Greylock
Horror web series review
As of Aug 18, 2026, Greylock has 12 episodes and 5,791,252 total views on YouTube. No public rating exists for it, because YouTube does not publish dislike counts.
Benchmark and price facts
- Channel
- GREYLOCK
- Episodes
- 12
- Total views
- 5,791,252
- Likes (sampled episodes)
- 144,600
- Comments (sampled episodes)
- 9,484
- Subscribers
- 118,000
- Running
- Jan 2023 to Jan 2024
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Is Greylock worth it in 2026?
Greylock is a twelve-episode analog horror series set around Mount Greylock, published between early 2023 and early 2024, and has accumulated over five million views across its run. Viewers frequently single out specific creative choices for praise, the voice acting, visual atmosphere, lore construction, and layered audio details, with several describing it as genuinely unsettling in ways they did not expect from a YouTube production. Some commenters note they arrived via prominent recommendation channels, suggesting its audience grew partly through word of mouth rather than organic discovery alone. Accessibility is a recurring concern, with multiple viewers flagging that the audio is difficult to parse without reliable captions, particularly for non-native speakers or those with hearing difficulties.
Viewers who enjoy slow-burn, lore-heavy analog horror with dense audio and visual details that reward close attention and rewatching.
Audio clarity is a genuine barrier, several viewers report struggling to follow dialogue, and automatic captions have been described as unreliable.
ReviewPond's conclusion, drawn only from the verified scores and review themes on this page. Not a paid or editorial opinion.
Pros
- voice acting quality6
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- I am endlessly annoyed by people who react to this stuff on YouTube who have hundreds of thousands of views, who tell their viewers GO WATCH THE ORIGINAL, and their viewers rarely...
- Congrats matt! This looks freaking amazing. You did a great job on the visuals. Rob, you too! Great stuff on the story & lore. A perfect match!
- You did a damn good job of making that voice on the radio sound like it wasn't you!!! I'm not sure if this is genius, or insane. Guess I'll have to subscribe for more...
- chilling dialogue and themes5
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- "The Devil has a plan for you" has got to be one of the most chilling sentences I've ever heard. An excellent twist on the "God has a plan" saying.
- The shift from “do not go into the thicket in search of the lion” to “make it easier on yourselves and accept what he bestows upon you” is absolutely chilling. And ending with “the...
- 4:02 - "The devil is still within you. Once he's tempted your minds because you tempted him, he will, like a thread, unravel you, bit by bit. The devil, dear believer, has a plan f...
- clever narrative details5
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- "What would you like to do?" "Touch you" -- nice detail
- man, this is amazing stuff. around 3:40, when they're driving again, i think that's whatever the person recording in the beginning came across learning what does what in the car. y...
- @ 6:14 for a frame we see a newspaper article about Charlotte's shelter for stray dogs and there is a quote by Charlotte there where she says, "I've been so deeply changed by the d...
- atmospheric horror setup3
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- I love this opening so much, the panning security cameras, difficult to understand dialogue, timestamp, and vague dreadful feeling of "something horrible is about to happen" all gi...
- I am here and signed up for some unsettling and scary stuff like this. Can't wait to have the ish scared out of me!
- starting with "if you have any sort of photosensitive condition look away and only listen" and escalating to "do not make any attempt to shield your gaze" while showing the closest...
- emotional character writing3
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- “EVERYTHING YOU LOVE WILL BE REMADE” rings true in a way that’s really impressive. The PI Jim is watching the tapes, and he loves his daughter, only for her to be remade into this...
- You can see over time, Paul's portrait slowly deforms from it being happy to sad.
- Whoever did the voice for Paul did an AMAZING job. I genuinely feel horrible for Paul and a big reason for that is the way the script was delivered. Again great job
Cons
- slow episode releases3
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- Bro dropped the hardest shit ever like 2 years ago then proceeded to never give us anything ever again🥀
- This was posted on the Greylock Patreon. "Hello everyone, First, my sincerest apologies for the next episodes taking as long as they are. We dealt with pretty severe data loss. B...
- Patreon update 8/6/26. "Hey everyone, i hope everybody’s been doing well. Just wanted to touch base to let you all know that production is still moving and we’re getting closer...
- difficult to understand dialogue3
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- I am endlessly annoyed by people who react to this stuff on YouTube who have hundreds of thousands of views, who tell their viewers GO WATCH THE ORIGINAL, and their viewers rarely...
- Ah I wish there were some actual captions on this. As a non-native speaker, understanding what's being said so far has been really hard and the automatic caption is just giving me...
- Man I need some CC for this. I really wish more of these analog horrors would consider folks with poor hearing. 😅
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