List of Analog Horror media

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This is a sortable list of Analog horror media of various varieties.

Characteristics

This type of media is a subgenre of horror fiction based around the aesthetic incorporation of elements related to analog electronics, such as analog television and VHS (Video Home System).^[1][2][3] It is typically characterized by low-fidelity graphics, cryptic messages, little to no traditional jump scares, and visual styles reminiscent of late 20th-century television and analog recordings.^[1][2]

List of notable Analog Horror media

Title	Year	Description	Notes	References
Archive 81	2016	A horror podcast released in 2016, made by Dan Powell and Marc Sollinger. The podcast is centered around an archivist named Dan, who recently began a job from the Housing Historical Committee of New York, who is told by his boss to constantly record his life. Dan records himself as he listens to and organizes a number of interview tapes, recorded by Melody Pendras and detailing her conversations with residents of an apartment complex. It is revealed that these recordings of Dan doing his job are tapes that his friend Marc is now listening to, as Dan has gone missing and Marc seeks to find out what happened to him.	The podcast was adapted into a Netflix Original series, having released in 2016. The Netflix series was cancelled after one season.	[4][5][6]
Amanda the Adventurer		A horror game series featuring analog horror elements
Angel Hare		Created by sisters Hannah and Rachel Mangan (under East Patch Productions) and inspired by Christian animated cartoons, Angel Hare is presented as an animated series starring an angelic hare named Gabby and her badger companion, Francis. Series protagonist Jonah, who watched the cartoon as a child, begins uploading footage of the cartoon to YouTube after realizing his personal VHS copy of the series differs from one found at the thrift store. As he rewatches the series, Jonah realizes that his copy of the cartoon had directly addressed young Jonah, giving him advice on how to deal with abuse by a parental figure.		[7][8][9][10][11]
Backrooms	2022	In January 2022, a short horror film titled The Backrooms (Found Footage) was uploaded to YouTube by then-sixteen-year-old Kane Parsons of Northern California, known online as Kane Pixels. It is based on the creepypasta of the same name, using the software Blender and Adobe After Effects, and is presented as a VHS tape recorded by a filmmaker who accidentally enters the Backrooms in the 1990s and is pursued by a monster. This was later expanded into a series of sixteen shorts, following the employees of a company investigating the Backrooms.	Parsons received a Creator Honors for the series at the 2022 Streamy Awards from The Game Theorists. On February 6, 2023, A24 announced that they were working on a film adaptation of the Backrooms based on Parsons' videos, with Parsons set to direct. Roberto Patino is set to write the screenplay, while James Wan, Michael Clear from Atomic Monster, Shawn Levy, Dan Cohen, and Dan Levine of 21 Laps are set to produce.	[12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24]
Ben Drowned		One of the earliest examples of video game-related analog horror involving video footage of a cursed copy of Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask.		[11]
Blue_Channel		A fictional TV channel that aired a commercial for a new drug called "Thalasin" that allows the user to artificially feel emotions.		[25]
CH/SS		A Cold War-inspired series of 1980s government-sponsored instructional videos for a mental health organization, with hints at espionage and supernatural forces through obscure Russian dialogue.		[11]
Dog Nightmares		A young woman looking for her lost dog only to rediscovered a dog-man hybrid she knew from her childhood years told thru her old drawings, photographs, video footage and excerpts from Sesame Street featuring skits created by artist William Wegman featuring his pet Weimaraners.		[11]
Eventide Media Center	2020	A horror anthology series created by Aidan Chick. The series was framed as being the "local collection" of a public library in the fictional town of Eventide Valley, Massachusetts. Each episode focused on a different event or monster that inhabits Eventide Valley or other fictional towns in the state. The series commonly incorporated reveals and dark humor into the endings of its episodes. For example, the episode "Midnight Movie" is a recording of the closing credits of a 1950s monster movie produced in Somberville, Massachusetts (a fictionalized version of Somerville) in which nearly the entire cast is listed in an in memoriam segment. The film's title is revealed to be "Attack of the Somberville Spiders" and the footage rewinds to the final scene of the movie, showing a camerawoman being attacked by a giant spider. The film then is interrupted by an advertisement for an in-universe pest repellent called "Spider Shield".		[26][27]
Frogman		12 year-old Dallas Kyle, who encountered and captured video footage of a mythical creature, decides to go back to the place where said creature lives to prove that his footage is legit.		[28]
Final Transmissions		Created by husband and wife duo Steven Hugh and Erica Nelson, among others, alongside artwork by Trevor Henderson, involves a '90s small town Illinois TV host airing disturbingly strange and terrifying signals claiming to be from unknown sources.		[29]
Gemini Home Entertainment	2019	A horror anthology series by Remy Abode that was initially released in 2019. It centers around the eponymous Gemini Home Entertainment, a fictional distributor of VHS tapes that detail numerous anomalous incidents taking place around the world, including the appearances of various dangerous alien creatures in the United States and an ongoing assault on the Solar System by "The Iris", a sentient rogue planet which sent the entities to Earth as part of its efforts to subjugate the planet and humanity. The creature of the "Woodcrawler" in the series is heavily inspired by the Native American mythologies of skinwalkers and the wendigo.		[11][25][30][31]
Hi I'm Mary Mary		About a woman trapped inside her parents' home without any exit, with only a camera and replenishing supply of food, and while being stalked by shadowy figures including a masked woman.
Kraina Grzybów TV		A Polish YouTube web-series created by Wiktor Stribog. The series tells the story of a mysterious pirate broadcast show hosted by a girl named Agatka and her squirrel friend, Małgosia. Kraina Grzybów is made in the aesthetic of old Polish TV shows from the communist era.		[32][33][34]
Local 58	2015	Kris Straub's Local 58 is a series of YouTube videos presented as authentic videotaped footage of a television station that has been continuously hijacked over several decades. While there is no main plot in this series, episodes include messages related to looking up at the Moon or the night sky, as well as the in-universe Thought Research Initiative (TRI) Local 58's first video "Weather Service" was published in 2015 as a stand-alone short and then added to the dedicated YouTube channel when it was established in 2017.	Local 58 is frequently credited with creating and/or popularizing analog horror. Additionally, the series is responsible for naming the genre through its slogan, "Analog Horror at 476 MHz".	[35][36][37][38][39][11]
Marble Hornets	2009	An alternate reality game YouTube series created in 2009, based on the Slender Man creepypasta. Made by Troy Wagner and Joseph DeLage, the series follows Jay Merrick (Wagner) as he attempts to find out what happened to his friend Alex Kralie (DeLage) during the production of Alex's student film, Marble Hornets. Jay watches tapes from the film's production, and uploads them to YouTube as various entries showing that Alex was being stalked by an elusive entity known as "The Operator." Aspects of the series that put it in the analog horror subgenre include its use of video tapes, as well as the implementation of a second channel for the series titled "totheark," where cryptic codes and messages are embedded into unconventional video editing. The web series was met with mostly positive reviews from critics, like Roger Ebert, and fans.	Had a spinoff film released in 2015 called Always Watching: A Marble Hornets Story, which was negatively received, with reviewers remarking that the series did not translate well onto the big screen, from both a storytelling and technical standpoint.	[40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47]
The Mandela Catalogue		A YouTube series created by twenty-year-old Alex Kister of Hubertus, Wisconsin in 2021. It is set in the fictional Mandela County, Wisconsin in the 1990s and 2000s, which is threatened by the presence of "alternates", doppelgängers who coerce their victims to kill themselves and can manipulate audiovisual media. Other plot aspects include Lucifer disguising himself as the biblical archangel Gabriel, shown through altered footage of episodes from the animated series The Beginners Bible. Composed of fourteen shorts, The Mandela Catalogue became popular online through analysis and reaction videos.		[28][48][49][50][51]
The Man in the Suit	2023	Created by Unknowingly, involves a fictional incident that occurred while filming the first Godzilla film in 1954. The man who plays Godzilla essentially fuses into the rubber suit, and over the course of the next few films, would cause the same thing to happen to the actors of Anguirus, Mothra, and King Ghidorah, along with killing the actor of King Kong along with a few other people.		[11]
The McKinney Family Home Videos		A 68-minute feature created by Molly and Nick Cotrufo, in which a father's collection of recorded home videos of important family moments documents a dark force lurking within.		[52][53][54]
Midwest Angelica	2025	A cosmic horror analog series created by Team AQ (revealed to be Eventide Media Center creator Aidan Chick and Minerva Alliance creator Quarks and Rec on July 3 and 9, 2025 respectively) depicts the work of a NASA organization known as HOME (Division of Heavenly Operations and Material Examination) chronicling their discovery of an alien corpse codenamed "AZ-001" that crashes into Midwest America (mainly Nebraska) in January 1999. AZ-001 begins infecting the surrounding fauna and proves itself to be a threat to the United States. The series takes heavy inspiration from the anime Neon Genesis Evangelion and biblical stories.		[55][11][26][31]
Minerva Alliance		A series of tapes depicting anomalous phenomena collected by the titular non-profit.		[11]
The Monument Mythos		A YouTube web-series set in different alternate history versions of the United States. The premises include James Dean serving as president having won the 1968 United States presidential election instead of Richard Nixon, an alternate origin of the Statue of Freedom, and Martin Luther King Jr. avoiding his assassination. The episodes are in the found footage and mockumentary format and revolve around American national monuments being depicted in relation to unusual incidents, involving fictional conspiracy theory narratives, such as disappearances of immigrants near the Statue of Liberty, time travel/teleportation, a strange astronomical phenomena above the Pyramids of Giza, and a mysterious infection affecting individuals near Mount Rushmore.		[56][57][11][58][59][60][61][31][62][63]
Mystery Flesh Pit National Park				[11]
No Through Road	2009	A YouTube series created by then-17-year-old Steven Chamberlain of Hertfordshire, England, in 2009. Set within the real-world private "no through road" at the entrance of Broomhall Farm, it follows four teenagers driving home at night as they find themselves trapped in a space and time loop, eternally passing the same two road signs marking an intersection separating the villages of Benington and Watton between miles of liminal space countryside, while threatened by a figure who can manipulate the loop back to an archway at the road's entrance. Other plot aspects include all footage of the events being stolen from MI6 and uploaded online to YouTube.		[64][65][66][67][68][69]
The Painter	2022	Created in by UrbanSPOOK, involves a serial killer who creates paintings of each of their victims, who are tortured and disfigured in unique ways. It has been criticized for its graphic content.		[70]
Petscop		A "Let's Play" of a Pokemon-esque game where inputting a cheat code reveals a dark side to said game, involving a murder that greatly affected the game's creator.		[71]
Skinamarink	2022	Written and directed by Kyle Edward Ball, Skinamarink is a supernatural horror film that debuted at the 2022 Fantasia Film Festival. It uses experimental techniques to tell the story of two young children, Kevin and Kaylee, as the pair witness the doors and windows of their house disappear. Their parents are missing as well, and the film focuses on the pair struggling to understand the nature of the supernatural entity that has come into their home. Using a crowdfunded budget of $15,000, the film conveys its themes of horror with "unconventional viewpoints and angles" to best simulate the experience of its child protagonists. With the budget in mind, the movie creators were able to use what they had on hand for lighting and filming at Ball's childhood home, with a majority of the movie being lit by a CRT television. In terms of embodying analog horror traits, the visuals and sound design of the film simulate the quality of VHS tapes. Skinamarink also uses an array of toys from the '90s, the aforementioned CRT television, and older cartoons to work within the analog horror subgenre.		[72][73][74][75]
The Walten Files		Inspired by the Five Nights at Freddy's franchise, the Chile-based animated series created by Martin Walls, involves a set of videotapes from Bunny Smiles Incorporated, the defunct company behind the restaurant Bon's Burgers, featuring Chuck E. Cheese-like animatronics alongside the series's main character, Sophie Walten, and her family, who disappeared after a series of unfortunate events, directly and indirectly caused by Jack Walten's close friend, Felix Kranken.		[11][76][26]
Welcome Home		A webseries created by Clown Illustration, about an anonymous team of individuals and their attempt to restore a long-lost Muppet-inspired '70s kids' puppet show featuring eight puppets and a sentient house that may have something sinister lurking behind the scenes.		[77][78][79]
Winter of 83		Created by Lewis Lovhaug of Channel Awesome fame, involving the disappearance of an entire population of a small town in the winter of 1983 through a collection of video and audio tapes.		[11]
White Stag Education		A series of educational video recordings from New Jersey involving masked "strangers" stalking hikers in the Pine Barrens and a biblical entity known as The Adversary.		[28]
Woodlands National Park				[11]
Somnium Dream Viewer		A Youtube series about a product created by the fictional Somnium Technologies in the 1980s that allowed users to print images of their dreams yet have extremely violent nightmares.		[11][80]
Surreal Broadcast		A collection of TV programs from different years in the small town of Berksaut, Main, including one involving an animal bite incident from 1989.		[11]
Super Mario 64: CLASSIFIED		Involves video recordings of a broken demo of said Nintendo 64 game.		[11]
This House Has People in It		Directed by comedian Alan Resnick for Adult Swim and inspired by The Blair Witch Project, involves surveillance footage of a suburban family and their teenage daughter lying in the kitchen floor while their son is having his birthday party.		[11][26][81]
Valle Verde		A video game-based analog horror involving a VHS recording of a PlayStation 1 Animal Crossing-esque title where its on-screen avatar is treated with distorted imagery of children, references to "unstable patients" and disturbing realms edging between the divine and demonic.		[11]
Vita Carnis		A Canadian mixed media project describing the rise of a branchlike, fleshy organism known as the Crawl, which first appeared in 1931.		[11]