The Painter

When I first saw the series, I liked it. The art is good and the concept of human killers rather than supernatural entities is a great idea, as well as new grounds for analog horror. However, as the series goes on, it just becomes a bunch of videos full of nothing but shock value.

The series fails to provide any depth to the characters, so when they die, it's hard to feel bad for them because stuff like that keeps happening. On that note, the episodes are just Warning Sign, Text about a murder scene, and scary painting. It's the same thing for a majority of the show. And the crimes themselves are just so unnecessarily violent (there's a woman stabbed in a inappropriate part while drowning and a dog whose legs are broken for no reason by the killers, and those are the tamer ones) and this violence doesn't add much to the story aside from saying that the killers are bad.

I'm not saying this is the worst horror show I've seen, there are things such as the voice acting in "FAMILY" that I applaud, but the series itself is just a bunch of edgy stuff on top of edgy stuff that I hope is fixed in the future. If you don't mind more than 10 minutes of mindless violence that barely goes anywhere, this series is for you. As for me, I'm hoping that this series is saved soon.

I keep seeing this copy-pasted opinion of it relying on "shock value alone", and yeah if you watch the series by just reading through it like a Wikipedia page then of course you won't get too frightened, i watched this at night with the lights closed and it scared the hell out of me.

The soundtrack is really good on every episode too, it added a lot, and it created an atmosphere better than most analog horror series ive watched.

I DO have my criticism, sometimes there's a bit too much explaining done, however I'll keep my review at 10/10 stars to make up for those incompetent people who couldn't truly appreciate this series and just watched through like nothing without actually focusing on it.

Relies too heavily on shock horror and gory kills. Just feels like the creator wanted to make the edgiest series possible. The Painter isn't a scary antagonist either, when we see their face very early on in the series. Most relating to a part which is more whole between a certain and definite article of which is a "plot" that of which is present in this time is just increasingly gory kills instead of relating to an actually meaningful story. Overall, I'd much rather recommend series that focus more on the story instead of just shock horror. Some series that come to mind are Mandela Catalogue, The Monument Mythos, Vita Carnis, Gemini Home Entertainment, Greylock, and The Walten Files, as these are all great analog horror series that do a much better job overall than UrbanSpook.

The Painter is an analog horror series by Urban Spook. If you're interested in watching this, beware of violence and gore. If you're fine with that you'll find a murder mystery with several interesting characters and clues. If you're wondering what analog horror is, here is the definition. They're horror films, shorts, or videos in general done in the style of old VHS, Beta, or other pre-digital formats. Sometimes they can look like an old camcorder view of some phenomena like The Blair Witch Project. My favorite episode is family because it gives us some more clues. Overall I'd give it an 9/10. You can watch it on YouTube if you want to know.

The Painter is one of the rare analog horror webseries that's actually horrifying. Sure Mandela Catalogue is scary too along with The Walten Files, Fnaf VHS tapes and media alike. But none has scared me like the painter did. It has no jumpscares of the sort, and it relies on pure psychological terror to completely terrify us. In the first chapters I was already feeling uncomfortable, and that's already a high mark for a series as ambitious as The Painter. However, despite its remarkable achievements, it has notable flaws. My main problem with this is how the entirety of the series feels more like a gorefest than having an actual narrative. Sure the FAMILY episode disputed that claim, but had they built up a narrative beforehand, I would appreciate this even more. I wouldn't call this entertaining just for the sake of it because of its content. Despite my high rating, this is one of the only pieces of media that I would find appreciating more than enjoying. But it's still an amazing series that many people should check out at least once.