Like the man said, "Learn to live a little." That being said I will absolutely keep that in mind sir. Also my girlfriend is a legend in wild hiking. So I'm in good hand.
Still casting my vote on a future video about the different Cryptids from CoD Ghosts and one about the capillary worm parasites/strigoi vampires from The Strain.
People have been suggesting The Strain for ages and he hasn't done it yet. I wish he would. But it would be a lot of works watching 4 seasons (or how ever many it was). Epic show though.
A CoD zombies lore could be pretty sweet! Not sure if there’s much to it, but I’m sure RG could make just about any YT video about any movie or game and I would watch it still 😆
I mean, how original do people want it to be. The base is spooky forest monster, a ladle of cabin in the woods setup, a seasoning of interpersonal conflict among the cast, and a pinch of "oh its actually smart" to give it that extra spice.
4:00 just a little piece of advice for anyone who doesn't already know this. If you have an emergency but your phone is reading out as having no signal try dialing whatever your country's emergency number is. In most countries if there is a signal from any provider it will carry over an emergency call even if you aren't covered by them. An example for this is as a US citizen I'm going to use my country as an example. If I was out somewhere and had an emergency and I needed to dial 911 (which is the US's emergency number) just because Verizon doesn't have coverage in that area doesn't mean T-Mobile doesn't. If they did though and I were to dial that emergency number my Verizon phone would still send my emergency call over that other provider's signal.
I thought this was common knowledge that 911 works even if you're in roaming and phones also can still dial 911 even if the screen is locked (also as long as it has a dial tone land lines can dial 911 even if you have no service on that line.) However this assumes that you even have a signal at all, seeing no signal doesn't mean that you're out of your coverage area (that would be roaming) it means you're out of range of a cell tower period.
@@giulianogonklubek5902 A grizzly can withstand 50 caliber shots, but every bear smaller, can't. And Black bears, you should be able to intimidate, as they really don't like confrontations.
What I think is interesting too about its skull/jaw shape, is it looks very similar to a rodents. Rodents do have a good pair of chompers (and I agree it's probably a chimera experiment), if perhaps rodent genes were a big factor, along with human and maybe something reptilian (arm spikes), that could also change the teeth from the natural square shape to the more predator like points. Rats also have the same digitigrade leg structure, can stand on two legs or four, and have lil hands similar to humans. Defiantly a cool design for a monster
As soon as I saw the critters I thought that it was like the critters from the movie Feast but played more realistic than well, the face humping newborn giant dong having hilarity of that movie.
Or maybe like frog DNA instead of reptile, because one kind of frog breaks its own bone to make defensive spikes and rats and other rodents can stand on they're back legs and with the frog DNA (if I'm right) it would have long-ish legs and with its rodent DNA it would have the slight bipedalism. And also rats can get crazy aggressive I've seen a video where a person who owns chickens say a rat or rats have been killing his chickens, giving the animals aggressive predatory nature
My first thought was that this thing kinda reminds me of the Nosalis from the Metro series. Nosalis are of course moles or shrews mutated with aid of the high radiation (and maybe experimental superweapons) in Moscow. As this doesn't seem to be present my guess is they were moles or shrews altered by some kind of experiment, maybe something akin to the forced evolutionary virus (FEV) from the Fallout series
Him saying I wouldn’t be able to guess who survives messed me up, him saying that made me think a guy would actually be a soul survivor. I saw enough horror movies to know, if you’re a new girlfriend, and you’re in a group, you’re either the first to go or you’re a survivor.
I really love how this monster has so much restraint and cunning in its characterization like a real predator, kind of like wolves or chimps. Things like the alien or future predator they say as being intelligent as much as its armed to the teeth, but they are always hyper aggressive to prey and or are savage against one another without emotional attachment that humans can take advantage of. Not so here. She only escapes cause they have reasonable limits and know when to quit hunting.
the aliens do have a sense of survival of the hive since if they see a threat to the future generation they halt their aggression like in the scene in aliens when ripley gets to the eggs they all halted until she started burning everything but yeah i see what your saying
@@mr.nobody2191 yep when they eventually retreated before the sentry guns ran out of ammo and later on cut the power before breaching in through the suspended ceiling.
1) Never ignore signage. 2) This was likely an engineered Chimera, but I must ask the question. If this is the case, why hasn't anyone brought in the heavy armor to basically plow down the area? We know the rule in sci-fi/contagion/zombie/creature flicks, things always escape containment.
From what I can tell there are two reasons: 1) they escaped recent-ish and the military are planing to kill them but the first squad or whatever they sent got killed and the movie just takes place between attempt 1 and 2 Or 2) the forest is the experiment testing ground
@@michealfoster4411 number one seems more fitting since we saw the militar backpack but once again I might be wrong is really common amongst vet to take their bags home
@@brauliohernandez3724 Considering that its likely a military creation I think that its more likely they got got then a solider happened to be wandering the area at that exact time. Though as in the video it is stated to be close to a base so it could happen.
I want a director to make a horror movie entirely around the idea that the characters make all the right decisions and have good plans and teamwork. They don’t even have to survive, they just can’t make any dumb calls. It’s honestly untapped potential for an original experience.
@@issaicx investigating an alien corpse up close with lunch lady grade gloves. and before that thawing an alien corpse to inspect it in the first place.
As far as the marine pack if it was an actual Marine unit deployed odds are the backpack would’ve had more than just flares it would’ve carried spare munitions etc. and maybe even a few grenades considering how liberally the Marines combat doctrine is I think it’s at least from a logical standpoint with what it had a marine going on a hike and got absolutely shredded when getting tackled by the creature/s and as far as the patch on his backpack that labeled it as a marine’s pack, they are very proud of their service I’ve met Marines that haven’t been in for over 10 years that still do stuff like put marine stickers on their cars clothing laptops etc.
This is my line of thinking. Not much in the pack screams combat op. My money is on it was just a vet out on a hike and became a snack. Personally I do the same thing when I go hiking or on a trip. I throw my marine or unit patch on my pack just for easy identification.
Came here to comment this. Your assault pack is basically an extension of your chest kit. It'd have extra water, MREs, ammo, pyro, maps, chem lights, cleaning kits, etc. No one wears patches on their pack like that, it's either subdued flag patches or moral patches like "ouch pouch" or "dependa survivalist."
@@kylegoodwin8673 That’s what I was thinking it slipped my mind about the fact that it had an easy identifiable patch on it but thank you for pointing that out
I can still remember that this was my first ever monster horror movie that I watched alone when I was like 8. I had nightmares for over 2 months and developed a phobia for big dogs for some reason too. Either way it was a great movie and a great monster.
@@Nob911 Yes uncle. What is it? Is it wrong to comment on the internet if you are 15. You should be proud me watching these kinds of videos instead of cringe tiktoks. Anyway have a good day.
One of my favorite movie moments is the Brendan Fraser Mummy movie, when Rick O'Connell sees the mummy walking around for the first time. Imhotep roars to scare him. Rick roars right back at him and blasts him in the belly with his shotgun and runs. These folks should have gone full Rick O'Connell on the creature and fought it. Hell hath no fury like a scared human in full level 10 "kill the thing" mode. You got boards. You got hammers. You got nails. Make a spikey nail board and kill it. Kill it a lot. Beat the thing into the floorboards till there's nothing left of it but chunky salsa. Then beat it some more. Kill the hell out of it. Go to war. Make weapons and show it how we got to be on top of the food chain. And as for the army dealing with it, send in the tanks. Drive them into the house. Then drop bombs on the house until the crater is so deep you can see hell. I live by a mantra that if something is worth doing, it's worth overdoing.
The boarded up house and monsters trying to get in reminded me of "Darkwood" where every night you need to barricade your safehouse and last until dawn often armed with nothing more than a board with nails in it. Later the game it gets to a point where things can break through barricades so easily the only reason you set any up is to try and direct them over to the unlocked door that you have your shotgun pointed at.
I wouldve liked to see the authorities actually go in guns blazing with force multipliers or hell give the survivors a actual gun and have the dude cap a few.
Really specific rant (not against the video) , but I some years ago I've seen a lot of people online lamenting about Digitigrade Bipedal Monsters, like they can't exist in real life. And I always think: "Dinosaurs, have you seen one? Watch you backyard and you might spot a pigeon for an example."
@@MidoriNatsume I was talking about the channel, since you said the point of the channel was to be nick picky. But the man does it for speculation, not critique.
@@williamwoods217 the sequels are a guilty pleasure of mine 🤣🤣 I can understand being embarrassed about those, but nooo the original is fantastic. I’d recommend it to any fan of horror comedies
Ah yes. Spears. One of few melee weapons that have lasted longer than swords and were still used in early development of firearms. I guess you can still say we kinda have a "spear" when we fix a knife to the end of our firearm.
I watched this movie a couple days ago, but i still watched the summary cause i like watching roanoke's video. If people really get upset about summaries that's too bad
Hey roanoke, anatomy question: Does the connection of the spine in a vertebrate animal relate to the placement of its ears? Like how ours connects from the bottom and we have our skull sitting on it and have our ears on the sides, while other animals, such as cows, cats, or dogs, have their ears on top of their heads.
Having the ears at the top of the head simply lets them have more room to swivel and act like Radar dishes. Humans and other primates don’t rely as much on sound compared to vision, so their ears are smaller and on the sides of their head.
The ear openings on most mammals are in roughly the same location, kind of behind the jaw and below the brain case. Mammals with ears on the top of their head just have longer ear canals. Most mammal canals head down and then inwards towards the skull.
@@dubuyajay9964 Shorter elf ears aren't that dissimilar from our own and the retained point is likely just vestigial. Longer elf ears only make sense to have persisted if they're mobile. Mobile long ears allow them to be moved to better catch sounds, but also to better display emotions and attention. Upper class elves are taught to school their ears in addition to their faces while commoners tend to be much more expressive.
@@griffynshu Yes it is similar with cats, to some degree, which can also move their ears to better hear stuff that is behind them without having to move their entire head. I think the purpose is to allow them to keep their eyes focused on prey or a rival cat while still keeping some awareness of what might be going on behind them. I am sure that other animals with long ears also have similar behaviour.
@@GaryHamad A .44 magnum ain't gonna do much to deter a voraciously violent super predator with tough leathery skin. Yeah it'll hurt it, but that thing will most likely maul you to death before it succumbs to its wounds. Unless if you can shoot it in the head to put it down for good, you're still in hot trouble, and that's if it'll even allow itself to be in a position to get mortally shot. It's already capable of flanking and juking with ease, so I'm sure it can manage to take down someone with a gun, whether it gets shot or not.
@@the_furry_inside_your_walls639 A .44 magnum is sure gonna injure a bear or atleast scare it, they're a deterrent and not an offensive weapon at the end of the day
Considering that the military bag has literally no other purpose in the film, that thing was definitely made in a lab. This is either being used as testing grounds for them or they escaped and they want to cover it up without making a major scene. If they just wanted to kill them, they'd just drop a platoon of men armed to the teeth and it'd be done with, but that obviously didn't happen and there's a reason for that. So I'm assuming testing grounds. Going further the creatures test fortifications for defenses, are pack hunters, know how to recognize and set traps, have been shown to shepherd people into a trapped location for easier picking and then going as far to keep them there, when one tries to escape, they focus on them, even when there is far more obvious prey. They even understand radios. This all screams military weapon. No animal is that smart naturally, and I saw no proof of it being from space. Good movie. The people were fucking stupid at times, the biggest act of stupidity was that not one of them brought a gun, when anyone intelligent would at least have two of the group bring one each. If not more even for safety against normal creatures. But the fact they thought 'heavy' equals slow was the second largest fuck up and the third was the fact they never tried to just kill the thing with sticks, I mean they hurt each other well enough with just the shit in that house, and it's obviously flammable. Hell blind the thing with the powerful flashlight and bash it to death in an inclosed room. Or do so through a wall it's busting through. And for damn sake, wait until daybreak to do shit. Hide in one room if necessary, with all that you'll need, but the fact none of them thought to wait till at least morning for better viewing makes me want to bash my head against a wall. Also STOP standing in front of windows, holy hell was that dumb, like they were begging it to grab them through them.
Pssshaw, can't have people too smart in these movies! You have to make sure they artificially cut themselves off from civilization and never utilize tools to make weapons!
@@kirbyis4ever I know you're joking but the fact that so few horror/thriller movies have truly intelligent people is a shame. It seems like it would be far scarier to have actual competent characters take reasonable actions and still be outplayed by the big bad.
@@randomfactsthatdontmatter3466 To be fair it can be hard to keep your head on straight in a situation like this. Like, we know from real life examples that people don't make the most logical choices when their lives are in danger, especially white bread college kids with no real survival experience. I'm not saying that excuses all stupidity and there are definitely horror movies where it goes from "scared stupid" to "even the internets biggest morons would be smarter than these people" but I do think this movie falls more into the former than the latter.
You do know that not everyone owns a gun right (and I'm not just talking about places where it's illegal, plenty of Americans don't either)? I mean millions of people go camping in the states every month without much in the way of defense. If anything the fact that they actually had bear spray was surprisingly realistic because most movies like this wouldn't even have the campers bring that, so having MULTIPLE firearms is pretty unrealistic unless you're going hunting or going into an area that you know is dangerous. Regardless agreed that this is almost certainly a test since there's evidence of multiple groups taking up defense in the house with it being implied that nobody has ever come despite at least two calls being made and probably more. There is the possible alternative that there is a large population of these things and the military is trying to gauge how many there are and how they operate before risking soldiers lives in an extermination mission but that seems to be a bit of a stretch since with the tech we have and just wrapping the area in a cordon any reasonably skilled military unit could exterminate them. So almost certainly a test. That said considering how easily a trained group of soldiers could kill them you have to wonder how useful they'd actually be outside of tests with basic civilians, I mean you could say that's the point of the test to refine them but at the same time if you refine them to the point they can outsmart soldiers then that just seems like...a bad idea.
@@Goldenkitten1 even lacking a gun if you hike without so much as a knife let alone a machete you might be an idiot. My best friend and I used to do day hikes but we prepared for the worst (getting lost) we'd bring enough stuff for at least a day as people knew where we were and we had a marking system for trees that everyone knew. Lighters are a must a zippo will be handier in a bad situation than a flashlight. Now certainly a good number of Americans don't own guns especially at the time of this movie taking place, but any idiot can swing a piece of wood. Put a few nails through it and I don't care what you hit it'll think twice. We made it through the stone age bows and sharpened sticks are simple enough to make anything is better than nothing.
A series of movies I would love you to cover the morphology & biology of a creature would without a doubt have to be the "Feast" series & the creatures that start wrecking havoc on a bar & later a town with a very strange set of biological abilities. Plus the movies are die hard hilarious.
I though of feast right away too. I love when that little kid gets eaten, so unexpected I just about died. Mind you I was with my friends and it was 19ish years ago so... maybe it's not actually that funny.
Don’t forget the old boxer that boxed a bear when cornered and won. There’s also the time a human man and bear found dead together with the ground messed up signaling that the two fought to the dead. There’s also the recent dude that strangled an ambushing mountain lion. Humans are EPIC
According to science and human anatomy we are able to lift a average size able car but our brain stop us from doing so since it would backfire to the point of hurting our muscle
I think this is a military experiment that got loose, probably very recently explaining why the military haven't being that much present. Or...bare with me for that theory: Project Chimera, escaped from the lab and into a forest in Connecticut. They send a squad of marines with the instruction to capture the prototype alive as much as possible, but since this is a very top secret project on a "need to know" basis, the project leads failed to mention that they were two creatures: two mates. So the marines went in expecting one creature, but got jumped by the second. Since they had orders to take it alive, they didn't have their guns ready fast enough. So the squad, probably less than a dozen, got slaughtered. After that, it could be that either it just happen so the military was still in the process to scramble another squad (or two), or they decided to hold back a little to observe the prototypes as they lurk and hunt in nature.
That theory reminds me of Dog Soldiers, when Captain Ryan and his squad were trying to capture a werewolf and not knowing about the whole pack that resided in the woods
I don't know about the rest of you, but when I go hiking I always bring a sidearm. It would be nice if some people in these movies would do the same...
@@VelociraptorsOfSkyrim it's mostly for rattlesnakes tbh. But if you go up north in AZ you can get bears, and I want a gun for that. Most things you can scare off if you're loud enough.
I never take one just because I don't own a gun. I don't hate them or anything and I know how to use them, I've just never gotten around to buying one, getting licensed etc. Of course, I never hike deep into the woods alone or anything.
It seems to be implied in the movie that this is a naturally occurring animal that normally lives in the deep woods where people rarely go and it has been driven from its habitat by deforestation. A sequel that explained a bit more about it would have been nice, but is unlikely at this point.
Avid hiker here, my motto is: Leave no trace, and the sign means nothing unless you get caught. Even if you do, more often than not if you play dumb they'll simply direct you to the nearest way out.
If you want to find an urban legend close to this, look up the Kentucky Goblins. That was an alien urban legend though, and I think this may be a creature that escaped. Also Roanoke FYI as someone who grew up in Connecticut, there's also a huge navy presence in Groton CT where they make submarines. It's possible that the movie makers didn't quite understand army divisions or specialties but were trying to work this creature into the cold war era and here's why. The Marines are the soldiers of the navy, they aren't more powerful or less powerful than a similarly built, trained and educated army soldier. Our culture glorifies soldiers and war, and for some reason the Marines are seen as more powerful even though they're equal to the US Army. It's not just the TV show NCIS at fault for this either, there was an old Tom Lehrer song "Send the Marines" from the cold war era as well as the punchline of a song from the late 50s called "the battle of Camp Kookamunga." For some reason America really loves it's marines. From the lyrics it sounds like this particular division of the armed forces had an elevated status even as far back as the cold war. If they wanted to be more accurate, or were more accurate, the movie's creators likely would have put the air force as just a quick wiki search for military bases in Connecticut yielded a shut down air force base located in East Hartford. See Rentschler Field. It was originally a military air field during world war 2 but was turned back over to civilians afterwards. It then became a helipad for a few years before being turned into a Football stadium. Looking at the map of CT there's more or less a world war 2 military presence in six out of 8 counties in CT, but three in hartford county. Rentschler, Bradley and Brainard are the three nearest to hartford and all in close proximity to each other. This is all cursory information found in less than 10 minutes of researching the topic and on one extremely popular website. B movies don't need all that much research and I suspect that by doing this they were attempting to connect the monster here to cold war experimentation and that era of science fiction. That's the same era that gave us the Hulk and the Fantastic Four. All heroes that were mutated by radiation. Add in the sheer number of sci fi movies that center around either radiation creating monsters or cold war experimentation gone wrong and I suspect that the creators of this movie were trying to use location and items found at the beginning to tell us a trope. Not even a story, a trope, about what this monster is and where it could have come from.
@@Nob911 but on paper they're equal to the army. the army are also generalized. I stand by my conclusion, this movie was set too far from the ocean to use an abandoned marine gearpack as a prop and the marines are too specialized to be doing this particular kind of R+D. Cold war bioweapons would have been done by the army. As for distance from the ocean, I lived in CT. I grew up there and moved to Berkshire County MA about a decade ago. It takes about an hour and a half to drive from the southernmost point to the northernmost. Assuming you were going up I-91 the primary north south artery. If you take the back roads you could take all afternoon to cross the state. I don't think the Navy would have had marines training or operating so far from the ocean. If they wanted to be accurate, it would have been an old air force pack from the cold war or a US army pack from the modern era. In the modern day DARPA assumes responsibility for most weapon and gear R+D. But they're relatively recent. I don't see why the marines were in that forest or handling a black project to do with a monster in the first place.
@@AnimeShinigami13 no they are not on paper there is a reason the marines are sent in first then the army goes in to set up and clean up for a fob but wjat would someone with no experience know
@@Nob911 except it really depends on the conflict. Marines don't always go first and sometimes they go in at the same time. Marines are definitely more cult like though when it comes to their rifleman. An 11B from the Army may act tough but they definitely don't compare to the awkward, "hard," and sometimes creepy mentality of a Marine. And this is coming from an ex Army medic that has worked alongside Marines for training. Those guys are just weird as fuck.
I would’ve said it would be alien but you’re right that the response is severely lacking. So I do think it is an escaped experiment. Trying to recover an experiment and likely coming in under equipped. I don’t see why they wouldn’t have made spears as well and narrow entrances and make it a sticking gallery for the creature.
There must've been something that blew in with the cold front earlier this month, I've been congested and I know a few other people that have been dealing with congestion. Hope you're feeling better at this point now!
Nothing you have covered in all your channels has freaked me out like this thing. Usually I'm ok. I'm looking out of my windows at the dark actually worried.
Most definitely Chimera created be someone wether by the Military or a corporation akin to Umbrella from Resident Evil, and the woods are being used as a test stage for an experiment to gauge the effectiveness of the creature when against humans. All the killing power of a super soldier, none of the burdens of a pesky conscience a most humans might have.
Yo Roanoke was wondering if by any chance you'd cover some of the creatures of the mystery flesh pit? Been following it for a while now and it has seemed to have grown a bit In popularity in recent times, the animals and the pit itself could be an interesting video, especially since i haven't seen a video by someone actually in the biology area
Hey Roanoke, I was wondering with Christmas coming up if you had ever considered doing the Gremlins. I think that would be really interesting, considering how weird they are, love your channel!
So idk if you've watched it yet, but the show Elves on Netflix has some pretty interesting creatures. Their skulls are oddly pointy, and they bleed black blood. I have absolutely no idea what they are, but they're definitely worthy of an explanation.
I don't understand people who dislike you summarizing the movie, I just like listening to you talk lol. You could read the entirety of the Communist Manifesto and I'd be like "Ah yes, quality listening"
Hi Roanoke , can you make a video on the sandworms of dune ? I would love to see you explaining things like how they live without water and how they are allergic to it , love your videos keep the nice work
You know I'll give you credit Roanoke because there ain't no way in hell I could watch a movie like this and then think "Yeah, I want to go hiking there, looks beautiful!"
This movie has the makings of a better sequel like "Aliens" as an example. "Game over man, game over. They're too fast and quiet and aren't too afraid of us."
The Monster (2016) has a similar looking creature, you should watch it. Also watch Abominable (2006), it's a bigfoot horror and scared the shit out of me, so I'd like to here you say that those things couldn't exist (just like the giant spiders from Eight Legged Freaks).
@@tomwaits9027 Has Roanoke done anything about Feast yet? If not, covering the creatures from that franchise might prove to be a tad weird but could be fun.
My idea of Mandy staring off and the music- I think it’s like her developing PTSD. Hiking was supposed to be something fun and beautiful with her friends, but turned into a blood fest of her friends being eaten in front of her. Also I love how they present her as a girl that is like the best girlfriend ever lol, random but idk I just love her character and how none of the characters are weird characatures
Except at least two of them are dumb enough to say things like "Let's not bother to figure out how they think" and "it's big. It must be slow!". 😒🙄🤯. Herp a durr!
I find it weird how many people think you can not get a signal in the woods. You may walk out of it but the trailheads of most places have cell signal. Also, they have GPS that works without signal and there are apps that will at least allow a person to get a straight line back to the trailhead even with no signal. Oh and now they have a flashlight and camera, and compass, and star watching apps, and if you can get internet you can even try to identify plants and animals. Seriously we need to change the name "Cell phone" to "Cellcom" you do not have a phone you have a computer... with a phone.it is very useful, it is like 10 tings you should have on you anyway.
Could the woods be a containment area and is only open to some public to both feed and see it’s abilities, and the military sack that was found could have been a soldier that went in to deep or got the short end of the stick to see how it handled arms fire?
Fun story, my friends old house was close by a popular hiking trail. The property line was well marked with no trespassing signs. He had a shooting range on his property. Listen to signs, because you could end up down range. It happened about once a summer, and the people trespassing would always act upset, and threaten to call the cops. Which resulted in them being escorted to the property line, or in one big mouthed woman's case, arrest. Long story short, read the signs people.
A moose weighs in at roughly 1700 pounds and it can run at 35 miles per hour. I don’t know about you, but if you somehow manage to piss off a 1700lbs all terrain vehicle with antlers enough to break an Olympic speed record you deserve whatever is coming your way unless the moose is in musk or with its children.
All I’m gonna say is that you know your stacked when your only predators are grizzly bears who typically think twice about it and ducking Orcas. Oh did I mention moose are better at swimming than they have right being. It says something when the only thing that isn’t afraid to throw down with you is a ducking murder whale on steroids.
Even if you don’t piss of the moose directly if you nail one with your truck and you don’t speed up…when it crashes into your wind shield it will crush you to death.
@@VelociraptorsOfSkyrim I see I am not alone in my love of the terror that is nature at its finest. Never liked all that national geographic bull crap where they blow smoke up your ass about the beauty of nature. Casual geographic is where its at he tells you the truth, and doesn't care whos feelings he hurts.
@@RoanokeGaming Fair point, no risk, no reward. But remember next time you go hiking; you don't need to be the fastest one, just have a friend who runs slower than you
I have a theory that these creatures are descendants of flightless bats. They have dark skin similar to bats and their muscular bodies, which were once used for flight, have evolved for running. This can especially seen in the arms (kinda like the night stalkers from After Man). As they evolved to have a more terrestrial lifestyle, they would leave their insectivorous roots to feed on larger prey and thus also become larger. I also believe that the great respiratory system the bat has allowed these creatures to fuel a more intelligent brain. This lead to them being able to hunt in packs, communicate, and make traps. The reason they do not have large bat ears is because they no longer need echolocation. They also have small eyes which many cave dwelling species also have. Thus, I believe these creatures are never left the caves. Ok anyways I’m a massive nerd so I’m just theorizing
Why would they no longer need echolocation? It’s a product of hunting in low light not flying, and if they’d given up flight and the ability to “see” well in the dark what would they have eaten and how? Surely a specialised lightweight skeleton is not the best place to begin in terms or becoming a large terrestrial predator , idk not tryna hate just seems like a really wild jump 😂
@@dubuyajay9964 Yes the Primeval Horrats of the future have intelligence connected to their echolocation processed through its optical thalamus. They have no eyes and a hyper active metabolism for incredible speed. They are carnivorous hunters.
I see them as an offshoot of rats that have grown in size and become apex predators. Like you I am hypothesizing. I go by the head shape and articulation and morphology.
The most surprising thing to me is that you can actually get "deep" into Connecticuts forests. I was originally going to make a smartass comment but apparently 60% of Connecticuts land is covered by forest. So yay for that.
Love that you are reviewing the movie, before you start talking about the creature/disease. It gives context, cause I haven't seen half the movies you are doing. I also love your humor in the review part. I guess I am in the other part - I love the review and feel ok about the biology discussion :D
While I do appreciate the time stamps, There is no time skipping for me. I LOVE to watch these videos from start to finish>.< What surprises me is the amount of info provided when talking about the body's nervous system and psychology and other in depth details. I'm sure details are in google but it sounds like you have done this enough to provide the details confidently :D
24:06 _"I swear, life is just mother nature saying "Eh... Good enough."."_ Well, as you know, evolution doesn't promote what's best, it only promotes what's good enough to pass on genes, so yeah, that's exactly the case.
@@jeffumbach The worst part is it's not just intelligent design creationists, it's also the people who idealize and personify nature, you know, the "it's natural so it must be good for me", "we should return to nature", "mother nature knows what's best", "our bodies don't need medicine, we have immune systems" type of generally scientophobic and technophobic people, that whole mindset is the reason antivaxxer movements exist and about half of the reason the vast majority of health/diet-centered communities, influencers, media, etc, are useless, at best.
@@My_initials_are_O.G.cuz_I_am that way of thinking has the capacity to thin out our ranks as we already have too many people with the rich taking the most resources,
One thing always bugged me in movies like this where the group end up cornered in a barricaded house while a monster without any ranged capabilities is outside: No one ever thinks it a good idea to make some kind of improvised spear and jab the damn thing in its eye or mouth while it’s scrabbling at the windows! I don’t care how darn tough a monster supposedly is, you hoke a solid four feet of pole with a blade on the tip into it, that things dying one way or another!!! Edit: nevermind you mentioned it too Roanoke xD
Finally someone covers this thing. It's really not given much in the film, which is both frustrating and cool at the same time. I think there's a good point to be made that the military is in on this, particularly when it comes to receiving aid for distress calls. If park rangers or authorities went to help but never returned, there would just be more sent to investigate, especially for cops or paramedics. That would inevitably lead to an investigation. Since that hasn't happened, it seems likely the military is preventing access by first responders or park rangers because they know what's running around in there. The backpack from the military personnel is just another hint that something is up. This thing was definitely made in a lab. It's too intelligent, unless it's been around humans and hunted them for a very long time.
Yeah it was in the name Animal. It was just a predator nobody knew about that stayed in certain areas until disturbed. The human characters acted like Animals by not “overthinking” them and not learning about them and their weakness like you pointed out. The humans just hid and ran like animals, and so the predators got them. Storylines good could have used a bigger budget
Say maybe these creatures can also possibly burrow to hide during the day, giving that their claws are large enough to do so, and with their great senses they could navigate burrows rather well. And then with that added om top with their intelligence, they would definitely use that skill to their advantage, especially for navigation to certain areas without being noticed.
Certain details the Animal's anatomy make me think it's meant to be descended from dromaeosaurs. Consider the digitigrade legs, teeth orientation suggesting the process of evolving towards or away from a beak, and 'quills' & 'fur' as different forms of protofeathers. The entire concept might be intended as an update of Dale Russel's Dinosauroids
As a former Sea & Mountain Rescue crewmen, I’d highly recommend paying attention to signs on hiking trails.
Like the man said,
"Learn to live a little."
That being said I will absolutely keep that in mind sir. Also my girlfriend is a legend in wild hiking. So I'm in good hand.
never in my life have i even glanced at those signs, nor will i ever
@@Phantom_Zone "I'm in good hand." Did your g/f have a 127 hour situation? In which case, she at least lived through 1 bad situation.
@@SoylentSoy I wrote hands but Auto-correct said hand. And autocorrect never lies.
@@Phantom_Zone in good hand is better.
Its refreshing to see a horror movie where the group actually gets along
Thank god there’s no Amys
Also refreshing to see a horror film with the annoying shaky camera effect that actually shows the monster in clear detail as well.
The real enemies were the friends we made along the way?
@offroadguy7772 wtf is a pixie?
666th like
Still casting my vote on a future video about the different Cryptids from CoD Ghosts and one about the capillary worm parasites/strigoi vampires from The Strain.
YES! Please cover The Strain!
People have been suggesting The Strain for ages and he hasn't done it yet. I wish he would. But it would be a lot of works watching 4 seasons (or how ever many it was). Epic show though.
Omg YES Cryptids. Love CoDGhost
CRYPTIDS!
CRYPTIDS!!
CRYPTIDS!!!
A CoD zombies lore could be pretty sweet! Not sure if there’s much to it, but I’m sure RG could make just about any YT video about any movie or game and I would watch it still 😆
I'm so glad you enjoyed the movie, critics ripped it apart for the idea not being original enough but me and all my friends love this movie.
Thats the thing, it was just a fun movie, critics look at stuff too harshly. And there no amys!
I mean, how original do people want it to be. The base is spooky forest monster, a ladle of cabin in the woods setup, a seasoning of interpersonal conflict among the cast, and a pinch of "oh its actually smart" to give it that extra spice.
Well, yeah. Professional critics are almost all uptight assholes.
Thought it was great it's not common seeing the monster being intelligent.
The monster was in another movie
4:00 just a little piece of advice for anyone who doesn't already know this. If you have an emergency but your phone is reading out as having no signal try dialing whatever your country's emergency number is. In most countries if there is a signal from any provider it will carry over an emergency call even if you aren't covered by them.
An example for this is as a US citizen I'm going to use my country as an example. If I was out somewhere and had an emergency and I needed to dial 911 (which is the US's emergency number) just because Verizon doesn't have coverage in that area doesn't mean T-Mobile doesn't. If they did though and I were to dial that emergency number my Verizon phone would still send my emergency call over that other provider's signal.
Yep, can confirm that ( for Germany ).
Same with those Old Payphones, Emergency Numbers always work, even if you have no money what so ever.
ALWAYS.
Ah, good! Cooperate greed has yet to touch emergencies, thank goodness!
Cool good to know
@@thatradfailure5197 Just a question of time, hyper capitalism strikes everywhere.
But Germany takes saving lifes still serious fortunately.
I thought this was common knowledge that 911 works even if you're in roaming and phones also can still dial 911 even if the screen is locked (also as long as it has a dial tone land lines can dial 911 even if you have no service on that line.) However this assumes that you even have a signal at all, seeing no signal doesn't mean that you're out of your coverage area (that would be roaming) it means you're out of range of a cell tower period.
Funny thing, if you hike in a place where you can get attacked by a bear, you should probably have a force multiplier along with the bear mace.
Bear mace is better gun just will piss it off
@@giulianogonklubek5902 A grizzly can withstand 50 caliber shots, but every bear smaller, can't. And Black bears, you should be able to intimidate, as they really don't like confrontations.
@@InVinoVeratas its proven by studys
@@giulianogonklubek5902 Sorry, I have to. *Studies
@@foxpatternedferret476 yeah english is not my main language
What I think is interesting too about its skull/jaw shape, is it looks very similar to a rodents. Rodents do have a good pair of chompers (and I agree it's probably a chimera experiment), if perhaps rodent genes were a big factor, along with human and maybe something reptilian (arm spikes), that could also change the teeth from the natural square shape to the more predator like points. Rats also have the same digitigrade leg structure, can stand on two legs or four, and have lil hands similar to humans.
Defiantly a cool design for a monster
I wish you a pleasant evening.
As soon as I saw the critters I thought that it was like the critters from the movie Feast but played more realistic than well, the face humping newborn giant dong having hilarity of that movie.
Or maybe like frog DNA instead of reptile, because one kind of frog breaks its own bone to make defensive spikes and rats and other rodents can stand on they're back legs and with the frog DNA (if I'm right) it would have long-ish legs and with its rodent DNA it would have the slight bipedalism. And also rats can get crazy aggressive I've seen a video where a person who owns chickens say a rat or rats have been killing his chickens, giving the animals aggressive predatory nature
It also has two esophaguses
@ren bao it's a Category name for mice and rats along with more creatures in that category.
My first thought was that this thing kinda reminds me of the Nosalis from the Metro series. Nosalis are of course moles or shrews mutated with aid of the high radiation (and maybe experimental superweapons) in Moscow. As this doesn't seem to be present my guess is they were moles or shrews altered by some kind of experiment, maybe something akin to the forced evolutionary virus (FEV) from the Fallout series
Great connection! I can definitely see that
It kinda reminds me of the jackals from Halo as well, albeit very primal and animalistic.
Like the mutated mole rats but bigger 😂 I'm gonna go get my wack a mole stick from Moira.
@@RoanokeGaming definitely a rodent skull curiously skeletal and huge.
Him saying I wouldn’t be able to guess who survives messed me up, him saying that made me think a guy would actually be a soul survivor. I saw enough horror movies to know, if you’re a new girlfriend, and you’re in a group, you’re either the first to go or you’re a survivor.
@UCowwlQbnKzQiA-jnzV6c1Ag I can agree with that
lmao true
Being a sole survivor can leave others wondering especially when the person is suspiciously acting.
@@randallbesch2424 right
"Life is nothing more than mother nature saying 'eh good enough' and then moving on"
- Roanoke Gaming 2021
That is how it is.
I really love how this monster has so much restraint and cunning in its characterization like a real predator, kind of like wolves or chimps.
Things like the alien or future predator they say as being intelligent as much as its armed to the teeth, but they are always hyper aggressive to prey and or are savage against one another without emotional attachment that humans can take advantage of.
Not so here. She only escapes cause they have reasonable limits and know when to quit hunting.
the aliens do have a sense of survival of the hive since if they see a threat to the future generation they halt their aggression like in the scene in aliens when ripley gets to the eggs they all halted until she started burning everything
but yeah i see what your saying
@@Ghuirm or the sentry gun scene in aliens
I wish horror movies would make humans who made spears and armor or even shield.
This is the only time where “Three ooga-dooga’s with a long stick would suffice”
@@mr.nobody2191 yep when they eventually retreated before the sentry guns ran out of ammo and later on cut the power before breaching in through the suspended ceiling.
1) Never ignore signage.
2) This was likely an engineered Chimera, but I must ask the question. If this is the case, why hasn't anyone brought in the heavy armor to basically plow down the area? We know the rule in sci-fi/contagion/zombie/creature flicks, things always escape containment.
From what I can tell there are two reasons:
1) they escaped recent-ish and the military are planing to kill them but the first squad or whatever they sent got killed and the movie just takes place between attempt 1 and 2
Or
2) the forest is the experiment testing ground
@@michealfoster4411 number one seems more fitting since we saw the militar backpack but once again I might be wrong is really common amongst vet to take their bags home
@@brauliohernandez3724 Considering that its likely a military creation I think that its more likely they got got then a solider happened to be wandering the area at that exact time. Though as in the video it is stated to be close to a base so it could happen.
@@if7723 possibly still would be nice to have either a prequel or sequel to fill in everything
It's a Cabin in the Woods situation. The Gods must be appeased.
I want a director to make a horror movie entirely around the idea that the characters make all the right decisions and have good plans and teamwork. They don’t even have to survive, they just can’t make any dumb calls. It’s honestly untapped potential for an original experience.
The thing comes close to this
@@issaicx I mean, that movie starts with the worst possible decision they could have made.
@@if7723 which was
@@issaicx investigating an alien corpse up close with lunch lady grade gloves. and before that thawing an alien corpse to inspect it in the first place.
@@Everlucky_Clover your talking about the prequel. I'm talking about John carpenters original
As far as the marine pack if it was an actual Marine unit deployed odds are the backpack would’ve had more than just flares it would’ve carried spare munitions etc. and maybe even a few grenades considering how liberally the Marines combat doctrine is I think it’s at least from a logical standpoint with what it had a marine going on a hike and got absolutely shredded when getting tackled by the creature/s and as far as the patch on his backpack that labeled it as a marine’s pack, they are very proud of their service I’ve met Marines that haven’t been in for over 10 years that still do stuff like put marine stickers on their cars clothing laptops etc.
This is my line of thinking. Not much in the pack screams combat op. My money is on it was just a vet out on a hike and became a snack.
Personally I do the same thing when I go hiking or on a trip. I throw my marine or unit patch on my pack just for easy identification.
Came here to comment this. Your assault pack is basically an extension of your chest kit. It'd have extra water, MREs, ammo, pyro, maps, chem lights, cleaning kits, etc. No one wears patches on their pack like that, it's either subdued flag patches or moral patches like "ouch pouch" or "dependa survivalist."
Of course, it depends. I've known ex-Marines that couldn't fight their way out of a paper sack but some who could kick Leatherface's ass.
Nah. Probably just full of crayons. Got to have a snack up for longer hikes.
@@kylegoodwin8673 That’s what I was thinking it slipped my mind about the fact that it had an easy identifiable patch on it but thank you for pointing that out
I can still remember that this was my first ever monster horror movie that I watched alone when I was like 8. I had nightmares for over 2 months and developed a phobia for big dogs for some reason too. Either way it was a great movie and a great monster.
Bro your 15
@@Nob911 you’re*
@@aenguspigott6885 yorue*
honestly big dog phobias are really understandable
@@Nob911 Yes uncle. What is it? Is it wrong to comment on the internet if you are 15. You should be proud me watching these kinds of videos instead of cringe tiktoks. Anyway have a good day.
One of my favorite movie moments is the Brendan Fraser Mummy movie, when Rick O'Connell sees the mummy walking around for the first time. Imhotep roars to scare him. Rick roars right back at him and blasts him in the belly with his shotgun and runs.
These folks should have gone full Rick O'Connell on the creature and fought it. Hell hath no fury like a scared human in full level 10 "kill the thing" mode.
You got boards. You got hammers. You got nails. Make a spikey nail board and kill it. Kill it a lot.
Beat the thing into the floorboards till there's nothing left of it but chunky salsa. Then beat it some more.
Kill the hell out of it. Go to war.
Make weapons and show it how we got to be on top of the food chain.
And as for the army dealing with it, send in the tanks. Drive them into the house. Then drop bombs on the house until the crater is so deep you can see hell.
I live by a mantra that if something is worth doing, it's worth overdoing.
The boarded up house and monsters trying to get in reminded me of "Darkwood" where every night you need to barricade your safehouse and last until dawn often armed with nothing more than a board with nails in it. Later the game it gets to a point where things can break through barricades so easily the only reason you set any up is to try and direct them over to the unlocked door that you have your shotgun pointed at.
I wouldve liked to see the authorities actually go in guns blazing with force multipliers or hell give the survivors a actual gun and have the dude cap a few.
I oddly died laughing when he blasted him to the floor I'm not sure why I found it to be so funny.
Really specific rant (not against the video) , but I some years ago I've seen a lot of people online lamenting about Digitigrade Bipedal Monsters, like they can't exist in real life.
And I always think: "Dinosaurs, have you seen one? Watch you backyard and you might spot a pigeon for an example."
That is a critique? It’s a monster movie! Who fucking cares about how probable the situation is?
@@JohnDoe-iq6ek Lovely how you apparently missed the entire point of this channel.
@@MidoriNatsume It doesn’t say the movie is bad cause of these things m8.
@@JohnDoe-iq6ek And you thought I was talking about the movie, let alone calling it bad?
@@MidoriNatsume I was talking about the channel, since you said the point of the channel was to be nick picky. But the man does it for speculation, not critique.
Hey Roanoke, another monster I’d wish you’d explore is the monsters from the movie Feast. I think you’d really enjoy it. The sequels … not so much
I can check that out!
Oh no, I wouldn't subject my worst enemies to watching that series, I like dark humor but that one is a bit much! XD
@@williamwoods217 the first one is really good in my opinion 🤣
@@akirabka8659 Had one of my friends watch is and he no longer let's me pick movies, doesn't trust me anymore on them lol
@@williamwoods217 the sequels are a guilty pleasure of mine 🤣🤣 I can understand being embarrassed about those, but nooo the original is fantastic. I’d recommend it to any fan of horror comedies
Wish you were a teacher at my school. I love not only these videos but the amount of personality you put in.
Ah yes. Spears. One of few melee weapons that have lasted longer than swords and were still used in early development of firearms. I guess you can still say we kinda have a "spear" when we fix a knife to the end of our firearm.
Skallgrim fan?
@@dubuyajay9964 Haven't heard of that individual. Do the do ancient and medieval armor and weapons content?
@@TheBlankJoker Yes.
I watched this movie a couple days ago, but i still watched the summary cause i like watching roanoke's video. If people really get upset about summaries that's too bad
Hey roanoke, anatomy question: Does the connection of the spine in a vertebrate animal relate to the placement of its ears?
Like how ours connects from the bottom and we have our skull sitting on it and have our ears on the sides, while other animals, such as cows, cats, or dogs, have their ears on top of their heads.
Having the ears at the top of the head simply lets them have more room to swivel and act like Radar dishes. Humans and other primates don’t rely as much on sound compared to vision, so their ears are smaller and on the sides of their head.
The ear openings on most mammals are in roughly the same location, kind of behind the jaw and below the brain case. Mammals with ears on the top of their head just have longer ear canals. Most mammal canals head down and then inwards towards the skull.
@@griffynshu Care to comment your thoughts on elf ears?
@@dubuyajay9964 Shorter elf ears aren't that dissimilar from our own and the retained point is likely just vestigial. Longer elf ears only make sense to have persisted if they're mobile. Mobile long ears allow them to be moved to better catch sounds, but also to better display emotions and attention. Upper class elves are taught to school their ears in addition to their faces while commoners tend to be much more expressive.
@@griffynshu Yes it is similar with cats, to some degree, which can also move their ears to better hear stuff that is behind them without having to move their entire head. I think the purpose is to allow them to keep their eyes focused on prey or a rival cat while still keeping some awareness of what might be going on behind them. I am sure that other animals with long ears also have similar behaviour.
This is just a testament to why you should always have some form of self defense weapon when going out into the woods
Remember Always Trust .44 Magnum
Like yeah what kind of Positive People are you NOT to Be Prepped against Animal Attacks? lmao Bear Mace? what a Joke
@@GaryHamad A .44 magnum ain't gonna do much to deter a voraciously violent super predator with tough leathery skin. Yeah it'll hurt it, but that thing will most likely maul you to death before it succumbs to its wounds. Unless if you can shoot it in the head to put it down for good, you're still in hot trouble, and that's if it'll even allow itself to be in a position to get mortally shot. It's already capable of flanking and juking with ease, so I'm sure it can manage to take down someone with a gun, whether it gets shot or not.
@@the_furry_inside_your_walls639 *scratch 1*
@@the_furry_inside_your_walls639 A .44 magnum is sure gonna injure a bear or atleast scare it, they're a deterrent and not an offensive weapon at the end of the day
Considering that the military bag has literally no other purpose in the film, that thing was definitely made in a lab. This is either being used as testing grounds for them or they escaped and they want to cover it up without making a major scene. If they just wanted to kill them, they'd just drop a platoon of men armed to the teeth and it'd be done with, but that obviously didn't happen and there's a reason for that. So I'm assuming testing grounds.
Going further the creatures test fortifications for defenses, are pack hunters, know how to recognize and set traps, have been shown to shepherd people into a trapped location for easier picking and then going as far to keep them there, when one tries to escape, they focus on them, even when there is far more obvious prey. They even understand radios. This all screams military weapon. No animal is that smart naturally, and I saw no proof of it being from space.
Good movie. The people were fucking stupid at times, the biggest act of stupidity was that not one of them brought a gun, when anyone intelligent would at least have two of the group bring one each. If not more even for safety against normal creatures. But the fact they thought 'heavy' equals slow was the second largest fuck up and the third was the fact they never tried to just kill the thing with sticks, I mean they hurt each other well enough with just the shit in that house, and it's obviously flammable. Hell blind the thing with the powerful flashlight and bash it to death in an inclosed room. Or do so through a wall it's busting through. And for damn sake, wait until daybreak to do shit. Hide in one room if necessary, with all that you'll need, but the fact none of them thought to wait till at least morning for better viewing makes me want to bash my head against a wall. Also STOP standing in front of windows, holy hell was that dumb, like they were begging it to grab them through them.
Pssshaw, can't have people too smart in these movies! You have to make sure they artificially cut themselves off from civilization and never utilize tools to make weapons!
@@kirbyis4ever I know you're joking but the fact that so few horror/thriller movies have truly intelligent people is a shame. It seems like it would be far scarier to have actual competent characters take reasonable actions and still be outplayed by the big bad.
@@randomfactsthatdontmatter3466 To be fair it can be hard to keep your head on straight in a situation like this. Like, we know from real life examples that people don't make the most logical choices when their lives are in danger, especially white bread college kids with no real survival experience. I'm not saying that excuses all stupidity and there are definitely horror movies where it goes from "scared stupid" to "even the internets biggest morons would be smarter than these people" but I do think this movie falls more into the former than the latter.
You do know that not everyone owns a gun right (and I'm not just talking about places where it's illegal, plenty of Americans don't either)? I mean millions of people go camping in the states every month without much in the way of defense. If anything the fact that they actually had bear spray was surprisingly realistic because most movies like this wouldn't even have the campers bring that, so having MULTIPLE firearms is pretty unrealistic unless you're going hunting or going into an area that you know is dangerous.
Regardless agreed that this is almost certainly a test since there's evidence of multiple groups taking up defense in the house with it being implied that nobody has ever come despite at least two calls being made and probably more. There is the possible alternative that there is a large population of these things and the military is trying to gauge how many there are and how they operate before risking soldiers lives in an extermination mission but that seems to be a bit of a stretch since with the tech we have and just wrapping the area in a cordon any reasonably skilled military unit could exterminate them. So almost certainly a test. That said considering how easily a trained group of soldiers could kill them you have to wonder how useful they'd actually be outside of tests with basic civilians, I mean you could say that's the point of the test to refine them but at the same time if you refine them to the point they can outsmart soldiers then that just seems like...a bad idea.
@@Goldenkitten1 even lacking a gun if you hike without so much as a knife let alone a machete you might be an idiot. My best friend and I used to do day hikes but we prepared for the worst (getting lost) we'd bring enough stuff for at least a day as people knew where we were and we had a marking system for trees that everyone knew. Lighters are a must a zippo will be handier in a bad situation than a flashlight. Now certainly a good number of Americans don't own guns especially at the time of this movie taking place, but any idiot can swing a piece of wood. Put a few nails through it and I don't care what you hit it'll think twice. We made it through the stone age bows and sharpened sticks are simple enough to make anything is better than nothing.
A series of movies I would love you to cover the morphology & biology of a creature would without a doubt have to be the "Feast" series & the creatures that start wrecking havoc on a bar & later a town with a very strange set of biological abilities. Plus the movies are die hard hilarious.
Terrible movies
I'm the kinda person who likes schlocky horror movies but I gotta agree, Feast sucked.
The first Feast was absolutely hilarious. A movie of its time, truly.
Got to love the the first feast movie, the others not so much
I though of feast right away too. I love when that little kid gets eaten, so unexpected I just about died. Mind you I was with my friends and it was 19ish years ago so... maybe it's not actually that funny.
Don’t forget the old boxer that boxed a bear when cornered and won. There’s also the time a human man and bear found dead together with the ground messed up signaling that the two fought to the dead. There’s also the recent dude that strangled an ambushing mountain lion. Humans are EPIC
According to science and human anatomy we are able to lift a average size able car but our brain stop us from doing so since it would backfire to the point of hurting our muscle
@@brauliohernandez3724 hence the automatic limitations.
No, epic humans are epic.
I think this is a military experiment that got loose, probably very recently explaining why the military haven't being that much present. Or...bare with me for that theory:
Project Chimera, escaped from the lab and into a forest in Connecticut. They send a squad of marines with the instruction to capture the prototype alive as much as possible, but since this is a very top secret project on a "need to know" basis, the project leads failed to mention that they were two creatures: two mates. So the marines went in expecting one creature, but got jumped by the second. Since they had orders to take it alive, they didn't have their guns ready fast enough. So the squad, probably less than a dozen, got slaughtered.
After that, it could be that either it just happen so the military was still in the process to scramble another squad (or two), or they decided to hold back a little to observe the prototypes as they lurk and hunt in nature.
That theory reminds me of Dog Soldiers, when Captain Ryan and his squad were trying to capture a werewolf and not knowing about the whole pack that resided in the woods
@@fighterx9840 the family pack resided in a house in the woods.
@@randallbesch2424 Yeah that's what I meant. But you get what I mean, right?
I’d really like to see him do videos on the different types of tyranids.
I don't know about the rest of you, but when I go hiking I always bring a sidearm. It would be nice if some people in these movies would do the same...
at least one thought to bring bear spray. they REALLY should have tried to capitalize on that more. o well its a horror movie lol
I haven't been hiking since I was a preteen, but I do think having a sidearm would be a good idea. The sound alone should spook any predators.
@@VelociraptorsOfSkyrim it's mostly for rattlesnakes tbh. But if you go up north in AZ you can get bears, and I want a gun for that. Most things you can scare off if you're loud enough.
@@Inquisitor_Redacted Fair enough.
I never take one just because I don't own a gun. I don't hate them or anything and I know how to use them, I've just never gotten around to buying one, getting licensed etc. Of course, I never hike deep into the woods alone or anything.
It seems to be implied in the movie that this is a naturally occurring animal that normally lives in the deep woods where people rarely go and it has been driven from its habitat by deforestation. A sequel that explained a bit more about it would have been nice, but is unlikely at this point.
it might be an unknown animal or something not yet found as a fossil.
@@randallbesch2424 That's what I'm thinking.
When you said "snackrifice" I almost choked on my shrimp 🤣🤣. How do you come up with these word combinations? 😂
Avid hiker here, my motto is: Leave no trace, and the sign means nothing unless you get caught. Even if you do, more often than not if you play dumb they'll simply direct you to the nearest way out.
If you want to find an urban legend close to this, look up the Kentucky Goblins. That was an alien urban legend though, and I think this may be a creature that escaped. Also Roanoke FYI as someone who grew up in Connecticut, there's also a huge navy presence in Groton CT where they make submarines.
It's possible that the movie makers didn't quite understand army divisions or specialties but were trying to work this creature into the cold war era and here's why. The Marines are the soldiers of the navy, they aren't more powerful or less powerful than a similarly built, trained and educated army soldier. Our culture glorifies soldiers and war, and for some reason the Marines are seen as more powerful even though they're equal to the US Army. It's not just the TV show NCIS at fault for this either, there was an old Tom Lehrer song "Send the Marines" from the cold war era as well as the punchline of a song from the late 50s called "the battle of Camp Kookamunga." For some reason America really loves it's marines. From the lyrics it sounds like this particular division of the armed forces had an elevated status even as far back as the cold war.
If they wanted to be more accurate, or were more accurate, the movie's creators likely would have put the air force as just a quick wiki search for military bases in Connecticut yielded a shut down air force base located in East Hartford. See Rentschler Field. It was originally a military air field during world war 2 but was turned back over to civilians afterwards. It then became a helipad for a few years before being turned into a Football stadium. Looking at the map of CT there's more or less a world war 2 military presence in six out of 8 counties in CT, but three in hartford county. Rentschler, Bradley and Brainard are the three nearest to hartford and all in close proximity to each other.
This is all cursory information found in less than 10 minutes of researching the topic and on one extremely popular website. B movies don't need all that much research and I suspect that by doing this they were attempting to connect the monster here to cold war experimentation and that era of science fiction. That's the same era that gave us the Hulk and the Fantastic Four. All heroes that were mutated by radiation. Add in the sheer number of sci fi movies that center around either radiation creating monsters or cold war experimentation gone wrong and I suspect that the creators of this movie were trying to use location and items found at the beginning to tell us a trope. Not even a story, a trope, about what this monster is and where it could have come from.
Marines are better trained mentally and physically
@@Nob911 but on paper they're equal to the army. the army are also generalized. I stand by my conclusion, this movie was set too far from the ocean to use an abandoned marine gearpack as a prop and the marines are too specialized to be doing this particular kind of R+D. Cold war bioweapons would have been done by the army.
As for distance from the ocean, I lived in CT. I grew up there and moved to Berkshire County MA about a decade ago. It takes about an hour and a half to drive from the southernmost point to the northernmost. Assuming you were going up I-91 the primary north south artery. If you take the back roads you could take all afternoon to cross the state. I don't think the Navy would have had marines training or operating so far from the ocean. If they wanted to be accurate, it would have been an old air force pack from the cold war or a US army pack from the modern era. In the modern day DARPA assumes responsibility for most weapon and gear R+D. But they're relatively recent. I don't see why the marines were in that forest or handling a black project to do with a monster in the first place.
@@AnimeShinigami13 no they are not on paper there is a reason the marines are sent in first then the army goes in to set up and clean up for a fob but wjat would someone with no experience know
@@Nob911 ok armchair strategist
@@Nob911 except it really depends on the conflict. Marines don't always go first and sometimes they go in at the same time. Marines are definitely more cult like though when it comes to their rifleman. An 11B from the Army may act tough but they definitely don't compare to the awkward, "hard," and sometimes creepy mentality of a Marine. And this is coming from an ex Army medic that has worked alongside Marines for training. Those guys are just weird as fuck.
9:50 when you said SNACKrifice I literally did a spit take. Funniest thing I've heard all day.
“Deep in the woods of Connecticut!”
Finally, a horror movie here
A haunting in Conneticut
@@raptorjesus5870 Never heard of it, I’ll check it out
I would’ve said it would be alien but you’re right that the response is severely lacking. So I do think it is an escaped experiment. Trying to recover an experiment and likely coming in under equipped. I don’t see why they wouldn’t have made spears as well and narrow entrances and make it a sticking gallery for the creature.
Ooo, another movie video. Popcorn time!
There must've been something that blew in with the cold front earlier this month, I've been congested and I know a few other people that have been dealing with congestion. Hope you're feeling better at this point now!
Nothing you have covered in all your channels has freaked me out like this thing. Usually I'm ok. I'm looking out of my windows at the dark actually worried.
Also "snackrifice" lol
Bro I watched this movie when I was 10 and I deadass kept seeing it out of the corner of my eye
Don't look in your closet then.
The grizzly literally skipping down the hill is somehow adorable 😆
Hiking is the easiest way to get them into the woods without too much explenation and somewhere accidentaly contradicting yourself
Most definitely Chimera created be someone wether by the Military or a corporation akin to Umbrella from Resident Evil, and the woods are being used as a test stage for an experiment to gauge the effectiveness of the creature when against humans. All the killing power of a super soldier, none of the burdens of a pesky conscience a most humans might have.
I cannot say the very few things in the movie convinces me that we still don't know beyond wild speculations.
The third chapter Name is pure gold and felt it necessary to draw attention to it.
"Not an Amy in sight"
Oh thank God I can't imagine having to listen about another Amy
You ever see a horror movie monster costume and think, "man... I'd have so much fun playing that"?
All the time.
Yo Roanoke was wondering if by any chance you'd cover some of the creatures of the mystery flesh pit? Been following it for a while now and it has seemed to have grown a bit In popularity in recent times, the animals and the pit itself could be an interesting video, especially since i haven't seen a video by someone actually in the biology area
Really wish they'd cover it.
Why is it so surprising she survived? Literally the final girl trope.
Just looked up the story about the dad defending his kids against a bear.
Wow. More men like that please!
That "why did I write this this way" had me weak 😂😂😂😂
"Making their way towards the town, running fast, monster's pass, and they're carbound." That joke made my damn night hahahahahaha.
Glad you liked that 🤣
With the power of friendship and this gun they didn't find was a clear mistake
Hey Roanoke, I was wondering with Christmas coming up if you had ever considered doing the Gremlins. I think that would be really interesting, considering how weird they are, love your channel!
Dude make these videos as long as you want lol. The summary is essential for context and let's you flex the comedy muscles.
Is probably one movie monster I’ve been wanting to learn more about ever since the film is even more creepier to learn about it and how deadly it is.
"Snackrifice" sounds like something a god of Gluttony would demand.
I love when you cover all these creature features that I just can't get enough of.
Name a more iconic duo than roanoke and blood curdling abominations
propane and propane accessories
Ah yes, my apologies
Mr. Roanoke sir, you are dang good at what you do. Just wanted to take some time to heap some praise in your work. Well done
So idk if you've watched it yet, but the show Elves on Netflix has some pretty interesting creatures. Their skulls are oddly pointy, and they bleed black blood. I have absolutely no idea what they are, but they're definitely worthy of an explanation.
I don't understand people who dislike you summarizing the movie, I just like listening to you talk lol. You could read the entirety of the Communist Manifesto and I'd be like "Ah yes, quality listening"
Hi Roanoke , can you make a video on the sandworms of dune ? I would love to see you explaining things like how they live without water and how they are allergic to it , love your videos keep the nice work
You're the only channel besides lo-fi that I can listen to while I'm coding and not be completely distracted. That's so rare for me as a developer
Could be cool of you did a cryptids series too like big foot, moth man, lockness and so on or other folklore creatures
Try out dawn of the beast
I had watched this movie with my family at 3:00 a.m. years ago I legit fought it was a fever dream until you posted this video 💀
It has found you again 🤣
@@RoanokeGaming OMG I was acknowledged Mr. Gaming him self 😳😳
"They are coming to get you, Barbara. Oh look there is one now..."
You know I'll give you credit Roanoke because there ain't no way in hell I could watch a movie like this and then think "Yeah, I want to go hiking there, looks beautiful!"
Hi kitty! XD
Always love your chapter titles, man! Hope you feel better soon.
Chris everheart was the closest a human has gone when returning to monke and going back what a mad lad
I actually enjoy the summaries.
I don't watch movies, so it's cool to get a summary, with that roanoke twist.
Also pretty sure this is just skaven.
@@duckman12569 skaven? No not even close.
The interesting breakdowns of fun movies and creatures is cool, sure. But "Snackrifice"? That is the absolute gold I subscribe for :D
Roanoke, you should totally do the monsters from Feast. Hilarious movie.
Disturbing as shit aswell sometimes😂
Roanoke looked at "Killer Clowns from Outer Space."
Definitely like the monster design in this film. Would have liked to see more of the pack hunting shown off though!
This movie has the makings of a better sequel like "Aliens" as an example.
"Game over man, game over. They're too fast and quiet and aren't too afraid of us."
I love the shade you throw at the end: "... or are you 100% correct in believing this is an experiment conducted by the military" XD
Legend.
gosh i love this i look forward to these every friday especially movie ones, i just wanna say thank you a lot Roanoke and happy holidays
The Monster (2016) has a similar looking creature, you should watch it. Also watch Abominable (2006), it's a bigfoot horror and scared the shit out of me, so I'd like to here you say that those things couldn't exist (just like the giant spiders from Eight Legged Freaks).
i was gonna say it looks and behaves like the creatures from feast
@@tomwaits9027 I haven't seen that movie yet. I may watch it now that you mentioned it.
@@tomwaits9027 Has Roanoke done anything about Feast yet? If not, covering the creatures from that franchise might prove to be a tad weird but could be fun.
@@smallkecze3904 its a very very similar premise to this movie but campy on purpose and waaaaaaay more violent.
anominable scared me when i was little
My idea of Mandy staring off and the music- I think it’s like her developing PTSD. Hiking was supposed to be something fun and beautiful with her friends, but turned into a blood fest of her friends being eaten in front of her. Also I love how they present her as a girl that is like the best girlfriend ever lol, random but idk I just love her character and how none of the characters are weird characatures
Except at least two of them are dumb enough to say things like "Let's not bother to figure out how they think" and "it's big. It must be slow!". 😒🙄🤯. Herp a durr!
I find it weird how many people think you can not get a signal in the woods. You may walk out of it but the trailheads of most places have cell signal. Also, they have GPS that works without signal and there are apps that will at least allow a person to get a straight line back to the trailhead even with no signal. Oh and now they have a flashlight and camera, and compass, and star watching apps, and if you can get internet you can even try to identify plants and animals.
Seriously we need to change the name "Cell phone" to "Cellcom" you do not have a phone you have a computer... with a phone.it is very useful, it is like 10 tings you should have on you anyway.
Could the woods be a containment area and is only open to some public to both feed and see it’s abilities, and the military sack that was found could have been a soldier that went in to deep or got the short end of the stick to see how it handled arms fire?
Holy shit, it's an SCP facility lol
Why did they not find more paraphernalia of the military there? Another aspect a sequel could answer.
Fun story, my friends old house was close by a popular hiking trail. The property line was well marked with no trespassing signs. He had a shooting range on his property. Listen to signs, because you could end up down range. It happened about once a summer, and the people trespassing would always act upset, and threaten to call the cops. Which resulted in them being escorted to the property line, or in one big mouthed woman's case, arrest. Long story short, read the signs people.
A moose weighs in at roughly 1700 pounds and it can run at 35 miles per hour. I don’t know about you, but if you somehow manage to piss off a 1700lbs all terrain vehicle with antlers enough to break an Olympic speed record you deserve whatever is coming your way unless the moose is in musk or with its children.
All I’m gonna say is that you know your stacked when your only predators are grizzly bears who typically think twice about it and ducking Orcas. Oh did I mention moose are better at swimming than they have right being. It says something when the only thing that isn’t afraid to throw down with you is a ducking murder whale on steroids.
Even if you don’t piss of the moose directly if you nail one with your truck and you don’t speed up…when it crashes into your wind shield it will crush you to death.
@@YourBoyNobody530 A fellow connoisseur of Casual Geographic, I presume?
@@VelociraptorsOfSkyrim I see I am not alone in my love of the terror that is nature at its finest. Never liked all that national geographic bull crap where they blow smoke up your ass about the beauty of nature. Casual geographic is where its at he tells you the truth, and doesn't care whos feelings he hurts.
@@YourBoyNobody530 He also presents it in a humorous way.
That segue into Vanessa Carlton is a work of genius, or possibly madness... Either way, I heartily approve!
"Signs are more of a suggestion" Is not something you want to hear from a biologist, much less if he's in the lab
I like to think of it as if you don't go outside the rules occasionally, you'll never discover something
@@RoanokeGaming Fair point, no risk, no reward.
But remember next time you go hiking; you don't need to be the fastest one, just have a friend who runs slower than you
"Man bear rat" Killed me dude thank you so much haha!!
I have a theory that these creatures are descendants of flightless bats. They have dark skin similar to bats and their muscular bodies, which were once used for flight, have evolved for running. This can especially seen in the arms (kinda like the night stalkers from After Man). As they evolved to have a more terrestrial lifestyle, they would leave their insectivorous roots to feed on larger prey and thus also become larger.
I also believe that the great respiratory system the bat has allowed these creatures to fuel a more intelligent brain. This lead to them being able to hunt in packs, communicate, and make traps. The reason they do not have large bat ears is because they no longer need echolocation. They also have small eyes which many cave dwelling species also have. Thus, I believe these creatures are never left the caves. Ok anyways I’m a massive nerd so I’m just theorizing
Why would they no longer need echolocation? It’s a product of hunting in low light not flying, and if they’d given up flight and the ability to “see” well in the dark what would they have eaten and how? Surely a specialised lightweight skeleton is not the best place to begin in terms or becoming a large terrestrial predator , idk not tryna hate just seems like a really wild jump 😂
Like from Primeval and the Dougal Dixon book?
@@dubuyajay9964 Yes the Primeval Horrats of the future have intelligence connected to their echolocation processed through its optical thalamus. They have no eyes and a hyper active metabolism for incredible speed. They are carnivorous hunters.
I see them as an offshoot of rats that have grown in size and become apex predators. Like you I am hypothesizing. I go by the head shape and articulation and morphology.
You can see one , Horrat the "future predator" in the series Primeval.
The most surprising thing to me is that you can actually get "deep" into Connecticuts forests. I was originally going to make a smartass comment but apparently 60% of Connecticuts land is covered by forest. So yay for that.
Oh hey, I remember seeing this movie years ago and appreciating it using more practical effects for the monster
Love that you are reviewing the movie, before you start talking about the creature/disease. It gives context, cause I haven't seen half the movies you are doing. I also love your humor in the review part.
I guess I am in the other part - I love the review and feel ok about the biology discussion :D
He is a scientist in microbiology.
This was actually filmed at one of my favorite hiking spots, Case Mountain Trail in Manchester, CT
I'm gonna go find that place now, looks beautiful
I actually really like this movie. And so glad someone finally did a lore video on it.
Damn!
This is a good one~
Such an Amazin' design!
How do you get the ideas for what/who to cover? 🤔
I would like to see an analysis of this film, the artwork design and ideas behind it.
While I do appreciate the time stamps, There is no time skipping for me. I LOVE to watch these videos from start to finish>.< What surprises me is the amount of info provided when talking about the body's nervous system and psychology and other in depth details. I'm sure details are in google but it sounds like you have done this enough to provide the details confidently :D
24:06
_"I swear, life is just mother nature saying "Eh... Good enough."."_
Well, as you know, evolution doesn't promote what's best, it only promotes what's good enough to pass on genes, so yeah, that's exactly the case.
Like one argument against "intelligent design" is that all these mistakes and issues imply that God is a lazy engineer.
@@jeffumbach
The worst part is it's not just intelligent design creationists, it's also the people who idealize and personify nature, you know, the "it's natural so it must be good for me", "we should return to nature", "mother nature knows what's best", "our bodies don't need medicine, we have immune systems" type of generally scientophobic and technophobic people, that whole mindset is the reason antivaxxer movements exist and about half of the reason the vast majority of health/diet-centered communities, influencers, media, etc, are useless, at best.
@@My_initials_are_O.G.cuz_I_am that way of thinking has the capacity to thin out our ranks as we already have too many people with the rich taking the most resources,
Mother Nature absolutely says "Good enough" and moves on. "Good enough" is the point at which the creature will survive long enough to reproduce.
One thing always bugged me in movies like this where the group end up cornered in a barricaded house while a monster without any ranged capabilities is outside: No one ever thinks it a good idea to make some kind of improvised spear and jab the damn thing in its eye or mouth while it’s scrabbling at the windows!
I don’t care how darn tough a monster supposedly is, you hoke a solid four feet of pole with a blade on the tip into it, that things dying one way or another!!!
Edit: nevermind you mentioned it too Roanoke xD
amen to that brother everything feels pain to some degree
Havent seen this movie in a long while, was actually really hoping you could cover it, excited to see this breakdown
Finally someone covers this thing. It's really not given much in the film, which is both frustrating and cool at the same time.
I think there's a good point to be made that the military is in on this, particularly when it comes to receiving aid for distress calls. If park rangers or authorities went to help but never returned, there would just be more sent to investigate, especially for cops or paramedics. That would inevitably lead to an investigation. Since that hasn't happened, it seems likely the military is preventing access by first responders or park rangers because they know what's running around in there. The backpack from the military personnel is just another hint that something is up.
This thing was definitely made in a lab. It's too intelligent, unless it's been around humans and hunted them for a very long time.
This movie has turned this Biologist Zeus, into a Doctor Seuss, rhyming as if he's a little Lil Duce.
Yeah it was in the name Animal. It was just a predator nobody knew about that stayed in certain areas until disturbed. The human characters acted like Animals by not “overthinking” them and not learning about them and their weakness like you pointed out. The humans just hid and ran like animals, and so the predators got them. Storylines good could have used a bigger budget
Say maybe these creatures can also possibly burrow to hide during the day, giving that their claws are large enough to do so, and with their great senses they could navigate burrows rather well. And then with that added om top with their intelligence, they would definitely use that skill to their advantage, especially for navigation to certain areas without being noticed.
Certain details the Animal's anatomy make me think it's meant to be descended from dromaeosaurs. Consider the digitigrade legs, teeth orientation suggesting the process of evolving towards or away from a beak, and 'quills' & 'fur' as different forms of protofeathers. The entire concept might be intended as an update of Dale Russel's Dinosauroids
Between the rhyming and the song this is the best video ever XD
Glad you enjoyed it brother 🤣
@@RoanokeGaming Love your content brother! Wish you all the best!