True cosmic horror is lying awake at night, staring up at the countless stars and wondering...what the hell happened to the ceiling?

@rataflechera

3 жыл бұрын

And you live in an apartment building, and not exactly in the top floor.

@wither5673

3 жыл бұрын

hol up

@SM-qv2om

3 жыл бұрын

true cosmic horror is when you're just about to fall asleep and then you suddenly realize that you forget to work on your assignment which is due tomorrow

@imjustchillman

3 жыл бұрын

Underrated af.

@marcosrios1246

3 жыл бұрын

True cosmic horror is realizing the only reason you haven't freed yourself from this prison and returned to the other place is not because of selfish attachment. It's the realization you're holding on to this endless cycle of death, rebirth, suffering, and hopelessness, just for faint glimmers of hope, joy, and hapiness, because deep down inside you know what's waiting for us in the next place. You know because you've already been there at least once and you don't wanna go back even if it means suffering indefinitely in this place.

My grandmother once told me this: "Be careful when you pray, baby. God is not the only one that can hear you."

@woobacksupremacy2462

3 жыл бұрын

I woulda been traumatized

@wolfthornnholtzklau4913

3 жыл бұрын

That's awesome and terrifying

@moon8520

3 жыл бұрын

May I use this line for a book? it's terrifying

@xxultimate_shadowxx

3 жыл бұрын

Damn. As a person who loves horror and never gets scared by one-sentenced scary stories, this one sent chills. Especially since I'm quite religious and pray everyday.

@brainscrub7976

3 жыл бұрын

How does one pray carefully?

My favourite explanation of cosmic horror is the example with the ant: An ant doesn’t start babbling when they see a circuit board. They find it strange, to them it is a landscape of strange angles and humming monoliths. They may be scared, but that is not madness. Madness comes when the ant, for a moment, can see as a human does. It understands those markings are words, symbols with meaning, like a pheromone but infinitely more complex. It can travel unimaginable distances, to lands unlike anything it has seen before. It knows of mirth, embarrassment, love, concepts unimaginable before this moment, and then… It’s an ant again. Echoes of things it cannot comprehend swirl around its mind. It cannot make use of this knowledge, but it still remembers. How is it supposed to return to its life? The more the ant saw the harder it is for it to forget. It needs to see it again, understand again. It will do anything to show others, to show itself, nothing else in this tiny world matters. This is madness.

@rinnegan6027

Жыл бұрын

thats one of the best explanations I've read so far

@pumitriii6160

Жыл бұрын

I've always wondered why we're so resistant to drawing back the curtains on UFO secrecy. While maybe it's classified human technology or maybe nothing at all, I think this comment shows why it just might be for the best to not explore the subject too much if they are in fact ET.

@stabb

Жыл бұрын

fr

@chr821

Жыл бұрын

@@pumitriii6160 its not the same. We can grasp the concept of extraterrestrial life to some degree. If "they" land, have a somewhat physical form and speak, sure, it would seriously shatter one or two worldviews. But overall? We would see them either as threat, business-parters or as exploitable. Not as cosmic horror. Cosmic horror would be... Stars start disappearing and noone knows why or change position. Aliens start communicating to every person at the same time telepathically. Even if its just a simple "we come in peace". I guess there are many more example. But generally speaking everything that is outside our understanding.

@completelynormalhuman9882

Жыл бұрын

Wow...

When the Backrooms was a relatively new concept, it was the most interesting Cosmic horror experience I have ever had. Now it's ruined, not because there's a lot more content, but because people try and put meaning and scientific explanation where it doesn't belong.

@dividedstatesofamerica2520

2 жыл бұрын

Like what

@yiik710

Жыл бұрын

that's what im sayin

@bamers404

Жыл бұрын

and memes...you know, forced jokes

@allyn6720

Жыл бұрын

i understand what you mean. i used to be obsessed with the idea of it at a younger age, it was eerie and didn’t **truly** try to be outright scary like other pieces of media. but like with slenderman, people have added far too much information, explanations, gadgets and trivial info about it - to the point where it loses its original thing. the thing that made it so intriguing in the first place.

@stunted3377

Жыл бұрын

true

This video explains alot about the world's shortest horror story: " The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door..." - Fredric Brown.

@patrickdolan6

3 жыл бұрын

I thought the worlds shortest horror story was "the sun set slowly in the east"

@KateeAngel

3 жыл бұрын

What if that was a very smart birb, which wanted some seed and knocked with its beak? )))

@kestral63

3 жыл бұрын

"It time Snu-Snu."

@patrickdolan6

3 жыл бұрын

Oh lord, you're right

@lisaa4446

3 жыл бұрын

It is one of the thousands of women still alive

The closest we ever get of a good cosmic horror movie is Cats (2019). And that's saying something.

@KostasMachete

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah because if you watch it you go crazy

@_BachDuyTan

4 жыл бұрын

LMAO someone give this person a medal

@Entity-dn1mc

4 жыл бұрын

Well the Color Out of Space is coming out soon and hopefully that’ll be good. 🤷

@Kaidantonio333

4 жыл бұрын

Well, it was about a werecat death cult, so not that far off.

@cuanchulainn

4 жыл бұрын

Modern day King in Yellow i swear to fucking god

The problem is that Hollywood usually does not understand psychological horror, and Cosmic Horror is at its core a form of psychological horror. It bases itself on the fear of the unknown we all share and of existential draed.

@mr.dirtydan3338

Жыл бұрын

No movie, sadly has ever actually made me feel existential dread. People talk about it all the time but it is not something I have ever actually felt.

@madelynhernandez7453

Жыл бұрын

​@@mr.dirtydan3338 you are lucky then. Existential horror is the worst. Its unbearable

@mr.dirtydan3338

Жыл бұрын

@@madelynhernandez7453 by worst I'm guessing you mean best

@user-nf2xw5nq8u

7 ай бұрын

​@@mr.dirtydan3338watch black mirror

@dollytanwar4918

7 ай бұрын

​@@mr.dirtydan3338have you tried three body problem and annihilation?

Cosmic horror in a single sentence is such: "A man stares up into the stars, and the stars stared back."

@bigtongo7633

Жыл бұрын

And the abyss gazed back…

@theblackenedking9858

Жыл бұрын

@@bigtongo7633 I put my spin on the original quote, sheesh.

@ethancook5390

Жыл бұрын

what if "A man stares up into the stars, but the stars never existed"? This is probably terrible but i like the sound of it

@aeho7496

Жыл бұрын

@@ethancook5390 that's kinda true tbh, considering light takes a long time to travel, those stars might be already dead when the light arrived

@runningwithscissors1524

Жыл бұрын

@@aeho7496 And the stars weren’t just dead, but they had been killed.

"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown." -HP Lovecraft

@IWantToStayAtYourHouse

4 жыл бұрын

The amygdala is responsible for fear. The amygdala is the reptilian part of the brain, making fear a primitive emotion all humans experience

@heavenseeker2320

4 жыл бұрын

Jim Wiklund I definitely fear the unknown future of life.

@BrenoPonce

4 жыл бұрын

@@heavenseeker2320 All fear comes from the unknown, if you know what is gonna happen. Thats why people dive with sharks and have no fear about it, bc they know what to do in the situation

@thegrungegod7463

4 жыл бұрын

Humans fear what they don't understand

@AllOneVoice

4 жыл бұрын

If you're a huge HP Lovecraft Fan, there's few more satisfying, beautiful, brilliant or terrifying reads you could do than Alan Moore's The Courtyard, The Neonomicon and finally the Providence series (in that order).

Cosmic horror is finally receiving our first clear message from alien life that clearly states, *"Do be quiet. They'll hear you."*

@colnz1233

3 жыл бұрын

no then the sudden realization that all our other messages sent in every direction could have been received by them

@nickkorkodylas5005

3 жыл бұрын

*"We recieved your first EM transmission in space. Based!"*

@nicolasmaltais7755

3 жыл бұрын

that is genius. gave me chills

@monsegeek

3 жыл бұрын

One of the explanations for the Fermi Paradox says something just like that. It's called the Dark Forest Theory and says that the reason why we haven't met aliens yet might be because every civilization acts as an armed hunter in a dark forest trying not to reveal his presence to the other ones because if he does, the only safe thing for him to do would be to kill whoever he encounters, just by the fear of being killed himself.

@lahasainaypayaso3386

3 жыл бұрын

Is that from a story on Creepypasta?

I think junji Ito captures the visual aspect of cosmic horror extremely well through his manga and various illustrations, by first taking that which is deeply familiar, and then twisting and warping it into something completely unrecognizable, unexplainable, and sudden

@mauruslateralus6687

Жыл бұрын

the end of uzumaki is cosmic horror in maximum expression

@Riseax

Жыл бұрын

The manga with the cave holes designated for every person has one of the most terrifying page turns I have ever seen. Staring down into your own abyss with your perfect shape in a natural environment like a mountain… chilling. Once you turn that page you will never forget what full page panel you see on the othet side…

@fleabaguette9699

Жыл бұрын

​@@Riseaxthe sound effect of "DRR DRR DRR" will forever give me the goosebumps thanks to that story 😬

@darkold999

Жыл бұрын

Hellstar Remina still one of my favorite cosmic horror

@sb792079

4 ай бұрын

Indeed, maybe if you can’t illustrate the unknowable, the next closest thing is to warp knowable objects in a way that you have to imagine what made it that way.

One of the main forms of media that got me into cosmic horror was FromSoftware's Bloodborne. While a bit easier to comprehend than the cosmic horrors explained, the characters and their attempts to understand the creatures are what are most interesting to me.

@k.m.m.a81

Жыл бұрын

our eyes are yet to open. FEAR THE OLD BLOOD.

@seogabonotjah6555

Жыл бұрын

yeah agreed. the lore is easy to understands yet amazing creature and arts as well . very appreciates more persons said cosmic horror not lovercraftian anymore these days caused yes even the lovecraft is popularized this genre, but this is kinda genre is not his "only" genre

@ebake200

Жыл бұрын

@@k.m.m.a81 may the good blood guide your way

@YataTheFifteenth

Жыл бұрын

Grant us eyes, grant us eyes

@XxDeathxX509

Жыл бұрын

Same

The KZread Algorithm did you a solid my dude.

@salottin

5 жыл бұрын

Yes

@PhotonPnk

5 жыл бұрын

It did US a solid, amazing content! subscribed.

@vladimiradidas1945

5 жыл бұрын

@@PhotonPnk "It did US a solid." *Communism intensifies*

@aleksei5195

5 жыл бұрын

KZread algorithm is cosmic horror. We cannot understand it.

@notinusesoon4975

5 жыл бұрын

It was a couple of months late.

There is a reason why jump scares are "scares", and not horror. It's moment of fear, not a lasting terror.

@ReelNinja1

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed. Which is why I found it laughable when an article from Forbes recently claimed scientists proclaimed “Sinister” to be the scariest film of all time judging by the heart rate spikes from the audience due to jump scares. I seen Sinister on opening night & even though it had heart pulsing moments, they end shortly after & I forgot about the film within 5 minutes of leaving the theater. It didn’t make me stay up late or stick with me. Hereditary was a better example of a scary film

@pontusnordin2343

3 жыл бұрын

@@ReelNinja1 I was very dissapointed with Sinister, didn't find it scary at all. Hereditary on the other hand traumatized me lol

@Liam-hm4de

3 жыл бұрын

Wait a minute

@_lime.

3 жыл бұрын

@@Liam-hm4de There is an imposter among us...

@MrNormalPerson

3 жыл бұрын

Astute. Chapeau.

I found that the soundtrack definitely enhanced the visuals in Annihilation to get the cosmic horror across. The discordant sounds at the end when she comes face to face with the being really gets the existential dread across.

@maxgoldhirsch2043

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I completely agree. I feel like few people noticed how much it influenced the scene, and I've heard people say that scene should've been silent, but I think that bringing back that strange synthy theme was really what drove the true horror in the scene

@nathangaspacio6128

Жыл бұрын

@@maxgoldhirsch2043 To be honest I only remember annihilaion becuase of this beautiful score, one of the best ones ever in horror if not the best

@maxgoldhirsch2043

Жыл бұрын

@@nathangaspacio6128 I'm glad I'm not the only one to think this!

My favourite Lovecraft story is "At The Mountains of Madness". It's quite unlike most of his other work in that it's refreshingly devoid of xenophobia, with the human narrator coming to feel a kinship with the aliens he finds frozen in Antarctica, and the records of their struggles to survive. But that in turn amplifies the horror--these creatures, though mortal, were far more advanced than humans. They created an interstellar empire, they reshaped the world and its creatures to their whims and endured for millions of years...but in the end, it didn't matter. Relentless time and entropy wore them away to a handful of blighted survivors trying to survive in a strange age. But there's one final malicious joke being played on these creatures--the only other creature to survive from their age is a malicious slave-turned-predator that had waited for millions of years for a last chance at revenge. The universe isn't just apathetic towards these creatures and their aspirations, it actively hates them.

You’re not scared of being alone in the dark. You’re afraid that you aren’t alone.

@carso1500

3 жыл бұрын

Well yeah, this is actually an ancient instinct, just think how easy our ancestors could be jumped by lions or tigers or wolves or other animals in the middle of the night, this is specially true with felines because they can see clearly in the dark while you can't and they use this to attack you silently and kill you in a instant So we evolved a fear to the darkness because of what could be hiding in it, usually predators, of course we have long surpassed all of our natural predators, so we have to come up with something that can still challenge us

@alexmurphy3049

3 жыл бұрын

No one evolved

@vasily3127

3 жыл бұрын

@@carso1500 that's why we build guns with flashlight

@marcosrios1246

3 жыл бұрын

@@carso1500 Our ancestors and predecessors possessed better night vision that we did.

@doug2555

3 жыл бұрын

@@carso1500 Does that mean that over millions of years, humans will stop fearing the dark since there isn't a need to anymore?

Saw something like "Fear is knowing you're in a monster-filled forest. Terror is seeing one run at you. Horror is realizing your feet are glued to the ground" and I think that applies pretty well here. Jumpscares and stuff would fit under the spike of terror, where true horror is more a constant realization that there's nothing you can do about the terror.

@ansabalam8276

3 жыл бұрын

Cant fuking believe no one replied to this comment bcz this is brilliantly put into words🙌

@ctrl_x1770

3 жыл бұрын

I think otherwise. While fear is only an emotion, terror and horror can be used to term concepts. Terror is the thought that a monster _can_ run at you. This means, the feeling of terror is felt not when you see a monster, but when you realize your hopeless situation and what may happen. Most of the fear felt during terror is from your imagination. Horror, on the other hand, is what you describe as terror. You are actively seeing the monster.

@ctrl_x1770

3 жыл бұрын

So basically you are correct but the terms should be switched.

@landlockedcroat1554

3 жыл бұрын

no

@mikehunt4797

3 жыл бұрын

@@ctrl_x1770 Horror is a shitty ass with no tp.

Nothing is more scary than a story that your mind can create, I sometimes lay in my bed and I just imagine these horrific scenarios in which I am powerless, I get so into the story that I get scared so much that my heart rate gets faster, that is true horror only understandable by the creator.

@victuz

Жыл бұрын

Do you mind to give us an example of those scenarios?

Agreed. My #1 complaint about horror movies is that try to show you the most scary monster the creators can think up. That will never be as creepy as what is lurking in the shadows of your own imagination.

I love the idea that Lovecraft developed: The idea that something is so unnatural, hideous, and terrifying that a human mind can’t even perceive it. Something that couldn’t possibly be described because it is so far removed from anything the human mind could even imagine, that you can’t even describe it because there are no words for it or things to compare it to in our world. Now that is some scary shit

@Nimbus3690

4 жыл бұрын

the art of the outlandish

@kosciuszko1944

4 жыл бұрын

That's the feel I got from Annihilation- the book series, and the reason why I loved it. It was the concept that whatever it was was completely beyond human comprehension, that any form of communication would be Area X (the shimmer in the movie) at its most basic level. Here's the exact quote: "And even in that hurting somehow Control knew that pain was incidental, not the Crawler's intent, but nothing about language, about communication, could bridge the divide between humans and Area X. That anything approaching a similarity would be some subset of Area X functioning at its most primitive levels. A blade of grass. A blue heron. A velvet ant."

@AllOneVoice

4 жыл бұрын

If you're a huge HP Lovecraft Fan, there's few more satisfying, beautiful, brilliant or terrifying reads you could do than Alan Moore's The Courtyard, The Neonomicon and finally the Providence series (in that order).

@Nimbus3690

4 жыл бұрын

@@AllOneVoice thank you, good sir.

@Kamil-nb1wo

4 жыл бұрын

you should try some lsd

"...Countless stars..." *looks up into night sky* one plane and lots of light pollution.

@RatazanoMaldito

4 жыл бұрын

My life in São Paulo ;_;

@epg581

4 жыл бұрын

It makes me sad. I always look for just one star.

@jayangel1879

4 жыл бұрын

Move to the South. I live here and shit, the stars and moon light the sky up themselves.

@bigwoke5956

4 жыл бұрын

country niggas be like 🕺🕺🕺

@uglee6433

4 жыл бұрын

Big Woke don’t say the n word man

I remember that one time when I was young and learning about 8 planets and stars in class. I sleep at night and I had thoughts about entire universe. It made feel uneasy and I can't really explain why it scary. As I grow older I started realizing why its scary and that's because I felt our existence as human being are small compared to the large universe, something we can not understand and the fear of discovering something that is far beyond our perception. This is what cosmic horror is like and its more scarier than supernatural, sci-fi and natural earth disasters.

@Intrafacial86

Жыл бұрын

I feel ya. The idea of cosmic scale natural disasters used to freak me out as a kid, even though I was absolutely fascinated with science as a subject. Like, just the idea of black holes upset me because I couldn't help but imagine our sun suddenly collapsing in on itself and drawing us inward into its crushing gravity. I think the last thing to freak me out was an article discussing the collision of two galaxies, and I couldn't even conceive what that would be like. Is it something so fast that the relativistic speeds of two stars colliding would create cosmic phenomena beyond our comprehension?

@slamdunkasaur69

9 ай бұрын

@@Intrafacial86 when i was in middle school, i had the same thing happen to me, also there was CERN and their experiments and i read somewhere that they might end up creating a black hole anyways, ever since then i feel that revelations like these are just ungraspable for human brain and it's better not to think about it if you want to avoid living on the verge of a panic attack. unfortunately you can not unthink that once you've tried to comprehend it

@tainicon4639

6 ай бұрын

8 planets… good I am old…

Cosmic horror is truly some of the most terrifying horror in the genre, if done correctly. It teaches you that horror doesn't need jump scares to be scary. It's fueled by that dread, and if done right, can be scarier than anything in the genre. H.P Lovecraft was a genius in creating the idea of constant dread over jump scares. The man is a pioneer of what makes horror, well, horror. Hollywood never gets it quite right, and it's why the indie scene continuously feels so better. @Moon Prod does this extremely well. He creates that perfect sense of dread, with a mix of anxiety. The idea that these beings are things we shouldnt understand, and he's just 16 or so and has had it mastered. I just hope triple A film studios in Hollywood will get Lovecraftian/Cosmic Horror right at some point. It would change the game.

How to beat Cosmic Horror: Get a kid with a watch that can transform into at least 10 different aliens.

@Commanderhurtz1

5 жыл бұрын

And his name is Ben 10! *Theme song plays*

@peterjamesgabinete5346

4 жыл бұрын

FRISHR Why ben 10?

@FRISHR

4 жыл бұрын

PeterJames Gabinete because Alien X

@beyblademoses5379

4 жыл бұрын

Is that a joke about the antagonist in that show (I forget his name) looking like cthulhu (Im probably spelling that wrong)

@finiket5436

4 жыл бұрын

Board _ vilgax was his name and I don’t think that’s what he was referencing

Cosmic horror is just more fascinating than scary to me

@Melotaku

2 жыл бұрын

I know right!

@TrippyShasta

2 жыл бұрын

It is both to me.

@gabrieldantas1179

2 жыл бұрын

Yep

@juniperrodley9843

2 жыл бұрын

Username checks out

@sourlemon4196

2 жыл бұрын

Right it’s so interesting I don’t get why people are scared by the infinite unknown It just means more to discover and explore

This reminds me of the original script for Mass Effect (so it goes). Originally the Reapers were not the primary antagonists but were created as a means to combat Dark Energy that was devouring the universe. The mortal Leviathans couldn't live long enough to solve it, so they made the Reapers in the hope they'd harvest enough knowledge to stop it. Likewise, Dead Space's Brethren Moons acted as a barrier to a greater cosmic horror.

@shadowlord1418

Жыл бұрын

I kinda like how it ended up the leviathans stating "its time for the reapers to pay their tibute of blood" gives me chills like the reapers as terrifying and powerful as they are aren't the only ones

A show that gave me the described sense of “cosmic horror” was True Detective. The nihilism of Rustin captured a threadbare tightrope balance of character that questioned what matters and if self destruction is a valid path. I think something of cosmic horror lies in that.

@ghost_the_system

Жыл бұрын

That's because it's based on Robert William Chambers' the King in Yellow, which Lovecraft drew inspiration from. The full audio book of the King in Yellow is here on KZread, it's awesome and I recommend giving it a listen. If you really want to deep dive check out the works of Ambrose Bierce too, he pretty much started it all. Bierce influenced Chambers, Chambers influenced Lovecraft, and Lovecraft.... well we all know who Lovecraft is. The crazy thing about Bierce is he became obsessed with portals to other world, so much so that he traveled the world looking for them and ultimately vanished in South America. If you're a fan of the twilight zone there are two episodes the were NOT written and directed by Sterling; An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and Chickamauga. Both are stories by Ambrose Bierce.

@algoenespanol

Жыл бұрын

@@ghost_the_system so cool to see the literary genealogy. Any Bierce stories/books you recommend?

Жыл бұрын

Archive 81 was excellent also.

This is some quality 3am content

@lefaso590

5 жыл бұрын

3 am here

@hunni_dew

5 жыл бұрын

3 am here bby

@Enidwonders

5 жыл бұрын

Is 3:19am for me... Shit.

@h3llboyyy407

5 жыл бұрын

3:54 ayeeeee

@bo64625

5 жыл бұрын

ma boi :) lol 3:14

I don't remember who said it, but I find myself going back to this quote whenever Cosmic Horror is mentioned. "Typical Horror is meant to leave you afraid of the dark, or afraid of your nightmares to come. Cosmic Horror is meant to leave you afraid of your own mind, and your continued existence."

@azmanabdula

5 жыл бұрын

Well said Except i would say it like this Normal horror made you afraid of Earth and whats on it Cosmic horror made you afraid of whats to come Out there! Or... *Points to head* In here

@mns5855

5 жыл бұрын

@@azmanabdula Honestly, the original quote is much better. It seems poetic, instead of putting it in a very watered down version that instills no emotion whatsoever.

@billdoh7

5 жыл бұрын

I looked up the whole quote to see who made it but then i got, "100 best horror movies"

@Tuxedosnake00

5 жыл бұрын

Cosmic horror is on the go Movies like it or pet semetery are getting more famous

@azmanabdula

5 жыл бұрын

@@mns5855 Poetry is subjective

Weirdly my favourite example of cosmic horror is the episode 'Midnight' from Doctor Who. It is just characters in a shuttle, confronting an invisible entity that shouldn't exist, that is never explained.

@paulgibbon5991

Жыл бұрын

Indeed, and it's also unsettling because we're used to the idea of the Doctor as someone who can reason with anything, or at least intimidate or understand it. Even uncommunicative, implacably hostile beings like the Weeping Angels can be UNDERSTOOD. They have rules they must operate by. Indeed, the Doctor is kind of an anti-cosmic horror character, because he can tame these incomprehensible forces and think on their level while still being reasonably human himself. But then the thing in "Midnight" is not just immune to talking, it uses talking to attack, and the Doctor himself is caught completely off-guard, with no way to deal with it. It's essentially immune to the premise of the show up until this point!

@trash.j

Жыл бұрын

I never realized that the episode was cosmic horror, but that makes so much sense now as to why I enjoy it so much, cosmic horror is my favorite!

@ashd.3055

Жыл бұрын

@paulgibbon5991 from a certain view point, the Doctor can be seen as a cosmic horror. One could kill his companions but he'll find a special kind of hell for you in retaliation.

I think one of the scariest things I've seen in pop culture was actually from a video game called Metro 2033. In it there is a scene where hands are clumped together trying to grab you. They only want to grab you because they are scared and alone, and will be forever. The concept of forever is I think scary for most people. Forever is never good.

@togiielectricboogaloo6875

Ай бұрын

Correction: (yes i am being that guy) the scene you are talking about is actually in metro last light, not 2033

I think Interstellar could have been a cosmic horror movie, if it had ended when the main character was trapped in the other dimension, watching his daughter repeating the loop and unable to stop her.

@Ritziey

3 жыл бұрын

interstellar loop*😂

@manaburn5585

3 жыл бұрын

If the movie ends there, then we never get to know whether some thing lives inside this other dimension or not. Are you saying that in cosmic horror, there must be a higher intelligence that humans cannot interact with and the audience is aware of its existence?

@DisentDesign

3 жыл бұрын

yeah, except it ended on the stupid notion that love is the strongest force in the universe because people dont forget it, by that same stupid logic it could be argued that hate is the most powerful force in the universe, which actually could've made for interesting, lovecraftian style story

@Sorakeyblademaster37

3 жыл бұрын

@@DisentDesign I thought Interstellar was retarded because the benevolent beings that got him out of the loop are future humans. Not as dumb as that Chinese globalist propaganda Amy Adams film that has the Reapers from Mass Effect as good guys.

@arnavs2306

3 жыл бұрын

@@Sorakeyblademaster37 If that's what you took away from arrival, you are missing the backbone of the film

Ironically, Cthulhu, the most famous of Lovecraft's monsters, is one of the few that have a definable shape. Most of them are literally indescribable.

@Herbert2892

2 жыл бұрын

He have a defined shape? I thought it was exactly the opposite. Didn't read the story, tough.

@davidls187

2 жыл бұрын

@@Herbert2892 there is a vague description, but the actual form is more the product of a thousand representations eventually taking inspiration from each other until they converge into what we now accept as Cthulhu's image, because it's imbedded into pop culture's collective consciousness. But Lovecraft didn't draw him. He mentioned wings and tentacles, and shapes so primitive looking that no human culture could've drawn.

@Herbert2892

2 жыл бұрын

@@davidls187 A friend of mine who loves the author told me once that Cthulhu has no definite form because he is the sum of all demons capable of haunting a man's soul. I think this interpretation is a lot cooler than the idea of him being just a flesh and bone beast...

@davidls187

2 жыл бұрын

@@Herbert2892 well your friend seems eloquent but his description isn't too accurate. His form is represented in sculptures and bas-reliefs, either inspired by the nightmares put into the hearts of men by Cthulhu's spawn or the the ones found in the city of R'lyeh, often described as having wrong, incomprehensible geometry. Remember those are interpretations.People who have seen him have all gone violently insane and died soon after. I recommend you give The Call of Cthulhu a chance. It's only a 1 hour read and it's really worth it.

@YoungSavage

2 жыл бұрын

@@davidls187 but lovecraft did draw cthulhu, well technically. he drew a sculpture of cthulhu that was made by a character in the book. although its also kind of implied that "a dragon body and cuttlefish head" is just kind of analogy, like those are the closest things that it resembles that we can understand

one of the greatest examples of this is the lore of Destiny 2 the video game, in which an early lore tab describes what a character named Callus saw looking into the void at the end of the universe "At the edge of the universe, I stared into the infinite deep. It stared back" and it irked players as an unknowable force for a long time until 4 years and many dlcs later the character was shown in a trailer and with a face the character suddenly wasn't horrifying at all, it was just like any of the other bad guys you beat as the main character.

Something I always think about is that when we imagine something huge, we see it moving slowly in our perspective. Do the ants and small insects see us moving slowly, or super fast just as we see ourselves? Because imagining something that's big and can also move super fast would be sooooo scary.

I distinctly remember reading "the color from outer space" and not finding it all that scary at all, until i finished the story and started to think about it. And thats when i realised. Cosmic horror doesn't invoke the primal fear we have of darkness and scary skellies etc. It invokes fear when you start to try and grasp the concept of the implications its making.

@jayt7178

5 жыл бұрын

Shadey Mcbones exactly. Lovecraft never scared me while reading it. It was the feelings, ideas, and concepts that it invoked, and the whole process of coming to grasps with what the story was trying to convey. That’s what makes it scary.

@jamesburk8145

5 жыл бұрын

the first lovecraft story i read was "beyond the wall of sleep" and initially it wasn't scary at all. just confusing. the more i thought about it the more terrifying the concept of a reality so foreign and unknowable to us that we as a collective species had written it off as such a benign concept of dreams became. the imagery and descriptions used are all peaceful and largely of some kind of mystical sense (shimmering islands of light, dancing flashing things, balls of light) but the fact that no rational explanation or narrative could be derived from the sleeping man's descriptions because for us there simply wasn't any explanation was chilling. it really drove home for the first time why the concept of "unknowable" is scary. With most scary things we assume that we just don't understand it "yet" rather than with lovecraft where we will not ever be permitted to understand it. it will always be foreign no matter how long or hard you look at it.

@Sykroid

5 жыл бұрын

Thats the meteor one right? The horror kind of just sits with you on that one. So far its my favorite lovecraft story by far We live in a time where man has walked on the moon and we have hundreds of satellites in space, so we dont have the horror of space anymore. Imagine just how creepy that story wouldve been in the 30s to people that didnt know what crept behind the stars in the black night sky

@bbbbbbb51

5 жыл бұрын

It's veeeeeery psychological.

@randomobserver8168

5 жыл бұрын

@@Sykroid Good point. If you watch some of the space-themed episodes of the early Twilight Zone you can see that that horror lingered on into the 1960s, just enough to work.

I hope the Three-body problem series truly displays the scale of cosmic horror that the books depicted.

The color out of space with Nicolas Cage was a good somewhat recent adaptation of HP Lovecraft.

Sometimes i look into the night sky hoping there is a cute alien bae staring back

@STEP6192

4 жыл бұрын

That's 'Lamu the invader girl' 😄

@thememer8855

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe there is an alien staring back, but it may not be very cute 😬

@j.r.2674

4 жыл бұрын

The Memer a person can only imagine huh, guess we’ll never know if the alien is cute or not.

@raidingsieg6206

4 жыл бұрын

gamora

@jumpman2346

4 жыл бұрын

@@thememer8855 ay bruh as long as they're THICC it's all good lmao

Try this Go stargazing at night, as you look up into the expense of sky don't think of it as looking up (because that is just a concept you can't possibly be on top of the planet) instead think of yourself as on the bottom of the planet looking down into a yawning abyss. It will give you a feeling of cosmic anxiety

@michaellee7308

3 жыл бұрын

This made me think of a time in high school when my girlfriend at the time and I went out to look at the stars together. Of course supposed to be this nice romantic thing, but laying there, for the briefest moment, I had that feeling and nearly jumped of fright, fearing I would fall into that star filled void.

@gab8142

3 жыл бұрын

yall should watch the animated movie "patema inverted" its basically this

@jameshewitt684

3 жыл бұрын

whoah. You just blew my mind...

@cursedraj

3 жыл бұрын

@@michaellee7308 i always have this feeling whenever I lie down and look into the sky... Like what if somehow I'd fall into that great void of space... The thought of it gives me goosebumps

@tanyaaa2590

3 жыл бұрын

Wow

You mostly convinced me that Cosmic Horror is a genre that shines in a book.

Annihilation is one of my favorite movies of all time, and I claimed it was part of an extremely rare genre, but I didn't know it really existed. Thank you so much for this video!

How the hell did KZread find out what I wanted

@monmonstartv5159

5 жыл бұрын

The algorithm is getting stronger, soon it will start making videos specially for us

@darkshado124

5 жыл бұрын

The eldritch abomination thing that is called, Google; see's all, hears all, knows all! We cannot live without it---for we are already absorbed in its collective consciousness.

@peeblekitty5780

5 жыл бұрын

Sorry for the off-topic but why to heck is this profile picture e v e r y w h e r e???

@landsquid1617

5 жыл бұрын

@@peeblekitty5780 OH YEA YEA

@basedbattledroid3507

5 жыл бұрын

@@landsquid1617 Yeah what the hell... the guy above you and the guy above him have the same profile picture, Even Jablinski has it, who is this guy?

“Show the readers everything, tell them nothing.” ― Ernest Hemingway

@bojnebojnebojne

5 жыл бұрын

Wich u cant do with cosmic horror^^

@nickmagrick7702

4 жыл бұрын

hm... good advice. I wonder if I can use it in philosophy writing too

@Sky_TEC_Illustraition_Systems

4 жыл бұрын

Hmm

@Scallycowell

4 жыл бұрын

Just drop the audience into the world. They don’t had to know the hows and whys, just that it simply is.

@feyisthey

4 жыл бұрын

Death stranding

4:05 this moment in Annihilation was perfect in every way, loved the soundtrack so much

Existential dread is one of the hardest things to explain At one moment your in your shower panicking as the thought of life where we come from and what will happen after we die overcomes you then the next your thinking about kung fu panda 2 and how hard the last scene goes

To me, cosmic horror can be summed up in the quote/ “There are two options: either we are alone in the universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”

@hush7359

2 жыл бұрын

@American Patriot yeah to me honestly being completely alone is the scariest... Some might say the opposite but both ? Idk

@elaineabuedo9259

2 жыл бұрын

@American Patriot imagine, of all of the galaxies we are just alone, living in this whole universe.

@yammoto148

2 жыл бұрын

@American Patriot If something is out there its terrifying. And due to human nature and the need to connect finding out we are alone in the universe is the same as finding out that when we die out, nothing will know that we were there

@metalxner5411

2 жыл бұрын

Ye it's crazy

@diaco3798

2 жыл бұрын

nah if aliens as smart as advanced as us exist (which they do) then they'd have had to be civil and intelligent enough not to torn eachother apart and attack everything to be able to make progress, so they wouldnt just attack another planet for no reason like wild animals

Lovecraftian Horror (Fear of something beyond our understanding, glimpse of the ugly truth constantly suppressed by denial) - Avant-Garde/Lynchian Horror (Fear of something understandable but incongruous) - Elevated Horror (Psychological terror brought upon by understanding the full extent of reality) - Hitchcockian Horror (Fear caused by mystery and tension, a knot in the stomach) - Supernatural Horror (Fear of the bizarre, until further research establishes supernaturalism) Even with all these genres, my social anxiety's the scariest thing.

@acarnivorouscat4549

3 жыл бұрын

Hahaha last part was real

@ahabduennschitz7670

3 жыл бұрын

People who try to frightening me: "booo im a demon from another universe of pain boooo you see me in the mirror but you dont notice me boooo im terrifying boooo" People who try to frighten you: "Hi im Greg, wanna hang out?"

@Yoyozlitt20

3 жыл бұрын

@@ahabduennschitz7670 I’d honestly be terrified if a random man whom I’ve never met just came up to me and told me his name, asking to hangout. I’d probably be so confused as to what his intentions may be due to the “don’t talk to strangers” talk.

@adenowirus

3 жыл бұрын

@@Yoyozlitt20 I imagine it would play out like that first scene with Mystery Man from Lost Highway.

@adenowirus

3 жыл бұрын

@person person I believe that's called "open mystery" or "howcatchem".

Insanely great hard-hitting quote: “The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age."

I just watched the thing for the first time. It’s still so good nowadays because you can’t really guess the ending like most movies now.

What scares me is higher dimensional threats. Not exactly a ghost or something similar but basically like humans to ants. Ants live in their own world. They encounter other small beings. Build homes and search for food. Until a human comes along, then they realize they are tiny and helpless. And cannot communicate with us. Even if they could, our language is too complex for them. To something out there we are the ants, just waiting to be picked to realise we are not able to understand this threat. It would be so complex, probably enough to ruin our reality. It would collapse. Then what?

@yevrahhipstar3902

5 жыл бұрын

I think that is what the Cthulu Mythos is essentially about..

@bluekhalifatm9131

5 жыл бұрын

@@yevrahhipstar3902 it would be out of our own reality, on a higher dimension, probably wouldn't be able to see it

@neegas3490

5 жыл бұрын

😨

@lolitaras22

5 жыл бұрын

For historic reasons there are 5 ant species that kill humans

@Funczar

5 жыл бұрын

thats kinda what arrival is about. the heptopods show up. cant communicate. theyre massive compared to us and their language is more advanced than ours

"I missed the part where that's my problem." Best cosmic horror ever.

@scodiscodi8775

3 жыл бұрын

which one os that

@coalescence3835

3 жыл бұрын

@@scodiscodi8775 lol it's Tobey Maguire as spider-man. It's a meme

@scodiscodi8775

3 жыл бұрын

i figured lol

@redyosh9811

3 жыл бұрын

Give me rent.

@coalescence3835

3 жыл бұрын

@@redyosh9811 I'll give you your rent when you FIX THIS DAMN DOOR

I think liminal spaces are a good example of cosmic horror. you get the same feeling

The Void nailed the visual effects of what I would want a Lovecraftian horror movie to show. I would love it if the film industry went deeper into Lovecraftian-style world-building. The Void is probably my favorite horror movie of all time.

There’s an episode in the Netflix series “Love, Death and Robots” that centers around a crew of a freighter in space that accidentally jump millions of light years into the absolute unknown and the horrific realization of where they went actually made me jump out of my seat.

@giulio1548

3 жыл бұрын

i loved that series

@carrie9299

3 жыл бұрын

If it's the episode I'm thinking of, it's was disturbing as fuck and I loved it 😂

@DerLandvogt.

3 жыл бұрын

beyond the aquila rift or something? :D Its my favourite of them all.

@papertigerworkshop1174

3 жыл бұрын

Beyond the Aquila Rift's big reveal was beyond disturbing and I totally understand the protagonist's decision to live out the rest of his short, malnourished life in blissful spider-thing-fucking ignorance.

@carrie9299

3 жыл бұрын

That's the one! Such a brilliant concept. And yes, that reveal... *shudder*

Years ago I was aboard a ship in the Pacific Ocean. It was late, a little after midnight, and I decided to go out on the balcony. The moon was full and yellow, and every star in the sky could be seen. The water itself was eerily placid, no waves, no foam, nothing to disturb the surface except a light breeze and the bow of our own ship. Beyond it there was nothing but an eternal mirror, stretching into the horizon, reflecting the entire night sky back into the ether. Most eerie of all was how quiet it was. All at once I felt a revelation come upon me that I had no idea what was beneath me, and no idea what was above me - all that I knew was that I was horribly unequipped to face either of them. No land in sight. No civilizations for perhaps hundreds of miles in every direction. We were alone, arrogantly treading the line between two cosmically horrific worlds, vulnerable and helpless, blind and deaf. It was a beautiful moment, and I basked in it for as long as I could. Edit: Holy cannoli, folks. I wasn’t expecting a response of this magnitude, but thank you so much for your awesome comments and encouragement! To answer some questions, Yes this was describing a real moment. It was aboard a cruise ship along the Pacific coast of Mexico, lasted all of 30 seconds, and, as you can see, it caused me some serious reflection. Haha Yes, I’d like to write a book, but I’ve never considered horror or fiction, since I’m most adept at describing my own personal experiences. Spinning fictional yarns was never my forte, but thanks so much for your support anyway! If I ever do publish a book, this thread will be the first to know. Thanks again! You are, all of you, beautiful people. ❤️

@aponiviblair6638

2 жыл бұрын

I thought I was reading a story 😅

@catswellthecat7855

2 жыл бұрын

Bruh you should write a novel. 10/10 comment

@codybroadfoot7386

2 жыл бұрын

Underrated comment

@zombiecheri

2 жыл бұрын

wow that sounds terrifying but very cool at the same time also your description was amazing are you a writer by any chance?

@cjgreen4331

2 жыл бұрын

this dude can write, i pictured this super well just due to his wording

I came up with my own kind of creature to play with in my writing. When I picture it, you rarely see most of its body. For the most part, you see a shrouded face which turns out to be your face, but the voice that talks back isn't exactly your voice. Something is off about it. You occasionally see something out of the corner of your eye, but it's too quick and it's gone.

The lighthouse is the perfect lovecraftian film, showing a descent into insanity and barely showing anything, if at all, of the light

H.P. Lovecraft works can't be translated to visual media because the readers imagination is what defines the horror. That was his brilliance, he described the horror abstractly but paradoxically tangible.

@ISaaCi521

5 жыл бұрын

Travis Hammer assuming you can actually read it

@AltimeFAILS

5 жыл бұрын

it can, look up deep dream.

@happyhammer1

5 жыл бұрын

@@AltimeFAILS is that inspired by Lovecraft or an adaptation of his work? There's plenty of movies that are thematically inspired by his work. In the mouth of Madness and Jacobs Ladder are good examples.

@gregormcscrungus9727

5 жыл бұрын

The only way you'd do it is if you NEVER showed what he was talking about

@ShreyakK96

5 жыл бұрын

Although I agree, I believe the videogame Bloodborne did this very well

"we don't experience cosmic horror as often..." bruh speak for yourself I've had existential dread since I was *9*

@xMckingwill

5 жыл бұрын

we don't but try to just think about the nature of the universe that we live in, our universe is expanding and is unimaginably big, cold and in some cases dark.

@elitereaper916

5 жыл бұрын

You idiot don't even understand what cosmic means

@philosopher_sage_07

5 жыл бұрын

I dread night because that is all I can think about... the cause of existence being a coincidence, and the aftermath of death being... nothing.

@pointcuration1278

5 жыл бұрын

I feel this dread dealing with large organizations, which I'd often thought of as enormous beasts. I'd just never thought to think of them as *Lovecraftian* beasts.

@treetheenderhyena1880

5 жыл бұрын

sameeee

Interstellar depicted cosmic horror with its abstract BGM and visual effects like no other movie and is also one of the most accurate ones.

HP Lovecraft had some of the most far out crazy stories that I've read or seen in movies and games. He really knew how to stir the imagination. He lets our own minds freak us out.

Why did anybody not mention that this review is the masterpiece itself?

@quanang2548

4 жыл бұрын

True!

@harrybyaqussamprayuga1756

4 жыл бұрын

Someone finally said it.

@meek981

4 жыл бұрын

@Daniel okay, Daniel

@contacthome1066

4 жыл бұрын

Well said. If I ever saw this comment on r/lovecraft I would give it an upvote and reddit gold. Well said sir!

@router9717

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah!

Maybe it's just me but the best bit of cosmic horror I've ever seen was most likely accidental. It's the end scene from Men in Black, with the alien playing marbles with galaxies. I think, whilst it's relatively harmless, it perfectly encapsulated the feeling of insignificance Cosmic Horror wants to achieve, the thought of feeling so small and helpless to grand cosmic deities. That still freaks me out to this day

@dereenaldoambun9158

2 жыл бұрын

Oh goodness, the ending scene truly freaked me out as a kid. Back then, I always thought we're inside of something or we're being monitored.

@debianlasmana8794

2 жыл бұрын

@@dereenaldoambun9158 Turn out the thought that NO ONE ever monitoring us far more dread...since we are insignificant.

@tjoseph5474

2 жыл бұрын

Because you are White?

@toastytoast9800

2 жыл бұрын

@@dereenaldoambun9158we are still monitored

@no3ironman11100

2 жыл бұрын

@@toastytoast9800 You're crazy bro we are not monitoring you.

My favorite cosmic horror movie is Event Horizon where the monster is fear itself.

I think the greatest example of this I’ve ever seen is in HBOs Chernobyl. The cosmic horror was radiation, and despite being invisible, you see the physical form of it in the blue glow from the nuclear plant and the exposed core scene. Even then it’s still incomprehensible because it does not directly kill anyone at the moments characters are exposed to it. But you progressively see throughout the show the horror of what it can do. Chernobyl scared me in a way I never felt before. The realism, invisible threat, and thought of “meeting death but not dying in that moment” truly made it the best depiction of cosmic horror I’ve seen.

The Thing's effects are still really cool today. Who ever did them should feel proud.

@arthas640

4 жыл бұрын

Those 1980s practical effects are better than most modern CGI effects and modern practical effects

@petesmith9475

4 жыл бұрын

Rob Bottin is the man.

@duncan279

4 жыл бұрын

Arthas Menethil tangible effects will always age better than CGI, just because they’re tangible :o)

@knightatyourservice7512

4 жыл бұрын

I think in modern age we can make the CGI almost unnoticeable. But we need practical effects. I think the best rule is: if you need your characters to interact with something, use practical effects so it wouldn't look off, and if you want to make something that can't be replicated in real life, use CGI. That way you can make realistic scenes, but also keep the budget for the CGI so it could look even better. Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom movie did that and the effects are great!

@fulgenzio89

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah right, go tell this to a Marvel fanboy

A good way to show cosmic horror would be to not show what's causing the horror. There's an scp story (i can't remember the name) and its about some guy going through a cave to a dimensional universe thats exactly the same but every living thing is dead with no reason. The first dead body he sees his him by the entrance of the cave with a gun in his hand and a gunshot wound to the head. As he explored more he notices that all the other dead bodys have no wounds or stench to them like his own body. All the last known signs of human contact through radios and media date back two days from his original dimension. The guy goes back through the cave to his dimension to find it exactly the same At first he thinks he's not able to escape the dimension but he soon realises that he is in fact back in his dimension because the dates and time of all known human contact are two days ahead of the dead dimension indicating he is back in his very own dimension. Everything is dead like the other dimension and yet still there is no clue to how everything died. The main character comes to the conclusion that something sinister was in that cave. He feels it was death, not like comical old death with the scythe but more like an omnipotent being. He realises whatever it was it needed help to jump from one dimension to the next. He realises he himself is death and if anyone else waked through it they themselves would be death. He lays down by the entrance and records himself stating what he has discovered so if he or anyone else from another dimension sees him theyll know not to return to their dimension. After this he picks up a gun he found earlier and kills himself by the entrance of the cave. I think this story could easily be implemented into a movie and there would be no need to show a scary monster or anything like that. It could just be an easy journey of the man in this story trying to make sense of things.

@klab9024

3 жыл бұрын

You don't know the name?

@penta_noir

3 жыл бұрын

That story sounds so awesome

@WackyKillerBee

3 жыл бұрын

id love to read more of this

@Death_Korps_Officer

3 жыл бұрын

@@klab9024 Found it. SCP-2935 O'Death. One of the best dreadful ones.

@cursedraj

3 жыл бұрын

@@Death_Korps_Officer thanks!

Horror on Earth itself is more than cosmic horror. Cosmic threat can end life but Earth horror makes you live with the chilled spine, feel the pain, suffer...

This was a solid breakdown, should be shown in High School/College English courses. I feel as if new readers and thinkers of our upcoming generations can have another way to capture the relationship between emotion and content with videos like this.

I feel that the reason Junji Ito often strikes me as the best in cosmic horror is because he shows the horror coming from within: For instance, the most terrifying aspect of Amigara fault is that the holes themselves are unexplained but it is the people's own inexorable fascination and attraction to them that cause their demise. The holes can't do anything, they don't move, they're totally inert. Why would you go into them more than any other hole in the ground? Yet that's the terror, the mere thought that your mind COULD make you go in there, your own deadly curiosity, a terminal need to know and witness the unknown at all costs. You can't fight or resist the effects of a cosmic power when obeying it is ingrained within your own DNA. Your very purpose is to be undone by it.

@chongus927

3 жыл бұрын

Hellstar remina is one of my favorites by him as well

@isaiescamilla550

3 жыл бұрын

I thought this said Jumanji

@spacex6997

3 жыл бұрын

Its like he is HP Lovecraft but he is Japanese

@TheMimiSard

3 жыл бұрын

Junji Ito has quite a few stories that have that sense of not being able to resist, like Army of One and Splatter Film. But as for the cosmic horror of an unknown power, Uzumaki is amazing.

@yoursoulismine7337

3 жыл бұрын

Man, I would love to read junji ito for the story but his art style is so disgusting to me

I always loved this quote: 'Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.' --Arthur C. Clarke

@blakebridges1030

5 жыл бұрын

Personally I would hope we are alone in the universe. You can't get hurt by what isnt there.

@davernrush

5 жыл бұрын

Holy crap. That actually kinda creeped me out a bit.

@Ryu99420

5 жыл бұрын

it would be unrealistic if we are the only ones in existing

@MyReligionIs2DoGood

5 жыл бұрын

@@blakebridges1030 Actually you _can_ get hurt by what isn't there, but it's mental rather than physical damage. Not sure what's worse.

@MyReligionIs2DoGood

5 жыл бұрын

@@Ryu99420 I wouldn't call it unrealistic, but improbable to a ridiculous degree.

5:00 quote is truly terrifying. Maybe that's why humans continuously destroys themselves after X Amount of time throughout history

I once saw a lovecraft creature in my dream. It's a planet sized creature made of clothe.. Freakin unreal.

"...if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Nietzsche

@j0an-07-arc6

3 жыл бұрын

Ahhh good old Nietzsche

@DisentDesign

3 жыл бұрын

wow, so original...

@bluderferd877

3 жыл бұрын

@@DisentDesign he's the one who said it first, so i guess it is.

@jbeeyes

3 жыл бұрын

megumin

@fatalos6855

3 жыл бұрын

Wink at the abyss

I just wanna see, in my lifetime, a cthulhu movie. With the people behind it that understand the source material, pick the right actors and deliver the Great dreamer in all of his glory.

@N3r0ThlHeavyMetal

5 жыл бұрын

To be honest, i always thought The call of Cthulhu is overrated. Lovecraft wrote so much better stories.

@Uroste

4 жыл бұрын

@Elliot Rodger Hah, almost forgot about those episodes.

@janusha2253

4 жыл бұрын

I think the entire Cthulhu universe is too abstract and dreamy to be made into a movie franchise. I think no matter what Hollywood would make these creatures into, it would appear wrong to the fans.

@JMarchel

4 жыл бұрын

Have you ever seen waking life? It's a movie that was filmed, then had cell shading done over it - it allows for a lot of stylistic flair for mood/atmosphere, such as a character talking about tigers and the wall behind her melting into tiger stripes. I always thought something like that would be interesting for a cthulu movie. It looks fairly consistent with reality but can easily bleed into horrific and uncanny imagery. A similar example to above is a character getting more distraught/paranoid as they talk and the wall pattern buzzing into blinking eyes.

@finiket5436

4 жыл бұрын

Janusha it could be made into games though

Before the reveal, event horizon did a really good build up.

I have never felt any sort of dread connected with the vastness of space. Just the opposite, I find it very comforting. This, and Lovecraft's failure to articulate the horrors in his stories, are the reasons why I have never found Lovecraft remotely scary. He sets a marvellous mood, which is why I like most of his work - but he's never frightened me.

@xiiir838

Жыл бұрын

Also, I think people forget that Lovecraft's stories are a hundred years old, or almost there. The world was very different back then, the whole Earth just have experience the first world war but not the Holocaust or the bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Those stories were made in an age where humanity was at its peak, they've just explored the whole world, science was advancing incredibly fast, very little nations from some irrelevant continent dominated almost the whole world and they were the ones making those increíble advancements. The thought of humanity being nothing else than an ant in the grater scheme of the universe, I'm guessing, was very frightening for its age. But, for me, for example, "cosmic horror" is more fantasy and/or science fiction than horror, because the majority of humanity already knows how little we are and how vulnerable and powerless we are against, let's say, a very big rock coming to clash on Earth

@IchHassePasswoerter

Жыл бұрын

Nyarlathotep is scared of street lamps, so I agree, yeah

@bluehydra2582

7 ай бұрын

I get that. If the vast cosmos doesn't care about us, why should we care about it or what it thinks? The most important things are right here on Earth anyways. It doesn't hurt that we've already discovered a lot of things about the cosmos. The infinite cosmos is no longer the unknown, at least not as much as it used to be. so it's no longer all that scary. But you know what I do find scary? The deep ocean. We know a lot less about the ocean than we do of space. At least space has stars, but in the abyss of the ocean, there is no light. And we know just enough to have more questions about it than answers. Like have you seen that footage of the giant T-posing squid with tentacles disappearing into the darkness below? Cthulhu could never.

KZread Algorithm's been recommending some good channels recently.

@jeromealday614

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah. I'm currently binge watching thru these channel

@plista8997

5 жыл бұрын

Same

@detumus

5 жыл бұрын

Bro foreal!

@kantyDarius

5 жыл бұрын

Totally agree! I'd just discovered this

@at0micl0bster

5 жыл бұрын

that's nice, it keeps recommending me shit i've watched already

I like to think that cosmic horror is like a black hole. We've tried to explain it, draw it, but in the end we just dont understand it completely. In the end its still an unknown.

@Stusel

4 жыл бұрын

Black holes are the ultimate cosmic horror for me since they are exactly what the definition of cosmic horror dictates: Incrompehensible, impossible to explain as they are the embodiement of human knowledge and understanding. The last time I felt the existential dread that stems from cosmic horror was while using space engine and taking a closer look at a black hole. The closer I inched to it's event horizon, the more the universe around it got distorted, like a corruption taking over everything we know to be true, while the void grew and threatened to swallow me hole with no chance of ever escaping it's grasp again. Black holes scare me beyond comprehension and I think that's reasonable.

@Dylanfrias24

4 жыл бұрын

@@Stusel and some make bullshit theories that with light speed you can go through a black hole.

@bagelboi4321

3 жыл бұрын

@@Dylanfrias24 ok mr party pooper

@pedrogheventer2566

3 жыл бұрын

@@Stusel Man, i totally feel just like you. I remember seeing videos of the game Elite:dangerous where people would approach black holes, it gave me so much anxiety it was even hard to look lol.

The show Made In Abyss is often described as lovecraftian inspired, and now I can see why. With the constant main cause of dread and death being a mysterious, almost sentient environment that is “The Abyss”, and the monsters and possible hidden horrors and secrets held somewhere within…on what is essentially a suicide mission, and to those who survive within it long enough are driven mad… it makes you realize how helpless, ignorant, and at the mercy these human characters are to all these bizarre creatures and unexplained curses that seem beyond their control or knowledge. Once you enter humans are suddenly put at the bottom of the food chain and are the least prepared for surviving it. The Abyss doesn’t know you, nor care about you. It’s beyond you, yet it draws you in anyway. Wanting to enter is nearly an inevitably for many…since the sheer mystery of it all and the possible amazing discoveries at the bottom seems to override all common sense and pulls the curious in. The abyss calls to you. And eventually not just the characters in the story-but it calls to the viewers themselves…who fall victim to the same morbid curiosity. No matter how terrifying or disturbing those discoveries and extremes to get there may be, and as hopeless as the journey is… You want to know more-to see more-to feel more of that mixture of dread and wonder. But just like in the story: once you’re in deep enough…the Abyss’ curse makes sure there’s no going back.

I am drawing cosmic horror in my art class and most of it is different yet similar creatures, something which I have never drawn in full, this video has made quite a help in drawing the shape or showing the effects of this creature

Someone else said this and I think it really makes sense: Modern audiences are just too optimistic for cosmic horror to be effective. Modern fiction is saturated with stories of humanity either learning to peacefully co-exist with aliens or defeating the ones we can't. When you think about what people have lived through since Lovecraft's time - the Holocaust, the Cold War, the Cuban Missile Crisis - you realise that people have been living in a cosmic horror story for the past four generations. And they have actually grown used to that horror. People already know they don't matter, that their lives are controlled by things that at best don't give a toss about them, and that the world could end at any moment, that they could all perish horribly and have all the things they have done and all the things they have ever known and loved rendered into dust, and they have lived with that knowledge for seventy years now. The human race had to change mindset dramatically to keep us going in a world that would have driven Lovecraft himself to madness, in fact we may all be mad already. I think John Carpenter's The Thing is one of the best modern cosmic horror works because it attacks peoples' individuality rather than their sense of their place in the universe.

@nathanspain5455

5 жыл бұрын

That feeling that our lives are controlled by outside forces that don't care about us and will happily chew us up and spit us out if we let them is still alive and well today. It's called late-stage capitalism, lol.

@alexandresobreiramartins9461

5 жыл бұрын

And that sadly is one of the reasons for the increasing prevalence of religious beliefs as opposed to rational ideas.

@downsjmmyjones101

5 жыл бұрын

Dr. Manhattan is a man who becomes a Great Old One. In 2001: A Space Odyssey the main character becomes some kind of Great Old One. In Bloodborne you can become a Great Old One. Humanity does really fancy itself to be capable of withstanding the knowledge and power of a Lovecraftian god. We've managed space travel and have come quite far since Lovecraft's time but there are certainly some things that elude our comprehension.

@goncaloferreira6429

5 жыл бұрын

your post reminds me of those old discussions about classic gothic horror( vampires, mimmies and ghouls) not being effective anymore since humanity through science and enlightenenment KNOWS that those things are absurd adn dont exist. That is a kind of hubrys that makes good cosmicism even better because the shock of being wrong enhances the characters breakdown. About the modern world and the last 70 years: the knowledge you speak about is on such a low scale.One thing is to know other is to actually know, see and experience.

@rafael3893

5 жыл бұрын

My hot take is that many people who "know they don't matter" actually don't really KNOW that. The way I see it Cosmic Horror is not a mainstream movie theme simply cause we just still haven't got a great popular movie about it. The Thing is actually my favorite movie at the moment, but it was not a popular movie at the time it released. I bet that if movies like The Colour Out Of Space adaptation with Nicolas Cage ends up being a big hit, and Hollywood uses Cosmic Horror as a slogan of "hype culture" (meaning: what the cool kids watch, like marvel movies at the moment), we will start seeing great Lovecraftian films. Obviously, is not easy to make Cosmic Horror, but so is any other genre. Remember that superhero movies before Iron Man were not high quality as they became after it. There were good ones, but Marvel was the one that made the superhero genre profitable. (Nolan's Batman is also part of this). I bet all it needs is the right visionary at the right time with the right people behind the project. My point? It is hard to make any kind of movie. Some more than others, sure. What is the deciding factor: Can you make it appeal to a larger audience? PS: Get #Number1PopularActor, someone with a vision to direct and write(cough *hit me up* cough) and take some liberties to translate it to popular format.

Man, I love annihilation. The bear scene is one of the creepiest things ive seen in the past few years

@brianpan6453

4 жыл бұрын

Really fills you with dread!

@Shmyrk

4 жыл бұрын

The screams!

@wishiwassleeping8382

4 жыл бұрын

Amazing film

@Legendary_Detective-Wobbuffet

4 жыл бұрын

I don't get people who call it boring. It was the first adult movie I've seen America make in a long time.

@Tennethums1

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, that part was pretty messed up. The plants that grew in the shape of people was a little disturbing too. I need to watch that movie again...

Most people don't even have a sense of the cosmic to begin with, so using it as the setting for even deeper stories is a nonstarter. They don't conceive of science fiction and fantasy as separate: It's all just "purty pitchers 'n stuff." To perceive cosmic horror, you have to understand that it can be real.

'The Arrival' is the only movie I can think of which perfectly fits the 'cosmic horror' genre

@schulzbrianr

Жыл бұрын

Event Horizon

When I describe cosmic horror to people, I tell them to think of a horror movie about stepping on a bug from the bug's perspective. A being so ungodly powerful and that is impossible to understand its reasons for its actions. Then if imagine our planet, our species or existence itself, was the bug to a being that we could never comprehend. To me, that is a core idea of what cosmic horror is: the complete and utter apathy.

@mantistoboggan5171

5 жыл бұрын

very simple and succinct way of describing it. nice.

@thor30013

5 жыл бұрын

Your comment reminded me of this scene from season 1 of Babylon 5: kzread.info/dash/bejne/k5yNsLuQZJuahsY.html Though, admittedly, G'Kar's response is probably more optimistic than you'd get from cosmic horror.

@ziglaus

5 жыл бұрын

So Thanos? Or better yet, Dormmamu? And, conveying "impossible to understand" reasons is super hard. You can either end up with a villain people will criticize was "poorly written" because its motive wasn't clear, or people will simply make up their own motives. Is something attacking us? It must hate us or it wants something we possess.

@digiquo8143

5 жыл бұрын

ziglaus Dormamu in the comics is actually a fairly fleshed out character with relatable motives. However, they could have taken a more cosmic horror route if they'd really wanted to, wouldn't be the first time they'd changed a major character. They sort of did hit on it with Ego from Guaradians of the Galaxy 2, but because he wasn't unstoppable it never reached point. Ironically, Thanos is probably the closest thing to existential horror in the MCU, because he not only proved he was almost impossible for any of the heroes to defeat, he won and killed half of the entire universe for near incomprehensible reasons.

@bobbob5541

5 жыл бұрын

Both Thanos and Dormammu have nothing to do with space horror. They are antagonists, even formidable ones at that, but they can be opposed and fought against - effectively or not. It's a nice coincidence that you brought up Marvel's villains. In original Avengers Loki brings up the idea of a bug vs shoe scenario. When he arrives on earth he says to Fury "an ant has no quarrel with a boot" (though obviously Loki isn't an example of cosmic horror either). Shoe isn't the bug's antagonist, there is no rivalry between them. The reason behind the foot's movement is incomprehensible for the insect and entirely beyond its control. There are hardly any examples of this motive in superhero universes, since they mostly revolve around battles of ideas. Usually the villain's goal simply conflicts the safety of humanity/universe (Thanos's utilitarianism, Dormammu's lust of conquest etc.). When you write a cosmic horror you don't show a motive behind it at all. That would completely spoil it. You show how characters react to something completely beyond their grasp - a measurable against immeasurable.

Maybe in the future, when VR movies are a thing, cosmic horror might be easier to make. Cuz it's all about immersing the viewer into a vague vastness; it's about letting the viewers directly experience the abstract, rather than having the abstract explained to them with limiting words.

@user-cc2fm4vu2x

5 жыл бұрын

Probably, eagerly waiting for vr age.

@crystalbreaker947

5 жыл бұрын

You...My Man, have made me excited for the ~Future~ moment when VR has become so mainstream and accesible on the market that even movies can be made in that medium

@AztecResistance

5 жыл бұрын

This is something I never even thought about! There’s no way VR movies won’t be a thing in the future

@piemaniac9410

5 жыл бұрын

how about VR movie theatre? now you dont have to leave your house to be in a crowded room with a bunch of people talking over your movie!

@ccchefccheffchefff

5 жыл бұрын

Limiting words? Bruh read some books

Fear of the unknown will always be scarier than traditional horror

Saw the movie on the thumbnail yesterday, you really can't tell me that the KZread algorithm isn't omnipotent.

"Staring at the countless stars..." (weeps in countable suburban stars)

@mercymessi7115

2 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@fulana_de_tal

2 жыл бұрын

* cries in between 0 and 20 (in a very good night) visible stars of a big and foggy city *

@heywhat6676

2 жыл бұрын

Its a really good night if I can see like 3 of them ;_;

@notalex2042

2 жыл бұрын

I can relate

I feel like The Lighthouse was a near perfect modern day take on cosmic horror, and was just a flat out good movie in general.

@auroradlg154

4 жыл бұрын

Agreed! The fact it was mostly focused on the dire atmosphere and the descend into madness makes it one of the closest things I've watched whose experience feels similar to reading Lovecraft. The fact the language is often very literary helps too.

@Alder41

4 жыл бұрын

Absolutely! One of the best "lovecraftian" movies ever.

@swiftlymurmurs1825

4 жыл бұрын

The strange thing about the Lighthouse is that it just as well could he cosmic horror as nonfiction, as every strange concept could either be explained by the supernatural, or just human madness and unreliable narration

@auroradlg154

4 жыл бұрын

@@swiftlymurmurs1825 This is is true and a very interesting point! I do interpret the film as having no real monsters or supernatural events at all, and everything weird being just in their heads. So probably we cannot call it cosmic horror, technically, but a thriller. Yet the feeling of the film hits closer to the one in cosmic horror literature than most movies that are actually made to be cosmic horror do. Which is ironic but still amazing.

@Smokin_Choochang

4 жыл бұрын

Just watched it. The symbolism is fucking insane; another stellar film by Robert Eggers.

I think this extremely fits with the themes of the legendary manga ‘Berserk’

The best characteristics of a Lovecraftian entity is that humans cannot go against it, or else they too would become part of it. Having played Bloodborne and read a novel called Lord of Mysteries, these two fictions gave me a clear look into how important human limitations are, and how seeking answers from entities beyond our perception is blasphemy. In Bloodborne, although the Blood Vial can heal you, too much consumption of it causes you to lose control and become a monster. This is because the Blood Vial came directly from an Eldritch God. The same goes for Lord of the Mysteries. Humans who dare challenge their limits drink sequence potions to transcend their limits. However, comes with it are the constant threats of losing control and becoming a monster because the ingredients for their potions came from Eldrirch Gods too.

Thanks for not cutting out your dialog to slip in a jumpscare. A lot of people who cover horror in videos do that and I hate them for it.

@Sm0k3turt

5 жыл бұрын

Kyle A without the jumpscare it is a worse experience

@carlweathers5714

5 жыл бұрын

I usually kill them, have sex with their corpses and then inhabit them, until I'm complete.

@MerjiKei

5 жыл бұрын

As if it was needed... got the goosebumps nevertheless :(

@milesarroyo8404

5 жыл бұрын

Jumpscares get me more annoyed than startled or scared and 90% of the time wether they’re on a KZread video or a movie they’re corny and immediately get a dislike

@exodusn2233

5 жыл бұрын

Sm0k3tur1 Jumpscares are cheap and stupid

This is probably the reason why Nightmares are more terrifying than horror films anyway, and why "nightmare fuel" is basically the highest praise you can give to something trying to scare you. By the end of a nightmare, you've forgotten the contents, but you remember the contents made you so terrified that it stuck in your head.

@samreeve9738

5 жыл бұрын

The worst nightmares are the onces in which there is no obvious fear, nothing chasing you, nothing to picture. I have a recurring nightmare that I can never remember. All I remember is a hall like the fibonacci sequence and an indescribable feeling of scale and distance that I only feel when watching fractal zooms

@idot3331

5 жыл бұрын

I remember when I was little I'd often have these really long dreams that spanned across several different familiar and unfamiliar settings, with various real people and made up people. They'd be these weird but fun adventures, and all these wildly different settings would inexplicably merge into one another throughout the dream. I don't remember the "main" parts of these dreams well at all, just vague snapshots of them, but I vividly remember that these dreams always ended in the same utterly terrifying way. I'd somehow end up in an empty place, usually a bedroom in a house, and suddenly collapse and not be able to move my body. I'd struggle to move, but feel like my body was encased in solid concrete. At this point, I'd realise I'm dreaming - I could feel that my eyes where shut, but they felt like they where sealed shut with glue, and the dream would continue. Then something - I have no idea what it was - would appear and approach me, while I struggled helplessly on the floor in a state of sheer terror, unable to even attempt to escape. Then I'd finally force my eyes open and wake up, but would usually get sleep paralysis and not be able to move _in real life_ for several seconds, with the sense that this thing was still there in my room, just out of my field of view. Probably the most horrifying nightmares I've ever had, yet I never saw this thing, I could just sense that it was there. It seemed to be the same thing that appeared in several dreams on several different occasions.

@majinraptor

5 жыл бұрын

I have never found my nightmares to be scary. While reading up about this I found that there was a study which proclaimed that people who are hardcore gamers tend to be this way. They look at their dreams as another virtual reality. Another "level" that has to be conquered.

@sunzothered1543

5 жыл бұрын

@@majinraptor Dude. I'm a hardcore gamer. And that sounds like some straight up "look at me, I'm so special" shit right there. Gaming is fun. Don't sully it with this "we're special" bullshit.

@idot3331

5 жыл бұрын

majinraptor Gamers rise up, amirite??? We’re a minority oppressed by the government and mainstream media, but we’re clearly the superior race 😎😎😎😎

The scariest thing is our own mind. Fear of the unknown is a bad as it is because what the mind makes up for it in its place...like the horror we felt as little children, lying in bed at night making monsters out of sweaters hanging on the door.

The problem here is that most of the film makers today are focused on the cinematic aspect of film --effects, camera angles. That's why movies are expensive today. Lovecraftian Horror is literary, poetic, expansive. There are only a handful of filmmakers who can do that and it has to be the auteurs--the writer/directors. Lovecraftian Horror needs a lot of voice over narration, dialogue. Also, Lovecraftian Horror is best for filmmakers who are great with less is more--showing little or no gore, little or no scary images. For Lovecraft, the greatest fear is the fear of the unknown, along with the human imagination.

Melancholia, a movie without any monster, just humans... Was able to put me into an existential crisis for days.

@BeastLT

4 жыл бұрын

I love that movie. Also Another Earth is a very similar movie not only thematically, but also the eerie feeling it creates. Weird thing is, both movies were released in the same year.

@crestfallen821

4 жыл бұрын

Such a great movie, I wouldn't have thought of it as a pure, classic horror but more as a feeling of hopelessness and total resignation.

@MrArtVein

4 жыл бұрын

Crozonzarto where can I watch this

@crestfallen821

4 жыл бұрын

@@MrArtVein buy it, its worth it.

@laur-unstagenameactuallyca1587

4 жыл бұрын

what is it about