It's too late.
Are you a fan of Silent Hill or Outlast? Then this horror masterpiece made by Kane Pixels (done in Blender but resembling a live-action film) is the perfect series for you.
- Renewal features the crafting of a huge and ominous mask. However, the significance of said mask isn't truly revealed until Part 3… upon which rewatching this part can become far more horrifying in hindsight.
- Beneath The Earth is the embodiment of Nothing Is Scarier. The seemingly-endless staircase finally bottoming out to reveal a very old and disturbing red door made many viewers comment that a battle with God was probably just beyond that entrance. The reveal that there's an entire mall miles underground past bedrock with music still playing does not provide any comfort. Who or what could be in there?
The Rolling Giant (The Oldest View Part 3)
- When Wyatt goes back to the tree where the staircase is located, two sideways red flags can be seen just behind said tree. We later learn that the Giant has two red flags attached to his back. Was he somehow there the whole time?
- The security shutter into the mall starts rolling up at a gentle pace, but it suddenly breaks loose and slams into its recess making a huge racket that echoes through the mall. Wyatt retreats back to the stairwell to wait and see if someone heard the crash of the gate, only to never have any fears validated.
- The music in the mall suddenly turning on… and then several minutes later, as thunder and lightning hit (miles underground, mind you), the music distorts and dies off and the lights flicker. The camera turns slowly just in time to show the giant statue framed by the remaining lights. It definitely wasn't standing there before…
- The initial mall music itself, Josh Augustin's Unnamed Shopping Muzak
gets distorted due to the mall's acoustics, turning the otherwise happy song into a creepy facsimile due to the reverberation of the mall making it out of tune. It's as if some presence is welcoming Wyatt to stay as Wyatt soon finds that his escape route has been caved in and he has to discover the secondary exit and thus play someone's game.
- The initial mall music itself, Josh Augustin's Unnamed Shopping Muzak
- Upon examining the forest area behind the closed gate, eagle-eyed viewers can spot a certain someone rolling away behind a tree in the upper right corner.
- It's hard to say for sure, but the giant really does give off the impression of a predator playing with his food throughout the entire third video. The ambiguity arguably makes him even scarier.
- Completely subverting Horror Hates a Rulebreaker, he first acts as though he is a mere stationary object… then he begins to appear in different places when the music in the mall dies off. Then he makes it seem as though he cannot move while being watched, so he sneaks up right behind the camera…
- After that, he throws all caution to the wind and just full-on charges, his arm haphazardly banging into a pillar as he goes, and nothing can stop him.
- He appears to turn and wheel off after reaching the escalator… but in actuality, he can ascend the escalator as easily as anything.
- The giant's leitmotif, simply titled "The Rolling Giant", combines a Drone of Dread with the sound of squeaking tires, encapsulating the terror of some huge behemoth rolling implacably after you.
- The giant can also be heard violently smashing through glass at one point.
- Think Wyatt could just stop him by pushing him over? Think again. The giant is strong enough to barrel through the walls of the place.
- How about when Wyatt's had enough and tries to leave, only to be met with a collapsed tunnel? The immediate dread is palpable. It's as if the place is alive and wants him to stay to play its game. His horror and panic are unnervingly contagious as he desperately tries to shift the rubble before admitting to his audience how badly he screwed up - and they might never see or hear this. Some viewers consider this to be the most terrifying moment in all of Kane's videos.
- When the place changes in appearance near the end, resembling a nightmarish run-down and overgrown version of itself, several voices can be heard conversing, though the discussion is essentially impossible to understand. What's unnerving is that we never see these people, casting doubt on if they are even real (or visible).
- The Giant smashes through some blockade and cuts Wyatt off from using one side of the escalator at the last second, forcing him to run around towards the other side… upon which a light turns on and what appears to be several of the Giant's buddies can very briefly be seen watching from the shadows.
- When the Giant ascends the escalator, he seems to be floating. What other powers does he have that we don't know about?
- Wyatt breaks and asks him, "What do you WANT?!" In response, the Giant seems to conjure up images of dead men and horses. What this means - how and when they died, if he caused their deaths, if they were ever real to begin with, etc. - is anyone's guess. Then he appears to simultaneously point at Wyatt and look in the direction of the exit, as if to say "I want you. The question is what "having" Wyatt entails.
- Viewers with a fear of heights will hate the last few minutes. It's revealed that the only "exit" remaining is accessible from an extremely precarious ledge with a narrow set of beams… which is odd, considering it didn't even appear to exist before the place changed to look dilapidated. What's worse, the camera pans down at one point to show at least two bodies all the way on the ground floor. Were they real people who fell… or something else? It's much worse in hindsight because it turns out to be Five-Second Foreshadowing when a beam breaks and… down goes Wyatt.
- The man's panicking and finally his bloodcurdling screams as he plummets horrifically to his demise are arguably the most terrifying moments in the entire video, or even the most terrifying in all of Kane's projects. The camera spiraling out of control does not help matters, followed by a sickening thud. Between this and the Backrooms series, it's the first vid Kane has made where someone unambiguously dies during said vid - and the audience gets to fall with him. It's more than enough to make one's stomach turn, especially because it's a very real and realistic danger as opposed to a giant statue chasing you.
- The emergency stairwell being placed at such a dangerous spot is also very eerie suggesting malicious intent as if it's there to taunt explorers with false hope since this emergency exit obviously has No OSHA Compliance.
- In the same scene, the Giant is missing, having left his cart behind. He doesn't need it to move? So where is he now? Did he break the beam somehow?
- The ending of the third video returns us to a third person perspective where we see Wyatt dead (mysteriously back on the surface) and staring lifelessly into the camera. Brrrr. As creepy music fades in, it shows the forest along with the giant's mask in the background… what's he doing? Taunting his deceased prey? Looking at the viewers? That's all we get as the scene fades to black and ends on a very "downer" note.
- As of the end of part three, absolutely nothing has been explained to the audience as to why there's a replica of the Valley View Center a mile underground, or why it's guarded by a hostile Living Statue. At least in The Backrooms, viewers knew it was based on a preexisting property and thus had the comfort of knowing roughly what to expect. The Oldest View, by contrast, is an original story, and thus all the audience has to go on is Wyatt's footage and commentary, which offers no answers.
The Oldest View - Dispersal
- Through time itself mysteriously rewinding, Wyatt is given another chance at life and successfully makes the hop onto the escape stairwell this time. He seems so powered up by adrenaline that he tirelessly runs up the stairs for his very life, stopping only to see if he's being followed. It's his desperation to get away from the mall that makes the scene. Wyatt doesn't even so much as comment on the situation aside from muttering "SHIT" at least once in resignation. While Wyatt is running, ominous rumbling can be heard in the background. Creepy enough on its own, and then you remember the collapsed stairway full of rubble in The Rolling Giant. You half expect the hallway to crush him instantly, or worse, to shift so as to cut off his escape.
- Between Wyatt reaching the surface and him returning to his car, we get an ominous bit of on-screen text. It's anyone's guess how it relates to the rest of the episode- or indeed the series- but it implies that whatever is happening is much bigger than simply the mall and the Giant.Anatomically modern humans have existed for approximately 300,000 years.Recorded history accounts for roughly 1.6% of this time.
- When Wyatt reaches the surface, the music is not triumphant, it is ominous like Wyatt's adventure isn't quite over yet. The ending shows a POV shot of what appears to be the Giant, in our world, FOLLOWING WYATT HOME.
