Whilst the genre was floating around for a while, the zero-point for Analogue Horror came in 2021 with the release of The Mandela Catalogue Vol. However, from its inception in videos like old fake Emergency Broadcasts that were often parts of ARGs, (a prominent one being much of the LOCAL58 series) there has always been a clear, professional feel to Analogue Horror, it is almost always some corporate or governmental video explaining horrifying or mysterious events of entities.
Based only on the words ‘analogue horror’ you’d think something like Marble Hornets would count as an example of Analogue Horror. On the surface Analogue Horror may seem like a very general stylistic assignment some old camera footage, a VHS on a CRT. Well, it’s because something similar is happening now. This all led to a huge wave of slenderman (and other creepypasta) related media, and the multitude of copycats and (often strangely young) fans and fandoms that sprung up around them.Īnyway, you’re probably wondering why I’m talking about Slender in the grand old year of 2022, ten entire years after the release of the original game. Web Series are arguably just as big a part of the online horror community when it comes to forging bonds and content. One of the most famous examples of slenderman media was Marble Hornets, an ARG webseries. Slender is a prime example of this, and is more related to our topic today than, say, Five Nights at Freddy’s due to the similarity in what’s happened here. However, this also boosts the popularity of the games they play, and the characters within them. From there the character was used and evolved a few times, until the game was made, and subsequently picked up by let’s players who, as we know, largely rely on horror games to create those clippable moments of instant fear that boosts their popularity. This wasn’t the first appearance of the character, with the entity dating back to 2009 with an image editing competition on the Something Awful forums. Back in 2012 a game released that you may know about called Slender. It’s National VCR Day today, and we wanted to celebrate it by looking at an emerging horror subgenre that is permeating the Indie Gaming community.
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