Analog Horror/World Building general - A tranny boys club deciding what should and shouldn't scare zoomers + geek out about cool projects made by people with real talent

[I_Lurk_Here]

Goddamnit I didn't wanna triple post but how tf is Darkplace analog horror? It's comedy

You could've edited your first post then.

 

[Hey Bitches it's me]

You could've edited your first post then.

I can't figure out how, I'm retarded

 

[Commander X]

I've read the Darkplace novels, Holness manages to do for print horror what Darkplace did for low-budget TV horror.

I enjoyed the original series because, among other details, Holness really captured, with Garth Marenghi, one of the worst kinds of hacky "creatives", the hacks who believe they are artists and geniuses.

 

[TheAmbiguousLurker]

I've read the Darkplace novels, Holness manages to do for print horror what Darkplace did for low-budget TV horror.

I enjoyed the original series because, among other details, Holness really captured, with Garth Marenghi, one of the worst kinds of hacky "creatives", the hacks who believe they are artists and geniuses.

There were actual novels? I thought the shit Garth reads in the intros were just made up.

 

[Commander X]

There were actual novels? I thought the shit Garth reads in the intros were just made up.

Well those are made up, but Holness decided to write some actual "Marenghi" novels, such as Garth Marenghi’s TerrorTome

When horror writer Nick Steen gets sucked into a cursed typewriter by the terrifying Type-Face, Dark Lord of the Prolix, the hellish visions inside his head are unleashed for real. Forced to fight his escaping imagination - now leaking out of his own brain - Nick must defend the town of Stalkford from his own fictional horrors, including avascular-necrosis-obsessed serial killer Nelson Strain and Nick's dreaded throppleganger, the Dark Third.

Can he and Roz, his frequently incorrect female editor, hunt down these incarnate denizens of Nick's rampaging imaginata before they destroy Stalkford, outer Stalkford and possibly slightly further?

And Incarcerat, with a third volume coming out in October.

 

[Blue Gem Kosher Queen]

It has been a while but I have this thing I wanted to share with youse.

Around the time I wrote my summary of TMITS, this video showed up in my recommended. SEVERAL TIMES.

Yes, I'm writing just now about something from that long ago and if I had the time I would tear to shreds for youse. But I waited and then this guy made a video on Dog Nightmares too.

Analog horror is dying out but it's still around. This guy released a video a week ago about an AI made anaslop and apparently now using AI is ok-ish.

 

[TheAmbiguousLurker]

Analog horror is dying out but it's still around. This guy released a video a week ago about an AI made anaslop and apparently now using AI is ok-ish.

That video is entirely him continuing to shit on AI and that the villain of the story unintentionally works as an analogy for AI users all being uncreative hacks conning people and destroying their humanity with artificial miracles.

My problem with AI, in creative areas at least, is how lazily it's applied and how pretentious people get about it. Like you have people who AI the art, the sound and the writing, at that point you're literally the shitty manager no one likes but takes all the credit. I'm not gonna be impressed that you typed in a prompt a few times, but so long as you're not a twat about it and you don't try to pretend it's not AI, I'm fine with it.

The storytelling in this series ain't good, but I can actually enjoy how they used AI at points. It's mostly consistent, and it's more than just typing out a prompt and then slapping the result on screen, they use the AI to make assets, putting them together, and play around with them to make some neat minimalist animations.

As I've said in another thread, how is this any more stealing or lazy than taking pictures off google and using those? Or the many analog horrors that use real pictures or take entire clips from kids shows with a spoopy filter over it? If I traced over AI art, would that suddenly make it okay?

 

[Tri-Tachyon'sClown]

Probably the only ongoing AH that's worth watching at this point. IMO of course.

Analog horror is dying out but it's still around. This guy released a video a week ago about an AI made anaslop and apparently now using AI is ok-ish.

I don't know what exactly I dislike about this guy but for the longest time I just couldn't stand him.

 

[Slav Power]

New Vita Carnis

I'm liking this quasi-SCP way of presenting the tapes, and the usage of practical effects for the creatures is worthy of praise.

Edit: So now we know how the Nutrire cult started. Long-term exposure to host spores causes people to lose their minds and start worshipping the singularities. Interesting.

Also, some scenes are now presented using PS1 3D models, as if it were a cutscene. No wonder that new videos take so long

Not a big fan of Quilloy steering more towards CGI, IMO the practical effects were a big draw of his series and what made it unique in the space. Going out of your way to create paper-mache of your meat monsters to put in a few seconds of your video is the effort that was the core value of Vita Carnis. Though two parts of this video I do like:
-the venom extraction clip. The tension knowing what the Harvester can do, and having a human hand being that close to the tendrils, thinking that whatever they used to sedate it was too weak, it'll wake at any second and murder the poor sod harvesting the venom.
-the execution sequence. The lengthy explanation how the neurotoxin doesn't just paralyze you, but also slowly destroys every single nerve in your body as you feel the excruciating pain of it, then noting how the anti-coagulant venom eases it as you bleed out first. Then injecting the guy with just the neurotoxin. Fucking diabolical.

Also great sound design, really makes you feel like you're the one getting injected with the distorted screams and the heartbeat rhythm that slows down. I like it, a little bit of terror in your horror. It's fun when instead of the usual suspense and release cycle you just get slammed in your face with pure uninhibited fear and terror like you're Alex undergoing the Ludovico technique.

Probably the only ongoing AH that's worth watching at this point. IMO of course.

When the Jurassic Park fan decides to make an analog horror series.

Like, come on. It's clear where he takes his inspiration from. Also, fantastic sound design. All of those guttural blood coughing sounds and primal screams. Everyone always overlooks audio in everything. Games, movies, online series, YouTube slop, you name it. Shit's important, and when you nail it, it really elevates your work.