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Analog horror is a subgenre of horror fiction based around the aesthetic incorporation of elements related to analog electronics, such as analog television and VHS (Video Home System).[1][2][3] It is typically 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.[1][2]

List of notable analog horror media

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Title Year Creator Description Notes References
Archive 81 2016
  • Dan Powell
  • Marc Sollinger
 Horror podcast centered on an archivist named Dan, who is told by his new boss to constantly record his life. Dan's friend Marc listens to the recordings of Dan doing his job after Dan goes missing in hopes of learning what happened to him.

Adapted into a Netflix Original series, which ran for one season in 2016

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Amanda the Adventurer Horror game series featuring analog horror elements
Angel Hare East Patch Productions
  • (Hannah Mangan and
  • Rachel Mangan)
 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 (supposedly his father). [7][8][9]
Backrooms 2022 Kane Parsons
(as Kane Pixels) 		YouTube series which began with the horror short The Backrooms (Found Footage). Based on the creepypasta of the same name, the short is presented as a VHS tape recorded by a filmmaker who accidentally enters the Backrooms in the 1990s and is pursued by a monster. This was later expanded into a series of sixteen shorts, following the employees of a company investigating the Backrooms.

In 2023, A24 announced a film adaptation of the Backrooms based on Parsons' videos.

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Ben Drowned One of the earliest examples of video game-related analog horror involving video footage of a cursed copy of Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. [13]
Blue_Channel YouTube series about a fictional TV channel that aired a commercial for a new drug called "Thalasin" that allows the user to artificially feel emotions. [14]
CH/SS Cold War-inspired series of 1980s government-sponsored instructional videos for a mental health organization, with hints at espionage and supernatural forces through obscure Russian dialogue. [13]
Dog Nightmares A young woman looking for her lost dog only to rediscovered a dog-man hybrid she knew from her childhood years told thru her old drawings, photographs, video footage and excerpts from Sesame Street featuring skits created by artist William Wegman featuring his pet weimaraners. [13]
Eventide Media Center 2020 Aidan Chick Horror anthology series framed as the "local collection" of a public library in the fictional town of Eventide Valley, Massachusetts. Each episode focuses on a different event or monster that inhabits Eventide Valley or other fictional towns in the state. [15][16]
Frogman 12 year-old Dallas Kyle, who encountered and captured video footage of a mythical creature, returns to where the creature lives to prove that his footage is legitimate. [17]
Final Transmissions
  • Steven Hugh
  • Erica Nelson
  • Trevor Henderson
 A '90s small town Illinois TV host airs disturbingly strange and terrifying signals claiming to be from unknown sources. [18]
Gemini Home Entertainment 2019 Remy Abode Horror anthology centered on 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. [14][19][20]
Hi I'm Mary Mary YouTube series about a woman trapped inside her parents' home without any exit, with only a camera and replenishing supply of food, and while being stalked by shadowy figures including a masked woman.
Kraina Grzybów TV Wiktor Stribog A Polish YouTube series about a mysterious pirate broadcast show hosted by a girl named Agatka and her squirrel friend, Małgosia. Kraina Grzybów is made in the aesthetic of old Polish TV shows from the communist era. [21][22]
Late Night with the Devil 2024 Colin and Cameron Cairnes A Halloween-themed episode of a 1970s late night talk show, a desperate attempt to boost ratings, gone horribly wrong. Winner of the Best Independent Film Award at the 52nd Saturn Awards[23] [24][25]
Local 58 2015 Kris Straub YouTube series 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 and then added to the dedicated YouTube channel when it was established in 2017. Frequently credited with creating and/or popularizing analog horror. [26][27][28]
Marble Hornets 2009
  • Joseph DeLage
  • Troy Wagner
 Alternate reality game YouTube series based on the Slender Man creepypasta. 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. 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. A spinoff film, Always Watching: A Marble Hornets Story, released in 2015 to largely negatively reception. [29][30][31]
The Mandela Catalogue 2021 Alex Kister YouTube series set in the fictional Mandela County, Wisconsin, 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 animated series The Beginners Bible. The series became popular online through analysis and reaction videos. [32][33][34]
The Man in the Suit 2023 Unknowingly YouTube series about a fictional incident that occurred while filming the first Godzilla film in 1954. The man who plays Godzilla essentially fuses into the rubber suit, and over the course of the next few films, would cause the same thing to happen to the actors of Anguirus, Mothra, and King Ghidorah, along with killing the actor of King Kong along with a few other people. [13]
The McKinney Family Home Videos
  • Molly Cotrufo
  • Nick Cotrufo
 A 68-minute feature in which a father's collection of home videos of important family moments document a dark force lurking within. [35][36][37]
Midwest Angelica 2022 Team AQ
  • (Aidan Chick and
  • Quarks and Rec)
 A cosmic horror YouTube series depicting the work of a NASA organization known as HOME (Division of Heavenly Operations and Material Examination) chronicling their discovery of an alien corpse codenamed "AZ-001" that crashes into Midwest America (mainly Nebraska) in January 1999. AZ-001 begins infecting the surrounding fauna and proves itself to be a threat to the United States. The series takes heavy inspiration from the anime Neon Genesis Evangelion and biblical stories. [38][15][20]
Minerva Alliance A series of tapes depicting anomalous phenomena collected by the titular non-profit. [13]
The Monument Mythos A YouTube web-series set in different alternate history versions of the United States. The premises include James Dean serving as president having won the 1968 United States presidential election instead of Richard Nixon, an alternate origin of the Statue of Freedom, 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, time travel/teleportation, a strange astronomical phenomena above the Pyramids of Giza, and a mysterious infection affecting individuals near Mount Rushmore. [39][40][41]
Mystery Flesh Pit National Park Trevor Roberts A horror project set in an alternate timeline where in Gumption, Texas where a massive opening in the Earth of flesh and blood was found. The open was that of a superorganism which would eventually be explored to find that the inside of the superorganism stretched for miles and was so massive it had its own ecosystem. Where humans harvested the unique minerals in this superorganism to make advances it technology where it would eventually be made into a National Park, where you could venture into the body of this being. [13]
No Through Road 2009 Steven Chamberlain YouTube series 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. Other plot aspects include all footage of the events being stolen from MI6 and uploaded online to YouTube. [42][43][44]
The Painter 2022 UrbanSPOOK YouTube series about a serial killer who creates paintings of each of their victims, who are tortured and disfigured in unique ways. It has been criticized for its graphic content. [45]
Petscop A "Let's Play" of a Pokemon-esque game where inputting a cheat code reveals a dark side to said game, involving a murder that greatly affected the game's creator. [46]
Skinamarink 2022 Kyle Edward Ball Supernatural horror film which 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. 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. 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. [47]
The Walten Files Martin Walls YouTube series inspired by the Five Nights at Freddy's franchise, which involves a set of videotapes. The tapes follow Bunny Smiles Incorporated, the defunct company behind the restaurant Bon's Burgers, which features Chuck E. Cheese-like animatronics, and the companies' two founders, Felix Kranken and Jack Walten, and their families. [13][48][15]
Welcome Home Clown Illustration Webseries about an anonymous team of individuals and their attempt to restore a long-lost Muppet-inspired 1970s kids' puppet show featuring eight puppets and a sentient house that may have something sinister lurking behind the scenes. [49][50][51]
Winter of 83 Lewis Lovhaug YouTube series about the disappearance of an entire population of a small town in the winter of 1983 through a collection of video and audio tapes. [13]
White Stag Education A series of educational video recordings from New Jersey involving masked "strangers" stalking hikers in the Pine Barrens and a biblical entity known as The Adversary. [17]
Woodlands National Park [13]
Somnium Dream Viewer YouTube series about the fictional Somnium Technologies, who created a product in the 1980s that allowed users to print images of their dreams and caused extremely violent nightmares. [13][52]
Surreal Broadcast A collection of TV programs from different years in the small town of Berksaut, Maine, including one involving an animal bite incident from 1989. [13]
Super Mario 64: CLASSIFIED Involves video recordings of a broken demo of said Nintendo 64 game. [13]
This House Has People in It Alan Resnick Television feature created for Adult Swim and inspired by The Blair Witch Project, which consists of surveillance footage of a suburban family during their son's birthday party. [13][15][53]
Valle Verde Video game involving a VHS recording of a PlayStation 1 Animal Crossing-esque title where its on-screen avatar is treated with distorted imagery of children, references to "unstable patients" and disturbing realms edging between the divine and demonic. [13]
Vita Carnis Darian Quillory Canadian mixed media project describing the rise of a branchlike, fleshy organism known as the Crawl, which first appeared in 1931. The Crawl grows these fleshy bulbs that fall off and that can become one of the following creatures: Trimmings, Meat Snakes, Mimics, Harvesters, and Hosts of Influence. These creatures are a part of the Carnis Family which also includes Monoliths and singularities which only 7 of each exist. [13][54]
WNUF Halloween Special 2013 Chris LaMartina A 1980s television personality that decides to investigate strange supernatural occurrences at a house purported to be haunted. [55][24]

See also

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References

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