*I love a spooky house* Control, Anatomy, and the Legacy of the Haunted House by Jacob Geller

[@TheBasketofYT]

Jacob Geller is one of my favorite video essay guys, arguably is my favorite. Of this style anyway. I’m glad he’s getting some recognition, plus seeing others have interest in something you enjoy is a nice feeling.

[@wittywasnteverwitty7370]

Yay Jacob geller! Another good spooky video from him is “Fear of Depths”

[@anexhaustedcryptek1076]

I wholeheartedly second this recommendation. Fear of Depths is one of my favorite videos on all of KZbin and introduced me to one of my favorite games of all time

[@acrab6527]

Control IS like SCP you're right. But the SCP foundation has complete control of the world and all it's resources and money. The Federal Bureau of Control is like the Kmart SCP foundation. They're on a budget, and lacking all resources.

[@VDiddy5000]

God, calling the FBC the “Kmart SCP Foundation” is the worst kind of accurate 🤣 Also, Control is a fantastic game, made by the same folks who made Max Payne 1 and 2, Alan Wake, and soon Alan Wake 2! I’m…a bit biased in how much I love the universe that Alan Wake and Control share

[@ChicagoReacts]

@@VDiddy5000 love that

[@pleasegoawaydude]

They're actually the UIU if you want to compare them to a real SCP Group of Interest!@@VDiddy5000

[@nerdiboy5128]

This was and is one of my favorite videos by him; because as a kid I grew up reading stuff like Shirley Jackson, Stephen King, M. R. James, Robert Chambers, Algernon Blackwood, and other horror writers. And Miss Jackson's opening narration of _The Haunting of Hill House_ is arguably one of the best ones ever written because of how it captures the eerie nature of the place, by describing it as a corrupted, not-mentally-alright place that wasn't meant for people to dwell in for extended periods of time; a "dreamless" place in a world where people need dreams to function in the real world, some measure of fantasy to keep themselves sane to avoid cracking under the weight of life. But whatever walked at Hill House, it walked alone, mad and undreaming. And Kitty Horrorshow's _Anatomy_ is a modernized take on the chilling concept of a haunted house not merely being a place haunted by ghosts; the _house itself_ is alive, is haunted by the unwholesome memories of what went on inside, haunted by it's dark history and it is a sickly, diseased monster, rotting away on some forsaken street corner, wood deteriorating from neglect and termites and mold, timbers creaking unsteadily like bones afflicted by rickets or arthritis, fueled by pain and grief and resentment towards the creatures that gave it life, only to abandon it when they didn't "need" it anymore (and hunger... so hungry; but as long as there are people that need shelter, a house may hunger, but it shall never starve)

[@Flash-mv8rn]

more jacob geller reactions please! some personal favorites is : who is afraid of modern art? does call of duty believe in anything? FOur short games about pain gross games about flesh and stuff fear of big things underwater the false evolution of execution methods

[@alvehenriksson3972]

Yeees! So happy you guys continued with Jacob, such a genuinely intelligent and interesting person to listen to and his videos always make me think more deeply on topics I might not have otherwise

[@paintedhorse6880]

A few that you guys really really really need to do by Jacob Geller are "Returnal is a hell of our own creation" and "Fear of the cold". Both are absolutely incredible.

[@alessandromorelli5866]

Hey, she GETS the video, I like that

[@elofton4855]

I get that creepy location feeling from cemeteries. There was a time on a trip to California we went to an old mission. Everything was fine and fun until mom tried to get me to go in the graveyard. It was high noon, full sun, and the yard was tiny and flush up against the building which was clearly under construction. Hell, there was a giant scaffold right inside the gate, nothing spooky, hidden or abandoned about it. But as soon as I walked through the gate I needed to leave. Not because I was afraid of the graves, or the people in them, but there was something uncomfortable, like something was telling me I shouldn't be there. So I left and wandered outside in the gravel while mom took her pictures, which I don't even remember looking at. So there's that.

[@Tomas-gw6rd]

" I have heard myself say that a house with a death in it can never again be bought or sold by the living. It can only be borrowed from the ghosts that have stayed behind. To go back and forth, letting out and gathering back in again. Worrying over the floors in confused circles. Tending to their deaths like patchy, withered gardens. They have stayed to look back for a glimpse of the very last moments of their lives. But the memories of their own deaths are faces on the wrong side of wet windows, smeared by rain. Impossible to properly see. There is nothing that chains them to the places where their bodies have fallen. They are free to go, but still they confine themselves, held in place by their looking. For those who have stayed, their prison is their never seeing. And left all alone, this is how they rot."

[@scirrhia_kruden]

I think part of the reason I like supernatural horror, particularly supernatural psychological horror, is BECAUSE I don't believe in anything supernatural in real life. The fact that they're fully fantastical gives me a level of initial separation that makes the fantasy something I can immerse myself in. Like, I think that if I believed in this stuff, I'd be too uncomfortable to actually want to subject myself to it in fiction. I also don't think it'd have the same shine, or allure, to me.

[@themachoechidnaugandarandy7583]

Yo too early for spooky videos

[@ChicagoReacts]

it is never too early for spooky houses

[@pleasegoawaydude]

note to self i will not go back to downtown baltimore even though i live here