@@MizunoEnma Yeah! Were they get that from? Forcing clams to make perfect pearls is pretty easy. No need for super soldier worms. Also how are those worms going to live in clams. There mostly shell and can barely move. Also they like saltwater and these worm can make salt your biggest weakness.
13:45- incredibly important. It is never a wrong decision to depict someone tearing off a person's arm and then hitting them with it. This is a hill I am prepared to die on.
It does make some sense in terms of pearls if those were not eggs but actual parasites encased in pearl. Parasite gets irritated by salt. Oyster gets irritated by parasite. Parasite hypercharges metabolism of oyster to get encased faster because its making it comfortable. Scientist notice effect and gets a "smart" idea to try it on human subject.
But like… WHY why would they think that would work? It’s been fairly well established that in some cases parasites can help calm the immune system so it doesn’t go nuts over otherwise minor issues but you don’t see people lining up to be injected with tape worms.
@@Lh0000 well don't look at me it would make sense with oyster because it would potentialy allow for geting more pearls in shorter time. Nope they don't have to line up. They order those online from shady pseudo-medical dealers.
Hey Roanoke I'd like to mention that people lift the mattress to check for bed bug nests. You can usually see discoloration under the mattress if bed bugs are present. And it's a good idea that they did this too, considering that house was abandoned.
The monster from the game Carrion might be a cool one to cover. I haven't even started the video yet but I know it's gonna be great. Love your videos I've been binging them after recently hearing about your channel.
As someone who dealt with Bed Bugs ( that I was allergic to so I’d wake up every morning with a rash ) cause the neighbors decided to infest my apartment building thus tormenting me for a year the urge to look at mattresses for the gross blood ick they leave behind never leaves. I still lift up my mattresses on the regular unconsciously and decide to check anyway lol it’s the Bed Bug PTSD triggering years later.
T_T i totally understand. i have a hyperactive sense of touch and am super sensitive to biting bug saliva. if i feel ANYTHING that feels like a light crawling skin brush i have to check it out. doesnt help my neuropathy includes crawling sensation T_T neighbors did us dirty and sent them over as well. TWICE! at different apartment buildings even my mum who was the one feeding the breeding bed bug broods has no long term issues like i do . for me (unless they hid in the wall) i bought a steam cleaner to nova nuke anything in my area if i even spotted one. tried to get her to use it but she just refused to learn how. so my side of the house was 95% clear of them while my mums was infested. i have seen the terrible thing called turning the light on and watching a huge hoard of bugs run T_T trust me you never wanna see that outside of a cartoon. my mother is still sad i threw that pillowcase out since it was from my sadly dead grandmother. however there were easily a few tens of thousand reasons inside that i screamed "NOPE!!!!!!" over and bagged it for garbage instantly. thank god we no longer have that issue.
I have something similar. Except for intestinal parasites after my cats caught them and I, massive dumb cat loving child that I was, failed to restrain myself enough from interacting with said cats till they were de-wormed. It's one of thr most annoying feelings ever to have something wriggling around in your body. Whenever I feel discomfort incertain areas, subconscious dread that they might be back takes hold. To the point that one of these days I plan to have one of those medical camera cords shoved down my throat so I can check to Make sure once and for all that my stomach and guts are completely worm free.
@@azariyelvarro6271 trauma from health issues is the worst I feel you. Was born with a rare genetic colon defect and anytime I feel nauseous after I eat I’m having a panic attack worrying I’m having issues with it again.
Well while I got to the video early, I would recommend checking out The Empty Man or Edge of Nowhere. The latter being an awesome cosmic horror game that seems to have a more scientific approach to the concept that could be fun to explain. The Empty Man you could formulate ideas from based on context clues scattered in the film that would probably be a combo of supernatural and biological. It is also a cosmic horror film which is a genre that has rad monsters and abilities that appear supernatural or could be some form of disease.
I am so glad that someone else (not just “someone else”, but one of the best science RUclipsrs) not only knows this movie, not only covered this movie, but ALSO NOTICED the weird fact that the parasites seem to have like 5 different designs which don’t even sync up with each other. I have no idea how this happened. To do this would be MORE work than just having one design (or if they needed different designs for different parts of the life cycle, they could just do like 2 or 3 max). Did they work with multiple visual effects companies and they didn’t compare notes?? What happened?? Why were they just literal earthworms in one scene? What the heck is with the one entering Justin’s foot?! Is that the same kind of parasite? Are there DIFFERENT parasites?? Growth, what are you DOING?
My issue/question I have is why does salt/salt water kill the parasite yet humans aren't necessarily "fresh" water? The average ocean salinity is 35 ppt, how does the human body's salinity (if you will) compare to the ocean? Doing a Google search, the human body is about 0.4% salt, so that's about 4 ppt? Ocean water would kill a smaller organism adapted to fresh or brackish water. Answered my own question but now I learned something new. I'm a biological oceanographer (most of my lab's research is in the San Francisco Bay, which is an estuary) so the ending irked me and I had to look that up. I still have issues with a parasite not liking salt/salt water when most of its life cycle is involved with saline environments.
@@solaireofastora3 basically it acts like a brackish organism. They can handle fluctuations in lower salinities but can't handle fresh or very salty water. 2017 was a very wet year and much of the brackish estuarine organisms in SF north bay were wiped out by a MASSIVE flush of fresh water from storms.
“Placing grains of salt in oysters” I know you meant to say sand, but it makes me giggle imagining a pearl farmer not realizing that his grains of salt are immediately dissolving
Speaking about parasite, would love to see you explore the weird human variant from the movie Society (1989). Supposedly, they are the descendants of parasitized human. Its quite fascinating.
Roanoke: “These scientists are dumb for believing the next stage of human evolution relies on parasites.” Also Roanoke: “Humanity likely can’t have longterm space colonies without synthetic compounds derived from parasite immunosuppressants.” 😉
Though this movie is grade A garbage, man was this was one of your most interesting "biology-explained" vids yet! I am always surprised by some of these new things I learn from your channel. Bravo, my dude! 👏👏
@SilverFatalis 5653 …. I….. what the fuck? It’s been ages since I heard about that series and the second I see it again it decks me with “oh by the way these mitochondria hate you and are inexplicably sentient”
Seeing the name Helminth in the video title made me think that you were covering the infestation from Warframe for a split second. Could be an interesting thing to cover sometime if you're up to delve into the games lore. Great video as always man, keep it up!
I thought the same thing, would be cool if he decided to get into Warframe, there's a lot of stuff to cover, even beside the Infestation albeit it would be the main attraction.
Never heard of this movie, but whenever someone says "Next stage/phase/step of human evolution", my expectations go all the way down. Organisms don't have established "stages of evolution". What he have are gradual adaptations to our environment. If someone has a mutation that makes them, say, better at filing taxes, then you could say that they are "better adapted", but they are not the "next step" of anything other than crippling depression and alcoholism. But, if creepy crawlies getting under your skin is the deal, I'd heartily suggest "They Nest" for all your roachy, parasitic needs!
you do realise thats the whole concept of these movies/shows/games freaking you out? thats like saying your expectations go down whenever someone says "fictional" cause its not reality
@@k5prr I realise that they are fictional, that is not the issue. The issue is that they are so often written by people with very poor understanding of what they are writing about. My suspension of disbelief is not willing to accommodate just anything fictional, especially not horror. It needs to be close enough to reality to allow the audience to forget, if only for a moment, that it isn't real. That's when it becomes frightening. How am I supposed to take something seriously if the story itself is unable to get its own basic premise to align with what we understand of biology? If it offered an explanation in the form of some pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo to justify it, then I could let it pass. But treating "evolutionary levels" as a perfectly reasonable scientific fact without any justification just shows that the writers didn't know any better. If they can't be bothered to do basic research into their own premise, then I do not have high hopes for the finished product. Horror is not an easy genre to get right, especially if you do not apply yourself. Sorry for the essay, I am high on Lipton tea.
In regards to feeling like your being watched I actually have a question; does your brain scream danger if it sees something on your preferal vision? I remeber I was at a outdoor museums for tanks in Texas and I was walking and about to put my foot down when every hair on my body shot up and I felt like something was wrong and looking down I saw a lizard I didn’t even know was there because of its camouflage
other senses do it too. it is just more common with sight since it our main big juicy sense that our brain is more hardwired to pay attention to. mine is triggered by hearing as well as touch since im half blind and have been turning to touch (i have hearing tone loss as well) to compensate. so i can sense bigger size objects, temperature changes if passing near shade. if noises are too deep for me to hear well i sense touch for them as well while i walk down the sidewalk making sure where i step is ok. (i lost most my sound distinction in the lower tone range with just a light loss for other tones) dog barking is interesting since it disorients me coming from bigger dogs. while it makes me irritated if its a high pitched one. think standing next to a speaker versus standing next to a ruler tapping on a chalkboard randomly. plus i can subconsciously hear and feel cars coming even from good distance.
I want to see Roanoke make a horror movie. I feel it would be very educational. Also, I don't know if you have done any of these. But here are a few choices for another creature feature! 1: The Relic. How the F does a man become a giant monster?! 2: Pitch Black. How do vertical hammer heads with tiny months become the apex predator? Also, how have they not eaten themselves into extinction?! 3: Godzilla. Any of them, compare Toho to Legendary. Would it be possible for something that HUGE to exist on our planet...and can a creature "eat radiation??"
While late to this party, for The Relic - in the book it only got to around 150% man size and kept the man shape, and this took years. It was Hollywood that made it turn into a giant creature in a few days. Always bugged me since I had read the book first. Another one you'd have fun watching is Black Sheep out of New Zealand. Weresheep by the LotR special effects crew, practical effects mostly.
#RoanokeGaming, Love watching a bad movie recap, instead of wasting 90 minutes of my time and actually learning something. Thank you. Much appreciated.
Dude, I love how you give us the biological and scientific side of possibilities. Very very entertaining. It's a bold strategy, Cotton, and it's paying off.
When it comes to checking the mattress early on, i think he may be making sure there arent anything like bedbugs in the house. But thats just my thinking
then there are the other weird things that single men put under their beds/matresses as well. kinda dont want your sister/girlfriend seeing that, or your just super curious if the old man was a freak. i just file it under the "reasons visitors secretly look in other peoples medicine cabinets" category. my true guess is both of them. especially since bug issues in rural places like that island are pretty common. plus extra worth checking if you have to sleep on it. you dont want anything gross in the same bed with you if you must sleep there.
About the feeling of being watched, there are quite a few people who has those feelings even without anyone around. One of the possible reasons is the "ghost frequency" that is a sound that might cause people to have this kind of sensation.
I'm kinda curious why all the parasites looks so different from each other. One of them, the one that goes into his foot, has a large flat body that is ejected when the starts to burrow into the heel, turning into a multi limbed, squid like creature. Then another looks like an earthworm with a centipede or pincer bug tail. Then other's look like tape worms, and others look almost like giant arthropod worm thing. It's like multiple different cgi teams were told to just create a parasite worm and they just threw all of them into the movie.
I've been binging this channel almost every day for a week now and it never ceases to amaze And it's helping me put together information for my own brand of fungus zombies for a project but even so, this is all so fascinating I'd be sitting at my desk just listening like :o ✨️ Keep em coming Roanoke ^-^
@@Gothic_Analogue I mean, most parasites are either harmless or beneficial A very likely theory is that Severe Allergies are caused by the lack of parasites
1:20 yeah your videos are great, but there were cases when I, not knowing American actors, by the end of the video had no clue what the title of the movie was, and reading titles and decdriptionsz pinned comment wasn't much of the hell many times xd But I love your videos and I thought I should start making positive comment more often to the people that deserve it, and you for sure deserve much more praise than I could give, so I'll just say thank you for both of your channels, there are days,.some really shitty days, and there's my yt showing me your video from a year ago or smth that I don't remember seeing, and after watching it I feel so much better, more relaxed. I really adore you for the type of presence your videos sealed onto in my life, thanks man
Hey roanoke. Have you seen Neil Blomkamps "Oats Studio"? I feel like you'd make such a good video on the "Klum" species from Rakka or the Golem made of human body parts from "Zygote"
I have legit been trying for years to remember the name of this movie after seeing a trailer for it on an old DVD and then losing the DVD. You have filled a hole in my brain Roanoke, thank you
I remember at one point completely forgetting the title too and searching Google for “movie about parasites on an island” and somehow Google DID find it. Google is a wingman.
May I recommend taking a look at The Host? The movie based off one of Stephanie Meyer's books I mean, not the Korean movie with the weird fish monster (Which is arguably something you'll probably want to watch immediately after as a pallet cleanser). I apologize in advance for any pain watching such a horrific movie would cause you.
I read Helminth and immediately thought of Warframe. Would be cool to see you cover on how the Technocyte Virus works, and if such a thing would be possible. Like the origin of the sentients, how warframes are made, and so much more that would take ages to type it all here.
I want to see you do The Strain now lol (vampire hive mind worm with recombinant polydnaviruses, which do not actually link you to the hive mind and can be used to enhance and even create hybrids if a mother is pregnant when she's infested)
Many of those parasites are normally the smaller ones, the ones that literally can’t kill you. At most they feed off of small amounts of food (in other words, crap) that goes through your gut. And while the parasites aren’t good, they aren’t bad either, as long as it’s not porkworm or something on the same scale it’s not too bad. Although, still not good to have them, be sure to get rid of them (if you have them) if you notice a sudden drop in weight. However always consult your physician about it.
@@jamesoclaire4512 I said the ones that don’t hurt you idiot, the ones that do should be immediately removed and if you read to the end I said that it’s better to have no parasites at all.
@@KrugerTheFox doesnt matter dude. Go find me a single organism, parasitic to humans, that eats the undigested food out of our shit. I will wait, and gladly admit im wrong if you can name a single helminth that matches that description.
@@jamesoclaire4512 the fuck? I was just pointing to what part of the video op was talking about. Not a specific type of parasite. I never claimed to be a expert or anything in parasites bud. Chill out
I'm fairly certain this is a Sci-Fi Network original movie so I don't think it would have been in theaters. But that would explain the low quality lol. I'm pretty sure this debuted around the same time as splinter the movie you covered about the weird parasitic splinter thing which also happens to be a Sci-Fi original movie.
Thanks for the content. Just a thought have you ever thought about doing a review on Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal specifically Plague of Madness episode? That sickness/disease/curse is the stuff of nightmares.
I'm sorry, but you're never going to convince me that that baby wasn't already massively infected. It was around far too many people who were infected. Also, anyone else get Wrath of Khan vibes from the parasite design, or is that just my increasingly dodgy memory? xD
Massive props for removing old sponsorships from your videos. Too many uploaders leave up irrelevant, outdated sponsorships for defunct companies, competitions, or even ones that turned out to be goddamn scams. And let's not get started on uploaders who provide relaxing content, but start it with, "THIS VIDEO IS SPONSORED BY"
One thing that bugs me about all these parasite movies is the constant theme of 'it can bite through your skin and crawl under in a second or less and crawl all through your body like it's sand'. Do you have any idea how hard that actually is? Like, how dense your muscle tissue is, how strong your skin is, etc? The odds of something that small having the bite force to open a body-sized hole in your skin alone would put it on the extreme end. being able to then crawl under the skin and disappear among tissues would not only be incredibly painful, it would also require a MASSIVE amount of dislocation of tissues, much of which would be muscles against other muscles, meaning just flexing your muscles could easily squish the critter in a lot of places.
then there is the problem of it rapidly crawling at surface tensions at mach 1 (bug speed) like your skin is just a rubber glove gently placed over your meat suit. there would be so much skin bruising you would be beet red from the pooling blood under your skin between it and your muscles. and they love those fast moving scenes of it on the edges of your ribs and on abs.......... that is called too much skin/blood vessel damage to live longer than a a couple hours let alone a few days like justin did. and a few weeks like uncle nasty did.
@@Everlucky_Clover Heck, given how they seem to randomly dive into the body or pop up from it, I assume internal organs are getting turned to swiss cheese on a regular basis. Like, why wouldn't they do that with lungs, or the heart, or intestines, or the kidneys?
@@colinsmith1495 agreed. all it takes is 1 of them being extra interested in your heart and poof dead host. Roanoke was right to put this movie's science logic in such a light that trash tier would be a big upgrade in logic quality >_
@@Everlucky_Clover Not only that, if the heart were still functional and needed, then body shots would be VERY effective. Maybe not immediate, but within minutes. But no, they confirmed in the movie that there's no heartbeat, didn't they?
I mean, Halo does it well, and it has movies. In Halo, the flood infection forms are 3 feet tall, have scalpel sharp tendrils, yet move around the same ways some bugs and octopuses do. It literally tears you open, doesn't snake under your skin so much as it rips it up, to get to your spine... etc. You can see how the body is really messed up by it. Even if it's a bit questionable that it can so quickly take control of your arms, get rid of the muscle limiter, and break your neck(using those arms it just stole), in about 6 seconds. It does make a lot more sense. I guess there just isn't an actual movie about the flood. Though, motion comics, anime, and video game cutscenes, do come close... wait, sometimes cutscenes are called movies, so therefore they do count! Aha! Flood movies confirmed!!!
So the mattress thing, I do that. I lift it up and check for small brown stains near the edges, and underneath. Dealing with bedbugs for months scarred me, so I do not trust any hotel, any sleeping accommodations, and my luggage is always away from the bed and outlets. Never put my clothes in the drawers either, and wash everything when I return home. That being said. Don't think this movie was smart enough to plant that seed
Is it possible that you could try to dissect the parasites from "Parasyte"? I've always wondered how it works since the movie/show doesn't really answer much.
@@raven4k998 unfortunately I am not talking about actual parasites. The parasites I am talking about are shape-shifting creatures who take place as humans to cannibalize on other humans.
I just want to say that I find the fact they check under the mattress understandable. My entire life my parents have always checked mattress of places we have not been to before for bed bugs, just to be safe. Maybe that is what there were doing.
Just for Toxoplasma gondii, prevalence is at 30% worldwide and up to 60% in western europe. And that's only one parasite.... If you add malaria, Chagas and intestinal nematods... 25% is if you live in a sterile bubble since birth, but IRL it's more like 85% of the population that has at least one parasite.
@@dirpyturtle69 You can find it on google or wikipedia, just type Toxoplasma gondii. It's common knowlege and isn't hard to find. It comes from a 2004 Lancet Article J. Montoya, O. Liesenfeld, « Toxoplasmosis », Lancet, vol. 363, no 9425, 2004, p. 1965-1976
Loved your videos mate I just finished watching them all 😅 least of this type. Made all these movies so much more interesting to truly begin to understand them at a deeper level
@@ladyfaeryj5108 I want to here him talk the science beging the hive mind cells of both, especially oracle cells. For a more rule of cool game/show Oracle Cells seem semi possible in some regards, single cell organisms that clump together to form larger organisms to feed on other cells to replenish their own.
You mentioned the growth of allergies, have any of the studies looked into the potential of cleaning chemicals inspiring this somewhat? Many of the ones which are legal for use can cause inflammation issues, if there's remaining parts of it in the food and drink we consume may it cause this at all? I'm curious but don't know how I could find research on that front.
There is a book that does this whole idea so much better! For anyone who likes this idea go check out Nick Cutter’s The Troop. More or less the same idea but just with worms.
Not trying to be captain obvious here, but yes, helminth is a type of parasite in reality. The fact that they chose to name the infested paralysis demon the same goes to explain lots of unwritten rules. Now how can he explain the process through which the infestation turns flesh into metallic tissue would be fun.
Just ask wesker man , he knows how cool it is to wear sunglasses at night 😂 I would actually like to see a sequel to it and show how it affected the world after it reached mainland even with plotholes.
Your talking about being able to technically read someone's mind by noticing more about them with your concious mind just reminds me how awesome Dune is. Long story short- the bene gesserit can "read someone's mind" through the same means. Essentially Dune's "superpowers" of Spice augmented people are just biology we know pushed to it's limits not some wild magic
Thanks for watching guys! hope everyone enjoys their weekend!
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And u have a nice weekend as well!!!
Thanks for the video and you too!
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This entire movie would make more sense if they said "we meant to make a symbiote but we made a parasite by mistake"
Venom 3 confirmed
*OOPS*
Mood. Also, why a parasite to make pearls??
@@MizunoEnma Yeah! Were they get that from? Forcing clams to make perfect pearls is pretty easy. No need for super soldier worms. Also how are those worms going to live in clams. There mostly shell and can barely move. Also they like saltwater and these worm can make salt your biggest weakness.
Symbiotes don't really exist. Even the examples people give are wrong.
13:45- incredibly important. It is never a wrong decision to depict someone tearing off a person's arm and then hitting them with it.
This is a hill I am prepared to die on.
It does make some sense in terms of pearls if those were not eggs but actual parasites encased in pearl. Parasite gets irritated by salt. Oyster gets irritated by parasite. Parasite hypercharges metabolism of oyster to get encased faster because its making it comfortable. Scientist notice effect and gets a "smart" idea to try it on human subject.
But like… WHY why would they think that would work? It’s been fairly well established that in some cases parasites can help calm the immune system so it doesn’t go nuts over otherwise minor issues but you don’t see people lining up to be injected with tape worms.
@@Lh0000 well don't look at me it would make sense with oyster because it would potentialy allow for geting more pearls in shorter time. Nope they don't have to line up. They order those online from shady pseudo-medical dealers.
Hey Roanoke I'd like to mention that people lift the mattress to check for bed bug nests. You can usually see discoloration under the mattress if bed bugs are present. And it's a good idea that they did this too, considering that house was abandoned.
Lies
@@minecraft4me05"LIES!" Cried the skeptic
but why would bedbugs be in an abandoned house? would they not die off without a food source?
@@VinRocks it's still good to check. Other bugs would likely take roost in it because it's soft and good for nesting
@@danieljohnson3320 yee
"We set out to reach ignition. A cleaner, more powerful energy source. But we made one miscalculation...
It was hot."
same energy as "Bullets! my only weakness!"
The monster from the game Carrion might be a cool one to cover.
I haven't even started the video yet but I know it's gonna be great. Love your videos I've been binging them after recently hearing about your channel.
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Yes! I'd love to see that the game was amazing
Yo that game is sick. So fun to just impale everything with bone harpoons
someone did that already
@@maybeimrambling9401 is the video as good as Roanokes content?
As someone who dealt with Bed Bugs ( that I was allergic to so I’d wake up every morning with a rash ) cause the neighbors decided to infest my apartment building thus tormenting me for a year the urge to look at mattresses for the gross blood ick they leave behind never leaves. I still lift up my mattresses on the regular unconsciously and decide to check anyway lol it’s the Bed Bug PTSD triggering years later.
T_T i totally understand. i have a hyperactive sense of touch and am super sensitive to biting bug saliva. if i feel ANYTHING that feels like a light crawling skin brush i have to check it out. doesnt help my neuropathy includes crawling sensation T_T neighbors did us dirty and sent them over as well. TWICE! at different apartment buildings even
my mum who was the one feeding the breeding bed bug broods has no long term issues like i do . for me (unless they hid in the wall) i bought a steam cleaner to nova nuke anything in my area if i even spotted one. tried to get her to use it but she just refused to learn how. so my side of the house was 95% clear of them while my mums was infested.
i have seen the terrible thing called turning the light on and watching a huge hoard of bugs run T_T trust me you never wanna see that outside of a cartoon. my mother is still sad i threw that pillowcase out since it was from my sadly dead grandmother. however there were easily a few tens of thousand reasons inside that i screamed "NOPE!!!!!!" over and bagged it for garbage instantly.
thank god we no longer have that issue.
I hate bed bugs. When my step mom came over from the Philippines some got brought back with them. They a pain in the ass to get rid of.
I have something similar. Except for intestinal parasites after my cats caught them and I, massive dumb cat loving child that I was, failed to restrain myself enough from interacting with said cats till they were de-wormed.
It's one of thr most annoying feelings ever to have something wriggling around in your body. Whenever I feel discomfort incertain areas, subconscious dread that they might be back takes hold. To the point that one of these days I plan to have one of those medical camera cords shoved down my throat so I can check to Make sure once and for all that my stomach and guts are completely worm free.
@@azariyelvarro6271 trauma from health issues is the worst I feel you. Was born with a rare genetic colon defect and anytime I feel nauseous after I eat I’m having a panic attack worrying I’m having issues with it again.
If you havnt already I'd get a mattress protector, really helped me when we had an infestation. Gives you peace of mind if nothing else
Well while I got to the video early, I would recommend checking out The Empty Man or Edge of Nowhere. The latter being an awesome cosmic horror game that seems to have a more scientific approach to the concept that could be fun to explain. The Empty Man you could formulate ideas from based on context clues scattered in the film that would probably be a combo of supernatural and biological. It is also a cosmic horror film which is a genre that has rad monsters and abilities that appear supernatural or could be some form of disease.
isnt edge of nowhere a VR game?
@@dariyanvalentine3564 Yee pretty experimental and cool one
I am so glad that someone else (not just “someone else”, but one of the best science RUclipsrs) not only knows this movie, not only covered this movie, but ALSO NOTICED the weird fact that the parasites seem to have like 5 different designs which don’t even sync up with each other.
I have no idea how this happened. To do this would be MORE work than just having one design (or if they needed different designs for different parts of the life cycle, they could just do like 2 or 3 max). Did they work with multiple visual effects companies and they didn’t compare notes?? What happened?? Why were they just literal earthworms in one scene? What the heck is with the one entering Justin’s foot?! Is that the same kind of parasite? Are there DIFFERENT parasites??
Growth, what are you DOING?
The duality of man:
"Ew! It's a parasite! Kill it!"
"Look at my new friend! It's kissing me! Haha it tickles!"
"Sloshing around the old Calcium container" I have never heard a better expression for a skull in my life.
My issue/question I have is why does salt/salt water kill the parasite yet humans aren't necessarily "fresh" water? The average ocean salinity is 35 ppt, how does the human body's salinity (if you will) compare to the ocean?
Doing a Google search, the human body is about 0.4% salt, so that's about 4 ppt? Ocean water would kill a smaller organism adapted to fresh or brackish water. Answered my own question but now I learned something new. I'm a biological oceanographer (most of my lab's research is in the San Francisco Bay, which is an estuary) so the ending irked me and I had to look that up. I still have issues with a parasite not liking salt/salt water when most of its life cycle is involved with saline environments.
The answer is: the writing is very bad.
My guess would be the amount of salt. The parasites can deal with small amounts of salt but the more salt there is, the worse it's off
@@solaireofastora3
So if a human were infected with a parasite(s), and they drank ocean water, would it kill the parasite(s)?
@@solaireofastora3 basically it acts like a brackish organism. They can handle fluctuations in lower salinities but can't handle fresh or very salty water. 2017 was a very wet year and much of the brackish estuarine organisms in SF north bay were wiped out by a MASSIVE flush of fresh water from storms.
1tsp of blood has the same salt as 1tsp of ocean water!
“Placing grains of salt in oysters”
I know you meant to say sand, but it makes me giggle imagining a pearl farmer not realizing that his grains of salt are immediately dissolving
Speaking about parasite, would love to see you explore the weird human variant from the movie Society (1989). Supposedly, they are the descendants of parasitized human. Its quite fascinating.
Roanoke: “These scientists are dumb for believing the next stage of human evolution relies on parasites.”
Also Roanoke: “Humanity likely can’t have longterm space colonies without synthetic compounds derived from parasite immunosuppressants.”
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beautiful juxtaposition XD
I came to the comments to say this exactly
@WASDLeftClick yea. Literally comparing getting infected with a virus to getting a vaccine or shot for it.
@WASDLeftClick trial and error
@WASDLeftClick it worked for weight loss
Roanoke mentions the allergy thing so often that I am starting to suspect he's trying to tell us something.
I keep sneezing
Eat your pound of dirt, kids.
@@RoanokeGaming ruh roh raggy
Lol.
@@jeaton1224 *ruh roh ragweed*
Roanoke, thank you for being our buffer for this. Your recaps make even the most insufferable movies entertaining.
Though this movie is grade A garbage, man was this was one of your most interesting "biology-explained" vids yet!
I am always surprised by some of these new things I learn from your channel.
Bravo, my dude! 👏👏
why a parasite and not a symbiotic creature?
Hey Roanoke, could try analyzing the deep sea parasite from Cold Fear (2005)? It kinda like Resident Evil.
Hell yes i want that
@Lis except that was the mitochondria rebelling, seeing humans as parasites, but yes, I'd LOVE to see him cover it.
@Lis they evolved over millions of years, gained sentience, and decided to rebel, and i absolutely LOOOVE that
@SilverFatalis 5653
…. I….. what the fuck? It’s been ages since I heard about that series and the second I see it again it decks me with “oh by the way these mitochondria hate you and are inexplicably sentient”
@@Lh0000 I've been a fan of the series for a loong time. highly recommend looking up the lorr
Seeing the name Helminth in the video title made me think that you were covering the infestation from Warframe for a split second. Could be an interesting thing to cover sometime if you're up to delve into the games lore. Great video as always man, keep it up!
That would be an awesome idea, hopefully he reads this comment.
I thought the same thing, would be cool if he decided to get into Warframe, there's a lot of stuff to cover, even beside the Infestation albeit it would be the main attraction.
That would require so many separate spoiler warnings.
Never heard of this movie, but whenever someone says "Next stage/phase/step of human evolution", my expectations go all the way down.
Organisms don't have established "stages of evolution". What he have are gradual adaptations to our environment. If someone has a mutation that makes them, say, better at filing taxes, then you could say that they are "better adapted", but they are not the "next step" of anything other than crippling depression and alcoholism.
But, if creepy crawlies getting under your skin is the deal, I'd heartily suggest "They Nest" for all your roachy, parasitic needs!
you do realise thats the whole concept of these movies/shows/games freaking you out? thats like saying your expectations go down whenever someone says "fictional" cause its not reality
@@k5prr I realise that they are fictional, that is not the issue. The issue is that they are so often written by people with very poor understanding of what they are writing about. My suspension of disbelief is not willing to accommodate just anything fictional, especially not horror. It needs to be close enough to reality to allow the audience to forget, if only for a moment, that it isn't real. That's when it becomes frightening.
How am I supposed to take something seriously if the story itself is unable to get its own basic premise to align with what we understand of biology? If it offered an explanation in the form of some pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo to justify it, then I could let it pass.
But treating "evolutionary levels" as a perfectly reasonable scientific fact without any justification just shows that the writers didn't know any better.
If they can't be bothered to do basic research into their own premise, then I do not have high hopes for the finished product. Horror is not an easy genre to get right, especially if you do not apply yourself.
Sorry for the essay, I am high on Lipton tea.
"I have moved beyond your feeble human comprehension... I *LIKE* doing my taxes. Look upon my returns, fools, and despair!"
-The Taxman Cometh
That sounds like the worst mutation ever lol
probably should've taken notes from Albert Wesker, and aim for total global saturation
In regards to feeling like your being watched I actually have a question; does your brain scream danger if it sees something on your preferal vision? I remeber I was at a outdoor museums for tanks in Texas and I was walking and about to put my foot down when every hair on my body shot up and I felt like something was wrong and looking down I saw a lizard I didn’t even know was there because of its camouflage
other senses do it too. it is just more common with sight since it our main big juicy sense that our brain is more hardwired to pay attention to. mine is triggered by hearing as well as touch since im half blind and have been turning to touch (i have hearing tone loss as well) to compensate. so i can sense bigger size objects, temperature changes if passing near shade. if noises are too deep for me to hear well i sense touch for them as well while i walk down the sidewalk making sure where i step is ok. (i lost most my sound distinction in the lower tone range with just a light loss for other tones)
dog barking is interesting since it disorients me coming from bigger dogs. while it makes me irritated if its a high pitched one. think standing next to a speaker versus standing next to a ruler tapping on a chalkboard randomly. plus i can subconsciously hear and feel cars coming even from good distance.
"Permission denied, Let that baby fry." Not the sentence I was expecting, but oh is it golden.
I want to see Roanoke make a horror movie. I feel it would be very educational.
Also, I don't know if you have done any of these. But here are a few choices for another creature feature!
1: The Relic. How the F does a man become a giant monster?!
2: Pitch Black. How do vertical hammer heads with tiny months become the apex predator? Also, how have they not eaten themselves into extinction?!
3: Godzilla. Any of them, compare Toho to Legendary. Would it be possible for something that HUGE to exist on our planet...and can a creature "eat radiation??"
While late to this party, for The Relic - in the book it only got to around 150% man size and kept the man shape, and this took years. It was Hollywood that made it turn into a giant creature in a few days. Always bugged me since I had read the book first.
Another one you'd have fun watching is Black Sheep out of New Zealand. Weresheep by the LotR special effects crew, practical effects mostly.
#RoanokeGaming, Love watching a bad movie recap, instead of wasting 90 minutes of my time and actually learning something. Thank you. Much appreciated.
HELL YEAH ROANOKE POST!!! WATCHING ASAP! Love your videos man, keep up the good work n have a great day!!♡
thanks for watching my man!
Fr everytime he posts i drop what I'm doing
I have not heard anyone else use the mannerism "like a fart in church" in YEARS. 20/10 video for that dose of nostalgia serotonin.
Dude, I love how you give us the biological and scientific side of possibilities. Very very entertaining. It's a bold strategy, Cotton, and it's paying off.
“As he dodges dips ducks dives and dodges”
No wonder he got away, last time a played dodgeball, I forgot the last dodge and got hit.
When it comes to checking the mattress early on, i think he may be making sure there arent anything like bedbugs in the house. But thats just my thinking
then there are the other weird things that single men put under their beds/matresses as well. kinda dont want your sister/girlfriend seeing that, or your just super curious if the old man was a freak. i just file it under the "reasons visitors secretly look in other peoples medicine cabinets" category.
my true guess is both of them. especially since bug issues in rural places like that island are pretty common. plus extra worth checking if you have to sleep on it. you dont want anything gross in the same bed with you if you must sleep there.
17:02 "permission denied let that baby fry" is a line i'm putting on a shirt
Can i get one of those shirts?
About the feeling of being watched, there are quite a few people who has those feelings even without anyone around.
One of the possible reasons is the "ghost frequency" that is a sound that might cause people to have this kind of sensation.
The slip up on my name (Agro Squerril Narrates) made me literally LOL , keep up the good work
I don't know how much potential it would have for the content of this channel but I'd absolutely love to see your take on the movie Annihilation.
I'm kinda curious why all the parasites looks so different from each other. One of them, the one that goes into his foot, has a large flat body that is ejected when the starts to burrow into the heel, turning into a multi limbed, squid like creature. Then another looks like an earthworm with a centipede or pincer bug tail. Then other's look like tape worms, and others look almost like giant arthropod worm thing. It's like multiple different cgi teams were told to just create a parasite worm and they just threw all of them into the movie.
Mmmmmmmagic……..
Pokemon-level evolution?
@@undeadprincess5726
Makes sense haha
I've been binging this channel almost every day for a week now and it never ceases to amaze
And it's helping me put together information for my own brand of fungus zombies for a project but even so, this is all so fascinating
I'd be sitting at my desk just listening like
:o ✨️
Keep em coming Roanoke ^-^
I mean, Most parasites are either harmless or beneficial, A very likely theory is that Severe Allergies are caused by the lack of parasites
You new to this channel?
@@TySaysHi must be if they’re repeating what Roanoke’s been saying for years.
A parasite wrote that comment
@@Gothic_Analogue I mean, most parasites are either harmless or beneficial A very likely theory is that Severe Allergies are caused by the lack of parasites
is there a parasite the stops overreactions caused by pollen?
Headline: Edgy bio dropout dunks on low budget horror...
Love you Roanoke!
May the algorithm bless ye Roanoke
1:20 yeah your videos are great, but there were cases when I, not knowing American actors, by the end of the video had no clue what the title of the movie was, and reading titles and decdriptionsz pinned comment wasn't much of the hell many times xd
But I love your videos and I thought I should start making positive comment more often to the people that deserve it, and you for sure deserve much more praise than I could give, so I'll just say thank you for both of your channels, there are days,.some really shitty days, and there's my yt showing me your video from a year ago or smth that I don't remember seeing, and after watching it I feel so much better, more relaxed. I really adore you for the type of presence your videos sealed onto in my life, thanks man
"Permission denied, let that baby fry" had me rolling
I highly recommend the Reanimator series. I would love to see your view on that one. It's quite a ride.
I second that oppinion.
I third
Hey roanoke. Have you seen Neil Blomkamps "Oats Studio"? I feel like you'd make such a good video on the "Klum" species from Rakka or the Golem made of human body parts from "Zygote"
I havent gotten a notification for your videos in like 2 months. I always watch them idk why theyre not getting notifications out
I have legit been trying for years to remember the name of this movie after seeing a trailer for it on an old DVD and then losing the DVD. You have filled a hole in my brain Roanoke, thank you
I remember at one point completely forgetting the title too and searching Google for “movie about parasites on an island” and somehow Google DID find it. Google is a wingman.
Hey Roanoke I’m having a horrible day and this made it better thank you
May I recommend taking a look at The Host? The movie based off one of Stephanie Meyer's books I mean, not the Korean movie with the weird fish monster (Which is arguably something you'll probably want to watch immediately after as a pallet cleanser).
I apologize in advance for any pain watching such a horrific movie would cause you.
16:52 "Permission denied, let that baby fry." lol
I really want someone to cover the parasite from 2016's viral because it's quite creepy crawly inducing
I absolutely love all the references and callbacks you make
Roanoke:**posts**
Me:**immediately drops my tools** real shit!
Roanoke: "What the fuck is this movie?"
Dead Meat: "First time?"
I read Helminth and immediately thought of Warframe.
Would be cool to see you cover on how the Technocyte Virus works, and if such a thing would be possible.
Like the origin of the sentients, how warframes are made, and so much more that would take ages to type it all here.
There’s a great video out there that covers the lore of the grineer.
"Permission denied, let that baby fry" is my new favorite quote. I don't think anything will top it for a while
I want to see you do The Strain now lol (vampire hive mind worm with recombinant polydnaviruses, which do not actually link you to the hive mind and can be used to enhance and even create hybrids if a mother is pregnant when she's infested)
It’s funny seeing you rip into this movie. Thanks for filling in for the plot holes big enough to drop a simi! Good breakdown as always.👍
Many of those parasites are normally the smaller ones, the ones that literally can’t kill you.
At most they feed off of small amounts of food (in other words, crap) that goes through your gut. And while the parasites aren’t good, they aren’t bad either, as long as it’s not porkworm or something on the same scale it’s not too bad.
Although, still not good to have them, be sure to get rid of them (if you have them) if you notice a sudden drop in weight. However always consult your physician about it.
Bro helminths feed on your blood they dont literally eat your half digested food. Tf you on about?
@@jamesoclaire4512 I said the ones that don’t hurt you idiot, the ones that do should be immediately removed and if you read to the end I said that it’s better to have no parasites at all.
@@jamesoclaire4512 he was talking about the start where Roanoke says there is parasites in 80% of the world's population
@@KrugerTheFox doesnt matter dude. Go find me a single organism, parasitic to humans, that eats the undigested food out of our shit. I will wait, and gladly admit im wrong if you can name a single helminth that matches that description.
@@jamesoclaire4512 the fuck? I was just pointing to what part of the video op was talking about. Not a specific type of parasite. I never claimed to be a expert or anything in parasites bud. Chill out
As an Iowan resident, you have my deepest condolences.
I'm fairly certain this is a Sci-Fi Network original movie so I don't think it would have been in theaters. But that would explain the low quality lol. I'm pretty sure this debuted around the same time as splinter the movie you covered about the weird parasitic splinter thing which also happens to be a Sci-Fi original movie.
Thanks for the content.
Just a thought have you ever thought about doing a review on Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal specifically Plague of Madness episode?
That sickness/disease/curse is the stuff of nightmares.
I'm sorry, but you're never going to convince me that that baby wasn't already massively infected. It was around far too many people who were infected.
Also, anyone else get Wrath of Khan vibes from the parasite design, or is that just my increasingly dodgy memory? xD
11:49 "Justin testing out his captain America strength on some firewood before going full Minecraft on some trees"
😂👍
have you considered doing a video on the butterflies from peacemaker? i think it could be pretty interesting to look into
You k ow you watch alot of this channel when you watch the explination portion and your first thought is "is it rabies? It's probably rabies"
This reminded me of the Futurama episode where Fry gets parasites/worms from gas station food. You should do that one!
honestly i would have kept the worms if i was in fry's shoes. that was symbiosis not parasitic. these worms i would hard pass on.
Massive props for removing old sponsorships from your videos. Too many uploaders leave up irrelevant, outdated sponsorships for defunct companies, competitions, or even ones that turned out to be goddamn scams.
And let's not get started on uploaders who provide relaxing content, but start it with, "THIS VIDEO IS SPONSORED BY"
One thing that bugs me about all these parasite movies is the constant theme of 'it can bite through your skin and crawl under in a second or less and crawl all through your body like it's sand'. Do you have any idea how hard that actually is? Like, how dense your muscle tissue is, how strong your skin is, etc? The odds of something that small having the bite force to open a body-sized hole in your skin alone would put it on the extreme end. being able to then crawl under the skin and disappear among tissues would not only be incredibly painful, it would also require a MASSIVE amount of dislocation of tissues, much of which would be muscles against other muscles, meaning just flexing your muscles could easily squish the critter in a lot of places.
then there is the problem of it rapidly crawling at surface tensions at mach 1 (bug speed) like your skin is just a rubber glove gently placed over your meat suit. there would be so much skin bruising you would be beet red from the pooling blood under your skin between it and your muscles. and they love those fast moving scenes of it on the edges of your ribs and on abs.......... that is called too much skin/blood vessel damage to live longer than a a couple hours let alone a few days like justin did. and a few weeks like uncle nasty did.
@@Everlucky_Clover Heck, given how they seem to randomly dive into the body or pop up from it, I assume internal organs are getting turned to swiss cheese on a regular basis. Like, why wouldn't they do that with lungs, or the heart, or intestines, or the kidneys?
@@colinsmith1495 agreed. all it takes is 1 of them being extra interested in your heart and poof dead host. Roanoke was right to put this movie's science logic in such a light that trash tier would be a big upgrade in logic quality >_
@@Everlucky_Clover Not only that, if the heart were still functional and needed, then body shots would be VERY effective. Maybe not immediate, but within minutes.
But no, they confirmed in the movie that there's no heartbeat, didn't they?
I mean, Halo does it well, and it has movies. In Halo, the flood infection forms are 3 feet tall, have scalpel sharp tendrils, yet move around the same ways some bugs and octopuses do.
It literally tears you open, doesn't snake under your skin so much as it rips it up, to get to your spine... etc. You can see how the body is really messed up by it. Even if it's a bit questionable that it can so quickly take control of your arms, get rid of the muscle limiter, and break your neck(using those arms it just stole), in about 6 seconds. It does make a lot more sense. I guess there just isn't an actual movie about the flood. Though, motion comics, anime, and video game cutscenes, do come close... wait, sometimes cutscenes are called movies, so therefore they do count! Aha! Flood movies confirmed!!!
I remember seeing this movie on the Sci-fi channel way back when, and I gotta say... It is amazing how differently I remember this film
So the mattress thing, I do that. I lift it up and check for small brown stains near the edges, and underneath. Dealing with bedbugs for months scarred me, so I do not trust any hotel, any sleeping accommodations, and my luggage is always away from the bed and outlets. Never put my clothes in the drawers either, and wash everything when I return home. That being said. Don't think this movie was smart enough to plant that seed
Well thanks. Now I’m wondering how many cougars have watched me in the woods…. Yay…..
Is it possible that you could try to dissect the parasites from "Parasyte"? I've always wondered how it works since the movie/show doesn't really answer much.
so bottom line worms are a good thing for you to have inside you or you'll have allergies
@@raven4k998 unfortunately I am not talking about actual parasites. The parasites I am talking about are shape-shifting creatures who take place as humans to cannibalize on other humans.
Yeah I also would be down for this idea. I'm very interested how they work
10:18 I do the same, also house cleaning, every Thursday (Friday a.m.) cause Friday is my only day off and i like having absolutely nothing to do
I just want to say that I find the fact they check under the mattress understandable. My entire life my parents have always checked mattress of places we have not been to before for bed bugs, just to be safe. Maybe that is what there were doing.
then there is the fact the house belonged to a single man. you dont want to be sharing a bed with his secret collection of crusty porn either >_
love your videos it always makes me feel like i just had class for a year
Just for Toxoplasma gondii, prevalence is at 30% worldwide and up to 60% in western europe. And that's only one parasite....
If you add malaria, Chagas and intestinal nematods...
25% is if you live in a sterile bubble since birth, but IRL it's more like 85% of the population that has at least one parasite.
Source of the T Gondii number? Thought they could only reproduce in felines?
@@dirpyturtle69 You can find it on google or wikipedia, just type Toxoplasma gondii. It's common knowlege and isn't hard to find.
It comes from a 2004 Lancet Article J. Montoya, O. Liesenfeld, « Toxoplasmosis », Lancet, vol. 363, no 9425, 2004, p. 1965-1976
Actually really live your videos with the included science portions as that is very interesting.
Could you take a look at 'Grabbers' sometime? It's a pretty decent alien flick from the Emerald Isle
Loved your videos mate I just finished watching them all 😅 least of this type. Made all these movies so much more interesting to truly begin to understand them at a deeper level
You should cover oracle cells from God Eater or the blacklight virus from Prototype.
Omg I would love to see that
@@ladyfaeryj5108 I want to here him talk the science beging the hive mind cells of both, especially oracle cells. For a more rule of cool game/show Oracle Cells seem semi possible in some regards, single cell organisms that clump together to form larger organisms to feed on other cells to replenish their own.
We love ❤️ you @Roanoke Gaming. Always here for a good science class 🤭😊.
You mentioned the growth of allergies, have any of the studies looked into the potential of cleaning chemicals inspiring this somewhat? Many of the ones which are legal for use can cause inflammation issues, if there's remaining parts of it in the food and drink we consume may it cause this at all? I'm curious but don't know how I could find research on that front.
You should cover Trench 11. Kinda brutal WW1 parasite movie but it has goofy ass funny moments in it
The Cave (2005)maybe? Just a thought 🤷♂️
Or the Relic?
Some ideas maybe?
I love The Relic, both the book and the movie, still one of my favorite movie monsters
@@malachai1381 haven't read the book, pretty good I take it?
The doctor should have used his "jump to conclusions mat" to solve the problem... it likely would have provided a better result.
Can you make a video about the xenomorphs? Y'know, the greatest movie monster in cinema history.
Love every single thing you put out man😁
There is a book that does this whole idea so much better! For anyone who likes this idea go check out Nick Cutter’s The Troop. More or less the same idea but just with worms.
Love this channel. Where I find most of the movies I never heard of lol you should cover stranger thing creatures at some point.
How about whole [PROTOTYPE] game? There's few mutations and main guy himself
yahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I just couldnt get into prototype
@@RoanokeGaming damn shame.
Thanks for the good vid anyway.
It was actually an egg salad sandwich, Roanoke, but I don't blame you. Those auto-vendors are fuckin dangerous either way
Isn’t helminth that creepy alien thing in warframe? Hey. You could do warframe!
Not trying to be captain obvious here, but yes, helminth is a type of parasite in reality. The fact that they chose to name the infested paralysis demon the same goes to explain lots of unwritten rules.
Now how can he explain the process through which the infestation turns flesh into metallic tissue would be fun.
Yes, but which strain of infestation?
@@ms.greywolf8228 I legit didn’t know that. Just thought it was a name I couldn’t pronounce 😄
Just found the best youtube channel. Awesome!
Just ask wesker man , he knows how cool it is to wear sunglasses at night 😂
I would actually like to see a sequel to it and show how it affected the world after it reached mainland even with plotholes.
I am Colombian. I appreciate you used a video of one of our Olympic medall winners in your video.
Wow, how come we haven't had a rabies variation for such a long time?
2:21 love how it shows a guy dying in the ocean
and later says that the parasites are weak to saltwater
Your talking about being able to technically read someone's mind by noticing more about them with your concious mind just reminds me how awesome Dune is.
Long story short- the bene gesserit can "read someone's mind" through the same means. Essentially Dune's "superpowers" of Spice augmented people are just biology we know pushed to it's limits not some wild magic
Ayyyy, as per usual your video's are amazingly entertaining, thanks for keeping me sane in these wild times
Attempt number 2, Roanoke I highly suggest reviewing Frankenstein's Army and breaking down the anatomy and practicality of the Zombots.
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