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

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

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.

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

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

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.”

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

5:46 "run,hide, and scream"

We all have a little bit of trimmings in us

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

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!

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

Also Matpat: "so these are aliens"

“Ready your meat snakes”

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

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.

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

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

After all these years...

The Mimic - FNAF
The Mimic - Vita Carnis
The Mimic - Mortuary's Assistant

Finally, I have them All.

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

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

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.

Me: Literally fears nothing
Analogue horrors: allow us to introduce ourselves…
Me: checks under bed for mimic

I love how film theory can sometimes have episodes about kid's shows like paw patrol or SpongeBob, and then a few weeks later have episodes about... This.

Fucking love matpat.