Film Theory: Do N̸̛͙̔͆̄̉̋̓̿̈͂̆̕O̵̫͇̣̯͑́͆̽̄̑͑̒̋̚͝Ṭ̷̲̮͚̪̈̓͛̍͌̑͛͂̏̽ͅ Fear Him (The Mandela Catalogue)

It's been a while since I posted my first theory on The Mandela Catalogue. The series has NOT slowed down! Today I want to focus on one of the scariest things to show up yet - The Intruder? Who is he? Should we ACTUALLY be afraid or is the truth a little more mysterious. Theorist, it's time to step into the dark and spooky world of The Mandela Catalogue once again! Don't be afraid...

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Credits:
Writers: Matthew Patrick and Zach Stewart
Editors: AbsolutePixel and Tyler Mascola
Assistant Editor: Caitie Turner (Caiterpillart)
Sound Editor: Yosi Berman

[c.draper]

Matpat’s voice is just so utterly recognizable, even under all the voice modulations he puts on it sometimes at the intros to videos. You can almost always tell it’s him. Absolutely iconic

[mrsbasia]

Personally, I like horror that has few to no jumpscares. It's like a creeping buildup of tension without an outlet. It leaves you disconcerted, even long after the game is done.

[Notanymore]

"Its not kidnapping, Its denying the enemy potential recruits" -The Intruder 2022

[AnAussieTries]

A detail someone else pointed out that I really love, is that the woman calling about her cat and leading the guys there in the first place, might have been an alternate herself as she seems to misinterpret speech.
When Adam says "We can stop by tonight if you want?"
She replies with "How about THREE nights?"
This COULD be her not understanding the difference between the WORD tonight, and the PHRASE two nights.

[bunsenn]

I like how the Type 3 Alternate is just portrayed by an image of an Australian.

[Xiiki]

Alternate: *trying to brainwash adam**

Adam: *”I like your funny words, magic man.”*

[ParadoxRein]

The whole idea of not letting your fears take over, since that could be your downfall, is always scary to me. Yet, that’s what they want huh? I feel this whole series exploits many of our fears to demonstrate how easy it is for our fears to surface and how easily said fears could be used against us

[unknownvariable]

The Mandela catalogue uses the best type of horror: absolutely no jump scares, just genuinely good storytelling that makes you look over your shoulder every 5 seconds.
So interesting to me

[scoutgaming]

A thing you forgot about jonah is that after he's eaten, the fish spewes him out to the shore, while he's still alive. He then goes to warn the city and he manages to save it

[izzdanishtv]

alternative: Whisper to someone
the person: I am Deaf
alternative: Start do sign language
the person: mad

[mtmentertainmentinc.]

Actually, the female voice saying “Nobody is coming to help you” sounds EXTREMELY like the woman calling on the phone at the video.

[TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

The Mandela Catalogue, along with The Backrooms are some of my favorite horror content on YouTube, it's truly a great year for horror content.

[quirkychap]

Personally, I've got the idea that Adam himself was kidnapped by The Intruder, and that his mother was the one who exnayed herself at his disappearance. When Adam was brought back, he realized his mother had become an alternate, and started chasing answers.

I don't think The Intruder actually erases/kills the kids he takes as a method to cut off the potential alternate body supply. I think he immunizes the kids he takes so that they can't be affected by False Shephard influence, and puts them back out in the world some time later, or potentially even earlier than when they were taken, as suggested by the inclusion of the Department of temporal phenomena.

[xXxMasterDuelistxXx]

Something else to note, Mat, is that Adam says "Suddenly, i'm scared" Right after eating the apple in the edited animatics, right when the real Adam is approaching that weird thing which tries to infect him with M.A.D.. Just an odd timing but i think that's why The Intruder wakes him up. If he feels fear, he will expose himself to alternates.

[XxCastlegirl_xX]

A pretty common theory I’ve heard is that the woman that Adam is looking for is his mother, the one distraught who had hung herself in the earlier video. Adam was the baby in that video that went missing, but somehow survived the encounter, not unlike the encounters he can survive in vol.2. There’s some more theories too now that the fourth episode has come out and Adam is revealed to have some alternate-type behaviors himself, he’s had visions and memories his whole life, making it all more plausible that he was kidnapped and escaped as a child.

[_____Astral_____]

M.A.D has to be the scariest part of the series. Just the fact that alternates have knowledge about the universe or reality that can cause complete mental deterioration is horrifying.

[jamesqualey]

As a Christian myself, I feel that Old Testament Bible stories could be improved on a great deal by the inclusion of descriptive terms like "yeeted".

[ghost_x]

You know I have this small theory about the intruder and who he might be. The intruders identity might actually be a lot more obvious than it might seem. I suspect that the intuder is an Angel. Unlike the alternates, the intruder acts more discretly and in a way that influences the outcome, while not directly partaking in the process himself. More like nudging things in a certain direction while not personally acting (which is sort of like the way God often does things in the Bible, as we can see with Jonah. Instead of warning the city himself, he asks a human to do it. Moses can also be made as an example. Instead of acting himself, God acted through Moses and so on and so forth).

The chid kidnapping can also be easily explained with this variable. Why kidnap children? Simple: They are pure. Untouched by sin and desires unlike adults. Children are also fresh in this world, with a completly new and uncorrupted soul that is not fully integrated into the mortal life and it's concepts, which I'll explain the importance of later.

The other thing said in this video was that the Intruder was brainwashing the children, but I do not believe that to be the case. If the children are really being "brainwashed" then why not just use adults? It's brainwashing. It works on everyone and would be more beneficial to perform on adults since they can be deployed immediatly, while a child has to grow. But what is he doing if not brainwashing? How does he create these "soldiers" out of children? Well that's also simple: He shows them their place in the universe and tells them exactly the same thing the alternates do. Why is the child not driven insane then? Well this is where we tie back to the purity/freshness concept. Children grow and they start to comprehend and learn about the world around them gradualy, piece by piece and when they get old enough they believe themselves to have figuered out the concepts of reality, so when they are told what reality is truly like, their believes and concepts turn upside down and they can no longer find certainty and safety in their believes which drives them mad. But if you take a child at the early stage, at a point where they do not understand the world around them and show them what it truly is, their thoughts are not doubtfull, they have no concepts to be thrown upside down, because they have no concepts except for the ones which just got implanted into them. They already comprehend and know everything, which is why they are not scared, why they pursue their goals despite the dangers and why they cannot be corrupted by alternates.

So why do they seem not to remember anything? Well if we go by the typical depiction of the human essence it consists of two seperate things: The physical body and the soul which are two differnt things but together make up the mortal shells that humans are. The intruder reveals everything to the child, which gives the child two places to take in the information: The mind and the soul. The soul does not forget and is responsible for the draw in humans and the urge to uncover the truth as they get older. This may be a way for the soul trying to call out to the body so it can regain the information it has now lost due to age or it my be some vague memories in the subconcious that have been retained (to give a simple example: you vaguely remember something happened in a show, but forgot the name of the show and now you're trying to remember, but can't so you do some research to get that feeling of satisfaction and reasureance. Kinda same concept here ish), which brings me to the mind section. The human mind is limited, especially a childs and as they grow older some memories begin to fade either into the subconcious or be completly erased, which is the reason they can not remember anything when they are adults, but due to the concept of reality itself being already ingrained into their essence, they can not be corrupted by the information given out by alternates due to them already being aware of it in some way.

The line "wake up" may very well refer to this. "Quit living in this world of pretend and dreams and see the world for what it really is. Wake up".

That may also be the reason why Adams mother killed herself when she saw the intruder in the TV. He was telling the truth of reality to Adam and the mother overheard it by accident, which ended up in accidental colateral damage for the intruder. The intruder tampering with the body of the mother could also be explained this way, since he caused her to commit suicide by accident, he tried to prevent her from becoming an alternate.

As to the line "don't make me wake the others". It is a lot trickier, but again I have a theory on this. I believe that the Intruder sees Adam as special and strong. He says "don't make me wake the others" which is most likely referring to the other children the intruder has kidnapped. Why would he NOT wake them? If the threat is serious and he is trying to combat it, why not throw everything you have at it? This tells me that the Intruder believes that Adam is all that is needed. But why is he special? Well the very first thing to start of with is that Adam got returned back to the mortal world after he was abducted. We know that Adam may very well be the only or extremly rare case, since it is clearly stated that the other children disappeared, implying that they were not returned. The person he is looking for may very well also be a clue as to what makes Adam special. If you haven't figured it out by now, I believe that the identity of Adam is lying in plain sight. Adam is Adam. THE Adam, the first human. A reincarnation of him. And the person he is looking for? Eve. That is why her name is censored every time she is mentioned. If her name was said there would be no mystery. It is also the reason he's so obsessed with finding her no matter what. She is his "other half".

(I might be reaching in this section, so take it with a very large grain of salt)
Jonah might also be exactly who his name states him to be. The only people who are not affected are not the people who SEEK the truth. It is the people who already KNOW the truth. The people who are "unaffected", who got abducted and then returned are biblycal characters and the ones who did not get returned are NEW "soldiers" for what might very well be Armagedon in this universe. Which is why the intruder is so hesitant to use them, as it would be total war.


Apologies for this whole Google doc, that's probably not even going to be seen by anyone. But on the chance that someone DOES find this: I'm sorry for any grammatical errors, this took like 1 hour to write. Maybe like 1 and a half. I dunno, I didn't pay exact attention to time while writing this, all I know is that it's been at least an hour. And remember: That's just a theory. A Filmtheory.

[Thecoolestfrog]

0:34 Everything cycles back to missing children when it comes to matpat.

Someone needs to make a theory on the theorizer himself

[bred]

Respect to Alex for making such a cool and interesting series, so excited so see where he’s going with this masterpiece!