Analog horror

Subgenre of horror fiction

Concept for an Indonesian national warning system. Originally made as analog horror, it became widely used as a pro-democracy symbol during the 2024 Indonesian local election law protests.[1][2]

Analog horror is a subgenre of horror fiction and an offshoot of the found footage film genre,[3][4][5] said to have its origins in online horror of the late 2000s and early 2010s, including creepypasta stories[6] such as The Backrooms and found footage series such as No Through Road, and Marble Hornets.[5][4][7][8] The genre gained more widespread popularity with the release of Kris Straub's Local 58 in October 2015, with the series' slogan ("ANALOG HORROR AT 476 MHz") providing the genre's name.[4][7]

## Characteristics

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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.[4][9][10][11] 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.[4][9] 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.[12][13] 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.[4][9][14]

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.[4][15] 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.[4] 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.[16]

Analog horror may also be influenced by horror films such as The Ring (1998), The Blair Witch Project (1999) and Paranormal Activity (2007).[4][17][18] David Lynch's Inland Empire and the musical subgenre vaporwave heavily influenced Petscop,[19][20][21] a web series rooted in analog horror.[22][23]

## History and legacy

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Analog horror could be regarded as a form or descendant of creepypasta legends.[6] 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.[24]

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) (in other words, "analog horror" before analog horror).[25][26]

The subgenre is typically cited as originating between the late 2000s and the mid-2010s Internet (mainly with YouTube) videos,[7][4] specifically from Steven Chamberlain's No Through Road in January 2009,[5] 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.[4][7] Local 58, which quickly became successful, inspired later works such as The Mandela Catalogue and The Walten Files.[4][8] 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.[10][27] Despite its positive reception, the show was canceled after airing only one season.[28][29]

Marble Hornets had a film set in the same setting release in 2015, which was negatively received.[30][31] A film adaptation for The Backrooms was announced to be in production in 2023, with Kane Parsons set to direct it.[32]

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 in support of pro-democracy movements in Indonesia.[2] 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.[1][2] Many pro-democracy activists, including public and political figures, adopted and shared the short video and its screenshots across social media platforms.[33] The image was reused in the 2025 Indonesian protests with the blue replaced with black to signify greater urgency.[34]

## Notable examples

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### No Through Road

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Main article: 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.[35] Other plot aspects include all footage of the events being stolen from MI6 and uploaded online to YouTube.[5]

Composed of four shorts,[36] No Through Road has attained a cult following,[19] and is considered a foundational work of the analog horror genre.[5][37][38]

### Marble Hornets

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Main article: Marble Hornets

Marble Hornets is an alternate reality game YouTube series created in 2009, based on the Slender Man creepypasta.[39] 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.[39][40] 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.[41] The web series was met with mostly positive reviews from critics, like Roger Ebert, and fans.[42][43]

Marble Hornets had a spinoff film released in 2015 called Always Watching: A Marble Hornets Story, which was negatively received,[31] with reviewers remarking that the series did not translate well onto the big screen, from both a storytelling and technical standpoint.[44][30][45]

### Kraina Grzybów

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Main article: Kraina Grzybów TV

Kraina Grzybów is a Polish YouTube web-series created by Wiktor Stribog.[46] The series tells the story of a mysterious pirate broadcast show hosted by a girl named Agatka and her squirrel friend, Małgosia.[47] Kraina Grzybów is made in the aesthetic of old Polish TV shows from the communist era.[48]

### Local 58

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Main article: 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)[49] Local 58's first video "Weather Service" was published in 2015 as a stand-alone short[50] 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.[7][51][52][50][53] Additionally, the series is responsible for naming the genre through its slogan, "ANALOG HORROR AT 476 MHz".[49]

### The Walten Files

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Inspired by the Five Nights at Freddy's franchise, the Chile-based[54] animated series created by Martin Walls, involves a set of videotapes from Bunny Smiles Company, the defunct company behind the restaurant Bon's Burgers featuring Chuck E. Cheese-like animatronics alongside the series's main character, Sophie Walten, and her family, who disappeared after a series of unfortunate events, directly and indirectly caused by the Mr. Walten's closed friend, Felix Kranken.[49][23]

### This House Has People in It

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Main article: This House Has People in It

This House Has People in It, directed by comedian Alan Resnick for Adult Swim and inspired by The Blair Witch Project, involves surveillance footage of a suburban family and their teenage daughter lying on the kitchen floor while their son is having his birthday party.[49][23][11]

### Archive 81

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Main article: 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.[55] 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.[55][56] 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.[55][57] The podcast was adapted into a Netflix Original series, having released in 2016.[58] The Netflix series was cancelled after one season.[29]

### Gemini Home Entertainment

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Main article: Gemini Home Entertainment

Gemini Home Entertainment is a horror anthology series by Remy Abode that was initially released in 2019.[49] 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"[59] in the series is heavily inspired by the Native American mythologies of skinwalkers and the wendigo.[60][61]

### Eventide Media Center

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Eventide Media Center is a horror anthology series created by Aidan Chick in 2020.[62] 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[23] 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".[63]

### The Mandela Catalogue

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Main article: The Mandela Catalogue

The Mandela Catalogue is a YouTube series created by twenty-year-old Alex Kister[23] of Hubertus, Wisconsin in 2021. It is set in the fictional Mandela County, Wisconsin in the 1990s and 2000s,[64][65][59] which is threatened by the presence of "alternates", doppelgängers who coerce their victims to kill themselves and can manipulate audiovisual media.[51] 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.[66][15] Composed of fourteen shorts,[67] The Mandela Catalogue became popular online through analysis and reaction videos.[68][61]

### The Monument Mythos

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Main article: The Monument Mythos

The Monument Mythos is a YouTube web-series set in different alternate history versions of the United States.[49][69] The premises include James Dean serving as president having won the 1968 United States presidential election instead of Richard Nixon,[70] an alternate origin of the Statue of Freedom,[71] 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,[72] time travel/teleportation, a strange astronomical phenomena above the Pyramids of Giza,[73] and a mysterious infection affecting individuals near Mount Rushmore.[23][49][74][75][76][61]

### Backrooms

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Main article: 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.[23][53] It is based on the creepypasta of the same name, using the software Blender and Adobe After Effects,[8][10][77][78] 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.[32][79] This was later expanded into a series of sixteen shorts, following the employees of a company investigating the Backrooms.[80] Parsons received a Creator Honors for the series at the 2022 Streamy Awards from The Game Theorists.[81]

After receiving positive reviews from critics,[82][83][84] 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.[61] 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.[32][80][85][86]

Pixels also created his follow up The Oldest View, this time involving a sculpture known as The Rolling Giant chasing after a man recording himself in an abandoned mall.[49][23]

### Skinamarink

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Main article: Skinamarink

Written and directed by Kyle Edward Ball, Skinamarink is a supernatural horror film that debuted at the 2022 Fantasia Film Festival.[87] 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.[88] 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.[87][89] 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.[87] 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.[89] 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.[12][89]

### Angel Hare

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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.[49][90][91][23][92]

### Midwest Angelica

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An cosmic horror analog series created by Team AQ (revealed to be Eventide Media Center creator Aidan Chick and Minerva Alliance creator Quarks and Rec on July 3 and 9, 2025 respectively) depicts 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.[23][61][49]

### Late Night with the Devil

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Main article: Late Night with the Devil

A theatrically released example of this genre is the 2023 horror film Late Night with the Devil about a Halloween-themed episode of a late 1970s late-night talk show, a desperate attempt to boost ratings, gone wrong.[93][94][65][95]

### Other notable examples

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* Welcome Home, a webseries created by Clown Illustration, about an anonymous team of individuals and their attempt to restore a long lost Muppet-inspired 70s kids' puppet show featuring eight puppets and a sentient house that may lurk something sinister.[96][97][98][99]
* Winter of 83, created by Lewis Lovhaug of Channel Awesome fame, involving the disappearance of an entire population of a small town in the winter of 1983 through a collection of video and audio tapes.[49]
* 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.[49]
* Frogman, 12 year-old Dallas Kyle, who encountered and captured video footage of a mythical creature, decides to go back to the place where said creature lives to prove that his footage is legit.[65]
* 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.[65]
* Woodlands National Park and Mystery Flesh Pit National Park, each involving shady histories of said national parks.[49]
* Hi I'm Mary Mary, about a woman trapped inside her parents' home with only a camera, replenished supply of food and without any exit being stalked by shadowy figures including a masked woman.[49][23]
* The aforementioned Petscop, a video gamer named Paul and his "Let's Play" of a Pokemon-esque game where the player tries to catch creatures known as "pets" yet when inputting a cheat code finds a dark side to said game involving a murderer that greatly in effected the game's creator.[23][100]
* Surreal Broadcast, a collection of TV programs from different years including one involving an animal bite incident from 1989.[49][23]
* Valle Verde, another video game-based analog horror 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.[49]
* The McKinney Family Home Videos, a 68-minute feature created by Molly and Nick Cotrufo, in which a father's collection of recorded home videos of important family moments documenting a dark force lurking within.[101][102][103]
* Vita Carnis, a Canadian mixed media project describing the rise of a branchlike, fleshy organism known as the Crawl that first appeared in 1931.[49]
* Blue_Channel, a fictional TV channel featuring a commercial for a new drug called Thalasin to those who have gone into emotional degradation wanting to experience regular emotions.[59][49][23]
* CH/SS, said to be the first analog horror, is a Cold War-inspired series of 1980s government-sponsored instructional videos for a mental health organization hinting episonage and supernatural forces in obscure Russian dialogue.[49][23]
* The aforementioned 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.[49][23]
* Super Mario 64: CLASSIFIED involves video recordings of a broken demo of said Nintendo 64 game.[49]
* Somnium DreamViewer, a product created by Somnium Technologies in the 1980s that allowed users to print images of their dreams yet have extremely violent nightmares.[49][23][104]
* Final Transmissions, created by husband and wife duo Steven Hugh and Erica Nelson alongside artwork by Trevor Henderson, involves a '90s small town Illinois TV host airing disturbingly strange and terrifying signals claiming to be from unknown sources.[105]
* Minerva Alliance, a dedicated investigator unraveling a mystery involving a disturbing set of videotapes created by a non-profit group.[49][23]

## See also

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

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* CH/SS: The First Analog Horror Series
* A Look Into The Eventide Media Center
* The History of Analog Horror