The FNAF VHS Tapes: An Analog Horror Adaptation

Timestamps

Intro - 00:00

Squimpus - 4:36

Meet the Team - 20:54

The part where I ramble - 28:59

Thank you all so much for watching and please let me know what you think!

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[xanthousfishjeretuna]

"MICHAEL, DONT LEAVE ME HERE" is actually ridiculously funny without context and in some circumstances

[SquimpusMcGrimpus]

squimpus

edit: you got a key thing wrong. each character in this series, when text shows up, has their own specific color for that text. when it's white, charlie's talking, when it's yellow, joseph's talking, etc etc. joseph absolutely Loathed his brother ever since he died, but charlie always had faith that he'd be the key to ending everyone's suffering. that was JOSEPH apologizing in company psa

[lucidlullaby]

The whole “children’s souls trapped in animatronics” thing gets thrown around a lot and the usual response is about how tragic that fate is, but it takes that scene of the girl coming over to try and comfort her brother to drive the point home that _“oh my god these are children”_ if that makes any sense.
Simply hearing “tormented souls of children” doesn’t have that same weight

[annamarielee]

For me personally, when the scene with William Afton's photo with the word "criminal" repeating in the background, it kinda freaked me out when I first saw it.

[babyback]

The guy who voiced William Afton knocked it out of the park, especially in those Springtrap tapes. Hearing him scream *”MICHAEL! HELP ME!“* is just so haunting.

[ChaoticMeatballTV]

I dunno what it is about William Afton's face in this but the normal image somehow looks uncanny, even though it's supposed to be him normally. I guess thinking of a normal looking guy behind actions described in this series is much more frightening than the slightly morphed purple version of him.

[carktheshark]

I didn't know that the "Micheal Don't Leave Me" voice wasn't from the original games, I hear it everywhere and just assumed. It's so cool to see what the community creates

[bleachyboy]

The one problem of fnaf is that it never really dug into the horrifying concept it had created, children, locked in purgatory by a murderering they're hopelessly hunting with no chance of ever finding him, its brutal, its depressing, and fnaf never really went into that (probably cause Scott was lowkey making it up as he went along and had to make it compatable with a game) in glad the VHS tapes are creating more of a story with things

[Fatima-mzzu]

Honestly, even the pure *description* of the William confession tape is terrifying, specially the part about how he *always* checks the position of the tape so if Michael discovers it, he'll know, it gave me goosebumps.

[DragonaxFilms]

I love that the minds behind these terrifying tapes have names like Squimpus and MemeBear.

[lluc_riberax]

I loved the VHS series I couldn't stop replaying the William Afton audio tape.
You could easly put yourself in the place of Michael, being so scared from the things that you are listening to that when you get to the end you don't even remember how the cassette tape was placed and that's the true horror that William knew that if Michael found out he would absolutely find out too.
So you can only run now hoping that your killer dad won't catch you before you get to the police station with that cassette tape.

[ashumon]

Fun Fact, in Sound Check, the bird was originally uncensored. The censor was added due to YouTube's restrictions.

[Karrallah]

I absolutely adore the voice actor for William in this series. I can't exactly put it to words, but his portrayal of a deeply disturbed, psychotic man was absolutely perfect and incredibly enthralling

[thedeltaagent]

I honestly appreciate the vhs tapes for the maturity, tragedy, and seriousness they brought to a relatively accurate but condensed version of the story. Those qualities, both at the time the videos were being released and especially now, were noticeably lacking in the official series.

[ohgodagrowth]

Thank you for being the only person on YouTube I've ever heard openly acknowledge the fact that the 5 Nights series was not/is not made for kids yet somehow, yes, super weirdly, got marketed to kids. A million thank yous.

[numberfen]

I really like the part where it shows Afton while it goes CRIMINAL CRIMINAL CRIMINAL, and then Afton transforms into Squimpus sending NSFW art to a minor. Makes my spine tingle every time, best part about the VHS tapes.

[icebiirb]

the afton voice acting in the finale type thing is amaxing. especially that "MICHEAL!" part, and right after. ugh its so good. and even better is the depiction of chicas child soul not understanding being dead. its so good

[Eroxi]

As someone who has never played FNAF and had very little exposure to the game (besides what's unavoidable because of the hype) these videos are extremely easy to comprehend and understand. Don't think I'm alone on that opinion

[beswes]

Wendigoon,

I always appreciate that you don’t make these videos any scarier than they have to be. You let the content do the work as you explain it. As much as I like horror and the fear of it I’m very glad that you play calm music and you don’t use any kind of low scary voice or anything.

It’s very comforting and allows me to consume these spooky topics in a more controlled and not completely terrifying setting.

I feel like a lot of YouTubers that cover spooky stuff and horror topics overdo it but not you! Thank you so much for that.

[Hank..]

One thing I really liked about Squimpus's version of Afton is his voice. Obviously the voice acting was great, but I mean the sound of his voice in general. It sounds like the VA is doing a performative upper class affect, similar to Christian Bale's Patrick Bateman, and that detail fits his version of Afton incredibly well.