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Cosmic Horror in Film
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Just realized. The One I Love is a dark comedy take on cosmic horror. I'd link the trailer but it's specifically doesn't mention the central conceit of the film. It's also amazing.
I recommend the Faculty of Horror episode about Event Horizon and Sunshine: http://www.facultyofhorror.com/tag/event-horizon/
Agree about The Endless, but The Incident was one of the worst movies I've ever watched. Terrible pacing, amateurish acting, and an ending that falls completely flat.
The random dramatic montage with music straight out of Lost made me laugh out loud. Who thought that was a good idea?
I did enjoy the visual of "what would a stairwell look like after people were trapped in it for 35 years?", but it seems like the movie should've gotten way darker with this and the people making it just weren't willing to go there. The crude attempt at a BIG REVEAL at the end seemed really unnecessary as well. Actually, everything about this movie felt forced and strange, and not in a good, Lovecraftian sort of way.
I did enjoy the visual of "what would a stairwell look like after people were trapped in it for 35 years?", but it seems like the movie should've gotten way darker with this and the people making it just weren't willing to go there. The crude attempt at a BIG REVEAL at the end seemed really unnecessary as well. Actually, everything about this movie felt forced and strange, and not in a good, Lovecraftian sort of way.
The Endless was a weird movie. Its structure and narrative is kinda unfocussed at times, and especially the final third of the movie's buildup doesn't really come to a satisfying climax.
There's weird shit happening and there are some genuinely cool moments in terms of cosmic horror, but I feel the movie doesn't deliver on its own buildup because it kinda seems to lose focus.
I don't know, it's hard to explain. It's not a bad movie though, not at all. It's a slow burner, for sure.
There's weird shit happening and there are some genuinely cool moments in terms of cosmic horror, but I feel the movie doesn't deliver on its own buildup because it kinda seems to lose focus.
I don't know, it's hard to explain. It's not a bad movie though, not at all. It's a slow burner, for sure.
I watched The whisperer in the darkness. I liked it. But i don't know if i was feeling the 50s style presentation of it.
I hope i'm not coming across a Debbie Downer. As i've been criticising the last 3 films i watched. I honestly don't mean to be.
I hope i'm not coming across a Debbie Downer. As i've been criticising the last 3 films i watched. I honestly don't mean to be.
I'll give it a go.
Underrated b flick.
Just finished The Void and like many said, it's not a great movie or memorable in any way - but it was an ok watch. Will watch Endless and Honeymoon in the coming days.
I've been meaning to watch Coherence for years and always put it down due to the shitty DVD cover. I know it's silly but I basically got it due to a single recommendation and never bothered to look into the theme or genre. Didn't want to watch the trailer either because I can be spoiler sensitive. Imagine my surprise when I saw it being mentioned in this thread.
Anyway, I finally got around to watch it on Saturday and it was fun. It didn't blow me away and it's still hard for me to see Nicholas Brandon as someone other than Xander but it worked well enough. It sort of slowed down a bit at the end but I still enjoyed it. It could've been a little more fucked up but it didn't need to.
Anyway, I finally got around to watch it on Saturday and it was fun. It didn't blow me away and it's still hard for me to see Nicholas Brandon as someone other than Xander but it worked well enough. It sort of slowed down a bit at the end but I still enjoyed it. It could've been a little more fucked up but it didn't need to.
So there's speculation that this tease by James Gunn is hinting at a Nameless movie
If that's what it is, that'll be the craziest and most high-profile "cosmic horror in space" flick since...Event Horizon?
If that's what it is, that'll be the craziest and most high-profile "cosmic horror in space" flick since...Event Horizon?
Was a pretty good read and something a little different. I finished it in a single sitting Sunday afternoon so its definitely a page turner that constantly kept throwing newer and weirder sights and events at the characters. Imagine a fusion of the weirdness and cosmic Horror of HP Lovecraft combined with the underwater adventures of Jules Verne.
The basic gist of the story without giving too much away is that its the late 1950's and a brand new, state of the art, experimental submarine is launched from France for its maiden voyage. Its crew consists of sailors and scientists and everything is going to plan. They head out to the open ocean and begin to dive down into the depths and that's were issues begin to pop up. Once they start their descent they can't stop and keep going down further and further with the men aboard unable to do anything to avert their course.
They basically come to terms with their impending deaths as at the speed they're going and the depths they're hitting the sub will smash into the seafloor before it ruptures from the titanic pressures around them. They watch their descent on the read outs on their control panels and count down the final distance to their demise... except when they're supposed to collide with the sea floor, nothing happens. They not only pass where the oceanfloor should have been but their descent continues without them able to do a thing about it. Then things start to get weird, really weird.
I don't want to get into too much more detail but lets just say things continue to escalate within the story and paranoia, fear, religious fervor and the like hit the crew hard and that's not even dealing with the odd phenomena they start to encounter and the even stranger sea creatures. It would make a wonderful movie if someone gave it a decent budget and the book itself has some great illustrations in it.
Was a pretty good read and something a little different. I finished it in a single sitting Sunday afternoon so its definitely a page turner that constantly kept throwing newer and weirder sights and events at the characters. Imagine a fusion of the weirdness and cosmic Horror of HP Lovecraft combined with the underwater adventures of Jules Verne.
The basic gist of the story without giving too much away is that its the late 1950's and a brand new, state of the art, experimental submarine is launched from France for its maiden voyage. Its crew consists of sailors and scientists and everything is going to plan. They head out to the open ocean and begin to dive down into the depths and that's were issues begin to pop up. Once they start their descent they can't stop and keep going down further and further with the men aboard unable to do anything to avert their course.
They basically come to terms with their impending deaths as at the speed they're going and the depths they're hitting the sub will smash into the seafloor before it ruptures from the titanic pressures around them. They watch their descent on the read outs on their control panels and count down the final distance to their demise... except when they're supposed to collide with the sea floor, nothing happens. They not only pass where the oceanfloor should have been but their descent continues without them able to do a thing about it. Then things start to get weird, really weird.
I don't want to get into too much more detail but lets just say things continue to escalate within the story and paranoia, fear, religious fervor and the like hit the crew hard and that's not even dealing with the odd phenomena they start to encounter and the even stranger sea creatures. It would make a wonderful movie if someone gave it a decent budget and the book itself has some great illustrations in it.
Thanks, this looks great!
Underwater horror is my weak point, so it is going to be an interesting and unsettling reading.
So there's speculation that this tease by James Gunn is hinting at a Nameless movie
If that's what it is, that'll be the craziest and most high-profile "cosmic horror in space" flick since...Event Horizon?
HOLY SHIT! PLEASE BE TRUE
So there's speculation that this tease by James Gunn is hinting at a Nameless movie
If that's what it is, that'll be the craziest and most high-profile "cosmic horror in space" flick since...Event Horizon?
Thanks for bringing up the graphic novel, which had gone past me somehow, eventhough I'm a fan of Morrison's works. Just reserved the collected six volumes from the library.
So in light of recent firings, how likely are we to still find out more about this cosmic horror James Gunn movie anytime soon? I was genuinely looking forward to it.
So there's speculation that this tease by James Gunn is hinting at a Nameless movie
If that's what it is, that'll be the craziest and most high-profile "cosmic horror in space" flick since...Event Horizon?
A Nameless movie would be interesting to see. That series was absolutely bonkers (and took me a couple reads to really grasp it at all, haha).
I just read Nameless yesterday, and would definitely like to see a film adaptation of it. I particularly loved its various occult references, and the idea that
Unfortunately, I wouldn't be surprised at all, if the spoilered part was changed in the adaptation.
the christian god was the ultimate evil.
I cast my vote for Starfish by Watts. I had just played Soma and wanted a book that was underwater sci fi with lots of isolated, depressive tones and that's exactly what I got!
Morrison didn't create that idea.
It's the central idea behind Gnosticism and the concept of the Demiurge.
I didn't claim he created it, but it's the first time I've seen it used in a Lovecraftian fiction.
I've also seen it before in Order of the Left Hand Path's material.
http://www.textfiles.com/occult/OTO/samyaza.txt
Sorry. Didn't mean to come across like a dickhead.
I didn't mean it in an accusatory shitty way. Sorry again.
No problem. =)
By the way, the collected six volumes of Nameless had an interesting afterword, which mentioned several books that I've now added to my list; Peter Levanda's The Dark Lord: H.P. Lovecraft, Kenneth Grant and the Typhonian Tradition of Magic, Kenneth Grant's Nightside of Eden, Linda Falorio's Shadow Tarot, Arthur Machen's The Novel of the Black Seal, Thomas Ligotti's The Conspiracy Against Human Race, and Ray Brassier's Nihil Unbound. Eventhough I've been a fan of Lovecraftian fiction for ages, I've somehow never read any of Ligotti's works.
Don't worry, we are all friends here in the cosmic horror thread of awaiting humanity's impending doom at the hand of dark sinister beings beyond reality's veil.
You're missing out - Ligotti's work is great. Check out: https://www.amazon.com/Songs-Dreamer-Grimscribe-Thomas-Ligotti/dp/0143107763
Some of the short stories are more unsettling and realistic than Lovecraft's work. One of them also reminded me a ton of Bloodborne, of a person traveling in a dream to a dark and haunted city.
Thanks for the suggestion. I generally prefer short stories, and any parallels with Bloodborne are a bonus.
This part in the afterword about Ligotti was pretty funny:
As for awaiting the impending doom...
Getting the new Scream Factory bluray of In the Mouth of Madness today. Been a little while since I've seen the movie too, so it should be a treat. It may be Carpenter's last great movie, but I'm glad he could close out his Apocalypse trilogy on such a fine note, it feels like a fitting creative punctuation mark on his peak creativity.
Also check out The Deep by Nick Cutter. It's more cosmic horror than Starfish, and it captures the crushing oppressive isolated underwater atmosphere really well
I might actually save it and watch it as part of a big chronological run through most of his major movies.
I just read Nameless, and while incredible, I don't see how it's remotely possible to make that into a movie.
As soon as I replied, I remembered having Possession and wanting to watch those back to back so may do those today/tomorrow or this weekend. I want to watch both though.
Possession and Mouth of Madness would make for a great double feature
Other way around, The Endless directly connects to Resolution. Watch Resolution first
Add in Event Horizon and you can slowly track Sam Neill's descent.
Thanks for this, I just purchased his other book Troop too.
Both on my kindle now for a read later.
So there's speculation that this tease by James Gunn is hinting at a Nameless movie
If that's what it is, that'll be the craziest and most high-profile "cosmic horror in space" flick since...Event Horizon?
well shit
Well shit, especially because it's probably dead now, considering Sony dropped him and the reveal from their panel last week
Nah, he was just producing it and it was a collaboration with another film company (H Collective Project). It is in Post-Production so they aren't cancelling this. They are just going to announce it another time without Gunn being the one announcing it in hopes this dies down a little more. Or just announce it without mentioning Gunn is a part of it.
This was recommended somewhere else here, on my list. It really helps that the cover looks great.John Langan's The Fisherman is a fantastic book about just this. It's a short tight story that really transports you to another place. Highly recommended for cosmic horror fan's.
EH is the horror version of 2001. Only problem is that they used shitty cgi at times that did not age well. Plenty of good practical effects but what cgi there is looks bad. Cool story though.
I was actually planning on reading the Rifters trilogy next as I finished Blindsight the other week and was thirsting for more Watts. Them having a Soma vibe hypes me even more!
The trilogy can be read for free on Watts site:
http://rifters.com/real/shorts.htm
Love me some Ligotti. I want to read Conspiracy but it's quite pricey for such a short read so I haven't picked it up yet. I recommend the Teatro Grottesco collection. I also have the Songs/Grimsbribe Penguin Classic single volume. I haven't fully read it, but none of the stories grabbed me like the ones in Teatro Grottesco.