The Hotel - DOOM's Most Sinister And Disturbing Mod 

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I love how expansive doom really is with its modding capabilities

There's a hotel called "The Crescent Hotel" in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. it was originally built around 1900AD as a cancer hospital and was lead by a "doctor" (he was actually a heartless, greedy conman) named Dr. Baker who knowingly lied to his patients and their families, telling them that the local springwater was a cure for cancer. A vast majority of these people died in what are now the hotel rooms. I have stayed there about 20 times with my family and friends over the years. One night i was kicked back on the bed watching TV while my gf of the time was taking a shower. The air conditioning window-unit turned itself on and the tv started changing channels on its own. it was pretty wild. 😬

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The better help sponsor is the scariest thing in the video

Stayed in a Hotel during a Hurricane a few years back. Was fun drinking alone, and I watched "The Shining" because it seemed appropriate. My cat was in the room but I didn't see a single other person when I was there on that floor (Outside of Lloyd, he kept the drinks coming) Honestly a fun night

The fact midnight actually does his best to read all comments fills my heart with joy You're by far the biggest inspiration for my own wad

What's up, Hevn here. Nice to see you cover our mod, i think you went little too literal with brightness, i never play those maps as this super dark as you did, that's why you dont need Flashlight until way much later (and it's very different). Maybe if you viewed preview video from The Outdoomers channel and see how contrast and brightness levels are better suited, you get the idea. When doing maps, I took inspirations a lot from Backrooms (mainly aesthetic of it), Hotel related horror stories and some from my own personal nightmares. You still did way better showcase than some others who used custom gun addons on our work, you at least can handle the guns that come within.

the betterhelp sponsorship made me more scared than the wad itself

Hello Midnight, i am Das Lawrence, Co-creator of this mod along with RedHeadMetalC (HevnDemonic-90eks on Moddb), i worked mainly on decorate actors and the mod's story First of all thanks for playing our mod, we spent a heckload of months working on it and perfecting it before releasing it. We definitely did not take inspiration from the movie REC as you said in your video, as our main goal was to give the Backrooms meme some kind of meaning in the first place. However, if ever possible, me and my friend would like you to play the mod in its entirety, as few really managed to complete it. Of course after that you'll get a complete picture of the story behind this mod. Thank you again for playing!

Imagine the Flood from Helo versus the demons from Doom and you are just an ordinary soldier, it would be a good horror game

12:58 A magazine is the part of a gun that holds bullets and feeds them into the firing chamber. Shotguns have internal magazines, pistols and assault rifles have removable/replaceable magazines. A "clip" is something that holds bullets together and makes them easier to load into a magazine. If you've played any WW2 games, you may have noticed a thin piece of metal that is discarded when you reload the rifles. That's the clip.

We went from My House to "The Hotel". I guess I lost the custody battle and the house and now I'm pistol starting life again.

The song that plays in the hanged man’s hotel room is a slowed down version of Blew by Nirvana. Which, if the whole krokodil (poor man’s heroin) thing is right, could be tied to Kurt Cobain’s herojn addiction. The “magazine” you found was actually a graphic novel. The Crow, if my memory is right, is a story about a man’s fiance dying tragically and him being granted powers from a crow in order to be able to enact his revenge. Idk why it’s there tbh.

Not really creepy but the worst hotel experience I had was when there were huge clumps of hair in the swimming pool

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Working in a different district for months from a hotel. Nowhere to go, nowhere to be, just work and sleep, not enough room for fun, not enough time to go out and play in the new town. Made me realize the actual hell prison must be" ... source "one of my bosses"

dude this has 7 levels? Now at the same time I'm hyped to see the rest, but also concerned that the mod might overstay its welcome and bring too little new stuff to stay interesting. Just lvl 1 already seems to say and do everything the mod needs to. Very thrilled to see how this will turn out.

Midnight I gotta say you are my go to for disturbing Doom Mods, because not only do you fully cover them, and give a ton of backstory/lore, but you also explain different aspects and give your genuine opinions and first impressions during the mod. It’s very engaging as I can try to expect what happens next, and your reaction even though it’s impossible to predict. Love you man

You are braver than I ever could, playing these mods lmao. I’ve played a handful of horror games (can’t forget the classics, Resident Evil 4), but I found Spooky’s Jumpscare Mansion to be the scariest I’ve ever played.

8:42 just realized the soundtrack is a slowed down version of nirvana "Blew"

You are really cranking up the production value. Been awesome witnessing your rise to the top.

Hello Midnight! We've made it past 15K likes, can we get the second part of the video, please?

This looks neat. Think I’m going to go download it myself. Thanks for yet another cool wad to play!

Gave this a try, and could NOT deal with the goddamn bloodcrawlers. Yes, they're attracted to gunfire, but they also seem to spawn out of those circular holes in the walls at random, heavily favoring any time that you happen to be in the vicinity, and even if you see one coming in time to react it's already too late because they can match your run speed. I literally cannot progress because no matter what direction I go in, one of these things always pounces me inside of 30 seconds. Horror quickly stops being horror when it's replaced with pure blinding frustration.

12:55 Mags. Magazines encase the ammo on all sides, leaving only the top where they are loaded into the chamber from.

Ah, finally, DOOMs most disturbing mod.

Crazy? I was crazy once. They locked me in a room. A rubber room. A rubber room filled with rats. Rats make me crazy. Crazy? I was crazy once.

"You can check out any time you like But you can never leave"

This was creepy! For some reason though, I thought that the being lost in a vast hotel kinda reminded me a bit of The Shining. In the sense of impending doom and dread at every corner, even though nothing is there at all. But still having the feeling something evil is here in the hotel. Just my thought on this video. Great job.

As an American, I’m glad you corrected yourself on the clip vs Magazine thing, too many people will just claim it’s right because they layman will use the term

A very relatable feeling that you mentioned very early in the video is feeling "small". For some reason i know exactly what you mean in a weird and liminal kind of way.

The blood stalker thing jumpscared me almost every single fucking time it attacked you. Well played, devs. Haven't been gotten by an enemy spook in ages.

Sometimes can't believe what community can do with good ol' Doom. It's almost like discovering new world

Front desk gave me my electronic key. Never think much of it, except my room was one that was already occupied but thank heavens the guests weren’t there. But their luggage was. I noped out and rightfully complained. This is why I put on all the physical locks possible for the room when I’m in it and secure my valuables.

being all on your own in a hotel: 💀 being with other people in a hotel: 💀

The Crow is a good comic, but I'd highly recommand the movie adaptation. Incredible soundtrack, incredible atmosphere, one of my all time favorite villain, gothic as it can be, that movie came out before Matrix, Blade, X-Men or Underworld went with the "black leather trenchcoat underground style", The Crow was a film nearly half a decade ahead of schedule when you think about it. And it's a great statement about art and the loss of its meaning once it becomes an institution (funnily enough, a fate The Crow will have once the company will milk sequels with nothing to give aside from "a sequel from the awesome 1994 movie").

Here's a creepy tale taking place in a hotel by yours truly for all ya Doomheads; The Hilton Milwaukee City Center around Feburary and March are usually rammed with convention-goers for AMKE. They come in on Friday, party until Sunday, and then a few of them stick around, but most of them leave. Being a man with a girlfriend who lives in Milwaukee , who also happens to be obsessed with anime, asian culture, and video games, as am I, I make it an annual event that I keep on priority and am always present for. However, my last trip was... scary. It was Monday, going on Tuesday late at night. My beloved girlfriend had to pack up and leave our hotel room due to her school schedule requiring her to come in the following morning at 6 am. Driving from the hotel wouldve took too long, and I didn't want her to worry about not only going to school but also dropping me off at the airport, so my last night was spent alone. One thing she CONSTANTLY talked throughout my visit was about was the recent surge in crime as of late. She wouldn't even let me go for a walk to see around Milwaukee because she was that concerned. This can be chalked up to her being prone to overthinking as she as well as I have both been diagnosed with both Autism and ADHD, and we're both prone to overthinking. I didn't think much of it, until I helped her pack up, haul her belongings to her car, gave her a kiss goodbye, and went back into the hotel. Then it donned on me that I was all alone, in a place I have no idea about, full of strangers until 7 am for my flight. I began to walk the hallways of the hotel, feeling sad, tired, and isolated. I walked, exploring and familiarizing myself with the hotel's layout, until I looked at the time on my phone and realized that I have been moping around for nearly an hour and a half, now it was 2 am! I hastily made my way to one of the elevators and called it. I was on the second floor but my room was on the 9th, so It didnt take long for the elevator to reach me as it naturally goes down to the lobby after a few minutes of inactivity. I stepped into the elevator, pressing the 9th floor button. Howver upon doing so I couldn't help but recall what my girlfriend said about the recent uptick in crime. My mind began to race and came up with the worse. What if I was in *actual* danger? Just as soon as my thoughts picked up, they paused. As the elevator stopped to the... *5th* floor. It wasnt uncommon for the elevator to pick up other guests on its way up or down, but who the hell was walking around at 2;15 am? And why did it stop on the 5th floor in particular? It might be a mere coincidence, but when you tie in the fact that I lived on the 5th floor in my apartment building at home...It certainly adds a bit more flavor to this story. The door elevator opened as I made my best effort to look at the very least presentable, but to my surprise, when the antique door slid open... there was nobody. Not a soul. I even poked my head out to see if anyone maybe rung the elevator and decided to take the stairs, or maybe they didn't hear the door open, but nobody. I was met with the nigh-infinite hallway of featureless halls, just the same carpet pattern and same archetecture, going on and on and on and...on. The doors hung open for a moment, its unscentient mechanism awaiting for someone or something to exit or enter. However, after returning to my spot in the center of the elevator, I was still. And it felt like the air around me was too, for a moment. Then the doors slowly shut, and the elevator continued its intended path... But not until a moment passed, when the lights in the elevator suddenly blew out. Two of them, shrouding me in darkness. I felt a cold breeze envelop the back of my neck, like someone was breathing down it. In hindsight it was probably a coincidence, or it was just my mind making things up, but the combination of two paranormal occurances back to back made my heart nearly jump out of my chest as I began to panic. My head began to spin as I didn't realize what was in front of me or behind me, the ground shaking from the elevator moving, and my hands were invisible before me. I began to freak the fuck out. I was now banging on the elevator wall for it to let me out and away from whatever paranormal entity was in my presence. Eventually with a loud 'DING', The doors folded open and I nearly tripped out of the elevator. I didnt even glance behind me as I booked it down the hall to my room, slammed its keycard into the lock and flew inside... I didn't get much of a look down the hall I came from, and I couldn't tell if it was the lack of sleep causing my mind to play tricks on me, but I swear I saw a tall, black, shadowy figure wearing a broad, fedora-like hat, watching me scramble to piece myself together and lock the door. All locks. Top, middle, bottom to keep whatever was outside my room...outside. I hid under the bed of my hotel room, as corny as it sounds, I wasnt thinking straight, and was in the 'Flight' mode of Fight or Flight. Then, silence. A piercing, isolating silence. I think it goes without saying, I didn't sleep at all for the rest of the night.

TBH I don’t really understand feeling “scared” by hotels, honest. I like on vacations when I’m staying in a hotel. Usually they’re nicer than my bedroom, gets cleaned, usually the bathroom is comfy and nice. It always feels like a bit of a comfy luxury to me rather than an uncertain transient moment, y’know? And a hotel is kinda nice because it’s somewhere you haven’t been before.

Hola Midnight como estas? Este video merece continuación. Muy bueno. ¿Qué es lo que había dentro de la habitación que la puerta decía "NO ABRIR" ???

I stay at hotels all the time and you go ahead and walk in my room. You will be screaming "OH LONG JOHNSON" when you see what I'm packing around😁

It's crazy what projects and storybuilding you can make, using a simple game. Love your videos❤

The song is Blew by Nirvana, slowed way down. And Grave Encounters is a great movie!

12:10 those are the sounds from The Hunter of the OG Dead Space, seems like the creator liked Dead Space

Would LOVE to see more from this WAD. I can’t wait to hear your theory on it!

So glad you did this mod. I remember playing the old demo for this and being too scared to play it. Love the backrooms influence.

I didn't have any scary experiences in hotels, but I also grew up exposed to many many liminal spaces. However, I have had lots of fun experiences. My friends and I during college (we were living in a hotel waiting for the houses to have rooms ready) played hallway ninja and would have parties in different rooms. In the same hotel, some contractors who stayed there played a bunch of pranks on each other. I made friends with the overnight staff and they always snuck me extra cookies. In a different hotel, I got to walk my dogs on an empty unused road with only two street lights at night. It was so peaceful.

I remember there being an older WAD also called "The Hotel", but that was just a series of dark hallways with classic DooM doorways for the rooms (most of which were inaccessible. There were wandering apparitions that looked like Sadako from The Grudge. Not nearly as varied or as big as this one, however, but was still freaky with being nearly pitch-black, and looped the "Max's Nightmare" music from Max Payne in the background. Eventually you'd reach the room where an incantation supposedly took place, causing the spirits to appear. That particular was FILLED with a bunch of Sadakos. I think what freaked me out the most was how the apparitions screamed when they gave chase - the same scream as one of the bosses from the Ghouls World WADs from around the same time. An effective use of the sound of a panda cub sneezing to elicit sheer terror that I somewhat miss. This was an interesting WAD to look at, and would love to see more. I also enjoyed your commentary and humor, feeling very honest with your own fear, as I was merely a viewer but cringed in terror from just looking at all the hallways and how suddenly some of those creatures appeared. Excellent video. :)

I will be honest I feel more safe and relaxed at a hotel than my own home.

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Fun Fact, You can Almost Insta-kill a Blood Crawler if you've got the Axe (They die with 1 or 2 Hits)

The fact that you brought up Grave Encounters blew my mind. It felt like Ghost Adventures, but actually went wrong (with goofey moments, still). Such a great movie.

I hate when games make everything so dark, it's not scary it's more frustrating than anything else especially when there are enemies to deal with. I always end up cranking the brightness and contrast up so I'm not blindly firing off shots while being attacked lol. Great video as always Midnight! 👍👍

My creepy hotel story was many years ago. I was getting ready to go to a LARP camp with my mom and we decided to sleep at a hotel/motel for a night. In the middle of the night I go and take a piss and while washing my hands a piece of what I can only describe as someone's lip or gums came swerling out of the drain. At fist I thought I was dreaming but after I touched it I was scared and freaked af out and went calling for my mom. She didn't believe me and didn't even bother to check until the same thing happened to her in the morning. We found more pieces of someones lips around the bathroom sink and toilet and we even looked at the corner of the walls to find what can only be described as blood. We got our stuff and go the hell out of there. We didn't call the cops cause who's gonna believe that and we thought that if it wasn't a granny who lost her fake teeth or something like that,then it was a murder. maybe even cover up by the motel itself. idk and I don't ever want to know. Also it proves that horror movies are right when someone tries to tell other characters that crazy stuff has happened and they don't believe them😂

btw the song at like 8:45 is blew by nirvana

Im so hyped my new favorite RU-vider uploaded!! Thank you midnight, keep up the great work 😎

If you're looking for a true, bonified classic doom wad for this series, you should definitely check out Happy Time Circus and it's sequel at some point.

Midnight!!! Thanks for the content man. Sitting back and enjoying the video. I like the resident evil safe room song use in your videos. You should use OST from RE1 remake . That was the best RE game IMO and the OST is one reason why

Just found your channel loving the content also the fact that people are still makeing custom wads for doom and doom 2 is insane this one i would crap myself playing ill wait till my buddy is home so we can play it together

Love your sense of humor and style! You always manage to find really cool and interesting wads, even if they're disturbing or controversial, but hey, I figure that makes it all the more interesting!

I love this wad because of the atmosphere and interesting story, and what happens at the end scares the imagination.

Let’s make this an extended series

I work in a hostel. Night shift specifically. Every hour we'd do a floorwalk (there's four floors) to make sure no one is being too loud as quiet-time is from when my shift starts to when it ends. I'm on the 2nd floor and I hear loud talking at the end of the room, I finish the floorwalk and go back to the 2nd floor to see if maybe they stopped by themselves. No. I knock on the door and say I'm reception. No one answers the door. I open the door myself and see all 12 men inside are standing around, naked. With the lights turned off. One or two of them notice me at the doorway, cover themselves up with a hand. I just tell them. "Listen guys, I don't care about this. Please keep it quiet, people in the other rooms are complaining. Have a good night" before closing the door and going back to work. Very fucking weird.

Magazines: A container that holds rounds that can be "released" from the gun. Clip: Stripper Clip that holds rounds that feed into an Internal Magazine.

I'm kinda surprised you have yet to cover Solace Dreams as a part of your Disturbing Doom series. From what I saw, it's really good, even if it does contain a remake of Rootpain

Well, well. It seems this mods keep getting more disturbing by the minute! Ps: I overcame my sickness and I feel much better now.

Really awesome video Midnight, I grew up playing the shareware version of Doom on a floppydisk we got from my uncle until my older brother bought Doom II from K-Mart. Your channel, IcarusLives and Decino have been scratching that nostalgic itch lately. This mod looks awesome, I saw the creators comments below and agree with both of them, you should do a livestream or a full playthrough of this with the brightness dialed up a little bit more.

Just watching Midnight after a long day in school hits different

this guy deserves more support❤

How did I miss that you had dropped a new vid for 2 whole days?! You're one of the few legit feeling gamers/explorers of games around atm and you don't mind talking about morbid stuff etc so keep it up bud; love your content.

Midnight be like, if this video gets 15,000 likes I'll upload more of my playthrough, yet we're 18,000+ likes. Where's part 2, my fellow SpartanSlayer?

It really turns me away when content creators speak a different language without subtitles other than that i really enjoyed the video

bro is every doom mod you play the ''most disturbing''????????????

Really well done horror based mod. Would love to see more. Both in terms of footage of you playing, As well as the creator of said mod to make more stuff.

bro thank you for making a video on this. i always loved this mod and once even wanted to cover this topic myself because of how underrated it was

As always mate, insane content, and you always deliver great gameplay with commentary. Thanks a lot for showing that mod !!

12:50 A loaded clip looks like a comb you can straighten your hair with. And man this mod does a good job with the atmosphere, almost spilled my coffee couple of times.

8:39 this is a really old Nirvana song from 1989 called “Blew” off their fairly unknown first album, though it’s been ultra slowed and distorted. I used to be a huge fan but now not so much, I’ve moved on to better genres of music, but that was a pretty cool addition and it was period correct for the game’s setting.

Amazing video as always. Can't wait to see more of you playing this mod

The atmosphere in this mod is insane

that is one of the most complex doom mods i have ever seen i love your videos, they're a great watch

8:35 its a nirvana song but whats accurate is that this song was from 1989

8:35 "I hope this isn't copyrighted" "IS THERE... ANOTHER... REASON... FOR YOUR STAIN!"

I wish for this video to get the likes you need because I would love to see more of this mod. Amazing content btw

I don't have many creepy experiences with hotels. But the long hallways, like the 'infinite length' ones give me liminal space vibes and makes me feel uneasy.

I'd watch more of this mod. Thanks for playing

Midnight, there is a really cool mod named: "After Doom" for Doom 2, its a mod that ask the question about what happened between doom episodes and games. It has a lot of new content and it is also very disturbing sometimes, but the levels are very huge, like VERY HUGE.

Haha that song at 8:48 is Blew by Nirvana played at 0.75 speed. I don't think the copyright bots will catch it.

The song playing at 8:31 is Blew by Nirvana from their debut album, I recognise those notes and melody anywhere, it’s obviously slowed down so you should be good

A clip is used to load a gun. A magazine is the little box you load into a gun. Your typical pistol uses a magazine.

And this game is exactly why whenever a game tells you what brightness to set it at, you always set it brighter.

Love your videos man! My creepiest hotel experience has to be when I stayed at this very old hotel in Savannah, Georgia, a city built in the 1730s, and that's said by many to be haunted. Our hotel was relatively close to one of the many cemeteries there. At night, I swear I heard things, and I was terrified. I'm not really a believer of the paranormal but it was still pretty creepy.

I adore hearing your voice, it’s so comforting

I would honestly love to see more videos of you playing through this mod, this one was great

I remember playing an older version of this a while back. really gave me chills, man.

8:30 is Blew by Nirvana but slowed down

Nice! I vaguely remember a demo for this years ago. Guess it is finished. Will have to give it a go.

Now this was a great scary wad! Low lights, droning sounds for soundtrack, oppressive. Would love to see the rest!

0:05 isn't a hotel, that looks like the mental ward I was in for two months once