What is your favorite Cosmic Horror scene?

The sequel we've all been waiting for

I love cosmic/Lovecraftian horror. The whole mysterious, otherworldly yet somewhat rooted in reality type of horror that transcends humanity is just epic. My favourite cosmic horror film is event horizon precisely because it doesn't answer exactly what or where they went when the ship entered the black hole, it leaves things up for the imagination. I also love deep sea cosmic horror.

I like to think that in The Lighthouse, in the end young Thomas saw nothing. It was just an ordinary fresnel lens all along; no knowledge to obtain, no hidden secret, no heavenly light to deliver him from his sins. Nothing at all. In that moment, he was confronted with the fact that he had been obsessed with nothing all along. He had murdered a man, for no reason at all. At first, he laughs hysterically in shock and disbelief, overwhelmed by the irony and absurdity of committing such unforgivable acts for absolutely no reason. But then, the reality of his misdeeds bore down on him, and his psyche shattered under the weight of his sins. All those months spent aching, feeding the envious monster as it grew and writhed beneath his skin, ravenously coveting the light that elder Thomas bathed in and locked him away from. He swore he would have it, that heavenly light, the beautiful brilliance so cruelly kept away from him by Thomas the elder, and now he saw he had been consumed by his desire for a mere candle, cradled by glass. The beast within him sprung from within his shattered mind, driven to madness, howling into the cold, unfeeling light.

I think it's a good video, but it's only scratching the surface by looking at how things are mostly blocked to show these kinds of dreads. To know what the dread is really about it's actually not the horror of the unknown, but the horror of uncertainty. I've been learning physics, mostly as a hobby, mostly as an interest of study as research for my writing. I've always been interested in science and been kind of nerdy about it all. But the more I've been deep diving into quantum physics, spacetime and the nature of reality, the more I've noticed a dread increasing. I've not experienced it before and getting older I was thinking it was due to facing my own mortality. But it was more than that. When I watched Oppenheimer recently, there's a segment in the beginning where he's quoted to "being haunted by an unseen world". He was referring to the visions and sensations of experiencing a deep understanding of how the physical world around him fit together. His mind piercing into all the matter and energy around him until a dissociative emotion boiled up and dread kicks in. It is this, I thought. Rather than being about the unknown, it is about the known being uncertain. The unknown is usually just a barrier and once known, however big and beyond comprehension, we can still comprehend it existing and being. We can comprehend the scale of the universe, even if it's mind boggling how large it is. We can comprehend the abstractions of quantum mechanics, however weird it gets... but it's the uncertainty within that knowledge that creates dread. When sensing ones own mortality as a thin fabric of spacetime laws, being choked by the sensation that all this we rely on, this reality around us, exist under some very specific conditions that could easily just... not be. That dread extends to the mind. A common dread and fear is about death. But death in itself is not what's feared, it's the pain, it's the falling into shadows. It's the gradual loss of the mind and body as you realize you are beginning to fade away. And even without death, the fear of losing one's mind, to sit comfortably in a safe space and feel something change in our comprehension, failing to understand simple things and losing the memory of the people we love, all while a looming shadow of oblivion stalks our every step. The uncertainty that haunts our knowledge, our being and sense of reality is the closest thing I think describes true cosmic horror and dread. When the unknown becomes known we still feel fear through uncertainty.

Ai art is my cosmic horror. Spending your whole life perfecting a craft just to have machines replace us with a single push of a button really makes me feel insignificant. An indifferent entity that looms over us all. Growing silently in the shadows and learning how to disguise itself among us with ever passing second.

late stage syphilis can cause madness, I don't know if that was the cause of lovecraft's dad's commital but it wouldn't be surprising

Exept for The Lighthouse, i think the closest to lovecraftian horror i have seen was in the movie Lake Mungo. *SPOILERS* The girl who died is revealed to have burried her phone a few days before she died. On that phone there is a recording of what send her down the weird path. Its a recording of her running through the dark and a white silhouette slowly gets closer in the distance. When the silhouette is all the way up the phone we can see its the girl after she died, which is impossible because she will first die later that week. There was something about her seeing her future death and her strange dreams and behaviors after, that just haunted me in a way i cant explain...

What's dread for me: My two older brothers passed away on the same date, both at the same age. However, they were not twins and didn't die on the same year. The oldest passed away on Nov 18th, 2014, 45 years old. The second on Nov 18th, 2017, 45 years old. My sister and I are terrified of reaching 45, and I don't know how I'm going to live this year till November 18th.

I want a cosmic horror like the movie Upgrade. Its in no way a horror movie but the fact an entity beyond time and technology taking over your body and leaves you in a lucid dream state but leaving you in a idealistic dream where everything you ever dreamed of comes to life

One take to note here is a lot of Lovecraft's literary work cannot simply be translated to film, as most of it being short stories, so anyone wanting to make it will require more effort in their concept of creating one.

I've seen many people refer to the "Remembrance of Earth's Past" book series (aka The Three Body Problem and its two sequels, The Dark Forest and Death's End) as cosmic horror. While it certainly doesn't have any Lovecraftian style "monsters" in it, it's all about existential dread. Netflix is working on a series based on it, helmed by the guys behind Game of Thrones, and there's already a Chinese TV series based on the first book, which you find on KZfaq with subtitles (the books were originally in Chinese). Might be something worth checking out. I don't want to give anything away, but essentially there is.... something, with powers over what we perceive as reality, powers that, as far as we understand it, should not be possible. And they are not friendly. It's some pretty heavy duty Sci-Fi though. Lots of physics especially.

I've been looking forward to this video for months.

No way! I loved the original video and now get a part 2! Amazing

I have missed you guys and the videos. So glad you're back with this timely video

Love this channel, wish you guys could post more often!

The panic attack of Puss in Boots: The Last Wish is also a really good visual for how to visualize it

Thanks for the insightful video, I'm eagerly awaiting part 3.

This was incredible!!!

"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of the infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far." -H.P Lovecraft

Great to see a sequel video. Thank you Screened and Mr. Velasquez. And thank you for your first video because you introduced me to Junji Ito! Perhaps as yet another sequel video, explore the Cosmic Horror stories of Junji Ito, Stephen King and Neil Gaiman.

Mind blowing video!!! incredible

Much needed part 2

"he even considered committing suicide" that's literally the least surprising thing you can ever hear about H.P Lovecraft

Excellent essay

Amazing video again, I really should watch the Lighthouse one more time. Loved the movie in theaters !

Thanks for the video

For me, big spaces, makes me feel anxious and insignificant and also exposed. it could be just watching a big grey cloud or a dark forest, thanks, your vídeo gives me a lot of reflections and ideas 😊👌

Cosmic Horror, where you are small and everything else is big. To quote a different horror writer from his fantasy series, "size defeats us". Not in the horror story where everyone dies or the Cosmic Horror about every fear coming to life as one It to eat children, it's the one where the Man in Black Fled Across the Desert and The Gunslinger Followed. "You think you're an insignificant speck of dust in the universe? Your universe itself is just a single grain of sand in another universe! But there's a nexus point of all these universes and it's a Rose! And it's in danger!" Roland: "And it's purple." Man in Black: "Huh?" And the Man in Black is suddenly afraid because that wasn't part of the vision he sent. Now that's something Lovecraft never thought to do, take the Elder Being and put THEM in check.

That's cool, but what are the movie clips from this video? I recognize a few, but need more film recommendations.

I loved part 1 of this series you made but with this part 2 you've outdone yourself dude this is definitely one of my favorite videos on youtube specially the great number of H.P Lovecraft artwork and drawings through-out the video made it so much better hope this goes viral in the future

brilliant video

Really missed your videos.

I feel like cosmic horror works better in animation than live action. Filmmakers has done some amazing cosmic horror animated works like Devilman crybaby, Heavy metal, Belladonna of sadness , Beserk, Angel's egg, and Paprika.

Wonderful video!! I would love to see the titles of the video where you pull the clips from on the screen if possible.

Lovecraft's fears: absolutely fucking everything LOL

The word Eldritch alone makes my skin crawl. *shudder*

One of the best Cosmic Horror directors was Lucio Fulci; his masterpiece "The Beyond" is an amazing example of this.

Nice art!

Would the movie The Dead Center be considered cosmic horror? It certainly gave me the same kind of feelings. Where did ‘it’ come from, after all?

Are the two guys mentioned as editing this video the creators of a Lovecraft graphic novel about him? All the images here (the illustrations) are something I’d love to check out. Can anyone tell me if this is in fact a graphic novel and where I can find it (or if these were all simply sourced from AI). TY!

For anyone wanting to experience a great cosmic-horror short story, I suggest you read Stephen King's "The Jaunt". It greatly resembles the ending of 2001

Just wath rhis subject needed, Some more Lovecraft 😊

Existing in this reality, that is far inferior to what most can imagination, really does make intense sorrow and yearning beyond solution an unfortunate inevitability. It’s true, we’re all feeling this on a collective level.

Seeing the exposed nuclear reaction in Chernobyl was like looking into dimensional hell.

The frightened faces. Abnormal lights. A sort of expansion of dimensions. Question. Is there cosmic horror in David Lynch? Season 3 episode 8 of 'Twin Peaks' is often compared to the extract from '2001 A Space Odyssey' that you show.

Existential dread is the overwhelming sense of futility you suffer if you come from a small town and visit a big city. It's an overwhelming sense of insignificance. Cosmic dread is the exact same thing but scaled up. We're incapable of understanding masses and time scales so incredibly vast that they dwarf us to utter nothingness...and thus they create a sense of cosmic horror. If you ever fall out of a plane into a vast and empty desert, you will also feel this sense of hopeless fear. That is why existential/cosmic horror is so impactful, as even if you had a partial response to rescue yourself from your situation it would be utterly meaningless in the grand scheme of things as there is nothing there to care about you. History is uninterested. There is no god. There is just a vast meaningless emptiness in which you will be forgotten. Thats existential/cosmic horror. Being 'spaced' in The Expanse is my best example of this. Ultimately you'll be dead within a short amount of time (depending on your oxygen level) but you'll never ever be found in the vastness of space. You'll also never decay. You'll be a corpse in the blackness. Forever. Alone.

Another example is mine:I have adhd a brain disorder which is making my life difficult. Getting overpowered by reality because if u have an incurable disorder like Joker has the laugh,U are getting overpowered by the power of nature and u realize the only way to cure it is through de..h .U are forced to live your break with it and there is nothing u can do. Does it count?

i'd like to know the artist's name you used to generate illustrations, please

Would the movie The Gate 1987 be considered Cosmic horror or Cosmic horror at adjacent?

I imagine myself in super black hole shooting Jetstream of quasars out 😅. Just imagine being near the center to watch the immsense monolithic gases and forms whoosing faster than speed of light.

Love it! Would be great to have the names of each movie, though

THE COSMIC HORROR ENJOYER-🗿 THE COSMIC ENTITIES-🗿 THE COSMO-🗿 THE PROGENITOR-🗿

I'm glad you mentioned Lovecraft. Bloodborne was partially inspired by it and it's an incredible and atmospheric game which makes you feel so vulnerable to those cosmic beings.

That astronaut was probably having the time of their lives while also pooping themselves

10:07 what movie is that?

5:52 why the clock sound I'm getting anxious alreqady D:

in a perfect world this video would get +5 million views

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Someone could post the movies that appear in the video? Pls, iam curious

did you use ai to make those art of lovecraft ?

I can't believe you didn't use the word "Sublime" once in this video. 'Sublime: the simultaneous recognition of the overwhelming power and danger.' 'A simultaneous overwhelming feeling of awe and dread.' I recently read At the Mountains of Madness, and the discovery there (no spoilers here) lead one to have a simultaneous overwhelming feeling of awe and dread.

Didnt waych this vid yet but wanted to comment Cosmic B R E A D

comic horror s a god shaped hole in the universe!

The art here is amazing aand so complimenting to your narration!

I'm often experiencing existential dread when I was a toddler. Especially at 5:00-6:15 PM At that time, my sensors become sharper and I'm starts questioning about my existence. "Why do God create me?" But I can't feel it anymore because the only thing that I have to do now is survive in this 3rd World country

guy with knife is big scary tbh

You're great, but you take some things for granted and it's holding you back. Lovecraft was ahead of his time in more ways than one and right about most things.

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Your original video is over 4 years old. Please put a link to it in the description, as this is part 2.

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I think I disagree with this analysis/alteration to the original videos idea. These are two different things. Cosmic horror, lovecraftian horror, should break what you think about the world. Knowing you're about to die, or being "overwhelmed" in say, a battle, or by radiation, is not the same. I feel you're mixing these two things up here and there throughout the video, and I personally just don't think they're the same thing. These things don't drive you absolutely insane like an actual god gripping your brain would. You can and people do, go back to living their normal lives after facing such things. You don't feel a level of existential dread, a feeling of life being altered, the feeling of the world shattering and or changing, in a way it could NEVER be the same, by watching the news. Evidenced by the fact that we all know war and such is happening around us at all times, and we just go to work, school, make and watch youtube videos in the safety of our home, etc. It's just not the same as the moon waking up and slowly consuming us. The idea that NOTHING was what you thought it was, or life having a purpose you couldn't have possibly imagined. The world is shit on many levels, and we all live and die, and that life might be crap, but that's not the same as world shattering knowledge. In my opinion, and from my perspective, the idea of this kind of "horror" is to go well beyond these ideas. Yes, we will have to face our parents death some day, or the death of a child, or war on our doorstep. That can induce anxiety and dread, of course, but now imagine something so far, so deep, so altering, that you would rather accept those deaths, that war, that turmoil, than face such a situation for even a SECOND, that's cosmic horror. It should, at times, or for some people, be so absurd, so much, too much, that it becomes freeing. The kind of dread so powerful you just give in and let it take you in pure bliss. The Sublime.

Its only existential crisis when everyone in the story actually dies or realizing that there is no escape. Thus, sums up the genre; you can't change what is coming, so sit tight, and wait to die.

I saw such thumbnail before though🤔

Oh, no… Not a fan of the AI-generated images used here…

Cosmic Horror mixed with Body Horror: I just watched Buch Angel's interview with Briana Al (here on AI). This young trans woman recounts her experience transitioning starting age 13-14, and it's almost fitting on Cosmic Horror. She found herself absorbed by the Trans ideology, and within a few years found herself pipelined into a loss of humanity as the doctors and experts (reminescent of cosmic cult leaders) whom are supposed to guide her send her into false beliefs that led her to outright feel unhuman in the face of this greater force (biology and the entire medical field). The "fear of the other" became the "fear of being trans", as the doctors promised her that she would be an "entirely biological woman, but only if acting immediately". Back to cinema: how is it different than being promised godly gift, but only if immediate obedience is given in the face of a greater (cosmic) power?

I’m pretty sure Lovecraft’s greatest fear would just be Barack Obama.

AI crap.

Experiencing cosmic horror is not like a panic attack. It is higher order of abstraction in the mind that begins with a sense of existential insignificance. It is born not from the knowledge there is an unknown, or unknown to be pointed at. Nor is it anxiety with respect to the uncertainty thereof. It is meta-awareness of the chasm between that which is possible to be known and that which we are aware may be beyond comprehension. It is a deeply cognitive response to this gulf, presenting as an uncontrolled descent towards oblivion of coherent self, with increasing awareness that within cannot possibly be reconciled with the scale of without. We are blown apart through meta-consciousness and assign prospective malevolence to the this boundless measurement, coupled with awe of the inexplicably sublime, because we can register no greater threat to our selfhood. That, is existential dread/horror.

HP Lovecraft is the Phish of horror writers. The combination of purple prose and ancient gods that are "too horrifying to describe" are like a jam band doing 35 minute renditions of songs while the rain makes everybody in attendance muddy and gross. You think to yourself, "how does anybody enjoy this? Who is this even for?" I fall into the latter category.

It would be great if you didn't use "AI" produced images for your videos. I assume apart from working on essays, you love art, so I find it jarring that you would use a tool so harmful for artists all over.

Third ?

The ai art undermined any message the video was trying to convey. As a content creator you should understand how truly terrifying and dehumanizing being replaced by an algorithm that can spit out an slightly inferior version of anything you can come up with it.

Cant complain about the script but its really sad to see you using AI for illustrations

I really enjoy your videos on horror, but it’s such a shame to see you using AI pictures considering one, you didn’t need them before, and two you seem to enjoy art in general considering you writing whole essays about it, so it’s really disappointing to watch you engage in this practice

dude are you really using AI images? why would you

ai art 👎👎

Sorry but as Red from Overly Sarcastic Productions has informed me that H.P. in Lovecraft's name stands for "Hate Progress Lovecraft" good day and how dare you

stop using AI generated artwork, it's not ethical

"Let's dive into Lovecraft's fears" oh so it's a video about racism 😆

Extremely disappointed you're using AI swill in your videos. So extremely disappointing

Its so boring when people talk about Lovecraft :( Cosmic horror is so much more, and usually much better.

hugely disappointed with the use of AI generated art. i was watching this and wondering who had drawn it, couldn't see any credit, and then it clicked when i realised how off some details were. i've been with the channel since the haunting of hill house long shots essay, but this will be the last thing i watch. as an illustrator and creator it is incredibly upsetting to see a fellow creative willing to cop out and use something based in stolen scraped art for their own profit. i know how much time, heart and effort goes into these videos you make - using AI art instead of stock images or paying for actual art is the equivalent of those text to speech reddit thread threads getting more views than your handmade videos. i hope you improve in the future.

That was surprisingly boring