It's Hard to Make Minecraft Scary

these modders tend to forget that extremely long and skinny limbs often mean very silly looking run/walk cycles

Using jumpscares in horror is like a comedian tickling you to make you laugh.

I think the cave dweller was fine. Maybe with reduced spawns but that "The One Who Watches" dweller is literally the worst offender. Dudes just annoying.

7:09 the way a tall cactus is getting a bigger reaction out of you than the horror mods is making me cackle

True horror comes when hearing the hiss of a creeper in the storage room. What a logistical nightmare

Scary minecraft be like "just whitewash a enderman"

22:13 “Hes just like a train” perfect describes all of the dweller mods, they are all fast loud big things that kill you instantly

16:16 it's a shame, that's actually a pretty cool shot; the Watcher's arms reaching in through the windows, grabbing and scratching at your hiding spot, but perfectly positioned so you can't see his face or any other part of his body would actually be surprisingly ominous... if you didn't see his face immediately before, and if it wasn't accompanied by the EXTREMELY long and drawn-out roaring sound

I think what a lot of these mods are missing is subtlety. It's kinda goofy how all of these mods have the jump scare screamer thing going on and it has gotten so old. Like imagine seeing the teeth guy on the outskirts of a forest near your base and rather than running at you he waves or beckons at you and walks into the forest. Maybe Minecraft is too limited to do something like that but I think it'd be better than bum rush screaming at you. Also, upload more Lethal Company or else Evil Uncle Grandpa will spawn in your Minecraft world and SCREAM at you...

in reality, minecraft really CAN be scary, but mods like these don't build any tension, they just try to by "scary" and leave it at that

I feel like the Cave Dweller, in its environment, can be scary. If the Cave Dweller was taken out of the caves and spawned randomly, then it isn't scary at all.

"The one that hits the griddy" honestly very fitting name for a dweller slop mod

7:30 is an actual game mechanic called a zombie siege. each night at midnight there’s a ~10% chance for one to spawn outside a village; basically the OG raid.

The perfect horror mod would bank on the idea that you aren't really alone. Like imagine seeing an identical copy of your house 4000 blocks away, or seeing bridges that you didn't build in the nether

Youtubers finding Minecraft scary reminds me of spongebob and patrick freaking out over the kiddie roller coaster ride.

Omg, coming back to this and just now realizing the chase music from the monster without eyes and with a goofy run animation is literally using a remix of the Courage the Cowardly Dog music from whenever Courage gets chased. Learning that made it 10x funnier

unironically minecraft Alpha is scarier than all of these mods. That big feeling of loneliness made going to caves or going out at night much more scarier. Wondering if you are truly alone in what seems to be an empty world, just like the og backrooms

the way most horror mods fail at being "Scary" is they completely ignore what made Herobrine so popular and just put some big lanky ghoul onto the game make it jumpscare and kill you and leave it at that, the kind of scary Minecraft could be is like how The Backrooms was scary before people started adding creatures and "sectors" it's just the idea of being alone in an environment completely untouched by human beings but always feeling like something might be out there with you.

real minecraft horror is when you install a bunch of mods without knowing what they do, so you hide in a hole for your first night, but then you start to hear digging noises from above

Probably the main highlight of this video has to be the Starved Stalker, because every time it's on the screen, the game turns minecraft into comedy. Kicking it off with the goofiest sprinting animation as Friend A casually discusses how it's not even scary, and even has hit the griddy in some GIF. Look again and now its aggressively, yet slowly running across water. Every sound effect it causes isn't anxiety, but more so adrenaline without the stress factor. Ultimately, it's a mod of s scrawny, triangle headed creature that has such an energetic chases theme, and the stupidest running animation that has made me burst into laughter though out the entire video. It even gives you an OP WEAPON just for killing its miserable self, but too bad it no longer spawns beyond that point