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FaultyBranches @faultybranches.net · 10/10/2026

Luz ('18) has a wonderful storytelling style of diegetic retelling of previous events alongside the events of Luz being stalked by an entity from her past. One of the oddest demon possession films I've seen. Recommend to watch multiple times for picking up the full effect of this spooky bottle film.

Luz in a gray tshirt and messy hair, sitting in the driver's seat of her taxi after being in a car crash looking distant. In the back a woman with curly hair and a white leather jacket over a black dress sits motionless with blood trickling down her neck from a head wound.

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FaultyBranches @faultybranches.net · 04/08/2026

Oh hell why not. 1 like = 1 book question 📚

book asks:
1. book you've reread the most times?
2. top 5 books of all time?
3. what is your favourite genre?
4. what sections of a bookstore do you browse?
5. where do you buy books?
6. what books have you read in the last month?
7. is there a series/book that got you into reading?
8. what is the first book you remember reading yourself?
9. when do you tend to read most?
10. do you have a guilty fav?
11. what non-fiction books do you like if any?
12. did you enjoy any compulsory high school readings?
13. do you have a goodreads?
14. do you ever mark/dog ear books you own?
15. recommend and review a book.
16. how many books have you read this year?
17. top 5 children's books?
18. do you like historical books? which time period?
19. most disliked popular books?
20. what are things you look for in a book?

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FaultyBranches @faultybranches.net · 01/07/2026

Hagazussa (2017) masterfully portrays witchy folk horror with purposeful cinematography, limited dialogue and an atmosphere of continually mounting dread. Beautiful and a reference for environmental story telling. If you are up for a slow film, check it out.

A skull painted with pine bows and roses on its brow, laid upon fresh pine boughs and lit by only a single candle in otherwise complete darkness.

Albrun, the protagonist, sitting in the dark with eyes closed and head slightly bowed, barely lit by a candle off screen. She mirrors the previous shot of the skull.

A wide landscape of pine forest with mountains in the background. Nearer to the camera is a pit of bodies being dumped by two shrouded individuals. It appears to be a ritual to stave off The Plague.

A young woman in a blue dress, with a baby held in a sash, sitting in a dimly lit pine forest. Trees stand around thick as a wall. The forest floor is entirely green moss.

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FaultyBranches @faultybranches.net · 11/04/2026

Haunting Goblin weirdos going off in the background, the directress wheezing on the other side of a thin sheet, and a girl riling up the protag with nighttime gossip.

Two girls sitting so close their heads are nearly touching, barely lit by a deep red light. One has squinted eyes and is whispering to the other about the directress, while the other has a look of terror.

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FaultyBranches @faultybranches.net · 04/04/2026

Just keeps getting better and better.

Freshly baked round loaf of bread with a cross split top, sitting on parchment paper in a cast iron dutch oven.

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FaultyBranches @faultybranches.net · 13/03/2026

Copy #2 of Hello Sunshine by @keezyyoung.bsky.social (thank you again for making this). We'll see how long it takes before this one is gifted and it'll be time for #3!

The cover of the graphic novel by Keezy Young, sitting on a wood table. The cover shows the main character laying, eyes closed in a field of flowers that look like eyes while red hands grasp at him from within the plants. His good friends stand in the distance looking concerned, a backdrop of a starry night sky behind them.

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FaultyBranches @faultybranches.net · 03/03/2026

A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night (2014)

The Girl riding down the middle of a road at night on a skateboard while wearing a white and black horizontally stripped shirt, black pants and a chador billowing behind her. The road is intermittently lit by weak streetlamps barely lighting the road and giving some shape the a few buildings in the distance.

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FaultyBranches @faultybranches.net · 08/02/2026

They Look Like People keeps creeping back in my head. Juxtaposing humor and everyday life between old friends with beautifully intense scenes of paranoia was done wonderfully to make you feel for the characters and also get weirded out.

Close up shot of Wyatt's face as he stands in the basement, cellphone to ear, and listens intensely to information being given to him about the evils to come.

Christian and Mara in a dimly red lit sound booth. Mara is reading Christian's palm while they both flirt.

Christian sitting in the dark, a wild smile on his face as someone stands behind him and grabs his forehead. The unknown person appears to be digging into Christian's forehead to try and rip into it as his smile widens.

Wyatt in the basement, again, dressed in a tyvek painter's suit with a look of confusion, looking down at someone in a chair... trying to decide what to do.

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FaultyBranches @faultybranches.net · 22/12/2025

Found Blood of the Dragon ('71) in a four DVD collection for $5... it has provided so much more entertainment than that price. Ridiculously fun, pretty good choreography and with just enough jokes to keep it fun while not getting absurd. Can't recommend enough and a good gateway film to the genre.

The hero sitting in a tree, leaning back on a branch and eating what looks like olives. He looks off in the distance with lazy indifference while talking to those below.

The hero with a scrappy street urchin clinging to his back, serving as a makeshift bandage over a stab wound. He continues to fight the man who stabbed him even with the kid along for the ride and manages get the upper hand to escape.

The hero slamming a pot filled with wine in a tavern. He leans heavily on his spear to keep him upright while fighting the fatigue of his recent stab wound.

The hero, back to the camera showing blood seeping through his white clothing, standing amongst the dead bodies of henchmen with even more standing ready to fight. The big bad general stands with the goons, about to send even more to their death.

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FaultyBranches @faultybranches.net · 10/12/2025

Finally have a nice copy of Mirror. Tarkovsky's way of using the equipment and film he could get a hold of was masterful. Would have loved to meet them and chew their ear off about how shots were made and just how dangerous some of the rigging was. Never made a film I didn't love.

A woman in a black outfit sitting in the dark interior of a home next to an open window. A book sits open on the still as she crosses her arms and looks out in thought into the woods an fields beyond.

Pine trees near the house, as seen through the window in the previous shot. Beyond them lies a thin fence and a field leading to thick woods. The dark of the nearby trees opens out to sun soaked fields.

Black and white shot of a woman with disheveled hair, tears running down her cheeks and a frowning look of confusion at a question asked of her seeming uncanny resemblance to another.

A close shot of the steam condensation circle left by a hot cup of tea on a shiny wood table. It fades as the water cools and disappears, though the cup and its user are no longer to be found.

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FaultyBranches @faultybranches.net · 09/11/2025

Now the day is looking better!

Credit card from Suspiria (1977) that reads:

Musica Dei
"GOBLIN"

Con La Collaborazione Di
Dario Argento

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FaultyBranches @faultybranches.net · 06/11/2025

I leave before the dark comes. We live over in town, miles away. So there won't be anyone around if you need help. We couldn't hear you... in the night. No one could. No one lives any nearer than town. No one will come any nearer than that.. ...in the night, in the dark.

Mrs. Dudley in The Haunting (1963), with dark hair and dress, lit from above to give a brooding dark shadow to her eyes making her look gaunt and ghostly and sporting a macabre smile. She is showing Eleanor Vance to a room and warning her to leave.

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FaultyBranches @faultybranches.net · 08/10/2025

Bring Her Back (2025) is one of the few recent films that have made me squirm. Immersive acting and setting throughout. Wonderful play with the mystery of what exactly is going on by properly pacing out each intriguing clue and while it's not hard to guess, the truth is nicely ambiguous. Grapefruit.

Andy and his sister Piper stand at the edge of an empty pool at their new foster mom's house. They have a look of concern and confusion at the odd child standing in the pool, off screen, that appears to be the foster mother's child and is silently wrestling with a cat.

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FaultyBranches @faultybranches.net · 19/08/2025

Weapons (2025) has so many details that are touched on just enough to get your interest piqued only to tear away from the exploration only give yet another set of details. Callbacks are masterfully interwoven both narratively and visually to keep you grasping for more. Loved every moment of it.

The silhouette of a child running across a wet road at night, backlit by a streetlight.

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FaultyBranches @faultybranches.net · 18/08/2025

This little dude shall forever have a rent free home in my head.

Little green humanoid creature with a large head and massive black eyes from the show Scavenger's Reign, slowly standing up while surrounded by floating glowing orbs. It lives in a flower-like structure in a giant hedge wall made of thick tubes.

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FaultyBranches @faultybranches.net · 11/08/2025

War of the Worlds (2025) is one of the worst films I've seen in my entire life. Unhinged editing, nonsensical story, uploading "rabbit virus.exe" to fight the aliens, and the product placement is insulting. Do not watch as it's not even fun. I'm just angry now.

The lead character, played by Ice Cube, barely emoting but with a slack jawed open mouth staring into the camera waiting for his Teams call to connect. The entire movie is show from webcam and phone camera perspectives. It's infuriating how lazy this thing is.

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FaultyBranches @faultybranches.net · 03/08/2025

It's always time to watch Over The Garden Wall again.

Wirt, Greg, Greg's Frog and Beatrice riding a horse to get away from yet another bad/odd situation.

The highwayman singing his song while going through some perspective warping foreshortening.

Greg riding the shoulders of some rich dude while holding a lit candelabra.

Greg's frog being revealed as naked to a group of anthropomorphic frogs while standing on top of Wirt's head. Greg stands next to them with his head inside a drum, only his eyes are visible through holes in the drum skin. A band made of frogs stands behind them with shock on their faces.

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FaultyBranches @faultybranches.net · 19/07/2025

Peugeot 205 T16! Only 200 were made purely to enter this car into rally races as a "production" vehicle (old Group B rally requirements). There are many variants of the 205 model, but this one if my favourite.

Peugeot 205 T16, in a dark gray/black with red strips and white hub color scheme, parked on a race track with rolling wooded hills in the background.

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FaultyBranches @faultybranches.net · 15/07/2025

Top 4 Video Game OSTs Still can't get Simon's Quest out of my head... What a horrible night to have a curse... Control, Outer Wilds and Tunic set the tone for their worlds so well that they wouldn't have been anywhere near as good with different soundtracks. (Ahti's tango is also pretty sweet)

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FaultyBranches @faultybranches.net · 06/07/2025

Don't know why but I've subjected myself to my favourite "hostile" movie again, Enter The Void (2009), where it seems like the goal of Gasper Noé is to harm the audience. It's the best depiction of misophonia/hypersensitivity I've ever seen and makes me physically sick. I love it (for many reasons).

The main character and their girlfriend walking through a marketplace with almost every inch covered in lights, lamps, and reflective surfaces creating an assault on the senses in hues of gold, orange and purple.

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FaultyBranches @faultybranches.net · 05/07/2025

Received the new @crobertcargill.bsky.social! Opened it, cracked it and didn't put it down until I was done. Hoping there will be more pieces that will explore this world!

The new book All The Ash We Leave Behind by C. Robert Cargill sitting on a pine table.

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FaultyBranches @faultybranches.net · 30/05/2025

No experimental film has stuck in my head like Sleep Has Her House (2017). It captures the belittling feeling of witnessing nature's violent machinations, taking me back to a memory of camping during a dangerous storm and not knowing moment to moment of what was coming next.

A dark shot of a fog covered steep mountainside filled with pine trees. A stream near the bottom of the mountainside flows towards the camera.

Extremely dark shot of what appears to be a large tree branch. An owl sits in a little hollow on the left side, barely distinguishable from its surroundings.

A sliver of the sky at sunset, streaked with orange, silhouettes a forest surrounding a river.

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FaultyBranches @faultybranches.net · 28/05/2025

What's the cover art that got you started on the #ttrpg hobby? Here's mine: My brother had this and it was absolutely fascinating to stumble upon and be exposed to the idea of a organized rules for playing "make believe".

Cover of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness tabletop roleplaying game. A teenage mutant ninja turtle, with twin swords and a red bandana (so maybe Raph but also maybe Leo), stands front and center with the city skyline behind him. Below them are four mutant ninja turtles all with red bandanas but with the signature weapons of the turtles. Along the bottom from left to right are Shredder, Splinter and Casey Jones.

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FaultyBranches @faultybranches.net · 27/05/2025

Kurosawa does it again with Cloud (2024). The initial scare really got me. Didn't expect the flow from paranoid character drama to an action thriller, but it's done extremely well. The attention to light, framing and blocking put his work high up in my favourites list every time. #filmsky

Yoshii Ryosuke standing next to his house in the woods, wearing a tan jacket and looking at the camera. He's about to learn why you don't screw people over repeatedly and expect no consequences.

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FaultyBranches @faultybranches.net · 26/05/2025

Let's round out the top five with Sunshine (2007). Slight stretch to the bottle requirements as there is a second spaceship for a bit... but I still count it.

The crew of the Icarus 1 spaceship on the observation deck, sillouhetted against the Sun viewed through a tinted view screen. A small black dot moves from right to left in front of the Sun, the planet Mercury, showing the scale of just how enormous and overpowering a star is.

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FaultyBranches @faultybranches.net · 26/05/2025

aaaaand my fourth favourite. The Night Eats the World (2018). Loved the boredom and monotony presented as a part of a zombie apocalypse.

A man leaning out the balcony of an apartment, screaming in frustration and loneliness at the zombies outside.

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FaultyBranches @faultybranches.net · 26/05/2025

Now that I'm thinking about them again, my third favourite bottle movie has popped into my head and it's time to watch it again. Pontypool (2008). Really need to find a better copy...

Grant Massey, the protagonist, his eyes-wide and mouth agape he is yelling out. A black cowboy hat is on his head with headphones on his ears but the headband going under his chin. Behind him are clocks on the wall of a sound booth, showing different timezones.

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FaultyBranches @faultybranches.net · 26/05/2025

Well I can't type apparently... To clarify I'm looking for more bottle movies specifically. Second post, so have my second favourite bottle movie! Rear Window (1954)

The main protagonist dressed in pajamas, sitting in a wheelchair looking towards the camera as he looks out into the courtyard of his apartment building. His girlfriend stands behind him dressed in a black and white evening dress, also looking out the rear window. Between them is a nicely set table with a lobster dinner and candles.

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FaultyBranches @faultybranches.net · 26/05/2025

Cube (1997) is my favourite "bottle" movie (a film taking place entirely in one location). Looking for some more fun, weird, terrifying, etc. films. What's everyone else's favourites? #filmsky

One of the many close shots of an actor in Cube (1997). This is of a bald man looking pensive as he has just entered a softly lit cubic room that most likely has a trap designed to kill him.

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FaultyBranches @faultybranches.net · 23/05/2025

Show a moment from TV/Film that broke your heart.

Waymond Wang, played by Ke Huy Quan in Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022), looking confused about the long weird day he's had and pleading with everyone who is fighting to stop. He's on the verge of crying. His wife stand behind him, taking in the multiverse memories of their lives and how they've affected each other, coming to the understanding that it's never too late to stop the violence.

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FaultyBranches @faultybranches.net · 21/05/2025

The Red Suitcase (2023) has some issues but its delivery, the cinematography, pacing and especially the acting are on point, making it an impactful political/spiritual horror. A simple look and natural reactions at just the right time had me in tears.

A couple in a dark house at dawn. The husband sits in darkness, a look of weariness on his face as he leans back against a pillar and stares at the ceiling. The wife sits on the floor lit by the morning light, looking at the husband with confusion, doubt and possibly fear of the sudden appearance of her husband.

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FaultyBranches @faultybranches.net · 19/05/2025

If you inherited a movie theatre, what's your first double feature? 📽🍿 Need to make sure the clientele truly knows what kind of place it's going to be.

Movie poster for The Stuff (1985) with the title in a yellow dripping font in front of a person screaming , hands raised in terror, as their eyes and mouth exude a white gooey substance similar to yogurt.

The poster art for Stalker (1979). A stylized depiction of the protagonist's shaved head is colored in a purple to cyan gradient and appears to be coming apart in shards around the jaw line. He has a worried and haunted look in his eyes, furled brow and beads of sweat his scrunched forehead.

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FaultyBranches @faultybranches.net · 17/05/2025

Trap (2024) feels like a really high budget student film made by an alien trying to use what they've learned about human interactions from really bad daytime TV shows. It could have been decent if the weirdness was confined to Hartnett's character and the concert wasn't overplayed.

Josh Hartnett in the film Trap (2024) standing at a table with his daughter having something to drink before a concert. He's making an absurdly exaggerated expression of astonishment like a clown.

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FaultyBranches @faultybranches.net · 13/05/2025

Hedorah is still the best Godzilla monster. Looking for a Shin Godzilla style continuation of its appearances so we can dive into just how gross this thing is and couple it with poignant dialogue about how we just continue to create our own nearly insurmountable problems. #filmsky

A family sitting around a table eating a meal together while watching TV. On their faces are looks of disbelief as they witness a young form of Hedorah (a monster made of sludge, slime and trash) sink two boats on a news report.

A shot of a close up photo of the tadpole form of Hedorah with shiny black and rubbery skin like that of a newt, and eyes with glowing red sclera. It is swimming quickly through water with only its eyes and top of head visible.

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FaultyBranches @faultybranches.net · 13/05/2025

Drop a movie that you flat out refuse to watch again. Just thinking about the experience of watching this makes my spine crawl. Highly recommend, when going in with the right headspace.

Film poster for Come and See (1985). A backlit portrait of someone staring into the camera with a haunting expression catatonic terror.

Film poster for Come and See (1985), title in Russian along the top. A black and white portrait of someone staring into the camera with a haunting expression catatonic terror. At the bottom of the poster the ruins of a town burn with the smoke rising up and taking the shape of Nazi soldiers, overlaying the portrait.

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FaultyBranches @faultybranches.net · 26/04/2025

Rather sad I hadn't seen Hotel (2004) until now. It purposely doesn't follow through on the different avenues it opens up in order to explore the feelings of dread a young person feels when exposed to the dangers of the world for the first time alone. Beautiful suspense, not for everyone #filmsky

A shot of the woods behind the titular hotel where the protagonist, Irene, is working nights. At the very bottom of the shot appears to be a curb covered in leaves at the edge of a road or path. Beyond it lies a few trees resembling marble columns flanking a path or doorway. The light illuminating the curb and trees struggles to reach further than three or four trees before the darkness beyond swallows it completely. The shot lingers here several times during the film. No movement, no sounds, just the darkness and whatever waits within.

Our protagonist Irene wearing her work uniform from the hotel and standing in a heavy wooden doorway, looking over her shoulder with an look of uncertainty and fear as she tries to see into the nearby woods.

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FaultyBranches @faultybranches.net · 25/04/2025

While it was let down by the story, the acting and fever dream of the ending in All You Need Is Blood made it an overall enjoyable experience. It felt disjointed and unfocused, but if you want a low budget horror about making a low budget horror topped off with schlocky gore, go for it #filmsky

A close shot of Zombie Walter, standing mouth agape at his son's growth throughout the film All You Need Is Blood (2024). Dried blood crusts his sickly pale chin while his eyes are dark and nearly fully bloodshot.

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FaultyBranches @faultybranches.net · 22/04/2025

Monkey Man (2024) is great, but I highly recommend to pay special attention to the audio mix throughout. It is highly dynamic and is used extremely well to draw you in and focus before ripping you to the next story beat, aurally painting the scene alongside the tight cinematography. #filmsky

The titular Monkey Man, played by Dev Patel, in a rubber monkey mask standing in a seedy, illegal fight ring. He is dirty from head to toe, hands taped up and some white grease or paint smeared on his arms, shown off by his tank top. A crowd is barely seen in the gloom behind him, seething with anticipation for the fight.

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FaultyBranches @faultybranches.net · 07/04/2025

Watched two bad films: The Monkey (2025) and Vampire Time Travelers (1998). While one had a budget of $11m and the other was probably pizza for the crew, the latter was at least fun and incredibly enjoyable. Art doesn't always come in shiny polished packages. Find the fun and dig in. #filmsky

The titular monkey doll sitting on the counter of a pawn shop during an attempt to be sold to some other poor sap. Turns out, the monkey is not happy about this and supposedly causes a Rube Goldberg death of the pawn shop owner with a spear gun. This is the very start of the film and really the only good part.

The low budget "what's in my closet" big bad vampire lady with a shocked look on her face as she is hit in the chest with a tennis ball that has stakes pushed through it.

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FaultyBranches @faultybranches.net · 05/04/2025

You know a film is going to be fantastic when the first few minutes are from the perspective of a slasher and include: Security guard murder Dancing sorority girls Sex Masturbation Shower murder Blow Out (1981) is a wonderful meta-thriller and one of the few Travolta films I really like. #filmsky

A young John Travolta standing on a bridge in a park at night, wearing fingerless knit gloves, a trench coat and headphones. He's smiling while using a shotgun mic to listen to a couple who are making out until they see him in the distance. Standard audio guy behaviour.

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FaultyBranches @faultybranches.net · 25/03/2025

Every time I watch Hundreds of Beavers (2024) the main thing that pops into my head is how fun it must have been to film it. The enjoyment had on set feels like it translates through to the finished product and it has continued to be one of my top liked films of the past decade.

A snowy hill with three beavers (men in beaver costumes) carrying logs on their shoulders only to have the main character ride a sled saucer down the hill and take out the beaver in the middle. He has successfully knocked the beaver over and is tumbling further down the hill while the saucer has launched away from him. A fight then ensues where he is beaten up by the beavers and he continues to go hungry.

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FaultyBranches @faultybranches.net · 24/03/2025

O'Brien's immediate shift from alien detachment to sleazy serial killer is one of my favourite parts of an overall wonderful film.

Mr. Hand in Dark City (1998), pale with a greasy smile on his face and raised eyebrows asking some poor lady where the protagonist is.

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FaultyBranches @faultybranches.net · 21/03/2025

Best Start Wars Crew, wrong answers only.

The crew of the Nostromo in film Alien (1979)

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FaultyBranches @faultybranches.net · 08/03/2025

The third act convergence of visual motifs in Without Name (2016) is incredibly moving. Showing each one back to back followed by a door framing of the protagonist and a slow dolly out into darkness as he enters "Eden"... gorgeous sequence. (The photo-sensitivity warning is very warranted) #filmsky

Closeup of a photo hanging on a wall in a kitchen. It is a Kirlian photo showing a halo of electrical energy tendrils surrounding what appears to be the cross section of a mushroom. The photography original shows up as drawings in a notebook found in a cottage before the source photos are discovered in a back room.

Verdant shrubbery in the marshlands of Ireland, slowly swaying in the breeze or under the power of some metaphysical power. This is a repeated motif of the moss and other plants seen throughout the film.

Leafless branches seen through a window and silhouetted against a gray sky, their shadowy layering looking like tendrils, webbing or roots.

A spilled glass of tea on a kitchen floor, its owner's hand barely in frame. The tea running out of the glass has taken on the shape of the tendrils seen in the photography and twisted branches throughout the film.

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FaultyBranches @faultybranches.net · 23/02/2025

Movie you’ve watched more than six times, gifs only

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