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DOUBLE REVIEW TIME! DOUBLE REVIEW TIME!
So kiwis, I did it. It took me a while I know but I decided to form my own opinions instead of allowing a YouTuber to tell me what to think of media. Now allow me to fed you my own opinions since I might as well be the willing-est consoomer of analog schlock.
Allow me to tell you from the get go that the reason I decided to watch both UrbanSpook and Greylock was not only for the dogpilling. Both of these series have drastically smaller followings than what you might believe and a good deal of the buzz they create is absorbed by horror creators explaining them. The top results I got for searching both series on YouTube weren't their respective entries but Wendigoon's video, which is itself a problem because even if it wasn't Wendigoon's intention he has connected both concepts in the minds of people that won't ever bother to check them out on their own as opposites in quality. Not only I can think of several analog horror concepts I believe have a worse execution than The Painter but I think that something that becomes very obvious once you sit and watch Greylock is that it has a drastically superior production than any other concept in the genre.
Returning to the several pieces that both received at the time I noticed something else. Greylock has gotten more pieces but it has drastically less attention than UrbanSpook, including two separate streams by Wendigoon in the last month or so. This actually soured me on giving Greylock a try because from that moment it felt like Wendi was just hyping one of his buddies up, something he has proved he isn't above doing.
On the other hand UrbanSpook's The Painter received less videos but more views by itself with most people praising the fact that it was way more grounded in reality and by consequence hit a lot harder than your run of the mill analog. It actually became quite obvious to me that up until the last entry, MEAT, even though everyone agreed it was too visceral it had little to no critics. That's right, a lot of people went from having no opinions on the guy to wanting his blood in the space of a month. Regardless of age, that's a lot to take in, specially in a sphere that elevates a lot of crap. Remember that the guy that called UrbanSpook the worst analog horror (in his opinion) also sang the praises of the South Park analog series. The oldest video against UrbanSpook is a 4 month old spanish speaking piece that barely cracked 8k views but to me at least, feels way more grounded than anything that has been posted in the horror channel thread.
With context out of the way and assuming you haven't watched either, I will proceed to give you my notes.
UrbanSPOOK: If there's a word that I would use for this one is EXPLICIT. I mean that about the story, the visuals, the concept, the execution, everything. I don't know if I'm showing my mileage here but to me this was like siting through a long true crime documentary. Yeah it churned my stomach when I was watching it but after I was done with it I could sleep well all the same because there's a very obvious fictional barrier. Each video in The Painter is done in a formulaic way: We learn of a new victim that was killed in a very creative way and there's a painting or paintings somewhere in the scene, the killer or killers leave some visual of themselves, roll the phone number to report them. I would argue that one of the comments left in the latest video says it best, if these fuckers don't get caught by next video this is getting ridiculous. UrbanSpook made two of the most distintive characters possible for his story, they get caught in camera multiple times, they leave DNA evidence and the police still have no idea who they are.
Through watching this I realized that the phone number that is plastered everywhere is from the bayeau and my mind instantly fluttered to True Detective Series 1. I think that how the killers get away with up to 30 murders so far would be more believeable if they targeted people in the outskirts of society and the paintings (which always include a name btw) were a memento to immortalize people that would have otherwise be forgotten even by those seeking justice for them. The fact the killers mostly go for law enforcement that is trying to catch them really throws the realism that is supposed to make the series so great off funk. The brutality and senselessness of the violence really remains as the anchor of the so called realism.
This leads into my next point. UrbanSpook knows The Painter is fucked up, that's why he puts at least two separate graphic content warnings in his videos. His fans know it, they talk about it in the comments. The whole point of The Painter is being fucked up. Why do people get mad at it and why now? You may heard that it has to do with rape but is a little more complicated in both a good and a bad way. MEAT, the latest entry, has one of the victims being a guy that was stabbed 470+ times and 4 of those stabs had seminal fluid in them. Digging those stabs showed photos of what I assumed is one of the killers wearing masks made out of the faces of previous victims. That's the context and now I will proceed to tell you why I actually got mad people choose this video instead of a previous one that I think is more fucked up but also overdone. PIGS, is my personal pick for the most fucked up UrbanSpook video but it also has such an overdone audio design that is hard to take it seriously. PIGS features an elderly man being killed and stuffed inside a pig carcass, his granddaughter is decapitated and her eyes are extracted and placed in the eye holes of the pig carcass but the kicker is what happens to his wife, raped to death by a horse overdosed on viagra. The painting for the old lady calls her mount, the one for the little girl calls her four holes. Make your judgement which one is worse because FAMILY is also a bad trip. That painting that everyone uses to represent him in thumbnails, the trippy gingerbread man looking thing?, that's named Fucktoy Cory and it's featured in the first video alongside even worse shit. With all of this said I think getting mad at UrbanSpook is like getting mad that a dog inside a pen with a warning bit you after messing with it.
Greylock: Right off the bad I noticed this one shouldn't be compared to any other analog horror series because that's unfair. Is so obvious whoever is behind this has resources and experience under their belt, like these people do know how to make the footage look like real VHS instead of just using shitty filters and some static. I can actually believe the Greylock tapes are real tapes because it is such a phenomenal job. Even the editing instantly made me think of someone reusing tapes unlike your spooky Powerpoints that mentioned a spooky thing and all goes zalgo and shit. The acting, the photography, the atmosphere, this actually made everything I watched afterwards feel like shit. The only negatives I have against it is how it used le scary rotting face during glitches but it becomes less prevalent as the series goes on and that the series is quite long so it is a major ask timewise
The premise is also very well put together and instantly made me feel the old /x/phile guard may warm up to it very easily because it does feel like a greatest hits of spooky threads minus fleshgaits or ayylmaos. If you think or know New England is creepy this is right up your alley. So far not everything seems connected but what is points to make your inner Mulder cream his trousers. So yeah, it makes Alex Kister look even more like a bitch.
So kiwis, I did it. It took me a while I know but I decided to form my own opinions instead of allowing a YouTuber to tell me what to think of media. Now allow me to fed you my own opinions since I might as well be the willing-est consoomer of analog schlock.
Allow me to tell you from the get go that the reason I decided to watch both UrbanSpook and Greylock was not only for the dogpilling. Both of these series have drastically smaller followings than what you might believe and a good deal of the buzz they create is absorbed by horror creators explaining them. The top results I got for searching both series on YouTube weren't their respective entries but Wendigoon's video, which is itself a problem because even if it wasn't Wendigoon's intention he has connected both concepts in the minds of people that won't ever bother to check them out on their own as opposites in quality. Not only I can think of several analog horror concepts I believe have a worse execution than The Painter but I think that something that becomes very obvious once you sit and watch Greylock is that it has a drastically superior production than any other concept in the genre.
Returning to the several pieces that both received at the time I noticed something else. Greylock has gotten more pieces but it has drastically less attention than UrbanSpook, including two separate streams by Wendigoon in the last month or so. This actually soured me on giving Greylock a try because from that moment it felt like Wendi was just hyping one of his buddies up, something he has proved he isn't above doing.
On the other hand UrbanSpook's The Painter received less videos but more views by itself with most people praising the fact that it was way more grounded in reality and by consequence hit a lot harder than your run of the mill analog. It actually became quite obvious to me that up until the last entry, MEAT, even though everyone agreed it was too visceral it had little to no critics. That's right, a lot of people went from having no opinions on the guy to wanting his blood in the space of a month. Regardless of age, that's a lot to take in, specially in a sphere that elevates a lot of crap. Remember that the guy that called UrbanSpook the worst analog horror (in his opinion) also sang the praises of the South Park analog series. The oldest video against UrbanSpook is a 4 month old spanish speaking piece that barely cracked 8k views but to me at least, feels way more grounded than anything that has been posted in the horror channel thread.
With context out of the way and assuming you haven't watched either, I will proceed to give you my notes.
UrbanSPOOK: If there's a word that I would use for this one is EXPLICIT. I mean that about the story, the visuals, the concept, the execution, everything. I don't know if I'm showing my mileage here but to me this was like siting through a long true crime documentary. Yeah it churned my stomach when I was watching it but after I was done with it I could sleep well all the same because there's a very obvious fictional barrier. Each video in The Painter is done in a formulaic way: We learn of a new victim that was killed in a very creative way and there's a painting or paintings somewhere in the scene, the killer or killers leave some visual of themselves, roll the phone number to report them. I would argue that one of the comments left in the latest video says it best, if these fuckers don't get caught by next video this is getting ridiculous. UrbanSpook made two of the most distintive characters possible for his story, they get caught in camera multiple times, they leave DNA evidence and the police still have no idea who they are.
Through watching this I realized that the phone number that is plastered everywhere is from the bayeau and my mind instantly fluttered to True Detective Series 1. I think that how the killers get away with up to 30 murders so far would be more believeable if they targeted people in the outskirts of society and the paintings (which always include a name btw) were a memento to immortalize people that would have otherwise be forgotten even by those seeking justice for them. The fact the killers mostly go for law enforcement that is trying to catch them really throws the realism that is supposed to make the series so great off funk. The brutality and senselessness of the violence really remains as the anchor of the so called realism.
This leads into my next point. UrbanSpook knows The Painter is fucked up, that's why he puts at least two separate graphic content warnings in his videos. His fans know it, they talk about it in the comments. The whole point of The Painter is being fucked up. Why do people get mad at it and why now? You may heard that it has to do with rape but is a little more complicated in both a good and a bad way. MEAT, the latest entry, has one of the victims being a guy that was stabbed 470+ times and 4 of those stabs had seminal fluid in them. Digging those stabs showed photos of what I assumed is one of the killers wearing masks made out of the faces of previous victims. That's the context and now I will proceed to tell you why I actually got mad people choose this video instead of a previous one that I think is more fucked up but also overdone. PIGS, is my personal pick for the most fucked up UrbanSpook video but it also has such an overdone audio design that is hard to take it seriously. PIGS features an elderly man being killed and stuffed inside a pig carcass, his granddaughter is decapitated and her eyes are extracted and placed in the eye holes of the pig carcass but the kicker is what happens to his wife, raped to death by a horse overdosed on viagra. The painting for the old lady calls her mount, the one for the little girl calls her four holes. Make your judgement which one is worse because FAMILY is also a bad trip. That painting that everyone uses to represent him in thumbnails, the trippy gingerbread man looking thing?, that's named Fucktoy Cory and it's featured in the first video alongside even worse shit. With all of this said I think getting mad at UrbanSpook is like getting mad that a dog inside a pen with a warning bit you after messing with it.
Greylock: Right off the bad I noticed this one shouldn't be compared to any other analog horror series because that's unfair. Is so obvious whoever is behind this has resources and experience under their belt, like these people do know how to make the footage look like real VHS instead of just using shitty filters and some static. I can actually believe the Greylock tapes are real tapes because it is such a phenomenal job. Even the editing instantly made me think of someone reusing tapes unlike your spooky Powerpoints that mentioned a spooky thing and all goes zalgo and shit. The acting, the photography, the atmosphere, this actually made everything I watched afterwards feel like shit. The only negatives I have against it is how it used le scary rotting face during glitches but it becomes less prevalent as the series goes on and that the series is quite long so it is a major ask timewise
The premise is also very well put together and instantly made me feel the old /x/phile guard may warm up to it very easily because it does feel like a greatest hits of spooky threads minus fleshgaits or ayylmaos. If you think or know New England is creepy this is right up your alley. So far not everything seems connected but what is points to make your inner Mulder cream his trousers. So yeah, it makes Alex Kister look even more like a bitch.
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