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A lot of these victims were children.

They buried children alive.

a. Ruin my life

or

b. Ruin my life

There is a feeling in my chest that I could rip my heart out like Antonio, the only difference being that no blood would come out because I am hollow

As hollow as the murderer's heart, my mind is filled with rage and sorrow, a sorrow so deep that no light of hope reaches it's depths and my rage so grand that it may cover the earth and plunge in into eternal death and destruction

The marrow of my being is shallow, as shallow as the murky waters in which my body lays forever floating in this vast dread

Markiplier’s Ladder

Interviewer asks if he’s felt any positive shift in the perception of YouTubers after some of his peers found mainstream success in horror cinemahe’s felt any positive shift in the perception of YouTubers after some of his peers found mainstream success in horror cinema

M: Less than you’d think. It’s hard to gauge because being kind of outside in the first place… it’s probably now something that they can’t ignore.

Mark shares an eye-opening example of how creators like him are treated by the industry

M: I was nominated for an Emmy a little while back. I was at the red carpet—I notoriously hate red carpets—but the publications that were there didn’t want to talk to me, and I’m fine with that. If you don’t want to talk to me, I’m not going to make you talk to me. But in my mind, it’s strange because if you put out a video with me in it, it’s going to be good for you. Not just like an ego trip. I have 38 million subscribers, it's a bad business decision to not want to do it just because I’m a YouTuber and they knew who I was. One of my publicists was there at the time, and they were kind of surprised at the responses because people were just like, "No, we don’t want to talk to that." I’ve had that on other podcasts where they’re like, "I don’t want to talk to that YouTuber," but now it’s getting to the point where I think they can’t really ignore it.

Iron Lung

Is the game known for being especially scary?

M: What this game does really well is it puts a unique perspective on a horror environment that people are not used to. People have seen a lot of horror movies, but being isolated with such a limited view in such a bizarre environment, in a submarine in an ocean of blood, there’s all these questions popping up and you don’t know what’s outside. It’s very audio-based. It’s scary for sure, and a lot of people probably find it one of their scariest games, but it’s interesting. That’s kind of what appealed to me.

There Will Be Blood

M: The record I know of right now is blood. Most fake blood. And that one is, I mean, if you’ve seen it, it’s pretty obvious. Look, it’s an ocean of blood. There’s no way it’s not going to have the record. But it was still a logistics hurdle. That much blood, especially because the set was up on a motion control rig, had weight considerations. I’m a former engineer, so I suddenly had to go back to my days of engineering and thinking about material properties. The liquid weight alone, even partially full, just a foot and a half, was an extra 9,000 pounds. It’s enormous. It boggles the mind. That’s maybe a thousand gallons to that point. When you start to go above that, you can’t really move it much because if you move it too much, it’ll tsunami out the walls of the set. It’ll literally smash because it’s 10,000 pounds of weight hitting the side of the wall. It’ll break anything.

Evil Dead

Interview asks what the previous record holder was, thinking "The Shining" had the record of most blood used in the movie

M: It’s Evil Dead. They say it’s from that blood rain scene. And I’m not throwing shade on them, but they don’t have a verifiable number for that 50,000 gallons someone put out. I think it’s one of those things where someone said it and no one denied it. I know what dealing with that quantity of blood is. We had an industrial dumpster that we used for dunking things in for certain scenes. We couldn’t realistically flood it with me in it, so we had to sink things sometimes. That thing was about 8,000 or 9,000 gallons of blood when it was full. I believe we ordered truckloads of blood. You had semi-trailers with giant, farm-sized industrial chemical containers sloshing down the highway.

Five Nights at Freddy’s

Which horror movie IP would be a dream for him to be part of, he skirts a bit, but Five Nights at Freddy’s sits at the center of it all

M: It was in the lead-up to that. I was supposed to be in it and I wasn’t, because I was working on this, so I just couldn’t spare any time. I was supposed to be the guy that died in the first scene in part two. But they were filming at the same time we were filming this, so I couldn’t leave set to do that.

Event Horizon

Which horror movie ruined his childhood?

M: Event Horizon stuck with me as a horror. Yeah, that gave me nightmares for a long time. A lot of what I’ve done always kind of goes back to those aesthetics. When I did In Space with Markiplier, my last project, the ship design was kind of like Event Horizon. I think about it a lot. It would be cool, but the performances, the set design, the aesthetics are so good. I feel like just a modern reedit for it would be great.

The Mortuary Assistant

Is Mark excited for "The Mortuary Assistant"?

The opening to Criminal Minds Season 2, Episode 22 has to be it for me. It opens with an old man strapped to a moving metal table covered in blood being wheeled down what appears to be an abandoned hospital by what appears to be a surgeon.

Jennifer is on the cover of Dread Central’s July 2025 issue for ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer.’