Film Theory: Beware the Living Flesh! (Vita Carnis)

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Planet Earth has been around for hundreds of years, but now we’re about to be put into a grinder… a MEAT grinder! While we already reacted to the meat snake over on GTLive, we’re now ready to break down the weird story of Vita Carnis. What is the National Living Meat Research? What are these creatures? And are we all in DANGER? This analog horror series goes deep, so figure out this meaty mystery!

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[silverbullet]

I love how Trimmings just sounding constantly distressed and looking completely miserable and confused. Clearly not having a Good Time™️ and people in this universe really went, “ah yes, a pet.”

[idioterich]

That harvester scene was something else. Really showed how far the creator was willing to go to show the ability of these things.

[scapchappy]

Vita carnis is one of only a couple of analog horrors that truly scared and terrified me

[cremator]

Its pretty wholesome how the trimmings “noises” that it makes at night in the video is actually the trimming warning the owner of a mimic.

[faztastic-rznk]

Got a couple of easter eggs to point out: the scientific name displayed for the singularity is "Verum Carnis" which is Latin for "True meat;" another connection to it being the center of things. Also, the Vita Carnis documentary on the Mimic instructs you to not use any weapons you have, instead telling you to use them to block attacks (timestamp 6:31), while the Mimic Defense video tells you to aim for the head or legs (timestamp 3:20), and to "fight back". This, coupled with the suicidal content warning on the Mimic defense video points to the instructions being counter-productive.

[Rexotec]

Mat absolutely struggling to maintain composure while describing meatsnakes is today's life fuel

[SCRAMNG_DT]

Fun Fact: At 13:59, during MatPat's debut introduction of The Singularity, you can see it's name as "Verum Carnis", and if translated from Latin to English, it means "the truth of the flesh."
Pretty neat detail!

[Ericcc]

The harvester was the most traumatizing and scariest in that one scene where it shows and allows you to hear what dying to it sounds like

[cyberdecptn]

Matpat and analog horror go together like peanut butter butter and jelly.

[questprizm]

I swear whenever MatPat does an Analog Horror theory the world starts spinning again

[DallyASMR]

Matpat: "this analog horror is different since it doesn't have aliens"

Also Matpat: "so these are aliens"

[An_Ace_Demon]

5:46 "run, hide, and scream"

We all have a little bit of trimmings in us

[Mr.Pancake-]

My theory, is that the singularity and the monoliths create these sounds similar to radio waves to draw in all of the vita carnis. So the vita carnis are lured to things like televisions or radios, explaining why they took over that radio tower in the newspaper clipping. They were just confused and mistook the radio waves as a call from the monoliths or the singularity

[nerdyfoxes]

Nothing like seeing a couple of grown men burst out laughing at the words "Meat snake" being said in an analogue horror series. Never change, Team Theorist. Never change.

[ciangriffin]

"Ready your meat snakes" is one of the best no-context Matpat sentences

[thejemogremlin]

“Ready your meat snakes”

MatPat, my meat snake is always ready, like a true theorist’s would

[gun_violence_gaming]

The idea that the singularity is the "prince" is terrifying bc it implies that there are more powerful forces than the singularity, potentially being much more malevolent

[divad]

In my opinion, this series manages to merge together speculative biology and evolution, sci fi and analog horror perfectly. Never seen something quite like this.

[rook]

Honestly, this is one of my favorite series ever, I'm very glad Matpat is doing theories about it!

[Dreamtoons.wyattmiller]

The Trimming is the Most oddly adorable little tiny flesh pie of cuteness i have ever seen.