Most scary stories are based around the premise that something bad is happening to the protagonist,
and they’re unable to escape.
Sure, they believe that if they work hard and act smart they’ll be able to make it
out alive, but usually this is not true.
But if they didn’t believe in their heart of hearts that there was even the tiniest
sliver of a chance for them to make it out alive, they would just give up and resign
themselves to fate!
And that wouldn’t make for a good scary story, right?
Well, not everything has to have a sound narrative, right?
Some threats will render you unable to run and hide, and take your life no matter what
you do.
And if a threat is inescapable AND undead?
Well, you’re gonna have a bad time.
If you want to list the top three human fantasies, we have time travel, flying unassisted, and
raising the dead.
All three are currently impossible, all three will always end terribly for everyone involved.
Especially raising the dead!
It’s not natural, we should be able to graciously accept that stuff is dead.
And if we can’t, we need to accept that the dead will kill us too.
Hello horror heads, and welcome back to the scariest channel on YouTube: Top5ScaryVideos.
I’m your horror host, Keegan Hughes, and today we’re taking a look at the Top 5 Scariest
Undead Monsters You Can NEVER Escape.
So lace up your runners and grab a weapon that doesn’t require ammo, cos you’re
in it for the long haul.
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Let’s get started.
NUMBER FIVE: THE LICH Or, any lich really.
Doesn’t have to be THE Lich.
Depending on your Lich sources, this being tends to be an undead sorcerer.
Yes, it has control over magic and won’t die.
These fiends originate from a transformation of sorts, usually originating as a powerful
magician skilled in necromancy.
This mage obviously has a high level of control over the undead, and decides that they would
like to become one themselves.
Through the binding of their soul and intellect to a phylactery, they can gain a form of immortality.
Not true immortality, of course, as they are still bound to a corpse, but immortality nonetheless.
A Lich will retain its sapience and intelligence from its living days, and will use these mental
capacities to their fullest.
Even though it’s a cadaverous body, often dessicated or completely skeletal, this wizard
has total control over hordes of lesser undead.
They use these armies to do their bidding, which could look like raiding villages, waging
war, or kidnapping beautiful princesses.
And if you ever piss off a Lich, you can bet they won’t forget.
As long as they live, which is a long time if you forgot, they will come after you with
all sorts of necromantic powers and peons.
Watch out.
If you’ve ever watched Adventure Time, which I will always recommend, you’ll know about
the omnipresent Lich that dwells beneath Ooo.
This particular manifestation of inevitable death literally cannot be stopped, only suspended
in time.
If you try to kill him, or change anything, the whole course of history is altered.
Definitely NOT mathematical.
NUMBER FOUR: GASHADOKURO Also known as the starving skeleton, this
is a mythical creature that originates in Japanese mythology.
These spirits take the form of giant skeletons, up to fifteen times larger than the average
person.
They are created from the amassed bones of people who died of starvation, or in battle
without being buried.
Roaming around after midnight, Gashadokuro will grab travellers and bite off their heads,
and then drink the spraying blood geysering from their gaping neck.
That’s hardcore, honestly wouldn’t be mad if that’s how I died.
Kinda like one of those wax soda bottles, but made out of human flesh and blood!
They are also said to have the powers of invisibility and indestructibility, which makes for a formidable
fiend.
If they want to eat you, they’re gonna eat you.
No way you’re outrunning a 90 foot skeleton with a hunger for your insides and the ability
to turn invisible.
You have somewhat of a chance to avoid them altogether.
People say that if you hear a loud ringing in your ears, a Gashadokuro is likely nearby.
Which is totally terrifying to me, and all the other tinnitus sufferers out there.
Does that mean a Gashadokuro has had its eyes on me ever since I started attending concerts
without proper ear protection?
The suspense is killing me, just bite off my head already!
NUMBER THREE: MUMMIES If you’re stuck in a pyramid with a mummy,
it’s over.
And sure, there are plenty of different mummies from all over the world, but today we’re
gonna focus on the famous dried-out corpses of the Egyptian variety.
Ancient Egyptians believed that the preservation of one's body was integral to living well
in the afterlife.
Therefore, they developed techniques to ensure the bodies preserved well, and developed burial
practices that correlated with one’s social status.
Elaborate tombs filled with treasure were soon the norm for those with high status,
and of course, they had to develop security systems to deter grave robbers.
Booby traps, elaborate labyrinths, and of course: guardian mummies.
So if you ever find yourself in an ancient pyramid full of booby traps and mummies, I’m
very sorry, but you’re not getting away.
You will be impaled by a spike pit, or have your head twisted a full three-hundred-and-sixty
degrees by a big, beefy, bandaged boy.
You’re not Brendan Frasier.
Speaking of him, many fictional mummies were inescapable for a different reason.
They were conceived as romantic beings, and love interests for the protagonists of adventure
stories.
A lively, sexual woman mummy would rise from the dead, and act as a romantic partner for
some treasure hunter or warrior.
This trope was developed further over the years, with gender roles being switched around,
and different scenarios being acted out.
So, yeah.
Another reason you can’t escape a mummy is pure, animal magnetism.
They’re too hot to leave alone!
And if you decide to hop into bed with one, be careful, they’ve been buried for thousands
of years.
Maybe wear a dust mask or something.
NUMBER TWO: IT No, not Pennywise or the Dead Lights.
This cursed corpse comes from David Robert Mitchell’s 2014 fright-fest It Follows.
If you haven’t seen it, pause this video and go watch it right now.
You won’t regret it.
Ok, you watched it?
All caught up?
Good.
Let me remind you what just happened.
In It Follows, young Jay sleeps with her new boyfriend, only to be told that he has passed
something sinister on to her.
No, not that.
A demon.
A demon that will follow her at the same speed forever, and if it catches her it will kill
her.
The only way to pass it on is by sleeping with somebody else.
An interesting premise to say the least, but quite honestly one of the best horror films
of the decade.
So this thing, this entity, the IT that FOLLOWS, has some interesting properties.
It can take on the form of any human being, thus making it very difficult to notice while
living your day-to-day life.
It will follow you no matter what, always walking at the same speed, and likely take
the shortest route to get to you.
Once it catches up to you, it will attack and kill you, and then move on to the person
who gave it to you.
It cannot be seen by anyone other than people who have been infected.
It probably can’t be killed.
All of these factors add up to a supremely scary undead monster that you truly cannot
escape from.
You can run all you like, but you’ll never be free of the knowledge that it could always
just around the next corner, and you won’t know until it's too late.
If you tell anyone what's going on, you’re likely to look crazy and paranoid.
If you get put in a hospital, you’re stuck!
It will catch up and kill you.
Sure, you could pass it on to someone else, and they could do the same, and it could keep
going for a long time, but even it it makes its way to like 20 different people after
you, it’ll still make its way back for sure.
There’s no escaping death, even if you manage to avoid it for the rest of your life.
Plus, if you manage to skirt around it for years, eventually you’ll come to the point
where random intercourse is no longer possible.
Your hips will ache, and your walker will get in the way of running.
At that point, you might just want to enjoy what time you have left.
All this to say, maybe be careful with who you choose to become romantically entangled
with.
NUMBER ONE: ZOMBIES Come on, you don’t think I could do an undead
list without mentioning the pop-culture force that is zombies, right?
Call them whatever you want, Walkers, The Infected, Necromorphs, these are disease-spreading,
rapidly multiplying corpses that you never want to come face-to-face with.
In a world ruled by the undead, you’re simply surviving.
There’s no escape.
No matter what happens, the world has been permanently altered by these shambling cadavers,
and they’re the apex predator now.
You can kill as many as you like, and start up a sheltered society wherever you please,
but they’re always gonna be a threat, lurking just outside of your view.
They will always be there, waiting for the next opportunity to chow down on your brains,
growing their population over time.
Plus, they feed on fear and cowardice; two things that human beings have in spades.
Even if someone did come up with the perfect way for the human race to avoid zombies for
the rest of time, some dingus would decide he’s too cool for school, get bit, and want
to be comforted in his dying moments before springing back to life and ruining it for
everyone.
We don’t deal with existential threats very well because there’s always one idiot to
goof it up for everyone.
Name one piece of zombie media that ends with the zombie threat being totally eradicated
or otherwise taken care of.
I’m sure there are a few examples other than Shaun of the Dead, but it's a far-fetched
idea to say the least.
Once the zombie threat is fully realized, they’re here to stay.
No getting out of it.
OUTRO Yeah, I don’t know if I could handle having
any of these creatures in my life.
I have enough trouble worrying about what I’m doing, imagine having that kind of threat
always looming above.
Sheesh.
What did you think?
Are there any inescapable undead that I missed?
Let me know down in the comments!
In the meantime, let’s take a look at some of your more wonderful ones from last time:
WhiskeyBrewer says: “The Plague Dogs would be great for a part 2”
Honestly!
More dark animation based on the works of Richard Adams.
Excellent stuff.
Jexxer says “Yes!
Yes!
FINALLY someone else understands how messed up Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory was!
Thank you, Keegan, for validating my childhood trauma!”
We’re all in this together.
I for one think there should be a support group for Early Childhood Wonka Sufferers.
Who’s down for some therapy?
Murricath says “Yelling in a movie theatre… you sound like you were quite a punchable
child” To be fair, I was probably three or four at
a family matinee, but sure!
Punching children!
Jimbob Nedley says “I see dark crystal, I click”
A man of exquisite taste, keep up the good work!
Amanda Sweeden says “Very impressive chamberlain noise!”
Thank you!
I practiced lots while watching the Netflix Dark Crystal.
Every time you hear the noise, you have to make the noise!”
And that’s all the time we have for today!
Thanks for watching, and I’ll see you next time!