Nexpo/YT Horror Channels - Do they all suck

[The Skeksis Emperor]

Then any books? Preferably audio books since I'm at work a lot but I'm not afraid to read.
Please do not recommend Steven King slop or house of leaves (I'm sure house of leaves is fine but that's way more than I'm looking for).

Adam Nevill and Nick Cutter are my go to's. Good modern horror is rare. The movie adaptations of Nevill's books are not very good imo, but The Ritual does have an extremely cool monster design.

 

[piombo]

Then any books? Preferably audio books since I'm at work a lot but I'm not afraid to read.
Please do not recommend Steven King slop or house of leaves (I'm sure house of leaves is fine but that's way more than I'm looking for).

if you want classical anglo stuff that isn't lovecraft, then you can always go with the og that is edgar allan poe, or for one offs you can try Frankenstien (i dislike how the movie is completely different from the book), The Picture of Dorian Gray and Dracula, basic bitch picks but they're classics for a reason.

e: maybe carmilla and the beetle as well? didn't read them but heard that they're good pre-dracula vampire stories

 

[TokiBun]

If you want more book recs you could check out the art and literature area of the site! I'm sure there are some book worm kiwis happy to help!

 

[Snake of Diamond]

As autistic as this is going to sound, I blame capeshit (and to a lesser extent souls games) for this. Both worked very hard to normalize the notion that fictional universes should be basically impenetrable unless you spend a frankly retarded amount of time on wikis delving into the "deep lore" behind them. Things like that always existed, of course, but generally it wasn't shoved in your face. For example, Trekkies could always spend way too much time going over tech manuals of fictional bullshit sci-fi technology and arguing about it and such, but the average person watching TNG or DS9 didn't know shit about it, they just watched the show and enjoyed it. Now, however, people seem to delight in making that level of investment necessary for enjoyment.

Obviously some of this also just comes from typical deviantart-tier online OC autism and stuff but I don't think it would have become as common and gotten the traction it did without the MCU and Souls series helping to prime normalfags for it after they took off.

I'm an enjoyer of DS9 because i like the setting and characters and some of the scifi nonsense because scifi nonsense can be interesting in moderation. The extreme turbo nerd stuff can be a bit much and boring though but i digress off that.

This isn't the thread for this but i will be quick and say modern marvel in all its irony did create this issue thanks to Avengers and how every new superhero needs minimum 4 heroes directly in the narrative before going off the rails into multiverse shit. Which is funny since the point of the films were to leave the baggage of the comics and now the films have their own baggage issues due to everyone directing these films not actually communicating that much with each other.

It technically DID happen with all the proxies, North Stars, HABIT and Rake and stuff, forming an almost slenderverse mcu, (I liked Everymanhybrid, mainly because the motherfucker playing HABIT was visibly having the time of his life, but it started to get much more urban fantasy, less cosmic horror, in the later installments.), but those could be easily ignored if you so chose and mainly existed because they wanted stuff to happen while Slenderman was chilling in the background, they didn't have nearly as much of an overbearing presence like all the autistic sublevels, entities, and researchers currently do on the Backrooms. It's just such a different landscape, these days, where simplicity and the unknown aren't as welcome as they used to be.

Back in the old creepypasta days the rule were that lore could be there but it was what it was. The horror of Slender and even older FNAF were the creatures themselves and their respective scenarios. Things stop being scary when you overly explain why i need to be scared or add so much to the unknowing that the existential fear disappears which is what exactly happen to the backrooms. Nowadays being simple and the unknown is seen as boring because folks need to be told why they need to be scared which as we know by this very thread and the current landscape of internet horror defeats the point of simplistic horror and the old reliable trope of "fear of the unknown".

To me a lot of horror now is trying to make something look scary but what people don't get is that you bog it down with lore and multiple creatures i am left wondering the logistics of the world you create rather than being scared of anything.

I think this is due to people not focusing on actual fear and more about what they think others will be afraid of, which is something you should never do in regards to horror since fear is subjective. Since they're so focused on the perception of others, it all falls horribly flat. There's nothing truly personal about what they are making. You can easily pinpoint and go into detail about why you find certain things scary, but how far can you really go when trying to figure out why others think certain things are scary? It all boils down to the good ol "write what you know".

I feel like that's why it's like this. It comes across like someone telling you a joke, then explaining the joke afterward Making the joke redundant. They focus so much on lore and stuff because they don't know how else to convey fear, other than spooky VHS static skibibiti toilet visual gags.

This is actually a good way to describe the issue with everything regarding how most people are about entertainment. Chasing what they think the audience will like instead of using history to observe or watching what the audience likes. What peolpe percieve as entertaining and scary is up to them but these types in horror sphere only focus on what is getting attention like the examples with AH and how it went down this road to become oversaturated and boring. I mentioned pages back on how i liked Doctor Nowhere's stuff with the Boiled One until i managed to see the recent episodes and now it fell into the same boring trap as other AH where they are telling too much and there's multiple entities with no focus on just one that can be scary.

Because we had stuff like Mandela, Local58, and Gemini Home Entertainment get popular people see those as what the vogue says is "scary".

 

[deermeat]

To me a lot of horror now is trying to make something look scary but what people don't get is that you bog it down with lore and multiple creatures i am left wondering the logistics of the world you create rather than being scared of anything.

I think this is due to people not focusing on actual fear and more about what they think others will be afraid of, which is something you should never do in regards to horror since fear is subjective. Since they're so focused on the perception of others, it all falls horribly flat. There's nothing truly personal about what they are making. You can easily pinpoint and go into detail about why you find certain things scary, but how far can you really go when trying to figure out why others think certain things are scary? It all boils down to the good ol "write what you know".

I feel like that's why it's like this. It comes across like someone telling you a joke, then explaining the joke afterward Making the joke redundant. They focus so much on lore and stuff because they don't know how else to convey fear, other than spooky VHS static skibibiti toilet visual gags.

 

[Vinluv Handesbukia]

It’s either that or ARG slop unfortunately

On one side I dislike overblowing abuse cases on the other hand I despise ARGs/Analogue Horror. I guess that's why Smart School Boy took over the net. A perfect mix of Creepy interesting visuals and an actual real mystery. The response also shows why we can't have nice (disturbingly interesting) things (weirdo perverts).

 

[Vinluv Handesbukia]

Why is the horror community so full of fuckin fags?

Sincerely and unironically,they relate to the monsters. To be on the outskirts of society, to be weird and off. They relate to the feeling of being hated but also take any nugget of sympathy or humanization they can.

 

[Colon capital V]

Also, personal nitpick the guy acts like he has been in there for a long time, but looks the same. They should have shot the ending part first and then have him get a haircut (or better hide the long hair) so when we see him in the intro he looks clean cut, leading to a bigger contrast with the ending and better emphasize a long passage of time.

Good idea, however if there's no source of water or food then his length of survival is a week at best. (Which honestly makes the line "I forgot what the sky looks like" kinda dumb now that I think about it).

 

[Owls Owls Owls]

New Oki.

The lady he covers would have loved the internet. She most certainly would have been a lolcow.

 

[>-Ack!]

Are there any good horror channels that aren't true crime? I'm tired of seeing "super scary story of man raping and killing 9 kids while the police do nothing." It's not scary it's depressing.

beyond creepy

 

[Guiron]

I really liked Eventide before the creator deleted everything and vanished due to backlash over an actually interesting idea (the government covered up an eldritch event at a school by claiming it was a school shooting).

I really enjoyed Eventide too, and it's a shame the guy making it freaked out and deleted everything so easily. My favourite episode out of the set has to be "Midnight Movie", since it takes the familiar trope of filmmakers representing monsters with ordinary animals and turning it on its head by having them actually use 'real' deadly spiders (and as a result, all the chaos that follows), but I also really enjoy "Oceanview Forecast", mainly because the bit where the lighthouse turns into a literal death ray and begins frying anyone who gets too close is both extremely silly and very fun at the same time. The scene near the end where the energy beam it's firing fucks with the footage when it's aimed straight at the camera is a really cool effect too.

 

[Migraine Box]

Night Mind uploaded a new video but because fuck him, I'm not touching it. However, the topic jumped out to me, so I did track it down, and what a joy it is. Not gonna spoil anything, but it's genuinely good unfiction contained to it's own website. Mostly text with a bit of multimedia. Scratches my flavor of 'tism something fierce. Appears there's three phases of the project, only the first of which is available and is like scrolling through a web archive. Enjoy the reading!

https://fieldstudiesinstitute.org/

 

[FILTH Tourist]

is both extremely silly and very fun at the same time.

That was the charm of Eventide. It was more of an anthology of cool/silly ideas than a series really focused on scares or DEEP LORE

 

[Törni]

It's about Columbine and similar to the film Elephant but it feels more real? Reminds me a lot of the film Nitram--recreating a shooting with a fake name. Nitram is a really good film highly recommend you watch it if you find the Port Arthur Massacre interesting.

If Zero Day is the movie that I'm thinking of, it's really bad. They have a whole scene of them shooting guns with an uncle character or something and the whole scene is fuddlore.

 

[Serbian Peacekeepers]

If Zero Day is the movie that I'm thinking of, it's really bad. They have a whole scene of them shooting guns with an uncle character or something and the whole scene is fuddlore.

Elephant had a scene like that where they shot off a full length AR in a enclosed garage like it was a cap gun, I guess it isn't shocking that people who make movies about school shootings don't have a indepth knowledge or understanding of firearms.

 

[JesusChristDenton]

Words can't describe just how much I hate this.

This is the guy behind it:

Preservetube Archive

 

[Tablet County]

Words can't describe just how much I hate this.

This is the guy behind it:
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TL;DW, is this just some furry's tf fetish?

 

[JesusChristDenton]

TL;DW, is this just some furry's tf fetish?

Yes. But not just TF fetishism, but a "reimagining" of the apocalypse in Changed. You know, the infamous Furry EPI game.

 

[TokiBun]

New Oki.

The lady he covers would have loved the internet. She most certainly would have been a lolcow.

Can't wait to finish this! What I watched was really good. If she was around today she would be posting in the man hate threads on lolcow.

 

[Druveer]

Why is the horror community so full of fuckin fags?

I would say that these are not members of the horror community (whatever that is) these are tourists who see a niche they can fill and attempt to control.

I'm also honest enough to say that the above is wishful thinking and that whether true or not alot of these faggots are the face of horror on youtube.

What’s the best internet horror series?
I honestly don’t know what my personal favourite is, maybe EMH but I also like Local 58

https://www.youtube.com/@WereItNotThatIHaveBadDreams

https://www.youtube.com/@4.n0m4ly_

are my favorites right now. They heavily use AI if that matters to you. Anomaly has lots of storylines and Baddreams has only a few that he works on time to time.