When we think of horror, we tend to think of things that have jump scares or disturbing amounts of violence (think “Texas Chainsaw Massacre,” “Friday the 13th” or “Saw”). But what about the things that metaphorically play on reality to provoke an emotional reaction using viewers’ fears?

That is what Night Mind analyzes for his 132,078 YouTube subscribers. Creating his own content and explaining his meaning of other artist’s works, he tackles some of the most terrifying topics.

One of the most popular analyses are those for Adult Swim’s block of realistic short horror films that air on Cartoon Network from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. when most children are already asleep. These are designed to confuse viewers and provoke them to delve further into the story to fully grasp the meaning.

“This House Has People in It” was aired by Adult Swim a little less than a year ago and it is about people who are afraid of diseases that will either likely never come to America or don’t even exist at all.

The family in the short film takes every precaution to ensure their family doesn’t get this fake illness including eating clay pizza and getting a magazine subscription to read more about the symptoms of the disease. They are unable to save their daughter who sinks through the floor, already “catching the disease.”

“Unedited Footage of a Bear” tackles the issue of medication and how it isn’t always the solution. A woman is taking what we believe to be an allergy medication but we later realize it is a drug to increase the strength of her antidepressant. We see multiple versions of this woman who control her life and end up killing her kids from her suffering.

Night Mind provides explanations for these videos and many others that would be difficult to catch during the first viewing by completely taking every detail apart. His analysis for “This House Has People in It” is over an hour and a half, but the original video is only 10 minutes long.
These explanations strike a relatable feeling in viewers, creating the videos to mess with your mind days later. Night Mind is creative and consistently delivers on providing a unique form of horror to his audiences.