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Gemini Home Entertainment is an analog horror anthology series published on YouTube and created by Remy Abode.
Description[]
The series consists of a collection of episodes wherein clips from a variety of videos by the eponymous distribution company are presented. The clips originate primarily from consumer-level VHS and LaserDisc videos manufactured in the 1980s and '90s by various fictional companies like REGNAD Computing, Harbinge Technologies, and Optica! Video specializing in seemingly innocuous topics such as wildlife, astronomy, and technology. The morals and motives of these companies, including the distributor Gemini Home Entertainment, vary. These episodes are collectively organized into the Youtube playlist Gemini Home Entertainment Full Boxset. A second playlist titled Library consists of episodes that show clips devoid of the consumer-oriented facade from earlier episodes and serve to provide context to concepts portrayed in Full Boxset.
Episodes in Full Boxset superficially cover a variety of genres like education, advertisement, and home video, and each episode appears self-contained. However, when taken together along with episodes in Library, the overarching story serves to document the impending end of the world. Specifically, the Earth is faced with an extraterrestrial invasion launched no later than the 1930s by the series' main antagonist: The Iris - a sentient rogue planet that resembles an eye. To achieve its malevolent goals, The Iris utilizes interplanetary transport to send its spawn of parasitic creatures and diseases across the Solar System, particularly to Earth. The ulterior motive of The Iris has yet to be revealed.
Common horror elements portrayed in Gemini Home Entertainment include cosmic horror, body horror, and Native American mythology. Episodes also heavily exhibit characteristics found in the analog horror genre; the beginning of episodes typically start mundane and in the style of 20th-century analog electronics like VHS, but subsequently descend into analog horror tropes which include unnatural low-fidelity images, glitchy video and audio effects, and cryptic messages.
As of June 2023, the series spans 19 published episodes (16 in Full Boxset and 3 in Library), one unlisted channel trailer, and a playable video game.
Full Boxset Episodes[]
- Episode 01: World's Weirdest Animals
- Episode 02: Storm Safety Tips
- Episode 03: The Deep Blue (unlisted)
- Episode 04: Artificial Computer Learning
- Episode 05: Our Solar System
- Episode 06: Camp Information Video
- Episode 07: Lethal Omen Commercial
- Episode 08: Wilderness Survival Guide
- Episode 09: Sleep Image Visualizer
- Episode 10: Games for Kids
- Episode 11: Advanced Mining Vehicle
- Episode 12: Deep Root Disease
- Episode 13: Monthly Progress Report
- Episode 14: Christmas Eve Party
- Episode 15: Home Invasion Help
- Episode 16: Crusader Probe Mission
Library Episodes[]
- Episode 17: Wretched Hands
- Episode 18: Shifting Tendons
- Episode 19: Old Bones
Miscellaneous media[]
- 1st Channel Trailer: Advert
- 2nd Channel Trailer: Channel Surfing
- Merch Advertisement: Plush Promo
- Video Game: Lethal Omen
Trivia[]
- Gemini Home Entertainment is inspired by another analog horror anthology series, Local 58.
- The logo of the company Gemini Home Entertainment is an image of the planet Neptune, which plays a prominent role in the events of the series.