The Guild is Called Onyx Guard on Grobbulus and Its the chad faction, Alliance! thank for watching my guys!

I can confirm this movie is biologically accurate. A Romani gave me stomach ulcers and I have been a werewolf ever since.

I loved this movie, and I like the take on werewolves, they didn't just take and make them dogs with hairy human body's and instead made them semi quadreped humanoids with animal like instincts with a bit of magic.

As an Archaeologist, I'd say that the reason why everyone had very similar nightmares is because they had all been party to the same gossip of the events that happened with the Romani. The old woman, the scarecrow, the teeth. Over a few weeks and everyone knows. It's been less than a week since an incident in my small town occurred. Already, I know who did it, what they did, when they did it, and (to an extent) why. It's super Midsomer Murders stuff, so I won't give the details, but literally everyone is talking about these people's private lives to the nth degree before the police have even given an official statement on what happened. Also, I just realised the 'silver bullet' is also a reference to treating/curing disease, given that the wolf creature is a disease ended by a silver bullet much like penicillin was a 'silver bullet' to many diseases.

Can't believe how much trouble a set of cursed dentures can cause. Great breakdown of a really interesting twist on lycanthropy! I have to wonder if removing the silver bullet would make the infection active again. In the hectic rush of a wartime hospital, it would be easy enough to mistake someone for dead when actually they were just unconscious and had very weak vital signs. Sure would be unfortunate if Edward was still potentially infectious and the bullet had only kept things dormant. ;)

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2:52 For those that don't know "From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the blessed machine. Your kind cling to your flesh as if it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call a temple will wither and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved. For the Machine is Immortal." I'm always delighted when I hear some sort of warhammer reference from somebody who actually has a life

i absolutely love how you managed to connect the supernatural parts of the curse with actual science. you're not only smart af, but also very good with understanding symbolism, metaphors and movie language in general! always love to hear your pov on these kinds of movies. bless

I'm Rom (male Roma) and your pronouniation for Romani is spot on though romani is the adjective and Roma is the noun

I know this is literally a werewolf movie, but I got another one that treats lycanthropy like a virus, Ginger Snaps. The second one even takes it a bit further with trying to delay the infection with basically poison.

You outdid yourself with correlating the movie's premise to known, real-world biology. Well done.

Fun Story: One time my grandparents had the same exact dream about their old cabin in the upper peninsula of Michigan. I’ll be seeing them this Easter and hopefully Roanoke will explain how this can work so I can explain it to them and share the wisdom of papa Roanoke with more of my family

As mentioned before I love how the werewolf is a kind of suit on top of the infected person, which ties into both Native American and some more forgotten lore about werewolves being able to shed their skin and become human again.

I love how this movie actually referenced The Beast of Gevaudan.

The Bloodborne ambience really pulls it altogether

It is ironic that this semi-biological curse comes from _silver_ teeth, as silver has anti-bacterial properties like Roanoke said

As an actual Romani individual thank you so much for using the correct term for us! Totally made my day. PS you do say it correctly haha

The whole 'waking up middle of the night' thing is actually really cool and it seems to be our natural tendency. How many of us have woken up at 3am for no reason? Just hang out for an hour or two (don't just lay in bed if you wake up stone cold sober - your anxiety machine wants you to be doing something else), and then go to bed for a few more hours. Your mileage may vary depending on your schedule, of course, but it's nice to enjoy the dawn and birdsong. Honestly, as someone who struggles with insomnia sometimes, a couple of hours of being awake pre-dawn and another round of sleep isn't that bad. I imagine it would be even nicer if I wasn't the only one awake.

Love that we can hear the bloodborne OST in the background. Nice touch considering what goes on in that game

Dude, I love the narrative style you choose to summarize the movies and explain the underlying pathophysiology! It feels like I'm talking to a friend about these movies. Keep up the great work, you're one of my favorite KZfaqrs!

Isn’t it weird how silver, a common thing in various unrelated cultures associated with subduing or curing the supernatural, has actual properties that relate to the neutralization of infective proteins?(or whatever they do, I’m no biologist). I just think that’s so interesting, and makes me wonder… the myth of vampires and werewolves across cultures is now speculated to be a reaction to a rabies infection, and then those same creatures being averse to silver; perhaps silver or some property/alloy of it may be the key to a potential cure for an active rabies infection.

Oh damn the creature looks pretty cool. Reminds me of a similar uncanny human faced beast in The Terror called the Tuunbaq, I hope you get to it sometime, its a cool and mysterious beast

I love that its basically a werewolf mechsuit. Its my favorite version of a werewolf lol.

The "similar dreams" everyone is having may not have to do with the infection, but it could be a way to psychologically cope with the events that took place. As a commenter mentioned below, most people in the town must have heard one thing or another about the massacre (about the scarecrow man, the buried woman, etc) and children, who still remain innocent towards the ways of the world, might have more trouble digesting the issue. If they're not allowed to bring up the topic in conversation, they're bound to subconsciously bring it up in dreams. It may also explain why the Pathologist is the only one who dreams about his lost family (variation according to their own experiences or feelings on the subject).

I’ve watched some of these movies after and before you covered them and I can honestly say it’s usually more entertaining watching you cover them then actually watching the movie lmao

Thanks for watching guys! Would highly recommend going and watching this movie too, it was great! Also If you do play world of warcraft, its Onyx Guard. Again, EDGY AF

Thank you for calling us Roma and not using the other options. Made this a lot nicer to watch.

I don't think "it's a curse" alone is lame. If the story has supernatural elements that doesn't remove natural processes from the equation. If there's magic, it would be interacting with non-magical matter, yes? I could see a curse that also has a bacterial component. Magic runes on the surfaces of cells or however you want to justify it, or a spirit acting as a directing mind for a disease.

One thing I always look forward to with these videos is the chapter names. They make me chuckle every time lol

Duuuuude I was hoping you’d do this movie!!!!! This makes my entire month!! Thank you so so much!!!

As people have said, very interesting take on werewolves. Also appreciate the use of the Hunter’s Dream theme in Bloodborne in this video. Between the werewolves, the nightmares, the setting, and the fact that it’s literally a bloodborne pathogen, it’s fitting background music for the video. As for the source of the infection, I prefer to think of it as a hybridization of an organic biological pathogen and an actual magical curse. Like, the curse attached to the teeth transforms healthy human cells into infected cells that then work like a living pathogen. Assuming it’s all biological and scientific, you have to make a lot of weird assumptions and line up a lot of coincidences for it to make sense. But I too enjoy overthinking how to credibly explain magic/sci-fi nonsense, so that’s not a critique, just an observation. Love your videos.

I’ve been watching since your dead space videos and I’m really happy how you have branched out and grown. And I can’t wait for the videos you will probably make of the Callisto protocol when that comes out. Keep up the great work man.

I kinda find it interesting that the pathologist had seen the werewolves before

My love for your channel has grown exponentially my man I normally don't tend to try to watch every single video a channel uploads because life as a mechanic can be hectic every now and then but anyways I just wanted to show my appreciation for this channel.

Hope you're doing well, Roanoke. Another great video. Can't get enough of your videos even after watching them for 3-4 years.

Thank you so much for referring to them as Romani, I've seen so many other youtubers review this movie with the perjorative term and it's been hard to enjoy or appreciate their input with that every five minutes. Thanks also for another great video! I like the movie a lot too and seeing some science behind the creature is always entertaining. Sure "it's just a curse" is an optional explanation, but where's the fun in that?

It is a bit of a stretch, but you could explain the seemingly shared nightmare by saying that the infection in the water source effects brain chemistry in such a manner that it renders its sufferers highly suggestable. Such things are not entirely unheard of with pathological microbes, viruses and fungi able to modify behaviour in various species. At that point, the curse uttered by the Romani wise woman could act like a meme (in the scientific meaning of that word) - a notion that replicates itself through word of mouth of the infected, and so suggestible, townspeople. The idea of the curse that effects dreams spreads alongside the infection, and at some point someone who was present at the massacre has a nightmare about those events that is particularly vivid, fixating especially on the gruesome fate of the mutilated man and the wise woman along with the strangeness of the unusual silver teeth. They talk about this dream with friends, and it is so striking that word of it begins to spread, and people not directly involved in the events overhear such conversations, even if subconsciously, and it starts to effect their own dreams due to their highly suggestable state, creating the illusion that everyone is having the same dream, a situation worsened by the highly superstitious culture of a community where advanced education is rare and scientific explanations probably would not be readily forthcoming or taken especially seriously, as evidenced by the attitude toward pathology as a scientific discipline. Indeed, even without an infection increasing everyone's level of suggestibility, such a scenario could still play out. It is not as though there aren't historical examples of mass hysteria resulting in shared delusions with catastrophic outcomes, as the events in Salem and the other historical witch hunts in the early US and throughout Europe amply demonstrate. Indeed, just a few years ago rural people in some parts of mittel-Europe were caught desecrating graves in the earnest belief that they were protecting themselves from vampires by cutting out the hearts and striking off the heads of the recently deceased. Add in the often imperfect and fragmentary memory one has of one's dreams after one wakes - and the likelihood that people would pay more attention to broad brushstroke similarities in their dreams than they would to any differences - and the way in which a belief in a supernaturally shared dream could spread becomes clear, especially in an age long before any modern scientific understanding of the neurochemistry and neurophysiology behind dreaming was discovered and dreams were often ascribed prophetic and other supernatural attributes in uncounted folk traditions.

>discusses supernatural disease >uses BloodBorne OST >Nice

Is that the hunters dream in the background? Great atmospheric music from a great game! Would love to see a beast scourge episode on bloodborne!

Great job, man! These movie videos are quite entertaining to hear you sum up. I follow all your channels and this one is my favorite. Keep it up!

As a Romani, I'm just happy you're actually saying Romani. Thanks, Roanoke.

At the beginning, I felt tranquility. The music, it reminds me of a time, a hunt, a... dream.

I don't know, the waking up at 3am, hanging out, then getting a few more hours just sounds like my life currently.

I love you bruh, not only are you giving me food for thought in every video but you are also introducing me to precious gems of movies like this

Great vid, but I can't help but notice that Warhammer 40k: Mechanicus reference at 25:52. Full quote for those who are curious: 'From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the blessed machine. Your kind cling to your flesh as if it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call a temple will wither and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved. For the Machine is Immortal'

Okay, this was definitely an interesting one for sure. An odd take on the classical werewolf trope but done in a way that actually makes you think. I really do appreciate you making all these different videos even if they are not necessarily viral, bacterial, or fungal in nature per say. It's just interesting to hear some biologic based explanations for things that can be considered heavily fantasy. How you're doing well, hope the rest of your day goes fantastically!

Thinking of a Doctor Who episode, the mothers dna was on the silver bullet, so maybe the combination of the silver being a cyanotoxin, it getting lodged and not dealing enough damage to kill mixed with the mothers dna partially matching her sons was the perfect mixture to cause a curing effect.

I've gotten so many great movie recommendations from this channel, as well as the EXEMPTIONAL reviews and analyses. 👍

"A, 2, or D?" For some reason, that one never gets old.😄

Strangely enough this movie takes place in France I think from the start of the movie. Everything i have read also says its in france. As to why they speak in an english accent is beyond me. Theres actually alot of historical inacuracies as well but still fun. Legit just finished watching and found this video so thank you.

i completely love your videos, i'm really glad i found your channel !! i've always been super interested in horror films AND biology, so your channel is just perfect !!! love the Cooties video, i've watched it like four times haha.

Great video as usual, I loved the extra touch with the music from the bloodborne sound track

Haven't seen this film but I love your videos! I really love the originality of the creatures in this film with the monstrous meatsuit covering the original human form. I wonder if they took inspiration from the really old animal transformation myths of antiquity that would go onto to become the werewolf myths, where the person would take the skin of the animal (wolf, seals, swans etc) to become an embodiment and made it literal. Also my little hunter heart is singing for the Hunter's Dream OST! ;D

The werewolf kinda reminds me of the chimeras from S.T.A.L.K.E.R. just without the second head

I go through and rewatch your videos to help support you and also your videos are fascinating. Something great to listen to while working or cleaning.

31:18 That mock nerd voice he does always takes me out 🤣

I always like seeing you break down supernatural things, because its interesting too see how a supernatural thing might go about it task in a biological manner and what is actually supernatural.

YEEEEHAW! HERE WE GO! Also good on you for using the term Romani!

Love your videos man. Watched this one while waiting for my laundry.

'Give a caveman a dorito and he would probably be ousted from the tribe seeing as his incoherent ookaduka scream about cheesy doritos of the gods would probably drive everyone crazy' is one of the best things I have ever head in my life. Thank you good sir for this blessing

So glad you and WOWsuchgaming posted today. Just finished his video now I'm watching yours

Hello I'm your daily reminder to explore the beasts of Bloodborne

Very nice video, as always. Love the Hunter's dream music in the background, so good.

Using The Hunter's Dream was a very nice touch, fits with this movie's aesthetic...God, please give us a Bloodborne sequel...

1800 England man: dies from cholera. The cure: salt 10 ft away in the cabinet.

finally a new video!! thank you and keep up the good work please.

Another great video, Roanoke! I haven't seen the movie yet, but I agree that this was a really good take on werewolves and I'll have to check it out soon! Also just wondering, have you considered covering the Blacklight virus from the Prototype game series? I think it would be interesting to get your take on it.

Love your videos man, I’m always playing it when I’m driving somewhere (just listening ofc not watching the video with me driving lol) when I don’t wanna listen to music or playing it in the background.

as someone who is romani (you got the right pronunciation too! roh mah nee.) , it's good that apart from the initial usage of the word gypsy, you use the word romani for most of the video! for those who dont know, the word gypsy is outdated and many of us prefer to not use it (if a person uses it who is romani that is their choice to reclaim), and it is often considered derogatory! again thank you to roanoke for using the corrent terminology

The fact that you used the word Romani rather than Gypies despite not knowing how to pronounce it is extremely admirable. For anyone who does not know. Gypsy is considered a kind of a slur in the Romani community. They call themselves Roma or Romani.

I have another recommendation. I think it'd be pretty interesting if you looked at the Neo-Mitochondria, Neo-Mitochondrian creatures and the artificial Neo-Mitochondrian creatures from Parasite Eve series. I want to hear your take on the sentient mitochondria that wants to overthrow the nucleus.

so even though the movie was clearly supernatural, roanoke still tryed to make it science. Kudos to you and all the scientist out there

This movie was really good and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I'm glad you started branching into the supernatural monsters even though this is mostly a science channel. xD

"boarding up the lower floor windows..." Standard procedure for a missing child. You wouldn't want them coming back. That got me

I don't skip a single second of your content even if I've seen it lol! Full send in watch everytime lol 😆

Saw this movie last week so glad you made a video on it

KZfaq continues to be shit and doesn’t notify me of your uploads even though I have notifs on. Love your content man keep it up.

Could you take a look at the creatures from 'Alone in the Dark'?

Awesome as always!! Great job!!

There is no way I would have caught on to any of this just watching the movie. Thats actually how I feel most of the time when you explain things lol. So now whenever I watch something, I'm like.... I need a Roanoke explanation....

Hey Roanoke, have you thought about going over the Xenomorph from Alien?

I’ve been waiting for a breakdown like this, I’m working on a horror story where curses intertwine with biological evolution so this was extremely helpful!

Obligatory request for "Pontypool".:because zombies created by ear worms and hunting in packs, is just the simple kind of joys everyone needs sometimes.

I am absolutely loving the dark souls theme in the background. Thanks for another fun vid!(:

The burning horses made both my wife and daughter sad too. Which then encouraged my ten year old son to make up a continuous string of ways to kill horses for several hours 🤣

I thought you were going to discard your flesh and replace it with the strength and certainty of steel

Just watched this video, fav part 25:51 - 26:00. Sneaky little Mechanicus reference there. You, sir, have my respects and subscription.

Thank You doing this movie! loved ur breakdown!

Witches: "We can cast curses and basically destroy anyone on a whim." Normal people: "So it's entirely justified to attempt to genocide you." Witches: :O

the ending would have been dope if, at the end, after removing the bullet, a single tendril began to wiggle out of edward's wound

Awesome video my dude. I dunno if you’ve made a video on the Strigoi from the strain but that would be an awesome vid man

This is my favorite channel, like actually the only videos I look forward to anymore

Hey Roanoke, reminded by your Mechanicus quote, how about another Warhammer 40k video. I would sure love to hear your thoughts on the tyranids for example.

more like chupacabra cacoon chrysalid thingy

Haven't watched an actual movie in like 6 years but between this channel and pitch meetings I think Im good haha.

Thanks for covering this movie. I find your head Canon VERY interesting.

Well now that I'm done This was a lot more interesting than I expected it to be, quite the different take on how an infection could attack the body It's enjoyable enough to accept the leaps in the supernatural side of things Another solid video Got to say meat mech made me think of some hilariously horrible looking things lmao

Roanoke , you are the man..

This movie is so dark - I love the humor though! Very good commentary and I’ve been binging these types of videos 😊

Love your videos, you should look into some of the stuff from the Metal Gear universe, especially the vocal cord parasites from MGSV when you get back into gaming.