Kiwi Farms Unofficial Analog Horror Hate Thread - THE VHS SLOP FILES

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What are even the large currently active analog horror series?

Mandela Catalogue? I never liked it, although it did have at least one moment that genuinely scared me. Urban Spook? Which is only notable for its level of violence that made all the heckin' wholesome horror fans seethe.
I know that Local58 and Gemini Home Entertainment are on hiatus. Greylock hasn't uploaded in a year, too.
I stopped caring about the Monument Mythos after its first series ended, it was a perfect ending, there was no reason to continue the story.
Man in the Suit, Dog Nightmares, Batman analog horror and the Boiled One phenomenon all sucked dick. Vita Carnis is okay, I guess. Midwest Angelica could be okay, I haven't watched the new episodes yet. Walten Files is just FNaF with low production value animation, I can't be bothered to care, despite its popularity.

So yeah, many series, but almost nothing to watch.
 
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Super Malario said:
It hearkens back to SCP and their whole gay ass thing of censoring information to make shit scary, it never has and never will be scary as it just comes out as very gay and retarded.
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It might not be scary, but it can create intrigue if you aren't retarded. Unfortunately most people are retarded.
Hardline Traditionalist said:
Midwest Angelica could be okay, I haven't watched the new episodes yet.
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What I've seen of Midwest Angelica is really impressive. Not to mention the bad guys with the pyramid heads look rad as hell.
 
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How much can we tie the analog horror genre to The Ring/Ringu? It combined chain letter curses and the horror of finding an unlabeled VHS.

When Toy Story came out and I was a kid, there was always an itch in the back of my brain that maybe the toys really WERE alive, as retarded as I knew that was. A zoomer finding a crusty, unlabeled VHS tape automatically gives it an air of the unknown and apparently that's all you need to shit out an analog horror game.
 
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Daddy's Little Kitten said:
I don't like horror stuff, but I once came across one channel that had cool stuff.


This one I love.
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Local 58 and Gemini Home Entertainment were the apex of it.

But as others have already said, like SCPs and creepypastas before it, analog horror was one of those lightning-in-a-bottle ideas that got ruined by its lazy imitators.
 
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To be serious here, a lot of the points made here are very valid. Analogue horror is very capable of making a creepypasta seem real but I think it got ruined by things like Marble Hornets where people just decided it was a good idea to have a conclusion to the story. Hey dipshits what made Blaire Witch Project, despite your feelings on it, so effective is there was no real conclusion to it, the people fucking died and thats why its "Found Footage". I hate just about every analogue horror thing and found footage horror thing nowadays because they all need to have a conclusion, they all need a solution to the mystery, when the whole thing that makes it scary is the lack of logical solutions. If I can just click my heels and say "theres no place like home!" it really makes your monster seem like a dipshit. The best things in this genre are the ones that leave it open ended, and leave you thinking "what the fuck was that?"
 
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They used to be so good.
Petscop doesn't really count as traditional analog horror but it was pretty cool.
Local 58 and Gemini Home Entertainment both creeped me out, but that might only be because I watched them when they came out and I had no idea what analog horror was.
The Mandela Catalog is interesting, and the idea of alternates just waiting outside your door for days until you go insane from isolation is a legitimately horrifying concept. Other than that it's just really boring.

I hate how modern analog horror just slaps on a shitty VHS filter and displays images and shitty pixel-font text instead of any sort of world building. They use the "analog" aspect of analog horror as an excuse to be lazy rather than utilizing it to tell a story in a different medium.
It's the modern equivalent of creepypastas. Pretty soon we're gonna get the Sonic.exe of analog horror with hyperrealistic blood coming out of someone's hyperrealistic eyes.
 
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Analog Horror can get kind of weird because it's almost exclusively targeting a narrow band of Gen X/Gen Y pre-millennial nostalgia. A lot of Analog Horror has failed because, like noted above people were trying to replicate the success of examples like Local58, and a lot of the people into it the most were born after DVDs became a thing. They never had to deal with stuff like tapes rotting or fuzz. They're going for a "nostalgic" aesthetic mostly based on a few vague ideas of what entertainment/technology/etc. was like before a certain date, similar to what helped "inspire" a lot of the really, annoying, cookie-cutter, cartoonish faux-retro-80s schlock in various media we saw after vaporwave and stuff like Stranger Things became popular.

Analog horror had the chance to evolve a bit into cyber horror of long forgotten media, websites, etc. but the hacky knockoffs of the more successful early entries, and the overuse of numerous clichés, including how often analog horror monsters turn out to be uncreative garbage like haunted game creepy pasta.exe 2.0 and as well as it becoming an outlet for fetishes has helped kill off anything potentially interesting about "analog horror" pretty fast.
 
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General Emílio Médici said:
Or analog hard science fiction space war?
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I'm sad that there's so little of this series released so far. It's so fucking good.
 
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Video tapes are pretty scary. All kinds of fucked up and strange shit ended up on VHS, and a lot of it was sold or distributed under the table, or not at all. This is insane to zoomers because even though there is certainly more fucked up shit on the web, it's (mostly) all accounted for. There could be any number of spooky video tapes waiting to be unearthed, unseen by human eyes for decades.

Analog horror stuff mostly sucks though, it's true. I liked Marble Hornets back in the day, and it wasn't even trying to be analog horror. That's just what consumer grade cameras were like then. Does the original Blair Witch Project count?
 
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Daddy's Little Kitten said:
I don't like horror stuff, but I once came across one channel that had cool stuff.


This one I love.
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The tone and context are spooky, but I found the crux of it comical. "Oh no! We've been heckin' conquered! Better 41% yourself to own the chuds!!"

I guess the idea might be that the conquering force put this on TV, but at least on the first watch, it's laughable.

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Nevermind; just noticed the "local law enforcement" bit. My bad
 
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