OG: Approved - lizardmeninc
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Name: lizardmeninc
Instagram: 1.2K Followers
Youtube: 130K Followers
Who Is lizardmeninc?
Lizardmeninc is a 21-year-old VFX artist making analog horror that feels like someone opened the wrong file on an old computer and could not close it.
His main project is Obelisk, a series of short horror films built from grainy footage, empty rooms, strange figures, fake instructional material, and the sense that the screen knows more than it should. The videos do not chase constant jump scares. They let you sit with a hallway, a distorted voice, or a room that feels ordinary until it starts to feel hostile.
A lot of analog horror uses the same VHS scratches, emergency alerts, and warped faces. Obelisk uses those tools too, but the best videos feel more directed than decorated. The camera searches. The rooms have shape. The scares come from where your eye lands and what you slowly realize is wrong.
You can feel the VFX brain behind it. Obelisk is not just a scary voice placed over old footage. The figures have weight. The spaces feel built. Even when the image breaks down, the staging feels intentional. The texture works because something underneath it has been carefully arranged.
The channel also shows how young horror filmmakers are building audiences now. A creator can release a series on YouTube, let fans pull it apart, and watch the story spread through reaction videos, Reddit threads, wiki pages, and horror communities. Obelisk fits that behavior. It gives viewers enough to follow, but not enough to relax.
Names repeat. Images return. A house becomes more than a house. A figure becomes more than a scare. The story feels less explained than discovered.
Lizardmeninc is worth watching because Obelisk still feels personal inside a crowded genre. It has the roughness of internet horror, but also the instincts of someone thinking in shots, spaces, rhythm, and reveals..
Three Things We Love About lizardmeninc
The rooms feel watched: Obelisk gets tension out of empty spaces. A hallway, a dark corner, a closed door, or a blank room can feel wrong before anything actually moves.
The VFX has restraint: The effects are not thrown at the viewer. They bend the image just enough to make the world feel unstable, like the footage is hiding something in plain sight.
The story makes viewers work: Obelisk does not explain everything up front. It drops names, images, rooms, and strange little details that make fans want to rewind, compare, and argue over what they just saw.