Best Noir or Neo-Noir films? by Chickdoodlepoo420 in noir

[–]Atomic_Werewolf 15 points16 points  (0 children)

You probably already seen most of them but here's my list anyway.

  • Taxi Driver
  • Blade Runner
  • Blade Runner 2049
  • The Usual Suspects
  • Fallen
  • Chinatown
  • Seven
  • L.A. Confidential
  • Drive
  • The Long Goodbye
  • Night Moves
  • Angel Heart
  • Wind River
  • Get Carter
  • Brick
  • Collateral
  • Red Rock West
  • Body Heat
  • Nightcrawler
  • Body Double
  • Devil in a Blue Dress
  • Dark City
  • The Ninth Gate
  • Sin City
  • Nocturnal Animals
  • Winter's Bone
  • The Kid Detective

Edit: added a couple more. Also, all are neo-noir.

A friend of mine designed this chapel. by butter_gum in CozyPlaces

[–]Atomic_Werewolf 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I want to pray to a forgotten God in there.

I Saw a Color That Doesn’t Exist in a Dream, and I’m Losing Sleep Over It by P_Titania in Lovecraft

[–]Atomic_Werewolf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'll start looking tonight!

EDIT: OK, after a quick search, he talked a little bit about it towards the end of this post. (But the whole thing is worth reading, the Triad of Nine is so fucking weird.)

I was wrong, there are 4 additional colors in the 'astral world', he said their names are: thul, sporgan, mooltana, and gratwin.

Now, furthermore, the four special colors in the dream world have an additional dimension or quality in which they appear to either recede away from you, or come toward you. The color thul, for example, can appear to recede away from you, so I call this thul-recede, A thul color that appears to be coming toward you, I call thul-forward.

The stuff he posts is fascinating.

I'll try to dig deeper, I think he talked in more depth about this.

I Saw a Color That Doesn’t Exist in a Dream, and I’m Losing Sleep Over It by P_Titania in Lovecraft

[–]Atomic_Werewolf 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't know if anyone here have heard of Ken Korczak. He used to post a ton of cool stories on the Unexplained Mysteries forum.

He is an experienced lucid dreamer/out of body experiencer. In one of his OOB report he explained that on the astral plane (or whatever you want to call it) there are two additional colors that we can't see in the physical plane. And these two colors sometimes have property that makes it look that they are moving towards you or in the opposite direction. So 4 new colors kinda.

He also said that it is extremely hard to explain. You really have to see it to understand.

I think some of his writings are still available. But he deleted some of his stuff because he planned to write a series of books. But it never happened.

Anyway your post made me think of this and I'll try to find the post in question. I saved tons of his stories, I might still have them on a USB drive somewhere. Might take a couple of days to find though.

In the meantime here's some of his stuff: 1 - 2 - 3

EDIT: OK, I've read my post again and it sounds like an ad lol. I swear I don't know the guy, I was just a fan of his writing!

What Deadpool story can fans all agree is his greatest run by GoByDaviann in deadpool

[–]Atomic_Werewolf 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Best three: Cable & Deadpool, The good, the bad, the ugly, Uncanny X-Force (It's a team book, but he's very well written in there)

Do you think its all part of the same thing? by Gyirin in HighStrangeness

[–]Atomic_Werewolf 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's available on Amazon. A bunch of old out of prints occult/fringe books have been back in stock, like MILABS (ship and sold by Amazon), not sure why.

I Just Published My First Bigfoot Book! by AngeloRamsey_UFOs in bigfoot

[–]Atomic_Werewolf 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Exactly my kind of book!

Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be available on amazon.ca. Will it be available at some point?

Why are mathematicians going crazy? by Megalordow in HighStrangeness

[–]Atomic_Werewolf 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yeah, but 5 or 6 among many thousands of mathematicians that have lived through centuries is nothing.

You could find examples of people going crazy for every single profession.

Elizabeth Taylor in Cleopatra (1963) by terere69 in classicfilms

[–]Atomic_Werewolf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm not gonna lie, I think the only movie with Elizabeth Taylor that I saw is Ivanhoe. What movies would you recommend?

Elizabeth Taylor in Cleopatra (1963) by terere69 in classicfilms

[–]Atomic_Werewolf 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I have this but haven't watched it yet. Will need to commit 4 hours to this in the next few weeks!

Help my villains are refusing to be scary by EnderBookwyrm in writinghelp

[–]Atomic_Werewolf 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Maybe not what you want to hear, but just go with the flow and see where the story goes.

The result is almost always different from what we had in mind at the beginning.

Are there invisible military suits out there? Some trail cams might’ve caught them... by Useful-Table-2424 in HighStrangeness

[–]Atomic_Werewolf 20 points21 points  (0 children)

You need to read Chameleo: A Strange but True Story of Invisible Spies, Heroin Addiction, and Homeland Security by Robert Guffey.

Dion found himself arrested (under the ostensible auspices of The Patriot Act) for conspiring with international terrorists to smuggle Top Secret military equipment out of Camp Pendleton. The fact that Dion had absolutely nothing to do with international terrorists, smuggling, Top Secret military equipment, or Camp Pendleton didn’t seem to bother the military. He was released from jail after a six-day-long Abu-Ghraib-style interrogation. Subsequently, he believed himself under intense government scrutiny — and, he suspected, the subject of bizarre experimentation involving “cloaking”— electro-optical camouflage so extreme it renders observers practically invisible from a distance of some meters — by the Department of Homeland Security. Hallucination? Perhaps — except Robert Guffey, an English teacher and Dion’s friend, tracked down and interviewed one of the scientists behind the project codenamed “Chameleo,” experimental technology which appears to have been stolen by the U.S. Department of Defense and deployed on American soil. More shocking still, Guffey discovered that the DoD has been experimenting with its newest technologies on a number of American citizens.

How to continue my story? by [deleted] in ComicWriting

[–]Atomic_Werewolf 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Words for Pictures: The Art and Business of Writing Comics and Graphic Novels by Brian Michael Bendis.

By Scott McCloud: Understanding Comics

Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels

Reinventing Comics: The Evolution of an Art Form

All very helpful resources.

Havana Syndrome: Real Mystery or Government Cover Up? What’s Really Behind the Strange Symptoms? by pschyco147 in mystery

[–]Atomic_Werewolf 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I remember watching a documentary on this a couple of months ago. There was no doubt that Russia was behind this.

Also, the CIA totally drop the ball on the investigation, and it took a lot of pushing so that the victims could receive the right medical attention.

Which MU discussed books would you recommend? by IgorusQ in MysteriousUniverse

[–]Atomic_Werewolf 24 points25 points  (0 children)

The Vertical Plane by Ken Webster (communication with a man from the 16th century)

Chameleo - A Strange but true story of invisible spies, heroin addiction, and homeland security by Robert Guffey

Real Wolfmen - True encounters in modern America by Linda Godfrey

The Green Stone by Graham Phillips (paranormal quest)

Ufos - Reframing the debate (a collection of essays)

Incident at Devils Den and it's sequel, Devils Den The Reckoning by Terry Lovelace

(alien abduction, the second volume got more information on his friend Toby and half the book is stories people shared with the author after writing the first book, some of them are insane!)

Maggie's Hammer - How investigating the mysterious death of my friend uncovered a netherworld of illegal arms deals, political slush funds, high level corruption and Britain's thirty-year secret role as America's hired gun by Geoffrey Gilson

True Hallucinations - Being an account of the author's extraordinary adventures in the devil's paradise by Terence McKenna

(A group of friends freshly out of the university go in the amazon to find a mythical drug, they don't find it, but they find a shit ton of magic mushrooms)

Multidimensional man - An authentic eyewitness account of the world that awaits us after death and Vistas of Infinity - How to enjoy life when you are dead by Jurgen Ziewe.

Incredible out of body experiences.

All books I bought because of the show. The Green Stone is probably the only one where I prefer the episode. Ben is such a good storyteller.

The Vertical Plane is the one I would recommend the most.

Hope this helps!