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Cosmic Horror

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"cosmic horror... is a subgenre of horror fiction and weird fiction that emphasizes the horror of the unknowable and incomprehensible more than gore or other elements of shock... themes of cosmic dread, forbidden and dangerous knowledge, madness, non-human influences on humanity, religion and superstition, fate and inevitability, and the risks associated with scientific discoveries... the sense that ordinary life is a thin shell over a reality that is so alien and abstract in comparison that merely contemplating it would damage the sanity of the ordinary person, insignificance and powerlessness at the cosmic scale..."

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[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 52 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, and the shutter speed.

Lack of any rolling shutter effect...actually what in this shot IS in focus?

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 2 points 1 month ago

Aside from photo shop or darkroom trickery this could have been done in camera with double exposure.

[–] Soup@lemmy.cafe 43 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Yeah this is pretty obviously fake

[–] pixelscript@lemm.ee 26 points 1 month ago

If the -ito suffix in Spanish means "small", then the existence of "el mosquito" implies the existence of a larger "el mosco".

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

That has some The Mist vibes going for it.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Allegedly, the ending differed from the book, but Stephen King preferred the ending to the movie due to its darker nature.

[–] ochi_chernye@startrek.website 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The movie ending struck me as senseless and unearned. The short story ended much better, in my opinion. Still on the run, no apparent end to the mist, no military showing up to save the day. Darker, in my book.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

That is a valid perspective.

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It’s been 20+ years and I’ll never forget that ending. Totally messed up.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

The ending was most of why I made my wife watch the movie. She agreed it was worth it.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

el mosquitissimo

[–] SonicBlue03@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

Must be Florida.

[–] Isa@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago