"Why is someone screaming?!" "Oh that's my pet trimmer, he screams all night, I put him in the basement with water, food and a working radio when someone comes here"
Last 20 years of my life have been Siberian Huskies and cats... sign me up for a Trimming. I'd trade in my 2-3 hoovers/vacuums a year for a mop any day.
What's funny about this series is how quickly it goes from "Little Dudes that smell like rotten meat and Big Worm bois" to "Lovecraftian Eldritch Horrors"
That actually has an etymological reason- the word "carnie/carny" comes from the word carnival, which originates in latin! It's composed of "carn" (meat/flesh) and "levare" (to put away/leave)- carnevale in italian, which refers to the celebration before lent where people indulge in meat/sweets before they give up meat for lent- carnival legit just means "the meat is leaving" lol!
One thing about the Vita Carnis I find interesting is that unlike most creatures on earth, they didn’t spend time evolving through natural selection. Everything they do is pre planed and explicitly decided upon by that singularity. Whatever they’re here for it’s not natural or coincidence.
Seeing a freaky new creature eating out of your trashcan but you become weirdly attached to it so you bring it into your house and spoil it is the most human reaction I've seen in regards to something like this 10/10
@@Tactical_Tailgater what about doggos? They would be perfect for this example, they were originally wolves and then we saw them and went "yep your with us now, no bother that you try to steal our hunt every so often". Perfect for the metaphor, though adopting a racoon would be number 1 forever
@@Tactical_Tailgater true, but think to what dogs were before domestication. If we tried domesticating raccoons seriously, we would have a similar result, just a different animal with different behaviour but ultimately a pet
I will be honest, the advice of "there is nothing you can do to defend against the mimic except hide behind low furniture and make tons of noise" sounds like someone telling you to "attract the mimic and make yourself easily available to one"
Mimics are pretty skiddish creatures. Sure if they catch you off guard then you might become a meal but due to the FACT that firearms and other weapons are ineffective then best thing you can do is hide and make noise. We aren't really a danger to most people.
Your theory about the trimmings is pretty interesting with them being scouts to find out info. Also I looked back at the pet care guide and it said "Simply talking to them is plenty enough. You can talk about your day , if anything interesting happened at work, if you are working on any new recipes, or talk about the weather." This all seems very important info to relay to something. Even the new recipe one because of the spice.
Just throwing this out there (on a two month old video) the trimmings may actually serve as a explanation as to why people don’t react to screaming. The mimics want you to scream to find you and most likely hunt at night. Almost too coincidental that the trimmings scream similar to humans would at night when being eaten alive. Maybe the serve as a smoke screen and help the mimics when they hunt by preventing their owners from telling the difference between a human and a trimmings scream
Adding to this, consider how dense the population of trimmings actually is going by what the series tells us. Now consider just how much goddamn screaming is likely going on each and every night. They don't just desensitize people to the sounds of screaming - they can straight up choke the sound out to the point no one even has to decide whether it's a trimming or a person screaming.
I BET people would actually defend adopting trimmings if it were real life and they knew about this possibility. '' I can tell the difference betwen a real scream and my son!''
Thank you for not putting on an overly dramatic, corny, 'i will hunt you down in a back alley' voice. I really appreciate you being normal. _So many horror narrators refuse to be._
YES, I love horror videos and readings of creepy pasta, but the narrators are usually too much. The story should be scary enough - I don't need weird voice impressions on top of it
That Mimic chase sequence is genuinely so well done. The fact that we actually SEE it, as opposed to most analogue horrors that just imply the monster, makes it so much more terrifying. I should not have watched that video before bed
As SOON as I heard “mimics can look almost entirely human” and “the government is working to cover this up” I said “There’s probably mimics in the government...” and then I heard you say it and I felt so much better😅
The 60 degrees Celsius thing is absolutely realistic. There are a lot of spices and herbs, especially bottled ones, that have their flavors either muted or turned acrid if exposed to high heat for too long. Saying that too much heat will destroy the flavor is an amazing excuse to hide the spice's true spice
This creator is honestly creative! The trimmings being puppets and not animations are cool. And when Jane is taken by the monster you can see it’s a costume. But they played it well since the movements were fast. I only noticed this due to specifically looking for that stuff. But regardless it’s cool to see something that isn’t just animation.
The ending of this video genuinely gave me a deep feeling of fear, the fact you really put into perspective that it’s only a “PRINCE” implies there’s a KING. Which is so so scary
Makes you think about that awesome piece of fantasy art titled “the promised end” with the big flesh thing in the sky touching its tendrils down and rapid-mutating a huge crowd of panicked renaissance people
Man I Feel you. I Was Trying to go Outside with my Team Cuz we Heard Screaming. Some Tendrils Pinned me Down and Melted my Face. And SHOVED ME Underground. Very Rude, Aint it Mate?
1:05:11 Remember how the individual in the "cheesy crawl penne bake" video is wearing a full hazmat suit, gloves, and a gas mask? While the most obvious explanation is the idea of them being a member of the cult who doesn't want to fall under the effects, there's another possibility. They could be a mimic. Wearing covering clothes is one of the methods of ambush used by mimics- so that could in fact be a mimic trying to record the video without giving away their inhuman being. The fact that they repeatedly spill things and move in clumsy ways could be further evidence of that being the case. So this theory of yours- that mimics have infiltrated the government in order to weaken them and humanity on the whole- is entirely possible.
Or they are stumbling like that because the gas mask has failed and they are slowly experiencing the effects of a host infection, either way it’s something to keep in mind moving forward
But would a Mimic be chopping up and cooking Crawl? I mean, Mimics come from Crawl, so it would kind of be like cutting up and cooking your dad, right?
@@Rachel98246 I don't think that you can apply the same morals that humans have to them. They are a different species after all. Also we humans also use ourselves as ressources. Skeletons in universities to educate students about our body, some governments in the past testing weapons on human prisoners. Would make sense to me since the cook sometimes moves very sus and weird.
As someone who works night shift, travels home alone, and used to live alone, the idea that a mimic hunts people exactly like me? Yeah Im not sleeping for the next week. 10/10 series and great video
@@leowulf5280 damn you have street lights? i have a 3 hour walk in middle of farmland from working at a slaughter house so i really should not have watched this i guess i'll get friendly with a mimic
I think the trimmings might also act as a masking system for mimic attacks, the screams at night perhaps trying to mimic what their owners screams may sound like so the attack is detected far later, it may also act as a way to attract mimics to suitable hunting grounds.
Holy shit it makes sense. Another observation is that trimmings also like TV, so radiocomunications for them is attractive in general. The reason could be to lure people for mimics or something
I was thinking that the screening was to other "wild" trimmings communicating the information they gathered from being inside the home so that its relayed back to the rest of the carnies/ singularity via the trimmings going to the radio towers. This could work as well.
you sound like you are constantly fighting off a southern accent and i find it so funny 😭 there is a southern demon inside you and it wants to take over
I physically backed up felt my skin prickle during the scene where the person is hiding from a mimic in a closet. The genuine horror that mimics elicit is insane. I think the fact that it presents not as the typical “looks human but has a freaky face/super pale skin akin to being dead” and instead presenting as something that genuinely should be dead; a skinned human; but is very clearly not dead and is hellbent on making you dead instead makes it all the more terrifying. I would probably shit myself to death if I saw a skinned human sprinting at me at breakneck speeds, much less stalking me and then banging on the closet door I’m hiding behind. Genuine nausea inducing fear.
@@crowmudgeonI can imagine a human running from a mimic only to be trapped in a harvester, and I would like to know what would happen. The harvesters don’t look like they have eyes, so would they just kill the mimic too? Or would they attack with the mimic on the human? Would they fight over the human? It’s a horrible situation.
@@Pewpewbang762 I was thinking the same thing. I know they need to make the mimic visible, but it's silly for them to keep it on. At least have them attempt to cover the light up with their hand, then freak out and shine it on the mimic in their final moments.
I think why that scene was so scary was how drawn out it is. That was what 30 seconds at the least. The banging, and then the quiet steps, and the hand slowly entering the closet, and the head just creeping into frame. God damn that scared the hell outta me
the transition from the crawl to mimic was absolutely crazy, i was like "oh these things dont sound so bad, its almost like they are here to help us!" and then the mimic kicked in and i was like "oh they wanna eat us"
that part that got me when when he mentioned that they can eventually become human like, and then the advice given to people that ran into them was nothing short of suicide. Makes you wonder if the video was made by an advanced mimic, are cults started by mimics too ?
hey I'm a horror artist and I am almost always an advocate of pushing the boundary of art and making things that hurt people to educate them. That video of the family hit me in a way that I have not been touched in years, that was incredible.
The child screaming in pain made my primal instincts overload and pump adrenaline in me. I don't like it, it is harrowing, but that kinda makes me like it? I like how it's able to elicit that reaction out of me, it had a goal and it achieved that goal. That's art.
I love how this series portrays the Mimics: unrelenting, aggressive, and intelligent. A lot of analog horror series fall into the trap of the “Intimidation first” style of threat, where it focuses on intimidation and scare factor. The mimic just goes at it. Slamming through doors and tearing people apart. They really have no chill
I feel like their method of hunting is a bit like how humans did it: pursuit and picking off the easiest catch. I don't know if ancient humans picked off the weak and sick or if they targeted healthy individuals though.
@@47ratsinahoodie yep. We're literally classified as "persistence hunters". We do not have twee raw strength, speed and frankly stamina to compete. However, we have very efficient cooling processes and our instincts don't allow us to let our guard down as easy as some other animals may. So we would hunt animals by tiring them out, as well as ambushing. Exactly what the mimics do. Except they do seem to have slightly more animalistic instinct (although not animalistic intelligence) and more impressive physical attributes.
It was so horrifically immersive. Popular mainstream horror media feels so fake. But this... this makes you FEEL. This art as you call it evokes such a force of primal terror unlike anything I've seen branded on TV.
I've been caught off guard by horror before, but never had a horror property ever actually affect me like that did. I'm not exaggerating, I would hear children around me cry or scream and it caused me to freak out a bit. Even listening to it again, it's kinda freaking me out. Edit: Watching that straight through was probably a really bad idea, it took me like a week to get over that
Yeah I’ve never had something like that, it’s just a stomach churned and the visuals being so distorted makes it so that you can see sorta what’s happening, but you mind plays a huge part in its picture. Gut wrenching man
you know a horror series is good when you lose sleep over the thought of fictional monsters as an adult lmao. i can't get over how genius the mimic is as a horror concept, like specifically the kind that scares you the most when you're trying to fall asleep. an incredibly stealthy creature that patiently hides in your furniture and watches you until it learns your routine so it can devour you when you fall asleep. and it looks like THAT. if i'd heard about this when i was a kid it would've ruined my life. 10/10
@@livingl3g3ndjackson38 to be fair that might save you cause you could probably spot something that's off pretty easily. Or at the very least your subconcious brain would be screaming alarm bells if you don't knowingly spot it
The ending, where you talking about him being only a prince and "a trapped child crying out for help" reminded me of the son and mom in the harvester video. A scared son crying out for his mother, leading to the destruction of both of them, if we're to assume humanity would, or could, find a way to win against such a threat.
@@Lin-rh6qs Honestly yeah!! That and the fact that - in the storybook at least - the prince wound up deserted by complete mistake just like how the kid wandered into the woods on accident. Makes me wonder how far the parallels will go.
weird that the fake self-defense tutorial makes more sense in some parts like "shoot them" than the highly confidential information of "duck behind a couch and scream really loudly"
I have a theory about that actually... what if the mimics can't see very well? What if their "eyes" are for show? That means by crouching down and screaming... it thinks you are a trimming and leaves you alone. That would explain why the fake video tells you to spread your limbs out (to be more obviously human shaped)
@@games-wz7sz That's the one part of the whole thing that doesn't make sense to me. If the fake video tells you that firearms are effective and the real one says that they don't work at all, why do mimics need to sneak up and kill you when you're vulnerable? If they cannot be hurt by humans, even with weapons, then why be stealthy? No need for something that can stop bullets, knives, and any blunt weapon to hide when they can just break through shit and kill you. It doesn't make sense to me. Why be slow, methodical, intelligent, and cunning when you're invulnerable?
@@lemon4690 their hiding themselves, they dont want their presence to be known. Even if they cant die, they still prefer to have multiple quick meals than to have to chase their prey.
15:20 That actually _is_ a comfort, ironically enough Because if you run into a Mimic, you can be assured that your _impending death_ is going to be a quick one, and you'll only be eaten _after_ you're dead Because at least you haven't run into a Harvester or a Host instead. _Where neither of those courtesies are going to happen to you._
I love how you can tell that the Vita Carnis have evolved since the introduction tape. Crawl have become palatable. Trimmings have longer lifespans. Meat snakes now emit pleasant aromas. Mimics are more aggressive and hunt down multiple people at a time. Harvesters allow their victims to scream, drawing in more victims. Hosts use their spores to influence other people into spreading their spores even further. Monoliths... well there's not much to say. Them and the Singularity still have a lot about themselves shrouded in mystery.
I don't think trimmings live longer, rather like most living things they live longer (in some cases much longer) than their wild counterparts. It is not abnormal for a captive animal to live 2 or 3 times longer than their wild counterparts. I also question whether or not they are actually 'evolving' or if we are just learning more about them at they become more numerous and more invasive into our world.
I don't think crawl has become palatable but it seems to be moreso that the "flavor enhancer" (which we know is in fact just spores sold commercially) is what causes people to consume crawl
The trimmings love longer because people have them as pets. Animals in captivity live longer than wild animals. The fact they are more popular pets is weird but not odd either. The crawl still doesn't taste good it's just the flavor enhancer.
The joke about 'Your Mom's Cooking' gets me every time because my mum is FAMOUSLY bad in the kitchen. Due to *intense* ADHD she cannot remember that she started cooking if she leaves the room, and will start another task. With the stove on. Sometimes outside. It's amazing she has yet to burn down a building.
the mimics are one of the scariest things ive ever seen. the clip about them in the documentary was genuinely petrifying and the most scared ive been in a while
Basically skinwalkers. I'm more impressed by the monoliths and harvesters probably. Or the hosts. Speaking of which, there may be no elder monolith, but what if the monolith is an elder host?
@@ursidae97 I don't think mimics are that close to skinwalkers, honestly. Maybe to some modernized creepypasta versions of the creature, but honestly i find those to be boring compared to the original tale.
Dude I swear the whole idea of mimics scares me so bad, had me staring at a tiny dark crack in my closet door, fully expecting to see a dark fleshy face with a single soulless eye glaring right back at me.
I was watching vita carnis lol and my mum came in and said “What are you watching at 2 in the morning?” I had just watched jackmanifold laughing about the meatsnakes My response was “Big meat snakes.” She just left the room, absolutely mortified. I responded with that by impulse. My lungs will never recover. 🤣
nobody's talking about the carrion footage in the background in a lot of the video. y'know, the reverse-horror game where you play as a giant flesh monster that slowly adapts and gets bigger and smarter and eats people and then (SPOILERS FOR CARRION) eventually turns into a human and blends into society at the end... fucking BRILLIANT. you've earned a subscriber for this great analog horror documentary!
@@godlyvex5543 considering not everyone knows about the game, seeing the gameplay might prompt them to look it up. and then, upon playing it/watching a walkthrough, they'd see the similarities to vita carnis, and probably have a "woah!" moment. i think that's pretty brilliant, and i like being excited about things.
The child and the mother’s sobbing are just- I can’t. It’s so terrifying and genuinely upsetting. Imagine being a mother, and you hear your child crying, only to see them bleeding on the ground and starting to become paralyzed with those terrifying tendrils beside them. You know there’s nothing you can do, even if you manage to get them out of there, they’ll still suffocate due to the paralyzing venom, that is, if they don’t bleed out first. And then, as you grieve, you join them in bleeding out. Absolutely fucking horrifying.
horror is done best (or at least most gut-churningly horrifying) when it exploits things precious to us. The bond of mother and child, the urge to protect, are things CENTRAL to being a human. vita carnis recognized that
@@zinogoop1544 well i heard some theories that the man wanted and the father that was killed by that mimic were that son and father of that family. With the son getting into knowing more about the living meat. But gotten in some heat.
to add some thoughts to the theory section (to note, i have not yet watched the videos from the channel, including any updated content up to this point, so keep that in mind): - the meat snakes, as noted earlier in the videos, are the ones that have been the most accepted into society, being used widely for their destruction of waste. another integration into society? also, the elder meat snake disappearing incredibly quickly, despite seeming entirely immobile, could hint at a much greater sense of mobility. - i half-agree with the section about the trimmings. that they like to listen to the radio as much as they like to wail and scream, and that the monoliths have some control over radio, it's not impossible to say that they are being transmitted messages from the monoliths on the command of the singularity by hijacking human radio waves. then, at night, they emit wails that pass on those same messages to other nearby members of vita carnis. so, instead of them acting as 'spies,' they function more as bodies of communication. messengers, if you will. - a very interesting detail that stood out to me in the sections concerning the harvesters is that they pull their prey underground after killing it. in the section with the family, after their deaths, the photograph was used to confirm that they did, indeed, die by turning their bodies black. however, it also added a detail of giving them the same startling faces as mimics. this is all complete speculation, but i wonder if the consumption of humans by harvesters has to do with the production of mimics?? as in, the crawlers have to consume certain types of meat in order to create mimics, especially humans and large animals. this could perhaps tie in to the boom in the population of mimics during certain years in the early 1970s. - it strikes me that nearly all of the variants of vita carnis have found a way to integrate with humans -- whether by our choice or theirs, as i'm not sure just how deep the possible corruption really is. aside from the monoliths and the harvesters, each of the other variants has found a foothold in human society. crawlers are being harvested and farmed for human consumption, trimmings are being integrated as pets, and meat snakes are being used in all manner of ways to limit human waste. mimics, meanwhile, might be literally integrating into human society, and host of influence spores have been being marketed as food seasoning, creating an apparent reliance upon them to keep humans coming back for more. i think it makes a lot of sense to their assumed "roles" in the heriarchy. if we are to assume that monoliths and harvesters are now working as the main line of defense, i can't help but think about the fact that monoliths only appeared much later, possibly around the same time that harvesters started migrating toward the island to protect the singularity as well. this would go well with our understanding of the processes, or metamorphoses that the different types of vita carnis go through. we know that there is an 'elder' stage to the creatures, but also possibly a secondary type of metamorphosis, as seen in the mimic species. is this unique only to the mimics, or do other species of the vita carnis also have a secondary possible form? jumping off of that, this seems to imply things for the specific time of events. i'm still in the middle of your timeline section, so i don't know yet if this is something you come up with or not, but the timelines of events seems to imply first a time of rapid growth and feeding, as the singularity bolstered it's armies strength while remaining mostly in the shadows. then, a boom of mimics in the 70s, helping further the integration of vita carnis into human structures of hierarchy. the i also completely agree with your analysis of the storybook creatures being 'humans.' i honestly just can't see how they could symbolize anything else with all the parallels to the information presented thus far. the delicious, delicious definitely-not-host-spore spice then went on the market, ensuring deep roots and further control over the human race when the time comes for the singularity to, i assume, go back to it's original home, before returning to reap the benefits of the world it once remained dormant in. i guess the question here would be: why? if we examine the children's story book, it's presented as a choice made of goodwill. the creatures asked for help for pushing their own agendas and the prince agreed. while it's in up the air how much of this is actually to aid humans -- maybe the singularity really thinks it is, maybe it has hidden intentions, maybe it's a bit of both -- i believe that, on the human side of things, this definitely has to tie into global politics. if the people were asking for help maintaining food and resources, wouldn't the obvious solution be to improve the conditions on earth? fight back against corruption of the environment and bolster natural resources. there's a lot to think about here, and probably a lot of my theorizing is just that. but this is certainly one of the most interesting, well thought-out explorations of a world this genre has to offer, and i get the feeling we're still barely scratching the surface. there's so much we don't know, particularly about how vita carnis works together with the other variants to bring about whatever goal the singularity is pursing. i'm definitely gonna be checking this one out.
"The day will come when our race is devoured whole and in the name of healing we will be swallowed up in the great maw of unimaginable wickedness..." Once again, Crowmudgeon has given me goose bumps. That line was absolutely amazing and captures the existential hopelessness felt in the series.
Everyone has talked about mimics being scary, but honestly, the Harvester freaks me out more, and that episode where the son and mother get caught by one has stuck with me even after all these months. Sometimes the most scary thing isn't the monster with the sharp teeth.
I'm more terrified of the Hosts. Imagine dropping to the ground in front of this non human figure while you're desperately fighting what your body is letting happen. You can try to distract a harvester You can't uninhale the spores
@@uwuowo214That is terrifying, but personally I believe that having.the option to do something to distract the Harvesters, albeit with a high chance if failure, makes them more terrifying, at least to me. With the Host, you just get mind controled and killed, there isn't anything you can really do to save yourself and you aren't even truly concious for it. With the Harvester, imagine being on a hike and realizing you're standing within range of a Harvester, and.knowing that one wrong move leads to death. That is a far more terrifying situation in my books.
Isn't the harvester stuck to the ground? What stops you from getting a 20ft tall ladder or scaffolding and go full monkey on the trees like the floor is lava?
i used to be afraid of zombies as a kid to the point where i couldn't sleep bc i'd think one would break into my room and eat me now I'm an adult and for the first time since childhood i had that "i can't sleep, it's going to get me" response... to the mimics
When I was young my fear was vampires I was horrified of the thought of a vampire coming through my window and killing me so I always left my door open and my light on so I have an escape route... for the first time in years I reactivated those safety measures lmao
I usually fall asleep to a playlist of video essays that I was bold enough to add this video to. Woke up in the middle of the night to the mother's screams at 45:02 and my first thought was that I'd heard audio straight from hell.
like be fr now how do you fall asleep to THAT genuinely I don't want to look like a npc (there is literally the same comment) BUT BROTHA THIS CERTAINLY FEELS LIKE SOMEONE IS MENTALLY ILL I'M SORRY BUT IT IS WHAT IT IS 😭🙏
@@whyareyoudoingthis 1. Original commenter said they *woke up* to that, not fell asleep to it. 2. Original commenter said that they added the video to a playlist of other video essays, meaning this was likely not the video they fell asleep to. 3. Insinuating mental illness because you misinterpreted what the original comment said is weird.
What I find so cool about the whole mimic thing is the fact that the creature wasn't made with CGI, It's puppetry. I haven't seen puppety used in horror in a long time and it works a lot better than CGI when done well. Kind of like the animatronics in things like Jurassic Park! I know it's like paper mache and stuff but oh my god, that puppet, it scares me.
The world building is so good that I got legitimately kindof nervous being outside in the dark when I went out. I know it’s not real but I thought of how helpless I’d be if a mimic went after me, even if I ran inside to grab a gun it wouldn’t help much. This is the best Analog Horror I’ve seen.
I abso-fucking-lutely love the use of practical effects and exploring how they are made in this series. For example, the mimic attack at 15:15, I believe here they used a sock puppet as the mimic's head, matter of fact, if you skip frame by frame, you can actually see the bare skin of the arm of the person behind it. It's the simplicity that makes it all so much more scarier and why I love it so much.
@@Zarmdthecoolest honestly! CGI gets better every day, but frankly, i'll never get tired of practical effects. the good ones, the bad ones, the cheesy ones, and the godzilla ones.
I'm watching through this for the first time and holy shit. You made this at 550 subs? This kind of quality is what I expect from people within the hundreds of thousands or more, which you are well on the way to, and a goal that I am now assisting with.
Dude, the family death scene was absolutely terrifying. Actual nightmare fuel, definitely going to be in my head for a while. As someone who lives in their gamer cave, I haven't really had a fight or flight response until I heard that. Genuine terror in my brain.
I think it’s interesting that the storybook prince says he will heal the creatures home, not help the creatures themselves. Also with the crawl, the documentary said that the ecosystem was flourishing more than was thought possible. Just some food for thought
@@allinory Yeah you can see this in the very first episode with the crawl. It lives in harmony with nature, but infests human settlements despite attempts to utilise it. Also, the only 'hunters' of the carnis (mimics and hosts) almost exclusively target humans. The children's story wasn't lying, the Prince and his family (i.e the singularities) do help the worlds they encounter. They look for the root cause and eliminate it with the crawl and its offspring.
@@X-SPONGEDthat's still part of an ecosystem. things eat other things to stay alive, which are then replaced by more things. harvesters don't seem to actually be driving other animals/plants to extinction besides humans, they're just not actively helping them, which doesn't seem to be the point of them anyway. they, like the monoliths, seem to be more like security guards for the singularity, while the other carnis serve more direct roles helping the planet (creating nutrient-rich soil, disposing of uneaten corpses, getting rid of humans, etc.)
I cannot imagine the absolute horror of realizing that you're standing in the reach of a harvester and realizing you are most certainly going to die a horrible death.
Or like that moment of silence where you're standing frozen, staring at the tendril. All the primal parts of your brain firing trying to figure out the next move to survive, while drowning in petrified terror.
Scenerios like this makes you glad to be in a much calmer world like ours. Imagine these kinds of creatures or even creatures from other analog horror series existed. Life would be a living hell.
35:46 Even though the location of this sighting was redacted, the reason this snake is so big is most likely because of the London bombings in WW2, many civilians hid in basements, bunkers, or SUBWAY STATIONS. This would mean that the snake feasted on the civilians after a bombing and grew so big that it couldn't leave the tunnels.
Well unless that Meat Snake was always different, it would need to eat victims of the bombings without being blasted itself somehow. My interpretation was that the Meat Snake was somewhere in Nazi occupied territory, and the Nazis disposed of the bodies of political enemies, rebels, those they deemed "undesirables'. etc. to the Meat Snake for clean disposal with less cleanup for themselves. As for the cult stuff mentioned, I wouldn't be surprised if there were devoted followers of the Vita Carnis in higher ranking positions in Nazi Germany; using the story of body disposal as a cover up for cultist activity regarding the meat snake, maybe even going as far as to sacrifice themselves to it once the Allies were on their way to winning the war in Europe.
The screaming of the child as a skull shows up on the screen is probably the scariest thing I’ve ever heard, like I’m just sitting on my couch and am h o r i f I e d. That was actually sick and horrifying to listen to.
The whole audio from that portion of the video has me shaking like a leaf in the wind. I sincerely hope that was a very talented voice actor, and not a clip from the internet of someone in such visceral terror.
@@thatmack it was definitely a voice actor. while there are for sure some examples of unethical horror content creation (i mean, just look at The Painter series, it's been heavily criticized for a lot of elements), there is at least some semblance of a code between content creators in this space. that being, don't use real stuff. no real images, real sounds, etc etc. Most artists can even tell you that they don't like using real gore as references even if it doesn't phase them, just for ethical reasons. there's not a CHANCE that's a real clip, no way, NO how. so no worries. while i can't find the exact voice actor, i dont doubt that it WAS voice acted, or at least taken from a movie.
The trimmings being scouts could serve another purpose, people can't sleep for their wailing and that's why they are nocturnal and have to tire them out as the guide directs to keep them active, great way to tire someone even more out. it would also make people more sympathetic to the prince's campaign while also many would be less motivated to with their lack of sleep. Imagine if pets started to take over and if we went along with it, we could keep not only our loved ones but also our pets, alot fewer would fight it i think.
Speaking as a father to a young boy and girl, the sounds of the girl and knowing what you already know about the harvester, it was just so deeply affecting. I had to pause it and literally go and watch my kids sleep for a while and ruffle my daughter's hair. I really enjoy channels like this that can digest these chilling and really creative horror projects for sensitive souls like myself. It's a sub from me. X
I always wish that productions like these would have B-roll where they put their boogeymen in comedic situations, like imagine a cooking show hosted by a Mimic in full chef's garb and raspily voiced narration
Bro what if a mimic is chasing a human then a harvester just kills them and then there like ' well, you want it?' 'well you killed them.' and they just argue till they just split the dead guy
I heard of a cool theory, the trimmings are signaling to mimics about you. It likes hearing stuff about you so its probably telling the mimics info on you to hunt you better
I'm not really often scared by sounds or images anymore, but hearing a child scream as their flesh is torn apart then their mother crying in grief only to suffer the exact same fate is haunting.
@@17DiamondMan upon further inspection I have ripped out my optic nerves as they have failed me greatly. Yes, as a human I will say this is a very comforting noise. Do not take any action against the Vita Carnis as a result of this video. Officials are working hard to clear up any confusion caused.
I have a little 6 year old sister and the part where I heard the wailing from the child being attacked by the harvester and the calls for their mom really hit harder than it should.
Those two are the only ones that active try to kill victims. Besides the host and the two mentioned the rest are docile or don’t even actively try to attack humans
First time seeing this video and hearing the line “we’re almost at 550 subscribers” took me back cuz now two months later youre approaching 20k. Comgrats dude! You earned it!
man that final minute or so was amazing, i was starting to zone out since it was close to the end (no offense its a great video i just do that) but then just slowly noticing the slight change in manner of speech completely terrified me, it felt like the confines of this story were broken and it felt real. out of all the scary and terrifying stuff in this video your monologue was definitely the scariest second only to the child and womans screams because theyre just a damn cheatcode. very impressive good job
An additional note on the maps. In the crawl documentary there is a part on the north-east coast of South America that is shown as not having crawl on it. In the next shot that part has been trimmed away, as if it never existed.
@@YeetZmeN My brother on Earth, the Vita Carnis-free part of Earth on the map appears to be the coast of Suriname east of the Coppename, coastal French Guyane and northern Amapa.
There's also a major part of the story book itself that supports your idea of the prince calling his parents. In the final page of the story book he sets off to get help and then return. Him sailing away could represent the radio broadcasts, he will return with his parents to "heal" us.
I think that the scariest thing about the Mimics - and something that, in my opinion, was built very deliberately - is that they're not animals. They're smart. They blend in with us, they learn our patterns, they wear our clothes. They're sentient. You could be *friends* with a Mimic.
@@LarsTonguesInAspixhey Dan, feel bad about this, but I gotta eat. "What do you mean Gerry? " *Proceeds to remove skin* "well dang Gerry, starting to regret buying you those beers"
They are limited tho. They aren't perfect imitations. And that's what makes them interesting. They are skin walkers, imperfect and so uncannily fake yet still passable at a quick glance. You wouldn't notice them with clever disguises but one day you look in a picture and ones behind you in a crowd just staring creepy smile and all. It could have been tracking you and you never knew. If it didn't find you a bad target you could have been brutally murdered and eaten in your own home in your sleep. Or worse the image is recent. I wouldn't go home that night I'd stay at a friend's or family's house and call the authorities. But in the end you have to go home eventually. Go to work eventually, and you'll never know if it's our there watching, waiting for you to step in a room or out a door. Walking down the street every so slowly behind you. Hiding in your room while you sleep waiting for the day it catches you alone and off guard it may have even had the chance to kill you can it doesn't I waits and watches for who knows how long days weeks. Every night. And you never noticed
I remember visiting my sister in the sierra nevadas and seeing a fully bright red plant she said didn’t use sunlight like other plants and she found it creepy. Wasn’t scared but certainly unnerved after watching the series like a week previously. Turns out its lives off of fungus beneath the soil and is harmless but seeing bright red shoots sticking out from the brown it made me wonder if it was an inspiration behind vita carnis.
As some who live in the Sierra Nevada mountains that's Sarcodes (also know as a snow plant). They are completely harmless and are edible, very good to eat too! How the plant attacks by attacking fungus to live is very similar to crawlers
"Do not be so foolish as to think that he will not cry for help as all lost children do." HOLY FUCK That ending gave me chills. This is definitely my favorite video on the Vita Carnis analog horror, you did a wonderful job at conveying the horrors behind it all. Especially at the end, reminding us that if there's a prince... There's a Queen and a King above him. Holy crap
YES, i get why everyone is talking about how horrifying it was to hear the wailing of the mother and son, witch is rigthfully justified, but that ending man.... it gave me CHILLS! quickly went from being a recompilacion to feeling like part of the horror, its amazing!
@@crowmudgeon you probably won’t read this but mimics are susceptible to fire, as they are made of meat. So, having a fire sword on hand might be handy when alone
Imagine someone in the world just raising a Mimic, and somehow manages to fully tame one and use it for their mass murder. Nobody's going to know it's them, they'll just think of it as a Mimic attack
No possibile bro mimics are Smart and they eat only HUMANS . I just ask would u take order from a pizza or a nugget? No So a mimic will never take order for a man unless is what The singularity want
11:04 why is the sound of ripping lettuce so disturbing to most humans? That’s what sound was by the way, it’s actually really interesting how they make sounds for horror and just how out of the box some of the things are.
I would imagine it's because it sounds vaguely like bones snapping. to hear something like that in quick succession fills the mind with horrible thoughts and concepts
I remember showing my co worker the mimic one time and it freaked her out to no end. It’s easy to see why it’s so terrifying, the mimic is what a predator of humans would be like, it scares you on a evolutionary level
@@AJgaming-ce1ln we are apex predators by accident, not by design. We did not evolve to fill the niche of apex predator, we just got smart enough to kill everything on the rungs above us.
@@benthomason3307‘Smart enough to kill everything’ is an evolutionary niche in and of itself. It is our niche. The only reason the mimics pose a threat in universe is because some weirdo cult is running protection for them.
Technically there already are apex predators of modern human, but their pallete is not entirely human based like mimics’. Polar bears are terrifying tbh. They’re an apex predator of humans.
Me near the start of the video: "Oh, we can actually coexist with some of them! And the trimmings make for funny little pets! How nice!" Me at the end of the video: "Burn them all. BURN THEM ALL!
Conceptually, the Mimics are absolutely terrifying. Imagine something that could attack you with the ferociousness of an animal, but with the skilful strategy of a human. It knows to hide, wait, stalk, imitate, and has the cognition to understand your schedule and when you're at your most vulnerable. If something like that existed, it would change human behaviour. No one would ever want to be alone or would ignore strange noises at night. Yes, humans can do such things, but you can understand and maybe reason or barter with a person. But this thing is an animal with only one food source and it's locked its sights on you.
@@jonahulichny9874i think the scariest thing is that they can look just like us. Anyone around you can be a mimic, even your very best friends. They’re able to hide in plain sight, and that’s arguably worse than knowing where they are.
That Harvester video should be banned by the Geneva Convention as a war crime for how torturous it is, I still think about it after I saw it for the first time..😰
@@crowmudgeonWell here's something extra horrifying for you, because I found where the clip of the crying is from! And why it's so gut wrentching, and that it is basically a war crime after all.. o³o It's from a commerial for donations to specifically Yemen I think, and the crying is of a baby under 2 in the hospital for malnutrition. I thought it was just the world's best child actor, but jfc..
It’s crazy how amazing this series is for example I actually felt sad/bad for the family in the harvester story. This just shows how well made and thought out this series is.
The family when they are dying is really the hardest moment to go through in this serie, you can hear the short moment of the mother crying and without any warning she gets taken by the creature, taking her life with horrific screams, really horrible. Edit, : thank you all for 100 likes !
Hey I'm thankful for each of you that chose to click, and I'm happy that you enjoyed! Can't complain about a dozen or more people who watched and enjoyed enough to leave a comment 😀
Ah yes, the X-COM maxim. Start off using antimateriel rifles and full-auto 7.62 assault rifles, end up with plasma cannons and unobtainium flechette shotgun railguns.
Think that the implication too They show a pistol and the mimics avoid humans contact as much as possible. Plus the elder is shown to be bullet resistant. So the normal ones AREN'T. They are just determined and fast hard to hit targets. So shotgun it is then.
Its fitting for the company that "nutrire" in italian doesnt mean eating to satisfy yourself but purely feeding yourself to not starve. Pretty neat detail
Check out my interview with the CREATOR of VITA CARNIS, Darian Quilloy!
ruclips.net/video/FHZN-TjdgUc/видео.html&feature=share9
What's the name of the game
Carrion!
Time to pull out the shot gun and go full sicko mode on those mimics
@@RasmusBerggren-uo6uuTHATS WHAT I WAS GOING TO DO
By the way did you know that most bacteria work at the exact same temperature they say to cool it down to.
"In order to keep a trimming as a loving companion, you'll have to tolerate the nightly death wails"
So.... basically like having a cat....or a husky
Exactly
"Why is someone screaming?!"
"Oh that's my pet trimmer, he screams all night, I put him in the basement with water, food and a working radio when someone comes here"
Last 20 years of my life have been Siberian Huskies and cats... sign me up for a Trimming. I'd trade in my 2-3 hoovers/vacuums a year for a mop any day.
Dogs are WAY LOUDER than cats bro
@@AidsTiger I don't think you've had a cat, bro/lh
I understand why for meta reasons, but trying to hide in a closet while shining a bright ass flashlight made me super pissed lmao
Hahaha horror protag logic
see: the Prometheus school of running away from things
Eh. Even irl some humans do be that stupid
@@sampletexthereDon't get me started on that scene like bro all she had to do was run sideways lmfao
@@sampletexthere I know exactly what your referring to.
What's funny about this series is how quickly it goes from "Little Dudes that smell like rotten meat and Big Worm bois" to "Lovecraftian Eldritch Horrors"
When I was watching this I went from "Aww trimmings are cute" to "Oh god that child died a horrible death everything is bad"
@@TrenchWarrior1917 the scream audio traumatized me and now I'm here to do exposure therapy on my own accord🗿
@@ozzylepunknown551 My brother in christ wait till you discover gore with audio.
"Ah yes eldtrich horrors beyomd my imagination"
that's my favourite pipeline. the good ol' progression from "how could this little creature possibly be threatening to anyone?" to "Oh. Oh I see now."
The way you treat the “s” in carnis as silent makes it seem like you’re calling them all clowns.
Yeah, it's just the pronunciation from the series
*meaty honking in the distance*
@@benthomason3307 this made me cry laughing help
Here in the philippines we actually call meat karne
That actually has an etymological reason- the word "carnie/carny" comes from the word carnival, which originates in latin! It's composed of "carn" (meat/flesh) and "levare" (to put away/leave)- carnevale in italian, which refers to the celebration before lent where people indulge in meat/sweets before they give up meat for lent- carnival legit just means "the meat is leaving" lol!
One thing about the Vita Carnis I find interesting is that unlike most creatures on earth, they didn’t spend time evolving through natural selection. Everything they do is pre planed and explicitly decided upon by that singularity. Whatever they’re here for it’s not natural or coincidence.
Yeah, very interesting!
am i having a stroke or are you saying that most creatures on earth did not spend time evolving through natural selection
@@RagdollWraith yeah I meant to say that did spend time. I mispoke
@@nemobushstatue5111you can edit the comment if you want. Just add the n’t or not and it makes perfect sense.
@@kellymurtagh-quinn8058 hey thanks I just edited it. 👍
Seeing a freaky new creature eating out of your trashcan but you become weirdly attached to it so you bring it into your house and spoil it is the most human reaction I've seen in regards to something like this 10/10
honestly real
It's like the first person to adopt a racoon, or a cat owner in general
@@Tactical_Tailgater what about doggos? They would be perfect for this example, they were originally wolves and then we saw them and went "yep your with us now, no bother that you try to steal our hunt every so often". Perfect for the metaphor, though adopting a racoon would be number 1 forever
@@GamerGod-fp1tj The difference is that dogs are domestic, racoons just kinda tolerate us
@@Tactical_Tailgater true, but think to what dogs were before domestication. If we tried domesticating raccoons seriously, we would have a similar result, just a different animal with different behaviour but ultimately a pet
I will be honest, the advice of "there is nothing you can do to defend against the mimic except hide behind low furniture and make tons of noise" sounds like someone telling you to "attract the mimic and make yourself easily available to one"
Yeah for sure haha
Mimics are pretty skiddish creatures. Sure if they catch you off guard then you might become a meal but due to the FACT that firearms and other weapons are ineffective then best thing you can do is hide and make noise. We aren't really a danger to most people.
@@douglassmalls6934 Not today, mimic
@@douglassmalls6934 WE?
@@smartfella7914 Yeah, they really aren't too bad. In fact, if you get to know them, you might be surprised how harmless we are!
Your theory about the trimmings is pretty interesting with them being scouts to find out info. Also I looked back at the pet care guide and it said "Simply talking to them is plenty enough. You can talk about your day , if anything interesting happened at work, if you are working on any new recipes, or talk about the weather." This all seems very important info to relay to something. Even the new recipe one because of the spice.
I think it could also help mimics better immitate humans.
NOOOOOO STOPP THEY CANT BE SPIES 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 THEYRE SO CUTEEEE
@@mahitos_biggest_fan The cuteness is a lure 😈😈😈😈😈😈
@@mahitos_biggest_fan bro its a fucked up turtle without skin, that has some way to control radios and looks worse than a shot balsack
i absolutely agree
"The world of Vita Carnis is fraught with misinformation and everyone has a bias"
Phew, thankfully that's a ficticional world!
Right? I don't know what I would do if misinformation and bias were real that'd be so scary 🤔
guess i wasn't the only one who started asking myself questions
Yeah, thank God that only exists here and in Metal Gear Solid 2!
or is it.
@@dexbatcilis6075 (VSauce music) What exactly IS reality?
Just throwing this out there (on a two month old video) the trimmings may actually serve as a explanation as to why people don’t react to screaming.
The mimics want you to scream to find you and most likely hunt at night. Almost too coincidental that the trimmings scream similar to humans would at night when being eaten alive. Maybe the serve as a smoke screen and help the mimics when they hunt by preventing their owners from telling the difference between a human and a trimmings scream
I actually love this theory, thank you for sharing :)
That or the trimmings scream when near humans to tell mimics their prey is nearby.
Adding to this, consider how dense the population of trimmings actually is going by what the series tells us.
Now consider just how much goddamn screaming is likely going on each and every night. They don't just desensitize people to the sounds of screaming - they can straight up choke the sound out to the point no one even has to decide whether it's a trimming or a person screaming.
@@gingahbread4918so basically living next to hundreds of chickens
I BET people would actually defend adopting trimmings if it were real life and they knew about this possibility. '' I can tell the difference betwen a real scream and my son!''
Thank you for not putting on an overly dramatic, corny, 'i will hunt you down in a back alley' voice.
I really appreciate you being normal.
_So many horror narrators refuse to be._
I'll still hunt you down in a back alley, I'll just sound like a total nerd doing it lmao
Jokes aside, glad you enjoyed! :D
@@crowmudgeon I'm just imagining nilered in his monotone voice lmaoooooo😂
And lock picking lawyer is helping him too loool
I like his accent.
YES, I love horror videos and readings of creepy pasta, but the narrators are usually too much. The story should be scary enough - I don't need weird voice impressions on top of it
Thanks :)
That Mimic chase sequence is genuinely so well done. The fact that we actually SEE it, as opposed to most analogue horrors that just imply the monster, makes it so much more terrifying. I should not have watched that video before bed
You mean when they behave like f-cking idiots?
Honestly if it weren't for mimics I'd be fine with living in this world.
Edit: Nevermind, holy shit.
The edit made me laugh so hard lol
@@crowmudgeon now you know he watched all the way to the end
Yep lol
@@JetstreamSam343 I was like "Huh neat" but then the audio of that child and mother dying came on and I ate my words
Bro. It's like a war, but it's already lost. Isn't that cool.
As SOON as I heard “mimics can look almost entirely human” and “the government is working to cover this up” I said “There’s probably mimics in the government...” and then I heard you say it and I felt so much better😅
art imitates life, as they say
"mimics are extremely reisilient, so dont even try to harm them. if you think this is crappy advice... you're right"
I want one as a pet… or a monolith
You want a pet monolith..?
@@The_Raven11
@@thumtak_ Yah! But I don’t know we’re to get them :(
The 60 degrees Celsius thing is absolutely realistic. There are a lot of spices and herbs, especially bottled ones, that have their flavors either muted or turned acrid if exposed to high heat for too long. Saying that too much heat will destroy the flavor is an amazing excuse to hide the spice's true spice
OMGG I DIDNT EVEN NOTICE THAT
do you know the name of the game he was playing in the background
@@nocharactor Carrion
Ok Mimic
thx
@@Am_Yeff
This creator is honestly creative! The trimmings being puppets and not animations are cool. And when Jane is taken by the monster you can see it’s a costume. But they played it well since the movements were fast. I only noticed this due to specifically looking for that stuff. But regardless it’s cool to see something that isn’t just animation.
ruined it imo
@@frqstbite1001 lmao you thought it was real
@@tyrilius9732 no?
Practical effects >>>>>>>>>>
The ending of this video genuinely gave me a deep feeling of fear, the fact you really put into perspective that it’s only a “PRINCE” implies there’s a KING. Which is so so scary
Oh man, I'm so glad that you got that from it! That was one of my favorite parts of the video, so it's really nice to hear you found it so effective 😄
@@gerythionargarys7848 I mean, the storybook pretty much guarantees that there's more
Nevermind my last message, I see what you meant now.
Congratulations, you somehow made it more horrifying then it already is.
Makes you think about that awesome piece of fantasy art titled “the promised end” with the big flesh thing in the sky touching its tendrils down and rapid-mutating a huge crowd of panicked renaissance people
43:53 damn I can’t believe they killed a child just to make an S+ tier video. Massive respect to the creators
Yep, Darian still on the run such a shame
@@Asillylittlegamermy eyes were tearing up. It was so disturbing and horrifying
I don’t like it I understand why but it feels wrong it is indeed horrible
Double Kill
@@nebulisnoobis102 💀
Man, I really hate when I go in the woods and my face melts. Really sucks.
It's been really unpleasant for me too but I would call it an acquired taste
Francis: "I hate the woods!"
Man I Feel you. I Was Trying to go Outside with my Team Cuz we Heard Screaming. Some Tendrils Pinned me Down and Melted my Face. And SHOVED ME Underground. Very Rude, Aint it Mate?
The nerve
Mondays, am i right?
Imagine thinking you have a malnourished trimming as a pet just for it to grow up to be a mimic💀
Treat it right and you MIGHT live! And then you get a friend mimic :)
I love the idea of taking this weird thing home and after a while it just grows into some weird spindly guy that's just there for some reason
reminds me of cases where people accidentally adopts kittens only to find out it is a baby wild cat such as a panther
@@Subpar1O1 "Oh him? The strangely tall, red skeleton guy? Yeah that's Jeffrey."
Free bodyguard
1:05:11 Remember how the individual in the "cheesy crawl penne bake" video is wearing a full hazmat suit, gloves, and a gas mask? While the most obvious explanation is the idea of them being a member of the cult who doesn't want to fall under the effects, there's another possibility.
They could be a mimic. Wearing covering clothes is one of the methods of ambush used by mimics- so that could in fact be a mimic trying to record the video without giving away their inhuman being. The fact that they repeatedly spill things and move in clumsy ways could be further evidence of that being the case.
So this theory of yours- that mimics have infiltrated the government in order to weaken them and humanity on the whole- is entirely possible.
Or they are stumbling like that because the gas mask has failed and they are slowly experiencing the effects of a host infection, either way it’s something to keep in mind moving forward
But would a Mimic be chopping up and cooking Crawl? I mean, Mimics come from Crawl, so it would kind of be like cutting up and cooking your dad, right?
@@Rachel98246 I don't think that you can apply the same morals that humans have to them. They are a different species after all. Also we humans also use ourselves as ressources. Skeletons in universities to educate students about our body, some governments in the past testing weapons on human prisoners. Would make sense to me since the cook sometimes moves very sus and weird.
Could also explain why the voice in the video seems to be ai generated, because as far as we know mimics can’t well MIMIC voices.
Let that mimic cook
As someone who works night shift, travels home alone, and used to live alone, the idea that a mimic hunts people exactly like me? Yeah Im not sleeping for the next week. 10/10 series and great video
Thank you, and also be safe haha
I have an hour walk to and from work, half of which doesn't even have street lights.
@@leowulf5280 damn you have street lights? i have a 3 hour walk in middle of farmland from working at a slaughter house so i really should not have watched this i guess i'll get friendly with a mimic
same 🥲
@@jordanrea2311bros about to form an alliance with the mimics to bring them humans
I think the trimmings might also act as a masking system for mimic attacks, the screams at night perhaps trying to mimic what their owners screams may sound like so the attack is detected far later, it may also act as a way to attract mimics to suitable hunting grounds.
real
Damn that actually makes sense.
ouuuu symbiosis
Holy shit it makes sense. Another observation is that trimmings also like TV, so radiocomunications for them is attractive in general. The reason could be to lure people for mimics or something
I was thinking that the screening was to other "wild" trimmings communicating the information they gathered from being inside the home so that its relayed back to the rest of the carnies/ singularity via the trimmings going to the radio towers. This could work as well.
hearing a mother and son scream as I’m skiing really boosted me to be more productive. 10/10 I beat my last run time
you sound like you are constantly fighting off a southern accent and i find it so funny 😭 there is a southern demon inside you and it wants to take over
This is officially my favorite comment, that is the funniest way you could have ever put that lmao
Lmaoo
Oh my god... I WAS CONSTANTLY THINKING ABOUT THAT WHILE WATCHING.
I can't unhear it now lmfao
His mind is at a turf war with texas.
I think the existence of mimics opens the market for see through furniture
Now you're thinking like a true capitalist!
The hammock sales would go through the roof
Y2k vibes, we're bringing back clear everything. My couch can't hide anything is it neon green plastic.
Or simply well built furniture instead of 80% open weak garbage
Or furniture w spikess inside
I love how dorky and muppet-like the mimics look in the found footage. It's like we're being invaded by Randy Feltface's relatives.
They have punchable faces. I would absolutely throw hands with one. Elder mimic? Bjj time.
HONESTLY LOL
Likely because they seem to have gone through the effort of doing practical effects.
Like the first clip looked creepy but that 2nd one was goofy af
They must be his British cousins. We got tons of them over here.
This really is the most “fleshed”out series on RUclips I feel
It definitely give you a lot to chew on lmao
i would love to "meat" the make of Vita Carnis
The only problem i have with it is that some episodes take too long to get to the *meat* and potatoes
The creators just dont stop! no holding back, just bare **bones** terror!
I wanted to add a pun to the chain too, but I'm afraid I'd butcher it.
Really nice to see humorous approach to a horror analysis. Much more digestible compared to overly serious and dramatic channels.
Glad you enjoyed :D
See, I love horror! But I also hate it so I realllyyyy need these videos!
@@crowmudgeonthere is one thing i learned from this video
nothing can outsmart *gun*
I physically backed up felt my skin prickle during the scene where the person is hiding from a mimic in a closet. The genuine horror that mimics elicit is insane. I think the fact that it presents not as the typical “looks human but has a freaky face/super pale skin akin to being dead” and instead presenting as something that genuinely should be dead; a skinned human; but is very clearly not dead and is hellbent on making you dead instead makes it all the more terrifying. I would probably shit myself to death if I saw a skinned human sprinting at me at breakneck speeds, much less stalking me and then banging on the closet door I’m hiding behind. Genuine nausea inducing fear.
Yeah, that's my favorite scene out of the series still
I know this is trivial but I couldn’t help be a little annoyed they didn’t turn off the flash light
@@crowmudgeonI can imagine a human running from a mimic only to be trapped in a harvester, and I would like to know what would happen. The harvesters don’t look like they have eyes, so would they just kill the mimic too? Or would they attack with the mimic on the human? Would they fight over the human? It’s a horrible situation.
@@Pewpewbang762 I was thinking the same thing. I know they need to make the mimic visible, but it's silly for them to keep it on. At least have them attempt to cover the light up with their hand, then freak out and shine it on the mimic in their final moments.
I think why that scene was so scary was how drawn out it is. That was what 30 seconds at the least. The banging, and then the quiet steps, and the hand slowly entering the closet, and the head just creeping into frame. God damn that scared the hell outta me
the transition from the crawl to mimic was absolutely crazy, i was like "oh these things dont sound so bad, its almost like they are here to help us!" and then the mimic kicked in and i was like "oh they wanna eat us"
this goes from "oh come on they arent so bad they literally only eat literal shit and dead things" to a big "Oh okkkk they are terrifying predators"
jesus your profile pic scared me
that part that got me when when he mentioned that they can eventually become human like, and then the advice given to people that ran into them was nothing short of suicide. Makes you wonder if the video was made by an advanced mimic, are cults started by mimics too ?
@@TheDarkestPaladin they share some similarities to dinosaurs maybe this is the next dinosaur uprising
@@DREADD.mp3 hey wait a second..
hey I'm a horror artist and I am almost always an advocate of pushing the boundary of art and making things that hurt people to educate them.
That video of the family hit me in a way that I have not been touched in years, that was incredible.
Yeah. Honestly I regret watching that part. Felt that in my core and didn’t like it.
The child screaming in pain made my primal instincts overload and pump adrenaline in me. I don't like it, it is harrowing, but that kinda makes me like it? I like how it's able to elicit that reaction out of me, it had a goal and it achieved that goal. That's art.
@@MidniteSpectre The mom wailing doesn't make it any better, but at least it's not worse..
It reminded me of when I was a kid and I would scrap my knee really badly, so I didn’t react too badly to that, thank god
@@1confusedkitty745how bad were you scraping your knee?
I love how this series portrays the Mimics: unrelenting, aggressive, and intelligent. A lot of analog horror series fall into the trap of the “Intimidation first” style of threat, where it focuses on intimidation and scare factor. The mimic just goes at it. Slamming through doors and tearing people apart. They really have no chill
Man what lost 20 rounds in dota 2 in a row: Come here you little bu...
I feel like their method of hunting is a bit like how humans did it: pursuit and picking off the easiest catch. I don't know if ancient humans picked off the weak and sick or if they targeted healthy individuals though.
@@kentario1610 A little of both I think. Obv sick or weak animals would be easier to catch, but iirc we also chased animals to exhaustion
@@47ratsinahoodie yep. We're literally classified as "persistence hunters". We do not have twee raw strength, speed and frankly stamina to compete. However, we have very efficient cooling processes and our instincts don't allow us to let our guard down as easy as some other animals may. So we would hunt animals by tiring them out, as well as ambushing. Exactly what the mimics do. Except they do seem to have slightly more animalistic instinct (although not animalistic intelligence) and more impressive physical attributes.
What do you mean by intimidation first style threat? Monsters that scare the protagonists of the material and slink away for a later date?
As a dad with 2 kids and parental anxiety.... that mom and son bit with the harvesters had me chewing my cheeks raw. THAT is art man.
It was so horrifically immersive. Popular mainstream horror media feels so fake. But this... this makes you FEEL. This art as you call it evokes such a force of primal terror unlike anything I've seen branded on TV.
agreed@@michelles1250
I've been caught off guard by horror before, but never had a horror property ever actually affect me like that did. I'm not exaggerating, I would hear children around me cry or scream and it caused me to freak out a bit. Even listening to it again, it's kinda freaking me out.
Edit: Watching that straight through was probably a really bad idea, it took me like a week to get over that
Yeah I’ve never had something like that, it’s just a stomach churned and the visuals being so distorted makes it so that you can see sorta what’s happening, but you mind plays a huge part in its picture. Gut wrenching man
@@DylanVAI hope it doesn’t take me longer to get over it
you know a horror series is good when you lose sleep over the thought of fictional monsters as an adult lmao. i can't get over how genius the mimic is as a horror concept, like specifically the kind that scares you the most when you're trying to fall asleep. an incredibly stealthy creature that patiently hides in your furniture and watches you until it learns your routine so it can devour you when you fall asleep. and it looks like THAT. if i'd heard about this when i was a kid it would've ruined my life. 10/10
It reminds me of an Alternate but just.... primitive. It's horrifying since this affects the whole world
@@funnybones98 Nothing is worth the risk.
I stay home alone alot too 😢😅
@@livingl3g3ndjackson38 to be fair that might save you cause you could probably spot something that's off pretty easily. Or at the very least your subconcious brain would be screaming alarm bells if you don't knowingly spot it
I _really_ hate the Hostspore spice.
The ending, where you talking about him being only a prince and "a trapped child crying out for help" reminded me of the son and mom in the harvester video. A scared son crying out for his mother, leading to the destruction of both of them, if we're to assume humanity would, or could, find a way to win against such a threat.
@@Lin-rh6qs Honestly yeah!! That and the fact that - in the storybook at least - the prince wound up deserted by complete mistake just like how the kid wandered into the woods on accident. Makes me wonder how far the parallels will go.
weird that the fake self-defense tutorial makes more sense in some parts like "shoot them" than the highly confidential information of "duck behind a couch and scream really loudly"
I have a theory about that actually... what if the mimics can't see very well? What if their "eyes" are for show? That means by crouching down and screaming... it thinks you are a trimming and leaves you alone.
That would explain why the fake video tells you to spread your limbs out (to be more obviously human shaped)
@@games-wz7sz That's the one part of the whole thing that doesn't make sense to me. If the fake video tells you that firearms are effective and the real one says that they don't work at all, why do mimics need to sneak up and kill you when you're vulnerable? If they cannot be hurt by humans, even with weapons, then why be stealthy? No need for something that can stop bullets, knives, and any blunt weapon to hide when they can just break through shit and kill you. It doesn't make sense to me. Why be slow, methodical, intelligent, and cunning when you're invulnerable?
@@lemon4690 their hiding themselves, they dont want their presence to be known. Even if they cant die, they still prefer to have multiple quick meals than to have to chase their prey.
You got it backwards, the "duck behind a couch and scream really loudly" one was made by the compromised government and is fake.
@@whyiwanttooof0923 Makes plenty of sense. Even apex predators don't like getting into scraps and sneaking up on a burrito is easier than chasing one.
15:20
That actually _is_ a comfort, ironically enough
Because if you run into a Mimic, you can be assured that your _impending death_ is going to be a quick one, and you'll only be eaten _after_ you're dead
Because at least you haven't run into a Harvester or a Host instead. _Where neither of those courtesies are going to happen to you._
Lol yeah you get spared the chompers ultimately
@@jacobcombs9333 we dont know how they kill tho so thats debateable
@@biaxolotl5171 Best bet based off of what we know: you basically get whipped by a giant tendril
@@DJace3000 some people are into that, i don't trust it
how have I seen this comment somewhere years ago? or feel like I have, y'know daeshavue.
I love how you can tell that the Vita Carnis have evolved since the introduction tape.
Crawl have become palatable.
Trimmings have longer lifespans.
Meat snakes now emit pleasant aromas.
Mimics are more aggressive and hunt down multiple people at a time.
Harvesters allow their victims to scream, drawing in more victims.
Hosts use their spores to influence other people into spreading their spores even further.
Monoliths... well there's not much to say. Them and the Singularity still have a lot about themselves shrouded in mystery.
cool
I don't think trimmings live longer, rather like most living things they live longer (in some cases much longer) than their wild counterparts. It is not abnormal for a captive animal to live 2 or 3 times longer than their wild counterparts. I also question whether or not they are actually 'evolving' or if we are just learning more about them at they become more numerous and more invasive into our world.
I don't think crawl has become palatable but it seems to be moreso that the "flavor enhancer" (which we know is in fact just spores sold commercially) is what causes people to consume crawl
Perhaps the Trimmings could live more due to being pets now
The trimmings love longer because people have them as pets. Animals in captivity live longer than wild animals. The fact they are more popular pets is weird but not odd either. The crawl still doesn't taste good it's just the flavor enhancer.
The joke about 'Your Mom's Cooking' gets me every time because my mum is FAMOUSLY bad in the kitchen. Due to *intense* ADHD she cannot remember that she started cooking if she leaves the room, and will start another task. With the stove on. Sometimes outside.
It's amazing she has yet to burn down a building.
Trimmings are proof that humans will emotionally attach to ANYTHING
Seriously. Anyone interested in owning a trimming has never been to the frozen turkeys section of their local Costco.
I think their cute honestly. In a... ugly sort of way, like pugs.
@@tanzyvat5834 or baby bats
I FUCKING LOVE THEM THEYRE SO FUCKING UGLY IN A CUTE WAY AND I WOULD KILL MY ENTIRE FAMILY TO GET ONE
@@tanzyvat5834 They’re so pathetic in the way a wet cat is pathetic and that makes it kinda cute
"friend or foe?"
"FOE DEFINITELY FOE"
i love it
Lol
Timestamp?
@@alexkuteshevskiy2915 10:55 !!!
@@97people you mean 5:50 ?
@@marquespereiraalves2926 thats the friend or foe timestamp i did the foe definitely foe timestamp :D
the mimics are one of the scariest things ive ever seen. the clip about them in the documentary was genuinely petrifying and the most scared ive been in a while
Yeah, for sure. I'm generally pretty unphased by horror these days, but that scene is so well done that it still freaked me out lol
True. When they went "A mimic's diet is composed entirely of human flesh" followed by silence, i actually felt a cold sensation crawl up my spine.
Basically skinwalkers. I'm more impressed by the monoliths and harvesters probably. Or the hosts. Speaking of which, there may be no elder monolith, but what if the monolith is an elder host?
@@ursidae97 I don't think mimics are that close to skinwalkers, honestly. Maybe to some modernized creepypasta versions of the creature, but honestly i find those to be boring compared to the original tale.
@@cupcakejack7375 that's reasonable. I'm just saying to me they aren't the scariest because they're familiar. It's fine to not agree.
Dude I swear the whole idea of mimics scares me so bad, had me staring at a tiny dark crack in my closet door, fully expecting to see a dark fleshy face with a single soulless eye glaring right back at me.
I was watching vita carnis lol and my mum came in and said “What are you watching at 2 in the morning?”
I had just watched jackmanifold laughing about the meatsnakes
My response was “Big meat snakes.”
She just left the room, absolutely mortified. I responded with that by impulse. My lungs will never recover. 🤣
Lmaooooo good luck navigating that conversation over breakfast 😂
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Well, that’s a lovely next morning conversation lol. Hope breakfast went well 😂
The questions she mustve had for you lmao
nobody's talking about the carrion footage in the background in a lot of the video. y'know, the reverse-horror game where you play as a giant flesh monster that slowly adapts and gets bigger and smarter and eats people and then (SPOILERS FOR CARRION) eventually turns into a human and blends into society at the end... fucking BRILLIANT. you've earned a subscriber for this great analog horror documentary!
I think it was a pretty obvious choice. It's certainly a good addition to the video, but I wouldn't describe it as fucking brilliant.
@@godlyvex5543 considering not everyone knows about the game, seeing the gameplay might prompt them to look it up. and then, upon playing it/watching a walkthrough, they'd see the similarities to vita carnis, and probably have a "woah!" moment. i think that's pretty brilliant, and i like being excited about things.
Yeah, that game is criminally underated imo!
@@leolen8029 sooo true i love it so much!
I really wanted to know the name of it and now I do.
The child and the mother’s sobbing are just- I can’t. It’s so terrifying and genuinely upsetting. Imagine being a mother, and you hear your child crying, only to see them bleeding on the ground and starting to become paralyzed with those terrifying tendrils beside them. You know there’s nothing you can do, even if you manage to get them out of there, they’ll still suffocate due to the paralyzing venom, that is, if they don’t bleed out first. And then, as you grieve, you join them in bleeding out. Absolutely fucking horrifying.
There is nothing we can do😔
horror is done best (or at least most gut-churningly horrifying) when it exploits things precious to us. The bond of mother and child, the urge to protect, are things CENTRAL to being a human. vita carnis recognized that
@@zinogoop1544 Wonder what happened to the rest of the family
@@SilverCharioto they prolly lived but r grieving
@@zinogoop1544 well i heard some theories that the man wanted and the father that was killed by that mimic were that son and father of that family. With the son getting into knowing more about the living meat. But gotten in some heat.
to add some thoughts to the theory section (to note, i have not yet watched the videos from the channel, including any updated content up to this point, so keep that in mind):
- the meat snakes, as noted earlier in the videos, are the ones that have been the most accepted into society, being used widely for their destruction of waste. another integration into society? also, the elder meat snake disappearing incredibly quickly, despite seeming entirely immobile, could hint at a much greater sense of mobility.
- i half-agree with the section about the trimmings. that they like to listen to the radio as much as they like to wail and scream, and that the monoliths have some control over radio, it's not impossible to say that they are being transmitted messages from the monoliths on the command of the singularity by hijacking human radio waves. then, at night, they emit wails that pass on those same messages to other nearby members of vita carnis. so, instead of them acting as 'spies,' they function more as bodies of communication. messengers, if you will.
- a very interesting detail that stood out to me in the sections concerning the harvesters is that they pull their prey underground after killing it. in the section with the family, after their deaths, the photograph was used to confirm that they did, indeed, die by turning their bodies black. however, it also added a detail of giving them the same startling faces as mimics. this is all complete speculation, but i wonder if the consumption of humans by harvesters has to do with the production of mimics?? as in, the crawlers have to consume certain types of meat in order to create mimics, especially humans and large animals. this could perhaps tie in to the boom in the population of mimics during certain years in the early 1970s.
- it strikes me that nearly all of the variants of vita carnis have found a way to integrate with humans -- whether by our choice or theirs, as i'm not sure just how deep the possible corruption really is. aside from the monoliths and the harvesters, each of the other variants has found a foothold in human society. crawlers are being harvested and farmed for human consumption, trimmings are being integrated as pets, and meat snakes are being used in all manner of ways to limit human waste. mimics, meanwhile, might be literally integrating into human society, and host of influence spores have been being marketed as food seasoning, creating an apparent reliance upon them to keep humans coming back for more.
i think it makes a lot of sense to their assumed "roles" in the heriarchy. if we are to assume that monoliths and harvesters are now working as the main line of defense, i can't help but think about the fact that monoliths only appeared much later, possibly around the same time that harvesters started migrating toward the island to protect the singularity as well. this would go well with our understanding of the processes, or metamorphoses that the different types of vita carnis go through. we know that there is an 'elder' stage to the creatures, but also possibly a secondary type of metamorphosis, as seen in the mimic species. is this unique only to the mimics, or do other species of the vita carnis also have a secondary possible form?
jumping off of that, this seems to imply things for the specific time of events. i'm still in the middle of your timeline section, so i don't know yet if this is something you come up with or not, but the timelines of events seems to imply first a time of rapid growth and feeding, as the singularity bolstered it's armies strength while remaining mostly in the shadows. then, a boom of mimics in the 70s, helping further the integration of vita carnis into human structures of hierarchy. the
i also completely agree with your analysis of the storybook creatures being 'humans.' i honestly just can't see how they could symbolize anything else with all the parallels to the information presented thus far. the delicious, delicious definitely-not-host-spore spice then went on the market, ensuring deep roots and further control over the human race when the time comes for the singularity to, i assume, go back to it's original home, before returning to reap the benefits of the world it once remained dormant in.
i guess the question here would be: why? if we examine the children's story book, it's presented as a choice made of goodwill. the creatures asked for help for pushing their own agendas and the prince agreed. while it's in up the air how much of this is actually to aid humans -- maybe the singularity really thinks it is, maybe it has hidden intentions, maybe it's a bit of both -- i believe that, on the human side of things, this definitely has to tie into global politics. if the people were asking for help maintaining food and resources, wouldn't the obvious solution be to improve the conditions on earth? fight back against corruption of the environment and bolster natural resources.
there's a lot to think about here, and probably a lot of my theorizing is just that. but this is certainly one of the most interesting, well thought-out explorations of a world this genre has to offer, and i get the feeling we're still barely scratching the surface. there's so much we don't know, particularly about how vita carnis works together with the other variants to bring about whatever goal the singularity is pursing. i'm definitely gonna be checking this one out.
"The day will come when our race is devoured whole and in the name of healing we will be swallowed up in the great maw of unimaginable wickedness..." Once again, Crowmudgeon has given me goose bumps. That line was absolutely amazing and captures the existential hopelessness felt in the series.
I'm glad you liked that line! I got it on the page and was like "Yup I gotta leave it at that" 😂
Gives me Tyranid vibes, absolutely love it
Everyone has talked about mimics being scary, but honestly, the Harvester freaks me out more, and that episode where the son and mother get caught by one has stuck with me even after all these months. Sometimes the most scary thing isn't the monster with the sharp teeth.
I'm more terrified of the Hosts.
Imagine dropping to the ground in front of this non human figure while you're desperately fighting what your body is letting happen.
You can try to distract a harvester
You can't uninhale the spores
@@uwuowo214That is terrifying, but personally I believe that having.the option to do something to distract the Harvesters, albeit with a high chance if failure, makes them more terrifying, at least to me. With the Host, you just get mind controled and killed, there isn't anything you can really do to save yourself and you aren't even truly concious for it. With the Harvester, imagine being on a hike and realizing you're standing within range of a Harvester, and.knowing that one wrong move leads to death. That is a far more terrifying situation in my books.
@@uwuowo214but people can just trap you in an enclosed and then the spore effects will vanish soon or just make you go to the hospital
The screams of the mom and kid are haunting. Actually make me feel sick
Isn't the harvester stuck to the ground? What stops you from getting a 20ft tall ladder or scaffolding and go full monkey on the trees like the floor is lava?
i used to be afraid of zombies as a kid to the point where i couldn't sleep bc i'd think one would break into my room and eat me
now I'm an adult and for the first time since childhood i had that "i can't sleep, it's going to get me" response... to the mimics
Oof yeah that sounds awful
Lol it was the same for me , every night I was locking the door to my room becouse I was scared zombies will eat me while I was asleep :))))
Thats rough buddy. I hate zombie dreams, they always make me feel weak or powerless even if I start the dream off with weapons and shit lmaoo
I had a hard time falling asleep after seeing the closet footage for the first time.
When I was young my fear was vampires I was horrified of the thought of a vampire coming through my window and killing me so I always left my door open and my light on so I have an escape route... for the first time in years I reactivated those safety measures lmao
I usually fall asleep to a playlist of video essays that I was bold enough to add this video to. Woke up in the middle of the night to the mother's screams at 45:02 and my first thought was that I'd heard audio straight from hell.
@@fenrisilver how could you fall asleep to this😭😭
like be fr now how do you fall asleep to THAT genuinely I don't want to look like a npc (there is literally the same comment) BUT BROTHA THIS CERTAINLY FEELS LIKE SOMEONE IS MENTALLY ILL I'M SORRY BUT IT IS WHAT IT IS 😭🙏
@@whyareyoudoingthis Weird ass comment, ngl.
@@whyareyoudoingthis
1. Original commenter said they *woke up* to that, not fell asleep to it.
2. Original commenter said that they added the video to a playlist of other video essays, meaning this was likely not the video they fell asleep to.
3. Insinuating mental illness because you misinterpreted what the original comment said is weird.
@@TamakkiScales it literally says that they woke up to it. Not fell asleep to it.
What I find so cool about the whole mimic thing is the fact that the creature wasn't made with CGI, It's puppetry. I haven't seen puppety used in horror in a long time and it works a lot better than CGI when done well. Kind of like the animatronics in things like Jurassic Park! I know it's like paper mache and stuff but oh my god, that puppet, it scares me.
Exactly! That's part of what makes this series so cool and special to me too!
I didn't even know HOW They made it.
When I realized it was a puppet I went "oh sick daisy brown reference" (like i know it probably wasn't but Julia was an innovator and I won't forget)
No no, Darian actually confirmed in our interview that Daisy Brown was a big inspiration for him! @@_gremlinboy
pretty sure this is the first time i’ve seen practical effects in analogue horror
The world building is so good that I got legitimately kindof nervous being outside in the dark when I went out. I know it’s not real but I thought of how helpless I’d be if a mimic went after me, even if I ran inside to grab a gun it wouldn’t help much. This is the best Analog Horror I’ve seen.
As a non American I would love to have your gun laws
@@reins8053 same hahaha
I abso-fucking-lutely love the use of practical effects and exploring how they are made in this series. For example, the mimic attack at 15:15, I believe here they used a sock puppet as the mimic's head, matter of fact, if you skip frame by frame, you can actually see the bare skin of the arm of the person behind it. It's the simplicity that makes it all so much more scarier and why I love it so much.
Holy shit what kind of sock puppet is that ☠️
I know!!!! It's so refreshing seeing good practical effects these days too
@@Zarmdthecoolest honestly! CGI gets better every day, but frankly, i'll never get tired of practical effects. the good ones, the bad ones, the cheesy ones, and the godzilla ones.
it's peak uncanny valley that gets that feeling of "wrong" so perfectly in your gut, absolutely amazing.
I also like that they left their flashlight on when hiding
I'm watching through this for the first time and holy shit. You made this at 550 subs? This kind of quality is what I expect from people within the hundreds of thousands or more, which you are well on the way to, and a goal that I am now assisting with.
Dude, the family death scene was absolutely terrifying. Actual nightmare fuel, definitely going to be in my head for a while. As someone who lives in their gamer cave, I haven't really had a fight or flight response until I heard that. Genuine terror in my brain.
I hate children...it's not evil enough to make me pity. I am sorry if I sound evil...but kids are so so annoying
My leg literally jolted away from my bed sheets when i first heard the scream of the little kid, like holy shit that terrified me
Play tetrris RN
IT SCINTFICLY HELPS WITH PTSD NOW
@@azazel_playz7055 what?
@@azazel_playz7055 exactly what i did didnt think someone would bring it up thank you for further informing people
I think it’s interesting that the storybook prince says he will heal the creatures home, not help the creatures themselves. Also with the crawl, the documentary said that the ecosystem was flourishing more than was thought possible. Just some food for thought
Yeah the prince took one look at our planet and said "I'mma be real with you guys, you are the problem" 💀
@@allinory Yeah you can see this in the very first episode with the crawl. It lives in harmony with nature, but infests human settlements despite attempts to utilise it. Also, the only 'hunters' of the carnis (mimics and hosts) almost exclusively target humans. The children's story wasn't lying, the Prince and his family (i.e the singularities) do help the worlds they encounter. They look for the root cause and eliminate it with the crawl and its offspring.
@@CHRB-nn6qpwhat about the northwest bulbs? They're giant bear traps for anything that steps in it, including wildlife like deer and wolves
@@X-SPONGEDthat's still part of an ecosystem. things eat other things to stay alive, which are then replaced by more things. harvesters don't seem to actually be driving other animals/plants to extinction besides humans, they're just not actively helping them, which doesn't seem to be the point of them anyway. they, like the monoliths, seem to be more like security guards for the singularity, while the other carnis serve more direct roles helping the planet (creating nutrient-rich soil, disposing of uneaten corpses, getting rid of humans, etc.)
@@JK-yt3dm yeah, that's fair. Humans have become the apex of earth so I guess the carnis are here to remind us that there are bigger fish in the sea
I cannot imagine the absolute horror of realizing that you're standing in the reach of a harvester and realizing you are most certainly going to die a horrible death.
Or like that moment of silence where you're standing frozen, staring at the tendril. All the primal parts of your brain firing trying to figure out the next move to survive, while drowning in petrified terror.
It has a 100% death rate if you step on it. nothing says people dont simply not step on them and therefore survive.
Scenerios like this makes you glad to be in a much calmer world like ours. Imagine these kinds of creatures or even creatures from other analog horror series existed. Life would be a living hell.
We woulda nuked the planet at this point
For some reason I just think an elder trimming would just be a normal trimming but ABSOLUTELY SWOLE
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But can you still kick it?
@@ahardworker2154I bloody hope so
basically a bulldog
@@crowmudgeon gigatrimming
35:46 Even though the location of this sighting was redacted, the reason this snake is so big is most likely because of the London bombings in WW2, many civilians hid in basements, bunkers, or SUBWAY STATIONS. This would mean that the snake feasted on the civilians after a bombing and grew so big that it couldn't leave the tunnels.
do u know the name of the game he as playing in the background
@@nocharactor might be carrion if thats what you're thinking of
Well unless that Meat Snake was always different, it would need to eat victims of the bombings without being blasted itself somehow.
My interpretation was that the Meat Snake was somewhere in Nazi occupied territory, and the Nazis disposed of the bodies of political enemies, rebels, those they deemed "undesirables'. etc. to the Meat Snake for clean disposal with less cleanup for themselves. As for the cult stuff mentioned, I wouldn't be surprised if there were devoted followers of the Vita Carnis in higher ranking positions in Nazi Germany; using the story of body disposal as a cover up for cultist activity regarding the meat snake, maybe even going as far as to sacrifice themselves to it once the Allies were on their way to winning the war in Europe.
The screaming of the child as a skull shows up on the screen is probably the scariest thing I’ve ever heard, like I’m just sitting on my couch and am h o r i f I e d. That was actually sick and horrifying to listen to.
I almost vomited lmao
Listening to that audio makes me think about my nephews and makes me wanna puke
i fell asleep listening to this and suddenly woken up by the crying/screaming kid and self defense chapter. cant sleep now sigh
The whole audio from that portion of the video has me shaking like a leaf in the wind. I sincerely hope that was a very talented voice actor, and not a clip from the internet of someone in such visceral terror.
@@thatmack it was definitely a voice actor. while there are for sure some examples of unethical horror content creation (i mean, just look at The Painter series, it's been heavily criticized for a lot of elements), there is at least some semblance of a code between content creators in this space. that being, don't use real stuff. no real images, real sounds, etc etc. Most artists can even tell you that they don't like using real gore as references even if it doesn't phase them, just for ethical reasons. there's not a CHANCE that's a real clip, no way, NO how. so no worries. while i can't find the exact voice actor, i dont doubt that it WAS voice acted, or at least taken from a movie.
The trimmings being scouts could serve another purpose, people can't sleep for their wailing and that's why they are nocturnal and have to tire them out as the guide directs to keep them active, great way to tire someone even more out. it would also make people more sympathetic to the prince's campaign while also many would be less motivated to with their lack of sleep. Imagine if pets started to take over and if we went along with it, we could keep not only our loved ones but also our pets, alot fewer would fight it i think.
The harvester family attack is probably one of the scariest things I’ve ever heard. The wails of pain are actually making me tear up right now
Man, same I had troubles trying to sleep the first time I watched vita carnis
It’s called nature
The audio is haunting. Genuinely makes me feel sick
Cringe@@HYDROCARBON_XD
No bc same, i was watching in the background and all of a sudden i just hear the dying screams of a child and their mother 😭
Speaking as a father to a young boy and girl, the sounds of the girl and knowing what you already know about the harvester, it was just so deeply affecting. I had to pause it and literally go and watch my kids sleep for a while and ruffle my daughter's hair.
I really enjoy channels like this that can digest these chilling and really creative horror projects for sensitive souls like myself. It's a sub from me. X
So happy to have you on board
That audio paired with the visuals made me lose sleep
You are not alone. This and Greylock messed me up
I always wish that productions like these would have B-roll where they put their boogeymen in comedic situations, like imagine a cooking show hosted by a Mimic in full chef's garb and raspily voiced narration
I love that idea
Mimic and host wojak pointing meme real.
hows this for one
mimic attack blooper reel
Bro what if a mimic is chasing a human then a harvester just kills them and then there like ' well, you want it?' 'well you killed them.' and they just argue till they just split the dead guy
The first animated kids show with a trimming as a main character just released!
Coming from almost 12 months since this was released, and you’ve almost made 100k subs. That’s amazing
Certainly been the craziest year of my life lol
dude this was simultaneously hilarious and yet so respectful of the nature of the series. u are criminally underrated
Thank you so much! I really appreciate your kind comment, friend 😄
I heard of a cool theory, the trimmings are signaling to mimics about you. It likes hearing stuff about you so its probably telling the mimics info on you to hunt you better
I'm not really often scared by sounds or images anymore, but hearing a child scream as their flesh is torn apart then their mother crying in grief only to suffer the exact same fate is haunting.
I Dont Get Whats so Haunting About it.. It was... Quite.... Comforting? Almost Funny? AM I OK?!
@@17DiamondMan upon further inspection I have ripped out my optic nerves as they have failed me greatly. Yes, as a human I will say this is a very comforting noise. Do not take any action against the Vita Carnis as a result of this video. Officials are working hard to clear up any confusion caused.
@@dantesparda14175 😐👍
@@17DiamondMan Ngl mate you might wanna see a therapist about that
@@Explorerofshadows I Dunno. I Always Have a Negative Look on Life, The More you Learn the More you Fear. :P
The drums slowly getting louder when talking about the mimic contradictions was so effective like it made me anxious 😭
I have a little 6 year old sister and the part where I heard the wailing from the child being attacked by the harvester and the calls for their mom really hit harder than it should.
I agree. I had to sort of skip around that part. I have a son so that hit me in a way i havent felt before
I've got an 8 month old little brother. I couldn't watch that either.
I take care of my 9 year old nephew a lot and while I could stomach it, it definitely made all the hairs on my body stand up.
The mimics and the harvesters are absolutely TERRIFYING
I know man, crazy stuff
Those two are the only ones that active try to kill victims. Besides the host and the two mentioned the rest are docile or don’t even actively try to attack humans
@@crowmudgeon bro the child and mother dying scene is so horrifying it makes me want to watch it again for the thrill
something is wrong with me
First time seeing this video and hearing the line “we’re almost at 550 subscribers” took me back cuz now two months later youre approaching 20k. Comgrats dude! You earned it!
Thank you! Yeah things kinda went crazy like 3 weeks ago lol
6 months later more than 80k holy
@@wrlds9049 “be not afraid, the algorithm has chosen you” -Archangel of Internet Fame
man that final minute or so was amazing, i was starting to zone out since it was close to the end (no offense its a great video i just do that) but then just slowly noticing the slight change in manner of speech completely terrified me, it felt like the confines of this story were broken and it felt real. out of all the scary and terrifying stuff in this video your monologue was definitely the scariest second only to the child and womans screams because theyre just a damn cheatcode. very impressive good job
An additional note on the maps. In the crawl documentary there is a part on the north-east coast of South America that is shown as not having crawl on it. In the next shot that part has been trimmed away, as if it never existed.
Even a world-invading alien ecosystem wouldn't be able to deal with French Guyane.
Even aliens ain't got shit on the cartel and favelas 😂😂😂
GUYANA STAYS WINNING BABY!!! 🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾‼️‼️🗣️💯💯🔥🔥
@@YeetZmeN My brother on Earth, the Vita Carnis-free part of Earth on the map appears to be the coast of Suriname east of the Coppename, coastal French Guyane and northern Amapa.
There's also a major part of the story book itself that supports your idea of the prince calling his parents. In the final page of the story book he sets off to get help and then return. Him sailing away could represent the radio broadcasts, he will return with his parents to "heal" us.
"Nurtire has been making your mom's cooking downright edible." Is, I think, the uncontested greatest line in this whole vid.
I think that the scariest thing about the Mimics - and something that, in my opinion, was built very deliberately - is that they're not animals. They're smart. They blend in with us, they learn our patterns, they wear our clothes. They're sentient. You could be *friends* with a Mimic.
Perhaps they could go far as to just being humans, emotions and all, how far do their mimicry go, to the point where it may not even be mimicry?
@@LarsTonguesInAspixhey Dan, feel bad about this, but I gotta eat. "What do you mean Gerry? " *Proceeds to remove skin* "well dang Gerry, starting to regret buying you those beers"
@@Asageun 😮
"sapient" is the word. Even a dog is sentient.
They are limited tho. They aren't perfect imitations. And that's what makes them interesting. They are skin walkers, imperfect and so uncannily fake yet still passable at a quick glance. You wouldn't notice them with clever disguises but one day you look in a picture and ones behind you in a crowd just staring creepy smile and all. It could have been tracking you and you never knew. If it didn't find you a bad target you could have been brutally murdered and eaten in your own home in your sleep. Or worse the image is recent. I wouldn't go home that night I'd stay at a friend's or family's house and call the authorities. But in the end you have to go home eventually. Go to work eventually, and you'll never know if it's our there watching, waiting for you to step in a room or out a door. Walking down the street every so slowly behind you. Hiding in your room while you sleep waiting for the day it catches you alone and off guard it may have even had the chance to kill you can it doesn't
I waits and watches for who knows how long days weeks. Every night. And you never noticed
I remember visiting my sister in the sierra nevadas and seeing a fully bright red plant she said didn’t use sunlight like other plants and she found it creepy. Wasn’t scared but certainly unnerved after watching the series like a week previously.
Turns out its lives off of fungus beneath the soil and is harmless but seeing bright red shoots sticking out from the brown it made me wonder if it was an inspiration behind vita carnis.
As some who live in the Sierra Nevada mountains that's Sarcodes (also know as a snow plant). They are completely harmless and are edible, very good to eat too! How the plant attacks by attacking fungus to live is very similar to crawlers
@@gasolineshephard8101 Only really edible if you cover them in a decent amount of flavouring once they've cooled down though.
@@melhupby 💀
"Do not be so foolish as to think that he will not cry for help as all lost children do."
HOLY FUCK That ending gave me chills. This is definitely my favorite video on the Vita Carnis analog horror, you did a wonderful job at conveying the horrors behind it all. Especially at the end, reminding us that if there's a prince... There's a Queen and a King above him. Holy crap
Thank you so much 😭😭😭
I'm so happy you enjoyed :)
YES, i get why everyone is talking about how horrifying it was to hear the wailing of the mother and son, witch is rigthfully justified, but that ending man.... it gave me CHILLS! quickly went from being a recompilacion to feeling like part of the horror, its amazing!
I love the editing you did for the video. Really adds a sense of humor to the series :3
Thank you! I'm really just trying to emulate how Vita Carnis itself has both creepy and comedic elements to it haha
@@crowmudgeon you probably won’t read this but mimics are susceptible to fire, as they are made of meat. So, having a fire sword on hand might be handy when alone
Imagine someone in the world just raising a Mimic, and somehow manages to fully tame one and use it for their mass murder. Nobody's going to know it's them, they'll just think of it as a Mimic attack
and then once it becomes and Elder it's over
well, at that point you don't even need fiction. Just tame a bear and have it murder people??
No possibile bro mimics are Smart and they eat only HUMANS . I just ask would u take order from a pizza or a nugget? No
So a mimic will never take order for a man unless is what The singularity want
@@skylag9928sir speak proper English.
@@skylag9928if a pizza helps me get even more pizza than what I would get just by eating it, yes I would.
11:04 why is the sound of ripping lettuce so disturbing to most humans? That’s what sound was by the way, it’s actually really interesting how they make sounds for horror and just how out of the box some of the things are.
I would imagine it's because it sounds vaguely like bones snapping. to hear something like that in quick succession fills the mind with horrible thoughts and concepts
When I heard it I just started laughing to myself and saying “that’s celery” cuz I don’t find that kind of stuff scary
@@SkippySanctus just a small glimpse in the dark, twisted landscape of your mind; a mere glimpse would make most simply go insane
because
I would guess it has to do with empathy, in a way similar, but stronger than the response of needing to yawn when someone else yawns.
I remember showing my co worker the mimic one time and it freaked her out to no end.
It’s easy to see why it’s so terrifying, the mimic is what a predator of humans would be like, it scares you on a evolutionary level
Yeah, considering we are apex predators
@@AJgaming-ce1ln we are apex predators by accident, not by design. We did not evolve to fill the niche of apex predator, we just got smart enough to kill everything on the rungs above us.
@@benthomason3307‘Smart enough to kill everything’ is an evolutionary niche in and of itself. It is our niche. The only reason the mimics pose a threat in universe is because some weirdo cult is running protection for them.
Technically there already are apex predators of modern human, but their pallete is not entirely human based like mimics’. Polar bears are terrifying tbh. They’re an apex predator of humans.
@@benthomason3307 common human superiority. Become the top of the food chain without trying
Me near the start of the video: "Oh, we can actually coexist with some of them! And the trimmings make for funny little pets! How nice!"
Me at the end of the video: "Burn them all. BURN THEM ALL!
If it bleeds it can die
Patterson get the flamethrower
Peterson get the flamenwerfer
Brother, get the heavy flamer. the HEAVY flamer.
“We’re going to explain every episode in detail” immediate subscription
That's the way I like to do it haha
fr!
Conceptually, the Mimics are absolutely terrifying. Imagine something that could attack you with the ferociousness of an animal, but with the skilful strategy of a human. It knows to hide, wait, stalk, imitate, and has the cognition to understand your schedule and when you're at your most vulnerable. If something like that existed, it would change human behaviour. No one would ever want to be alone or would ignore strange noises at night. Yes, humans can do such things, but you can understand and maybe reason or barter with a person. But this thing is an animal with only one food source and it's locked its sights on you.
What scares me is that they could hide seemingly anywhere. Under the bed, in the closet, a drawer, lots of places.
@@jonahulichny9874i think the scariest thing is that they can look just like us. Anyone around you can be a mimic, even your very best friends. They’re able to hide in plain sight, and that’s arguably worse than knowing where they are.
That Harvester video should be banned by the Geneva Convention as a war crime for how torturous it is, I still think about it after I saw it for the first time..😰
Forreal, it's rough to get through. I kept skipping over that part of the video while editing because I didn't want to keep hearing it lol
@@crowmudgeonWell here's something extra horrifying for you, because I found where the clip of the crying is from! And why it's so gut wrentching, and that it is basically a war crime after all.. o³o It's from a commerial for donations to specifically Yemen I think, and the crying is of a baby under 2 in the hospital for malnutrition. I thought it was just the world's best child actor, but jfc..
😬😭
@@ElectricRose9001Jesus christ
Gave me stage 2 cardiac arrest
It’s crazy how amazing this series is for example I actually felt sad/bad for the family in the harvester story. This just shows how well made and thought out this series is.
The family when they are dying is really the hardest moment to go through in this serie, you can hear the short moment of the mother crying and without any warning she gets taken by the creature, taking her life with horrific screams, really horrible.
Edit, : thank you all for 100 likes !
Yep good stuff
Wait no terrible stuff awful stuff 😰
I had to skip it bc it just kept going and was one of the most awful sounds I’ve ever heard
I truly got angry at the carnis for murdering children in such a way
@@Rb-xl4mffr that part actually gave me genuine fear.
i have tears in my eyes from this moment
I’m legit so confused why this doesn’t have more views… it’s so well made. And geez is this shit terrifying
Hey I'm thankful for each of you that chose to click, and I'm happy that you enjoyed! Can't complain about a dozen or more people who watched and enjoyed enough to leave a comment 😀
@@spacelizard6770Listen, if you knew you were going to waste your time, you should have just picked a different video. That’s on you.
@@spacelizard6770 my god you are an unpleasant person to be around
that Wendigoon clip is pure class, I went from being serious to laughing my butt off 40:05
Glad you liked it :)
@crowmudgeon I'm a little late to the video, but I'm glad you take time to respond to people in your community
I’ve been told many times. “ if shorting it doesn’t work, either A your using the wrong gun, or B your not using a big enough gun”.
Ah yes, the X-COM maxim.
Start off using antimateriel rifles and full-auto 7.62 assault rifles, end up with plasma cannons and unobtainium flechette shotgun railguns.
So either way, it’s A
'and if that don't work, use more gun'
@@TheVincenzoGaming this guy gets it
Think that the implication too
They show a pistol and the mimics avoid humans contact as much as possible. Plus the elder is shown to be bullet resistant. So the normal ones AREN'T. They are just determined and fast hard to hit targets. So shotgun it is then.
Its fitting for the company that "nutrire" in italian doesnt mean eating to satisfy yourself but purely feeding yourself to not starve. Pretty neat detail
WOAH!!!! That's genius! Not because of the meaning, but the fact that you'd never even think it _had_ a meaning
Creator is missing out on the opportunity to make a trimming plushie. I'd buy like, fifty.
Edit: He has in fact, made a plushie.
I bought mine INSTANTLY lmao
@crowmudgeon I just found out about it and HAD to place an order. I'm so excited for it.
Me: *is fully aware that trimmings are likely working toward the demise of humanity*
Also me: OH MY GOD IT LOOKS SO DUMB AND CUTE NEED IT
in the clip of the child screaming in pain, you can hear "Mommy it hurts" followed by shortly after by screams from the mother her self.
It's so rough dude
@@crowmudgeon it's been 10 minutes since I saw that part and i'm still regretting eating while i watch this video :(
He Does? Never Noticed That. Can Someone PLEASE Make a 1 Hour Loop of The Kid Screaming Though?
@@17DiamondMan 😦
@@GokuBlackRose978 ignore him, he's a troll
11:08 I love that you showed some gameplay of Carrion in the background there, Verry fitting.