- Oh, maybe those little men from Mars are back again.
- They're real enough and big enough!
- You mean you've actually seen these things?
- Two men in space suits.
- Yeah, but at least they're men.
- I emptied my gun in one of them, and he walked away. Have you got men like that where you come from?
- It's a machine, a robot. A few things begin to make sense.
- Well, nothing makes any sense to me. What about them? What are they? What did they want?
- They're human slaves to these machines. This must be some sort of a shock attack. They paralyze all the bodily functions and then reactivate them. Sightless and mindless slaves.···It seems to be in all the bands at that frequency. That's the same sound that the robots give off.
- You think they're being directed by a transmitter? But how could they land a transmitter here?
- I don't think they did. I think they're using one of ours as a booster. If we could wreck it, we could put them out of commission at least round here.
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Directed by Terence Fisher (The Curse of Frankenstein 1957, The Revenge of Frankenstein 1958, Frankenstein Created Woman 1967, Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed 1969, Horror of Dracula 1958, Dracula: Prince of Darkness 1966, The Brides of Dracula 1960, The Mummy 1959, The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll 1960, The Curse of the Werewolf 1961, The Phantom of the Opera 1962, The Gorgon 1964)
"We live in a dystopia. A living hell. That was fine with me. I was happy. But now that's gone. Taken. I long for death. But I won't die alone. I'll kill a woman. My revenge on society. My love was taken from me, so it's my right and duty do the same to someone else. My wife was hunted. The murderer cornered her, then slowed down. He played with her. My wife was captured. Gagged and bound. Then she was placed in a tub. Water filled it slowly. Her fear and despair were unimaginable. I lost so much blood and all I could do was to watch her die. I will never forget the laughter, I heard from under the helmet. My wife was killed mercilessly. Then the murderer took his own life in front of me. That is why I must kill someone, without mercy, and then die. It's my retribution, my mourning"
"This woman dies with me"
"If the world considers hatred and lies are virtues, then the villains will go on unpunished"
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original title·····マニアック・ドライバー (Maniakku doraibā)
language·········Japanese
"June 26th, 1908. You witnessed your parents' murder. In the ensuing years, you set upon the world, absorbing all forms of criminology, psychology, martial art. Whatever skills you deemed necessary to one day avenge your parents' deaths and become this city's savior. The Bat. Your homecoming has set certain wheels in motion, Bruce Wayne. And though I know much, I'm only allowed to tell you these things three. [One] You must seek out two spirits. One wrapped in bats, the other in flames. [Two] To prevail in this, Bruce Wayne must die and through death become himself. [Three] Before it can be saved, Gotham must be burned to the ground"
- It's not your fault, Mr. Wayne. Talking dead folks, reptile plagues, plant monsters, it's not natural. No one could have seen this coming.
- I should have. The signs were there. I refused to heed them, because they didn't align with what I deemed to be rational.
- You can leave. We can leave. Get a new ship and go anywhere else. You don't owe this city anything.
- Most people, if they see a house on fire, would run and call for help once they're out of harm's way. While others, very few others, would run right into that house and try to save those who are trapped inside. Doom or not, Gotham is a city on fire. It needs those who are willing to run into the inferno.
- I, Thomas Wayne, was born in 1585 and was among the first colonists to venture to the new world. I and others founded the settlement that would one day become Gotham. Lo, but those first years were unforgiving. The land penurious. The winters, harsh, indeed. We were dying. Until, one among us, Oswald Cobblepot discovered what was buried under the earth beneath our land. Myself, Bartly Langstrom, and Henry Queen followed Cobblepot into an ungodly place. He showed us the ancient book he'd found there. A book steeped in malevolence. Call it despair, call it desperation, call it, perhaps, even greed, but we four read from this book and performed its ceremonies most vile. Shame of which would last eons. But, alas, our settlement had been saved. Flourished, even. And not only did the four of us prosper beyond our wildest dreams, we'd been gifted apparent life eternal. In time, it was nearly as if we'd forgotten the events of that despicable night ever occurred. It, however, did not forget us. For centuries later, we would learn that the malevolence we bore that fateful night awoke him. Iog Sotha. It was our wretchedness that drew the thing to the threshold of our reality.** Well, worst yet, the curse lays the burden of undoing our misdeeds upon our children.
- "The sins of the father are heaped upon the son" That's why Kirk Langstrom and Oliver both...
- But it's not too late, son. You can stop this thing. Iog Sotha has not yet entered our realm. You must find the door before it fully opens.
- How?
- By becoming what you truly are. In coming to see me, you've accepted a world beyond reason and science. But you must embrace it. You must seek communion. With them.
- The bats.
- I am him. Born of the nameless mist, progenitor of Yib Nogeroth, Hastur the unspeakable. And Cthulhu himself! Die! For soon all that lives shall follow thee into Hell! Humanity shall be wiped from the earth!(read<|>watch).. You're still alive?
- [The bats know the way to salvation. You must embrace it. You are now one of us] Not alive. Not anymore.
- What are you?
- I am Batman!
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Directed by Sam Liu (The Batman vs. Dracula 2005, Superman/Batman: Public Enemies 2009, Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths 2010, Batman: Year One 2011, Justice League: Gods and Monsters 2015, Justice League vs. Teen Titans 2016, Batman: The Killing Joke 2016, Batman and Harley Quinn 2017, Batman: Gotham by Gaslight 2018, The Death and Return of Superman 2019, Superman: Red Son 2020)
**
The plot is full of H.P Lovecraft(read)inspired renditions of both the Batman's friends and foes.
- A lot, actually. All of them told that there's a monster taller than a human. It has a body of a fish and big barbels on its head, plus crocodile like skin and a long tail like a snake. It has legs. It can stand up and walk. A night before this beast attacked people, we found big footprints by the lake. And two days ago, someone reported that there are similar footprints right here at the Baan Nakom Lake, we found similar but smaller footprints.
- Where are you? What happened?
- Evacuate the people now. It isn't safe there. There's another monster. It's heading to the town right now.
- The creature we saw in video clips on social media, what was it exactly? Please clarify the situation, sir.
- All those video clips that have been circulating on social media were from a movie shoot. There's no incident that the public has speculated about.
- So you're denying that there's a monster attacking people in Bueng kan? That nothing happened on that stormy night? I find it hard to believe, Mr. Governor. I think you're hiding the truth.
- "Humans have lived with fear for thousands of years. We fear things that are different from ourselves. We're scared of the unknown or something we don't know its origin. We always have excuses to kill to protect our own kind, to protect ourselves, despite the fact that we and them are not different. And, in fact, we might be one of them too. The legend is true. Everyone who saw it with their own eyes knows how dreadful it was. But what's crueler than the monster is a lie. The lie that some people made to cover up their own failure. So that everything remains in peace. But there's never been true peace. Day passes. Life goes on. People just forgot what happened that day"···
- ···Could you tell me about that girl? How long have you been watching her?
- Since that day.
- So what's the difference between then and now?
- It's coming back. I saw some kind of worshiping ritual that I didn't quite understand. Finally, I know the truth. What everybody is trying to hide, I saw it with my own eyes.
- And what did you find?
- I found everything.
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original title·····บึงกาฬ (Bụngkāḷ)
language·········Thai
- Did you invite anyone else? Who could it be? ... What the fuck? Is he breathing? Call 911. And why did he say "never open the door"? What I don't understand is why was he pointing at you, Terrence? He looked like he knew you. Like he was saying it to you.
- Why did he point at me? I don't know. I've never seen this guy before in my life.··· I'm dialing 911. It's just ringing and ringing. No voice mail, no nothing.
- ···So I think that we should just take the body, And drag it out and finish our dinner, all right?
- What? You could still finish dinner after this? What the hell? Now the power's out? What is this, is this a fun house?
- There are two of you in this house.
- I'm not a fake! You know this is kidnapping? What are you gonna kill me?
- Nobody's killing anybody here.
- Oh, really? Well, what about that guy over there?
- God, I'd love to know where he came from.
- There may or may not be two Tesses, and one may be a monster, all right? She looked really sick. She was mutating or something. There's something mixed in with the blood. Let me just say that she looks really bad. Listen, we gotta get outta here tonight.
- Tonight? shouldn't we wait til the morning? It'll be light out. We're in the middle of nowhere. We'll be able to see a whole lot better.
- No, hell no! You were tied up here. How much longer did you think you were gonna stay alive here?
[Tonight's lead story is the daring and deadly paramilitary robbery at Camp Pendleton. It left three marines dead and at least nine others critically wounded. Earlier this evening, a heavily armed commando unit held up the payroll office at the base and fled with $3.5 million. The robbers exchanged gunfire with military police as they raced to a nearby airfield and then escaped in a twin engine cargo plane. The pilot and his teenage daughter are believed to be held hostage on board the Baja Air...] "Turn that bloody radio off.···Stop shooting. He tossed a grenade.Watch out, it's rolling back. Throw it out! The money is gone. He bailed with the money. Get ready to jump, we're going after him. I saw a house back there where he jumped"
- What the hell is that? This is some creepy shit, man. I'll tell you, whoever lives or lived here was very fucking weird. Into devil worship or some shit. Mailbox says "Fowler". There's a picture of three very mangy guys. Bert could have killed them but there's no bodies, just some very ugly vibes. We're running out of time. If we don't find that money soon the Army's gonna have us for breakfast.
- Do you get the feeling we're being watched?
- No.
- Then how come your finger's on the trigger? I think this place is possessed by Demonic demons.
- Your head's gonna be possessed by the butt of my gun if you don't shut up. Demonic demons. Christ.
- I don 't like this one bit. We're being set up bigger than shit. I can feel it.
- Listen, I fired at this thing and it just kept coming. Bullets don't stop it! The scarecrows, man! Like Humans. There were three of them. They're just fucking scarecrows and all I shot was straw. They're never gonna let us out of here alive, you know that, don't you? I mean, it ain't the money they want, it's us. We're dealing with some kind of zombie, or something. I mean, man, they ripped his fucking liver out with their bare hands. They're just gonna pick us off one by one, that's all, just like those crows on that fucking fence? Well, you do whatever you want to do. I ain't going out there again. No fucking way.
- Alright, you got a better idea?
- Yes, I have a better idea. Let's just wait till daybreak, okay?
- And leave three and a half million dollars..
- Guns don't work! Don't you understand? I tried it already, okay? The motherfucker just kept coming. I mean, you understand what's happening here, don't you? Think about it. You think it's an accident we're here? We got away too clean, don't you see that? What if... Maybe... We're dead. And we're not... I mean, we're not really here. This isn't real. I mean, we're here, but... none of this is really...
- I refuse to believe this condition could've killed David so quickly. Then his veins here. Look at the jugular. His blood is like rubber. He didn't have a blood problem. He had a heart condition. I've never seen blood with such a strange consistency. Coagulation must have started before death set in. There's something really weird going on.
- I got the histology report back. Stuff's called Promidal. Once upon a time it was a favorite of taxidermists. It's plasma protein based, so it extracts all the salt. It plasticizes the tissue almost instantly. The bloodstream transports a shot of the stuff into every cell in the body. You let it harden, and body's all set for the display case. It was banned. The more you inject into the subject's body the more the blood thickens, and the harder it is for him to move. Chemical structure is totally simple. An ordinary saline solution could probably counter it. Only question is, how did it get into David's blood?
"AAA! is the abbreviation for, Age Actabile Antihippocrate. I couldn't find any specifics, except that it's a secret society. A cross between the Freemasons(read)and a college fraternity with old rituals. The point is, MDs always follow the Hippocratic oath and live by it. You know, helping patients, healing them and so on. The Anti Hippocratics are totally into research. Here. 'Experimental killing of the few to ensure the survival of the many. Founded in the 16th century, it re emerged during the Third Reich. Today, incidents of Anti Hippocraticism have been witnessed in genetics, artificial procreation, pharmacology'. Now get this. One of the centers of the movement during the early 1900s and the Nazi era was Heidelberg"
- We are only interested in the future of medical science. Most of us are unspectacular. We don't restrict ourselves to narrow minded traditions. Do you really think we would get any research done if we paid attention to ethical principles? Heidelberg has a reputation to maintain. Do you know when we last won the Nobel Prize? This is about our leading role in the medical field. Funds for research. Commissions from the pharmaceutical industry. This is about financing the education of the elite. Your little research assignments. Where do you think the tissue samples come from? And the terminal patient barely notices. They all want to be healed, but don't want to suffer the consequences.
- But the atrocities committed by the Anti Hippocratics..
- Oh, my God, Mengele. So, he went awry(watch)like a few other Nazi physicians. Go ahead, condemn them. But no one has ever recognized the achievements of those men(watch). Especially in the field of anatomy.
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original title·····Anatomie
language·········German
Written and directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky (The Counterfeiters 2007, Deadfall 2012, Patient Zero 2018)
- The crazy love triangle murders? The Lodge connection was exaggerated. A scientist must go beyond rules and boundaries. Here in the Lodge you can discuss your ideas get advice even get financial help. You just have to be successful then nobody questions your results. And we are successful!
"Charles'll be the first man since Jesus to make the lame walk again. We need young, strong, healthy test subjects. Synthetics work like natural muscles but with titanium fibers, silicone, collagen synthetic myofilaments. We implant them and connect them to the same nerves. We've implanted a chip in the intumescentia cervicalis which we can access externally. It controls all muscles below the sixth vertebra the natural ones as well. We call it the CNE: Central Neurological Enhancer. We can externally control and synchronize muscles and synthetics.···Charles talks about a new species. A technically perfect man. Able to survive the future. The true master race!"
- Before you do anything rash police, press. I don't think the evidence will exist anymore. What did you think? That we'd let some intern ruin years of work? The project must go on. We have contracts worth millions! The Lodge has great power to destroy its enemies. I offer you my hand one last time. What do you want in life? To be a hack like Schinder, or to explore the future with us? Medicine. Change the world. You could be one of the best.
- ···I wanted to be a good doctor. I thought some unauthorized experiments would be okay, but not murder!
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original title·····Anatomie
language·········German
- "This man qiao feng is not one of us. His biological khitan parents died at the hands of the song people. That's fine if the son does not know his origins, otherwise, not only will the beggar gang be destroyed by his hand, the central plain wu lin will also suffer a great calamity" You are a khitan! Not only do we have physical evidence, we also have witnesses! We must depose you as the head of the gang, expel you from the beggar's gang**. We will never allow a khitan continuously be our master. Qiao feng!** What do you have to say?
- From this moment on, I am no longer the master of the beggar's gang ! You listen to me! You said I'm a khitan, You said I killed my beloved teacher, my parents, and old friends. I didn't kill anyone. I will definitely find out the truth!
- We fought in the battlefield. We were good brothers who lived and died together unfortunately, today Qiao feng, for the sake of wu lin, you must die!
"Grudges and strife is the destiny of the country, it is the destiny of man. In Jiang hu, it is difficult to overcome love and revenge. All the causes and consequences in the world cannot escape the word love and injustice. No one is an exception. Those who have feelings are all caught in it"
- Today is the day that the great yan is restored! Either be a meritorious servant of the great yan kingdom, or, be a dead soldier of your song dynasty! If you don't surrender, I will let you die here!
- You are finally willing to show yourself! it's always you conspiring to cause chaos! Come and get it! What are you waiting for?
- I didn't expect a khitan, use the broken sword of dali**, to protect the broken song dynasty! Can you protect it?
- I am defending not only this land, but also the righteousness of the people.
- Have you always had the obsession to be a hero? But what about now? Your obsession is broken.
- I am not a hero! I'm just an ordinary person who sticks to the right path!
Directed and starred by Donnie Yen (Tiger Cage duology 1988/1990, Iron Monkey duology 1993/1996, Ip Man series 2008/2010/2015/2018/2019, Iceman duology 2014/2018, Heroes Among Heroes 1993, Shanghai Affairs 1998, SPL: Sha Po Lang 2005, Seven Swords 2005, Flash Point 2007, An Empress and the Warriors 2008, Bodyguards and Assassins 2009, Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen 2010, The Lost Bladesman 2011, Dragon 2011, Special ID 2013, Kung Fu Jungle 2014, Chasing the Dragon 2017, Big Brother 2018, Enter the Fat Dragon 2020, Raging Fire 2021)
**
Based on the wuxia novel Demi Gods and Semi Devils(read)
- I almost got caught. Police were everywhere today.
- There was a big robbery today didn't you read the paper? Four million francs worth of jewellery. They opened the safe with a laser.
- Now I understand why I found this ring in my pocket. Some son of a bitch wanted me to get caught with it. They wanted to frame me. How much do you want to bet this ring was among the things stolen today?
- We haven't seen you for years, Nick. To what do we owe the honor?
- I came here to plan a sting.
- Who is it?
- His name's Robert Clarke.
- Jesus, it's the American! He's one of the worst. He's rich but he might even have a clean face, but he controls half the illegal traffic. He's got too many men around him. Listen to me, Nick. No one can con him.
- Listen, that son of a bitch killed my friend. I fell for his trap but I realized it too late and you tell me to leave it? I've already decided. He's got to be made to cry blood even if it's the last thing I do. I know the American better than you. We have to trick his brain, not his organization.
- If we do pull it off, we'll go down in history.
"It's the second time he's tried to kill me, and you want me to leave it? Everything stays as planned. As long as they're still shooting at me and not at you, the plan goes ahead. The hard part wasn't doing it but getting him to believe. He has to be totally convinced if we want to do what we've planned"
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original title·····Gli amici di Nick Hezard
language·········Italian
"Do you think a aborted fetus could fit into this sculpture's belly? You're giving meaning to those babies"
- What the hell is that place? How do they get that footage?
- How the fuck should I know? What I know is, they installed hidden cameras in many houses. What you saw has got nothing to do with you. They don't know you, and you don't know them. Just because they look at the camera doesn't mean they talk to you!
"It's a poison that will paralyze you for about ten minutes. You won't be able to move. But you can still see and hear me. Now. Listen. I just realized that all my life, I've never been truly alive. Everybody tells me what to do. People decide things for me. I am aware that to live fully I have to cut all the strings attached to me. I want to live free"
"Who knows what's inside his head? Maybe he knows something that we don't"
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original title·····Pintu Terlarang
language·········Indonesian
"Have you found more evidence of satanic practices? Have you found a single clue that might be of use? A maniac is freely roaming these hills, disemboweling my men. Men who barely carry out their duties, hardly leave their barracks or sleep"**
- They hardly know I'm at the Academy. Fourth Classman Poe. E. A. Poe.(watch)Edgar A. Poe.**
- Why do you think that the man who cut Leroy Fry's heart out was a poet?
- Well.. The heart is a symbol or it is nothing. Now take away the symbol and what do you have? It's a fistful of muscle of no more aesthetic interest than a bladder. Now, to remove a man's heart is to traffic in symbol. And who better equipped for such labor than a poet? You see, I am a poet myself, hence inclined to think as one.
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- It's in the center page. Discours du Diable by Henri Le Clerc, who executed 700 witches before he was done, is reputed to have been destroyed. Now, rumor has it that he left behind two or three other volumes identical to the one destroyed. Le Clerc left behind instructions for securing immortality.
- Oh, my Lord. "It is commonly known among the fraternity of evil angels that the contents of a witch's sabbath feast are confined to the following sundries. Unclean animals such as are never eaten by Christian peoples, the hearts of unbaptized children, and the hearts of hanged men."
- Your family have been quite a puzzle. I could never get a fix of who was in command. It never occurred to me that it might be someone who wasn't even alive. Father Henri Le Clerc. Finest of witch hunters, until he became the hunted. Your daughter, she suffers from a falling sickness, does she not? She copes because she is in contact with someone. Someone who instructs her. Him. Le Clerc's incredibly rare Discours du Diable. Does your daughter speak with the dead?!
- Over the years, the seizures have gotten much, much worse. I have tried every medical regimen I could think of. She was given three months to live. Do you know what it feels like to go to sleep, not knowing if your daughter will make it through the night? But then, one day she came to me and said that she'd met someone. Her great great grandfather. Henri Le Clerc wasn't evil. He was misunderstood. They swore they could never kill anyone.
- You believed them. You are a physician! A man of science! How dare you put your faith in such madness?
- Because I couldn't save her myself. My own art had failed me. I sacrificed everything for my Lea. So how can I then object to her finding a cure elsewhere?
- Communicating with the dead that's not normal. But murder destroying innocent lives that's inhuman. Someone has to hang for this.
- I know about your daughter. The note found in Leroy Fry's hand. You were careless enough to leave that with me. This is the other note you left. Remember? I'm most struck by the shape of your characters. Uppercase, as you well know, are every bit as damning as lowercase. The A, the R, the G and the E, virtually identical to the ones found in Leroy Fry's note. You can imagine my astonishment. Could the same man have written both notes? And why would Landor have any reason to correspond with Leroy Fry? Your Mattie was raped and left for dead by three nameless ruffians. She didn't run away, did she? Why did you never tell me?
- It's not a story I enjoy telling.
- But I would have comforted you. Helped you as you helped me.
- I don't think I can be comforted on that particular subject.
- So what did I do next? Exactly what you would have done. Examined all assumptions, beginning with what were the chances that two parties would have had designs on the same cadet in the same evening? Small! Unless we see one party as being contingent upon the other, or what if one party say, Artemus and Lea, what if they were simply on the lookout for a dead body. And then the opportunity magically appears, and they don't care who the body is, provided it had a heart. The one thing they won't do for it is kill. No, it is the other party who is ready and willing to kill. And to kill this man in particular. Why? Why? Might it be revenge, Landor? So… the second party is interrupted, though not before his successful resolution. Steals back to his cottage where he has escaped unnoticed. But he's shocked at being summoned back to West Point the very next day to learn that in the intervening hours, the dead man's body has been most horribly mutilated. Thus providing his crimes with an extraordinary cover. He must think God himself was on his side. Being engaged to solve the very crimes that he himself committed. And as a result, Artemus and Lea will forever go down as murderers.
- There's no forever about it. They will be forgotten just like the rest of us.
- I shall not forget them! Especially my Lea. She was to be a wife, Landor, a mother. Nor shall I forget how you played the rest of us as fools. But I was your prize fool. Was I not?
- No. You were the one who I was to deliver myself to all along. I knew that from the moment I first met you, and here we are.
- What they did was an appalling, savage thing. But you might have gone straight to Thayer, secured a confession.
- I didn't want them to confess. I wanted them to die.
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Directed by Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart 2009, Out of the Furnace 2013, Black Mass 2015, Hostiles 2017, Antlers 2021)
**
Based on The Pale Blue Eye novel, story follows a retired detective in 1830 New York, as he investigates a series of murders at the U.S military academy with the aid of a young cadet named Edgar Allan Poe.(read/pdf)
- Don't come by unannounced. My husband may be home.
- You said he has a car. I'll see it if it's here.
"Do what you want with me. Don't be shy. I've thought of everything. I locked the door"
"What does the stocking say? No explanation necessary. Unless you insist. Sit down! The explanation. How can the husband keep so calm? There are certain things that shouldn't be in a certain place at a certain time. A lady's garter, for example. And violet, of all things. Where should it not be when the old salesman comes home after a week on the road? In the backseat of his car. If it happens to be there, who should definitely not find it? His wife, of course. Wrong article, wrong place, wrong finder, wrong time"
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original title·····Lust och fägring stor
language·········Swedish
Plot follows a sexual relationship between a 37 years old teacher and her 15 year old student in Sweden during World War II.
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