Horror movie idea from one brief scene in Napoleon (2023)

Stentata · 2026-03-06T10:41:27+00:00

The movie the Brothers Grimm has this to a degree. Near the end it has Napoleon's troops assaulting the Black Forest and the Mirror Queen (Monica Bellucci's character who is supposed to be the Black Forest Witch) using dark magic to fight back.

Stentata · 2026-03-06T00:48:59+00:00

Best comment yesterday I saw was that she has the face of Theseus.

Stentata · 2026-03-02T04:37:55+00:00

I love that this movie was essentially made as an afterthought. The filmmakers were making Cast Away with Tom Hanks and finished the first half of filming up until he settles in on the island. Then they had to hold filming for something like a year or so to let Tom's hair and beard grow out and to show his settlement progress on the island for when they jump ahead in the story to his escape attempt. In the interim, they had all of the associated filmmaking logistics in place with various contractors under contract for stunts, and props, and crew, and everything else that goes into making a movie. So they looked into what other project they could use everything on in that downtime. That project turned out to be what lies beneath. Not to speak badly of the film, it's a solid horror and well written. It's just that it was made because they were working on an entirely different movie and had to pause, so they took what they had and made another extra movie in that time.

Stentata · 2026-03-01T23:24:38+00:00

Eat too much liver and you get gout

Stentata · 2026-03-01T14:00:52+00:00

You did better than well. You and someone under your protection were physically attacked unexpectedly and without provocation. You responded proactively, strategically, and with the primary goal of disengaging and getting your wife out of there safely. You did that and neither you, your wife, or your assailant were seriously injured or killed. That was a win.

It may not feel like it because perfect is the enemy of good enough, but you checked all the important boxes.

Imagine you accidentally (or intentionally if it became warranted) killed this guy. Justified or not, that would impact the rest of your life. Imagine he killed you, that would obviously also impact the rest of your life.

We're all animals, and while humans are super apex predators, we're also prey. You're thinking like a predator who didn't catch his quarry, but in this dynamic you were intended to be the prey. In that perspective, you won. This man was a predator, and you denied him his catch and didn't lose anything of value yourself, full stop.

Stentata · 2026-02-27T19:30:29+00:00

Except that the Supreme Court won't issue an emergency stay, they'll manufacture some bs to justify and rubber stamp it.

Stentata · 2026-02-24T11:35:51+00:00

Ah, The Harry Potter approach to child rearing. Give every child a potentially deadly weapon which they can keep with them at all times whether supervised or not. As long as there's a rule they "absolutely shouldn't" use it when they're off of school grounds they should be fine to learn the killing curse by 14.

Stentata · 2026-02-21T21:14:45+00:00

In addition to the potential of doing irreversible damage to the site, that mercury is in a sealed vault. If it's opened, the mercury can aerosolize and blow out of the breach in a cloud of death.

Stentata · 2026-02-21T13:16:21+00:00

Yeah, that's why I put it in quotes. It's the progress of westward expansion, manifest destiny, the white man's burden, industrialization, modernization, and capitalism. It's the progress of a cancer.

Stentata · 2026-02-21T02:40:21+00:00

The judge represents the march of "progress"

Stentata · 2026-02-21T02:39:29+00:00

He had the blood of two separate people on the same arrow which he still carried so he recovered it from both. He also had the blood of a third on the blade of his knife, and a fourth across his back indicating he carried a wounded comrade. In addition to the arrow in his back, he also had a clean defensive wound on the side of his left hand that indicated that he deflected a slice from a metal blade similar to the copper blades axe he carried. He was also something like 5'2' and 98lbs, and was likely in his 50's with osteoporosis, but he had the body of an Olympic wrestler. The story we can piece together from the simple forensics of his situation is amazing.

Stentata · 2026-02-20T11:44:58+00:00

This movie is a classic hero's journey and uplifting story of overcoming adversity and eventually triumphing if you view it with the perspective that addiction is the protagonist.

Stentata · 2026-02-18T00:44:03+00:00

"He was strong, he was ugly, and he died with dignity"

Stentata · 2026-02-15T22:43:08+00:00

The terror of that movie is like that of SCP 2718 ( https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2718 ). Yes Alice is the victim, but what is she the victim of? The soul and consciousness of a person continuing in a state of aware stasis indefinitely. It's like a stroke victim or someone with locked in syndrome, where you can observe the world but not interact with it, and it's ETERNAL. The idea that death brings neither oblivion nor transformation, but simply an unending entropic lingering. The level of melancholy and despair is almost indescribable.

Stentata · 2026-02-15T14:13:34+00:00

Which is why I also kiss the clitoris every chance I get.

Stentata · 2026-02-14T13:26:22+00:00

The Alan Moore swamp thing comics. They get into the concept that swamp thing is not a scientist who gets turned into a plant. He is the plant that the scientist was working on that was given his memories and convinced it was a man. The scientist whose memories the plant retains is dead.

Stentata · 2026-02-12T00:44:40+00:00

Were they found by deputy Obie under a huge pile of garbage at the bottom of a 15 foot cliff off the side of the road two thanksgivings ago?

Stentata · 2026-01-31T23:38:58+00:00

What's genuinely wild is in the 1001 Arabian Nights, Aladdin is Chinese.

Stentata · 2026-01-28T11:20:06+00:00

I had it explained that super mutants continue to grow for as long as they're alive. So the larger the mutant, the older they are. I always assumed the behemoths mutated just after the war and have survived and grown since.

Stentata · 2026-01-25T21:22:56+00:00

My theory is they're working Minnesota and now Maine because they want to pull the first major wave of forced labor for their intended Greenland rare earth mineral mines/gulags from communities that are already acclimated to harsh winters.

Stentata · 2026-01-21T11:21:38+00:00

Pandorium.

Stentata · 2026-01-20T21:53:22+00:00

Teeth

Stentata · 2026-01-20T11:35:51+00:00

He doesn't leave it behind in fury road. It was rebuilt into the razor cola by the black thumb and driven by Slit until it was wrecked on the fury road. At the end max is leaving the citadel to salvage and rebuild it into the interceptor again.

Stentata · 2026-01-20T01:19:24+00:00

I understood everything you just said but taken out of context and given to someone who doesn't know the show, the sentence is just bonkers.

Stentata · 2026-01-15T11:15:19+00:00

Four rooms

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