To anyone reading this book: Listen to the second album by POE as you do so. It was made by the author's sister to be a companion piece and adds yet another layer to the experience. Also: You *NEED* a physical copy of the book to take the full ride.
@@kimberhanna4508 These videos are actually described in full in the book (“The Navidson Record” stuff), but I’m not sure it’s even possible to spoil House of Leaves, so maybe doesn’t matter. These are really high quality faithful reproductions of what the book describes.
@@kimberhanna4508 I always recommend watching any sort of video/movie after finishing a book; They're always inferior to the untainted imagination in my opinion. Your mileage may vary.
The only gripe I have with this is the footage was shot in the 90s, and the décor you've chosen doesn't look 90s at all. But other than that, this is awesome. Reading the book for the first time, and wow am I hooked haha.
Yeah, and of you were trying to make someone feel off you'd use anachronistic styling. Could be a miscalculation that turns into reasoning behind a phenomena.
I just got a copy of house of leaves for Christmas. Cannot believe this footage exists (edit: i thought it was a companion to the original release but still very cool)
I think this is possibly the only way we could get a HoL movie without it costing a hundred billion dollars in vfx, we could just animate it. Incredible work, my dude
ive kept the 5 and a half minute hallway in the deeper crevasses of my mind since 2004-ish when i first encountered it. Every week or so since then it has popped into my head, not like an intrusive thought, but like its attempt to somehow, come out or something. Anyways thanks for this!
Yay! Finally a new House of Leaves fan film! That book was the proto Backrooms. You got a new subscriber! Now I have Poe’s song in my head, “I live at the end of a five and a half minute hallway…”
@ksheely You're not wrong on that account! Whilst I must admit, I experienced the entirety of this books plot via a very well explained video here in TH-cam, I do not deny that reading _House of Leaves_ would be a *_completly_* different experience all together and that it would paint the story in a very (or perhaps even multitude's of) different light(s). Though, I'm not sure it would be fair to merely pass _House of Leaves_ off as 'Boomer Creepypast'! 🤨
@@iwyt3995 the story of Navy and his wife. from the get-go their relationship is on the rocks and only gets worse as the story goes on. but no matter what happens they still deeply care about each other. love is more than the good. it's also dealing with the bad and sometimes learning to forgive. his wife disgusted me at times but I respect Navy for still loving her.
I thought that part was relatively easy to understand, but there are passages of that book that I read like fifty times because I have this OCD that makes me re-read something if I feel that I don't fully understand - for example, some of the insane ramblings of Johnny Truant in the footnotes, as well as the following gem, which I still don't understand (e.g., who/what t.f. is "Dasein"?): " In anxiety one feels uncanny. Here the peculiar indefiniteness of that which Dasein finds itself alongside in anxiety, comes proximally to expression: the "nothing and nowhere". But here "uncanniness" also means "not-being-at home." [das Nicht-zuhause-sein]. In our first indication of the phenomenal character of Dasein's basic state and in our clarification of the existential meaning of "Being-in" as distinguished from the categorial signification of 'insideness', Being-in was defined as "residing alongside . . .", "Being-familiar with . . ." This character of Being-in was then brought to view more concretely through the everyday publicness of the "they", which brings tranquilized self-assurance--'Being-at-home', with all its obviousness--into the average everydayness of Dasein. On the other hand, as Dasein falls, anxiety brings it back from its absorption in the 'world'. Everyday familiarity collapses. Dasein has been individualized, but individualized as Being-in-the-world. Being-in enters into the existential 'mode' of the "not-at-home". Nothing else is meant by our talk about 'uncanniness'. " ??? 😂
Been wanting to read this for years and finally had the chance to do so this year, since I'd been waiting for the physical copy to be distributed in my country. Don't regret spending a cent on it. Amazing book.
I was listening to a playlist with nice, slightly unsettling ambiance to read the book that I forgot about when I put this video on, since there was a long pause of silence before I did that, so I thought the music was coming from the video at first since it fit so well and when it *kept playing* after the video stopped my heart skipped a beat LOL
Have you seen the series called Channel Zero? It has 4 seasons , each a stand alone. The second season is called No End House and you might like it if you liked this book. Having that said, this video was super creepy and i really loved it! Ive read HoL back in 2020 in lockdown and i still think about it.
If you like that type of horror read the book this clip is based on - House of Leaves, it pretty much kickstarted the interest in spacial horror in the early 2000s from what I can calculate
Good luck. Enjoy it. It is amazing. I learned a lot from it. I love how some of the footnotes are factual and some are not. The giant list of buildings blows my mind.
This is great! I read the book back in 2010 and never really seen a channel for the book like this. Thanks! Im definitely subscribing for more of this!
-There is no garden -Everybody in the original clip are missing aside from the camera man, the book stated there were 3 people in the clip, the wife Karen, the fraternal brother Tom, and Navidson the person recording -Video isn't 5:30 (in all fairness the book could've been talking about the size of the hallway or it could'e talked about the short films length itself) -The book stated the last thing that happened was Navidson sticking his hand in the darkness, then recoiling and stating "Its freezing in there" the book states the ending was abrupt, yet here he keeps recording
I see some potential in this, yes. Also some pacing issues with the camera drop at the start. For the story itself it's not necessary and for that it just goes on too long. In the original "short film", you can actually see a hallway, so that would have been a nice addition (as well as a good challenge to portrait non-euclidian geometry in Blender). Other than that, this is a nice effort, so you have my thumbs up.
You came back from a wedding and to your shock horror you noticed theres a completely new door in your house! That must have been some wedding! Plus sort ya lawn out, patchy as!
This is great, but as a Pulitzer Prize winning photographer would Navidson really drop the camera? I don't have my copy of the book to hand so can't confirm. But at the end of the day it was a great suspenseful beat and the creeping floorboard is a nice touch. Well done man, it was fantastic to see this brought to life and you did a fine job.
Let me know if you are gonna do more of these. I would love to provide you some original music. I havent had the opportunity to read this yet but i have been obsessed with any info i can get my hands on. This looks amazing! Thank you!
It’s accurate to the book- the guy filming does climb out of the window! I suppose it’s up to the reader’s interpretation why. (It might be explained but I haven’t read that far yet)
This isnt rhe Backrooms, its the Livingrooms. 😂😂 Ok seriously though...why did he walk to another window to climb back through or ANY window for that matter when theres the regular door right by the window he first came out of?
Questions... why doesn't he use a door? Keeps jumping in and out of the window. And why do the walls and shadows, etc, look fake. Same with his "acting."
I wish someone would try to make an official, feature-length _House of Leaves_ movie. Admittedly, it might be kind of difficult to adapt such a book to screen. But someone could try. You've shown that it's possible at least to make short film based on a passage in the book.
Of the documentary that doesn't exist? Or of the analysis of the non-existent documentary? Or of Truant's response to the blind man's analysis of the movie that doesn't exist?
i dunno, i think you could maybe make a HoL *inspired* movie, but there's no really good way to truly adapt HoL into a film without losing so much of what makes the story so good. it is what it is specifically because it's a book
Honestly, I wasn’t sold on the illusion at all: the house interior looks too spartan to pass as believably lived-in, the outside just looks straight-up fake, and most damning of all, the sense of space is so off I didn’t even realize the door was supposed to be on the same wall as its exterior counterpart. A thoughtful effort, at least.
never heard of House of Leaves, this video just randomly got recommended to me. ... a lot of whiners in the comments, which is kinda putting me off. (is this book's whole fandom like this?) i personally thought this was awesome.
It's really endearing seeing new HoL fan content in 2024.
Looking forward to the next segment documenting the 18 1/2 mile staircase. Don't forget the glowsticks!
I'd like to see the part, as morbid as this sounds, where the protagonists brother gets swallowed by the house. Such a haunting image
Great work, really love the "this is not for you" detailing!
To anyone reading this book: Listen to the second album by POE as you do so. It was made by the author's sister to be a companion piece and adds yet another layer to the experience. Also: You *NEED* a physical copy of the book to take the full ride.
@@ZacHawkins42 I see a stairway so I follow it down…
Would you recommend watching the related videos during or after reading the book?
@@kimberhanna4508 These videos are actually described in full in the book (“The Navidson Record” stuff), but I’m not sure it’s even possible to spoil House of Leaves, so maybe doesn’t matter. These are really high quality faithful reproductions of what the book describes.
@@kimberhanna4508 I always recommend watching any sort of video/movie after finishing a book; They're always inferior to the untainted imagination in my opinion. Your mileage may vary.
@@JohnVance thanks for the reply! I’ll continue reading and then come back to these videos!
The only gripe I have with this is the footage was shot in the 90s, and the décor you've chosen doesn't look 90s at all. But other than that, this is awesome. Reading the book for the first time, and wow am I hooked haha.
Hey thanks for the feedback! Definitely be something ill try and keep in mind more in future episodes
@llonyarz it's looks great. Subscribed.
Yeah, and of you were trying to make someone feel off you'd use anachronistic styling. Could be a miscalculation that turns into reasoning behind a phenomena.
Dude. HOL has such IMMENSE potential to be an analog horror series. This is absolutely amazing. 💖
Rereading currently and figured I’d see if anyone got creative. This is phenomenal. Thank you for uploading!
Thank you! Im glad you enjoyed! Next part is coming soon actually... ;)
If that happened to my house I would immediately start looking for Gasoline
"Following the release of the film, someone tried to burn down the house but it never caught fire"
So, I've got some bad news for you...
Well, according to the book, apparently the house won't catch fire.
Been reading the book for a while and have been dying to seem some adaptation of this story that wasn’t dooms myhouse map, fantastic work dude
The game "Control" takes a hell of a lot from House of Leaves, definitely check it out if you haven't
I just got a copy of house of leaves for Christmas. Cannot believe this footage exists (edit: i thought it was a companion to the original release but still very cool)
Me too!!! Looking for the. Chs full version.
I think this is possibly the only way we could get a HoL movie without it costing a hundred billion dollars in vfx, we could just animate it. Incredible work, my dude
The slightly "off" quality digital animation always has, no matter how high quality, really sells the vibe of the book as well, I feel, as well.
The footage getting more glitchy as he gets close to the door is a fantastic detail.
ive kept the 5 and a half minute hallway in the deeper crevasses of my mind since 2004-ish when i first encountered it. Every week or so since then it has popped into my head, not like an intrusive thought, but like its attempt to somehow, come out or something. Anyways thanks for this!
Man, i'm reading this part right now, i was looking if someone just done it and you post that 2 hours ago. Thank you dude !
Glad you enjoyed it!
Finally started reading House of Leaves and decided to look for it.
So I just started this book today... and this was exactly what I was hoping to find
Same
Have fun guys!
How’s it going?
@jonoboi8069 unfortunately not well due to total mental exhaustion due to infant
@@Hexsyn I am also about to have a kid, hence why I finished it the other day. Took me a little over a year actually, off and on. GL though brother
“The walls and ceiling turned ash grey” …now you know fear
Finishing the book right now. This is very well done. Bravo!
Yay! Finally a new House of Leaves fan film! That book was the proto Backrooms. You got a new subscriber! Now I have Poe’s song in my head, “I live at the end of a five and a half minute hallway…”
Analog Horror? Nah. Liminal Horror? Maybe. A Love Story? Absolutely.
I...
_Still don't see_ *_how!?_*
@ksheely You're not wrong on that account!
Whilst I must admit, I experienced the entirety of this books plot via a very well explained video here in TH-cam, I do not deny that reading _House of Leaves_ would be a *_completly_* different experience all together and that it would paint the story in a very (or perhaps even multitude's of) different light(s).
Though, I'm not sure it would be fair to merely pass _House of Leaves_ off as 'Boomer Creepypast'! 🤨
@@ksheelyboomer creepypasta ? 😢😢 HoL came out in 2000
@@iwyt3995 the story of Navy and his wife.
from the get-go their relationship is on the rocks and only gets worse as the story goes on. but no matter what happens they still deeply care about each other. love is more than the good. it's also dealing with the bad and sometimes learning to forgive. his wife disgusted me at times but I respect Navy for still loving her.
Thank you for putting this together! I read and reread that portion about 5 times and my brain was just not getting it lol.
I thought that part was relatively easy to understand, but there are passages of that book that I read like fifty times because I have this OCD that makes me re-read something if I feel that I don't fully understand - for example, some of the insane ramblings of Johnny Truant in the footnotes, as well as the following gem, which I still don't understand (e.g., who/what t.f. is "Dasein"?):
" In anxiety one feels uncanny. Here the peculiar indefiniteness of that which Dasein finds itself alongside in anxiety, comes proximally to expression: the "nothing and nowhere". But here "uncanniness" also means "not-being-at home." [das Nicht-zuhause-sein]. In our first indication of the phenomenal character of Dasein's basic state and in our clarification of the existential meaning of "Being-in" as distinguished from the categorial signification of 'insideness', Being-in was defined as "residing alongside . . .", "Being-familiar with . . ." This character of Being-in was then brought to view more concretely through the everyday publicness of the "they", which brings tranquilized self-assurance--'Being-at-home', with all its obviousness--into the average everydayness of Dasein. On the other hand, as Dasein falls, anxiety brings it back from its absorption in the 'world'. Everyday familiarity collapses. Dasein has been individualized, but individualized as Being-in-the-world. Being-in enters into the existential 'mode' of the "not-at-home". Nothing else is meant by our talk about 'uncanniness'. "
??? 😂
Never read the book but it sounds like a riff on Heidegger's concept of Dasein.
Been wanting to read this for years and finally had the chance to do so this year, since I'd been waiting for the physical copy to be distributed in my country. Don't regret spending a cent on it. Amazing book.
Really well done. Nice job. Hoping for more.
I was listening to a playlist with nice, slightly unsettling ambiance to read the book that I forgot about when I put this video on, since there was a long pause of silence before I did that, so I thought the music was coming from the video at first since it fit so well and when it *kept playing* after the video stopped my heart skipped a beat LOL
Haters will say it's fake
Have you seen the series called Channel Zero? It has 4 seasons , each a stand alone. The second season is called No End House and you might like it if you liked this book.
Having that said, this video was super creepy and i really loved it! Ive read HoL back in 2020 in lockdown and i still think about it.
Love that the door matches the House’s aesthetic
Love seeing new HoL fan creations in 2024. Ty for this dude! ❤
Beautifully done
AND this is recent??? Lovely. One of the reasons I loved the book so much is how it's world feels like it exists outside the medium of the book.
This is awesome! Love seeing more high effort analog/liminal horror content!
If you like that type of horror read the book this clip is based on - House of Leaves, it pretty much kickstarted the interest in spacial horror in the early 2000s from what I can calculate
I love how this is all on the fourth page of the book. I'm on page 15. Just started it. But I had to find this already. Super cool. Thank you! 😊
Such a great job on the entire Navidson record. ❤❤❤
"I am suspicious of the dreams I cannot remember, the words that only others hear."
Those are some outstanding wide floorboards my dood!
Wow, you took it straight from the pages into video
executed well. nearly what i imagined.
Just beautiful, thanks so much
Long time fan of HOL and this is so perfect omg.
It's not perfect but it's still really good, want more !!!
This is exactly what I imagined when I was reading the book! Great work!
Just started reading the book today.
I just started reading it in December!
Good luck. Enjoy it. It is amazing. I learned a lot from it. I love how some of the footnotes are factual and some are not. The giant list of buildings blows my mind.
Exactly how I imagined it. Awesome.
ohhhh, this is awesome. never heard anything about the house of leaves. great video! very well done o7
This is great! I read the book back in 2010 and never really seen a channel for the book like this. Thanks! Im definitely subscribing for more of this!
yesss i just started the book and its already such an interesting read. Great video love the detail you put into it!!
-There is no garden
-Everybody in the original clip are missing aside from the camera man, the book stated there were 3 people in the clip, the wife Karen, the fraternal brother Tom, and Navidson the person recording
-Video isn't 5:30 (in all fairness the book could've been talking about the size of the hallway or it could'e talked about the short films length itself)
-The book stated the last thing that happened was Navidson sticking his hand in the darkness, then recoiling and stating "Its freezing in there" the book states the ending was abrupt, yet here he keeps recording
You fucking make it then goddamn
@@SolomonWinter Right?
Reading HOL at the moment, it's a whooper for sure.
I see some potential in this, yes. Also some pacing issues with the camera drop at the start. For the story itself it's not necessary and for that it just goes on too long.
In the original "short film", you can actually see a hallway, so that would have been a nice addition (as well as a good challenge to portrait non-euclidian geometry in Blender).
Other than that, this is a nice effort, so you have my thumbs up.
I actually quite like the artistic decision of a black impenetrable void. My main issue is that the film isn't five and a half minutes
The just-over-four-minutes hallway
bit of a grass artifact at 2:51, and the window vaulting is way too steady to believe in. Amazing job on everything else tho
So useful for picturing it. Thank you!
Love it. Still the scariest book I've ever read.
Well done! I'm currently halfway through my first reading and this was really similar to how I envisioned the door. Kudos!
Solid interpretation! I’d love to see something like this done with real cameras and green screen work.
You came back from a wedding and to your shock horror you noticed theres a completely new door in your house!
That must have been some wedding!
Plus sort ya lawn out, patchy as!
This is exactly what I imagined
Liminal spaces are an older concept than kids these days realize.
Loved the story and thank /x/ for recommending book!
Slight correction, there is no breeze inside the hallway. It simply _is_ cold.
Edit: some might say it's a freezer, a mourge perhaps...
I don't know what that music is but man.
I'd walk into that.
This is great, but as a Pulitzer Prize winning photographer would Navidson really drop the camera? I don't have my copy of the book to hand so can't confirm. But at the end of the day it was a great suspenseful beat and the creeping floorboard is a nice touch. Well done man, it was fantastic to see this brought to life and you did a fine job.
Good job just like the book
Literally how I saw it when I read it
This is such a good idea
Backrooms kids read house of leaves like omg 🙀
Let me know if you are gonna do more of these. I would love to provide you some original music. I havent had the opportunity to read this yet but i have been obsessed with any info i can get my hands on. This looks amazing! Thank you!
Thats very kind of you! Im working on the next part currently. Taking a while since ive been working on improving. But its definitely in the works!
Anyone got a link to the full four part video. Just started reading this.
Navy wouldn't drop his camera 😅
holy shit, this is nuts after reading the passage from the book. it’s so accurate
Why does he keep climbing out of a window? The house has a door!
Why did the camera man climb out of the windows? Wouldn't it be more convenient to just walkout through the front door?
It’s accurate to the book- the guy filming does climb out of the window! I suppose it’s up to the reader’s interpretation why. (It might be explained but I haven’t read that far yet)
Nice. Is this in Blender? UE5?
Blender :)
Don’t you hate it when you enter the *house* just to find that the inside is 1/2 inches larger than from the outside
navidson content in 2024??? instant follow my man
What if you burrowed into the wall from the outside?
Awesome, just like I pictured
Nice work!
I'm pretty pissed TH-cam only now decides to show this to me!
Hell yeah HoL love!
Well done
am i going crazy or isn't that music in myhouse.wad in some capacity
Five and a Half Minute Hallway, only 4 minutes and 3 seconds long
happened to my buddy navidson
Poppy playtime soundtrack :0
Where is Navidson?
Not bad, not bad at all
The only criticism I have is the Foley needs work. Please. Maybe audio balancing I'm not sure....
This isnt rhe Backrooms, its the Livingrooms. 😂😂
Ok seriously though...why did he walk to another window to climb back through or ANY window for that matter when theres the regular door right by the window he first came out of?
The *original* Backrooms.
Cool
AgonyOST
Questions... why doesn't he use a door? Keeps jumping in and out of the window. And why do the walls and shadows, etc, look fake. Same with his "acting."
Because normal houses don't have doors in the living room to the outside. This is from a description in the book House of Leaves
I wish someone would try to make an official, feature-length _House of Leaves_ movie. Admittedly, it might be kind of difficult to adapt such a book to screen. But someone could try. You've shown that it's possible at least to make short film based on a passage in the book.
Of the documentary that doesn't exist? Or of the analysis of the non-existent documentary? Or of Truant's response to the blind man's analysis of the movie that doesn't exist?
i dunno, i think you could maybe make a HoL *inspired* movie, but there's no really good way to truly adapt HoL into a film without losing so much of what makes the story so good. it is what it is specifically because it's a book
Honestly, I wasn’t sold on the illusion at all: the house interior looks too spartan to pass as believably lived-in, the outside just looks straight-up fake, and most damning of all, the sense of space is so off I didn’t even realize the door was supposed to be on the same wall as its exterior counterpart. A thoughtful effort, at least.
never heard of House of Leaves, this video just randomly got recommended to me. ... a lot of whiners in the comments, which is kinda putting me off. (is this book's whole fandom like this?) i personally thought this was awesome.
Awful familiar . Hm ?
0/10 was NOT five and a half minutes
Sounds: terrible.
Visuals: video game at best.
Camera work: terrible.
5/7 perfect video.
Someone likes Poppy’s Playtime….
This isn't Poe.