While a previous entry highlighted the work of Alex Kister, I wanted to highlight a few more channel I’ve found on YouTube that also have excellent works in the analog horror sub-genre.
While a previous entry of mine highlighted one of the best YouTube channels pertaining to the Backrooms, Kane Pixels, there are of course many, many more. Some aren’t that great, while a few I would say are almost if not as good as Kane’s, each with their own unique take on this popular liminal spaces variation.
Like horror short stories, video shorts can quickly immerse the viewer and crank up the suspense and terror. I recently discovered Dylan’s Clark channel, but also realized I had seen one of his horror shorts thanks to a Jacksepticeye video. Along with his short films, Dylan also has making-of videos for his more-recent works, and that’s a huge help to both fans like me as well as aspiring filmmakers.
While there are a lot (I mean a looooot) of guitar channels on YouTube, so many of them are only of the vapid reactionary meme-y type. There are instructional channels, but many of them are very dry and not quite fitting to a video platform (they should be articles or chapters in a book instead). A good channel properly utilizes video shooting and editing, showing close-up details of each hand as it’s playing, while the instructor is engaging (a little bit of humor and wit goes a long way too). A recent discovery that more than handles these requirements is Ben Eller. Yes, some of his recent videos are reactions, but I suppose any large channel has no choice to maintain and continue growing. I will certainly skip them.
Of his many videos, my favorite I’ve found so far include Getting the most out of your new guitar, This Will Improve Your Picking, Fix Your Picking Hand, and Taking a Break from Guitar.