What do you think about the emerging 'Analog Horror' genre? Why do zoomers find empty hallways and scan lines so frightening?
What do you think about the emerging 'Analog Horror' genre?
What do you think about the emerging 'Analog Horror' genre? Why do zoomers find empty hallways and scan lines so frightening?
they dont, its a made up meme on Cinemaphile. go talk to a zoomer in the real world on what they think of liminal spaces and analog horror and they literally wont know what youre talking about
stop posting anytime
> go talk to a zoomer
no
these are the backroom fans
AAAARGH NOOOO AAAAAAGRHRRHRH IM DEADING RIGHT NOW
It started on places like /x/ and tumblr over 10 years ago, you're moronic.
How would I know? The metrics on population response to this stuff are not public facing.
Those who know aren't saying, but it's clearly hot as lava right now.
You know that feeling you get or used to get when you're in your place alone at night walking down a hallway to your room and the lights are off? You feel anxious and try to hurry into your room or your bed because it's now dark and you're being chased by imaginary boogeymen that you know don't really exist, but still the 0.000000001% chance that there could be one gets you. That's just a feeling of lacking confidence in your presence within a place & as well your own physical ability. While most of these are just stupid cheap memes, I think that they can find an attraction to it from how they feel about awkward or new places in general. Their generation is the most sensitive & incapable after all.
>You know that feeling you get or used to get when you're in your place alone at night walking down a hallway to your room and the lights are off?
No I don’t know that.
Your penis? huge
yeah i've been walking around my house in the dark for like 4 years now.
once i heard an unknown creak at 11pm and realized someone had finally moved into the flat upstairs and went to greet them
>You feel anxious and try to hurry into your room or your bed because it's now dark
How... how old are you, anon?
14 1/2 y
no cap no fr fr no bussin, you're just a perpetual child
Looks like its kinda done now i just saw a techno dance off in the back rooms video.
this kills the /x/ poster
HOW is this scary?
THIS WAS THE UPSTAIRS FLOOR OF EVERY MALL IN THE 90'S.
I was never allowed up in those floors 🙁
Gemini home entertainment is certified kino and unique. It stuck with me. I think about it lot.
>Analog Horror' genre
Isn't this a separate genre from the concept of "liminal spaces"? Analog Horror is more like Local58
i find stuff like the Local 58 videos creepy cuz the EAS sound scares me for some reason. I cannot change the channel fast enough when one of those tests comes on
>Why do zoomers find empty hallways and scan lines so frightening?
because nothing explodes, there is no disney/marvel logo and there are no homosexuals in spandex
AAAAAARH LOOK AT THIS AAAAAA I'M LITERALLY GOING INSANE FROM FEAR FR FR FR
Analogue horror or just found footage as non morons call it.
>"B-BUT IT'S A SUB GENRE OF FOUND FOOTAGE"
Just frick off.
It is a subgenre though
No, I'd hazard a guess and say it was a moron who didn't realise what they'd made was called found footage and so coined the phrase "analog horror" because they used VHS effects. It's just found footage. It's existed since like 1960 and in the 90s the VHS effect was just the norm.
>Emerging
It's been around for 4-5 years, zoomers realized it existed last year, and already ran it into the ground.
It's already dead.
Imagine the life of a Zoomer, they have been surrounded by connectivity, the internet, smartphones, social media.
There is not a moment a Zoomer has been alone, in their own head.
Now imagine a world where that same mindset has to contemplate being alone.
No one telling them what to do, what to think, reacting to what they said.
The horror comes from the silence.
To those of us older silence is peace, but to a Zoomer silence is torture.
also they've only seen scanlines and vhs artifacts in movies or tv. and its only used for security cam footage or creepy shit like The Ring or snuff footage
Zoomers grew up on VHSes.
the first zoomers were born in 1997. dvd was mainstream in 2000
this is just wrong lmao. Zoomers dont shit their pants going on lonely walks on the beach or solo hiking. Plenty of older movies evoke the same sense of dread of empty templated buildings. Like look at every apocalypse/zombie movie ever. The protag walks through a empty hospital, parking garage, subway, etc and there's tension even if there's no immediate threat. It's strange seeing those settings empty and that makes people uneasy.
It's also what The Shining, an actual boomer movie, was famous for. The Overlook Hotel is one big liminal space, which is what makes the full-on scares like the dead girls scarier.
People didn't stop using VHSes until like 2008.
>People didn't stop using VHSes until like 2008.
i'm not saying no one ever watched a vhs tape ever after the year 2000, but blockbuster stopped carrying them in 2005, the last major movie to come out on vhs was 2006. those types of things happen as a response to the market not being interested
No, the overlook hotel is not a liminel space. It's just a paradoxically made set (doors and windows to no where) to cause unease in the viewer. The reason why the back rooms is a liminel space is because it's literally outside of reality, and in-between place or a "liminel space". As much as 2021 Wikipedia edits might try and have you believe, a corridor is not a liminel space.
>liminel
I w-was using the Latin spelling haha
That's a very modern interpretation based on the new definition or you could say application of the term "liminal space". No point in me pissing and shitting about it though, language evolves I GUESS.
The Overlook Hotel is also implied to be "outside of reality" due to the nonsensical architecture like you said. The movie is a lot more ambiguous than the book, but it's not an invalid interpretation to assume that the Overlook Hotel has something paranormal about it, regardless of whether you believe the ghosts are real or just a figment of the characters' imaginations.
>Zoomers don't shit their pants going on lonely walks on the beach or solo hiking.
They're not alone, they have their smartphone with them. They are always connected, never truly alone.
I have lost count of the number of people who have started to shit themselves they can't charge their smartphone, the battery is dying. They can't handle the thought of being out of reach for even a few minutes.
That's also a millennial thing though. Gen X is the last generation that hasn't been completely brainwashed by iPhones and social media.
millenials didn't have earpods in 24/7 constantly manipulating the level of discomfort they're in.
>lonely?
plug in friend simulator podcasts w/ laughter
>bored?
spotify playslist "music to excite the whites"
>incessant droning sounds in airports/govt offices?
turn on noise cancellation
zoomers genuinely don't experience silence and random noises unless they want to experience it
>camera always turns off right when the creature catches it's victim
Frick off.
backrooms are gay, being chased by a monster ruins the mystique and horror of the situation. old video effects and scanlines and low quality audio isnt inherently scary but can be used to mask whatever is intended to be scary so you don’t ‘see through the cracks’ so to speak. it isnt rocket surgery.
the monster is the only scary part of the backrooms. Liminal spaces aren't scary on their own, it's the unnerving silence that suggests you may not be alone that is.
On one hand i think only tiny glimpses of motion in the corner of the frame would've been good for build-up, but the monster needed to be shown as a threat sooner or later or the tension would be lost.
I think something like this is better since it's unclear if the monster is actually hostile
it's because the feeling of analog is sort of alien
remember these kids grew up with dvd at minimum so they never experienced watching a shitty, beat up vhs tape or listened to a fricked up casette
so there's a level of unfamiliarity there which lends well to horror because they arent familiar with it
Yeah, as someone who grew up with analog I get this feeling from distorted black and white videos from the late 19th and early 20th century. The distorted vocals really make me feel like I'm "listening to the dead" or something.
distorted audio*
>mom I puked
I think examples like the backrooms is fantastic. It helps bridge the gap between modern 3d modeling/animation programs and amateur film. I guarantee the backrooms would look like a janky student project or gmod animation if the creator didn't go heavy handed with the camcorder appearance.
Its the same reason I like found footage so much, it leaves a lot more to imagination and lets low budget productions seem much higher budget. It's a perfect fit for the horror genre
If a 16-year-old kid can make kino like that with Blender, what's stopping Cinemaphile?
>kino
Yeah, no.
>says the autistic shutin that has never created anything with more than 5 likes from his autistic highschool friends
the people have spoken, it's kino
That's some major projecting. Is that how you really feel about yourself, huh.
I didn't know the Backrooms lore was so expansive
Reminds them that the world was around before they were born and they aren't the center of it
Why do children like this shit so much
I don't think children care about this stuff. This feels like more of a teenager/young adult thing to me.
>what if the CIA murderers were a heckin mini giantess booba mommy
That ps1 pet shop or whatever it was called fake game/ lets play was a pretty cool concept but these zoomer ones are just laughable.
>emerging
this shit was old in 2020, just people with cabin fever from covid isolation overhyping it.
OH NO THE ROOMS GO ON FOREVER AND SOMETHING CHASING - ok so just keep running then? lol
still not scary