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Wish I could upvote this more.
Barbarian was written by Zach Cregger of Whitest Kids You Know fame, it's a solid movie with unsettlingly comedic chops.
As for Pandorum, I am obsessed with that movie. Here's a FanTheory I wrote a few years ago that delves into much of intrigue hinted at in that incredible movie:
https://www.reddit.com/r/FanTheories/comments/gmlo53/pandorum_earth_took_serious_countermeasures/
Barbarian was wild. I had no idea what I was in for, my cousin just said "Check this one out" last Halloween. That movie had so many good moments. The sheer tonal whiplash once the tapemeasure gets broken out. ๐ And we were all in the living room screaming "That would TOTALLY HAPPEN TOO!"
I love when scary movies know how to manage and pace their tone. They can be scary without drowning the viewer in so much grimdark it becomes a comedy accidentally.
That's so crazy cool that of all those movies I listed, I meet a Pandorum fan! It's been ages since I've seen it, but it left an impression. I really liked your FanTheories writeup! But also I should really give it another watch with my matured brain and see what I missed the last couple times. I almost kinda like how...the plot is REALLY grim, but only when you really connect all the breadcrumbs.
The movie itself I remember being rather straightforward and exciting, (even with that Act 2 expo-dump), where the plot doesn't completely screw you up and abandon all hope unless you really start analyzing it lol.
That's why I liken it to Deadspace...That's a grim and awful world to inhabit...but wow is it still such a WILD ride that I'm willing to do it again.
With Barbarian it was just seeing the WKUKisms that I've grown accustomed to take life in a whole new genre - it was disconcertingly familiar and horrifically new at the same time!
Deadspace is a great description of Pandorum, but I'd argue that Pandorum has a far better story filled more with what people do when burdened by unwanted knowledge, rather than what people do when they are no longer themselves
Haha so I'm only familiar with WKUK by title, so I'll have to check it out. :p
I like this point a lot. A friend of mine once told me something like: horror as a genre is easily defined as "What happens to those who look?"
I loved that quote.
Forbidden knowledge is so scary. It's like reading spoilers. Just a glance, and it's in your mind. It's a part of you. How do you cope? You can't just drop it like some cursed object or outrun it like some monster.
We want to know lots of things, I know I always love to learn...but the scariest things are those you don't want to know... But how can you know what these are? You don't know what you don't know yet...
Pardon my ramble. Midnight contemplative brain kicked in. ๐
... Yeah I need to watch Pandorum again haha. Introduce some new people to it. :D
Me too hehe