An analog horror short based on the legendary mechanical monsters known as THE CYBERMEN, as seen in the well known BBC TV show ‘Doctor Who.’ Music: Things That Are Beautiful And Transient
A sad little planet drifts helplessly through the void. The once proud inhabitants sit huddled under the concrete roof, longing for a sky that would drive them mad to see. A lone photographer drifts onto the planet, his shoddy equipment is the best he can manage. He’s been travelling for so long with so little light to guide him. He finds the frozen world and sneaks a few shots of the doomed people as they slip further and further into the darkness. He knows he cannot save them, they are too far gone now and his craft only has room for himself. All that’s left to do now is to film. He tells himself that documenting their plight will help somehow. He knows he is lying to himself.
There's something so eerie about Mondas just as a concept. A planet spun out of orbit of its star, now just drifting off endlessly into the void. It's citizens consumed by nothing but a desperate desire to survive at all costs,
The Mondasian Cybermen are the perfect candidates for horror such as this. The cloth, the seemingly cobbled together metal sewn and bolted into their bodies, it all comes together to create what has the potential to be some genuinely horrifying body horror.
Agreed. The whole concept of the Mondasian Cybermen was the idea that once enough of a person was replaced with mechanical parts, they would lose their humanity, and I think the Cybermen were originally a parable for what could hapen if prosthetics went too far.
" *This is all that is left of Samantha Harriot - a golem made out of scrap.* ..The kids like their "new" mum. They think she looks cool. _..I just cannot sleep anymore._ I keep praying at night in hopes that it won't touch the children. They gladly have it sleeping with them in the same room. At certain points in time, around when we have dinner, it goes outside around the back of the house and starts spouting what seems like random words; phrases and dialogues while looking at the sky. I always try to follow it so that I can observe what it's doing, while mostly trembling in fear with just a rusty shovel in my hands. I tell the kids that the thing is just going to the bathroom or something and needs privacy so that they won't follow it and hear it's voice. *It is the most terrible and haunting voice i have ever heard.* My heart bleeds every time i hear her mangled voice mumble another one of these wretched words. _I wish I could run away and never look back. I would run so far and soon I'd start crawling..._ "
This is such a tragic and nightmarish idea that just thinking about it is making me physically uncomfortable. There needs to be a Cyberman story that focuses on this idea.
I feel that as the show went on, Cybermen became more flanderised just as "typical cyborg armies" but the original ones in The Tenth Planet and also the ones in Tomb of the Cybermen were properly creepy. I'm glad someone else recognises how creepy they used to be and made this. Good job
The body horror just seems to come and go every now and again the colony ship being an example and the cyber controller in the parallel universe being another
And that's actually audio from the show, if I remember correctly. Capaldi's doctor, from the episode before the episode before his last series finale. For all its zaniness, who can get very, very dark when it wants to.
@@sinenomine2681 The bit that got me was when Bill goes in the room with them all and sees them pushing buttons. It looks like a reflex until you hear the audio "Pain Pain..." The nurse (?) comes in and switches off the loudspeaker. Now we know what they are all trying to say.
Surely an influence here, especially when you see the cyber-converted policeman and cyberhorse (based on a WWI photo of a horse in a gasmask, I think?)
The Cybus Cybermen did later do full body conversions starting in the Battle of Canary Wolf (Army of Ghost/Doomsday), but even still, they don’t really show that much of human in their designs. Where in the earlier designs, you can see their human eyes in the tenth planet and can briefly see their mouths or chins in the 80s Cybermen. I liked those small details still reminding us that these machines were human once.
I’ll stand by the fact I still think the new cybermen designs have their place, since they make sense as an endpoint for the Cybermen once they have those resources. But yeah, the Mondasian ones are hundreds of times better for body horror
Welcome to Mondas. I am your father, It’s a Monday and the sun is just saying goodbye. Tomorrow will be a special day for you and I. The future is like one baked pie. It’s delicious, yet we have to wait till it cools down. (Brief pause) The future is coming my child, from tommrow you will become a grown up. You will become a Cyberman.
_Spare Parts_ and _The World Enough and Time_ are my favourite _Doctor Who_ stories, and this video absolutely does them justice. Really sad and disturbing stuff, absolutely amazing work.
The Cybermen were a race of people who became horrible cyborgs out of a big gambit for survival. These are based on the 1960s versions, which are eerie at best. Like the Borg before the Borg. Later versions had different origins and imo don't compete with the creepiness of the originals.
I remember seeing the episode about them in season 10 when I was 12 or something and being genuinely disturbed, there’s just something about that that’s so uncanny. They somehow make you feel just as horrified of them as you are for them.
god i hope you make more AH about the Cybermen alongside the Daleks. I find the idea of transhuman horror Analog barely visited ground. Keep doing great work.
The Mondasian Cybermen are so much more creepy than any New Who Cybermen designs. The new ones have lost the true cyborg look. The new ones are more like robots. The cloth faces and still human hands are nightmare fuel.
I agree. The new who Cybermen do loose that essential human part that make the Cybermen so terrifying. Even when they brought back the original Mondasian design in series 10, they still made changes that diminishes what makes the original design so creepy. Like how they made the eye holes completely black instead of being able to see the eyes through, and replacing the normal human hands with gloves. They did originally have an early suit design that was essentially a “see-through” Mondasian Cyberman that was cut for the series 10 episodes which would’ve been really scary to see
Great video, it really shows how conceptually terrifying and dystopian the Cybermen are. It's a shame Doctor Who (or Torchwood) has never used the concept to its full potential. It's very cliche to say this, but the Cybermen are like something out of Black Mirror.
They have made a handful of incredible audio stories that use the concept of the cybermen to their fullest potential. Spare Parts is on spotify if you want to give it a listen. This video seems heavily based on it (like with the policeman and horse).
Nobody ever really thinks about the dark implications of a lot of Dr. Who, I mean there is some fucked up shit in that show, even for how campy and weird it gets.
I am always amazed that fan art is so much better than the drek being pumped out by studios. This is seriously creepy & would be brilliant in a feature length production
Hot take as this may be, but they really picked the most miserable way to become robots y'know? I understand desperate times call for desperate measures but like, b r o.
If there's one nitpick I have for this video it's that I think the music isn't needed. For one I think it's cheesy and overplays the horror, and two I just don't think it makes sense to include it for what is supposed to be post-Cyberman historical footage: music is made to evoke emotion, and Cybermen have none. Other than that I think it's great.
*~So it was humanity who created the Cybermen...~* The Cybermen were actually created by an alien species who looked just like us humans, but they turned themselves into mindless cyborgs to survive. Man... Can the Doctor Who universe get any more dark?
@@gustavolourenco5709 By the way, I just did some research and as it turns out, the Cybermen weren't actaully created by humans, they were created by an alien species who looked and sounded just like humans, but their planet was too far away from the sun, and they were suffering, so to survive they resorted to turning themselves into cyborgs... Pretty sad and f****d up, I never released just how scary the Cybermen were...
Nope, some of it is from episodes from series 10 of Doctor Who, some are old stock footage, some are fan art, and some are made completely from scratch. Though it kinda does look like it doesn’t it?
