Local 58 (2015)

Directed by

Kris Straub

Genre

surrealist television series, found footage television series, psychological horror television series, analog horror television series

Country

United States

Rated

NR

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A fictional public access TV station in West Virginia keeps getting hijacked by strange and ominous broadcasts over many decades. Each episode presents one of these hijacked segments as degraded videotape footage.

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What happens

Local 58 is a horror web series created by American cartoonist Kris Straub. The series is a spin-off of Straub's Candle Cove creepypasta. Currently hosted on the YouTube channel LOCAL58TV, each video in the series is presented as footage of a fictional public access television channel located in Mason County, West Virginia named Local 58, with the call sign WCLV-TV, created in the late 1930s, which is continuously hijacked over a period of decades with a series of ominous and surreal broadcasts. The series makes use of video and audio degradation to add to the realism and unsettling nature of each video. The series describes itself as "analog horror", a term that has since been used as a name for a niche subgenre of similar VHS-themed found footage web series that were either inspired by Local 58 or use a similar style and techniques to the series. The full description the series gives itself is "Analog horror at 476 MHz." The series has since gained a cult following. A website called local58.tv was created in September 2021 as an extension of the main storyline. The website features a "LookBack Web Archive" similar to the web archive service Wayback Machine, and features numerous Easter eggs and plot points for an associated alternate reality game that offers further detail on Local 58's continuity. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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