Is Siren Head the Ultimate Modern Monster? | Monstrum

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  @countessD84 · 4 years ago

  Even Junji Ito, the horror manga artist himself, expressed nothing but praise for the Siren Head art. Congratulations to Trevor Henderson for receiving such a shoutout.

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  @GodlessCEJacks · 4 years ago

  A key part of Sirenhead's appeal, for me, is how it incorporates a realistic emergency alert broadcast sound, which by itself induces anxiety but in this context juxtaposes the mundane, familiar, stressful sound against an unknowable eldritch horror.

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  @burnish-ed · 4 years ago

  Sirenhead is honestly one of the coolest modern monsters. Henderson definitely deserves the recognition.

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  @Narokkurai · 4 years ago

  I think anyone who grew up in tornado zones knows the implied threat of Siren Head. Every first Tuesday of the month, at 10am, they test the tornado siren, and man does it sound creepy. It immediately scratches this animal part of my brain that tells me I&apos;m in danger, so that even seeing a siren that isn&apos;t making any noise is a little bit unsettling. <br><br>The presence of a siren means that the place you&apos;re in is dangerous. <b>Could</b> be dangerous, at least. And even though the siren is the warning and not the threat itself, you implicitly come to recognize the siren as a danger.

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  @travisshallenberger9486 · 4 years ago

  This is what I love about this channel; the willingness to look at all kinds of monsters. All cultures and locations, the serious and the hokey, and not just the old folklore but the new ones that are still emerging. In this day and age with the technology we have available we can watch these stories go from a momentary distraction to an actual legend, and this channel doesn&apos;t shy away from these just because they&apos;re new.

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  @izabellahortega2971 · 4 years ago

  The best part of modern monsters is that we can take a look into the subconscious of humanity during the present, instead of interpreting the past. And in the future, new monster experts can look at the past with a detailed and well documented archives. Thank you Dr.Z!

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  @Zer_Cassandra · 4 years ago

  I feel like things like Siren Head, Slenderman, the SCP Foundation, and The Backrooms are really popular because they exist outside of copyright laws. Copyright as a systems is fairly new things to how humans interact with stories and myths, since copyright was made into the system we know in the early 1700s. Before that if someone wrote a book, play, poem, etc. there was no legal precedent stopping others from taking it and expanding on it with their own twists.<br><br>I feel like a lot of people are gravitating towards these more open source/public domain characters now because they can make their own dent in the mythos instead of cowering in fear of being sued by a big media company. Like I have had a super hero fanfiction/fan comic kicking around in my head since I was like 12, but I haven&apos;t made it because a company would swoop down and attack it if it ever gained popularity.<br><br>Just throwing this on at the end here too, screw Disney for turning copyright and intellectual property into the nightmare landscape it is now just because they couldn&apos;t handle making 2 billion instead of 3 billion every day.

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  @lordundeadrat · 4 years ago

  Siren head is a combination monster. &nbsp;It first represents a fear that the past resents the present. &nbsp;The things that we left behind as the world moved on can find their own unnatural life. &nbsp;They shamble aimlessly. &nbsp; Looking for it&apos;s lost importance on the outskirts of both time and place. <br><br>Secondly, &nbsp;The choice of a siren in the first place mirrors it&apos;s eldritch horror appearance. &nbsp;Sirens like these hold a special place in the human psyche. &nbsp;The same thing to everyone around the world. &nbsp; They warn of Tornadoes, &nbsp;Tsunami, Monsoon, Earthquakes, Wild fires and the like. &nbsp;Powers so far beyond human control that the only thing you can do is run. &nbsp;Whatever&apos;s coming can&apos;t be reasoned with or bargained. &nbsp;The same Siren sounds are used in the SilentHill franchise to evoke exactly the same fear. &nbsp; A fear of an unreasonable fathomless power not unlike the fear of gods of Kathulu myth.<br><br>It&apos;s fitting that we can talk to the creator of Siren head. &nbsp;As it evokes a fear of the things we have created and lost control over.

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  @juniper3955 · 4 years ago

  I wish Trevor Henderson got more recognition for creating Siren Head. I&apos;m glad you guys did your due diligence and got him for an interview for this episode.

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  @itwasagoodideaatthetime7980 · 4 years ago

  This is one the few &apos;modern internet monsters&apos; that actually scares the crap out of me. Even though I know it&apos;s not real it&apos;s still creepy as all Hell! 😖

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  @theelementalstation947 · 4 years ago

  Also, lets face it, any kind of alarm, be it fire or tornado is terrofying and having a monster blast out those deafening sounds while chasing you is just nightmarish

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  @youremakingprogress144 · 4 years ago

  I think Siren Head&apos;s skeletal frame, its resemblance to outdated technology, and its originally living in sparsely-populated places all invoke ruin and decay. The fact that it&apos;s predatory reminds us that ruin and decay are coming for us all as individuals, societies, and humanity in general. &nbsp;And if it&apos;s intelligent, then we&apos;re being directly targeted by these things. &nbsp;That IS scary.

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