Midwest Angelica - A Cosmic Analog Horror Explained
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 มิ.ย. 2024
- This underrated analog horror has gone mostly unrecognized for far too long, but not anymore! Today I'm going to explain the entire story so far, so sit back and enjoy the ridiculously good cosmic horror in @MidwestAngelica.
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00:00 intro
02:00 CALL NOW
4:56 Home
13:13 ATTENTION
15:16 Starfield
21:15 STARKILL
23:16 Phantoms
29:02 BULLETIN
30:55 analysis & timeline
39:55 closing thoughts
// music used (in order):
♫ HOME - Sunshower
♫ Midwest Angelica - Home
♫ Midwest Angelica - Midwest Angelica
♫ HOME - Hold
♫ HOME - On The Way Out
♫ HOME - Tides
♫ HOME - Atlas
♫ HOME - Half Moon
♫ HOME - Before The Night
♫ HOME - We're Finally Landing
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As someone from Nebraska, I find the landing site unlikely because Nebraska is so unimportant that the boredom this state exudes would have acted as a barrier that caused the object to bounce off and land somewhere more interesting.
Can confirm. My family is from Nebraska. The most excitement they get is corn. Everything is corn. Even their football team is corn.
Instead of the AT Field is the Boredom Field
@@WobblesandBean I like corn.
Nah Nebraska has some awesome music, at least it’s not Utah or Wyoming or something
What about Omaha...my family and I try to go to the Henry Doorly Zoo every year. There's also that plane museum.
I find it funny how the scientists literally watched this thing fall from orbit onto the earth and survive, and yet thought flamethrowers were gonna kill it lol
It's funny that you consider surviving and being completely unscathed as the same.
@@MouldedMindIt's funny that you remain adamant in the idea that atmospheric re-entry, burning due to friction as it accelerates and prepares to be crushed by the force of the entirety of the planet, may have SCRATCHED it, so fluid fuels may completely destroy it 😂😅
@@5h4d0w5l1f3 not often are people repeating the mistake corrected in the comment they are responding to.
Fire is the great equalizer
@@MouldedMind and yet you had the bravery 😭
THEORY! With episode 00 being an advertisment for the film, what if all that we're watching is just that, shots from the film? What if the reason they couldn't find anything on this pathogen is because it's fictional? That would also explain the CGI being so bad, it's the 90's after all and the reason they couldn't find the movie is because it was locally made and only locally sold (with only a few if any copies sold)
that is such a fun theory LOL
Ok here me out. What if the movie was made by aliens, and that's why people can't find it.
I was thinking the ad was part of the misinformation campaign by HOME as a way to cover up the entity's existence, as they mentioned being on of the main goals of the organization when it was introduced. "Yeah this thing exists, but if we tell people it's fake upfront they won't believe it"
Pretty damm experimental movie here then. Expect is missing John william like scores
What if it’s a bit of both? With the film having being so close to what ended up happening, that whoever found these tapes can’t tell what is part of the film, and what really happened
"Picture this...you're outside" Too implausible sorry
he's joking dont worry@@polybius-jy5rc
Grass detected, eldritch beast rejected
Wait a minute...
@@polybius-jy5rcplease stop taking jokes as absolute truth.
Yeah, I'm a HOI4 gamer and I can confirm that touching grass is more painful than attempting a Tannu Tuva world conquest artillery only
I believe the 'family' quote is refering to the fact that everyone on the ranch sucumbed to the pathigen and perhaps even were joined together into the monstrosity up against the sunset at the end. The 'family' all in one being. We do see that the creature seems to have multiple limbs after all.
maybe it's some hive hind. They have intelligence and they can broadcast some sort of brainwave that can effect humans from unfathomably far away so it's not too much of a stretch.
there's nowhere else iv seen to put this so i'll put it here
i think what happened to collin was the same think that happened the the guy from HOME who had liquid come out of his face, due to the guttural sound's made by collin.
A real Colorado Space (color out of Space)
this is confirmed in the new episode homebound
11:22 That wasn't the guy holding the flamethrower. *_It was the guy who reached out and touched it._* The thing somehow has the ability to reproduce via physical contact.
Well shit. That’s a horrifying thought.
Oh shit turns out John Carpenter was right!
so what you're saying is that it nuts at a woman's touch?
@@xyzedits1homie was really down bad bro 💀
@@xyzedits1 got so desperate that even animals would be sufficient 😱
as a biologist i also liked this because of how convincing some of the scientific figures are in this story, like they even get the vintage-ness of the figures correct. also totally in character for a random plant to be included in testing. idk if this was intentional but onion cells are fairly large and easy to veiw so maybe that is why they were selected
Onion
@@SirFailurealso because
*ONIONS HAVE LAYERS!!!*
"Picture this, It's night"
Say no more man I am already quaking in my boots
Roses are red I am ded the Alien has come for me and will for u too
I think the scariest concept would be that yes, we are alone in the universe… but there used to be more. The humanity is the last civilization, and all around us in the cosmos are the husks and graves of alien civilizations. We are babies born from the dead corpse of the universe, left to fend for ourselves, without anyone else to find except the fragmented memories of what once was others. Earth is the oasis in the desert universe… and whatever happed to the other civilizations to make them all die out will eventually come for us. Like some sort of rapture that we weren’t there to experience.
That is the alien “theory” (more like horror concept) that freaks me out the most.
Sci-fi always depicts aliens as being a lot like us. Even if they look very different, there are a lot of similarities that aren’t apparent on the surface: culture, intelligence, beliefs, desires. But in a vast universe where we are the only species that has all that? We are truly alone in the void, made to venture down the dark hallway without friends by our side.
the "Hunter" solution to the fermi paradox is what that is called one force entity or civilization that acts as a final dead stop for any civilization which advances enough to discover it.
That's exactly the lore of Dead Space
@@cernos7230 As in the great rapture part (all that necromorphs, markers and meat-moons)?
Isn't that the plot of Sallyface with the Shadow Virus?
@@Josue-mv2fo I don’t know what the hell that is
As a diehard fan of Lovecraftian mythos, this was such a freakin delight, oh boy. Love your analog horror analyses - I have ADHD and it means the world to be able to follow the stories while also doing something else, like art. Thanks to you, I don’t miss any crucial details!
Bruh. Same.
Adhd sucks. God it sucks so much
Whats the name of his pet i forgot
ayyy I was also listening to this while doing art
I have autism and have been told I have ADD so I totally understand where you're coming from. The number of times I've gotten lost inside stores as a kid is a testament to this.
It seems that not only is AZ-001 (or at least the Alpha chunk) and the contagion intelligent, but that it communicates with those it infects, judging by the guy we see in the hazmat suit as he's about to melt begging, "Don't do this to me." Like he was suddenly aware of exactly what was going to happen to him and pleading for it not to. Maybe that's a bit of a stretch, a lot of media shows people begging in their final moments regardless of what's killing them, but I feel like it could have a been a much more general statement like, "Don't kill me!" or "I don't want to die!" The fact that he seemed to be specifically asking the Alpha chunk, "Don't DO THIS to me." makes me feel like he knew what was going to happen because he touched the chunk.
Anyway, really glad you touched on this series, I had no idea about it and I really hope the creator keeps working on it. I need to know more!
Which is even MORE horrifying then normal!!
"I'd say thats a bit more than just fucking unusual"
Did not expect to laugh at an analog horror analysis
just a little strange, yknow.
@@veryspecificchaosfox he's just doing some yoga, cuz he's tired, totally
As someone whose family comes from Nebraska, I can confirm this is the most excitement the state has ever seen.
at least you've 1-upped wyoming
At the end of the farmhouse tape when it says "family" the being seems to be a human with several tendrils sprouting from their body. It may be hard to see but if you look closely enough you can see two legs and two arms with the silhouette of a human manus the tendrils.
The weird thing about rhe Starkill video is that it specifically says that white tailed deer are either immune or minimally infected. However, in Starfield, we see a deer get assimilated from contact with Alpha Chunk or something that split off from it. So the contagion must not be the same thing that melted the HOME agent in HOME or assimilated the people and animals in Starfield.
Or, because it's also intelligent, it purposefully tried to appear as though it didn't infect the deer in an attempt to improve infection chances.
@@DWal32 shit that's terrifying
@@SirFailureReminds me of The Flood from Halo, where they were fighting a war, and winning easily, but in order to give false hope, they made it look like ancient Humans were far better at pushing it back, just as a part of their plan.
I’m so glad he’s covering this. This is one of my favorite analog horror series
I'd never heard of it, and now I've binge watched the whole channel!
@@WobblesandBeansame bro as of April 28 I'm diving in
This is crazy underrated, also it’s weird that this has less fans than urbanspook, an analog horror with far less thought put into it.
well if were honest i dont feel like people are fans of it beause it has tought put into it and more like they like it because its creepy and scary to an extent but i agree with you fully
@@BucketLover5889 I personally dont find urbanspook to be scary, it just feels like excessive shock value
I haaaaaate Urbanspook. His videos are nothing but his own personal spank fantasies. He's a monster.
urbanspook is really trash honestly
I hate the creator with a passion
cause urbanspook is Gorehorror wheres midwest is cosmichorror.
gorehorror is simple n easy to undersyand its just pure brutality on screen where the fear is the gore itself and the thought of it happening to you.
wheres as good cosmic horror requires deeper thought and context where you feal existential fear and helplessness at what you DONT understansd.
26:16 "His X-rays are totally abnormal -he structure of his body is riddled with holes" After unloading a few magazines from an autmatic gun into him he better have holes in his body :D
midwest angelica is insanely good. massive props to their team!
also minaxa video is real again.
I love how it seems to imply that these tapes are being found in what might be a civilized post apocalyptic future where humanity has rebuilt
if I had a nickel for every red, parasitic, organic, planet-sized creature, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice,,,,
More like metor size tbh
*shakes fist at Brother Moons*
FINALLY SOMEONE IS TALKING ABOUT MIDWEST ANGELICA, it’s legit one of the best analog horror series out there
I can only watch args through explanation videos because if I watched the original content I'd get so traumatized I wouldn't be able to sleep at night
so thank you for your great work
also, I'm gonna have nightmares
The best kind of analog horror are the ones that add a bit of realism to it.
So it's The Thing? Especially the one doctor being controlled and then his neck stretching out really gave me Thing vibes.
Kinda disappointing tbh.
Midwest Angelica also has Evangelion Vibes because of the font choices like in Phantoms for example. Especially the morgue part.
It’s an interesting take on the Thing concept.
I wonder if the story depicted in the tapes takes place in a different universe from the one the people that found the tapes live in? Maybe somehow these tapes, and even entire rooms and buildings, were transported across dimensions, because to me it seems like the events in the tapes never happened in the world the viewer characters live in.
I’m going to have to say this as a reply to my own comment since I’m on mobile, but if I’m right and the tapes take place in a different world, I wonder if the channel’s world will be at risk? Sure it seems like the tapes’ finders are able to observe another universe’s tragedies from a safe distance, but what if whatever force that destroyed the tapes’ world manages to find its way across as well?
That's what I find so intriguing. Part of me wonders if the tapes being found are canonically part of the horror film "Midwest Angelica". Kinda like REC. That would explain why the description always says there has never been any evidence found of these events.
Doubt it, it's most likely something similar to one of the XK ends of a world scenario in SCP, where the world got reset back to the point at which it ended, after eradication of Alpha AZ-001
Honestly, I wouldn't put a lot of hope into mankind being alive by the end of this series. I can only imagine this will end similar to how I expect Mandela Catalogue will, where the last few moments are us passively watching humanity die off to a malevolent, but uncaring horror, with any attempts to stop it being futile or halted at the last moment.
I don't mean to be cynical, it's just horror media and analog horror have taught me that the only outcome tends to be a bad ending. There are exceptions, just not many
Vintage Eight sometimes has happy endings. Sometimes...
mandela catalouge at least will end with ONE enemy of mankind dead what with the TV stranger being a seperate faction to the DOPPLE angel or lucifer.
so at least we have that bit of sweetness that even if humanity dies ONE of the groups who did it to us goes with us.
This is very wrong
The smile tapes have a happy ending, which makes me happy.
I know that horror kinda of "needs" to end in a "bad ending", but happy endings sometimes "feels" right for me in horrors. Like, whatever horrible things happend in the series, it is horrible, but its slightly better now. Y'know?
I actually watched some of Midwest Angelica a few months back. I’m so glad someone is finally covering it! This was such a good analysis and I hope we get some new videos from Midwest Angelica!
I worry. The last two uploads were a long way apart, and there's been nothing since. I worry the creator got sick of putting all this effort into something no one's watching and gave up.
Now I have something else to obsess over besides Vita Carnis and Gemini.
Got genuine whiplash hearing “Douglas county” and “Nebraska” bc that is where im from and our state is so often ignored and overlooked :0
My theory for the locations where the tapes were recovered is that they were all, at some point, field labs or simply shelters for an as-of-yet unknown character or characters whose story we will end up following. Likely a member or members of HOME who go to these places to investigate the situation, using the equipment from the technical college and vet office to learn more about the threat, then have to flee and hide in the home and the bunker. Maybe they realize at some point that HOME's actions are not as benevolent as they previously thought and break away, forming a new group with the new symbol derived from HOME's that is found on the bunker.
It's so nice to have an analog horror that doesn't pussyfoot around. We get one kinda spooky commercial, and immediately get into SPACE PLAGUE STRIKES EARTH WE'RE ALL FUCKED!
Yeah! LAUNCH THE NUKES!!
I was born Nov. 7th, 1991, so hearing that description for "Call Now" says it was recorded sometime between Oct. 31st '91 and Jan. 1st '92 really got my attention.
Ever notice how the HOME logo is an M and an A overlapping? Also, "001-002S" is very similar to how film scenes are labeled during filming.
18:13
*War of the world's the musical "red weed" starts playing*
Hell yes, this one is one of my favorites! So underrated, but a master class in atmosphere!
This is like a combination of The Thing, and A Color Out of Space.
…and that was the World Record history for Midwest Angelica
I'm really glad to see you check out Midwest Angelica.
Hope that the next series that you check out next is Tryred Witness Archives.
I hope you steam on TH-cam more. It was fun watching you and Mouse get mad at trolls and watch Backrooms stuff. No pressure of course, I enjoy the steady pace you put out content right now and don’t want to interrupt that and inconvenience you.
It’s cool seeing something take place in the area I live in. Also my mom worked for the newspaper office in Red Oak around the same time this takes place.
Looks like a neat series, wish the CG was higher quality but independent work obviously lacks the tools and manpower for polish so it really does look good considering. Great coverage, very well organized and engaging! Will say though that I can only hear Summoning Salt's speedrun docs with that music used during the conclusion haha
This was excellent! and it brings more attention to a criminally underrated analog horror series, so doubly excellent. I’d say your channel is also underrated tho…..
it’s sad to see all the most popular series getting all the attention over and over again. my personal favorite Analog horror is Greylock and even tho it’s not as old, it’s still super underrated for how scary it is and its quality so keep bringing light to projects that deserve it! Well Done! 👏
I was a bit surprised at how clearly certain things are shown, as a lot of analogue horror insists on obscuring most of the actual horror to let the viewer's mind fill it in in the most terrifyingly personal way it can. As a result I feared this would come across as too shallow and obvious. But they've done a great job of keeping other elements obscure and presenting it in a wonderfully chaotic fashion that really leaves you wondering what may or may not be real. Excellent work so far!
Elder god arrives on earth threatening all humanity.
Optimus prime: 🗿
Found your channel from your last video i just wanna say i love your stuff keep it up, I'm here for the long run.
Dude, I love Midwest Angelica! I've been subscribed to the channel for some time and I'm happy it's getting more eyes on it! Thank you for covering one of my favorite series!
Getting some mad “what if the flood from halo landed on modern earth” vibes and I’m all in for it
Keep doing what you’re doing. I’ve been following content creators who follow ARGs, internet mysteries, fan games etc! But your editing, research,and just a voice made for this sorta thing!… well I hope you go far!
I am glad that you checked out Midwest angelica it's very underrated.
I hope that the next series that you check out is ningen made by mister manticore ( the creator of the monument mythos )
I am very confused by Ningen. I know what the actual cryptid is, but with this latest episode I have no clue what the hell happened.
@@WobblesandBeanfrom what I gathered from the videos the ningen are a more evolved species of human and they can shapeshift/ undergo metamorphosis, they live in the arctic and have 3 stages.
1 beeing amoung us.
2 beeing the classic "whale" ningen.
3 beeing the rotting spinal cord and head of the previous stage (basically the apotheosis of the ningen) and they have otherworldly powers.
Also the ningen can replace people, merge with objects and living organism like in the 3rd video and they can perform asexual reproduction and finally their origins are found on a cave painting (basically an ancient human who lives on a mountain finds a giant skeleton on the peak, gets bored and finds a whale in the water and gets envious of the whales abilitie to swim, later it shapeshifts into something and reunites with the whale, the whale runs away from fear and gets absorbed later they "wish to go beyond " fly into the sky and die on a peak of a mountain (could be the same mountain) causing a cycle to form.
Also while the ningen do unspeakable things to humanity they think their helping.
Nothing makes my day better than a minaxa video! Love your stuff man!
I'm not even Cherokee and I appreciate the pronunciation :)
Thanks for randomly popping into my recommended, would've never found this hidden gem otherwise
Big props for the music choice!
Hearing about the HOME organisation described in this horror, I instantly thought of how fitting HOME's music would be, as not only it matches the 80's and 90's electronic music but also the name of the artist being the cherry on top. And what am I hearing? HOME's music! Well done haha
Love the ending music also being called Home. Nice touch to an already great video!
That tumbnail is honestly so cool because at a first glance it looks like a snake. But with a more focus look you can see it's a person.
Pretty surreal watching this video involving an organization called HOME and while at the same time listening to HOME, I like what you did there.
The beautiful horror that we all loved from long ago Midwest Angelica has been known to be a very cool and also a disturbing series. It is nice to see that we are back at explaining not only new series but old and classic ones as well. Continue with what you do and always have a wonderful day, keep up the good work as well 👍
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Good video minaxa! Keep up the great work and have an amazing day!
ive been telling people! Ive been wondering why nobody's talked about Midwest Angelica! thank you for covering it!
Seems like The Thing turned up to 11
I believe that there’s gonna be a twist that the people discovering it is the thingy itself and the world has just been modified to suit the things needs
My favorite part about this entire series is how well connected everything is to the first video, making it feel like an anomaly itself. The price of the video matches the date that AZ-001 made contact, the phone number is the number to contact HOME, and even the abrupt cut off of the tornado has something to do with this.
My god using HOME music was genius not just because it's good music but because it's just a good joke
The symbol next to the classified footage notice 15:42 looks like a ‘handmade’ sigil, like one from a Saturn square that you make for yourself
YES!! I’ve been so looking forward to seeing someone cover this, and I’m glad it’s you! ❤❤
hope this spreads awareness, this series looks cool
What happened? What happened is the Thing not crashlanding in the arctic.
Reminds me of Gemini and i love it
I love your channel, I'm discovering diamonds through your channel and making sure to visit the source to give the original channel's love as well!
It might not be super popular because it just isn't active enough and also it's been nine months since the last video.
commenting for the algorithm, love the video broski
So it's kinda the Flood from halo mixed with the Thing mixed with a little bit of the Flesh That Hates?
As somebody who lives in the state of Oklahoma the first video description dragged me in and added a little extra for me personally
There is an existential threat to humanity. Government response: let’s send one guy with the flamethrower
ive never even heard of midwest angelica but if its a minaxa video i will watch it
Yo, forgot which video TH-cam recommended, but I'm glad it did. Dig your channel, mayne. Definitely subbed. Also.... AZFK totally jacked your thumbnail...........
i like that you used music from HOME in the analysis portion
gotta love the absolute stones of HOME to see the absolute size of AZ-001, see that it's coming closer to earth, and go:
"yeah we could totally hide this from people"
23:00 I got the impression that in the future, it had already overtaken everything. The people there couldn't find the contagion because they're living in a world saturated by it - they don't know anything different.
fuck I was thinking the same
Carrion if it was an analog horror
best way I can describe it
Wow! That’s actually a good way to describe it! And that’s a fun game too.
i was just watching one of your videos when you uploaded lol
As a Nebraskan, I am thrilled that something actually happened here
i love the fact that this is more realistic than Urbanspook lollll. edit I AM FAMOUS
I LOVE YOU MINAXA
When the Outro music started playing at the end, I thought we were going to see a speedrun of Midwest Angelica start up.
Great video! Thanks for introducing this interesting series so well.
I’m not sure if “mortifying” was the right word to describe what was going on in that video though. 🤔
one thing about these tapes is that mostly have been discovered within the area of nebraska, wich could either indicate the event didnt spread worldwide or only know theyre recovering from ground zero
18:02 When you’re running around in Tears of the Kingdom and the Gloom Hands spawn.
we need an update on this!!!
I see what you did at the end with the song “We are finally landing” by HOME
It’s a amazing song to be honest
Honestly the detail of the green tentacle thing in the cylinder and the imagery of everything around it being on fire reminds me of the scene on Horsell Common in War of the Worlds 🤔
well this video introduced me to another fav
gonna put it on my fav analogue horror shelves alongside GHE, Vita Carnis & the like
YEAAAHHHH NEBRASKA ANALOG HORROR SERIES LETS GOOO
This reminds me of the thing with how the guy tried to kill it with a flamethrower and how the monster infected the dog
I love tha fact that you used HOME's songs for the background lol
i like your music choices
Both in Starfield an Phantoms, I notice that the entity only lashes out when directly attacked (Flamethrower, rifle), and I followed that it could otherwise go undetected if allowed to spread without being attacked. This makes sense with the notes indicating that Humanity seems to survive
Good lord, that shot of the dude shaking and melting against the flames is just *sublimely* horrific, one of the most awful things I've ever seen in the best way possible