’t work.

After watching this video I can only say one thing. We want more genres of horror from Mark!

Thalasin was made by the same person who made the amazing digital circus.

I love his decent from laughter to abject horror during the second half of Thalasin

26:38 shit

This is exactly the type of psychological, unsettling media I occasionally partake in. I enjoy the occasional jump scare, but it's so much harder to set someone's own mind against them.

22:24 That sounded like Snake setting off a C4

15:37 from what the broadcast stated, it was apparently a muscle contraction, which ties in the theme of geological and biological.

I'm a night time security guard. I'm watching this at work. No one is on this site that I'm at but me. You can imagine the horror as I start seeing people out of the corners of my eyes thanks to the old hunter instinct we have

I genuinely love when Mark just goes off about stuff he is interested in. This video weirdly has the same energy as when he applied his engineering experience with the bridge building simulator. Idk, I just love seeing Mark be genuinely passionate about cool things like this and getting to share it.

Dorcelessnes is a real emotion that makes you feel empty

I think, too, the way your imagination can do you a lot of the work and putting the pieces together is really really cool. It leads to possibly different people making different conclusions. It’s really cool.

Mark: "Let me know what scares you~!" Mandela Catalogue: "Do not speak too much. You might accidentally reveal your fear. (NOTHINGISWORTHTHERISKNOTHINGISWORTHTHERISKNOTHINGISWORTHTHERISKNOTHINGISWORTHTHERISK)" Nice job of slipping that in there.

I think Mark would really enjoy “Gemini Home Entertainment”. Probably one of the creepiest things I’ve ever seen in my life

mark really just described analog horror like a science teacher

There's been some good contenders, but Local 58 TV's "contingency" is still the most haunting analogue horror I have ever seen.

Marks intros makes me feel like I’m watching a real horror movie

its been anothe 2 years but the thing i like is each and every one of them use "examples" of what they look like leaving us to imagine what wed/people we know look like as a disfigured monster or whatever monstrosity

I remember watching berserk and the horror in there really terrifies me. Also, since I started watching you in 2012, I knew you would do well in life. I am proud of you mark. Your biggest fan.

I love the little banter between Matpat and Mark recently. He's like the cool kid picking on the nerd who chose Monty golf.

Mark: *Watches a brutal death by being burnt alive* "Anyway, having fun, memes SO COOL-"

The fact that mark goes on to make his own analog horror

I love the way Mark presents this video and ideas, it's just so cool.

Local 58 is so good, just the hint of mystery yet somehow staying, in a sense, familiar in each episode is just absolutely perfect

I love the component of the “uncanny valley”. Not necessarily that it’s a person that feels off, but like Mark said it’s about things we recognize and messing them up just enough that our brains think “there’s something wrong here… I just can’t figure out what”. It’s a very primal fear that can really only be triggered in specific situations. I love it!!

I love watching analog horror while doing really boring homework. It is like: wow, boring math, but I’m pretty sure I can hear something crawling through someone’s walls, and it’s eating the flesh of children, so that’s nice

Even "Gemini Home Entertainment" is an analog horror series that is unfortunately not as well known.

5:56 Loric is the emotion you feel when you are watching shit hit the fan on the news but deep down you kinda want it to happen

"There is an entity that looks just like you that is trying to take over your life" Well I for one welcome our new overlords, maybe they can get my shit together.

I absolutely love the fact that in his recommended videos, you see deep space Lofi. I’ve drawn for hours listening to that exact video. Yay Lofi, and yay Mark :) ❤

Analog horror is so cool and creepy. For me, its probably a mixture of uncanny valley and that possibility of it being true in some messed up universe that luckily isnt this one. I can personally recommend gemini home entertainment, the monument mythos, the walten files and the backrooms from kane pixels (i havent watched backrooms stuff from other creators so i dont know how good they are) if theres hunger for more.

Literally the definition of the feeling “uncanny”.