Film Theory: Beware the Living Flesh! (Vita Carnis) 

I love how Trimmings just sounding constantly distressed and looking completely miserable and confused. Clearly not having a Good Time™️ and people in this universe really went, “ah yes, a pet.”

That harvester scene was something else. Really showed how far the creator was willing to go to show the ability of these things.

The harvester was the most traumatizing and scariest in that one scene where it shows and allows you to hear what dying to it sounds like

"Ready your meat snakes" is one of the best no-context Matpat sentences

Mat absolutely struggling to maintain composure while describing meatsnakes is today's life fuel

Nothing like seeing a couple of grown men burst out laughing at the words "Meat snake" being said in an analogue horror series. Never change, Team Theorist. Never change.

My theory, is that the singularity and the monoliths create these sounds similar to radio waves to draw in all of the vita carnis. So the vita carnis are lured to things like televisions or radios, explaining why they took over that radio tower in the newspaper clipping. They were just confused and mistook the radio waves as a call from the monoliths or the singularity

5:46 "run,hide, and scream" We all have a little bit of trimmings in us

Vita carnis is one of only a couple of analog horrors that truly scared and terrified me

I swear whenever MatPat does an Analog Horror theory the world starts spinning again

“Ready your meat snakes” MatPat, my meat snake is always ready, like a true theorist’s would

After all these years... The Mimic - FNAF The Mimic - Vita Carnis The Mimic - Mortuary's Assistant Finally, I have them All.

Got a couple of easter eggs to point out: the scientific name displayed for the singularity is "Verum Carnis" which is Latin for "True meat;" another connection to it being the center of things. Also, the Vita Carnis documentary on the Mimic instructs you to not use any weapons you have, instead telling you to use them to block attacks (timestamp 6:31), while the Mimic Defense video tells you to aim for the head or legs (timestamp 3:20), and to "fight back". This, coupled with the suicidal content warning on the Mimic defense video points to the instructions being counter-productive.

Matpat and analog horror go together like peanut butter butter and jelly.

The Trimming is the Most oddly adorable little tiny flesh pie of cuteness i have ever seen.

I love how film theory can sometimes have episodes about kid's shows like paw patrol or SpongeBob, and then a few weeks later have episodes about... This. Fucking love matpat.

Matpat: "this analog horror is different since it doesn't have aliens" Also Matpat: "so these are aliens"

Fun Fact: At 13:59, during MatPat's debut introduction of The Singularity, you can see it's name as "Verum Carnis", and if translated from Latin to English, it means "the truth of the flesh." Pretty neat detail!

It reminds me of the SCP, the flesh that hates. But it's also original and really fresh. I like it.

*crying and crossing my fingers watching the title* “He’ll make it funny, he’ll make it funny” *it’s midnight and I am scared*

The idea that the singularity is the "prince" is terrifying bc it implies that there are more powerful forces than the singularity, potentially being much more malevolent

In my opinion, this series manages to merge together speculative biology and evolution, sci fi and analog horror perfectly. Never seen something quite like this.

He's making a chapter 2, only 1 video has been released yet but keep your eyes peeled

I refuse to believe style theory existed 10 months ago.

Goddamn, that mimic jumpscare was legitimately horrific. I am so glad I didn't watch this at night.

Honestly, this is one of my favorite series ever, I'm very glad Matpat is doing theories about it!

Me: Literally fears nothing Analogue horrors: allow us to introduce ourselves… Me: *checks under bed for mimic*

the fact that it doesnt follow a single person or group of people just entities is kinda cool in a sense cuz it can open up alot of story-telling ideas cuz i love to think of if the documentary wasnt there how would the info about the entities reach the mass public if like only government officals know and thats y i love this even more it leaves room for imagination

I had a nightmare a few years ago where there was something just like the crawl stuck to my grandparents wall, the thing just kept expanding until someone I couldn't regonize touched it by accident and started to scream, then I woke up.. because the stupid alarm synchronized with the man's scream

MatPat makes me feel like I'm not alone when it comes to being weird 😭

Its pretty wholesome how the trimmings “noises” that it makes at night in the video is actually the trimming warning the owner of a mimic.

Goodbye Matthew. It's fun hearing your voice

Analog horror is one of the best kind of horror it's hard to comprehend what is going on but it's still sends chills down your spine

This makes me want Matpat to go into Mystery Flesh Pit National Park, except that is all text based. So i don't know how he'd make it into a video. But it is one of the most interesting and creepy unfiction I've read in awhile.

Thanks for fleshing out this horror concept.

YES!!! I immediately realized the flavor enhancer/spore connection and i'm SO glad you did too!

After watching the harvestor a couple months ago I was very terrified to go outside a bit. What’s worse was I had to go to the forest to walk my dogs so that was fun. I can say that I did get nightmares from that video of people getting killed by harvestor, If you haven’t watched it and want to watch it- please don’t. To simplify it there’s lots of screaming and gore.

I honestly think that it would be such a great twist if the Singularity actually turned out to be largely positive or good in the end once it wakes up, with the cult around it being the real monsters. Probably not gonna happen, but considering the Prince was described as kind and helpful in the storybook, it'd be a neat twist if all the bad happenings and violent creations were accidents or unintended creations during the Singularity's slumber.

Good bye matpat

I’ve seen the series a million times yet still the intro jump-scared me😭

So glad I wasn't the only one who found the Trimmings to be strangely adorable and endearing

This is the most original analog horror i have seen. The creativity, the biology aspects, the realism and the scifi fantasy. Probably one of my favourites

Matpat absolutely NEEDS to do Monument Mythos, it is one of my favorite analog horrors.

“Most original” Monument mythos: exists

Matpat and Dead Meat are easily my 2 favourite RU-vid channels. Same vibe too. Just a group of really passionate people that love each other and love their audience and have a ton of fun making content for us

Fun Fact: On the little lore bit documenting the _Singularity_ it is labeled as Verum Carnis. Which, when translated, is Truth of Flesh or True Meat. Which, as Matpat already surmised via this video, is the reason why all of the Vita Carnis creatures are alive.

you do so much research like this is crasy

Fun fact : when you watch living meat research documentary when they talk about the crawl they show a map of where they grow but on top of Brazil there is no crawl growing and then just disappeared from the map time stamp at 3:26

"Strange *fleshless* creatures made of *pure* *meat* ." Made me chuckle lmao, truly the narration of all time

The meat snakes remind me of the “Wife of the Thunderer” story. It’s a Native American story, and it’s about this girl who meets the Thunder Gods and they tell her about an evil serpent that eats the dead buried bodies of her people. It poisoned the rivers for more food, and comes out once a year I think to feast. It just reminded me of the Native American story, and it’s cool to think that the meat snake might’ve been inspired by it!

8:40 It’s unnerving trust me I didn’t trust mat pat and I regret it

7:37 my guess is that they can contort and manipulate there limbs so they can crawl and hide in these hiding spots

5:50 "what can I say I just love myself some meat snake" MATPAT 😭

I love how fast this went from being enamored by gore turtles and glutton worms to unadulterated fear

i love watching these before i go to sleep, it helps me sleep.

I love how he never mentioned about how there's 7 monoliths surrounding this one area that doesn't actually exist and how they are guarding singularity

I love these types of analog horrors. the ones where u wanna watch it, but u know u will be paranoid for 2 weeks if u do it.

Gotta say the Mimic Jumpscare has got to be the most I’ve jumped from a video in a while

More of this hard to spell subject please it’s amazing and I have seen this video like a million times so I will be ready if there’s more

This got to be my favorite film theory

Respect to matpat for sacrificing his soul to William Afton to bring us theories

Omg I’ve been waiting for Matpat to go over this series. It’s very interesting and too real 😵‍💫

This seres is only an excuse to stay inside

In case you’re curious don’t watch the harvester attack clip… because it’s not even that bad lol it’s just a bit of AUGHHHHHH and pictures of bloody bones

Its always amazing to see matpat get a theory out of his large magic hat, and then explain it so it doesnt seem so random

That mimic thing is definitely nightmare fuel, I'll never trust my furniture again, it's real spooky, I agree it is one of the most original in a very long time

“That’s pretty long!” And “it’s harder and longer than normal meat snakes” got me dieing!! 😂😂😂😂

7:35 me casually sitting on a beanbag right now then immediately almost having heart attack

One minor issue I have is that... the "Children's Story As Metaphor for Vita Carnis" is... By this definition, wouldn't that make the Singularity a benevolent entity? Since the whole thing about the prince was them promising to aid the critters when they awaken.

As an Canadian I confirm that massive humanoid creatures are standing in a circle around Hudson’s bay Edit: holy smokes 982 likes! That’s the most I’ve gotten in my 5 years on the internet, thanks!

You know you've done a good job when mattpatt makes a theory about you

This is so old. So we will need a part 2 because that will be truly good.

When i first came across vita carnis i knew it was something iv been yearning for. Its such a good and original horror concept. I really hope it gets the appreciation it deserves.

This reminds me a lot of “The Flesh that Hates” S.C.P. Immediately upon seeing that thumbnail I got super excited thinking you were doing a 910 theory. I’m surprised you haven’t done a lot of S.C.P. theories. The market is very saturated, but with your quality I feel like you’d stand out. There are a lot of theories to be made on that series, and I hope to see it someday

i actually had an idea for this once, without watching the video and more just practicing horror drawings. I made a thing called the Strayer, they kinda work like a mimic, but they can contort their limbs to have an advantage on their prey.

“Ready your meat snakes we got a lot to chew on”bro💀

This series, whilst I haven’t seen much of it, is incredibly well produced, and looks to have a high production value

In the harvester documentary, the harvesters density/population start to move toward the island. I think this is the critters/humans giving food to to the prince/singularity, and in the next videos we will see other entities begin to move toward the island with the monoliths as well.

I just realized ive been jumpscared so many times i didnt even flinch at that jumpscare

That intro jumpscare made me go through rigormortis. Im gonna cry.

I had actually watched the series before watching a film theory on it for once, and even though I knew what to expect from it already I was dreading Matpat showing a clip from the harvester attack. Actual sigh of relief when he chose not to.

One thing that has thrown me off a bit is the last 3 creatures. In every other creature it always brings up how they originate from the crawl. Like the trimming and mimics are broken off nodules. The harvester is an expanded node. The meat snake “separates” from the crawl. But the host, monoliths and singularity are never mentioned as to how they’re from the crawls and yet the tree implies that they are. And those 3 seem most interesting to the lore. The hosts’ spores are in the flavor enhancer, the monoliths are giants standing stationary in a circle and the singularity we know almost nothing about.

I have an analog horror suggestion, the alternate universe of vintage 8. All their work is really cool and every video is connected and are set in the same universe!

Matpat needs to make a video on Life of Luxury and Luxury Dark.

Personally, I REALLY dig the speculative biology aspect - it’s refreshing to see monsters being treated as living things with a place in the ecosystem, rather than nebulous supernatural bogeymen they often are in many other analog horror series. Also, I have to point out that despite narration explicitly telling us that these are NOT aliens, the whole thing really feels like some very elaborate terraforming tool. With its sudden appearance out of nowhere, convenient way of spreading via the crawl and occasional new forms (such as monoliths) popping out from time to time, I’m getting the impression that its end goal is to gradually replace all life on the planet with more of itself, until the Earth is completely transformed into something else.

I'm really glad vita carnis is getting more attention, its one of my favorite series!

FINALY! Finaly u made a video on this!! Yay!

I love the story of vita carnis because of the amazing character facts and originality and I hope matpat can continue watching the next season of vita carnis

6:30 This is the first time I've heard MatPat laugh in the theory videos and I am thankful to the Meat Snake for letting us experience that.

Another detail that seems useful to notice is the fact that the name of the organisation behind the documentary (C.A.R.C.A.S) is very similar to the word carcass which means cadaver.

The trimming convinced me to subscribe

Watching matpat talk about meat snakes is one of the most hilarious things to ever come out of his channel

What Vita Carnis becomes different from any other analog horror series is that it isnt like a infection or a invasion of unhuman like beings, but is like a survival documentary, that shows food types and every other thing else

I LOVE the fact that you help other content creators to grow by making theories about their projects

More videos have been posted in this series since this video's posting. However, I think I just cracked some of why things are happening. What's known so far (with season 1 of 3 out) is that there's a cult that seems to be asking some entity for help, as mentioned in the various still frames that tell a fairytale style story mixed in with some of the videos. The thought popped into my head: if the cult us asking for help, what are each of the variations of the Carnis supposed to do? By order of appearance for what I can remember: The Crawl: a meat plant that can both survive off dead flesh of wildlife and be photosynthetic; it also grows in abundance everywhere. Problem to solve: world hunger. Trimmings: little scavenger critters that eat mostly detritus and trash materials. Problem to solve: waste proliferation Meat Snakes: scavengers that "feed" off dead bodies. They directly incorporate the materials in its body, growing in proportion to availability. One had been discovered after a major war in a subway tunnel that was large enough to fit the tunnel and be closer to 100 meters in length. Problem to solve: war, more so as a deterrent. Now for the more terrifying of the Carnis Mimics: humanoid entities that feed exclusively off humans and are the perfect predator for humans. Problem to solve: overpopulation of humans Harvesters: stationary, bulbous entities that feed off larger creatures via entrapment strategies. Problem to solve: overpopulation of deer and non-carnis predators due to lack of human intervention. Secondary purpose is to guard the cult's main base, Facility 0 (located in the Hudson Bay in this fictional world), due to the unusually high concentration of them in the surrounding area. Hosts of Influence: stationary, humanoid entities that feed off humans. They produce orange, mind controlling spore clouds to attract prey. Problem to solve: control of the masses. The same orange spores may be found in the "flavor enhancer" product that everyone seems to be buying. Likely to quell revolution against the cult. Now, that's all I've managed to piece together with any level of certainty, as the remaining two entities are deliberately obscured regarding information. I can't say for certain, but I can speculate their usefulness based on what's known. The Monoliths: seven towering, humanoid entities that surround a location important to the cult worshiping the source of the Carnis. Their heads resemble the cult's logo. They can also emit offensive EMP blasts to disrupt advanced systems and are also highly regenerative. They have tendrils that go from their feet and into the ground for extraordinary distances. Likely problems to solve: protection of the cult's main base, Facility 0 and likely source of the Carnis; this otherworldly Prince entity. The Singularity: There are seven of these entities with the supposed main at Facility 0. They emit various frequencies that the other Carnis may be listening to. Trimmings, for example, are drawn to listening to the radio and TV. The cult is attempting to find all seven and bring them to Facility 0 for yet unknown reasons. Possible problems to solve: control of the Carnis, assuming they spawned from the Crawl like the rest. As it stands, this may not be the case.

Most horror and stuff doesn't get me because I can tell it's just fiction, except this series. Oh mah gosh, this is so well thought out. It's so well thought out that I find myself as scared and on edge as if this was actually happening, and the way the creator described and designed the creatures makes me think this could happen, I recommend not just watching the theory but watching the series, it's so good and very recommended

A series I'd be thrilled to see matpat dive into is Murder Drones. Chock full of his favorite things. Talking funny robots with souls of others inside them and LORE!!

Thanks for covering this series MatPat, it's super underrated!

Matpat: Talking about meat creatures that are taking over the world. One of them releases an emp: That’s wierd

im just happy he mentioned species anomaly report which is in my opinion the scariest video released by darian so far