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schlock-luster-video · 7 days

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On April 19, 1989, principal photography began on Darkman.

Here's some new Liam Neeson art!

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crash-channel · 9 months

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Destroying yourself in the Infinity Pool

2023 sci-fi/thriller

Director Brandon Cronenbreg most definitely is following in his father's footsteps. In that disturbing mind bending story telling with deep underling social commentary way. Although in no way is he just like his father, Brandon is for sure, a beast of his own.

For context I will begin to dive into his most recent movie infinity pool. Which if you haven't seen it was an excellent film and I highly recommend watching it. I will go into some spoilers here to discuss overarching and underling themes I feel are important in this movie. So again if you haven't seen this movie I highly advise you go see it and come back to this article.

Plot: Guided by a seductive and mysterious woman (Mia Goth), a couple on vacation (Alexander Skarsgard, Cleopatra Coleman) venture outside the resort grounds and find themselves in a culture filled with violence, hedonism and untold horror. A tragic accident of hitting a local with their car, soon leaves them facing a zero tolerance policy for crime: either you'll be executed, or, if you're rich enough to afford it, you can watch yourself die instead.

At first James (Alexander Skarsgard) is pretty shocked and disturbed by the reality of being cloned and watching himself die. Then he's accepted into this club in which he starts to forget his anxiety over the experience of what had happened. Being convinced this is a get out of jail card, a path way to be invincible almost. James slowly begins getting high on this power, not realizing that those he's surrounded by what are not the best people. Again and again he watched himself die and loses any empathy that had been there before. Finally Gabi (Mia Goth) sets him up thinking he's attacking someone else with a hood on their head. When she reveals he was about to kill his own clone and he begins to panic realizing it's not the same. Trying to leave the group stops him forcing him to fight his clone with a final blow and he kills his own clone.

I feel that this is commentary on joining the IN-GROUPS. More specifically wealthy or rich class, although it could apply to any popular In-group. I feel like he's saying that when you join these groups a little piece of you dies. The further in you become the more you die and to become the full fledged member you have to kill off that last remaining piece that is you. We get peer pressured into this through society. By the groups themselves wanting us to join. By the systems giving us the options to do that or face consequences that may be damaging or harmful. Society always pushes us to destroy ourselves to be part of the upper class, the popular groups. Even if that means shooting out a bus window and stopping the car in front of the bus screaming come out James!

#horror movie recommendations #horror monsters #classic horror movies #horror movie review #horror #movie ratings #horror movie #movie review #movies #sci fi horror #sci fi #sci fi movies #sci fi thriller #infinity pool #alexander skarsgard #mia goth #cleopatra coleman

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lifesarchive · 4 months

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UGLIES by SCOTT WESTERFELD (A REVIST)

quickly: a new friend wakes a teenage girl up to the not-so-pretty world she is living in (new face, who dis! / pretty privilege / mandatory plastic surgery / pranks and tricks as a lifestyle / journeys over the river and through the woods / solar powered hoverboards / dehydrated foodstuffs / engineered plastic and nanotech glues / ecofriendly totalitarianism / the deep deep state / underground facilities / government programming / citizen deprogramming / backstabbing the backstabbers).

Rereading since originally reading it back in 2007. First book of 2024!

Vintage clothing is cool, but what will we do when our entire society and way of life becomes vintage? What if, in an effort to rid society of its ills (war, illness, violence, etc.) we developed a medical procedure that made everyone the same and dulled our sensibilities? Scott Westerfeld isn’t a master wordsmith with a poet’s pen, but that’s not what we came here for anyway. We came for the well-constructed futuristic dystopian universe jam-packed with unimaginable avant-garde technology and the social dilemmas that erupt when humanity and technology collide. There are hoverboards that work by magnetism, medical procedures that can regrow all the skin on your body and reshape your entire bone structure, and surveillance so precise it practically knows what you are thinking.

At the center of all of this is Tally, a fifteen-year-old girl who wants exactly what everyone else in her world has been programmed to want: to be pretty. While she is awaiting the government-facilitated procedure that will make her “the standard” and initiate her into young adult society, she meets a new friend who is also nearing the time of her pretty procedure. Her new friend is a radical, transfixed by the idea of a land faraway called “The Smoke”, where many of the Uglies have been escaping to evade the overseeing technological eyes of their government… a government so secret that some don’t believe it even exists. As Tally is exposed to life outside The Cities, she becomes the focal point of a massive movement of rebellion. This was a fun, wild hoverboard ride through a very futuristic world that felt very grounded in today’s times.

★ ★ ★ ★

more thoughts: SPOILERS!

Thoughts are italicized, spoilers are not:

Some personal context… I originally read the entire Uglies trilogy one summer in 2007. I had a boxed set that included UGLIES, PRETTIES, and SPECIALS. EXTRAS hadn’t come out yet, and I’ve never read it. I vividly remember the 3 book set with the high-fashion editorial style covers. My original copies were lost in what I call “The Flood”, which took a great number of pieces in my literary collection to a moldy watery grave. I found a pic of them on Amazon though.

These covers are SO MUCH better than the current blank generic covers they have in stores and libraries. I plan on rereading the entire series and finshing with a first read of the last book, EXTRAS.

This book made me feel like it was 2007 again, and that I could throw this book down at any moment, step outside, and find my friends waiting for me to go along on one of our adventures playing in the woods that connected our backyards.

The book starts with Tally pulling a trick by sneaking into the highly monitored New Pretty Town to visit an old friend. Tally is a young, simple, coming-of-age girl who thinks just like everyone around her… life is useless until you turn 16 and the government turns you pretty, and then life is great. Until 16, nothing matters and no one takes you seriously. Uglies, as people are lovingly called pre-operation, are expected to be wild, uncontrollable, trouble-making good for nothings. This is why all of their pranks are referred to as ugly tricks, or simply tricks. When you’re a pretty, you don’t have time for such trickery.

The Uglies live in dorms that are bland and interchangeable. The Pretties live in a glamorous city within a city, where life is a party with a formal dress code. Then eventually Pretties undergo a second operation to become a “Middle Pretty” where they move out to the suburbs to have “Littlies”, before turning into “Crumblies” and are moved further to the edges of society. Of course, all this turns out to be well-thought-out propoganda

Tally makes a new friend, Shay, after her old best friend Peris reaches Pretty age and undergoes the operation. He moves to New Pretty Town immediately after, as is customary, leaving Ugly life behind. After busting into New Pretty Town to see how much Peris has changed, she decides it is best to just wait until she has her own operation to see him again. Her time spent with the rebellious and adventurous Shay increases.

Shay teaches Tally how to hack her hoverboard, sneak out of The City, and tells her about The Smoke. A place where people live as ‘Uglies’ by choice, opting out of having the operation to become pretty. Shay teaches Tally the way to the rusting city ruins where Uglies meet up to find the mysterious David who will someday lead those willing to make the journey to The Smoke.

Tally can’t comprehend life lived as an Ugly, and doesn’t understand why anyone would want to forgo the operation to become Pretty. This is why she can’t tell Shay YES, when Shay asks Tally to run away to the smoke with her before her operation. Tally ends up making the journey anyway, alone, after she is manipulated by Special Circumstances (a secret underground division of the government) into betraying her friend and everyone at The Smoke.

Life in The Smoke opens her eyes to the real world that has been hidden from her. Her desire to be pretty wanes, and disappears after bonding with the other residents. She falls in love with David and plans to stay. After accidentally triggering the tracking device given to her by Special Circumstances, Tally leads SC directly to The Smoke. It is swiftly destroyed and all the Smokies are detained. (Cue big breakout scene where Tally escapes custody, tracks down the detainees, and frees them.)

After all the hell she’s raised, Tally ends up developing a plan to help right some of her wrongs, but you’ll have to make it through to the end to see what that may be.

The rest is for you to read on your own!

I’ve read some of the reviews on Goodreads that criticize Tally’s character as being too vain, dumb, selfish, etc. This makes me wonder if the readers with those opinions understood the circumstances of the world that Tally was a part of. Everyone was vain, dumb, and selfish. No one wanted to look under the veneer of their society because there was no reason to. Everything was taken care of. The people in this world were programmed to think that the past was a monstrous barbaric place and that all the world’s problems were solved by the development of ’the Cities’ and the Pretty operation.

I’ve also read some reviews that criticize the fact that Tally’s love interest David is what inspires her to make her big decision to leave the cities for good. I think that is a poor summarization of this character’s journey. After having to make the long journey to The Smoke by herself, Tally endured a process of disillusionment that separated her from her life in The City. She had gone from a place where everything was planned, every move was monitored, and the threat of world catastrophe was linked to how ugly or pretty citizens were. She had never been in real danger until she made her journey to The Smoke. She had never met anyone older than 16 who was not “pretty” until she arrived at the camp, The Smoke. David was just one of the reasons she made her decisions, not the sole reason. In fact, Tally’s journey begins and ends with her trying to save her girl-friend Shay.

I won’t go into too much more detail about the story. It was just a fun read, an adventure, a journey, all those things. So glad to have re-read it, and so glad it held up after all these years. There are plenty of high-speed chases, thrilling escapes, and ingenious hi-jinks to keep you turning the page. And if you’re a tumblr kid like me, there are loads of nostalgia in reading this book again all these years later. It’s wild to think that this never made it to the big screen or as a series on someone’s streaming service.

#uglies #scott westerfeld #4 stars #book review #fiction #sci fi thriller #review #books & libraries #currently reading #booklr #booklover #booksbooksbooks #bookworm #literature #reviews #2024 #book trilogy

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zachfett · 4 months

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Captive State (2019) directed by Rupert Wyatt

Been putting off watching Captive State for years after it got a lot of negative reception.

I loved it and I'm baffled by a lot of the complaints I've read in old threads. I'm convinced these people fell asleep during the movie or something.

Highly recommended if you like District 9 and slow-burns. Also the soundtrack is fantastic.

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brokehorrorfan · 1 year

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65 will be released on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, and DVD on May 30 via Sony. The 2023 sci-fi thriller is currently available on Digital and will hit VOD on May 16.

Written and directed by A Quiet Place writers Scott Beck & Bryan Woods, the film stars Adam Driver, Ariana Greenblatt, and Chloe Coleman star. Sam Raimi produces.

65 is presented in 4K with Dolby Vision/HDR and Dolby Atmos. Special features are listed below.

Special features:

Creating the World of 65

Primordial Planet

Final Showdown: Concepts to Screen

Deleted and extended scenes

And more!

After a catastrophic crash on an unknown planet, pilot Mills (Adam Driver) quickly discovers he’s actually stranded on Earth…65 million years ago. Now, with only one chance at rescue, Mills and the only other survivor, Koa (Ariana Greenblatt), must make their way across an unknown terrain riddled with dangerous prehistoric creatures in an epic fight to survive.

Pre-order 65.

#65 #adam driver #sam raimi #ariana greenblatt #chloe coleman #scott beck #bryan woods #dvd #gift #sony pictures #sci fi #science fiction #sci fi thriller #a quiet place #beck and woods

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futureagents · 1 year

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Future Agents webcomic has returned!

File 08-0 is available now on Webtoon Canvas and Tapas

#webcomic #webtoon canvas #tapas comic #sci fi thriller #future agents #Artists of Tumblr #Pilot-obvious #original character #My OC #clip studio paint #xppen2022

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ophelias-haunting · 9 months

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HoloPad, The Improved Way to Connect… developed by Xenon Industries🧬

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Concept art for some of the tech I’ll be including in Celestial Bodies, The HoloPad! It’s meant to have replaced phones, tablets, and personal computers in the future, and since paper isn’t something that can be regularly used anymore, some models even come with a stylus pencil which I’ll showcase in the next batch of concept art for Martian Tech.

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fabioemme78 · 1 year

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#movies #josh trank #dane dehaan #alex russell #michael b jordan #chronicle movie #sci fi thriller #telekinesis #supernatural powers #teenage superheroes

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afabstract · 1 month

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Three Body Problem Review - Epic Vision, Sputtered Execution

⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 3 out of 5. Sneha Jaiswal (Twitter | Instagram) Creators: David Benioff, D.B. Weiss, Alexander Woo “In your physics course, did you teach the theory of relativity” “Relativity is one of the fundamental theories of physics. How can a basic survey course not teach it?” “You lie! Einstein went to the American imperialists and helped them build the atomic bomb!” Based on the…

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#Entertainment #Reviews #sci fi fantasy #sci fi thriller #science fiction #science fiction series #Three Body Problem 2024 Netflix series review #Three Body Problem Review #Three Body Problem season one review #Three Body Problem series review

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schlock-luster-video · 7 days

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On April 19, 1984, The Dead Zone debuted in Australia.

Here's some new Christopher Walken art!

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crash-channel · 9 months

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Our past remains hidden

IN THE EÅRTH

2021 sci-fi/psychological/horror/thriller

🚨 WARNING FILM CONTAINS FLASHING LIGHTS🚨

This hidden gem indie horror to sum up the plot fairly quick and simple. Is about a scientist and his guide during an unknown pandemic on a mission into the woods to find two of his colleges that went missing studying a phenomenon. In these woods there was this folk lore legend tied to them. They find one of the scientists, Zach who drugs them and starts taking photos of them while tied up. He's clearly not in his normal state of mind and the two escape coming across another camp where they encounter Olivia the other scientist who, using sounds and lights scares off Zach. They're told the folk lore is true this stone is the key and this fog containing mushroom spores that occasionally comes around is the creature speaking to them.

What's interesting about this movie is how quickly the scientists seem to believers of this legend. It isn't given the time frame before hand how long the original two were there. There's no indication they were studying this from a scientific stand point or that they try to use that. When the others come around they don't bring up that they were trying to disprove it's magical properties only to find that science couldn't find the answer and magic and mystical values were the only way.

This doesn't take away from the movie experience however as the madness of the character draws heavier so does your curiosity. From Zach's polite nonchalant happy attitude as he uses thick string to sue a extremely large open wound on the bottom of Martins foot. To having that same optimism when chopping off Martin's toes with an axe after they're infected. Then his shining like chase through the woods as he wants to kill them to the point he's stabbed in the eye by Alma and he says something like whoa that's how accidents happen.

Like the shaman in tribes taking local hallucinogens or other cultures experimenting with drugs of different kinds. We've all throughout time have had God-like encounters. These are what create stories to pass on and build folk lore, legends, religions and more. The world may go through harsh times like plagues and famine. We've always searched for more beyond ourselves. If nature provides that through a fog of mushroom spores well who are we to deny mother earth as the God she is.

#classic horror movies #horror #horror movie recommendations #horror movie review #horror monsters #horror movie #movie review #movies #movie ratings #horror movies #thriller movies #sci fi thriller #thriller #in the earth #indie #indie film #movielover

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lifesarchive · 11 months

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FLUX by JINWOO CHONG (REVIEW)

quick synopsis: a newly unemployed marketing assistant stumbles into a job at a tech start-up for time-traveling research. (young guy living in the city / brothers who don’t get along / parental trauma / apartments and office buildings high in the sky / sketchy CEO’s with too much ego / racist and stereotypical 80’s tv / using tech from the future to fix the past).

This three-part story sits among the likes of ARRIVAL or DEVS… a sci-fi drama where the main character doesn’t figure out what is happening until it has already happened. The writing uses some interesting techniques like intertwining timelines, and narrating the story to a fictional 80’s TV character ‘Raider’. However, it takes forever for the story to gear up, and the drama outweighs the science fiction. The sci-fi (the time-traveling element), is clouded in mystery and is difficult to discern. It happens, but no one talks about it until the end in an underwhelming final exposition. After watching Arrival and DEVS, I saw the ending coming. The story makes it to its destination, but the journey is neither fulfilling nor breathtaking. I can see this souped up with special effects and turned into a Netflix movie… but as a story, it lacks the finesse required to balance drama and science fiction.

★ ★ ★

#FLUX #jinwoo chong #3 stars #fiction #sci fi thriller #review #books & libraries #currently reading #book review #booklr #booklover #booksbooksbooks #bookworm #literature #reviews #2023

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zachfett · 5 months

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Sphere (1998) Directed by Barry Levinson Cinematography by Adam Greenberg

I'm surprised this one has such scathing reviews (13% on Rotten Tomatoes!) because I enjoyed it quite a bit, though the ending felt very rushed.

I need to read the book, because apparently it's astronomically better than the movie (as is tradition).

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brokehorrorfan · 2 years

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Dual will be released on Blu-ray and DVD on July 19 via RLJE Films. The 2022 sci-fi thriller is currently available on VOD.

Riley Stearns (The Art of Self-Defense, Faults) writes and directs. Karen Gillan stars in a dual role with Beulah Koale, Theo James, and Aaron Paul.

Special features are listed below, where you can also watch the trailer.

Special features:

Audio commentary by writer-director Riley Stearns

The Making of Dual

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Upon receiving a terminal diagnosis, Sarah opts for a cloning procedure to ease her loss on her friends and family. When she makes a sudden and miraculous recovery, her attempts to have her clone decommissioned fail and lead to a court-mandated duel to the death. Now she has one year to train her body and mind for the fight of her life.

Pre-order Dual.

#dual #karen gillan #aaron paul #beulah koale #theo james #riley stearns #rlje films #dvd #gift #the art of self defense #sci fi #science fiction #thriller #sci fi thriller #horror

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futureagents · 1 year

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The newest episode of Future Agents is out now! Maddie is getting ready for the first day of her internship... and who is that on the TV?!

Read it on Webtoon Canvas

Read it on Tapas

#webcomic #webtoon canvas #webcomic episode #anime art #sci fi thriller #manga art #pilot-obvious #Future Agents #vertical scrolling comic #tapas comic #webtoon #digital art #clip studio paint

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ophelias-haunting · 5 months

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Concept art of Chancellor Cohen’s laboratory office, with some key details around in the background. I love doing such high detail pieces even if it kills my wrist 😭

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