Analog Horror from the YouTube Underground

A free-to-watch YouTube horror playlist built from cursed broadcasts, corrupted tapes, liminal footage, fake public warnings, and internet-native nightmares that feel discovered rather than released.

This playlist features The Backrooms, Local 58, The Mandela Catalogue, Gemini Home Entertainment, No Through Road, My House Walk-Through, The Walten Files, Vita Carnis, This House Has People in It, Possibly in Michigan.

Films in this playlist

  1. The Backrooms — Kane Parsons · 2022–present. Kane Parsons turns internet creepypasta into cinema through scale, spatial dread, and documentary-style restraint — one of the cleanest examples of YouTube horror becoming real film language.
  2. Local 58 — Kris Straub · 2015–present. Local 58 helped define the grammar of analog horror: degraded signal, institutional calm, emergency language, and the terror of being told to obey the screen.
  3. The Mandela Catalogue — Alex Kister · 2021–present. The series makes analog horror feel intimate: the enemy is not only outside the house, but possibly wearing the face of someone you love.
  4. Gemini Home Entertainment — Remy Abode · 2019–present. It weaponizes the comfort of old educational media, making forests, wildlife, and astronomy feel like contaminated evidence.
  5. No Through Road — Steven Chamberlain · 2009. A small, rough YouTube upload that feels like a genuine local urban legend — exactly the kind of low-budget discovery the internet preserves better than any platform catalog.
  6. My House Walk-Through — PiroPito / nana825763 · 2016. Minimalism is the weapon here: no mythology dump, no explanation, just a camera moving through a house that should not behave this way.
  7. The Walten Files — Martin Walls · 2020–present. It understands that analog horror often becomes most disturbing when innocence and branding are used as camouflage for grief.
  8. Vita Carnis — Darian Quilloy · 2022–present. Vita Carnis works because it treats monsters like educational material — calm narration, taxonomy, and biology making the impossible feel official.
  9. This House Has People in It — Alan Resnick · 2016. Not pure analog horror, but spiritually connected: surveillance, corrupted domestic normalcy, and a feeling that the footage is studying the viewer back.
  10. Possibly in Michigan — Cecelia Condit · 1983. This is the ancestor in the playlist — not YouTube-native, but its lo-fi video texture and uncanny performance style make it feel like a cursed tape the internet was built to rediscover.