Analog horror#Eventide Media Center

Analog horror is commonly characterized by low-fidelity graphics, cryptic messages, little to no traditional jump scares, and visual styles reminiscent of late 20th-century television and analog recordings.{{cite web |url=https://deltastatement.com/7476/features/what-makes-things-creepy/ |title=What Makes Things Creepy? |last=Saucier |first=Emily |date=April 25, 2022 |website=The Delta Statement |publisher=Delta State University |access-date=January 26, 2023}}{{cite web |url=https://www.slashfilm.com/723377/archive-81-review-analog-horrors-haunt-netflixs-uneven-new-supernatural-series/ |title=Archive 81 Review: Analog Horrors Haunt Netflix's Uneven New Supernatural Series |last=Evangelista |first=Chris |date=January 11, 2022 |website=SlashFilm.com |publisher=Static Media |language=en-US |access-date=January 26, 2023}} This is done to match the setting, as analog horror works are typically set somewhere between the 1960s and 1990s, or work with elements from that time period. Analog horror is often noted to use visual and audio distortion, as well as glitch-like effects that emphasize and replicate the technological limits the subgenre works with.{{Cite web |last=Williamson |first=Samuel |date=February 7, 2023 |title=What Is Analog Horror? The Subgenre of 'Skinamarink' Explained |url=https://collider.com/what-is-analog-horror-explained/ |access-date=January 30, 2024 |website=Collider |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Adeishvili |first=Luca |title=Examining the Uncanny Allure of Analog Horror |url=https://stuyspec.com/article/examining-the-uncanny-allure-of-analog-horror |access-date=January 30, 2024 |website=stuyspec.com |language=en}} The name "analog horror" comes from the genre's aesthetic incorporation of elements related to analog electronics, such as analog television and VHS (Video Home System), the latter being an analog method of recording video and audio.[https://www.dreadcentral.com/news/530352/this-disturbing-found-footage-masterpiece-is-now-streaming-free/ This Disturbing Found Footage Masterpiece is Now Streaming Free – Dread Central]

The genre is also known to show manipulated pre-existing media from the time period it is trying to imitate, as seen in series like The Mandela Catalogue. Oftentimes, analog horror works use their formats' supposed limitations to their advantage. Analog effects and graphics frequently obscure or abstract events such that the viewers are left to wonder at, and consequently fear, what they are witnessing. Works such as The Backrooms use the limitations of the equipment that they are replicating to disguise the use of Blender and Adobe After Effects, making the series appear more visually realistic.{{Cite web |last=Lloyd |first=Andrew |date=March 29, 2022 |title=The Backrooms: How a Creepy Office Photo Became an Internet Bogeyman |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/is-the-backrooms-real/ |access-date=April 15, 2024 |website=Vice}}

Analog horror may also be influenced by horror films such as The Ring (1998) and The Blair Witch Project (1999).{{cite web |last=Heath |first=David |date=January 24, 2023 |title=12 Scariest Analog Horror Series |url=https://gamerant.com/best-analog-horror-series/ |access-date=January 26, 2023 |website=Game Rant |publisher=}} David Lynch's Inland Empire heavily influenced Petscop,{{cite web|last=Peters|first=Lucia|title=The Weird Part Of YouTube: The Making Of "No Through Road" And The Power Of Unanswered Questions|url=https://theghostinmymachine.com/2020/11/16/the-weird-part-of-youtube-the-making-of-no-through-road-and-the-power-of-unanswered-questions-found-footage-stevenage-broomhill-farm-time-loop|website=The Ghost in My Machine|access-date=November 16, 2020|date=November 16, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201116175053/https://theghostinmymachine.com/2020/11/16/the-weird-part-of-youtube-the-making-of-no-through-road-and-the-power-of-unanswered-questions-found-footage-stevenage-broomhill-farm-time-loop/|archive-date=November 16, 2020|url-status=dead}}{{cite magazine |url=https://egmnow.com/theres-something-hiding-in-petscop/ |title=There's Something Hiding in Petscop |last=Moyer |first=Philip |date=March 18, 2020 |magazine=EGM |publisher=EGM Media LLC |access-date=January 26, 2023}} a web series rooted in analog horror.{{Cite magazine|last=Barron|first=Alex|url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/rabbit-holes/petscop-the-creepy-youtube-series-that-confounded-gamers-on-reddit|title="Petscop," the Creepy YouTube Series That Confounded Gamers on Reddit|date=August 31, 2017|magazine=The New Yorker|access-date=November 24, 2017|issn=0028-792X|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201034310/https://www.newyorker.com/culture/rabbit-holes/petscop-the-creepy-youtube-series-that-confounded-gamers-on-reddit|archive-date=December 1, 2017|url-status=live}}

Analog horror could be regarded as a form or descendant of creepypasta legends.{{cite web |url=https://uppercutcrit.com/public-memory-crafting-analog-horror-in-video-games/ |title=Public Memory: Crafting Analog Horror in Video Games |last=Tee |first=Samiee |date=May 28, 2022 |website=Uppercut |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230104093728/https://uppercutcrit.com/public-memory-crafting-analog-horror-in-video-games/ |archive-date=January 4, 2023 |language=en-US |access-date=January 26, 2023}} Many creepypastas anticipated analog horror's themes and presentation: Ben Drowned and NES Godzilla Creepypasta, among others, featured manipulated or contrived footage of "haunted" media, and Candle Cove, a creepypasta from 2009, focused on a mysterious television broadcast.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zy_wOZnDJD0 The Web Series & Creepypasta That Defined Analog Horror – Ryan Hollinger on YouTube]

Some commentators have drawn parallels between analog horror and 20th-century radio and television programs that presented fictional stories in the style of "live news broadcasts," such as Orson Welles's 1938 radio adaptation of The War of the Worlds and the shot-on-video TV movies Special Bulletin (1983), Ghostwatch (1992) and Without Warning (1994).{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmdcq36lYQo|title=Broadcasts That Caused Nationwide Panic|last=ScareTheater|website=YouTube|date=November 20, 2023 }}{{Cite web|url=https://bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/3806276/frogman-vhs-six-horror-movies-shot-on-vhs-to-watch-tonight/|title=Six Shot-on-VHS Horror Movies to Watch After 'Frogman'|website=Bloody Disgusting|date=March 28, 2024 }}

The subgenre is typically cited as originating between the late 2000s and the mid-2010s Internet (mainly with YouTube) videos, specifically from Steven Chamberlain's No Through Road in January 2009, and gaining substantial popularity on the English-speaking internet with the release of Kris Straub's Local 58 in October 2015; the series' slogan ("ANALOG HORROR AT 476 MHz") gave the genre its name. Local 58, which quickly became successful, inspired later works such as The Mandela Catalogue and The Walten Files. Another YouTube channel, the Polish-language Kraina Grzybów TV, anticipated many motifs of the genre, as in December 2013 it began publishing videos stylized as a TV program from the 1990s that contained disturbing and surreal imagery.

Some analog horror series have been adapted into different forms of media. In 2020, Netflix announced that it would adapt the analog horror podcast Archive 81 into a series of the same name.{{cite web |last=Kanter |first=Jake |title='Archive 81': Mamoudou Athie, Dina Shihabi To Star In Netflix Series Inspired By Horror Podcast; James Wan's Atomic Monster Producing |url=https://deadline.com/2020/10/archive-81-mamoudou-athie-dina-shihabi-to-star-in-netflix-series-1234603213/ |access-date=May 5, 2021 |date=October 26, 2020 |website=Deadline Hollywood |publisher=Deadline Hollywood, LLC}} Despite its positive reception, the show was canceled after airing only one season.{{cite web |last=Romanchick |first=Shane |date=November 30, 2021 |title='Archive 81' Images Reveal a Time-Bending Horror Show on Netflix |url=https://collider.com/archive-81-images-horror-series-netflix/ |access-date=December 21, 2021 |website=Collider}}{{cite web |last=Andreeva |first=Nellie |date=March 24, 2022 |title=Archive 81 Canceled By Netflix After One Season |url=https://deadline.com/2022/03/archive-81-canceled-netflix-one-season-mamoudou-athie-and-dina-shihabi-1234986278/ |access-date=March 24, 2022 |website=Deadline Hollywood |publisher=Deadline Hollywood, LLC}}

Marble Hornets had a film set in the same setting release in 2015, which was negatively received.{{Cite web |last=Clow |first=Mitchel |date=April 8, 2015 |title='Always Watching: A Marble Hornets Story' movie review: Tell, don't show |url=https://www.hypable.com/marble-hornets-movie-review/ |access-date=February 18, 2024 |website=Hypable}}{{Cite web |title=ALWAYS WATCHING: A MARBLE HORNETS STORY |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/marble_hornets_the_operator |website=Rotten Tomatoes}} A film adaptation for The Backrooms was announced to be in production in 2023, with Kane Parsons set to direct it.

On August 21, 2024, a short video resembling an EAS titled EAS Indonesia Concept (October 24, 1991), ANM-021 (Mesem) - First Encounter, gained widespread attention on Indonesian social media. The video was posted to in support of pro-democracy movements in Indonesia. The widespread sharing of the symbol on platforms like Instagram, Twitter (X), and WhatsApp was a form of protest against the House of Representatives' attempt to overturn the Constitutional Court's decision regarding regional election laws. The analog horror video, central to mobilizing citizens for the nationwide protests on August 22, 2024, became a key impetus and driving force behind demonstrations across Indonesia. Many pro-democracy activists, including public and political figures, adopted and shared the short video and it's screenshots across social media platforms.{{cite web |title=Ribuan Buruh Kepung DPR Besok: Sampai Kiamat Kami Akan Perang |trans-title=Thousands of Workers Surround the House of Representatives Tomorrow: Until the End of Time We Will War |url=https://www.cnnindonesia.com/nasional/20240821193142-20-1135893/ribuan-buruh-kepung-dpr-besok-sampai-kiamat-kami-akan-perang |access-date=August 23, 2024 |website=CNN Indonesia}} The image was reused in the 2025 Indonesian protests with the blue replaced with black to signify greater urgency.{{Cite web |date=February 7, 2025 |title=Peringatan darurat hitam: Mengapa 'peringatan darurat' ala garuda hitam di media sosial tetap dibutuhkan sebagai kontrol sosial? |url=https://www.bbc.com/indonesia/articles/c17e2w84nyko |access-date=March 25, 2025 |website=BBC News Indonesia |language=id}}

{{Main|No Through Road (web series)|label 1 = No Through Road}}

No Through Road is a YouTube series created by then-17-year-old Steven Chamberlain of Hertfordshire, England, in 2009. Set within the real-world private "no through road" at the entrance of Broomhall Farm, it follows four teenagers driving home at night as they find themselves trapped in a space and time loop, eternally passing the same two road signs marking an intersection separating the villages of Benington and Watton between miles of liminal space countryside, while threatened by a figure who can manipulate the loop back to an archway at the road's entrance.{{cite web|last=Catherine|first=Anna|title=Review: No Through Road|url=https://elgore.com/2013/05/03/no-through-road|website=-EL GORE-|access-date=May 3, 2013|date=May 3, 2013}} Other plot aspects include all footage of the events being stolen from MI6 and uploaded online to YouTube.

Composed of four shorts,{{Cite web|date=January 15, 2009|title=Steven Chamberlain|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08rj_ioKNSo&list=PLE49CA97A2AA397C3|access-date=February 11, 2023|website=|publisher=YouTube|language=en-UK}} No Through Road has attained a cult following, and is considered a foundational work of the analog horror genre.{{cite web|last=Reuben|first=Emily|title=The Best Original Horror On YouTube|url=https://www.looper.com/169739/the-best-original-horror-on-youtube|website=Looper|access-date=September 3, 2021|date=September 3, 2021}}{{cite web|last=Cantrell|first=M. Asher|title=7 Deeply Bizarre Horror Shorts to Watch on YouTube|url=https://filmschoolrejects.com/7-deeply-bizarre-horror-shorts-to-watch-on-youtube-c943a50218cb|website=Film School Rejects|access-date=October 24, 2014|date=October 24, 2014}}

{{main|Marble Hornets}}

Marble Hornets is an alternate reality game YouTube series created in 2009, based on the Slender Man creepypasta.{{Cite web |last=Venable |first=Nick |date=February 26, 2013 |title=YouTube Horror Series Marble Hornets Will Bring Slenderman To Theaters |url=https://www.cinemablend.com/new/YouTube-Horror-Series-Marble-Hornets-Bring-Slenderman-Theaters-36004.html |access-date=February 13, 2024 |website=CinemaBlend}} Made by Troy Wagner and Joseph DeLage, the series follows Jay Merrick (Wagner) as he attempts to find out what happened to his friend Alex Kralie (DeLage) during the production of Alex's student film, Marble Hornets.{{Cite web |last=Kelly |first=Makena |date=June 22, 2019 |title=One of the creepiest series in YouTube history is now a decade old and can't seem to die |url=https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/22/18701350/youtube-creepypasta-marble-hornets-slenderman |access-date=February 14, 2024 |website=The Verge}} Jay watches tapes from the film's production, and uploads them to YouTube as various entries showing that Alex was being stalked by an elusive entity known as "The Operator." Aspects of the series that put it in the analog horror subgenre include its use of video tapes, as well as the implementation of a second channel for the series titled "totheark," where cryptic codes and messages are embedded into unconventional video editing.{{Cite web |last=Rosenfield |first=Esther |date=October 27, 2014 |title=Marble Hornets |url=http://www.audienceseverywhere.net/marble-hornets/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200727105407/http://www.audienceseverywhere.net/marble-hornets/ |archive-date=July 27, 2020 |access-date=February 19, 2024 |website=audienceseverywhere}} Marble Hornets had a spinoff film released in 2015 called Always Watching: A Marble Hornets Story, which was negatively received, with reviewers remarking that the series did not translate well onto the big screen, from both a storytelling and technical standpoint.{{Cite web |last=McNary |first=Dave |date=February 25, 2013 |title='Marble Hornets' Flying to Bigscreen |url=https://variety.com/2013/digital/news/marble-hornets-flying-to-bigscreen-818489/ |access-date=February 18, 2024 |website=Variety}}{{Cite web |last=Hentschke |first=Ted |date=August 8, 2015 |title=Always Watching: A Marble Hornets Story (DVD) |url=https://www.dreadcentral.com/reviews/118065/118065/ |access-date=February 19, 2024 |website=Dread Central}}

{{Main article|Kraina Grzybów TV}}

Kraina Grzybów is a Polish YouTube web-series created by Wiktor Stribog.{{cite web |title=Antyfonie TVP - VOD |url=https://vod.tvp.pl/video/antyfonie,wiktor-stribog,41698639 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190418005455/https://vod.tvp.pl/video/antyfonie,wiktor-stribog,41698639 |archive-date=April 18, 2019 |accessdate=April 11, 2019}} The series tells the story of a mysterious pirate broadcast show hosted by a girl named Agatka and her squirrel friend, Małgosia. {{cite web |title=Sezon grzybowy / Media |url=http://www.dwutygodnik.com/artykul/5367-sezon-grzybowy.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190505003938/https://www.dwutygodnik.com/artykul/5367-sezon-grzybowy.html |archive-date=May 5, 2019 |accessdate=April 11, 2019 |language=pl |agency=www.dwutygodnik.com}} Kraina Grzybów is made in the aesthetic of old Polish TV shows from the communist era.{{cite web |title=KrainaGrzybowTV |url=https://www.youtube.com/user/krainagrzybowtv |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190414215523/https://www.youtube.com/user/krainagrzybowtv |archive-date=April 14, 2019 |accessdate=April 11, 2019 |website=YouTube |language=pl |agency=YouTube}}

{{Main|Local 58}}

Kris Straub's Local 58 is a series of YouTube videos presented as authentic videotaped footage of a television station that has been continuously hijacked over several decades. While there is no main plot in this series, episodes include messages related to looking up at the Moon or the night sky, as well as the in-universe Thought Research Initiative (TRI). Local 58's first video "Weather Service" was published in 2015 as a stand-alone short{{Citation |title=The History of Analog Horror [ft. Alex Kister, Nexpo, NightMind, Kris Straub] {{!}} Documentary (2022) | date=July 29, 2022 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-I_4ph-L19U |access-date=September 14, 2023 |language=en}} and then added to the dedicated YouTube channel when it was established in 2017.

Local 58 is frequently credited with creating and/or popularizing analog horror.{{cite news |url=https://www.gq.com/story/the-mandela-catalogue-youtube-horror-series-18-year-old-interview |title=This Halloween's Scariest Horror Movie Is a YouTube Series By a Wisconsin 18 Year-Old |last=Levesque |first=Eamon |date=October 29, 2021 |website=GQ |publisher=Condé Nast |language=en-US |access-date=January 26, 2023}} Additionally, the series is responsible for naming the genre through its slogan, "ANALOG HORROR AT 476 MHz".

CH/SS is a YouTube series that was first released in 2016. It was created by an individual known as Turkey Lenin III, a Singaporean user who was 15 at the time of its first upload.{{Cite web |last=Kok |first=Nestor |date=February 4, 2022 |title=Ghosts in the Machine: Examining the Origins of Analog Horror in "CH/SS" |url=https://fnewsmagazine.com/2022/02/ghosts-in-the-machine-examining-the-origins-of-analog-horror-in-ch-ss/ |access-date=May 1, 2023 |website=F Newsmagazine |language=English}} The series starts as various uploads from a mental health television service sponsored by the United States government. As it progresses, details and mysteries are slowly revealed of the service's true background with the appearances of a mysterious being constantly disrupting its programs and pursuing its creators. Besides the YouTube videos, the CH/SS lore contains additional content provided through MediaFire download links and an accompanying Twitter account.

{{main|Archive 81 (podcast)}}Archive 81 is a horror podcast released in 2016, made by Dan Powell and Marc Sollinger. The podcast is centered around an archivist named Dan, who recently began a job from the Housing Historical Committee of New York, who is told by his boss to constantly record his life.{{Cite web |last=Farrar |first=Joseph |date=July 4, 2016 |title='Archive 81' and the rise of 'soft-horror' podcasting |url=https://www.dailydot.com/upstream/archive81-podcast-horror/ |access-date=February 14, 2024 |website=Daily Dot}} Dan records himself as he listens to and organizes a number of interview tapes, recorded by Melody Pendras and detailing her conversations with residents of an apartment complex.{{Cite web |last=Roper |first=Naomi |date=March 12, 2018 |title=Ten Horror Podcasts to Give You All the Fun Scares |url=https://www.geekgirlauthority.com/top-ten-horror-podcasts-to-listen-to/ |access-date=February 20, 2024 |website=Geek Girl Authority}} It is revealed that these recordings of Dan doing his job are tapes that his friend Marc is now listening to, as Dan has gone missing and Marc seeks to find out what happened to him.{{Cite magazine |last=Locke |first=Charley |date=August 24, 2016 |title=Fiction Podcasts Are Finally a Thing! Thank You, Sci-Fi and Horror |url=https://www.wired.com/2016/08/found-footage-fiction-podcasts/ |access-date=February 20, 2024 |magazine=Wired}} The podcast was adapted into a Netflix Original series, having released in 2016.{{Cite web |last=Moore |first=Kasey |date=March 24, 2022 |title='Archive 81' Season 2: Netflix Cancels Horror Series After 1 Season |url=https://www.whats-on-netflix.com/news/archive-81-season-2-canceled/ |access-date=February 20, 2024 |website=What's on Netflix}} The Netflix series was cancelled after one season.{{cite web |last=Andreeva |first=Nellie |date=March 24, 2022 |title=Archive 81 Canceled By Netflix After One Season |url=https://deadline.com/2022/03/archive-81-canceled-netflix-one-season-mamoudou-athie-and-dina-shihabi-1234986278/ |access-date=March 24, 2022 |website=Deadline Hollywood |publisher=Deadline Hollywood, LLC}}

{{Main|Gemini Home Entertainment}}

Gemini Home Entertainment is a horror anthology series by Remy Abode that was initially released in 2019. It centers around the eponymous Gemini Home Entertainment, a fictional distributor of VHS tapes that detail numerous anomalous incidents taking place around the world, including the appearances of various dangerous alien creatures in the United States and an ongoing assault on the Solar System by "The Iris", a sentient rogue planet which sent the entities to Earth as part of its efforts to subjugate the planet and humanity. The creature of the "Woodcrawler" in the series is heavily inspired by the Native American mythologies of skinwalkers and the wendigo.{{cite web |url=https://fnewsmagazine.com/2022/02/ghosts-in-the-machine-archiving-the-end-of-the-world-with-gemini-home-entertainment/ |title=Ghosts in the Machine: Archiving the End of the World with "Gemini Home Entertainment" |last=Kok |first=Nestor |date=February 15, 2022 |website=F Newsmagazine |publisher=School of the Art Institute of Chicago |language=English |access-date=January 26, 2023}}

Eventide Media Center was a horror anthology series created by Aidan Chick in 2020.{{Cite web |title=17 Best Analog Horror Series on YouTube |website=Collider |date=October 24, 2022 |url=https://collider.com/best-analog-horror-series-youtube-channels |access-date=December 24, 2024}} The series was framed as being the "local collection" of a public library in the fictional town of Eventide Valley, Massachusetts. Each episode focused on a different event or monster that inhabits Eventide Valley or other fictional towns in the state. The series commonly incorporated reveals and dark humor into the endings of its episodes. For example, the episode "Midnight Movie" is a recording of the closing credits of a 1950s monster movie produced in Somberville, Massachusetts (a fictionalized version of Somerville) in which nearly the entire cast is listed in an in memoriam segment. The film's title is revealed to be "Attack of the Somberville Spiders" and the footage rewinds to the final scene of the movie, showing a camerawoman being attacked by a giant spider. The film then is interrupted by an advertisement for an in-universe pest repellent called "Spider Shield".{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrvXrQsd9i4 |title=Eventide Media Center - Midnight Movie |date=2022-12-02 |last=Eventide Media Center |access-date=2025-05-16 |via=YouTube}}

In 2022, near the beginning of production on the second season, the series was cancelled amid controversy surrounding the ending of the episode "Crimson Creek", in which an attack on a school by an eldritch abomination is covered up by news outlets as a school shooting, in possible reference to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting conspiracy theories. Aidan Chick removed the video on the day of its upload and later privated the rest of the episodes of the series along with his other analog horror series, including Analog Archives and Rocket Records.

The Walten Files is an animated YouTube series, partially inspired by the Five Nights at Freddy's franchise and its analog horror adaptations.{{cite web |last1=Almeida |first1=Sh-Ron |date=January 31, 2022 |title=The Walten Files: A tragedy of horrors |url=https://www.anchorweb.org/post/the-walten-files-a-tragedy-of-horrors |website=The Anchor Newspaper |language=en}} It was created by Chilean internet personality Martín Paredes.{{Cite web |last1=Saab |first1=Hannah |last2=Cabezas |first2=Nikolas |date=October 24, 2022 |title=20 Creepiest Analog Horror Series on YouTube |url=https://collider.com/best-creepiest-analog-horror-youtube-series-channels/ |access-date=December 7, 2023 |website=Collider |language=en}} It is presented as found footage from the fictional restaurant known as Bon's Burgers, which featured animatronic entertainment, and produced by the fictitious Bunny Smiles Incorporated. The story focuses on the backstory of the restaurant and its founders, Jack Walten and Felix Kranken, alongside the many mysteries behind its enigmatic closure and the former's disappearance.

{{Main|The Mandela Catalogue}}

The Mandela Catalogue is a YouTube series created by twenty-year-old Alex Kister of Hubertus, Wisconsin in 2021. It is set in the fictional Mandela County, Wisconsin in the 1990s and 2000s,[https://bookriot.com/analog-horror-books/ WE INTERRUPT YOUR SCROLLING TO BRING YOU 8 ANALOG HORROR BOOKS – BOOK RIOT] which is threatened by the presence of "alternates", doppelgängers who coerce their victims to kill themselves and can manipulate audiovisual media. Other plot aspects include Lucifer disguising himself as the biblical archangel Gabriel, shown through altered footage of episodes from The Beginners Bible.{{Cite web |last=Pfister |first=Elizabeth |date=October 3, 2022 |title=Analog Horror and Its Blueprints for Horror's Future |url=https://www.dreadcentral.com/editorials/439064/analog-horror-and-its-blueprints-for-horrors-future/ |access-date=February 12, 2023 |publisher=Dread Central}}{{Cite web |last=Kister |first=Alex |date=June 9, 2021 |title=overthrone |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0EpOiu8YkI&list=PLkk6ZuwrqcsGv_7LnbJC26M3ve7P_TqV3&ab_channel=AlexKister |access-date=April 15, 2024 |website=YouTube}} Composed of fourteen shorts,{{Cite web |date= |title=Alex Kister |url=https://www.youtube.com/c/MandelaCatalogue/videos |access-date=February 11, 2023 |website= |publisher=YouTube |language=en-US}} The Mandela Catalogue became popular online through analysis and reaction videos.{{cite news |last=Levesque |first=Eamon |date=October 29, 2021 |title=This Halloween's Scariest Horror Movie Is a YouTube Series By a Wisconsin 18 Year-Old |url=https://www.gq.com/story/the-mandela-catalogue-youtube-horror-series-18-year-old-interview |access-date=January 26, 2023 |website=GQ |publisher=Condé Nast |language=en-US}}

The Smile Tapes (stylized as The SMILE Tapes) is an analog horror series created by Patorikku in 2021. The story is set in the mid-1990s in the United States and revolves around a fictitious new drug in circulation on the black market called "SMILE". Usage of the drug induces violent behavior in its users and causes them to laugh and smile uncontrollably. As the series progresses, SMILE is revealed to actually be the spores of an extraterrestrial fungus-like organism native to the asteroid belt. The series was inspired by the fungus Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, a fungus species known for infecting and altering the behavior of ants.

{{main|The Monument Mythos}}

The Monument Mythos is a YouTube web-series set in different alternate history versions of the United States.{{cite web |last1=Wehs |first1=Garet |title=Analog horror: The bizarre and the unsettling |url=https://georgiastatesignal.com/analog-horror-the-bizarre-and-the-unsettling/ |website=The Signal |access-date=April 13, 2024 |date=February 22, 2022 |type=Student newspaper}} The premises include James Dean serving as President having won the 1968 United States presidential election instead of Richard Nixon,{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULcmotRoaVQ |title=DEANDEMOCRACY {{!}} The Monument Mythos |date=November 10, 2020 |last=MISTER MANTICORE |access-date=August 30, 2024 |via=YouTube}} an alternate origin of the Statue of Freedom,{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RZas1j28z8 |title=FREEDOMFALLER {{!}} The Monument Mythos |date=February 28, 2021 |last=MISTER MANTICORE |access-date=August 30, 2024 |via=YouTube}} and Martin Luther King Jr. avoiding his assassination. The episodes are in the found footage and mockumentary format and revolve around American national monuments being depicted in relation to unusual incidents, involving fictional conspiracy theory narratives, such as disappearances of immigrants near the Statue of Liberty,{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUCvy8pKYXA |title=LIBERTYLURKER {{!}} The Monument Mythos |date=September 12, 2020 |last=MISTER MANTICORE |access-date=August 30, 2024 |via=YouTube}} time travel/teleportation, a strange astronomical phenomena above the Pyramids of Giza,{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPyayywznP4 |title=GIZAGUARDIAN {{!}} The Monument Mythos |date=July 4, 2021 |last=MISTER MANTICORE |access-date=August 30, 2024 |via=YouTube}} and a mysterious infection affecting individuals near Mount Rushmore.{{cite web |last=Heath |first=David |date=January 24, 2023 |title=Scariest Analog Horror Series |url=https://gamerant.com/best-scary-analog-horror-series/ |access-date=March 13, 2025|website=Game Rant |publisher=}}{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8D3EOZmxHY |title=RUSHMOREREVENGE {{!}} The Monument Mythos |date=October 3, 2020 |last=MISTER MANTICORE |access-date=August 30, 2024 |via=YouTube}}{{Cite web |last=Kok |first=Nestor |date=January 21, 2022 |title=Ghosts in the Machine: The Star-Spangled Monsters of Mister Manticore's "The Monument Mythos" |url=https://fnewsmagazine.com/2022/01/ghosts-in-the-machine-the-star-spangled-monsters-of-mister-manticores-the-monument-mythos/ |access-date=March 20, 2024 |website=F Newsmagazine |language=English}}{{cite web |last1=Armstrong |first1=Jenna Claire |title=What Is Monument Mythos? |url=https://dctribalmedia.com/5346/entertainment/what-is-monument-mythos/ |website=DC Tribal Media |access-date=April 13, 2024 |date=March 3, 2022 |type=Student newspaper}}

Midwest Angelica is a YouTube horror series published in 2022 on the channel Midwest Angelica and made by Team AQ. The story takes place in 1999 when a government organization called H.O.M.E (Heavenly Operation Material Examination), made to research a being of extraterrestrial origin codenamed "AZ-001", makes contact with AZ-001 when it reaches the Earth's atmosphere. The series takes inspiration from Christian scripture and Neon Genesis Evangelion. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z0RRfZwKIg Home – Midwest Angelica on official YouTube channel]

{{Main|Backrooms (web series)}}

In January 2022, a short horror film titled The Backrooms (Found Footage) was uploaded to YouTube by then-sixteen-year-old Kane Parsons of Northern California, known online as Kane Pixels. It is based on the creepypasta of the same name, using the software Blender and Adobe After Effects,{{Cite magazine |last=Rogers |first=Reece |date=May 11, 2022 |title=How to 'No-Clip' Reality and Arrive in the Backrooms |url=https://www.wired.com/story/what-are-the-backrooms/ |url-status=live |magazine=Wired |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220710155216/https://www.wired.com/story/what-are-the-backrooms/ |archive-date=July 10, 2022 |access-date=November 30, 2022 |url-access=limited}}{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4dGpz6cnHo |title=The Backrooms (Found Footage) |date=January 6, 2022 |last=Parsons |first=Kane |type=Short film |publisher=YouTube. Kane Pixels |access-date=February 12, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220130174908/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4dGpz6cnHo |archive-date=January 30, 2022 |url-status=live}} and is presented as a VHS tape recorded by a filmmaker who accidentally enters the Backrooms in the 1990s and is pursued by a monster.{{Cite web |last=Grobar |first=Matt |date=February 6, 2023 |title='The Backrooms' Horror Film Based On Viral Shorts By 17-Year-Old Kane Parsons In Works At A24, Atomic Monster, Chernin & 21 Laps |url=https://deadline.com/2023/02/the-backrooms-a24-developing-feature-based-on-viral-horror-shorts-1235249413/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230206160550/https://deadline.com/2023/02/the-backrooms-a24-developing-feature-based-on-viral-horror-shorts-1235249413/ |archive-date=February 6, 2023 |access-date=February 6, 2023 |website=Deadline Hollywood |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Fuster |first=Jeremy |date=February 6, 2023 |title=YouTube Horror Hit 'The Backrooms' to Be Made Into A24 Feature Film by Its Teenage Creator |url=https://www.thewrap.com/backrooms-a24-kane-parsons-youtube/ |access-date=March 13, 2023 |website=TheWrap}} This was later expanded into a series of sixteen shorts, following the employees of a company investigating the Backrooms.{{Cite web |last=Burton |first=Carson |date=February 7, 2023 |title=YouTube Horror Series The Backrooms Is Getting Turned Into a Feature Film |url=https://www.ign.com/articles/youtube-horror-series-the-backrooms-is-getting-turned-into-a-feature-film |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230211002051/https://www.ign.com/articles/youtube-horror-series-the-backrooms-is-getting-turned-into-a-feature-film |archive-date=February 11, 2023 |access-date=February 11, 2023 |website=IGN |language=en}} Parsons received a Creator Honors for the series at the 2022 Streamy Awards from The Game Theorists.{{Cite web |last=Tinoco |first=Armando |date=December 4, 2022 |title=YouTube Streamy Awards 2022 Winners List: Charli D'Amelio, MissDarcei, MrBeast & Cooking With Lynja Among Victors |url=https://deadline.com/2022/12/youtube-streamy-awards-2022-winners-list-charli-damelio-missdarcei-mrbeast-cooking-with-lynja-1235189133/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221206005333/https://deadline.com/2022/12/youtube-streamy-awards-2022-winners-list-charli-damelio-missdarcei-mrbeast-cooking-with-lynja-1235189133/ |archive-date=December 6, 2022 |access-date=January 12, 2023 |website=Deadline Hollywood}}

After receiving positive reviews from critics,{{Cite web |last=Russell |first=Erica |date=January 17, 2022 |title='The Backrooms' Viral Horror Short Explained |url=https://wpst.com/is-this-viral-found-footage-horror-short-the-scariest-video-on-the-internet/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220131223735/https://wpst.com/is-this-viral-found-footage-horror-short-the-scariest-video-on-the-internet/ |archive-date=January 31, 2022 |access-date= |publisher=WPST}}{{Cite web |last=Anderson |first=Kyle |date=March 22, 2022 |title=TERRIFYING BACKROOMS SHORT FILM IS ALSO SUPER IMPRESSIVE |url=https://nerdist.com/article/backrooms-horror-found-footage-short-film-kane-pixels/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221231070822/https://nerdist.com/article/backrooms-horror-found-footage-short-film-kane-pixels/ |archive-date=December 31, 2022 |access-date=February 11, 2023 |website=Nerdist}}{{Cite web |last=Wickens |first=Katie |date=July 7, 2022 |title=Noclipping is no joke: the strange world of The Backrooms explained |url=https://www.pcgamer.com/noclipping-is-no-joke-the-strange-world-of-the-backrooms-explained/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221130030803/https://www.pcgamer.com/noclipping-is-no-joke-the-strange-world-of-the-backrooms-explained/ |archive-date=November 30, 2022 |access-date=February 11, 2023 |website=PC Gamer}} on February 6, 2023, A24 announced that they were working on a film adaptation of the Backrooms based on Parsons' videos, with Parsons set to direct. Roberto Patino is set to write the screenplay, while James Wan, Michael Clear from Atomic Monster, Shawn Levy, Dan Cohen, and Dan Levine of 21 Laps are set to produce.{{Cite web |last=Goslin |first=Austen |date=February 8, 2023 |title=Viral horror video The Backrooms will be a movie from A24 and its 17-year-old director |url=https://www.polygon.com/23591121/backrooms-youtube-video-a24-movie-kane-parsons |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230211073801/https://www.polygon.com/23591121/backrooms-youtube-video-a24-movie-kane-parsons |archive-date=February 11, 2023 |access-date=February 11, 2023 |website=Polygon}}{{Cite web |last=Gutelle |first=Sam |date=February 9, 2023 |title=Teenage creator Kane Parsons will direct a Backrooms horror movie |url=https://www.tubefilter.com/2023/02/09/kane-pixels-parsons-the-backrooms-creepy-pasta-horror-movie-a24/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230211073803/https://www.tubefilter.com/2023/02/09/kane-pixels-parsons-the-backrooms-creepy-pasta-horror-movie-a24/ |archive-date=February 11, 2023 |access-date=February 11, 2023 |website=Tubefilter}}

{{Main article|Skinamarink}}

Written and directed by Kyle Edward Ball, Skinamarink is a supernatural horror film that debuted at the 2022 Fantasia Film Festival.{{Cite web |last=Earl |first=William |date=December 6, 2022 |title=How 'Skinamarink,' a $15,000 Horror Movie, Became the Internet's New Cult Obsession |url=https://variety.com/2022/film/news/skinamarink-horror-movie-internet-1235449013/ |access-date=February 17, 2024 |website=Variety}} It uses experimental techniques to tell the story of two young children, Kevin and Kaylee, as the pair witness the doors and windows of their house disappear.{{Cite web |last=Gingold |first=Michael |date=January 10, 2023 |title=Move Review: "SKINAMARINK" will make you a frightened child again |url=https://rue-morgue.com/movie-review-skinamarink-will-make-you-a-frightened-child-again/ |access-date=February 17, 2024 |website=Rue Morgan}} Their parents are missing as well, and the film focuses on the pair struggling to understand the nature of the supernatural entity that has come into their home.{{Cite web |last=Keogan |first=Natalia |date=January 13, 2023 |title="Significant Portions of the Movie Were Literally Just Lit by the Television": Kyle Edward Ball on Skinamarink |url=https://filmmakermagazine.com/118226-interview-director-kyle-edward-ball-skinamarink/ |access-date=February 17, 2024 |website=Filmmaker}} Using a crowdfunded budget of $15,000, the film conveys its themes of horror with "unconventional viewpoints and angles" to best simulate the experience of its child protagonists. With the budget in mind, the movie creators were able to use what they had on hand for lighting and filming at Ball's childhood home, with a majority of the movie being lit by a CRT television. In terms of embodying analog horror traits, the visuals and sound design of the film simulate the quality of VHS tapes. Skinamarink also uses an array of toys from the '90s, the aforementioned CRT television, and older cartoons to work within the analog horror subgenre.

Created by sisters Hannah and Rachel Mangan (under East Patch Productions) and inspired by Christian animated cartoons, Angel Hare is presented as an animated series starring an angelic hare named Gabby and her badger companion, Francis. Series protagonist Jonah, who watched the cartoon as a child, begins uploading footage of the cartoon to YouTube after realizing his personal VHS copy of the series differs from one found at the thrift store. As he rewatches the series, Jonah realizes that his copy of the cartoon had directly addressed young Jonah, giving him advice on how to deal with abuse by a parental figure.{{Cite web |date=January 17, 2024 |title="Angel Hare" Isn't What I Expected – The Geekiary |url=https://thegeekiary.com/angel-hare-isnt-what-i-expected/123465 |access-date=March 14, 2025 |language=en-US}}

• Creepypasta
• Amanda the Adventurer, a horror game series featuring analog horror elements
• Vaporwave
• Lost media
• Collage television
• Suffer Little Children - 1983 shot-on-video film similar in content

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