You don't understand, this is literally *exactly* what I do. Like, I can't watch scary movies AT ALL (I have managed to get all the way through exactly three horror movies in my 19 years of life and none of them were enjoyable) but I always want to know what happens, so I just go on wikipedia and read the entire plot synopsis. I do this for whole franchises. Once spent around an hour (in the middle of the night, for some reason) reading the entire plot synopsis for every single movie in the Conjuring universe.

@IsopodDreams2022

7 ай бұрын

I am not like you at all, I absolutely, love horror films, specially the conjuring francise

@Butterkekskrumel

7 ай бұрын

I once thought that "Event Horizon" is a cool space movie and gave it a try. Well turns out it is not. Can not recommend.

@AHorrorFanatic

7 ай бұрын

I'll be honest I don't watch horror movies because I don't find them sacary at all. I found the conjering to be just another ghost/deamon movie with nothing really special about it.

@dietotaku

7 ай бұрын

absolutely me too! i like the psychological tension of spooky shit but actually seeing it will give me nightmares for weeks. i am perfectly content to just read the plot on wikipedia and let my imagination do the PG-rated rest.

@TheRedzeth

7 ай бұрын

I recommend looking for video's on youtube that explain the plot. The fact that you can pause, skip 5 seconds or watch with the player on just a part of the screen instead of fullscreen gives you enough empowerment that it takes most of the scariness out of it while still being able to see some of the scary stuff.

I've never felt so heard by a song.

@AAAAAAAAA.....

7 ай бұрын

Same

@namantherockstar

7 ай бұрын

Tom inspires me.. My parents said if i get 70K followers They'd buy me a professional camera for recording..begging u guys , literally Begging..

@Nerdnumberone

7 ай бұрын

I think one could make a really weird horror story about a song that can hear you...

@Not_actually_a_commie

7 ай бұрын

Done this many more times than I’d care to admit

This is too real, my favorite are Final Destination Wikipedia pages because they usually read like "Everyone agrees to meet at a diner and discuss Brad's death. As Jennifer approaches the diner a rogue semi truck decimates a nearby grain silo, washing her away in a flood of grain. Jennifer is then devoured by birds."

@An_Actual_Kiwi

7 ай бұрын

Lmaoo! That’s actually hilarious!

@truthwatcher2096

7 ай бұрын

Final Destination is a great movie to watch for Halloween tho because however violent it might be it's never scary and you can't possibly suspect any part of that is going to happen in real life

@callousTelegnosis

6 ай бұрын

That sounds more like a Looney Toon eps than a horror movie ngl

@empersian1234

6 ай бұрын

Please let this be in the 6th movie

@empersian1234

6 ай бұрын

​@@callousTelegnosisI mean that's kinda how the FD movies be sometimes.

Hey bud, happy to help ya out.

@demzionmain

7 ай бұрын

Eyyyyyyyy

@nessa2482

7 ай бұрын

My husband loves horror movies I'm too much of a scardy cat to watch them. So I watch your kill count and read stuff on Wikipedia and call myself a connoisseur 😅.

@aGhost68

7 ай бұрын

Shit, James is here… sup Molly, Chelsea, Lucy, Zoran, and Dead Meat crew

@0cthulhu077

5 ай бұрын

im terrified of the movies but watching your vids is still something that i always look forwards too

@3takoyakis

5 ай бұрын

idk if yall writing some of those plot there they are so detailed that i got my fright and my understanding on the film

Listen what I'm saying is representation is really important and being able to see yourself represented on screen like this can be really profound. Thankyou, Thomas Cardy.

@namantherockstar

7 ай бұрын

Tom inspires me.. My parents said if i get 70K followers They'd buy me a professional camera for recording..begging u guys , literally Begging..

@aelainem

7 ай бұрын

Tommy boy is nothing if not intersectional across every weird and uncomfortable part of the modern human existence lol

@NoopyP

7 ай бұрын

I'm your thousandth like 😁

This is truly hilarious and so real for me! I do NOT do scary movies. After watching your Red Flags video, however, I was curious if my disgusting assumptions about Human Centipede were true (I had never even heard of it prior to Red Flags). I summoned the courage to read the plot on Wikipedia and was quite disturbed to realize that I had, indeed, understood correctly what that film was about.

@killthosedarlings_

7 ай бұрын

Bruv sameeeee

@midnight_blue_moon

7 ай бұрын

I did that too, right before dinner, and pretty much lost my appetite. I wish I could forget it.

@Pindolene

7 ай бұрын

Loool I'm the same way. Idc about spoilers as much as I do about not being jumpscared 😂

@thephoenixsystem6765

7 ай бұрын

The second one is even better. (and by better I mean... you will regret watching it for as long as you live)

@Edrysian

7 ай бұрын

@@thephoenixsystem6765 There's a SECOND ONE?!?!?! Eff that. I'm out. Nope. No way!

thats legitimately how i became a horror fan. the concept of horror movies TERRIFIED me as a child to the point i wouldnt even walk down the aisle in the video store but when i was like 15 or so i was like "mmm maybe i'll just look up the plot on wikipedia" which led to me tentatively watching one and the rest is history

@rogue-taxidermy_griffin

7 ай бұрын

Same here friend!

@disneydork100

7 ай бұрын

Same!!

@TheBloodyViki

7 ай бұрын

What was the horror movie that you tenatively watched then if one may ask?

@Man-Corgi

7 ай бұрын

@TheBloodyViki you know what? I genuinely cannot remember. What's funny though is I CAN remember how I watched it, on my old shitty laptop with the window really small.

@TheBloodyViki

7 ай бұрын

@@Man-Corgi That's a shame but thanks for the answer anyways. Also that's smart, that way the horrors can't get you.

Anyone else such a scaredy cat that the summary of scary movies can still be enough to make you turn on ALL the lights when home alone?

I don’t wanna risk that 10%, I think I’ll wait until Christmas to watch movies with you

@namantherockstar

7 ай бұрын

Tom inspires me.. My parents said if i get 70K followers They'd buy me a professional camera for recording..begging u guys , literally Begging..

@thescooshinator

7 ай бұрын

How about Not Quite Almost Christmas Movies?

@Vaprous

7 ай бұрын

Krampus is an excellent Christmas movie for you then.

@phoenixastra4429

7 ай бұрын

subbed you for this gl@@namantherockstar

@aussieseal9979

7 ай бұрын

​@@namantherockstarnormally it's a scam, but your most popular video is pretty good

Reading scary movies on Wikipedia and kill counts is how I started my horror obsession, it’s like dipping your toes in the blood pool lol

@reformer1073

7 ай бұрын

Yeah shout out to Kill Count!

@manhnaxay

7 ай бұрын

haha cool metaphor

@LlywellynOBrien

7 ай бұрын

Haha, I plan on staying less than toe deep then. Wiki is plenty for me.

As someone who watches Let's Plays of scary games on KZread because I'm a scaredy pants who can't play them myself, I feel called out.

Just came here to say, you are the reason some eighth graders walked into my classroom the other day singing about the human centipede. Biggest jumpscare of the year so far😅

I can't even begin to explain how relatable this is. I can feel Tom's voice running through my veins. Help, I think a mustache is growing rapidly on my face, HELP-

@spencers5898

7 ай бұрын

This sounds like a horror movie premise in itself. Can't wait to read about this on Wikipedia later.

@GrimmMemoirs

7 ай бұрын

@@spencers5898 HA!

@saintpres4ge533

7 ай бұрын

The plot of Get Louis (Theroux).

@bindablinda

7 ай бұрын

@@saintpres4ge533 omg it is, I didn't even think of that

@hannahatkins636

7 ай бұрын

WE ARE ALL L-TOM.

I didn't realize other people do this???? I feel attacked in such a specific way that I didn't know possible. Love the music as always!

This is weirdly well timed. Just a couple days ago, in order to understand the Red Flags song better, I read the plot of Human Centipede on Wikipedia exactly as you described.

I do this exact thing because I can't handle jump scares for the life of me, but I absolutely LOVE psychological horror and the "events" of horror movies, so reading about the movies' plots are way more enjoyable than watching the movie. If there were any horror movies that were just made to be creepy and have a really good plot _without any jump scares,_ that would be a perfect movie for me. Jump scares have always felt really cheap to me, and some people may find that enjoyable but definitely not me.

@witchfynder_finder

7 ай бұрын

There are SO MANY horror movies with 0 jumpscares in them

@MagicMason1000

7 ай бұрын

@@witchfynder_finder I would really love to know which ones then because people have told me before and yet there have still been jumpscares to which they said "oh i forgot about that" 😵

@sambird7946

7 ай бұрын

Mostly commenting so I can get a notif if anyone drops any recommendations 😳 but if you’re a fan of the tf2 videogame, this guy used the character models & worldbuilding and animated a full-length fan horror movie (Emesis Blue) that is a genuinely fantastic love letter to horror media of all kinds! It’s chock full of references to scenes to classic horror movies and books, genuinely scary, and closest thing to a jumpscare is when a guy turns off the lights and shines a lighter on his face. like it is seriously jumpscareless. gamers can have a little horror movie as a treat.

@dudekazoo

7 ай бұрын

I feel you on the jumpscares thing. They mess me up for some reason, especially the sound aspect. Shakes, tachycardia, the whole nine yards. So I'm trying really hard to remember a horror movie that legitimately had none. I want to say "It follows" didn't have any, I don't remember any. The original "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" has a couple moments that were quite sudden but not full on jump scares. I think "Nope" was also jumpscare free. You can probably google them to double check.

@erinaa9486

7 ай бұрын

I hate horror movies... I find that the jump scares aren't as bad without sound (I've watched parts of scary movies over the shoulders of strangers on planes... And I watched the scary episodes of Psych by muting most of it and reading subtitles). Or you can just read Stephen King

love that he still has 10% chance of shitting is pants

The missing couch still throws me so off. That's the truly terrifying part to me lol

With being a hyper-visual person (is that a thing?) when I see something played out in front of me I can clearly replay that thing in my mind over and over again. Colors, emotions, all of it, so watching a horror film means I replay awful, horrible, disgusting things in my mind at inopportune times - like before bed or during intimacy 😬 yikes! BUT, if I can read the synopsis without pictures, I am pretty safe! Glad to know there’s a good part of the world I can relate to because of your songs, Tom. 😅

@ghostpajamas

7 ай бұрын

im the same way 😂 ive found that horror anthology podcasts are a good middle ground if i want to experience a piece of horror in its intended medium though, since im sure the film synopses i read miss a lot ... (and i get to listen while i work :D )

@LukeZaz

7 ай бұрын

"With being a hyper-visual person (is that a thing?) when I see something played out in front of me I can clearly replay that thing in my mind over and over again." You might be thinking of hyperphantasia! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperphantasia

@knockoutroundabout

7 ай бұрын

@@ghostpajamas piggybacking on this comment to also recommend podcasts! A really nice medium between horror movies and books. Magnus Archives is my #1 rec for anyone looking to try some ☺️

@Abermarie

7 ай бұрын

@@LukeZaz wow!! This!! I’ve never thought about how I visualize things until recently when the topic came up and I read that others in my friend group and family don’t “think” like I do. Interesting stuff!! Thank you!

@Abermarie

7 ай бұрын

@@knockoutroundabout thank you!! Love the idea since my imagery will be my own!

If I'm watching a scary movie by myself and am getting uncomfortable I will 100% start reading the Wikipedia plot summary to cope

@michaelmennuti4414

7 ай бұрын

I did this midway through Sinister just last night.

@neebling

4 ай бұрын

okay thats such a big-brain strat

I knew I recognized that voice! Just watched your work on Helluva Boss a couple of minutes ago and WOW was that great! Being blessed with two Tom Cardy songs in one day is not something experienced often, keep up the good work, love you!

@bizzcuit73

7 ай бұрын

I KNOW RIGHT!! I called it a second I heard him singing and I was so happy 😭😭

@saska1ful

7 ай бұрын

Welcome fellas Helluva Boss fans, two song from Tom in one day is trully blessing

@kigukaraoke6670

7 ай бұрын

Wait what? I watched this first before I was about to watch the new episode, He’s in it! Amazinggggg (runs off to watch ep 7)

@RhamanaChan

7 ай бұрын

I thought I was going mad hearing him there! We really got a TREAT in time for Halloween with 2 Tom Cardy songs :)

Yes, the ideal way to see a scary movie.

I’ve been reading the plots of horror movies on Wikipedia for years!! Glad to know there’s other people like me who can’t stomach seeing it on screen, but still get curious and have to read about it 😂

@3takoyakis

5 ай бұрын

Eyy another fellows! I swear I thought no one did it bcs I'm so scared of any jumpscare

Good work with the Helluvah boss episode. Best musical segment of those shown

Glad to hear I'm not the only one who just reads the plot of scare movies on wikipedia

Horror movies? That's freaky. But you know what's more scary? Three new Tom Cardy songs ,all in one month. Now that's something truly terrifying.

I do this with video games. I'll start watching a youtuber play a scary game, get too scared by it, and then go read the game's entire wiki so I know everything about it before I come back and can finally enjoy the video. Horror game lore also tends to be really confusing and complicated on purpose, so oftentimes I only notice lore in the game because I read about it online first.

Seeing you post a new song right after hearing you in a new Helluva Boss episode really is surreal. Two very different songs and yet they always manage to be absolute bangers!!

Never have I seen anything as relatable as this

Another banger to add to my music playlist, thank you Tom. And keep ‘em comin. Happy halloween👻

Every time I finish a movie, I read its wikipedia entry. Feels like a weird ritual but I am glad other people do this.

You’re a legend man! Listen to your songs all the time and just came from hazbin when i heard your song to listen to this one. You deserve all the recognition and love all the energy in your music!! 🤗

Just watched the new Helluva Boss episode and was so surprised to hear you sing in it! As always keep up the great songs!

Now this, this is the Tom song that I relate to most

This is quite literally the most relatable song in existence. I'm far too curious about gruesome stuff for someone who scares as easily as I do

Finally, the representation I’ve been waiting my whole life for. Tom you really do understand😭😭

It's not just me!!! Never have I felt so seen and so grooved simultaneously, truly a glorious day

Love the Wikipedia exposure, and as always the vibes. Keep it up!🤩

That lingering 10% chance is always difficult to explain

My tolerance for scary movies has slowly increased over the years to the point that I enjoy a lot of classics like Nightmare on Elm Street and Poltergeist. I'll never watch movies like Saw and The Grudge, but you can bet your ass I've read the synopses of every one of those films along with every other popular franchise

I never doubted that Tom actually dealt with anxiety when he mentioned it in his songs before but as someone with generalized anxiety disorder, I know Tom is truly one of us based on this song. Anxiety Havers unite as we do the exact same thing. It's a form of exposure therapy that lessens the chance we won't stop thinking about it for days and weeks and months and years.

@ShigeakoCosplay

7 ай бұрын

I do have anxiety as well and still watch horror movies (which is always something I regret though)

@EmeraldAshesAudio

7 ай бұрын

@@ShigeakoCosplay, anxious people and horror junkies have a loooot of overlap. I think it's a catharsis thing?

You are in the newest helluva boss?!?!?! Also, a masterpiece like everytime

Yeah, as someone with PTSD who can't watch scary movies as a result (it sucks, I used to f-in love them), this is so relatable. ty tom

Dude I’ve probably read the plot synopsis of every horror movie released in the 2010s, and I’ll never actually watch them for exactly this reason. Thanks Tom!

Thanks for giving me so much joy. I resonate with all your songs in such specific and silly ways and they always sound so nice. I'm also someone who views myself as a sort of creator (I like to write) but I don't do it nearly enough or get stuck over and over. You help show that it's not so serious or complicated, just write about whatever you want to, just get started. Thanks for being funky and thanks for being inspiring.

Why is this so accurate lmao. I like scary movies but also hate them. Great video as always, Tom.

CONGRATS ON BEING IN HELLUVA BOSS !!! I was so hyped when I recognized your style of songwriting when watching today’s episode 🥹

Another banger of a song, along with Juggling Iz Cool. Never thought I'd hear you in Helluva Boss, it was awesome! My partner and I immediately recognised your voice and looked at each other instantly like 'wait is that Tom Cardy? No way'

This is incredibly relatable. It's always so great and surreal to see songs highlighting these mundane, yet unspoken about things. I think I enjoy the written format for disturbing and horror media more because it's escapable. I can take my eyes away from the text and stop reading, the horror isn't being autonomously projected at me. I am fascinated by these dark and disturbing things often portrayed in horror media but too usually scared to consume it directly and don't really sit down to read books usually. I think that the sterile and brief encyclopedic descriptions are great in delivering the plot and concepts but not subjecting me to the horror fully directly.

I actually read the plots of children's book series that didn't finish until after I was an adult on their wikis.

nah because this is literally how I learned the plot of the human centipede at age 10 😭 and it still scared the shit out of me

Too relatable. I know the plots of all the scary films I’ve never watched this way.

HEY I NOTICED YOUR IN THE NEWEST HELLUVA BOSS EPISODE!!! WELL DONE!! ASOON AS I HEARD "THEIR ON FIRE" I RECONIZED YOU!!

😂 I love his songs so much. Every time I feel sad I just listen to his songs and I feel happy again.

@karm42yn

7 ай бұрын

How many times have you felt sad since the video was posted 10 minutes ago?

There's nothing better than going to watch Tom Cardy videos to make you feel better and then seeing that he has a new one 😭❤️

Recognized your voice instantly on the new Helluva Boss episode. Great music as always!

Love it. Please release more Vinyl so i can give you money.

Your almost at the hair level to make a song about Bob Ross 👍

Dude! I just heard your voice on Helluva Boss! That was a fun and exciting surprise!

DUDE I just heard him sing a song on the latest Helluva Boss episode- I immediately recognized his voice and lost my shit like he did so good (unsurprisingly) but omg it made me so excited to have him and Helluva Boss together

Love this!! ❤ also love your work in the newest helluva boss episode! Keep doing great things Tom 🫶‼️

I can relate. There's this one movie called Man Bites Dog. I've never seen it, but I've read the plot on Wikipedia. It haunts me to this day.

@DeonGaming

7 ай бұрын

Thank you, googling.

@DeonGaming

7 ай бұрын

Wow, even Tarantino liked that low budget movie. Thanks Wikipedia.

@poprockss

7 ай бұрын

I hear (also from wikipedia) that man bites dog is great!

Your performance in the new episode of Helluva Boss was fantastic, I loved the song :D

I have been listening to all Tom’s songs again over the last few days and waking up to this was fantastic. Also, what a great idea!

This is why representation in media is necessary and valid, i feel so seen Tom 🥳👑

So there's still a 10% chance? That feels pretty high still

We all heard you in Helluva Boss. You can’t hide. The fans are coming for you.

Ah, you can tell the seasons are changing by the crisp morning air, the vibrant colors of the leaves, and all of the Tom Cardy's have put on comfy sweatpants

I WAS SO HAPPY TO HEAR YOU IN THE NEWEST HELLUVA BOSS!! I've been a fan for a long long time and I knew I recognized your voice the second I heard you 😭😭 I was so happy!

You're right Tom, Juggling Iz Cool

@Hazie.

7 ай бұрын

YAAAA HELLUVA BOSS REFERENCE

This is literally what i do for fun. Every few months i would find a thread or posts full of the scariest grossest most fucked up horror movies and I'll fill my browser tabs full of them wikipedia pages. I'll spend days just looking through them during work hours and having the time of my life. Glad to see this is somewhat universal

I love analysis and understanding of horror not fan of "horror" it self, the unknown becomes alot less scary when known

I'm really glad to see you going back to your roots of dumb stuff instead of high quality production. Feels like you're able to put less pressure on yourself and I love to see it

@ProtoMarcus

7 ай бұрын

How dare you! This *_is_* a high quality production!

@karm42yn

7 ай бұрын

Is this negging?

Great song at HELLUVA BOSS where can I get the full version ???????

Tom is the absolute best at making any normal conversation a banger.

Look at you sneaking around making songs for Helluva Boss. I liked it

You know who doesn’t look up horror movies on Wikipedia? A cop.

I wish I had read about Stephen King‘s IT as a child instead of watching it. But there was no internet back then and not even a VHS cover since my brother had recorded it from TV. Pennywise still gives me fricking nightmares today, 25 years later.

@MarieHayton

7 ай бұрын

What if I told you there was a whole 1100 page book back then that detailed the plot of Stephen King’s IT?

I love the subtlety of the brown, easy-to-change pants.

This is exactly how I enjoy scary movies and the shows as well. Love a good wikia too

I love how we were all convinced we were the only ones to do this lol! I totally thought I had cracked the code

The feeling in the first half of a tom video where you have no clue where its going is euphoric

Great job on Juggling Iz Cool, knew I recognized a familiar voice!

I learned the plots to every Saw movie by watching a every death list on KZread. Even though it explains esch death, it also fills you in on the story too.

PLEASE make this into a full song, this is a bop. I don't care even if you'd have to release it around easter for some reason, this goes hard

Being overly obsesive with plots of horror videogames and yet being uncapable of playing them is something that haunts me until this day.

tom you somehow seem to understand all the facets of my life and put them into song you're the best

One of Tom's most relatable songs to date

The flow of the lines “… Blu-ray DVD” & “You can keep your wide screen media, I get my right via online encyclopedia” is beautiful✋😌👌❤️

That’s why I like to read horror novels over watching movies! Spooky stories without the visuals, just how I like it

DUDE I just heard your song in Helluva Boss! I was so excited!!!

I LOVE U, I JUST SAW HELLUVAS BOSS NEW EPISODE AND I HEARD YOUR VOICE AND RECOGNIZED IT IMMEDIATELY YOU'RE ON FIRE OMG

You joke but reading entries on the SCP Foundation wiki is one of my favorite spooky pasttimes!

Congrats for working with Hellva Boss! I am happy to see you work for high end teams! Keep up with your fantastic music and skits!

This wonderful song has given me an unexpected catharsis, learning that this is not something only I do because I'm weird, but apparently very common

You are a musical genius! You're on all my playlists now!

Bruh this is literally how I read the plot of killing stalking on fandom with a bag of chips because I was too scared to read the actual thing.

Unbelievably relatable, so many people in my life love scary movies, and tell me”it’s not that scary” I like the story, so I read it, it’s interesting.

I do this all the ding dang time. I hate watching scary things/playing horror games, but I love learning the plots of them. At best I can watch someone give a review or synopsis for movies or a letsplay for gaming. For whatever reason having that buffer dulls the fear to an enjoyable level

I recognized your voice/music in the latest Helluva Boss episode! Great job with it