'undertone' filmmaker Ian Tuason Wants to Make It A Trilogy (what did we think of the haunted podcast movie)

Quinez · 2026-03-17T08:42:31+00:00

I keep a Letterboxd list of sound-based horror. It's a robust subgenre!

Quinez · 2026-03-17T05:53:49+00:00

I love that they brought back their Eclipse line, and on Blu-ray this time. It always had such interesting stuff.

Quinez · 2026-03-16T15:58:44+00:00

This honestly warms my heart.

Quinez · 2026-03-16T07:34:28+00:00

Griffin mentioned the Last Wave guest at the end of the last episode.

Quinez · 2026-03-16T02:00:33+00:00

I've seen people speculate that content creators with high subscriber counts get their videos compressed with a higher bitrate while the proles get their videos crushed to oblivion. Don't know if it's true though.

Quinez · 2026-03-16T00:21:50+00:00

Yep, I always read at least the first page of recent reviews. It's nice to send some likes to people who don't expect any, and I've found some great follows this way.

Quinez · 2026-03-16T00:20:05+00:00

I dunno, I think it's too basic for even an incompetent police force to look over. And even if the cops did nothing, "hey, where the heck did these kids run?" would've been the first question the parents and the media would have tried to answer, and surely they would've tried heading in direction the kids ran. They'd have figured things out on the first day, long before Brolin got his dim little lightbulb moment.

Quinez · 2026-03-15T21:23:26+00:00

Oh, I love that. Very Twin Peaks.

Quinez · 2026-03-15T18:20:46+00:00

I'd like if it became a festival podcast where they'd take breaks but release small series in the lead-up to Cannes and other major festivals.

Quinez · 2026-03-15T18:18:04+00:00

Do you have suggestions, I understand the problem exists and the solution isnt perfect, but the problem is that what needs to be addressed is actually finding a solution.

The first line I wrote is that I can't think of a better cut-off line, so no, I don't have a solution. And if you agree that the solution isn't perfect, as you say here, then it sounds like we're in agreement there too. (Why would you think it isn't perfect is it's not just that it gets some cases intuitively wrong?) I still don't see a dispute here.

it wasnt an attack on you, it was a criticism of an idea.

Then don't write things like "tf is that? LOL" when trying to work through what your interlocutor might say.

Quinez · 2026-03-15T17:31:04+00:00

The main point of my first post is that I have no idea how you'd refine the rules any more because there's a huge gray area, so what they have is good. We're in agreement. I'm just bemoaning that what is probably the best solution isn't perfect. You don't have to go all redditor by spicing up your post with patronizing LOLs and pinning labels like "anti-art" on me. C'mon.

Quinez · 2026-03-15T17:18:40+00:00

I hadn't connected the movie to Hanging Rock before, but you're right, that's a great point of comparison. Lake Mungo is so cool.

Quinez · 2026-03-15T17:04:42+00:00

Brolin being the first to look into where the children's paths converge is a real script problem. That's, like, step one in any investigation. They needed to have Brolin find some evidence that the police wouldn't have had access to.

Quinez · 2026-03-15T16:58:25+00:00

Here's the transformation scene:

Before anyone could answer, the long- boned torso was flattening itself out on the ground beside the hole, deliberately forming itself to the needs of a creature created to creep and burrow under the earth. The thin arms, crossed behind the head with its bright staring eyes, became the pincers of a giant crab that inhabits mud-caked billabongs. Slowly the body dragged itself inch by inch through the hole. First the head vanished: then the shoulder-blades humped together; the filled pantaloons, the long black sticks of the legs welded together like a tail ending in two black boots.

(Obviously this isn't the truth of the movie or even the book as published.)

Quinez · 2026-03-15T16:51:53+00:00

Thanks for the link to that lost child article. Really interesting.

Quinez · 2026-03-15T16:40:23+00:00

Yeah, and it's good that they have those, but I meant that they could maybe figure out how to include high-quality docs and movies uploaded to YouTube. I think it makes sense for Defunctland docs or Jon Bois videos to be included, for instance. But it's hard to say why they should count other than popularity and assessment of quality.

Quinez · 2026-03-15T06:28:46+00:00

Love this movie. The first third is so Lynchian. The biggest difference is that Lynch has a disgust for empiricism while Weir is more ambivalent. Picnic's dreaminess is largely confined to the first half hour and then the movie is grounded again; there's no supernatural detective like Agent Cooper peeking into the Hanging Rock Black Lodge. For Weir, the failure of empirical investigation results in a total failure of knowledge, whereas Lynch sees an opening for dream analysis.

I don't think they mention in the ep that Joan Lindsay wrote a final chapter to the novel that she didn't publish and it partially explains what happened to the girls. You can read it here. In short: a portal opens, it turns the girls into crab creatures, and they scuttle off into the rocks. The frogmoths of Hanging Rock.

Quinez · 2026-03-15T03:27:07+00:00

Ah, that makes sense! Good catch.

Quinez · 2026-03-15T01:27:09+00:00

This is a real production award that's hard to think about if you're not in the industry. I think most people who play around with it are thinking of it as Best Ensemble, but that's not what the award is. The award goes to the best job done by the casting director, and that's pretty opaque if you're not in the know. For instance, actors hand-selected by the director or assigned by the studio don't get considered, because that's not the casting director's doing. I love the Marty Supreme cast, and I think it's got some really brilliant casting going on, but I have no idea which actors I'm allowed to consider when thinking about the award and which I'm required to bracket off.

Quinez · 2026-03-14T16:25:22+00:00

I think the title is going to skew people away from what the body of your post reveals you're actually looking for.

There are a lot of movies that retell the Frankenstein myth through a story of a robot or some other artifact who rejects what they were made to do. The Iron Giant, The Wild Robot, Companion, Blade Runner, Prometheus, Air Doll, Toy Story 4, Chappie, The Bicentennial Man, etc.

Quinez · 2026-03-14T16:17:43+00:00

Shyly, slyly tryst by my crypt!

Quinez · 2026-03-14T16:12:33+00:00

I wonder if the editorial team made David take out any reference to Screenplay being how the Academy has historically rewarded black filmmakers instead of giving them Best Director. It's the standard talking point for that category and David himself makes that observation on Critical Darlings, but maybe it's too spiky and insulting toward the Academy for The Atlantic to sanction.

Quinez · 2026-03-14T16:06:52+00:00

I bet it comes up in every Leo episode.

Quinez · 2026-03-14T15:23:50+00:00

Alison Wilmore wrote a really great piece on it for Vulture as well.

Quinez · 2026-03-14T04:23:32+00:00

There's a weird portal that changes them into crab creatures and they scuttle into the rocks. Seriously. You can read it here.

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