The Most Gruesome Film of 2024... So Far

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ABOUT THE SHOW:
This show celebrates Ryan's love for genre, film, games, art and entertainment through personal retrospective analysis that aims to explore what made them so good or even misunderstood.

MUSIC:
False Morel by Trevor Garrod
The Sea Captain & The Mermaid by Asher Fulero
Sinister Cathedral by Asher Fulero
She Died Up There You Know by Dan Bodan
Because For Everything There Is Someone by pATCHES
Voices in My Head by Quincas Moreira

[RyanHollinger]

*Tell me your requests in the comments!!*

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[lud]

As Gravity Falls has taught me:

"All stop motion animation is black magic"

[heamac]

My thought was that the egg was a symbol for how ideas sometimes give birth to themselves - how some ideas come on like a spark of inspiration that will burns like a fever, consuming the artist (no matter what the medium) who then obsessively works at "incubating" it until the idea is finally "hatched" into a fully formed creation.

It goes along with the idea that she wasn't creating anything freely, she was just the vessel/ the puppet/ the way the story was able to come to life. She had no control; she was always being controlled, even by her own attempts at independent creativity.

[Poppy]

Yep, doing stop motion animation does make you go a little mad. Hours upon hours staring at the same scene, moving it tiny bits at a time. If you knock something over and can't line it back up, oopsie time to redo that part again!! You barely see another sole for hours or even days because all you do is animate and then sleep and repeat. But pushing the playback button and seeing it come to life (haha) is the magic of it as I'm sure Ryan knows too. :) Great vid!

[kayd.]

What’s even scarier is that it’s starring the same actress as The Nightingale.
I did not ask to relive that trauma today.

[BellaLugos]

The House wasn't specifically an animated "horror" stop-motion anthology but the first story in it was super creepy and I loved it.

[deanscordilis]

Not sure if you’ve ever seen it, but JUNK HEAD is a stop motion scifi horror on YouTube. I think the creator is working on a feature length version, but the short is a fun, offbeat, and somewhat Cronenbergian piece.

[faithstanley]

I really enjoyed the added layer of creative existential dread in this film. Ella has been craving the freedom to be the creator that all the people around her claim to be, yet when she has the chance to finally create, the questions of “do I have what it takes”, “what does it mean to create”, and “is it even POSSIBLE to truly create something new” just slowly consume her and her art: this thing that she supposedly loves as a way of making new things ultimately costs her everything that she is, so at the end of the day, what is it all for? What does it even mean? Does it even matter? It’s the one spin on the “falling into madness” genre that sets this one apart as unique for me

[poweroffriendship.]

Stop-motion or claymation gives off the creep factor due to the janky movements and unnerving models that fits in the uncanny valley category, so I can see why the movie embraced that scary aspect of stop-motion and turned it into a nightmare fuel. When it comes to creepy stop-motion, it makes me think stuff like the works of Lee Hardcastle or that one scene from _The Adventures of Mark Twain._

[spellblade]

"Stay away from animation unless you have the skill and patience for it."
Never has one of Ryan's outros hit so hard.

[Portalz]

A rainy Irish Sunday afternoon, a cup of tea, and a new RH video! Ideal

[ladyluna]

4:12 i agree. It's not like a horror movie can't have a subtext, but it has to have an interesting story as well. I think "It follows" is a great example of a good story with a strong metaphore.

[elgrenudocascarrabias]

Ryan you should watch La Cass Lobo, its super scary, its animated, its filled with methaphore and allegory and you would love it i think.

[Slimchimrichalds]

Ya know Ryan, as someone who’s never really been into film or horror on an analytical level this channel has hooked me surprisingly hard.

You present topics and explain things in a really cohesive/comprehensive way that just scratches my brain itch.

I’m not a hyperbolic person but you’ve taken me from an interest in horror to a LOVE of horror.

[NAWWMANNN]

My favorite thing about Ryan Hollinger videos is the way he says "however".
Every time I hear it, it's an instant gem.
Thank you sir

[gavisinspacern]

Was just on a binge of Ryan's back-catalogue when this came out, perfect timing!

[woblewoble]

Oh God, you just unlocked my repressed childhood trauma of watching that claymation Simpsons video when I was, like, 12 years old. Early 2000s internet was so much more gnarly than it is today, or at least it was much easier to access that kind of stuff. That's probably a good thing, but something was definitely lost in the transition.

[stevenvenn]

I’d like to shout out a few stop motion animators that no one seems to be mentioning in regards to this movie’s spooky and horror-tinged elements, namely twin brothers Stephen and Timothy Quay (really big in the 90s as The Bros Quay) doing short films and videos, even worked on Peter Gabriel’s “Sledgehammer.” Others that deserve mention are Cristobal León & Joaquín Cociña who created the surreal “Wolf House, ” and of course the granddaddy of stop motion Jan Švankmajer (check out his version of Alice for some super creepy stop
motion animation).

[erubin]

"Animated horror, " you say? Might I suggest a fine little gem called 'Perfect Blue?'

[jleggett]

The Wolf House (2017) uses stop motion to profoundly uncomfortable effect