Marble Hornets!
A wonderful digital horror series (considered the first within the genre) found on YouTube, started in 2009.
The videos are typically filmed from the persective of Jay Merrick, a man who found left over tapes given to him by an old friend of his (Alex Kralie).
He goes looking for answers that he'd unfortunately gets.
This is one of my absolute favorites within the older Slenderverse series. The character, world, and story building is absolutely masterful. Each charater is beautifully complex, from Tim Wright to Jessica Locke each one their own individuals all connected by a greater evil.
Morally grey charaters will always have my heart and the main four (Timmothy Wright, Brian Thomas, Jay Merrick, and Alex Kralie) all their own flavor. It truly goes to show how the human psyche reacts to being put into an uncontrollable situation that challenges your resolve and how diffrent people handle it.
What would you do if you knew how to save all of the people you care about? Would you have what it takes to kill them and then yourself in order to end the vicious never ending cycle? I suppose the situation gives into the whole Ouroboros sort of thing. You allow them to live the snake devours itself whole. You kill all of them, allow yourself to live, and go on with the fact that you yourself can spread the danger further whilst dealing with the mental damage of ending all of their lives and dragging in some poor fuckers to deal with it as well. Snake eating itself again. Though, When it comes to killing all of them including yourself, there is one little problem.. how do you know that you and your group of people that you spread this to are the only ones alficted? You can do what you feel is right, and cross your metaphorical fingers that you didn't leave anyone out of the equation to continue the spread. Once more the snake is consuming it's own tail, a never ending horrible cycle. Within all of that It really comes down to how strong willed you are, what legths are you willing to go? Another version of the trolly problems.
Truly it comes down to charater analysis and what you as the consumer, veiw as morally right and wrong.
Charaters:
Jay Merrick:
Timothy Wright:
Brian Thomas:
Alex kralie:
The Operator:
About the Creators:
Why I Would Recomend It:
Everyman HYBRID!
Yippee! Another digital horror series! Started in 2010, The series begins as a seemingly normal work out channel, A little boring but intressting enough to keep you watching. The three men running the channel (Evan Myers, Vincent Everyman, and Jeff) slowly start losing their minds. One of the craziest plot twists that i have seen in media came from this series. This one along with MH are in my top three in the digital horror space.
Charaters:
Evan Myers:
The HABIT:
Vinnie Everyman:
Jeff:
Alex:
Stephanie (Damsel):
About the Creators:
Why I Would Recomend It:
Creepypasta! (Specifcally more of the slendermansion sort of thing)
Oh Creepypastas, the fandom I've loved since I was just a wee tot. I absolutely adore the creativity that comes with each story and character.
I know that there has been more than a few fucked up things involved in the fandom which yes Is super fucked up. I still like the part that brought many of us who became apart of the fandom since most of us were young. Now a days the things that urk me are some of the new fans, like I love that there are new people joining in on the fun but the mentality shared between everyone over all of this is ridiculous. When did people forget about all of the old populars? When did people decide that only a handful of the pastas are the "cannon charaters". The fun of the fandom was that everyone could make a charater and share it with one another but people now shoot every new OC down to the point of genuinely wishing harm on one aanother. Every pasta is an OC [Original Character] most of the popular ones started out as shitty stories written by middle and elementary schoolers. I mean for fucks sakes Jeff the Killer's story is garbage and anyone whos been in the fandom since it came out [the story] knows it but it doesn't make it any less charming. Just cause you hate a charater or hate that person or their art, doesn't mean that you have to send someone a death threat. Mind your fuckin business scroll past it keep your thoughts to yourself. Unless that person is a fucking creep or an asshole there is no reason to be doin all that.
I would like to clarify though that I do love the charaters that many now claim are the cannon, I mean I have my own favorite, and even fixated on most of them up to this point in my life, so I have no ill feelings towards them (def do towards a lot of their creators but thats a diffrent story).
Even in regards to Masky and Hoodie, Yes I am highly aware of their origin and how they came to fruition but that doesn't mean I don't enjoy some of their fannon interpitations. I love seeing how people protray them in media from art to fanfiction it's increadibly intriging.
Charaters:
Eyeless Jack: (both the original and the rewrite)
Jeff the Killer:
Ticci Toby:
Homicidal Liu:
Jane the Killer/Everlasting:
Ben Drowned: (Both the cleverbot version and the cartrage version)
Laughing Jack:
Bloody Painter:
Clockwork:
Nina the Killer:
Smile.jpg:
Slenderman:
Hobo Heart:
Kagekao:
Kate the Chaser:
X-Virus
Jason the Toy Maker:
Candy Pop:
Judge Angles:
Nurse Ann:
Sally Williams:
The Puppeteer:
Nathan the Nobody:
credits for the pieces:
Why I Would Recomend It:
Silent Hill II! (Both the original, the remake, and the novelization)
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Charaters:
James Sunderland:
Mary Shepherd-Sunderland:
Maria:
Angela Orosco:
Eddie Dombrowski:
Laura:
Pyramid Head (Red Pyramid Thing):
Ernest Baldwin:
The Monsters as collective:
About the Creators:
Why I Would Recomend It:
Cry of Fear!
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