I appreciate you going into the intricacies of what makes it work and what doesn't. It is a very difficult balance to get right, which I'm sure a lot of people don't really think about when watching "THE SPOOKY VIDS" But yes, thank you for the kind words, I appreciate it a ton. 👍

Every analogue horror creator is named Alex and everyone who dies in an analogue horror story is named Mark

He was so close to watching Local58, the actual maker of Analog Horror.

I love how at 25:42 there is a recording of the last castrato singer singing “Ave Maria”. For those who don’t know, castrato singers are males who are castrated before hitting puberty. It was a common practice in the late renaissance/baroque era. I heard this piece in my music history class and brought such an uncanny feeling to the room. Just the application in this context makes it for me.

Analog horror can be summed up in one sentence… “That can’t be real….. right?”

Oh boi it’s happening Highly recommend the Walten Files, several of the scares stuck with me

This entire genre just blends so well with something like SCP

Came back to rewatch this and I wanna pop an interesting fact in The Blaire witch project is one of the first "analog" horror projects, but it's also very different. My mom knew one of the actors in the original. The actors were literally given cameras and some supplies, brought into the woods by the directors, and left there. A lot of their reactions were genuine. The directors would come and bang on the tent, without them knowing what it was. They would be left notes, like to throw their map into the river. The main point is, except for the beginning and end, none of it was scripted. It was the first analog horror, but it was also something extremely different, and I want that to be known. It was almost like a real life version

The Backrooms Found Footage is a really good one. Idk if it’s exactly analog horror but it does have that VHS recording and creepy vibe to it.

This is no joke: one of the ads that played while I was watching this was an anti-vaping ad, and I shit you not, it was right after the bit about THALASIN and the REAL anti-vaping ad started out by saying, "If you love anxiety, you'll love depression." They were, of course, harping on the fact that vaping can lead to an increase in those emotions, but still. Very unsettling timing.

Mark: I want to dissect why this works Matpat: the idea that things that are familiar to you are unsafe is a disturbing thought.

Coming back too this video after “KZfaq cut this content” was released really shows how mark grew to love the genre

the thalasin one is so funny because aed is literally just depression and thalasin is antidepressants but worded in a creepy horror way

I’m so glad Mark hasn’t been replaced by an Alternate.

The Tangi Virus one absolutely terrified me, and I haven't been scared in literal years

23:40 lmao i just love that mark literally skipping around knowing nothing and just ended up getting that picture, his face is so priceless💀

We'll know Mark is an alternate when he pronounces "room" correctly.

Me: "why would someone buy anger pills??" Mark: "where is the horny option??" Me: damn, I am asking the wrong questions here..

the fact that mark's pizzaria is literally my local pizza restaurant, it makes that one a little bit genuinely spooky lol

Me with a fear of body disfiguration: this’ll be fun Also me after: **soft anxious crying**

Degrence: A feeling of pure, absolute euphoria, magnitudes better than what any drug other than Thalasin + can do. It is combined with the extreme satisfaction over everything, even the most mundane of things. Accompanied by a minor drop in blood pressure. Humber: Extreme confusion. The literal form of someone saying something so stupid that your brain hurts. Nage: A feeling of forced friendliness, to the point where it becomes psychotic. Dorcelessness: The best term that can describe this infamous emotion is literally 'nothing'. It's a giant void in the part of your mind that controls emotion. Numbness of the mind. Notice the flattened skull in the Dorcelessness portrait? That represents the figurative loss of the parts of your brain that trigger emotion, a part of your brain is gone. Andric: If normal cringe was being hit in the face with a paper ball, Andric is like being hit in the face with a nuclear bomb. It's like that pain you get when you hit your funny bone, but amplified by many magnitudes. Varination: The reason there are two portraits is to show different intensities. Varination 1 is like being frozen-in-fear. Like you are home alone and something breaks in the kitchen. Varination 2 is like you are bracing for something terrible to happen, like you are sinking back into yourself, just ready for it. Ponnish: The feeling you get when witnessing something that just destroys your soul. The best thing to compare it to is the sadness mixed with fear that a lot of Public Service Announcements give off. You just sink back upon being hit with something Ponnish-inducing. Harfam: It's like your brain can no longer comprehend the mere existence of itself and everything around it. Your brain just crashes. Kyne: Kyne is like you have suddenly and instantaneously acquired all knowable information in the universe at once. So much information that your brain just collapses in on itself. Equivalent to scoring an infinity on an IQ test. Trantiveness: An extreme connection to nature. The feeling that you have become one with nature, and this is reflected in the two Trantiveness portraits, which show human characteristics melted with various things in nature (First one represents a tree, second one represents a flower) Teluge: The feeling that you are going to die and/or everything will be annihilated. An extreme feeling of dread, to put it lightly. Onlent: Pure white-hot anger. The feeling like you must obliterate every single proton, neutron, and electron of someone or something. This emotion suppresses all others, and like primal instinct, results in you attacking whatever you feel Onlent towards. Loric: Similar to Dorcelessness, in a way. The pure neutrality of all emotions. To put it into an analogy: if all emotions were mapped on a coordinate grid, Loric will be dead in the origin point, or (0,0). You don't feel anything. You don't even feel as though you don't feel anything. [REDACTED]: The unlabeled emotion is not an emotion. It is a grim reminder to everyone regarding drug abuse. This leads me to believe that this commercial is not meant to advertise a product. It is a PSA. A drug abuse PSA. It shows what happens when you take the seriousness of drugs lightly, though the uncanny valley of the Thalasin + emotions... -TheDinosaurKing 777

Thank you for the shoutout about the FNaF video!! And great breakdown of the subgenre, discovered Gemini Home Entertainment last year and have been hooked on it ever since. 😄

Analog horror is the antithesis of nostalgia and I think that's why it strikes us all so hard

Gooseworx is an amazing writer and super cool person, honestly

Thalasin: Lists almost every possible emotion. Mark: *Where's the horny option?*

26:38 shit

My personal favorite analogue horror has to be the monument mythos/nixonverse. It just does everything right. It uses mediums that most people are familiar with to show things that shouldn’t exist, and it goes even farther beyond that because the things it presents aren’t just straight up monsters. It’s monuments. Icons of America that nearly anyone living there can recognize, but twisted into something horrific

There are four types of analog horror: 1. Something's off 2. News about weird stuff 3. Person telling a story 4. Found VHS tape

Ah yes, the horror that consistently makes me scared of the dark again

I wish this was a series, hearing Mark talk about things like this is suprisingly entertaining

5:08 So is this where he got the inspiration for the wonky side effects of what drink that was in his short analog horror thingamajig?

9:21 lol is it just me or does it look like the rock eyebrow raise

It was only a matter of time since Mark explored this genre of horror. We’re in for a treat.

The unknown, the uncanny, and the feeling that you're seeing something horrible that no one else knows about. These make good analog horror.

5:36 WAIT HANG ON WHO?!?!?!? *amazing digital circus theme plays*

4:52 I can't help but notice Mark looks like he's experiencing degrence as well

There’s a horror movie called “Await Further Instructions” where a family is sealed in their house and gets instructions from the TV that get more and more violent. They think it’s the government giving them emergency warnings and keep going with it even as the instructions becomes insane. It really follows with what Mark was saying about how you’re seeing something weird through a normal medium like an emergency broadcast and don’t know if it’s real or not.

I think what makes this terrifying, at least to me, is the idea of supernatural, uncontrollable forces happening to my natural, controllable world. The monkey one doesn’t give that uncontrollable feel, so that’s where I think it doesn’t work.

I think Teluge is just the name for the feeling you get when you sit on a toilet seat that's already warm

8:44 THERES A FUCKING MARKS PIZZA 20 MINUTES FROM MY HOUSE OH MY GOD (sorry these things make me very excited)

Im deeply terrified of analogue horror, but watching with Mark and having him talk about them after makes me more comfortable.

“You just look at it and go ‘I don’t like that’, and then it gives you more of that” Congratulations, Mark, after years playing horror games you finally summed up what horror is. 💖💖💖

Analog Horror becomes even scarier when you cannot find definitive proof that it cannot or has not happened...

0:32 when the edibles kick in mid-conversation

Am I the only one that would love to see Mark turn this into a series? Not specifically the whole analog horror thing, but just analyzing why scary things are scary.

Fun Fact!: Alex Kister actually made his series just from his phone, he also made the TV Man by actually buying an actual TV!

Me and my lil sis love watching ur vids, even when scared. So thanks for keeping it up Mark! :)

Mandala catalogue is genuinely some of the creepiest shit out there once you understand what’s going on

“You just look at it and go ‘I don’t like that’, and then it gives you more of that” Congratulations, Mark, after years playing horror games you finally summed up what horror is.

On a comedical note, imagine being in an argument with someone and you pause to go "Hol on I need to take my angry pill rq."

I love how Mark opened this video like he was welcoming us to a very important meeting on a very important subject.

Dorcelessnes is a real emotion that makes you feel empty

Mark: *laughs at the scary faces* Dorclessness: And I took that personally

Can’t wait to see those unnatural emotions as a “tag yourself, I’m Loric” template

dude the glitch you added scared me i thought my computer was glitching

I don’t know what attracts me to these videos. They’re freaky and i always watch them when I’m alone at night even though I already a paranoid person.

Mark: “There is an entity that looks just like you that’s trying to take over your life” Me: “I don’t know why it would want me, I’m broke and home all the time”

What makes that Brazen Bull distressing meme at the end worse, is that it was real. It's just a real historical story they turned into a creepy meme.

I just realized that the person who made Blue Channel: Thalasin is the same person who made/works on The Amazing Digital Circus

Its funny how Gooseworks is now known for TADC

There's been some good contenders, but Local 58 TV's "contingency" is still the most haunting analogue horror I have ever seen.

I'm a night time security guard. I'm watching this at work. No one is on this site that I'm at but me. You can imagine the horror as I start seeing people out of the corners of my eyes thanks to the old hunter instinct we have

Something I absolutely love about the Mandela catalogue, it builds up tension and makes you think there will be a jump scare. Like those sudden pauses make you think something will jump out and scare you, it then gives you a lot of anxiety thinking "when will it come?", but it doesn't scare you.

I love his decent from laughter to abject horror during the second half of Thalasin

5:56 Loric is the emotion you feel when you are watching shit hit the fan on the news but deep down you kinda want it to happen

Does anyone remember how Mark's door would randomly open but only when his back was turned?

I think, too, the way your imagination can do you a lot of the work and putting the pieces together is really really cool. It leads to possibly different people making different conclusions. It’s really cool.

4:52 I love mark's instant transition from laughing and straight up fear

It would be great to see Mark cover the Walten files, now THATS some good analogue horror

I highly recommend The Walten Files, Local58, Gemini Home Entertainment, The Monument Mythos, and the FNAF Tapes/Battington Tapes if you want some *REALLY* good analogue horror shit. Something you could also do on a livestream or something is watch the series Marble Hornets (the progenitor of all these modern analogue horror series, in my opinion).

Analog horror is so cool and creepy. For me, its probably a mixture of uncanny valley and that possibility of it being true in some messed up universe that luckily isnt this one. I can personally recommend gemini home entertainment, the monument mythos, the walten files and the backrooms from kane pixels (i havent watched backrooms stuff from other creators so i dont know how good they are) if theres hunger for more.

I remember watching berserk and the horror in there really terrifies me. Also, since I started watching you in 2012, I knew you would do well in life. I am proud of you mark. Your biggest fan.

This is exactly the type of psychological, unsettling media I occasionally partake in. I enjoy the occasional jump scare, but it's so much harder to set someone's own mind against them.

I have never, ever been so terrified in all my life than due to analog horror... So I used to listen to creepy pastas and other spooky stories before bed. I was home from college and decided to stream to the TV in the room I was crashing in. Not my old bedroom, rather basement where it was cool during the summer. I fell asleep all good and peaceful. I was listening to creepy pasta stories, soft-spoken, ASMR - like readings. Stuff was calming to me and the stories never spooked me. Streaming these to the TV wasn't too stimulating either, usually a slow looping gif of a forest or what not. Actually quite peaceful to me... That was until hours into the night, well after I am deep asleep, KZfaq autoplay throws on a classic Analog horror, title something like, "Do Not Look At The Moon." TV was decently up in volume as the creepypasta guys are soft spoken... So I am jolted awake by the blasting of the emergency broadcast noise blaring in the basement. I wake up confused, afraid and disoriented, not being a place I sleep normally, I have no idea where I am. I only hear the emergency broadcast, and I can only see the words, "DO NOT LOOK OUT SIDE, ADVOID ALL WINDOWS, DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON" Flashing on the screen frantically. And I can also see a full moon shining through the basement window Only time I have ever screamed in genuine fear of my life

I mean, imagine a serial killer kills someone but no one notices because that person still shows up to work the next day. It could make a great horror story, you think that it's a horror story from the point of the murderer, but it ends up being something different. OR, it could be a comedy where there's a serial killer that keep accidentally being the good guy by coincidentally and constantly killing alternates when he meant to just kill people, and is hailed as a hero, as the killer becomes more and more frustrated because he wants to be known as a serial killer.

Even "Gemini Home Entertainment" is an analog horror series that is unfortunately not as well known.

After watching this video I can only say one thing. We want more genres of horror from Mark!

I think Mark would really enjoy “Gemini Home Entertainment”. Probably one of the creepiest things I’ve ever seen in my life

For the Thalasin vid, I was getting kinda creeped out but Mark made me laugh at the “I want some Onlient!”

A good example of parody that circles back into being genuinely creepy is Sr Pelo’s ‘Mandela Magazine’, it’s one of my favorite

I love the component of the “uncanny valley”. Not necessarily that it’s a person that feels off, but like Mark said it’s about things we recognize and messing them up just enough that our brains think “there’s something wrong here… I just can’t figure out what”. It’s a very primal fear that can really only be triggered in specific situations. I love it!!

Mark: "It could be anyone! It could be me....not really *ding*" **flashes back to the "Markiplier is not real" crisis**

5:45 si you're telling me that this creepy ad was created by the woman that made Digital circus?

At 25:43, you can hear a castrato singing… If you don’t know what a castrato is… here’s your fair warning. A castrato is a male singer who have been castrated as children to preserve the vocal range of a young boy. What you hear in the video was the very last living castrato and the only audio recording of one too. There should be a full recording on KZfaq.

Local 58 is so good, just the hint of mystery yet somehow staying, in a sense, familiar in each episode is just absolutely perfect

25:44 - If I'm not mistaken, the music playing at this point is actually the only known audio recording of the last ever castrato singing, which has also featured in many YT videos listing the creepiest sounds ever recorded. That's a really awesome touch to be honest

4:25 “where’s the horny option” I was thinking the same shit

8:18 oh come on man i was experiencing Loric during that video

The sound for the emergency alert system is just terrifying to me. Idk why, but ever since I was a little kid it just freaked me out.

Marks intros makes me feel like I’m watching a real horror movie

fun fact: gooseworx is the one who collaborated with glitch productions to create the amazing digital circus

0:42 analog horror fits both

that feeling of “i should recognize this but i don’t/something is off” is called jamais vu! (basically the opposite of deja vu) it works really well for horror because it twists our sense of familiarity by changing it JUST enough that we feel confused and worried but not enough that we don’t recognize it at all. like if your childhood home suddenly had your bedroom door just a few feet to the side, it would freak you out just enough that your senses would spike that something is wrong, or not fully real or true

I genuinely love when Mark just goes off about stuff he is interested in. This video weirdly has the same energy as when he applied his engineering experience with the bridge building simulator. Idk, I just love seeing Mark be genuinely passionate about cool things like this and getting to share it.

29:27 “ So we’re not gonna talk about how horrifying that thought is “ “ Ok we’re just gonna breeze past that comment “

the second he said “just stick to the plan and everything will be just fine” i immediately thought of that scene in heist where he said “stick to the plan and everything will be just fine. but if you deviate from it for even a single moment… i won’t come back for you… okay? good luck!”

The "FNaF VHS Tapes" series by SquimpusMcGrimpus is some of the best analog horror I've seen thus far. That, and LOCAL58TV's "Contingency" video.

Mark: *talks about the motif of propaganda in analog horror* Me: “ah yes, the 3 F’s. Front lawn, face up, feet together. Infants and Pets are the smallest of patriots.”

15:46 Something else I'd like to add is that all of those counties being listed are actual counties that exist in Texas, further helping the "rooted in reality, but also kinda not" point.

For some reason, this is actually scary enough that I kinda need Mark's presence just to not feel alone.