Wendigoon Thread

[Harmless Harm]

One thing I'm curious about; what do you guys think are the best stories Creepcast has covered?

I really liked Penpal.

I also think Ted The Caver & The Showers are very good

I liked these a lot as well. The Showers made my imagination go wild; I think it's the whole atmosphere of being in the dark that makes it so tense.

 

[TheOtherSideofMakeBelieve]

I do appreciate when they announce them ahead of time. I like the 'book club' feeling when they go over one I've read/listened to already. It's fun to have my own opinions/thoughts already formed and then compare/contrast those with theirs since both of them have such massively different lives/PoVs than mine rather than just hearing theirs immediately before I've had time to process it myself. I'll definitely check that out some time this week

 

[Rick The Stick]

Just looked up Stolen Tongues, and it was apparently a NoSleep story called "my romantic cabin getaway" that was 16 FUCKING PARTS

It took them like 4 hours to get through that shitty borrasca story, this'll take 12.

 

[The Crescent King]

Just looked up Stolen Tongues, and it was apparently a NoSleep story called "my romantic cabin getaway" that was 16 FUCKING PARTS

It took them like 4 hours to get through that shitty borrasca story, this'll take 12.

On the one hand I really enjoy the longer videos, as not only do the stories tend to be of higher quality but I think the boys get more invested the longer the story goes on. It will likely be split into multiple parts. However your comment has me worried as they went on so many tangents in the latest episode they spent the first half hour without properly reading the story

 

[Raisincrest]

Pumpkin seeds and peanut butter will never leave my mind now.

 

[PyrrhicRustle]

Meat is promoting his musical album I guess and just announced they’re touring Creepcast live in October. 4 shows, New Orleans, Salem Mass, LA, and on Halloween night, Phoenix.

 

[ReasonablyRetarded]

I liked the ending. More ambiguous would've been better considering the theme of the story but I have to say ambiguity is a bit overdone by a lot of storiee that don't necessarily need it which I've grown a bit frustrated by so I suppose I'm biased in that way.

Sidenote, these niggers really grabbing all the bags they can get. Two sponsorships and I got a double ad every 5 minutes. Really frustrating considering I just play their show in the background whenever I'm doing stuff.
I know adblockers exist, problem is I usually cast it to the PS4 in my living room and I don't know of any ad free players that allow casting.

 

[FILTH Tourist]

I really liked Penpal.

I really liked the Left Right Game, I was playing Pacific Drive at the time so it fit the mood and gave me something to listening to when scavenging.

 

[Rick The Stick]

Sidenote, these niggers really grabbing all the bags they can get. Two sponsorships and I got a double ad every 5 minutes. Really frustrating considering I just play their show in the background whenever I'm doing stuff.
I know adblockers exist, problem is I usually cast it to the PS4 in my living room and I don't know of any ad free players that allow casting.

Well Wendi sure has taken a liking to talking about money fir a while now, so it makes sense. Gotta fund your expensive toys and retarded trips to do podcasts somehow.

Creepcast live

Hope people are ready for endless laughter after every word from the hyperfans and extra long tangents full of unfunny Jeff Goldblum impressions.

 

[The Crescent King]

Don't know about you guys but the last two Creepcasts were fairly mid. I've rewatched nearly all of the episodes several times but I have no interest in revisiting the latest two, and I don't like the CreepTV format at all.

I know Randall Boggs already posted a Psychosis narration, but I found an audio drama adaptation that I think not only captured the essence of the story very well but was genuinely immersive. I wasn't able to parse the story at all during the Creepcast episode which is a shame as I think Psychosis is one of the best stories they've covered so far; a unique, compelling premise enhanced by the stream-of-consciousness narration I think few Internet horror writers could pull of successfully. My only gripe was that I think some more buildup to the ending twist wouldn't have gone amiss, but overall I think the author did a great job at narrating a man's descent into madness that ironically saved him from an even worse fate.

 

[The Crescent King]

New CreepTV, covering a series called "Midwest Angelica".

 

[Raisincrest]

Hot take: Most analog horror bores me. Midwest Angelica is no exception.

The only analog horror I was ever able to get into was Local 58.

 

[Absurdist Laughter]

The only analog horror I was ever able to get into was Local 58.

Local 58's beauty is its simplicity, mystery, and really tight show not tell sort of mentality. I noticed that certain series like Mandala get way too wordy and expository.

Gemini Home Entertainment and maybe the Meat Pit one, imo, were the last good ones before it became played out like the original Saw series aside from the latest film.

 

[Aunt Carol]

the Meat Pit one

I like the Mystery Flesh Pit because it wasn't 100 hours of VHS filter. I know there was a "documentary," but Mystery Flesh Pit was presented more like Motel of the Mysteries, an artifact/collection of artifacts from another world.

 

[Raisincrest]

Gemini Home Entertainment

Oh shoot, I forgot about Gemini. That one is also excellent.

I'll give Mystery Flesh Pit a try at some point.

 

[Godchu]

New CreepTV, covering a series called "Midwest Angelica".

Man, how mediocre is that series that I watched some other retard "analyze" it and I totally forgot about it until now. Also I think I'm starting to notice a pattern here. I feel like you can almost tell when a story or series is utter dogshit or they really don't like it by how much they shitpost and go off-topic with it. Like here you have all this weird shit with Hunter talking about having sex with dogs and getting impregnated (for some fucking reason), while Midwest Angelica is so fucking batshit in its own right. I don't know, it's something to keep an eye out for next time.

On the series itself: it's some anime shit. And I mean that literally: from comments there's a shitton of anime "references" put into the series—the whole death row inmate thing is ripped straight from Death Note, there's apparently some Chainsaw Man references here and there, and the whole surface-level application of biblical / esoteric iconography (and only the ones everyone already knows about to boot) for aesthetic reasons is obviously from Evangelion, etc. etc. It's almost as though the creator took all the "cool" parts from his favorite shows and mushed it all together to make Midwest Angelica, leaving out everything else that made those shows good in the first place. And I really wouldn't mind it if either a) the guy showed any amount of restraint and gave his revelations some kind of buildup instead of jumping head first into things as he had, and/or b) the worldbuilding went farther than it does. You have a literal biblical apocalypse going and yet it doesn't feel that it's really gone beyond whatever county it began in.

And also why not adapt Revelation? Is it not supposed to be end-times of our post-Christ world? It's not even that hard to read, especially when you don't need to actually try and decipher it and figure out what John was actually writing about. There's a bunch of cool imagery there the guy could've used as well to make his thing a lot more unique than just ripping off the Babel story.

All the same the presentation is really good for an analog horror series. Had it been made two, or even three years earlier I could imagine it'd have been a big hit.

 

[Rick The Stick]

Evangelion

Literally just had this shit on as background noise until I heard the Ode To Joy chorus slam in right as a nuclear bomb went off. My first thought was "oh wow. An Evangelion reference. How original".

 

[Ralph Barnhardt]

I like the Mystery Flesh Pit because it wasn't 100 hours of VHS filter. I know there was a "documentary," but Mystery Flesh Pit was presented more like Motel of the Mysteries, an artifact/collection of artifacts from another world.
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I appreciate flesh pit for the amount of work the guy did in creating a world by making all that art for it and how all the brochures for stuff like the mall and hotels made sense. Most analog horror, to me at least, leans way too hard into weirdness on an attempt to make things seem otherworldly or unsettling but it just comes off as either pretentious or goofy. That Vita Carnis, I think that's what it's called, does that. With the amount of monstrosities it has I'm pretty sure all human life would've been wiped out. It just went to far and became self indulgent.

 

[fishercat]

I appreciate flesh pit for the amount of work the guy did in creating a world by making all that art for it and how all the brochures for stuff like the mall and hotels made sense. Most analog horror, to me at least, leans way too hard into weirdness on an attempt to make things seem otherworldly or unsettling but it just comes off as either pretentious or goofy. That Vita Carnis, I think that's what it's called, does that. With the amount of monstrosities it has I'm pretty sure all human life would've been wiped out. It just went to far and became self indulgent.

Mystery Flesh Pit started as an exercise on r/worldbuilding, so at the very start the focus was on making it as realistic as a park inside a giant alien starfish could be. The decision to have (almost) all the horror be put inside cheery leaflets akin to ones you'd be given in Yellowstone is what really sells me on it. Yeah, there's giant crustaceans with human hands inside the pit that will eat you if given the chance, so make sure to stay on the marked trails! The only thing that really deviates from that is the log of the event that closed the park.

 

[Aunt Carol]

Yeah, there's giant crustaceans with human hands inside the pit that will eat you if given the chance, so make sure to stay on the marked trails!

The funny thing is that if you looked at Yellowstone without all its history, nobody in 2024 would make the decision to let the average dipshit be separated from bison and boiling acidic pools by nothing but a wooden railing and informative signs.

The only thing that really deviates from that is the log of the event that closed the park.

The log is the only thing that falls a little flat, too. Ancient Indian ritual device is a bit of an ass-pull, but the rest of the Pit has built up a lot of goodwill by then.

The author also has a repeated typo, but I've forgotten what it is. Something along the line of using the wrong "its," whether in dry internal memos, cheerful park pamphlets, or motel advertisements.