Post by SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman on Jul 23, 2019 12:47:39 GMT -5
Has anyone else around watched this? I'm surprised I don't see people discuss it more often considering the vids all have about 500k views or more and one of them nearly has 1 million views. I discovered it fairly recently myself thanks to a Film Theorists episode about it and I've enjoyed it a lot. For those who haven't watched them yet, you can find them here: www.youtube.com/channel/UCuoMasRkMhlj1VNVAOJdw5w/videos. It's a quick watch, about 20 minutes for the entire series. As you may have guessed from that, the videos are very short (the longest one barely breaks 5 minutes) and they are short horror vignettes, but the idea is that they are broadcast from the titular local TV station. It seems to be implied that the station's broadcast is supposed to be normal, but something has started messing with it, sending frantic help messages, or on the contrary more threatening ones, as well as footage that seems to exist solely to freak out the audience.
This is exactly my type of horror as it is all about atmosphere. No jump scare bullshit here, just incredible tension and terrifying implications. There does appear to be an overarching narrative once you put all the videos together since for as short as these videos are, there are quite a few recurring elements, and I love that it's the kind of stuff that's already unsettling on its own, but becomes even scarier once you start thinking of the big picture. A second season is supposedly in the works but I'm not 100% sure about that.
For those of you who have seen it, what do you think of it? Can you make sense of these videos? And more importantly, where can I find more stuff like that? I really love this kind of stuff with very strong lore and ambience, where you don't know exactly what's going on, but you know just enough to feel like there are extremely powerful and malevolent forces at work, and that THEY know what's going on and are way ahead of you as result, which make sit all the more terrifying. I'll also admit I'm a sucker for anything involving strange broadcasts and behaving in ways it shouldn't.
This is exactly my type of horror as it is all about atmosphere. No jump scare bullshit here, just incredible tension and terrifying implications. There does appear to be an overarching narrative once you put all the videos together since for as short as these videos are, there are quite a few recurring elements, and I love that it's the kind of stuff that's already unsettling on its own, but becomes even scarier once you start thinking of the big picture. A second season is supposedly in the works but I'm not 100% sure about that.
For those of you who have seen it, what do you think of it? Can you make sense of these videos? And more importantly, where can I find more stuff like that? I really love this kind of stuff with very strong lore and ambience, where you don't know exactly what's going on, but you know just enough to feel like there are extremely powerful and malevolent forces at work, and that THEY know what's going on and are way ahead of you as result, which make sit all the more terrifying. I'll also admit I'm a sucker for anything involving strange broadcasts and behaving in ways it shouldn't.
