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Nightmare Fuel / The GREYLOCK Tapes

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It's an analog horror series, so scares are sure to be present; and Greylock is good at scares.


  • The series is famous online for its Body Horror aspect, and rightfully so. The malformed miners with stretched out, skinless faces, Don Wright with torn-off jaw, and the thoughtforms themselves - emanciated, with exaggerated features and long, clawed fingers - are horrific to look at.
  • to the mountain ends with something slamming into a car, terrifying the driver into fleeing. We never see what it is, but it has enough power to rock the car.
  • unexpected visitors pairs the sheer horror of home invasion with the fact that the invaders are clearly supernatural. We never see what, precisely, the intruders do to their victims - but we hear the screams.
  • In sleeping dogs, Paul Morelli's portrait slowly changes from cheerful at the start, to depressed near the end; and in the very last recording, it becomes absolutely horrific.
  • Throughout sleeping dogs, the miners keep talking about seeing some manner of humanoid figure stalking them through the forest. It'd be unsettling enough on its own, but at the very end of the video, we see the figure itself in one of the hunting cameras, wearing a White Mask of Doom and being uncomfortably close to the screen.
  • Don Wright's mutilated face in back to normal and old odd ends (the former of which graces the main page for the series) suggests something has quite literally torn his jaw off.
    • While the sudden conjoined babies in back to normal can be a Big-Lipped Alligator Moment, the suddenness is jarring. It can't help but be implied that perhaps the cases of sudden babies disappearing ended up being unnaturally conjoined and fused together.
  • old odd ends returns to the home invasion theme, with something breaking into Arnold Rivers' house. He hides, and we get treated to the sounds of the creature trying on various voices, before aggressively breaking into Arnold's hiding place, with the sounds afterwards leaving no doubt as to what became of him. Worse yet, afterwards, the creature says "it's a monster!" in a small child's voice, implying it has previously murdered a little kid.
  • The final sequence of trojan technology opens with a thoughtform, in all its Body Horror glory, appearing in the shadows before stalking off and having what seems to be a polite conversation with a young girl - before it leaps at the girl and murders her.
  • messages from the dead ends with one of the corpse shelves in the morgue opening, only to reveal the grinning face of Tiffany Crisaldi, who seems to have very much come back wrong.
  • TF-2: Waking Your Subconscious, dear God.
    • For starters, the process of awakening one's subconscious involves a process not entirely dissimilar to the process required to induce "Real Sleep", as the process continues a shadowy figure with glowing white eyes can be seen slowly approaching the screen before entirely consuming the screen towards the end.
    • Halfway through, the video cuts to security footage of a kennel owned by Charlotte Melgren, daughter of Jim Melgren, where a tall, red, fleshy figure can be seen entering the building as the dogs bark. After the door slams shut, the dogs immediately cease and the power goes out. It spends the rest of the episode toying with Charlotte, stealing her flashlight, causing the doors and windows to vanish and, as it's implied with her still being unable to see after they return, her eyes (though they can later be seen in the scene described below so this may not be the case, she does state that she can feel her skin moving before her call disconnects).
    • At the end, the dispatched police officer arrives and investigates the building, making his way down to the basement only to be greeted by Charlotte AFTER SHE HAS BEEN FUSED TOGETHER WITH THREE OR FOUR SKINLESS DOGS LIKE SOMETHING FROM THE THING. It easily takes the cake as the series' most graphic and disturbing shot thus far.
    • The Activation sequence is no slouch in horror either, with its horrifyingly hallucinogenic animations, something in a cellar door shrouded in darkness save for two white dot eyes breathing heavily, and a plethora of Nightmare Faces, from a group of animated faces overlayed on top of each other, a distorted person talking at the camera pinprick white dots for eyes while glitched, crunch audio cuts in and out, and what appears to be a Gross-Up Close-Up of the creature in the security footage. It's Lynchian up to extreme levels.

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