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The Walten Files is a quality web series. It's a little slow at times, but it builds up tension and can genuinely be scary. It also has a good and enjoyable story with some nice mystery. The series is overall very awesome.

The main story of the series is very heavily inspired by the five nights at freddys series, drawing on many of the same elements. However the visual and auditory design of the tapes is amazingly well done, and work together to create a truly creepy atmosphere.

Interesting plot and characters, great spooky moments, and despite being animated on a phone, the art style is very interesting and benefits the series. The show uses very few jumpscares despite what it's originally based and instead relies on psychological horror and dreadful moments.

The Walten Files is absolutely one of the most perfectly written and put together web series I've watched. I absolutely love this series and hope it gets the attention it deserves.

Good plot, great soundtrack, and so interesting characters. An oppressive atmosphere, does its job.

This is one of the most interesting Fnaf inspired spin-offs I've ever seen. I think the animation mixed with live action is so cool and is a nice contrast. The story is really sad and is about the failings of humans and their relationships with some animatronics and murder mixed in. Overall, I enjoyed this SO much and I highly recommend for anyone that loves Fnaf and/or horror!

My critiques for this series are very few. The story is easy to follow, the art style is true to the theme of the series, which adds to the creep factor, the lore is my god, SO GOOD, and it does require a bit of thought to process some things shown. For something that was originally a fan game of FNaF, it's actually really good. But positive things aside, I will get into my very few critiques. (This is not a complaint but I will say the series is very gory and there is LOTS of body horror, real screaming, distorted faces, eye contact, and realistic animation.* The story can drag on at times, but is overall easy to follow. There are times where you are left at a point where you have no idea what is happening. The story is a bit too inspired by FNaf, but I'll let it slide because they put an amazing twist on it. I enjoyed the extra videos they hid inside, but I wish there was more. That's it. Enjoy the series. Peace.

I understand this series is inspired by FNAF, but in my opinion, the walten files does a better job at telling its story than fnaf. That might be due to the fact that it's clear fnaf didn't have a clear storyline when it originally started, but it's obvious the walten files does. I also understand the story is just getting started but it's already had some really strong footing. As surface level wacky some of the scenes are, the character design is really unique. This is likely the peak of analog horror and fnaf-inspired story telling but i'm not gonna hold my breath for it. I don't know what else to add.

The one thing you'll notice as soon as you start watching is how closely it resembles FNaF, but it does just enough mixing and matching elements of its inspiration that it has equal parts original story (a much simpler one, by comparison) and inspired or borrowed ideas that you can appropriately call it inspired and not a mishmash of parts and pieces with names shuffled around.

SKIN CLEAR. ARM HAIRS STANDING STRAIGHTER THAN ID EVER BE. CROPS WATER. THIS WAS AMAZING 100000/10.

While some parts drag on for a bit too long, the visuals and atmosphere of the tapes are absolutely fantastic and make up for it, the story is really great as well. I absolutely recommended this series to anyone that is a fan of horror.

I really enjoyed watching this, however it was scary but i had a lot of fun watching it.

OH MY GOSH ITS SO GOOD. I've just gotten into more analog horror series on YouTube such as local 58 and this one caught my eye. It's definitely evolved from its roots as a fnaf inspired vhs series to a series with a deep storyline and absolutely terrifying imagery. It's amazingly gruesome, and I live for it.

This is the scariest thing on YouTube. This man took time on this and achieved this series. Really well done, good scares and good storyline 10/10 would rewatch.

The analog horror genre got the spotlight with squimpus mcgrimpus, but never before have I seen such an amazing series on YouTube. It has the perfect mix of suspense and terrifying imagery, not to mention the horrifying sound design. One of the best yt series I have ever seen.

The Walten Files is a neat little series of YouTube video. Originally planned as a fangame set in the Five Nights at Freddy's universe, this would become its own series, as each episode is a video found by a man named Anthony from Bunny Smiles Inc, a defunct company that owns restaurant Bon's Burgers. This is a series not for the faint of heart or anyone under eighteen, as this is basically like Five Nights at Freddy's, only more effective. As this is a horror series, expect the usual jumpscares and horror as these videos, which mix different kind of styles, like CGI, storybook, and even archived footage in the vein of that seen in movies like The Blair Witch Project and Paranormal Activity, add to the already creepy atmosphere.

The Walten Files is an amazing show that has several disturbing moments.

Episode 01 - Company Introductory Tape starts the series off slow. It introduces us to Bunny Smiles Inc, a company which has previously had several mysteries surrounding it. We even get to see one of these gruesome kills toward the end of the episode.

Episode 02 - The Relocate Project revives the series, however. No longer just a short introduction, we see several tapes which all happen at the same time - a contrast to the tapes being all over the place in the prior episode. Once again, we get to see a gruesome kill, even more horrific this time. This episode keeps you hooked onto what will come.

Episode 03 - BunnyFarm brings in a lot more scares. Following the previous episodes, it takes a new direction of a haunted arcade game. This allows to show several haunting deaths, even more disturbing than before. Finally, Episode 04 - CyberFun Tech brings the series in another new direction. Now less centred around spooky scares, instead it begins to tell an interesting story - still with some disturbing moments. It also takes the series away from found footage, instead making it an animated horror series. Overall, the series is very promising and gets me exited for the upcoming episodes.

There's gore, dead people, jumpscares etc but honestly it's not that bad, if you're fine with some fnaf styled vhs, you should be good with it.

Story is a really good mystery, and I'm looking forward to the next instalment, can be disturbing at times though.

Some shock factor is obviously toned down since a lot of it is drawn, and iirc there's some 3D animation in some parts(?), but it still makes for a good watch. I was mid-teens when I watched it originally, and it never affected me all that badly.

Overall, If you're okay with analog fnaf vhs, hand drawn blood, etc, you should be okay with this watch.

This review title is unoriginal and uninspired I am sorry But the series is extremely well written and the characters are extremely captivating and the creator Martin Walls is very imaginative with this story I also think the the mixture of live action and the animation is pretty cool and adds to the uncanniness of the series plus did I mention that the horror in it is extremely well because it gets rid of jump scares and creates a new form of horror this being the faces that stare at you with the background around them completely dark.

I've seen many people calling this series "a masterpiece", "clever", "terrifying", "amazing" and "one of the best analog horror series on YouTube". I've also seen people call it "a fresh take on the genre". The Walten Files has been given too much credit and praise while giving no reason to be regarded so highly.

Let me begin by saying that I have nothing against the creator himself, and that I recognize the effort he must have put into creating the series. However, putting in work and effort doesn't mean your creation will be good.

The story is too derivative of Five Nights at Freddy's, to the point where I found difficulty to recognize it as its own thing. It brings absolutely nothing new to the table and the plot is given too much credit. Like another review said, it feels like a really bad Five Nights at Freddy's fan fiction. Even the name "Bon's Burgers" feels like an attempt to slightly change the original to make it look like a different concept. This series fails at being immersive and doesn't have that "realistic" quality that other ARGs and analog horror series have. There's no way on this Earth I'd ever believe this story is "real". The writing and most of the acting are so bad that I struggled to watch the whole thing without getting frustrated. The fact that many of the things that were meant to be terrifying made my friends and I either laugh or roll our eyes just shows how much this series failed at its main objective. Because it absolutely fails at being immersive and making the viewer place themselves in the scenario, it got painful to watch at times. The story overall is pretty bland and nothing new. This series is the equivalent to a student copying someone else's homework and then slightly changing it. I've seen Five Nights at Freddy's fan games with more creativity and originality, better art, animation and plots than this series.

The visuals don't help at all. While some of the distorted faces can be creepy and unsettling at times, some are just plain laughable and feel cheap. Some of them don't even give off that uncanny valley type of distortion and just look silly. The 70s/80s concept and aesthetic fails completely, since the series looks and feels nothing like anything from this time period. The art and design are terrible and ugly; a lot of the drawings feel more like bad furry art and a child's MS Paint drawings. Some of the drawings even look like bad Animal Crossing villager fan art. None of the art looks like anything that would be produced in the time frame the story is set in, and the logos (if I could even call them that) look nothing like actual logos companies would use. The alternating between semi-realistic pictures and the drawings and animation is jarring, and not in a scary way, though I guess one could say it's scary how bad this series is. This particular aspect is another reason as to why the series fails at immersion. It was also a mistake to use what sounds like AI generated speech, since again, it makes it sound nothing like something from the 70s/80s.

Like I wrote previously, some visuals can be unsettling, but they have no substance. While the creator must have put time and effort into this series, it doesn't look like he did. The only good thing about this series was some of the sound design/music.

As a graphic designer and art student (even though you don't need to know a thing about art or video editing to know the art and visuals in this series are bad), this entire series is a painful eyesore. It's mostly terrible art and animation with a VHS filter on top. How am I supposed to believe a lot of it is "found footage" when the video is made with that god awful art and animation?

I'm glad I watched more condensed versions of the series than the whole thing, though I still wasted time on this story that I'll never get back. This series tries so hard to be scary and fails miserably.

It's a good watch.

I like it so far. It's got good build up for the creepy scenes. Doesn't rely too much on jumpscare. And I like the unique art style by Martin Walls. The ARG elements are well implemented and not too cryptic, but not too obvious. I like that it's more of a direct story then a bunch of hidden details.

I'll definitely watch the whole series when it comes out and I wish the best of luck for all the people who work on the show. I see a lot of potential 👌

This is THE analog horror. It features mixture between found footage, current time and past, but in a HORRIFYING way. The death scenes don't hold back, as it shows all the victims' faces post killings.

One scene in particular made me sick due to how disturbing it was. On episode 3, "Bunnyfarm", it shows a video of one of the victims being killed with a censor box over, showing the victims' terrified face, obviously crying and screaming. You can hear their loud cries and scream for help, while a very distorted vintage song plays. It is then implied how they died, which I will not spoil.

If you're looking for something to make you unsettled, scared or anything in relation, this is your go-to.

This really is something special as a fnaf fan I was at first skeptical but OH MY GOD. This was soooo good episode 4 was genuinely one of the best written episodes of anything I've ever seen. This is genuinely the best analogue horror has to offer and it will always be because this is the only analogue horror which try's to be a real show. You feel emotions like sadness, remorse etc the characters feel real and not just people to die at the end of the video. Felix is very well written and is one of my fave fictional characters in terms of writing, Jack is so unsettling but I feel bad for him, Sophie is mysterious but has so much plot relevance and I like how the series is going. So i recommend the Walten files.