MEAT PRODUCT: LIFE MEAT (Analog Horror Short Film)

[@bkrbfilmworks]

A reimagining of the original short is officially in the works and will be releasing sometime in 2025! kzbin.infoUgkxZCPKWSdA2ruzqa92WvWzTE_YYG_gS08Z

[@pencintarajawalitelevisi]

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[@derekreyes8529]

Oh shoot let's go!!

[@sleepybearcubxx]

I was expecting it to go to the obvious cannibalism route, but it seems to just be that its deadly or virus infected, which is pretty cool, and something that not many use to be frightening when it really is.

[@ODSTD56]

Actually I think it's still taking the cannibalism route. The question is asked, "How do we enjoy meat when there is no more cows, chickens, etc.?"" Well, think about it....what ELSE is made of meat? Humans. Someone else in these comments said it but what it sounds like is that Life Meat, kills some people then converts them into more Life Meat which then the UFS comes to collect hence the UFS van at 2:27 with what looks like Hazmat teams hauling a body into it.

[@ameliorateepoch9917]

Ah yes, the main reason due to the lack of meat is because UK made a fuckey wuckey and accidentally caused a prion disease to surge up cause they fed crushed up brains to other cows. Truly an A+ move Britain, you just doomed numerous generations with incurable disease

[@flamingdog9207]

Yeah I had even been going sort of jokingly "Soylent Green is people!" To myself while expecting that, but got a bit surprised with it being something else

[@joegun4259]

I think it's a virus that can turn you into the life meat, I hope...

[@mrcrappy26]

Yea same

[@minmin-hp8pl]

The newspaper article @ 2:39 reads: Life Meat, a line of meat substitute products, produced and manufactured by Universal Food Solutions Incorporated (UFS Inc.) The company behind Life Meat, a product that was once considered 'the potential cure to world hunger', is now under intense scrutiny and questioning by U.S. authorities., after its products started a nationwide epidemic. Reports have been made of abnormal swelling, skin and muscle deformation, 'mud mucus', and in most cases, severe illness and/or death upon consuming Life Meat. Federal authorities and experts are now investigating what could be the cause of these strange, even deadly effects. With authorities questioning why this is happening now, almost 10 years after the product's introduction in the United States. [sic]

[@mavericktjo4548]

This is just the video description

[@lordsussyindustries2021]

@@mavericktjo4548everyone knows

[@mavericktjo4548]

@@lordsussyindustries2021 well, not everyone reads the video description

[@nikodemruta7686]

The company when people start eating the fucking meat raw out of the can and contract mega-salmonella 10 years after they released it

[@birdsamora9925]

@@mavericktjo4548 It’s funny because I usually go to the comments before I go to the description

[@RickE326]

Please do more. It's so refreshing to get see an analog horror that isn't a public access channel.

[@ExSpheriment]

fr

[@solidonaso]

fr fr vouch

[@nah456]

or some mandela catalog copycat

[@Cykotyk]

Vintage 8 has some really good stuff. From The Children Under the House to the new A Home for Mr. Bearington. I highly recommend it.

[@TheMouseAvenger]

@@Cykotyk Don't forget "The Tangi Virus"! ^_^

[@mossy3565]

The line "We've created a solution that'll allow us to continue savouring the sensation of meat, *long after it's all gone*" is such a great sentence that I get chills whenever I hear it

[@mariusjmi]

My Theory: The outbreak begun with a person eating a life meat variant raw (which is seen in the video) and people thought you can eat life meat raw since it's canned (just like any other Ready-To-Eat canned food.

[@TheGamingMotionTGM]

Dunno, that meat looks dark to me as a result of cooking.

[@torqueandrikotoone]

I came to that same conclusion as your theory.

[@EatShit2022]

​@@TheGamingMotionTGM im late,but probably the lighting idk

[@noobplaye1218]

​@@torqueandrikotoone me too it would be possibly fed to death row inmates and useless living things

[@Cinnamon_Rolls_Out_Of_The_Oven]

That is honestly hilarious

[@torqueandrikotoone]

I checked the body which was shown and i figured out what that unknown pathogen was and how it was contracted. The product was eaten raw and it infected his body with that pathogen the warning mentioned in the video, it has almost the same structure as salmonella but it has one thing that differentiates it from the one it showed here, and it was its symptoms. It apparently has all the symptoms of the original disease, but they never occur due to how it's unique structure makes its extra symptom happen before the other get the chance to occur, the extra symptom caused by eating raw life meat is forced changes of the structure of a person's bone and muscles, causing the bones to deteriorate and the muscle to bulge out of the infected person's skin. It then changes the muscle to meat. The meat it changes into depends on the type of life meat which was eaten raw.

[@asmesf9290]

So basically cannibalism with extra steps

[@Rx-vg5qg]

Geez that's dark.And actually fiting

[@mariusjmi]

Imagine someone having Life Meat and is still not dead yet. It's the person who actually followed the instruction to cook it before eating it.

[@RandomAhhChannel]

@@mariusjmi and the company wasnt even evil 💀 that would be the biggest bruh ever

[@mariusjmi]

@@RandomAhhChannel not following instructions = b r u h moment

[@MsOkayAwesome]

This was actually really good. I loved the scare with the arm. Very original and well executed.

[@chris_note]

The way the body puffs up looks terrifyingly real, its so cool!

[@lolario7249]

finally, analog horror with good voice acting and an original concept instead of generic long-faced alien monsters with its just a burning memory playing. So refreshing edit: its only been 1 month how did my comment get here

[@Nebbed]

Heck yeah!

[@Crouch_Gob]

No offense to It’s Just a Burning Memory or Everything at the End of Time as a whole but yeah it’s definitely a bit overused. They could at least use some other tracks, maybe from the 2nd or 3rd albums :/

[@peachsfav]

wouldn’t really say original since this concept has been used plenty of times, but it’s definitely much better than the usual cannibalism route

[@lolario7249]

@@peachsfav No it hasnt

[@Nsquare_01]

you forgot your pills

[@thekettle9954]

Finally an analog horror with no spooky stretchy haha faces Also love how they didnt try to imply “the food is people” since that’d be way too obvious

[@lordanubis1458]

69th like lol

[@waddledoo2you13]

Your telling me I’m not eating human? That’s it i want my money back

[@sapiensaurus6320]

"With no spooky stretchy haha faces". Looking at you, The Mandela Catalogue...

[@yourpsychicfriendfredbear]

Yeah I was expecting a Soylent Green kinda thing. Very happy it’s not

[@MrBlueSkyof1607]

Seems to be the exact opposite. AKA, the people is food!

[@CayDawgg]

That hand swelling scene really got me, great stuff

[@ThermalLabs]

2:10 This bit made me physically ill. This is really well done.

[@AleTitan]

It makes me itch

[@tessaelto1472]

seriously im sick

[@joegun4259]

The hell even happened to his hand

[@RandomAhhChannel]

that is terrifying, no cap

[@ThermalLabs]

@@namesarenotimp0rtant Skill issue

[@Brianna-eo8nu]

What I really like about this short film is how it manages to capture the feeling and aesthetic of actual analog tv commercials. The slight blurrynes of the picture and the canned products are a nice touch. But what really makes this stand out for me is the voice acting, a lot of analog horror series and shorts tend to either just use text alone or use a text-to-speech narrator. It’s pretty common actually, I guess since either the creator couldn’t find/hire voice actors or they aren’t confident in their own voice acting skills (which are both good enough reasons, if that’s the case) While these techniques can work for some series/shorts, others I feel miss something from doing this. I feel like even on cheap/low budget vhs tapes/old commercials, I doubt the creators would use text alone to convey their message, and even robotic text-to-speech narrators were significantly rarer and expensive (of course, I was born in the late 90s and grew up in the 2000s, so maybe there were a few commercials/tapes like that). So if the creator wants to make an authentic analog vhs tape/tv commercial atmosphere, these two elements might break the illusion somewhat. Not only is the voice acting here a nice touch to the production value, it also adds more immersion and believability to the nostalgic 1980s/90s analog tv aesthetic/atmosphere, which in turn makes the reveal of the horror elements more unsettling.

[@davidthedeaf]

There was no such thing as a computerized voice to text if that is what you mean, back in the 1970s and 80s. 😅 Zzz gen, a computer was at NASA a room big, on tape.

[@scotty2tone]

@@davidthedeaf ever heard of a speak n spell? The first computerized voice spoke in 1961.

[@fishsticksandfries]

Absolutely would love to see this story expand, great horror without overdoing it and being exceptionally creative from the usual “flash of creepy face” that’s so common. Great work dude!

[@theparacosm8324]

Oh wow! The production on this, amazing! Everything to the 3D renders to the voice over, you killed it! You have the perfect voice for it haha - I'm excited to see where the series goes, if it is a series. Nice work! Subbed.

[@GuyShōtō]

This is arguably one of the best analog films I have seen in awhile. The mix between mainstream commercial mixed with glitched story-telling is very well executed and incredibly brilliant.

[@xcellentcreations3312]

Ok, here's my guess on the lore on this analog horror short. So this UFS company discovers a way to make meat without killing meat based animals, but as shown on the life meat making video, death (and bacon transforming as shown by a footage of a dead dude's arm turning into bacon) is pretty quick and disturbing, but the company, possibly out of greed, decides to ignore such a side effect and published it to the public and gets nasa to get a lot of the stuff for their Mars mission...but fortunately due to how obvious it looks, the FDA gets the public to destroy life meat before it gets worse and presumably shuts down the company. Pretty good eh?

[@pies.kapeluszgb5118]

your comment has a scrolling bar for me because it's so wide

[@ENBYSS]

Unfortunately the newspaper clipping that flashes shows that it took 10 years for the effects to manifest. It also says that it's a worldwide pandemic. I'm afraid it's too late.

[@xcellentcreations3312]

@@ENBYSS oh...uh...well at least they shut down UFS at least

[@datravelingmemeist1956]

So,it’s a good ending?

[@xcellentcreations3312]

@@datravelingmemeist1956 well since the newspaper says the meat is giving America an epdemic and not the world and the video tape seems to be altered, I'm assuming it is

[@aferalcat9732]

The part where the arm abruptly 'bubbles up' and the little noise of the audio set off a very distinct "purge it with fire" reaction in me ngl. I'm repulsed and fascinated. Excellent work with such a small, nasty body horror detail.

[@Nebbed]

I’d buy it.

[@Dogman_35]

I'd try it.

[@Wazzyo]

I'd eat it.

[@oscarpro8349]

I'd drink it

[@thegrayguyv1]

I, the writer of this comment, would purchase (and consume) Life Meat, if it were to exist.

[@Sand_the_Lazy_sand]

@@thegrayguyv1 I, the viewer of this video, confirmed to favorite this product named "Life Meat" and mentally wants to trade a paper kind called "money" with the product called "Life Meat" and use it to chew on my mouth and dissolve it in my stomach, where it will go out as poop, if it actually exists in the reality.

[@AleTitan]

The way the arm swells up into so many bumps makes me so damn itchy

[@idkwhattoputhere1027]

2:11 the hand just changed I swear I’m not joking

[@Zerothehero6660]

For a second I thought the dead guy was really like “got em’” 👌

[@drexdqueen]

Even a year later, the part at 2:10 still gets me. The swelling is so visceral and...disgusting (in a good way!). Life Meat is so good. I love eating it raw

[@philipfranklin3958]

Could it be a fictionalized account of experiments with lab grown meat ( which is actually a real thing now ) going wrong? The real world lab grown meat, which is really available in supermarkets is, however, made from stem cells of actual animals, though I'm not sure of the process, though.

[@JesusChrist-sm4bm]

Well it grows. Like we just let it grow so like real meat we could see outbreaks. Though something like Lab meat would be MUCH more vigorously tested

[@tanjeeschuan4999]

I think they use a pathogen to convert chicken meat into a desired type. Chickens are easier to breed compared to cows. And the pathogen isn’t killed during packing, instead relying on the consumer to kill it via cooking. This, combined with the ease of which microorganisms mutate probably caused the arm we see in 2:10 to turn into the ‘meat’

[@MissRandomNomad0o]

@@tanjeeschuan4999 Mistake number one: assuming that the customer reads.

[@CEOofAn]

Out of all analog horror videos I've viewed so far, this has made me uneasy and has became one of my favourites!

[@HAPPY-pi2uc]

that swelling on the arm actually makes me shiver

[@finlockhart4572]

Ooooh, I love the bit at the end about astronauts being supplied with Life Meat. The thought of them being up there alone and going through whatever happens after they eat it... it's really scary, specifically because you didn't show anything.

[@thatsamood]

Holy crap, that moment with the arm just lying on the floor and suddenly swelling up was terrifying. A+!

[@MMumbles]

I actually felt a little cold when the arm suddenly swelled...

[@twitchytails]

This is incredible! One of the best analog horror shorts I've seen in quite a while, I love how subtle it is. This is so good, I can't wait to see what else you come up with

[@glavskoy359]

Honestly one of the best analog horror pieces I’ve seen in a while, the narration was especially good.

[@problemsalving]

I’m surprised this isn’t more popular, very well done.

[@Scrimblyscruuoo]

UNDERRATTED VHS HORROR ALERT! UNDERRATED VHS HORROR ALERT!! this is way to underrated, im hooked. please make more :}

[@toastercat2946]

I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS the idea of fake meat making people sick. my partner made a theory that what if the astronauts know its bad its the only thing they can eat, their forced to either starve or get violently ill.

[@tifiyn640]

Reminds me alot of Omega Mart. Good job!

[@MeDicen_Rocha]

Definitively seems like something you'd find stocked up at OmegaMart right besides the "Lemons"

[@kilojool4kuhd68]

worst thing is that this could happen sooner than we think

[@JaxontheOkay]

my theory? infinitely renewable resources. you get infinite meat from the humans that die from it. it looks like the meatness was going to undergo mitosis or something to me. more meat pops from the meat pustules

[@bundleofthxughts]

thats some real body horror type shit

[@missk1697]

And who exactly harvests it?

[@memes.mp3102]

Honestly i see so much potential here. I honestly really hope this becomes a series

[@lightningfirst689]

I rewatched the arm scene about ten times. And every time, I threw up in my mouth.

[@blinky6254]

Same, it was DISGUSTING 🤮

[@torqueandrikotoone]

Meh, I thought it was intriguing.

[@THATGuy5654]

"How about Beyond?" "Too sci-fi." "Incogmeato?" "Sounds dishonest." "Morningstar?" "You want to name a meat analog after Lucifer?" "BOCA!" "Gesundheit." "Sniff. Thanks. Impossible?" "Sound unconvincing." "Sigh... I don't know... Life Meat?" "YES! Perfect! Nothing off-putting about that!"

[@That.Lady.withtheYarn]

This needs to be a series

[@troy2000me]

THANK YOU for no random bullshit jump scares.

[@youruethedaycarlyshay]

This is amazing ! Really proves that analog horror is so much more than distorted faces !

[@4gsubwayburritosammich]

It can be dead bodies turning into bacon

[@ENBYSS]

Paused to see the newspaper clipping. I expected everything but two things. One being is that it's already a worldwide problem. Two being that it took *10 years* for these problems to manifest. 10 years of people eating it, not knowing what will happen, before the first sign of anything. It's an apocalypse.

[@cinguloapathy]

refreshing to hear a human voice in one of these

[@animechan000]

Low-key I stumbled upon this just right now- and I love it!!

[@dukesb21]

Please, expand on this. This is great!

[@toratio8547]

I like the ambiguity in this, I have found myself re-watching it and trying to work it out. I don’t buy the “people ate it raw” theory - it has been ten years since the product was released, there is no way someone hasn’t tried it raw in that time. And if it’s structurally similar to meat, people know raw meat makes them sick. The worst that would happen is they’d have to re-brand with big warnings on the can to cook it. Someone speculated it’s something of a contaminant in a specific batch, which is possible. Or it’s actually something inherent in the meat. We know drugs like thalidomide were once considered safe, maybe the meat has an additive with long term effects nobody anticipated, or actively ignored.

[@EleanorFisher-gs5bn]

I also thought it was going to Cannibalism but NO, I underestimated what these creative peeps could do! I like this video a lot. Props to all the people who made this vid.

[@bare_bear_hands]

It literally says "Do not eat raw"! It's not the company's fault some people will Darwin Awards themselves.

[@doctabaldhead]

Good stuff. This has some real potential to blow up if you keep going.

[@DoctorBC]

I’m gonna take this as a sign to avoid Beyond and Impossible, too.

[@NoOne-dj1ou]

So that's what's in the Impossible whopper

[@RubyNemesis]

The swelling effect reminds me of something else I've seen before, but I can't place what. Either something like GHE or Omega Mart or something like that.

[@Crispy-Chips]

This is for some reason reminding me of those guys who made the first "milk" product made without cows. I just want you to think about that, 2 MEN, made MILK, without COWS. Think about it for a minute.

[@Delimele]

Wait is both of them guy-

[@stupidass69420]

Insert Lenny face here

[@DefinetlyNotAyden]

sometimes i wish i didn't have the ability to read this

[@HoursIV]

Insert anya smug face

[@Fielza]

Wait, where did they get it?

[@happywithdrawal]

This may just become my new favorite channel lol

[@lyssabiss2317]

2:09 dude... that wavy boil hand made me so uneasy...you're too good at this lol

[@Absolute_Joker]

Make More Please! This Would Be A Very Interesting Story.

[@kittens-in-snow]

I just came across your channel because of random chance, and, I'm a fan! Keep doing the great work!

[@SwaggyG_2102]

This looks very well made and the staticy noise really adds to the authenticity of this video. I hope you could do more like this in the near future.

[@Kittypop2003]

To be honest, when the scene pops up to the dead body's arm. I legit thought their arm was turning to actually packaged meat.

[@ineedbleach]

This actually gave me the chills unlike other analog horrors

[@TheDigitalslayer]

I’ve only heard about analog horror for about a week or two now . I can’t explain it but it’s surprisingly effective in some indescribable way. Perhaps the use of more imagination in the silent / blank pauses in between or feeling like something that has been forgotten in the past.

[@lunameriweather7693]

i don't necessarily do horror but for some reason analog horror is something i can handle. 🍀clover of approval. good work! :)

[@NutellaPudding]

This is the type of video that I always want to see on my recommendation

[@TrueDTBreezy]

You aren't sneaking that pokeball recall parody past me my friend! Fantastic video!

[@LDPRxPS3x1]

2:14 This bit feels so similar and faithful to that one Burger King Pokémon Toy PSA. It's so chilling!

[@opposedscroll7596]

I can't believe this released only 2 and a half years ago It feels like I first watched this video ages ago

[@krispykrackers8826]

Very nice job on this, quite unnerving! The distorted hand part was an effective scare, and this feels like a fresh take on the oversaturated and boring analog horror genre.

[@TheKarlea]

2:00 The background is giving me Gmod energy

[@male20yearsold]

Theory : UFS was a normal artificial meats industry, they were able to stand for 10 years providing their products in america (based on the newspaper), they do sell artificial meats, but the normal one. It was disaster untill UFS infects their own artificial meat in order to allow cellular growth and regenerations using bio-tech virus, i believe it was economically-profits motivated for the company. Turns out, those artificial contaminated products can infect its consumer if it's not cooked well,( but sure there will be someone who eat it raw of course, and he or she would become the Patient-0), the virus becomes pathogenic and will mutate its consumer.

[@SpookyDanny]

I love how the maximum quality for this video is 480p,which make it more realistic

[@fabiancaceres1473]

i think something i love is that the video looks and feel like a real commercial, being over dramatic, claim that there will be a problem in the future, without giving a single proof, coming out with a sudden solution, turnout solution has being planned and investigated "for years", selling selling selling. this feel like one of those silly products that used to be sell at morning and noon and somehow it go terribly wrong

[@MrBlueSkyof1607]

This is EXCELLENT TOP-TIER satire! With scientists scrambling to find a way how to produce meat after animals are gone (or at least, are close to gone), this is clever commentary on its hazards. Not sure if the satire was intentional or not, but I enjoy it either way!

[@bubblelovessans]

Wow this is so good! a combination of all my fears! you're underrated!

[@Goat_Lord]

THIS IS AMAZING! I hope you get more attention, you deserve it.

[@owl_mascot]

Like

[@eliasbrook8991]

This is incredibly well done. I could ramble about everything it does right, but I’ll just enjoy the video instead. Spectacular work.

[@4gsubwayburritosammich]

i love how it doesn't throw an edited face of a man in your face and go "YOu wILL PaY KyRA" or smth, Please continue to make more vids like this! They are absolutely amazing!

[@starlamade]

This is one of the best analog horror I’ve ever seen.

[@geekblue5612]

Those astronauts aren’t gonna have a good time

[@Jay7707]

I Wish I knew about this video earlier because this is very well-made and creepy.

[@ldavenport3473]

i grinned like a madman when they were like "we sent lifemeat with astronauts into space" because that is SUCH a good dread-inducing line

[@cesarmoreta1866]

You had my curiosity, but now you have my attention.

[@jkillect4169]

I'm in love with analogue horror idk it's something about it that makes me shudder with fear or anxiety yet I'm addicted to it

[@notmrflimflam38notrealflam90]

The dead body be pulling a fast one on us 💀💀💀💀😭😭

[@pretend_we_re_dead1554]

well, that's one way to convince someone to go vegetarian

[@oscarpro8349]

those are fake meat so... is a reason to don't go vegan LMAO it's ok to eat vegetables or meat but your comment is "Bad" because You aren't supporting vegan people You are making them don't go vegan (because is fake meat and...)

[@DanielDLG]

But aren’t vegetarians/vegans the ones who eat these kinds of “fake” meats?

[@tobbs5410]

I think this film is shitting on vegetarianism/veganism, not encouraging it

[@WillBoss2004]

@@tobbs5410 Or maybe how food science can go horribly wrong.

[@tanjeeschuan4999]

@@tobbs5410 it’s shitting on companies caring about profit more than safety of their products

[@SilverSkitty]

This was oddly soothing

[@yenthepolishtsar6706]

This is amazing yet it makes me terrified

[@LGEEZZA]

Will be in every store since 2023

[@danolantern6030]

This a wild Custom Scenario for sure,can't wait to play it!

[@Whatachuck23]

Make this a real series this is pretty good

[@kaileymcclain2391]

The cosmonauts will become mutant creatures and won’t make it to mars

[@MilesTailsProwerfan9]

Moral of the story: don't get vegan plant-based meat.

[@johnalfred4401]

I know this video is based on a VHS from 1986, but it looks and feels like a commercial from the 60's.

[@wolfpearl2734]

Ok but can we also talk about the distopian horror aspect of how the response to literally the entire ecosystem is going to collapse and all animals will die in 20 to 30 years is, reather than "oh fuck we need to prevent that from happening", they instead react with "but how are we gonna keep indulging?"

[@maxrichards5925]

I thought that they turned people into meat, not what actually happened. Great stuff

[@llamallover1057]

this is so refreshing and gives me hope for the analog horror genre! it's such a change from the public-access-creepy-faces cliche.

[@theoisomno]

Everyone gangsta till this happens to BEYOND meat

[@KanetheRoo]

oh my god that was so good