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ZaziGuado posted...

marble hornets

(8/6/7 = 21)

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCACDEE1E71FC8E5E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bn59FJ4HrmU

Marble Hornets... whether you look back on it fondly as a well-crafted fan project on the most famous Creepypasta monster of all time, or a cringe time capsule on the internet's worst aspects of fandom and web culture, well there's just no denying the massive impact this series had on 2010s horror. The whole of the Marble Hornets series, from its incredible set-up to its adventures into the darkest corners of the mind, made an incredible impact and now seen as a horror classic, the series continues to be a pillar and key reference point to any & all Creepypasta, analog, & lore-focused web horror series. The story began in 2009 as a series of short YouTube uploads; Slender Man was brand new at the time, and looking back, series creators Joseph DeLage
& Troy Wagner were extremely prescient and smart to capitalize on the now absurd and wide-spread popularity of the character before anyone else. The series portrayed itself much like a typical found-footage movie - emphasizing a sense of realism and built-in audience interaction, fostering community and becoming a must watch web series much in the same way a huge TV show would become must-watch television.

So what does make the series stand-out so much anyway? From the start, the creators clearly had a keen taste for the psychological, the almost taboo, and the weird, creating a series that was nothing short of pure, unadulterated, high-quality Creepypasta - taking the subtlety and instinctive creepiness of the original photos and legend and turning it into emotional & personal shock. From creepy little narrative descriptions to sparse but effective appearances of the Slender Man (known as the "Operator" in the series), the series pushes a narrative of mental exhaustion, paranoia, and a harrowing journey into the depths of unknown horror as what starts as innocent film shoot devolves into a doomed set of videos filmed in a desperate attempt to capture the truth before a seemingly unstoppable tragedy. The result is a genuinely unique, absolutely unforgettable cult classic. The short, bingeable nature of the videos ensures you're always clicking on to the next entry right away, ensuring a constant ebb & flow of tension while at the same time the format making you feel like you're entering this rabbit hole of horror you've just happened to stumble upon. It's mesmerizing to see the whole finished product, and a truly remarkable feat of horror filmmaking that manages to immerse you in a dark journey that grips you, twisting & turning you until you feel like you might fall right down into the black hole of what's really going on.

OR... you could see the series as a meandering bore in which the creators are basically dropping self-indulgent clues and teases along the way that becomes repetitive, and not worth watching in its entirety. I could see just as many viewers being turned off by the series' diminishing returns and exhausting antics as the viewers who were intrigued & challenged by the elements of creepy, immersive suspense that creeps & crawls throughout your skin.

Well... the fact that the series was so popular and successful I think shows the latter is more true. How many analog horror series nowadays follow the same format, slowly drip-feeding huge story turns and satisfying plot reveals and the big twists in between long scenes of stuffy, dated video footage? Hell, how many modern day, mainstream found-footage horror movies do the vlogger type filming scenes or present themselves as anthological pieces of a larger story? In this sense, Marble Hornets successfully reinvented the found-footage horror film and brought horror firmly into the 21st century, in the process becoming one of the most enduring, successful, and most imitated series on the web today.

GavsEvans123 posted...

Netflix Resident Evil

(3/4/1 = 8)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIdjcDTc9Vk

So I've only seen the first episode of this and it was enough to turn me off for good. I was never expecting much from yet ANOTHER adaptation that fails to get at what makes the games so special - slow-paced exploration in mundane areas turned twisted, conspiratorial mystery, and the thrill of survival. Netflix's adaptation is just another full on dumb action monster series, with the addition of corny drama that isn't interesting in the slightest. I genuinely felt like I was watching the episode for 3 hours. It was that boring. Lance Reddick turned in a good performance as Wesker, but that's where my compliments end.

I don't believe Resident Evil is incapable of being adapted. The source material has a good story; sure, it's also a fairly simple story, so I get the need to fill in the gaps with action. You can't just make a show where characters walk around hallways and run past every monster they see. That would be just as bad as the adaptation we have here. Yet, I don't get the obsession of not just taking the framework of the games, with the same characters, and confidently building a well-crafted narrative around that. The creators just constantly make these vast, sweeping changes to the point where it becomes unrecognizable as a Resident Evil property. It's too bad. There's a lot of potential in Resident Evil as a series, and this isn't it.

If I can indulge a moment, I've always envisioned a Resident Evil series taking place in between Resident Evils 1 and 2, right on the cusp on the Raccoon City Incident, with the Mansion Incident becoming a burning summer memory. The STARS members have all gone into hiding, knowing full well the dangers of Umbrella's experiments but being ridiculed and mocked by the general public and their own police station (through the machinations of the corrupt Chief Irons). Claire Redfield, a college student, gets a mysterious phone call from her brother Chris, prompting her to come to Raccoon City to get to the bottom of what's really going on there. There, she teams up with rookie police officer Leon S. Kennedy, and the two uncover a web of madness and terror unlike anything they have ever seen. I'd have bits and pieces of the Mansion Incident portrayed through flashbacks, while the city slowly rots from the inside out, as zombies and BOWs become more prevalent and harder to ignore. I think the series could even take a monster-of-the-week format, inspired by the Outbreak games, focusing on normal survivors in the city going through their own personal ordeals & hells.

I would hope for a simpler, horror-focused experience, like the classic PS1 games; with Twin Peaksian vibes and occasional X-Files-esque monster sequences. I'd build steadily to huge climaxes, much like the games - emphasizing avoidance at first, but by the finale, you're pretty much mowing enemies down left and right.

I don't claim to have all the answers. I know I have my own personal biases and preconceptions that have colored my judgment of this series. However, at least I'm trying to respect the source material and not making a stupid, generic action show. The goal of Netflix's RE is clearly not to adapt a classic video game franchise, but to slap name recognition on a completely unrelated story. It's bad, it's dumb, and it's a disappointment. I'm still waiting for a great Resident Evil adaptation to finally surprise me, but if they're just going to be like this show again, no thank you.

Garden
Justice
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Invincible

Zelda

Icon of Sin

Hints might make Vegas a little too easy.

Black Phillip (The VVitch)

Joker

Dante's Inferno Satan

Satan (Haxan)

Making a pact for Haxan auto

...anyway, here's our Halloween event!

Hell yes

Ghost
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Harley
Evangelion

Tag

It's called New Weird - it's in essence a combination of sci-fi, fantasy & horror - with a focus on worldbuilding & nonconventional storytelling.

Other examples include the Thief series, Dishonored, SCP Foundation, Annihilation, I think The Sandman would fall in to it.

Castlevania

Icon of Sin

Ned Flanders as the Devil

Hobbes

Satan (Haxan)

Making a pact for Haxan auto

Gargoyles
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Titan
Courage

One of my absolute favorite horror movies of all time!

The dall-e results for Anagram ranks anything flag-related with writeups
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/4/2/AAR-tQAADxAG.jpg

Skater

No mention that Ozzy Osbourne is in We Need to Do Something as a voice?!

I'd prefer now - time to get this contest really going!

Minion (Twisted Metal)

I think we're overthinking a lot of this and should just let whoever wants to nominate, nominate. If people want to participate, they will. If people want to skip weeks, let them. The series shouldn't feel like a chore and making it more like one just discourages people from voting and ranking even more.

Satan (Haxan)

Change my Silent Hill video to this:
https://youtu.be/xXZjx3Qc5o0?t=165

(2:45 - 7:45)

1.5 does seem a little harsh on Teeth honestly! I mean say what you want about the story but at the very least it's competently made and still pretty original to this day!

Deadstream on the other hand is a movie I know would get on some people's nerves for sure and does feel like an extended YouTube video at times.

Jesse
Joker

I think you can point to Jurassic Park as influence on that for sure. Tremors could be looked at as an earlier example. It was definitely a mix of capitalizing on blockbuster success with the cyclical nature of horror. I think studios were scrambling for franchises after the big slasher series all died off & horror movies were going in a darker & more cynical directions. Universal Monster remakes were the first attempt, then the comeback of giant monster movies.

Robot Chicken
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Teen Titans

Primal

Silent Hill 3 - Last Boss Remix
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwvDiTAAgoY

Resident Evil 3: Nemesis - Nemesis Final Metamorphosis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4ZpiVXa_KA

Haunting Ground - Final Lorenzo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ohlMlQ8WJo

Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening - Vergil Battle Theme 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmUpIuHqmzg

Parasite Eve - U.B.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxLosf7S9ZY

Oh I also love Teeth a lot too XD

Hah, I just watched Deadstream last night and actually enjoyed it quite a bit. The practical effects and look of the monsters were pretty good I thought. And it was funny how the typical "horror movie exposition" was just told through these rando reaction videos of people watching the stream. It wasn't a masterpiece or anything and the commenting on YouTube cancel culture fell flat on its face for me but all in all it was just a good, fun time.

Pokmon

Punisher Max
https://imgur.com/gallery/jTmYpLk

No, thought it fell under "something comparable". I will find something else!

Satan (Haxan)

Yeah actually change my Resident Evil video to this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Dqi8dfxG3E

Resident Evil
https://imgur.com/a/ZURoQlw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8LhE2_ybXs

Silent Hill
https://imgur.com/a/UoUajJV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wz3ufaZCoVw

Taylor Swift - Folklore photoshoot
https://imgur.com/a/csyrM5W
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd77fVLq4O0

Tell me if any of these are too spooky for you! Honestly I might go into one of the games' for each series and just grab a quick 5 minutes of footage I want to show because none of the videos I can find are really quite doing it for me.

Games wise, it's pretty much on par with how other generations started - first year is always slow with 1 or 2 big games to showcase a console's power, second year opens a bit more, and next year will open up even more. I think the difference is this time there's more of a focus on continuing to synergize with last-gen. Almost every big exclusive is still available on last gen. There's just less of a reason to buy new consoles right now, not to mention them being more difficult to obtain than previous generations as well.

Wheatley
Venkman

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/5/1/AAR-tQAADwtf.jpg

Gravity Falls
Pinky and the Brain
SPYxFAMILY
Primal

Great_Paul posted...

The Zodiac Killer

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/2/3/AAR-tQAADwmz.jpg
(10/10/1 = 21)

The Zodiac Killer is a mystery that has haunted the Bay Area and beyond now for more than 50 years now, beginning in 1968, when David Faraday & Betty Lou Jensen were shot and killed in the city of Benicia. No one was ever officially caught for the murders, but a series of cryptic clues were left behind and over the years these have been investigated every which way, to no real avail, besides one cipher finally being solved in 2020.

Do I know all the ins and outs of the whole case? No, I do not. What I do know though is that this mysterious series of murders remains of great fascination to the world at large, as what always seems to be the case with these cases. Eventually, the Zodiac Killer has become so far-removed from their original origins that they might as well not even exist at all. They become these strange integral figures of pop culture, whether through TV shows like American Horror Story, films that straight adapt the events like David Fincher's excellent Zodiac or are just inspired by it like Exorcist III, or other varied sources of media from songs to video games. The legend and mythology only grows, while we remain no closer to uncovering their true identity. And maybe deep down we don't want to know... content in a wallowing of semi-indifference so people can continue to be drawn in by it all.

I admit I approach these kind of mysterious and twisted people with a certain degree of morbid curiosity myself. They are cast as real-life supervillains, with their own inscrutable mystique, their own motivations that only seem to make sense in the most circumstantial way. They might have mysterious codes, cryptic clues or bizarre quotes left behind for us to obsess over, like the ones we have with the Zodiac Killer. I can see why someone would want to look deeper, to understand their character, to try and root out their reason for the crimes. But then again, it's always difficult to find the line between character and their actual real-life psyche, with them ultimately being nothing but the scariest people of us all. Someone who can kill and disappear with nothing but silence to show for it, and I find that endlessly terrifying.

Fantasy

Satan (Haxan)