To be fair, poking around where we shouldn't is just the kind of thing people do in movies. Otherwise the film would just be a crew going "Hey, what's this?" "It's dangerous. Leave it alone and file a report about it." *80 minutes of a man filing paperwork*
Or you can make it the ending of a movie. Like you see the story through a previous victim until they meet their end and the new protagonist just ends it with taking any chances.
Ironically, the soviet union probably would do this. Like the thing they were most known for other than the nukes was the bureaucracy. Layers and layers of bureaucracy. The cold war was only cold because a spy couldn't be bothered with the 'red' tape.
That is kinda why I like the ones where even if they are smart or have common sense there is something that changes how they think or what happens was forced upon them
Hey Roanoke! I worked with bronze for a time, doing both crucible work as well as being the person who unloaded the burnout kiln. When unloading the kiln (1500+ degrees Fahrenheit) I had to wear what I call the space beekeeper suit. Every inch of skin was covered, and the material itself was a metallic silver on the outside and wool on the inside. Certain kinds of wool are actually fire resistant! Alright, I’ll get to the point: the worst burns I got weren’t from the kiln or the crucible, but from accidentally touching a bronze piece after belt sanding it. Contact burns like that don’t hurt so much at first, so a lot of people think they’re fine. They’re not. It’s important to run the burnt area under cold water IMMEDIATELY to stop the heat from getting ‘trapped’, I guess. I don’t know exactly how it works, but while the top layer of skin feels fine, the heat just kind of compounds in the layer below. It’s likely that the protagonist dousing herself with cold water could stop her from becoming one big blister, but I’m not sure how she would survive the shock from going to extreme heat to a colder environment. When leaving the kiln we have to make sure to not just strip everything off right away to avoid shock. In addition, extreme ambient heat can give you a weird kind of high, making you less worried about literally boiling. Sorry this is so long, but I hope I can give a bit of insight into how humans react to extreme heat.
It works the same way that resting grilled meat after cooking works. Your exterior layer of skin is really moist. The hissing sound you hear when you burn yourself is the moisture in your epidermis evaporating really fast! But the muscles and dermis beneath your outer layer of skin doesn’t have this added layer of fat and moisture. Even after you take the piece of meat off the grill, it’s still cooking inside. Let your burgers rest 5-10 minutes after grilling to lock in the flavor ;)
I got burnt the other day and immediately ran it under freezing water for like 10 minutes and it actually kept me from blistering and experiencing more pain later! It was the first time I’ve tried it.
I've also heard that using heat will help the same, had a buddy on an oil rig run his neck against a hot pipe. Went to the rigs nurse ASAP and she used a hair dryer on high heat, then med, then low, then cool to draw the heat out. He doesn't hardly have a blemish now. Figured I'd share.
You know, to me this seems more horrifying than any of the other zombie infections. In a lot of them you're just "gone". Your body is operating entirely on autopilot and you no longer have awareness of anything. But here? You're fully aware of what's going on, what your body is doing, and that you aren't the one at the helm. It's also horrifying with the body horror stuff, as you'd be experiencing and feeling all of that, rather than your consciousness being completely gone or your body controlled by something else.
The vodka/ice water combination actually makes a great deal of sense. Alcohol causes your veins to dilate, leading to increased blood flow to the body’s surface and extremities. In a cold environment, that will help lower your core body temperature. If the fungus can just barely survive at a regular human body temperature, lowering it just might prevent it from taking root. Hopefully without killing yourself through hypothermia. (this is also why you should never try to counteract hypothermia by drinking alcohol, despite a depressing number of people and pop culture pieces seeming to think it helps; drunking alcohol does make you feel warmer, sure, but you are directly counteracting your body’s efforts to conserve heat near your vital organs, making the problem worse)
Misinformation is a really big issue .. it's such a common problem that even ppl who actively try to counteract misinformation can sometimes cause it without meaning to of course. It's especially awful when misinformation can put your life in real danger.. 😓 I wish & hope in the near future more & more ppl help try to counteract this problem but all we can do is individuals is try to help others see the light it's really up to them to follow
@@cvi4057 I carry some tic tacs. They're pure sugar even though they claim to claim to be 0 grams of sugar per serving. They're like .5 of a gram. If you start feeling dizzy out in the wilderness or long hikes and you know you're hydrated its more likely than not hypoglycemic shock. It can happen even if you are not diabetic.
Oh, just the veins, you say? Wrong. Not just the veins. Further, dilated veins doesn't lead to increased blood flow to extremities and surface because veins do not transport blood to those places.
@@thetacticalpuertorican Smart. People focus too much on carbs and protein when they go out into the woods. They aren't entirely wrong, having a light source of dense protein and carbs in your pack is necessary, but so to is sugar. Thats why trail mix usually has M&Ms or something mixed in with it. Not the best choice personally, but it works. Personally I go with freeze dried fruit or dehydrated berries. Your Tic-tacs work too. Specially the orange ones, but I can't remember why off the top of my head. They're light and you get a lot more than just the sugar you need. But specifically tying into why sugary things can save your life in the cold is because it forces your body to produce insulin and that raises your core temp for anyone wondering why. Be safe out there, and have fun 😁
The scariest part about cordiceps has to be that it does not take over the nervous system. It basically builds a second one by itself and takes over. Which also has one really weird implication. The fungus has to make decisions itself as it cannot depend on the ant to do so.
It isn't like it's a bunch of neurons, it's much simpler, the fungi that made the ant go higher and made it bite down once it got high up spread much better, all the fungus originally would have done is infect the ant and kill it, grow from it's corpse and sprout, then it would be found by other ants and moved into either a garbage pile or buried in the dirt they dug their tunnels with, probably not infecting many other ants since it won't get much airflow. Any mutation that made the ant climb would help, but the ant would probably keep climbing and fall off it would still be better than not interfering, so the next iteration would be using the ant's visual input to figure out where the highest point is, then biting down and locking the mandibles, so it can't fall.
In fact it's only the O. unilateralis core clade that cause the ants to bite down, there are several subspecies like O. unilateralis kniphofioides which don't seem to affect behaviour in such a seeming beneficial way, ants infected by it just walk to the mossy base of a tree and die. Neither of these fungi make decisions or do anything to the ant's brain directly, they exhibit what's called secondary metabolism, which a lot of fungi do, basically it's metabolic pathways for producing enzymes and hormones that don't affect the fungus, but the ant, the enzymes that allow the spores to get into the ant's exoskeleton are part of it, the neurotransmitters that make the ant want to climb, and the neurotransmitters that make it bite down when it is dying. That's all it needs, because unlike human brains, ant's neural ganglia are pretty simple, you give it one chemical and it goes and gets food, another it eats food, another it digs a hole, another it climbs a tree, a mix of a few, it digs a hole in the tree to look for food.
@@domvasta Fascinating really. And I wonder if the same concept could apply to humans, but since our neuronstransmitters are more complicated, could a fungus exist that just ups what it does to the ant? A fungus that can create cocktails of chemicals instead of just the couple it needs to coax an ant? A fungus that could coax us in simple ways, effectively making us zombie like, with only a few commands being issued to our bodies. Or perhaps unlike a zombie, and just push us in subtle ways to be more social or whatever the fungi needs to propagate, at least at first. Or! lol, like in the movie where our muscles are being pushed to do certain things, but I dont think that would go very far as it would call too much attention and be stopped by outside forces too easily. Still freaky though.
i love all the creative names he keeps giving for all these "monetization impairing" terms he needs to reference in these videos. "Giving themselves a new mouth" and "spicy egg" were great.
What's really unnerving about this is how it basically blends the fungus-based zombie infection of The Last of Us with the Cronenberg-esque meat agglomeration body horror of Dead Space, just add bioluminescence.
Only got one question..... How the hell did they build the facility at the bottom with the giant fungus growth sitting right there. Did the Fungus growth write the construction crew a pass? that it wouldn't mess with them? Maybe the fungus and the crew hung out, talked about their dreams, and what they did for fun. They all exchanged numbers before they left, Fungus is now a RU-vidr, talks about 16th Century Art on his channel..... Great stuff.
The fungus mold was at the very last level. They have built levels, did their subterranean research and everything was fine. And at the lower levels they had to wear protective suits with oxygen tanks anyway - because of 200 °C. They couldn't get sick because they had suits on them. It was OK for a while, probably for a few days, so they even built something at the lowest level. But someone must have bring the mold on the exterior of their suit to the living area on the lower levels at one point.
I want to guess that it was down there and fairly inactive, dormant if you will, but by them breaking in they introduced enough air to slowly reinvigorate it after they built a bit
What’s funny to me is that the actual bore hole is only 23 cm wide. No one can go down it and it’s not like a mine shaft. It’s just a hole that looks like they were drilling for water or oil. But the did cap it with thick steel plates and huge bolts.
There was actually an explosion deep down the hole in 1995. Nobody can really explain what happened there. Maybe just some gas bubble but nobody knows for sure.
I looked at this film, it turns out a lot of it was practical effects, including the larger monster. It astounds me the Russians did a better job at doing a mold version of the thing than Hollywood could
This actually seems pretty easy to contain, just seal the hole. It's too cold outside for it to live on the surface without a host, and it's infection is obvious enough to catch early.
@@a_Minion_of_Soros yeah, risk to blow up the spores up to the upper atmosphere and risk to get it to land in hot weather palaces where it could actually take hold. Yeah, the upper atmosphere temperature could kill it but I wouldn't take the even the slimmest chance for it to happen given the option.
The line “It’s been a while since we last checked on Russia, I wonder what they’ve been up to: ________ so nothing good then” has so much meme potential that it genuinely is both hilarious and terrifying
I remember a story I read as a child about a boy who decided to dig a whole in his back garden. Various family members and neighbours commented on it, saying how it could be a pond or some such he was digging. But he was adamant it was just a hole. Sometimes, you just want to dig a big hole.
I'm a young artist/writer working on a scifi story, and I've gotta say, thank you for posting what you post. Your explanations give me so many ideas, and motivate me to continue working on my own project. You have no idea the impact your channel has made on me in the past two years, and I really appreciate it. Thank you
This movie's infection is quite reminiscent of SCP-610 - The Flesh that Hates / The Red Death. Interestingly, the SCP logs within that article talked about a site located near Lake Baikal in Southern Siberia, within Russia. The article was first published in 2009. This movie might be completely unrelated, but the similarities are rather uncanny.
one of the best horror scifi monsters is a fungus that take over the body but leaves the person's mind intact. so you have this scream person yelling that "you need to run away", or "save me". as the mold monster charges you
Wow, this thing is basically an ancient Flood supercell: fast enough to quickly overrun the body’s natural defenses, fuses multiple infected together into a single giant neurological mass for food, could easily wipe out the world with just a single spore, but ultimately is too old/weakened to fully control the host and resorts to just puppeteering the meatsuits while the brain is fully conscious of all the pain & mutilation it’s experiencing. 😱
@@Luna.Tenebra To be fair, realistically, nothing could kick you out of your own nervous system without killing you. Your spinal cord is the highway for your nervous system, connecting everything to the brain, and the only way to stop it would be to severe the link. Consequently, this would prevent you from breathing and kill you very quickly.
This movie sounds like it was partially inspired by the SCP "The Flesh That Hates" that also fuses people together and turns everything into flesh carpets everywhere and is funny enough, also located in Russia.
I love every time Roanoke talks about breathing he feels the need to point out that we’re not breathing manually, all just to screw with us. I laugh every time!
i've always felt like fungal infections are probably gonna be the thing that destroy us or they'll be around long after us. They're incredibly strong resilient and adaptable if they can't get something they will do whatever they can to get it they are ruthless (they literally make ants kill themselves) i just hope we can learn a lot more about them their incredibly interesting
I always get excited when I hear about electron microscopes. My uncle used to be a computer scientist, created the OS the Ohio state mainframe back in the day. He got into genetics and used his computer skills to optimize the microscopes while creating some of the early GMOs. Why did he transition from computers to creating GMOs? He wanted to make a banjo out of a gourd, but gourds are too thin and break from the tension of the drum head
At this point I've been watching your videos for about 4 years and I have to say Roanoke you never disappoint! I have an idea, the Protoss and Zerg from the starcraft universe. Now that would be extremely fascinating. Much love from Kentucky Roanoke, I look forward to anything you put out there!
to be honest this mold actually reminds me of the mold from resident evil 7 but i say it has both traits of the cordyceps and the mold combined which is quite terrifying to think about
So, something to note with engineers, they tend to be very ingrained in their way of doing things. If he's an electrical engineer he won't think about the mechanics of the elevator as much as he would the electronics.
Also dude, you are not longwinded as you put in one of the chapter breaks. I really enjoy your very in depth, logical, and excellent breakdown of content. It one of the reasons I love your videos!!
as much as the concept is a fairly common one in horror media I still really enjoyed this movie and its special effects. When using earthly biological ideas in horror you get a lot of similar themes in games and movies etc. I don't mind though i feel like there are lots of different ways to use it and i like to see different takes on it. It's just another genre of entertainment, like zombie genre or ghosts. The part that I really like is that it's just doing what it does to survive and isn't intentionally hurting people. THAT is the true horror. No malicious demon or mutated rabies could ever be so terrifying as nature itself. You can't reason with it, or bribe it or do some magical spell to stop it, you can't even put a bullet in it's head to kill it. I love it. Absolutely horrifying.
@@totalguardian1436 I think that's slang for zombie virus, though I guess it depends on whether you see something natural that's been modified in a lab as nature still or not.
If you ever want to do a book based one there is an extremely interesting book series called Alex hunter, it has a lot of microbiology in the second book as one of the main characters is a microbiologist. The first book also has a underground lake in Antarctica that has a completely seperate evolutionary tree that I think you would find extremely interesting.
@@RoanokeGaming I’d imagine that the majority of the people here wouldn’t mind if you used books because a lot of law Channels for games like warhammer and star wars get a lot of subs without footage
She was probably already infected. In the Lower Cave, when she got the key, she had the mask off, and judging by the film, the whole air down there was full of spores.
1:05 And there it is, an iconic phrase that I find myself quoting more often than I should have to. “Do you want an old god? Because that’s how you get an old god.”
The very last scene is actually her pulling the pin, as the subtitles said "Ana pulls the pin" at the same frame, and afterwards, as the screen turned black before rolling credits
I definitely get him calling that dude hitman. When he was messing with the panel in the elevator I was expecting him to sabotage it to lure a target over
Fungi is the scariest kingdom on earth, it has many various forms and types, and its one of the oldest life that has adapted to land and sea, and we haven’t barely explored the ocean yet, this movie is why this makes fungi even scarier
Technically yes. So we know this mould's living range only just covers 37.4 degrees C (which funnily enough means birds are ideal/superior hosts for it as they average 41 degrees C). The lowest recorded human body temperatures which people survived are 11.8 degrees from a toddler and 9 degrees from 51 yr old undergoing controlled treatment. So with that in mind and 37 degrees being on the lower end of the moulds range in a controlled setting with equipement and experts a person could be lowered to a temp the mould dies while the human can be revived. However. Given that the mould crystalises upon 'freezing' any person infected could survive the infection only to die to crystal fragments being in their body.
@@scarletsblood8510 I'm curious now as to the physical properties of the mold crystals. They could perforate the internal anatomy when the freeze, causing hemorrhaging. If that doesn't happen, the destroyed mold could cause artificial clotting - assuming muscular action grinds them down or it hardens into a form of calculus.
The mold fusing together, wanting to take over humanity, and weak against cold, all being unearthed from some arctic area. This is very similar to The Thing
Love the little aside about specialties. My parents are both medical doctors with additional Masters specialties - Dad's is in Microbiology and Mum's is in Epidemiology. Match made in heaven.
Just curious, but would you ever cover short film-type content by any chance, like from Love, Death & Robots? A couple of fun ones I can think of would be episodes like Suits, The Secret War, or Bad Traveling.
If you’re wondering why we are driven to to dig really deep holes in the earth. It’s the same reason we keep trying to go deeper and deeper into the ocean. Humans naturally have an innate desire to explore their environment to see what they can find. What better way is there to do this than to search the deepest most crevices of our planet? The answer no other way.
I always have and always will hate those characters who decide kissing an infected person is a good idea, therefore infecting themselves, because the writers need some kind of romance arc for some reason.
This is both fascinating, & complete nightmare fuel that I want to douse in fire. Also makes me think back to the Mold from RE7 & RE8, especially with it crystalizing when it gets too cold. Love your work Roanoke, can't wait for what you come out with next. 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
I'm not the type to comment on videos, I usually like and lurk. This is video is a great example of the type of content I enjoy and they're the reason why I use RU-vid. The fact that creators struggle with censorship, exposure, and being fairly compensated for ad revenue makes me frustrated with the platform. I hate that I have to leave a comment just for the sake of manipulating an algorithm that doesn't even benefit the audience I'm a part of. That being said, here we are. Keep up the good work and fight the good fight.
Hey roanoke, there's a movie where ships crew finding a russian spaceshuttle wreck with a mutated seabears inside. It's called Harbinger Down and it has Lance Henriksen playing a grumpy grandpa captain. Any chance you're gonna take a look at it?
Your videos are always interesting and I love the scientific portions. Honestly, I've always loved making up fictional organisms and have tried my best for physically (at least, proportionally) accurate designs, but with Roanoke's help, I can now make them more biologically accurate as well, so thanks. Although, it's fair if you DON'T want me to thank you as I've taken more to the horror genre in the past 6-7 years ^^'. Hehehe... Assuming I ever get so far with a single idea, I hope one day you find one of my "children" and grow to love/hate (or both, both is also valid) it as much as movie monsters like this one ^^ Ngl I don't watch movies anymore and haven't in multiple years since my old glitchy laptop with a dvd player died so these are always fun, and no need to worry about spoilers for smth I'll probably never get to watch anyway. This movie seems like a fun one to watch if it's not taken too seriously but not so much if you expect normal, practical human responses to an unknown and highly dangerous threat lol. Idk about everyone else in this universe, but I'd of asked more questions and been a bit more hesitant to.... Well, participate in any of that honestly. Oh? No one has returned in how long exactly from an underground facility housing an unknown organism that's known to be infectious? Really sorry for them but I choose life. Thanks ... Also I want an old god 🥺. Maybe summon a tad bit less mold though if we get to make requests lmao
Fun fact: Kola Superdeep Borehole was in USSR. Drilling began on 24 May 1970 using the Uralmash-4E, and later the Uralmash-15000 series drilling rig, and it became the deepest manmade hole in history in 1979. The 23-centimetre (9 in) diameter boreholes were drilled by branching from a central hole.[1] The deepest reached 12,262 metres (40,230 ft) in 1989, the deepest artificial point on Earth. There was urban legend or just a lie, that microphone down there was hearing screams from hell.
SPICY EGG. Dude, that is the most incredibly stunning mental image of a gr3nade. Nicely orated. I have slumlords, and black mould in my apartment. This is straight up nightmare fuel.
I think a really cool movie that I would be really interested in having the science explained it Pontypool. It involves a zombie-esque virus, but the way it transmits is very interesting.
I think she did manage to pull the pin, you can hear the pin pull sound as the screen goes black. Regardless, getting molded is a crazy way to go. Reminds me of this guy I saw on a talk show a few years back who lost most of his face to a mold infection.
this reminds me of GTFO, It's got pretty much the exact same plot and has a very similar infection. Dig super deep whole? Check Some sort of infectious disease? Check Send more people down? Check Infected have bioluminescence? Check Infected mutate heavily? Check
Body horror is such a primal fear. It can really rattle the bones of any one. The idea of having your body hijacked, bent, and broken by that thing is horrifying. All the while you are still conscious. Bleh