Film Theory: The Boiled One Feeds Off Your PAIN! 

I love this. I love this so much because it really does get at the core of the message I was trying to send. The story of sheer faith and perseverance through what seems bleak and “the end of the world” is something I felt wasn’t explored enough in this type of horror, and I love that this is the takeaway. The story of war and PTSD that can cripple someone or make them stronger.. And then a lot of inspiration from old obscure cursed internet videos that scared me as a child.. but the core being that no matter how evil some monster or prison camp guard is, the human spirit will persevere if it really wants to. Thanks so much to Lee and others at FT. Dream come true

Don’t forget the Fried One, the Blended One, and the Diced One. There’s also the Baked One, but we don’t talk about it

The boiled one looks like something a 5 year old would draw and then proudly show to their parents with pure joy and happiness as the parents look at the picture in horror and pretend like it's adorable

"Locked-in syndrome" might just be the funniest sounding, real condition of all time

I knew there'd be a jumpscare at the start because there almost always is, and it STILL got me. The boiled One really is one of the more scary creatures to come around recently..

That face has always TERRIFIED me lol

Didn't know PHEN-228 was chill like that

Mutsuhiro Watanabe's spirit being behind the Boiled One makes a lot of sense, and it's no surprise someone as vile as himself would return and continuously want to cause fear and pain and terror. He was an unhinged sadist in real life, he'd randomly physically attack and torture American POWs. Sometimes he'd burn letters/pictures of their loved ones or falsely tell them their loved ones are dead just to see their reactions. Sometimes he'd act friendly and kind and give them gifts only to put them on edge when he'd randomly turn violent and antagonistic again. He also died a coward as Zamperini forgave him, so it makes sense for him to come back as this evil entity. His spirit thrived on agony and fear and power.

I love how the newer generations of analog horror are specifically dealing with forgiveness and empathy, like how The Man In The Suit shows how Japan actually has moved on from their nuclear trauma of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and now with The Boiled One Phenomenon where an actual real life soldier forgives their torturer from their past. It's so wholesome and pure, even though packed with terrifying visuals. And to quote Doctornowhere, the human spirit will persevere if it really wants to. Such a good message! It's so good and I hope all these young creators succeed. Thank you to Team Theorist for making an episode of this!!

2:50 - This is not what cognitohazard means! This means infohazard! Cognitohazard means dangerous to percieve - not to know!

We don't talk about the oiled one...

Honestly, I think the reason why I (and so many others) love The Boiled One Phenomenon so much is because of it’s core message. Remember folks, grief does not shrink or ‘go away’ with time, but rather, life grows around that grief, and it is a journey, not a place to stay :). I think that Zamperini forgiving this horrid, mangled mess that is now Watanabe and still going ‘I forgive you’ is such a befitting and amazing defeat. Uhhh something something Boiled One vs The Indomitable Human Spirit

matpat trained him well, i can tell his life essense was taken by pure theorizing

The boiled one genuinely creeped my out the first time which analog horror hasn't done in a bit

thats honestly an amazing message to have for a horror story, and it fits perfectly since forgiveness is the hardest thing to give in life

You can’t deny it. The Boiled One has some charisma.

The message that forgiveness is the best way to overcome hate and pain is a lesson you might not expect in analog horror, but maybe that makes the message ever more important.

I got all the Revelations references, but I had no idea about Zamperini's story. Truely a blessed man and a wonderful story

i saw that thing first in a meme "okay, hear me out" and thankfully it removed all scariness of it

The connections drawn to biblical lore, World War II, and real-world incidents, are all thought-provoking. The interpretation of forgiveness as the ultimate weapon is quite impressive.

The boiled one is the only analog horror that has actually made me scared in years. Especially having dealt with sleep paralysis for years

This series scared me so much more than the other analogue horrors for some reason, maybe because I already always hated the dark 😭Not even the main guy, but the section where they said "There's no one behind you when you turn off the lights" or something like that, now I can't stop thinking about it

I feel like the switch from Matthew to everyone else was pulled off so well.

Oh my god my heart at the intro. Why did that get me more than ACTUAL analog horror usually does!?

This dang series gives me a primal fear that I didn’t know I had. I don’t usually get scared by most horror stuff, but holy moly, this thing freaked me out SO bad. Edit: I hate to be that person, but thank y’all for 1k likes!

Hearing someone from outside of Lancaster Pennsylvania say Ephrata is pretty amusing lol. He did say Lancaster right though so props to him.

Archangel Michael got me covered

This is one of the most underrated analog horrors. It is pretty original and horrifying. I love how it combined history, science, and bibilical lore.

2:42 Small correction, that's the definition of an infohazard. A cognitohazard is something that can affect a person by detecting it with the senses (sight, touch, etc)

As a Christian the fact it shows Christianity as some of the answers to this and the trumpets and the sky opening up is my favorite part. God bless

The i will be there made me think of boss baby💀

i like how the name “The Boiled One” just sounds funny when you mistake “boiled” for “baked” which is already a term used to describe people who look high out of their minds. “The Baked One”

fun fact: doctor nowhere, or silas orion, is only 17 years old. he is so talented.

This thing unnerves me. Idk what it is about it, usually I'm not at all affected by most scary creepy entity pictures but the boiled one somehow makes me feel physically uncomfortable just looking at it. Not even scared, just weird and dysphoric.

Watching this in the middle of the night is a great experience

Me: Huh this intro actually seems pretty tame I wonder what- 0:38 OH SWEET MOTHER OF GOD-

2:45 Just something i want to point out, the definition provided here is not a Cognitohazard, it is an Infohazard, there is slight difference. The difference is that you don't need to know you observed a Cognitohazard for it to be hazardous, you only have to observe it. Meanwhile, with an Infohazard, you actually have to know you have observed it.

13:17 so we have another scarlet king situation here

I just wanted to let you know how great you're doing. Taking over a channel like this must be a crazy amount of work but you are fantastic and a worthy successor. Can't wait to see more of your work.

The Boiled One must be chunky after eating my pain

the concept of forgiveness has been absolutely bombarding me lately. The universe wants to tell me something, I'm sure. My definition of forgiveness isn't saying "its okay what you did. I am allowing you back into my life, despite you hurting me/others. I forgive you and now you have my trust again." No. My idea of forgiveness is being able to look at what someone did. See that they hurt you and/or others and go "I am hurt. I am mad that I was hurt. I didn't want to be hurt. I didn't DESERVE to be hurt. But I will no longer wallow in that sadness. I will not become vengeful and I will not let this take over my life and make me mean and bitter. I see what you did, and I hope you never do that again. I hope that justice finds you and I hope you grow. I hope you see what you did and learn from it. I cannot give you my trust, but I can give you my hope that you become better. That you grow into a person that no longer hurts others. I will not be the one to help you on your journey because I don't deserve to go through being the care giver to someone that hurt me, but I do genuinely wish that you become the best version of yourself." Letting go of the rage, the vengeance, the desire to do harm, that, in my mind, is forgiveness. You don't have to give that person trust again. Or even let them back into your life. Heck! You don't even have to TELL THEM that you forgive them. All you have to do is say it to yourself and mean it. You are never obligated to make the person that hurt YOU feel better. If facing them is what makes YOU feel better, do it. But if not, then don't. And its not about "forgive and forget". Keep the lessons you have learned. Use your experience to avoid possible future red flags and bad situations. It's not about 'getting over it'. Forgiveness is about healing YOU, letting you live in peace by letting go of the rage, not about absolving other's of their crimes. I wish everyone peace. Stay safe my theorist friends!

I'm glad that this video reminds us that analog horror is never dead until creativity is

doctornowhere´s content is one of my fav, im glad hes getting this attention now :) i hope you will also cover people like localbreadman

I always love it when analog horror uses real life events and places as a base. It makes the horror feel even more real and relatable.

The fact that when Louis Zamperini went back to Japan to forgive watanabe, it was watanabe who cowered in fear is really something

It’s cool to see the channel evolving and changing, but I will still always miss MatPat

2:35 SO! fun fact, Ephrata (pronounced eff-ruh-tuh) is a real town in Lancaster county, PA. its honestly really awesome to see something like this take place in the place where i live and grew up!!!

I feel like the watanabe bird segment is more metaphorical. To me it feels like a response to the victim wanting to be referred to as Zamperini, almost as if the boiled one is saying "I am your tormentor, I bring you your torture, I am the Watanabe to your Zamperini".

I like how both this series and this video prove that forgiveness is not being too weak to confront and punish your tormentors, it's being strong enough to break the psychological chains that your tormentors put on you, to drop and let go of the mental and emotional burdens that they put on you.

Probably not a good idea to watch this at 10:14 at night lol

Fun Fact! Near the start of the video when it asks you to write the blue text on the paper, red text appears and says "I can't see this paper. I have no hand. I can hear the laughter of thousands. I can hear the feast. I cannot move nor do I want to."

That one quote where it says, “Nothing follows you when you turn out the lights,” still haunts me. As someone who already hates the dark, that still is in the back of my mind sometimes😭.

As an scp fan there's one detail that bothered me 😅 Congnitohazards aren't dangerous informations that hurt you, It thing that hurts when you sense them with any of the 5 senses, for example, seeing the boild one Infohazards are the knowledge that hurts you when you know it

Fun fact: the boiled one is actually partially inspired by a meme of a green sackboy from little big planet with the caption "the green one is here", this has been confirmed by the creator on twitter

The Boiled One's design makes me uneasy. I like it. It's also nice that the story has a positive message.

As a born-and-raised Pennsylvanian, this is so, so scary. For example, at 8:53 Lee mentions Lancaster County. I know that place! I've been in Lancaster so many times. It's just so scary for an analogue horror series to take place so close to home.

"Something would highjack the broadcast." cuts to ads love it

The forgiveness thing at the end is just😔😔😔🫶🫶🫶 he's a very very strong guy

As a long time fan of the theorist channel seeing how it’s evolved makes me feel so happy.

This is the first time i got into a fandom of analog horror, and i'm pround to be one of he's first subscriber !

It's funny how interested I am in Film Theory videos surrounding series I've never watched.

4:23 "something else would hijac in the video" youtube : "perfect moment for an ad"

Please keep these vids coming ! Analog horror is my favorite

OH MY GOD THAT INTRO PETRIFIED ME

0:33 the way this jumpscare literally made me curl up into a ball

It's crazy how fast the bots jumped on people's comments.

When you see the boiled one so you gotta lock in

"Domain expansion: UNLIMTED VOID." (That's why you can't move when you look at him)

The Japanese Translates To " It's just a theory" 0:23 How clever🤣

The trumpets are just The Boiled One wanting you to listen to their ska band.

i love how you can see MatPat peeking at 1:27 in the backrooms example

For those who want to learn more about Louis Zamperini, hi! I live in Torrance which is the city he grew up in. He was known as the Torrance Tornado here, one of the best runner in track and field. There’s a book and movie called “Unbroken,” which details his story. I’m pretty sure the movie is still on Netflix.

Louis Zamparini and Watanabe being the main character inspirations for this is so interesting, because Watanabe targeted Louis so heavily during his captivity. The book "Unbroken" is a pretty good detailed telling of his time in captivity. Also- some of the quotes from the boiled one/Watanabe are real quotes. I believe, but could be wrong, the quote about it just being him and Zamparini is something Watanabe had actually said to Louis, either during or following the captivity

I punched my screen as a fight or flight response. Thanks Film theory.

Thank you Mr. Theory.

Well this was certainly an intresting way to wake up

That Jumpscare at the start seriously got me.

Phen, to me, seems like a messenger rather than the main bad of the series

I don't think an intro jump scare has ever hit me so hard.

trumpet references= the rapture??

05:25 I’ve heard the re-reversed audio, and the Boiled One’s voice is actually rather calming and reassuring compared to the ominous inflection of the voice-over in this video.

The most disturbing part of this was the pronunciation of Ephrata (EPH-ruh-tuh)

I'm born and raised in Lancaster, and I have to correct the pronunciation-Ephrata is "effort-uh." Nitpicking aside, it's surreal to see my county (especially a town so close to me) referenced by a super cool horror webseries ❤️

FINALLY I WAS WAITING FOR THIS THEORY!

This has become my favorite film theory episode just from him saying the scp foundation once

the intro was like "HOT SINGLE COGNITOHAZARDS IN YOUR AREA!" 🤣

Easily the best recent horror short

Glad to see the channels still doing good even after matpat leaving :D

Zamparini is such a strong man. I watched Unbroken, the movie about his capture. And it truly struck a chord, he is possibly the toughest man there would ever be on this earth.

Silas Orion might be one of the most badass names I ever heard. I mean, Orion was Optimus Prime's original name, that's awesome.

Bro the start made me thing he was the tickle monster 😭

Bro's still mad that Zamperini didn't drop the plank.

4:50 I thought I heard him say "please help me"... Maybe he's crying out for help and we don't understand him...

0:34 that got me

Ah finally I can come back and start watching this channel properly. Years of waiting

are we not gonna discuss the character looks like he's wearing a crown of thorns?

We need one about T.O.E, he is a good boy that just needs a friend😢

9:27 PUT IT BACK, ARCHAEOLOGISTS! It is TOO SOON for another plague!

whoever put the jumpscare on the beginning... you got me good

i think youre the best matpat replacement of the four! i really like these vids