you should read up on Rye Wolfs or better by their actual name Roggenwolf we germans have some strange creatures in our mythology (and horrible nightmarefuelisch) Basicaly it snacks on Children (and sometimes people) and trapping their spirits in the branches of trees. Making the sound the wind makes when it breezes through a tree the screams of the souls trapped there untill the fields are harvested and the Roggenwolf got an offering. The movement of Rye fields or fields in general by the wind is said to be the Roggenwolf moving in it
"You know this thing is hitting cities. Why would you go to New Jersey?" I mean, the question of "Why would you go to New Jersey?" is valid with or without the apocalypse happening
The “call of the void” thing is very interesting. I’ve had this feeling several times while using saws. I get the sudden urge to stick my hand into the blade.
They're called intrusive thoughts, and lately mine are mostly ramming other cars on the highway. At least they're not suicidal anymore, so I ain't complaining.
I was really glad to hear this point in the video. I'm not shy about discussing my mental health issues, but one way or another this never came up. It's reassuring to know that it's common and actually a sign of being well-adjusted. I think there's a difference with 'intrusive thoughts' though. They're a step up I'd say. Obviously it's a sliding scale of greys between the two, with no clearly-defined point where one becomes the other, but I'd loosely define 'call of the void' as a passing thought of doing something self-harmful which is immediately dismissed as dangerous and stupid, whereas 'intrusive thoughts' are more recurrent, persistent, and potentially persuasive. Just my take on the matter though.
my experience on this "Call of the void" thingy , is that when everytime im riding a vehicle i suddenly had the urge to jump out , well i can control it somehow
I work in a marine ecology lab and one of my favorite movies is The Meg, and I like Girl With All the Gifts for the symbiosis aspect (I had to take a marine symbiosis seminar in grad school taught by my master's thesis adviser).
Lol but at least you know it's embarrassing. It's okay to love whatever movies you love my friend! That's what they're there for. But as long as you understand that that is an objectively terrible movie 🤣 nothing wrong with that one terrible movie you can't help but love, I think we all have those.
You know I've always wondered how many people died while figuring out that this or that food is safe when cooked in this very specific way but deadly any other way.
16:40 As someone who also lives in a highly pollinated area but who isn't allergic, there could be a theory to some people being immune or unresponsive to the neurotoxin
Considering this is sort of a tree ‘pesticide’ that would make sense. It’s the age old arms race. Try to take out the ‘pest’, the immune ones regroup and repopulate. Keep going for years and years, getting more and more potent and resistant the whole time.
Meanwhile, my allergy to grasses has turned me asthmatic. Probably lots of cross-allergies as well. I don’t even need contrived neurotoxins to choke. T.T
You know what I love the most about Roanoke? Even though he's forced to censor his words, he does it in such an eloquent manner it doesn't break immersion in his videos.
My favorite thing about this movie is during the classroom scene Markie Mark tells one of the students “because you have a perfect face” and you can see one of the back ground actresses make a face like “what the fuck” and I’m pretty sure it wasn’t scripted.
"Neurotoxins are man-made, there's no natural neurotoxins." Cone snails, with the deadliest cocktail of neurotoxins and painkillers that gets chemically randomized every day to ensure nothing builds a resistance to it: Am I a joke to you?
I’m gonna say this, and I hope you see it. Your content is some of the most refreshing videos I’ve seen on RU-vid in YEARS. Everything from your humor, deliveries, information, and even video summaries, is all very fresh and exciting, to the point where even The Happening is worth hearing about. Most of all, I appreciate how in-depth you get, instead of just trying to hit the 10 minute mark. Love your videos dude
I also found the scene with the soldier trying not to shoot himself very interesting. He repeats "My firearm is my friend, it will not leave my side." As if he is trying to tell himself not to take it out of its holster.
It could also be a way to reassure himself, he's probably in a panicked state. He repeats it when he's addressed by the others. Like "It's okay. I'll be okay. My firearm is my friend and won't leave. But I won't use it. I'll be okay-"
@rd2680 let me hear you say that when someone breaks into your house. Cops are human and can feel panic just as much as any other person. They don't even get paid as much as they should dispite risking their life's.
"Likely over 50% of the population have this...." so wait, the void doesn't call to everyone? Because boy oh boy does it call to me often. The realization that even the most simplest things can destroy the life you built is always there, nagging at you, tempting you.
I remember watching this movie in the theater and right when the scene with the construction workers falling to their deaths I blurted out it’s raining men, the entire packed audience laughed for about four seconds it was so funny
People complain about the weird acting in this film but if in reality all the trees start producing suicide gas I don’t think I’ll act normally or rationally.
Tbh, that's something that does work for the movie in terms of overall acting when it would otherwise be inexcusable. You can just hand wave it as them being at low levels of the neurotoxin.
It could be that while the plants where trying to make the toxin for the humans, they wiped out the bees. Or humans wiped the bees out and the toxin is what happens when bee pheromones aren't being absorbed by the plants.
@@EpsilonD2 "Wait, when did we get access to nukes? Isn't that a human weapon??" "The mushrooms decided to help us out, they finally stopped tripping on their own supply."
@@clayxros576 (tbh that was a ww2 joke lol) "The mushrooms always worked, its just the humans built a resistance, then there's those human rights activist shrooms that don't actually do anything"
Tbh, the symbolism of masses of people moonwalking in a park before commiting self death is pretty haunting. It just feels like Shamalayn got that idea and tried to write a movie over the course of a day fron scratch based on that scene.
In a review he said he was going for a more like, spiritual bent. But it sort of straddles the line between supernatural and science fiction and doesn't end up working too well. I feel like if he stuck to one of those it might flow better.
@@jbear3478In some films he seems to get more focused on the message than the content (Lady in the Water-) or he gets too focused on part of the story instead of the whole (the genuinely creepy scenes in here for instance). I feel like he could use someone to help like…rein him in. Like “okay how about we try this instead”
This movie is actually really creepy when you think about not being able to see chemicals in the air around yourself. I think marky mark was a miss cast, he’s a comical guy can’t be helped but feel it hurt the overall tone forsure. Aside from that the movie perfectly shows how the we have little idea what lengths the earth wil go to shrug us off.
The way people act under the neurotoxin is genuinely creepy. But the interactions between the unaffected main cast tend to be really weirdly...pardon the pun but wooden. Like, the soldier having a nervous breakdown? He sounds like he's having a nervous breakdown. The old woman? Phenomenal. But the main cast is just so awkward. "We can't just sit here as uninvolved observers!" who says this?
Yea I'm in construction 19 years now and have never actually done anything but stand around talking. Nobody else does anything neither. Like I have often wondered how anything gets built but I don't get payed enough to use my brain.
FunFact: There's a Polish movie like The Happening(Drzewa), but the roles are reversed. The Humans start to destroy the trees because they think the plants want to kill them.
@@oddballskull1941 Guys, it's M. Night, not Midnight. And yeah, I can understand an accomplished actor like Mark being pissed being locked in to this project. I would of fired my agent if I was him.
honestly your videos make these movies so much more fun to rewatch and that goes for pretty much every one of em like this, the ruins, blood glacier and so on legit all of them become so much enjoyable (and sometimes terrifying xD) to watch again cuz the dots to why and how are awnsered keep em coming! love the content!
I’m a realtor and totally agree with your statement about housing prices. How about a video on realtor morphology and how it leads to widespread alcoholism.
Dealing with this so called 'sellers' market in my town. Houses not worth crap are being sold for half a million. (No really that is the cheapest house on the market right NOW.) I've seen rent at 1750 for a room in a dorm. So it's such bull crap. Then on top of that the bull crap being pulled by the town where they are not allowing low income housing to be built. Even though EVERY. SINGLE. BUSINESS. IS. HIRING. not a joke. Everywhere. The hotels have started to allow its workers to stay 'for free' and more places are offering 15+ an hour. Yeah. It's terrible. But honestly. I'm gonna be laughing my way as these idiots just drive out everyone. Then a ton of businesses are gonna shut down. Then they are going to be s.o.l.
@DakotaofRaptors Right now a 100 square foot room is 1065 dollars a month. I live in a tourist town in Utah. Everything housing related is basically inflated three times over. One night rentals are a fairly big factor in making people not have homes.
@@petercarioscia9189 The chemical that is used to derive of a certain 3 letter mood enhancer made in the 40s/50s. Trying to not get the RU-vidr demonetized with certain words. Just take LSU and replace the last letter with a D.
I can never just watch one of your videos...I put one on and bam 3hrs have passed! Great job, I really never saw myself enjoying listening to someone talk about movies I've already seen or games I've played, but you manage to make them extremely entertaining
I love the logic of the characters in this movie. "Oh no plants have become sapient and are killing people en masse! What should I do? Oh i know! I'm gonna leave this big city where there's just a few plants and go hang out in a forest!"
@@RoanokeGaming strong mood. I've stopped watching the news of any corporate stations since they are only stating opinions, making things seem worse then they are for views, or make things seen not as bad as they really are for their political base. Especially game "journalists" as they clearly are not gamers. The cup head and doom vids being prime examples of them being trash at a game and then saying the game is bad because its too hard. I wasn't alive back then, but man, do i miss the days when reporters actually investigated for the truth and reported facts unbiasedly.
So, I once had the opportunity to dissect a brain. I wasn't prepared for how gooey it was. It's always portrayed as squishy, but still firm enough to hold. It is really more like sludge. Would have been nice to know, professor
One of the best theories on why plants respond to I guess you can call it 'affection'. Is when humans do it, a lot of evidence shows our stress hormones drop to low levels, or at least lower than average levels. Its believed that plants or at least some plants evolved to detected or smell this hormone, so it can better react to animals or stressors in the environment, that is stressing the animal. So when 'affection' is shown the human is experiencing less stress and so the plant does too. This encourages growth and health in the plant.
I always just figured that if you’re the type to show attention and affection to your plants you’re probably a better plant owner than the average person. The attention may help as well, but the person to talk to their plants is probably the one who waters them properly and handles them well.
@@Skarwind nah i think no other director would have actually even thought about something like this like Shymalan did. The guy is a pretty good scientific communicator and we can't blame it when we don't get some of the ideas portrayed.
@@observeoutofthebox7806 I knew it. 😂 Whenever people make the comment “I wish this had a better director” i can instantly tell that Shyamalan directed it.
@@corimoon3360 I wish Ghostbusters had a better director I wish Wonder Woman had a better director I wish Assassin's Creed had a better director I wish Hitman(either one) had a better director. I could keep going.
I like how Shamalan consistently has the most interesting, feasible sci fi ideas with his movies.....but the absolute worst script writing. No wonder I still kinda respect him
I saw this film when I was really young and when I say it traumatised me- it traumatised me. For years I was paranoid that one day a suicide apocalypse would come, and I would often watch the trees and the leaves blow in the wind, awaiting doom. It's hilarious now when I think about it, but as a result this film still haunts the back of my mind.
Its a really neet way to get around the censorship and it makes sense to call them force multipliers. In the planet of the apes video, he even called the spears force enhancers
when i was younger (8th grade if i remember correctly) and watched this for the first time, i understood what they ment by neurotoxin but didnt realize it wasnt effecting everyone. i straight up thought the reason mark and his group were acting so off was cause of the neurotoxin and i thought they were just immune to the killing aspect of it. now i know it was just terrible acting/directing/lines or whatever the reason the actors did what they did.
@@dragonmaster613 yea if you look at both movies back to back with the concept of the happening being supernatural they end up being extremely similar in a lot of places.
Interesting that we even see these ideas in movies, games books etc. it’s like our minds are coming up with these crazy worst case scenarios to help us anticipate this stuff happening in the real world.
Citation needed on "neural toxins do not exist naturally". There are numerous substances created and used by other organisms that are categorized as neurotoxic.
Yep. Animals & plants both produce various types. Ricin is from a plant. tetrodotoxin is from an animal. Cassava, hemlock, snake venom, cone snails, scorpions, black widows, literally every animal that can kill a human with venom & plant with poison is usually because it’s a neurotoxin.
Two things that I loved during the summary of the story - Marky Mark can make solid out of wine (10:07), and is fan of PS2 game Headhunter (14:31) which is a forgotten "gem" just as much as Marky Mark himself.
19:22 Plants can communicate, it's part of mycorrhiza where plants and fungi have a symbiotic relationship - the fungi have been shown to connect several plants giving the plants the ability to transfer chemicals between each other. It's been called the Internet of Plants.
I would argue "Call of the Void" is probably associated with our internal 'error correction/detection' system. Its creating an impulse to directly teach the brain to actively ignore and avoid said impulse - adding to the ECD library. Given your personal experience, after some time the issue would wax away becoming a background function and improving your overall effectiveness of not falling - but once its no longer useful, it gets cleared out for new rules and it needs to reteach itself that impulse to improve the likelihood you won't fall off a building when the need arises again.
When I first watched this movie as a kid, it freaked me the hell out, because I did think that it was entirely possible. It just made sense to me that plants were capable of this type of evolution, and it SCARED me. I didn't pay attention to the terrible script or over the top acting, just the concept of plants making me suicide and it was absolutely terrifying! And now, I feel so validated by all your research and scientific explanation lol. Great video!
I found your channel a couple weeks ago. I've really started appreciating the amount of narrative in character design. Not really related to today's episode, but I wanted to thank you and feed the algorithm.
I used to sleep with a knife under my pillow. Then I got super scared cause I'm a side sleeper and got freaked out too much to continue since I kept thinking I'd accidentally slit my wrist.
Yea I recently had to put my box cutter and exacto knife in my kitchen instead of my bedside drawer because I had a panic attack while sleeping and I woke up really dazed and confused and had really weird thoughts as if I was still dreaming and thought about my knifes in the drawer and it really freaked me out 😅
I think the call of the void might be the free will part of our brain trying to feel like it isn’t beholden to the instinctive self preservation part of our brain. Just like how being told not to do something makes us want to do it more. Because every time I get those intrusive thoughts I’m always thinking about the fact that it’s my choice and no one can stop me.
Like the classic. Big red button says DO NOT PRESS. What is your first instinct? To press the button to see what it does...and then set of a self destruct sequence
>how being told not to do something makes you wanna do it that's not really self-preservation as much as your lizard brain at work lol. the intrusive thoughts are called morbid curiosity tho.
“Call of the void“, I’ve had this situation many times where my inner voice will tell me yeah it’s OK to eat this SOS pad, and another part of my brain says ‘are you freaking crazy?!?’. It’s happened with other things also, bleach, bars of soap, cans of raid. Also had thoughts of cutting parts of my fingers off as I am cutting up vegetables. I just thought I was crazy, and I probably am, but surprisingly, I feel better knowing that there’s a term for it. Being bipolar manic depressive does not help I’m sure. But I truly enjoyed this more than I did all the other videos, which I enjoyed immensely. Thank you.
Wow, I caught this as soon as it came out! I have to say, as an aspiring microbiologist (I'm a college student studying for it) these videos are very entertaining and it's fun to think of these movie situations in a real-world sense. Thanks for the content!
I'm glad to find out that my brain isn't the only one to randomly throw out insane or suicidal urges for no reason. Though the fact that these usually only happen when aroused, scared, or angry does make me wonder just how the hell it's all connected?
Yeah, I used to think I was going mental back when I was a teenager and I had those thoughts popping in unannounced at random moments; and more recently I had grown to simply ignore them. Today I learned that's apparently a normal thing, and that I wasn't really going insane back in the days. Or maybe we're all crazy to some extent, thus making those stray thoughts literally "normal".
Well almost every medication has a side effect that says "may cause suicidal thoughts" which Is literally insane to me, like how? I suggest stop popping pills
I believe that these "chem-trails" are making me experience similar thought patterns as someone with bi-polar disorder. I have never been bi-polar, I'm sure that this is how it would feel...I have the same 3 triggers as you. Though, it could just be a coincidence...I highly doubt it. Somethings amiss...
My aunt was a construction foreman and she has busted her knee shoulder and lower back. And she also doesn’t have retirement so she works cleaning houses. Support your construction workers!
Roanoke big fan you SHOULD really do the worm from Guillermo’s “The Strain” I think is a challenge you should accept. Big fan hope everything’s is okay.
11:45 - I just love the fact that even with their gas masks on those granny's still have the classic bowl of Butterscotch Candies in the middle of them with their tea and one's even knitting!!! Classic!
I just wanna say man, i absolutely love these videos. The specific way u weave in jokes and skirt age restriction while keeping a consistent tone/biological focus is kinda iconic. Cant really think of another channel like urs tbh
Out of the whole movie, it was the soldier resiting his I guess his drills on pure instinct, it was fucking terrifying thinking about what was running through his head. Everyone else seemed to have a pretty instantaneous reaction without them realizing it, but he seemed almost a little scared, like he didn't know why he was saying that.
I made a Marky Mark joke on the community post and I choked when you did the same “Marky Mark, formerly part of the funky bunch” made me laugh harder than it should’ve
Ooooooh you see, I always thought it was silly because, like, I get it shuts off your survival instincts as it says in the movie but that don’t explain people actively killing themselves, only that they wouldn’t avoid something deadly. But your call of the void explanation makes a lot of horrifying sense lol
the likely hood of you seeing this is slim to none but I, and im sure many others would be interested if you did a longer than normal length episode- a short series explaining and talking about how the void works:) fascinating
I live in a very rural area of Texas with lots of tree around my home and at the moment I'm outside. " I have to be outside to get internet" , and this got me wondering about our place on this rock.
You make the explanation so much better than the movie. You can take something crap and make it great man. This was epic. I learn a lot from your videos.
I was a roof inspector and sometimes when you’re up there either 1. Your knee/ankle will give way a little bit and you’re like “man I kinda wanted to fall” or 2. You’re tired from the sun and your brain goes “can’t work if you fall off the roof”
Hey Roanoke, have you ever considered doing a morphology series of videos on the cloned monsters/“zeds” from Killing Floor 1 & 2? They have some *extremely* interesting mutations and I’d absolutely love to see you go in depth with all the genetic changes they’ve experienced. It’s a ripe source for new content, and it’d just be fascinating to see you analyze each’s unique biology. Love your videos man, and keep up the fantastic work! :)
I had a nightmare one of these days That plants were merging with humans and with cities and killing people directly Like Growing tentacles and pupetering humans to kill others, it was like this movie mixed with the thing
This could be a movie or at least a interesting video I had a dream that my pastor was shooting at me with chocolate scarecrows that were rock solids and he changed the whole world into scarecrow chocolate things eventually I built a resistance with my friends and we melted all of it to the ground that was probably one of the weirdest dreams I've ever had and I had it about a week ago
I do always wonder why this sort of thing, biological response to poulation pressure, always seems to happen in one of the *least* populated countries. I mean, does no one in Hollywood understand that they aren't actaully anywhere near the centre of the universe? Well either that or maybe they should just nope the hell out of there before *something* looks and thinks "Their media puts a lot of emphasis on these places. We should strike a crushing blow and take them out first!" It's taking me a while (man, have you done a lot of videos!) but I'm slowly catching up with your content. As apparently are others considering the 600K more subscribers you've gained since making it! Excellent work and greatly appreciated.
