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Yes. Also the Face cam reminded me of the creepy nintendo face camera game that would have distorted faces and captions like 'who are you running from?'. Its bringing back alot of nostalgic childhood horror from back in the day.
I know this is supposed to be scary, but I was giggling the entire time Adam was like "dude it really sucks that Jonah's gone buuuuut i got this sick ass footage bro" and Sarah is just like "wtf bro" and then she hits him with the "this is why your girl left you" funny as hell
For people who don't like "Gabriel's" new voice, that voice isn't theirs, it's that of the pastor who called dave. The tts voice is still there and most likely it is his real voice. After all, "Gabriel" is the first alternative.
I don’t really think that’s the case. They share a voice actor, but O’Brien was Gabriel in disguise anyway. When Gabriel revealed himself he stopped pretending to be O’Brien, and you can even hear that he stops having a southern accent. I think that is his actual voice and that O’Brien’s voice was fabricated.
Ngl, 16:40 scared the absolute bejesus out of me. This, this is just one of the many reasons why I like this channel. No lead-up. No intense music. Just the intense feeling of deep wrongness and pervasive dread. This is a moment taken from someone's private life, a moment that no one should see. But someone is watching. Half-hidden and entirely a violation. This by itself is horrifying enough. But then I remembered something from my film studies classes as I sat down to write all this; the purpose of a camera is to act as an eye, and our role is to function as silent witnesses. We are privy to situations and scenes that the normal person would never experience; we know more about the characters we see than anyone else behind the screen. More relevantly, we are voyeurs in the truest sense; voyeur, or "one who sees." But also, we are voyeurs in the basest sense as well. We derive pleasure from watching, albeit not the kind that voyeurs are most known for, but pleasure nonetheless; you can't tell me you don't enjoy watching things on screens, because this is literally a BRvid comment section. And this, this right here is a big part of the reason why this moment is so terrifying. Not only is there an unwanted spectator to someone's private life, WE are unwanted spectators as well. There are two, or technically over 1 million (as of the time of this comment) if you want to make this a global experience instead of a personal one, lookers. We, watchers through the camera, see this figure in the shadows who is acting out the reality of what we are doing. They are us. And we are NOT supposed to be there. We're here, but we see someone, or something, very much like us and acting in the same role as us -- a witness. And because of this, there's this awareness in your subconscious of a subtle recognition, and it just feels incredibly wrong. As it should; we're looking at a facsimile of human life, a personification of uncanny valley. But that's not the whole reason why. You see, up until this point in the video, you had no problem with watching. You were fine, or perhaps even more than fine, watching Thatcher undress and get into his bed. Despite it being a gross violation of privacy, you didn't care; it didn't occur to you to care. And why would it? It's not like Thatcher is real. You are enabled and protected by the camera; the camera, with its ability to peer into limitless facets of its subjective reality, gives you distance. You are not the one in control, you are getting your experiences secondhand. Thus, distance. And then you see a reflection of you. A figurative and literal voyeur. Unseen and intent, and something approaching ravenous. And that jolt of unpleasantness jerks you from your comforting insulation. No longer is your passivity a shield, it is a restriction. In the vaguest of ways, you are now aware of how much your situation has in common with Thatcher. You are both powerless, only you are aware of your helplessness. You cannot alert Thatcher, if you should feel so inclined. You have no impact and you are less than nothing. In fact, you are now cognizant of the possibility that you, like Thatcher, are just unaware of your spectators and could very much be in the same position as him. I don't know if any of this is intentional, or if Alex just intuited into the perfect way to creep out a viewer, or if I'm just reading too deeply into things as per usual. Anyway, sorry for the essay. Actually, if I was still in school, I'd probably write an essay about this channel. I'm surprised this idea is now just occurring to me; I'll have to rewatch everything and look for how the theme of surveillance and watching is treated, since it's been a while since I watched the early videos. TL;DR Alex Kister is a genius, 16:40 is basically looking at a mirror through another mirror except each reflection is more nightmarish than the last, and I now would like my skin to stop trying to crawl out of itself now thanks.
@Paintball's second channel What I wrote was a reflection on the nature of the watcher, dissecting how and why it works to scare us on a fundamental level. I went into why, not only the person in the closet is creepy, but why the whole scene is creepy. But I'm not sure you actually read it, or even skimmed it. Because I already apologized for the 'essay' and made a TL;DR at the bottom for people who wanted a quick summary. And, I'm sorry, but taking five paragraphs to dissect a scene isn't all that impressive in a college-level film class. In a field where you literally look at camera angles as giving insight into a deeper meaning, writing five to ten pages per film is about average.
If you need to write 5 paragraphs about something as simple as that, then your looking way too deep into this. No clue how more than 2 paragraphs can be made about someone in a closet
@ImNotZero College gave me a lot of practice. 5-6 paragraphs?? Child's play. And time. It took maybe a half an hour to an hour to write this, but I had to get my thoughts out there; the idea was too good not for other people to see. And if you get MADS in the process, well, that's just too bad. :)
37:54 "The flicker of the TV illuminated this bedroom. Drowning out the darkness with his favorite programs. Do you remember how we became friends? The light scared off all the monsters, it kept him safe. Do you remember my face? With contorted flesh and broken bones, I made myself known. Do you remember my touch? I cradled him in my arms. My sweet boy. I took him away. Do you remember that night, Murray? When you stare into the mirror, you see the same monsters from your bedroom, don't you? But your skin is not your own. You're not the real you."
when wendigoon remarked on how the production value exponentially grows in this series.. well. anyways, i think this entry was really really fascinating :) there's definitely less of the "scary" factor but i don't think that makes the series bad at all, especially since alex has said that he's moving more away from horror + the analog style. it's a really engaging story and i'm still really curious about things happening in it, super cool and love this volume just as much as the others
@EmmaJ.K.88 the whole thing started out as part of analog horror. I'm a sucker for that kind of content. Now if he wants to move away from that, and make it like any generic non scary horror movie , then I'm not gonna stay for that..
@Shy That's really sad that you feel that way then. There is a great story going on here, and the series is more than just the "scares". Most people can see that. Alex is growing as a creator and going in a direction that he has already planned. We should be able to appreciate it.
i feel like this isnt the same as the past volumes... i found myself literally laughing at gabriel's voice + the sunglasses' dude falling on the ground. still a good episode but it just isnt scary? idk im trying to sugar coat this bc i love this series but
The problem in part is that as the series expands more and more things are explained. And the problem is that horror kind of relies mostly on our fear of the unknown, once something is explained to a point where you can begin to categorize it it stops being scary. Alex is a whizz don't get me wrong, but the tightrope walk has begun.
The most fascinating thing for me truly was both 3D alternates, such a amazing work of art.. But i can't stop thinking about how Gabriel voice changes simply by the fact that he's mimicking humans, the fact that he sounds outrageous just made it a lot more creepier, specially when put into thought how low this "being" looks upon humanity itself.. Brilliant, brilliant work Alex!! This 4 vol. connecting all the dots from previous ones is really starting to build a horror masterpiece and possibly a new trendy horror genre. I haven't felt like this since the early days of FNAF, the illusive "creatures" along with the story and all the different archetypes behind it, i just can't get enough of this!! * Personal opinion * The " Mandela Catalogue " franchise, SCREAAAMS for a horror game, has literally all the perfect elements for a new horror experience.
Adam gleefully forcing Sarah to look at the very creatures that made her brother kill himself is horrifying if he’s an alternate, but if he’s _not_ and he’s just so hellbent on catching the monsters that killed his mother/possibly his ex girlfriend, that it’s turned into a sick fascination/obsession with them, it’s even _more_ brutal. EDIT: I’m not saying I don’t believe that Adam could be an alternate; it is very likely that he is. I’m just saying that all the creepy stuff he does in this volume would be a lot creepier and sadder (to me, personally), if he wasn’t an alternate and had just gone off the deep end.
@Yummy nah fam, real adam or human adam as a baby IS the one who got kidnapped. The intruder just left Our Current Adam / Alternate Adam as a replacement. Just so happens, that this 'replacement' forgot, didn’t know he wasn’t the original fine print.
@Pebbless654 Sarah says that Adam "left Jonah". I figured that Adam caught up to the car and found Jonah dead. He then took the car. I'm honestly guessing about some of this. I don't know if we're meant to think Adam killed Jonah - that Jonah's grunt when exiting the car was due to an attack by Adam. But I don't think so.
I feel like people don’t appreciate the face studio 2 scene enough, it fits right in the uncanny valley and feels absolutely like something someone would make in the 2000’s the black and white screen, the robotic text to speech, the creepy animations, it just all feels so legit and oddly nostalgic Really great stuff
This was... a great production, but underwhelming compared to the rest of the series, as in, it's very different, in a way, a jpeg shouldn't be scarier than this, but the context with the pictures just made my mind go ways. This one is great, but... yeah.
@zymphyr yeah, if he's an alternate, than that explains it but if he's just some insane dude than that's infinitely more creepy. Just some dude so set in his ways that he doesn't care who gets caught in the crossfire. The scariest people are ones who will do anything for their goal and don't have anything to lose
@PussMaster119 that’s because he’s most likely an alternate, but i do think that it would be infinitely more creepy if he wasn’t and that’s just how deranged he is
Yeah, it really shows during this part. He forces Sarah to look at something she's so terrified of. He disregards Jonah's abbsense, basically being like "sucks to suck I guess but I've got some really good footage" it's kinda scary. He has one goal and he doesn't really care about others
I’m on the verge of tears and I don’t cry like ever. This series is everything I love and look for in a story. Angst. Humor. Fear. Lore. Thank you so much for creating this series. I can’t wait to see it grow.
I fucking adore the part where Davis mentions "a scared boy with a gun.", and then a house shows up with a background voice going "sound familiar?", hinting at Mark Heathcliff. So good
this vol reveals a new type of alternate. ill list them all because im bored Type 1- Doppelgänger Can fit perfectly into society. Almost no flaws Type 2- Unspeakable More notable flaws. Easier to recognize Type 3- Overdriven Assimilation Inhuman capacities. Recognizable due to being in their true form 99% of the time. Type 4- Mimic Shaped to be inanimate objects. Can be recognizable due to audible breathing. Type 5- Tulpa Can be seen through mirrors and TVs Type 6- Sleepers Kids who were kidnapped by 6 turned into alternates. None of them know they are.
38:02 in this part, he says "Do you remember how we became friends?" i think he is referring to the part in vol.333 where the character spoke with a mysterious face with only a mouth and 2 eyes, and this is also a proof of it 38:10, he also showed the alternates/monsters from the 1st and the 2nd volume. and as he said "i can make friends out of tin air", so it makes sense where the alternates were made from or come from so from what i have watched from this and all other volumes, he may be the one who started this disaster. i could be completely wrong but it's what i think
The Intruder (aka Stanley) befriended Adam as a baby and made him manifest the Alternate in his house that ultimately killed Jude (Adam's father) and later on became Thatcher's alternate. The Intruder switched to his other form (The TV form) and stole Adam which then made Lynn off herself (distraught of her missing infant)
These Mandela Catalogue videos keep getting better and better! And more lengthier as well! Love the use of actors and green screen backgrounds, the dark atmosphere definitely gives off the vibes of a hopeless world! Can’t wait to see what’s in store in the next episode!
I absolutely LOVE how if you listen close enough when Gabriel is speaking, you can still hear the og TTS voice, please never change Gabriel's tts voice it's perfect for him 🙌
Yo, i love this! The way it gets my heart racing, fingers trembling, I feel blood pulsing on the edges if my body, it sounds bad, but it’s honestly a fun feeling, super interesting, keep it up! Love it
I don’t know how to feel about this part, I absolutely loved the first 3 volumes, maybe I’m just more into the analogue videos but then I really liked the voice acting in volume 2 and 3, where this I felt it was a bit wooden, also I know people have said this in the comments but I’m not a big fan of Gabriel’s voice.
Alex is just too talented! These just keep getting better and better! Also, Gabriel the bastard, Gabriel my beloved got a voice now?? And it fits him so well??? Alex Kister you madman you've done it yet again!
Now to wait for wendigoon to make a video explaining all the amazing details I missed lol This vid was great! More amazing cgi work, and alotnof creepy ideas!
25:12 Exposure to verbal information that is not desired to be known. 27:25 Biologically impossible characteristics. 28:03 "A thriving society of followers of the true savior. A mess of tangled limbs danced around my bedroom. I held my breath, and waited for it to stop. I was too scared to- (I am unable to make it out, voices begin overlapping) I am the-----why you evade the truth-uth-uth-uth-uth" 37:54 "The flicker of the TV illuminated his bedroom. Drowning out the darkness with his favorite programs. Do you remember how we became friends? The lights scared off all the monsters. They kept you safe. Do you remember my face, With contorted flesh and broken bones? I made myself known. Do you remember my touch? I cradled him in my arms. My sweet boy. I took him away. Do you remember that night, Murray? When you stare into the mirror? You see the same monsters from your bedroom, don't you? But your skin is not your own. You're not the real yo-"
It seems like there are two different kinds of evil in this series One of which is Gabriel which believes in "if there are more of me out there, then there are less control of mankind" The other is 6 aka stranger aka Stanley, who has stolen a child and brought "something" back. (It could be the 'real' or fake Adam that we are speaking to.) It could also imply that Adams alternate never left and basically casted a shadow onto Adam and he can't sleep at all because it's been constantly haunting him both consciously and subconsciously, not even knowing what is real or not, and just having random moments of peace (somehow knowing where the car was and walked for miles, not even knowing where Jonah is.) The thing I love the most about this volume is the stranger being "summoned" like a demon to Adam and telling him false truths and Adam himself has to figure out what he is saying is real or what is fake.
@Oofie Odyssey What makes it worse is the fact that the whole thing is a meme about how no one fuckin watched Morbius because it was unoriginal and no one asked for it to be made and then people post it in relation to content like the Mandela Catalog, completely oblivious to the fact that they're calling the content lame/boring.
I Love Mandela But It Kinda Feels To Me That While Budget Has Increased, Production Quality And Effort Put In Went Down A Slight Bit And It's Noticeable Though I Still Love It.
It really scared before and yes actually lost its magic, but if haved the same thing before like to the start and to the final of the series, ir would be boring because we have already see this and you would not get chills from the same thing it really creeped you before
@heassik3088 I think him not looking like a cop is part of the idea. The police department was taking anyone they could get. Can you imagine how many officers have been killed by alternates over the years? How many officers have quit and fled? And who the hell would even want to ever work for the Mandela County Police with that kind of track record? Makes sense that they would hire someone who no other police department would have hired, they would have probably taken anyone who was willing. Thatcher was clearly too young and under-qualified for the position, which makes it even sadder.
@Thomas I’d argue that the obviously fake backgrounds mixed with real actors makes this uncanny valley. I kinda like it, although Dave is definitely a bit goofy.
What made the mandele catalogue scary and unique compared to other forms of horror media is slowly being lost because it's starting to feel like a life action horror movie instead of something so unfamilair and uncanny that you get scared all the way through.
17:00 This sequence scared me the most in this volume because it was so reminiscent of being awake with a feeling of dread you cant explain, staring into the dark of your room and SWEARING you see something in your closet and just staring at it, praying it doesn't move, freaking out a bit when your eyes start to fatigue from not blinking because then it kind of DOES move and then you *really* can't fuckin sleep. Absolutely mastetful. Alex, you're a fucking genius.
@plasma I also want to add that I'm a grown ass woman who is intelligent enough to admit that there are things that are beyond the understanding that current science possesses or can explain. Arthur C Clarke's quip on sufficiently advanced technology being indistinguishable from magic comes to mind here.
@plasma ever woken up to the sound of someone inside your house who definitely is not meant to be there? the whole "monster in the closet" fear isnt that unreasonable imo
That scene is literally the worst for me. I have similiar experience, albeit it's because i have stress and anxiety at that time, so I'm just hallucinating. But still the scariest moment of my life
I really liked your video of volume 4 and the characters I liked before are the alternate ones, they had the ability to transform into people and also the voice that changed differently person that deceives them to attract them and then kill them but If you start to include people in person you have to do it very well so that it doesn't look too boring or also action and scare when volume 5 comes out it has to be better, some betrayal and scare It would just be that and goodbye 👋
I somewhat noticed this after TV Tropes pointed this out, but if you listen very closely to Gabriel's speech, you can just barely hear his text to speech whisper below his actual voice.
Sadly this is probably the least frightening video in the series. As much fun as the live action stuff probably was to shoot, it has nothing on just the audio and still images of the first three. The mind filling in the gaps is what makes some of the moments in the series so tense. With fuzzy pictures and blurry pov cam quality, you can hide the low production costs; but when you have clear as day people against those eerie images, it's just down right silly. Especially the hands scene and David killing Mr. sunglasses, it's just too goofy.
I agree. It’s ok if it’s not as scary as the other volumes, but it didn’t feel scary enough because some of the live-action scenes broke the immersion. I still love this series though.
the part where the alternate went behind dave and started laughing, that was honestly a bit cringe, with dave also shivering weirdly. also the part with the emo guy was a bit weird, but other than that it was all great
Adam is an alternate, but has forgotten. As the intruder says, his skin is not his own, and he is not the real him. Also, during the “memorial video” for Jonah, Evelin says that he said things to her that she “wished he had never told me.” He told her the information that is undesired to be known that causes M.A.D.
@Noctizide stands for Metaphysical awareness disorder, it is spread by alternates in an attempt at making people end their lives to take over their appearance. it is information that is undesired to be known, most likely about religion. i dont think adam is an alternate, intruder tries to make him end his life so he says that, adam only survived alternates because alternates cant attack you, they can only spread M.A.D, and adam is not afraid of the information.
@the upper room so if adam does find out he is an alternate then what would he do would he continue to live like a human or not if he already has feelings and connection with people
I'll be honest. I thought I was de-sensitized to analogue horror but after volume 2 of this, I continuously feel chills down my spine, I got so scared by the ending part of volume 3 I had to actually skip ahead just to the end so I wouldn't have any nightmares, and even then, that face...that smile it's all burned into my eyes...Amazing job, man!
It really scared before and yes actually lost its magic, but if haved the same thing before like to the start and to the final of the series, ir would be boring because we have already see this and you would not get chills from the same thing it really creeped you before, if i sayed it was a analog horror and now a generic analog horror, if you see, this series has give the born/rise to this genre, but i think evolve its better
Okay, for one, I'm getting some serious SAW and Silent Hill vibes. This went from being just a regular 80s 90s analogue horror series, to now being very similar to what Silent Hill offered from the live action films as well as the video games...Stunning, but the story in this one is all over the place, and not really precise on how I should follow it. Thankfully people will debunk and go through this video in better explanation. And thinking that the live action filmed portions were weird and not really fit, as time went on though they actually do have a purpose of why it's there. Now, mandela, a town that was full of great people, now becomes nothing more than a ghostown, and that's awful to live and be in that town that no longer has a ton of people living there now would it. EDIT: Well, now seeing the whole thing, it all starts to make sense at the end of the video, where it all connects. Now I see why it took this long to get here. And all of this happened between 1985 and 2010. Interesting.
The wiggle arms made me gafaw with laughter, they either didn’t try or tried to hard. There are no heart sink moments anymore, all the backgrounds look unrealistic asf, we didn’t need everything to be show in this way
The fact that the siren went off for the alternate that got into the station while the girl was there is some insane creativity to create horror. This volume in the series is by far the best.
It really scared before and yes actually lost its magic, but if haved the same thing before like to the start and to the final of the series, ir would be boring because we have already see this and you would not get chills from the same thing it really creeped you before, if i sayed it was a analog horror and now a generic analog horror, if you see, this series has give the born/rise to this genre, but i think evolve its better even if its to the worst because itself the magic can lost its sparkle
@FuckinAntiPope I felt that way too! As someone who enjoys horror and isn't fazed by most of it anymore, watching the first 3 volumes gave me chills, especially since there wasn't a single jumpscare. However, I felt like this one was missing a lot of that uneasiness and suspense present in the previous catalogues, as if something is behind you, watching you from the darkness. This one just wasn't as exciting and creepy as the others.
@Soundwave The Christian I am not sure how to feel about this one here either. The first Mandela Catalogue episodes gave me, a hardened horror fan, the creeps. I am not finished with this one here yet, but until now it misses the uneasiness of the simple analog horror the first episodes had. I remember the picture of an alternate standing in a corner which gave me major chills.
I just realized something. It's minor, but still a cool detail. In his messenger, Adam has a contact named "Noah", which is naturally a biblical name, and he says he's gonna play Left 4 Dead 2. In that game there's a chapter titled "Come Hell and HIgh Water". Alex you magnificent bastard, you did it again.
I love how grayscale is used in the series as shorthand for alternate dominion/presence. "Gabriel" and pretty much all alternates are always shown in grayscale. In "in the beginning", night is shown in grayscale. Often, when "Gabriel" appears in an animation, everything turns grayscale. This also happens in the trailer for Vol. 4, where color is slowly swept away by grayscale.
Great im watching this at 1 26 am i do not have a door in my bedroom and im scared af i watched all of those videost and they are great i love it but im scared keep it up
I'm torn on Gabriel's new voice. On one hand it makes sense for the lore as Alternates learn to replicate human speech more accurately, but on the other, there was something so primordially terrifying about the text-to-speech voice that shook me to my core.
Are others getting My Chemical Romance vibe from the “Thatcher scenes”? “I woke up today sad, and the sun is shining - but not on me… because Im sad…..” Still tho…. Gotta love a solid spook
So… What I’m guessing is that David (or somebody) was the prophet dude and Adam is a sleeper agent/ alternate and has been since he was little. Gabriel, I’m assuming, led the prophet astray while the girl actually knew what was up when she found the file. “Your skin is not your own”- so Adam is most definitely an alternate. That’s probably why he’s been so fascinated with alternates too. I wonder what killed his mother- himself? Or the alternate who left him there? The man/ alternate at the end seems to be his father. Talking about him as a child, and remembering his face and stuff. And in past videos, we keep hearing them refer to Adam as “son”. So… He’s like a kid of theirs or something? Are there more of them?
Can we talk about the scene where Thatcher started crying because he was too scared to save Ruth? You gotta give props to the voice actor too like damn
Wait is the Face Studio 2 thing a critique of the actual AI shenanigans? I mean, the distorted faces are quit common from those art-stealing algorithms
Hey Alex you should do a colander with Kane Pixels! He mad backrooms found footage videos with a catalogue horror style, same with you. I think having an Alternate in the backrooms sounds fun, the way they imitate their victims.
The live-action segments made it feel less analog. At first, I was put off by them, but they were still well-incorporated. The lore and the story are 10/10, and the closet scene was still horrifying. The face program was just what I was looking for, and the interactions were top-tier. Overall, the story is fantastic, the horror is still scary, I hope we see more videos/analog segments, and I'm pumped for the next video.
0:50 This tree glitches out here and has a person beneath it for a second... is this the tree with the apples Adam and Eve weren't allowed to eat? 2:10 Ok that's definitely it- 18:47 Holy crap you nailed the uncanny valley with this. The Thatcher alter is terrifying.
I like how the alternates sound in this episode. They learned how to modify their voices so that they can deceive people more easily, which makes the voice changes scarier. It means they’re getting closer to sounding human, and they’ll get better at it as the series progresses. As the takeover becomes more globally widespread, the creepy text-to-speech whispering won’t be common anymore because the demons will become successful with blending in perfectly with humans. Their goal is to kill and replace the human race, so they’re going to do whatever is necessary to become perfect doppelgängers. So basically, the more realistic the alternate sounds, the more dangerous they are and that should scare you.
@DolliMiu I don't think God is dead in the Mandela universe, I think humanity just turned away from him completely after they were deceived by the false Gabriel (Satan). I get a feeling that "The Shepherd" they keep mentioning is God, as that's the way he's also described in the Bible. That's why the alternates are trying to get Adam to "Stop following The Shepherds voice" and to follow their's instead.
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