"I'm a Beekeeper. I protect the hive. Sometimes I use fire to smoke out hornets"
- When I was sworn in as director, I was read into programs I never imagined existed. Well there are programs even I wasn't privy to. Like the Beekeepers. The honeybee has always had a special relationship with humanity. A sacred relationship. Why? No bees, no agriculture. No agriculture, no civilization. Our nation is not unlike a beehive, with its complex systems of workers, caretakers, even royalty. If any of the beehive's complex mechanisms are compromised, the hive collapses. Someone a long time ago decided that a mechanism was needed to keep our nation safe. A mechanism outside the chain of command, outside the system. Its one mission, to keep the system safe. Beekeepers are given all resources, empowered to act on their own judgment. For decades, they have quietly worked to keep the hive safe. That is, until now. It appears that a retired Beekeeper has gone off program and is acting in what he mistakenly believes is the hive's best interest.
- Can't somebody just pick up the phone and tell this yahoo to stand the fuck down?
- That's the one thing Beekeepers don't do. Stand down. Not unlike bees themselves, Beekeepers keep working until they die.
- So he's basically one of us.
- No. He's not like you. You're tier one operators, former SEAL Team Six, Delta Group. You are, in other words, pussies. If you were in the same room, he would kill you. With enough of you, then maybe you just might in fact be able to kill him before he accomplishes his goal.
- What would that be?
- To kill his way to the top of the hive.
- It's gone far enough. You've proved your point. Beekeepers live for the good of society.
- I'm retired. This is personal.
- All the more reason to stop. Go back. Live a quiet life. Making honey for your neighbors.
- That's all I wanted. My neighbor's dead.
- I know. I'm sorry. But do you live in the real world or just protect it? What does it matter to you how presidents come to be elected?
- It doesn't.
- What does matter to you?
- Right and wrong. It's not fashionable. I believe there's good in the universe.
*
Directed by David Ayer (Harsh Times 2005, Street Kings 2008, End of Watch 2012, Sabotage 2014, Fury 2014, Suicide Squad 2016, Bright 2017) and Written by Kurt Wimmer (Sphere 1998, Equilibrium 2002, Ultraviolet 2006, Law Abiding Citizen 2009, Salt 2010, Point Break 2015)
"Gentlemen, our expedition had one purpose, to shed light on the reasons, in 607 AD, for the great migration of the Mayan people. During our research, and unfortunately following serious incidents, we discovered the mysterious being the newspapers are talking about and recovered a fragment of it. The journalists may have exaggerated in their deductions, but everything makes us think we have come across a living prehistoric being from the early geological eras. And this, gentlemen, is not all. Even more astonishing is the Mayan inscription we photographed at Tikal. It says... 'Caltiki is one and immortal. When her bridegroom comes from the sky, the power of Caltiki will destroy the world' This description fits with the mysterious being's characteristics. Caltiki is one and the being is unicellular. Caltiki is immortal. This being's age is inconceivable to us. If I could leave scientific rigour aside, I'd tell you that I brought a piece of Caltiki's body back with me"
- You want to know if there was a celestial phenomenon in the year 607 AD? It's interesting because it was the year of the Mayan migration. The passage of a comet was recorded. It was seen in Byzantium by the Emperor Justinian's astronomers. The ancients called it Arsinoë. They classified it as a malign star because it brought severe disruption and was covered by a radioactive cloud.
- So this caused an increase in atmospheric radioactivity?
- We don't have accurate data about it, but I'll be able to give you that tomorrow.
- Why tomorrow?
- Because tonight Earth is in the same conditions as it was in the year 607. In a few hours that comet will pass very close to us.
- The same comet? Tonight?
- Yes. That's why I found your request so strange. Arsinoë comes near to us in its cycle every 1,352 years. We're observing it right now.
- Arsinoë... "the bridegroom from the sky" That's the cause of the Mayan migration. Radioactivity increased and activated the monster's power. The area around the cavern was filled with terrifying bloodthirsty beings. The same danger is threatening us now. The radioactivity will make the fragments of the monster grow. Call the police and the army. We need flamethrowers.
*
original title·····Caltiki, il mostro immortale
language·········Italian
[The search continues for five Oregon University students who disappeared last month in the Ural Mountains. The students were re-creating the ill-fated journey undertaken by Igor Dyatlov and eight other Russian hikers (watch) 50 years ago for a documentary. The most promising lead recovered was the students' recording equipment. Experts reviewed the footage without releasing it to the public, but today a group of hackers calling themselves ConspiraLeaks gained access to the footage and posted it on their website]
"No matter how this ends, I want there to be a record of what happened to us so we don't end up another Dyatlov mystery'
- Those creatures, the way that they just disappear, become intangible. They can teleport but not through the doors down here.
- That's why they all lock from the outside. They came from here. They came through this.
- That makes sense. It's kind of like a giant wormhole, like, a transporter. It could be some kind of alien technology. Maybe they were trying to weaponize it. What if there are more portals like this around the world? If those things came out of one of them, it could explain all kinds of unsolved mysteries. I have an idea. The gate. You see, it's got no controls. It has no buttons, which means that it either goes to one fixed place or anywhere. What if you picture somewhere clear in your mind and you concentrate on it and that is where it takes you?
- You can just think, "There's no place like home," that easy. And we won't wind up fused to a mountain or something?
- I don't know. I hope not. It's this or them.
*
original title·····The Dyatlov Pass Incident
Directed by Renny Harlin (A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master 1988, Die Hard 2: Die Harder 1990, Cliffhanger 1993, Deep Blue Sea 1999, Mindhunters 2004, Exorcist IV: The Beginning 2004, The Covenant 2006, Skiptrace 2016, The Bricklayer 2023)
- I've got something to tell you all. We got a ghost. Call it a phenomenon if you like. It's got possession of the computer storage room, and it's stopped all work there. Well whatever it is, I've heard it, He's heard it. And she's seen it. Past owners of this mansion once had a go at it with bell, book and candle. Well we're rather better equipped. I'm going to chuck the lot at it.
- Do you mean go after it with electronics?
- Then find out exactly what makes it, well it doesn't tick it patters feet and screeches. Everything we get she's going to program in the computer. Let's say it's a mass of data, waiting for a correct interpretation. No one's ever managed it before, I think we might.
- It's the room. Just the room itself, nothing else. There is no ghost. The room holds an image and when people go in there they pick it up. What you hear or what you see is inside your own brain. That would be why the sounds don't echo and why we can't locate them. That would be why they don't record no machine hears them.
- What about the hotspots? I mean the whole temperature thing?
"You didn't hear it. It wasn't her this time it was different, it was something else. She was only in the surface layer, the most recent. There would be much older impressions underneath. Much deeper. There must be a decay. Whatever is stored the stone, the recording. Otherwise it would be like perpetual motion an impossibility. It would have to corrode and lose definition. Over a long enough period it would have to. But then if you boosted it. Some deep level record. Much older. So old. And shapeless"
*
Directed by Peter Sasdy (Hammer [D] V: Taste the Blood of Dracula 1970, Countess Dracula 1971, Hands of the Ripper 1971)
- I heard a word earlier. I don't know what it means. What is a Vourdalak?
- It is an infamous carrion, returned among us in the sole purpose of sucking our blood. A Vourdalak does not attack to anyone. He particularly delights blood of close relatives and those who are dearest to him. Beings who, once dead, return in turn. Families, entire villages were decimated. Love itself is a curse here. Some say that to mop up their drool, they chew the shroud in which they were buried. They chew like pigs when they spy on humans. They are leeches sneaky and mischievous, that nothing can kill. To prevent them from harming, their houses must be burned down, sprinkled them with holy water by a man of God, or immobilized them. Since the dead try to get up, our only salvation is to pin them to the ground.
"Don't blame me, handsome stranger. Don't hate me for not having known how to be free. Cruel destiny. If only I had met you earlier, how much my life could have been different! I love you"
*
original title·····Le Vourdalak
laguage···········French
[...Today is February 29, 2020. Four years ago today, a clip of a test of courage was posted online. A white shadow appeared at the end. The most terrifying thing is that all five students in the clip had died. Their bodies were found scattered around campus. It should have been a case that shocked the entire country, but no one followed it up. Was it due to the pressure from the university that the police covered it up? Or did the ghost drive them to commit suicide?...]
- So, you think the story is true? The ghost killed people?**
- There is always some truth in a story. Never believe what you see on the surface. I'll definitely dig something up.
- What exactly happened on the bridge?
- One year, a female student decided to elope with her boyfriend. They agreed to meet on the bridge. The girl kept waiting till midnight, but there was no sight of her boyfriend. At that moment, someone appeared on the steps and waved at her. Just as she stepped on the 13th step, she was dragged into the woods and raped by five men. No matter how she struggled and begged them, they refused to let her go. In the end, she was pushed into the lake and drowned. Ever since then, every day at midnight, an extra step would appear on the 13 step bridge. At that moment, never turn your head around. If you do, the ghost will be right in front of you**
- So, something is bound to happen on February 29 every four years? ...
- ... It's hard to live on. I've suffered a lot to survive. If I want to live, five people must die today. I need your help to break this cycle. It's your turn.
*
original title·····女鬼橋 (Nǚ guǐqiáo) / Female Ghost Bridge
language·········Mandarin
**
Based on the urban legend of the haunted bridge at Tunghai University in Taiwan, In 2016, a student wanted to test the tale and live streamed his adventure. He ends up tricking the audience by hanging a figure into the trees behind him. He later ended up apologizing and deleting his live stream (watch) but the production team of the movie already caught on and worked out the entire plot inspired by this student's story.
"All the ghost stories in this game really took place in the Da Ren building. These ghosts have things they cannot let go of, just like people. For the sake of proving themselves or protecting other. They have fallen into an endless cycle, reliving over and over their remorse, resentment, and regret. The current version of the game is based on the Da Ren building alternate reality game. Inside the game itself, players can experience three urban legends. One Man Hide and Seek, the Four Corner game, and the Elevator Ritual. Summon the resentful ghosts in the game and defeat the final evil spirit to rescue all the souls inside the Da Ren building"**
- Why do you keep holding onto that lamp?
- Remember how in the video on my brother's phone, there's a person who wrote incantations on a lamp? Later, I discovered in my brother's notebook that this lamp can apparently ward off evil spirits. There are some things I haven't told you. When I tried out the "Elevator Ritual" and tested "One Man Hide and Seek" I ran into ghosts both times. Look. This is the secret code my brother and I used as kids. When I tested "One Man Hide and Seek". I saw it on the door. It means "be careful." I know it sounds crazy. I didn't believe it at first either, but…
- You think your brother's soul is trapped in the Da Ren building?
- Yes.
"In Resentful Ghost Building, every ghost and person is trapped in a different dimension, an endless cycle"
"Let light lead the way. Guided by blood. Ignite the soul to suppress evil"
*
original title·····女鬼橋2：怨鬼樓 (Nǚ guǐqiáo 2: Yuàn guǐ lóu) / Female Ghost Bridge 2: Resentful Ghost Building
language·········Mandarin
**
The plot follows a group of students who test out an augmented reality horror game at the Da Ren building in the Chinese Culture University in Yangmingshan,Taiwan. According to legend, this building was supposedly built where the realms of the living and dead collide. The university hired a Architect to do a bagua design to ward off evil. Instead, he designed an inverse bagua that attracts evil spirits. After killing his lover, he committed suicide in the building. Countless apparition sightings and paranormal incidents have plagued the building ever since. Soon enough, the line between the game and reality starts to blur, and the students end up releasing something sinister that hunts them through the Da Ren building.
[Looks like the show's got some heat. Time to go off script. Tonight, Father, you'll have a chance to save your own soul. If you don't, I'll kill sweet little Sabrina. Drew, if you cut the live feed at any point, I kill the girl. Max, if you step off set at any point, I kill the girl. Anyone tries to run I'll kill you. You have 49 minutes to lift the veil]
- It needs a vessel. It needs the confessions. It needs the torture. 'Cause it's all to drive up viewership, Flex your muscles in front of a crowd. Demon defeats priest, cosmic fucking payback. Nobody gives a shit what you do to us if they can't see it. Everything out of your mouth has been a lie, and why should we believe you now? It's just going to kill us anyway, isn't that right?
- [From fake priest to false prophet. You got it all figured out, don't you?]
- I see the writing on the wall.
- [But I see everything!]
- Holy shit! That can't be. It was supposed to work. We said all of Aamon's rites.
- [You are no man of God, and I am not Aamon]
- We narrowed down all the names. We wrote the names all the names on the list.
- [It was my list]
- Oh, God!
- [He's not here right now]
"The whole time you were telling us to cut the feed. There's more to it than that, isn't there?"
- It got the blood supply. It's growing. That's why that one on the ship was dead. It needed blood.
- This is great. You're tellin' me we got a goddamn Dracula in here with us?
- Whatever it is, it appears to be a genetic aberration. It has all the characteristics of deep sea marine life: scales, gills, regeneration, and even a period of dormancy. But the fact that it remembered where that plasma was stored seems to imply that it absorbs the intelligence of its victim.
*
Directed by George P. Cosmatos (Rambo: First Blood Part II 1985, Cobra 1986, Tombstone 1993)
[...Today is February 29, 2020. Four years ago today, a clip of a test of courage was posted online. A white shadow appeared at the end. The most terrifying thing is that all five students in the clip had died. Their bodies were found scattered around campus. It should have been a case that shocked the entire country, but no one followed it up. Was it due to the pressure from the university that the police covered it up? Or did the ghost drive them to commit suicide?...]
- So, you think the story is true? The ghost killed people?**
- There is always some truth in a story. Never believe what you see on the surface. I'll definitely dig something up.
- What exactly happened on the bridge?
- One year, a female student decided to elope with her boyfriend. They agreed to meet on the bridge. The girl kept waiting till midnight, but there was no sight of her boyfriend. At that moment, someone appeared on the steps and waved at her. Just as she stepped on the 13th step, she was dragged into the woods and raped by five men. No matter how she struggled and begged them, they refused to let her go. In the end, she was pushed into the lake and drowned. Ever since then, every day at midnight, an extra step would appear on the 13 step bridge. At that moment, never turn your head around. If you do, the ghost will be right in front of you**
- So, something is bound to happen on February 29 every four years? ...
- ... It's hard to live on. I've suffered a lot to survive. If I want to live, five people must die today. I need your help to break this cycle. It's your turn.
*
original title·····女鬼橋 (Nǚ guǐqiáo) / Female Ghost Bridge
language·········Mandarin
**
Based on the urban legend of the haunted bridge at Tunghai University in Taiwan, In 2016, a student wanted to test the tale and live streamed his adventure. He ends up tricking the audience by hanging a figure into the trees behind him. He later ended up apologizing and deleting his live stream (watch) but the production team of the movie already caught on and worked out the entire plot inspired by this student's story.
"All the ghost stories in this game really took place in the Da Ren building. These ghosts have things they cannot let go of, just like people. For the sake of proving themselves or protecting other. They have fallen into an endless cycle, reliving over and over their remorse, resentment, and regret. The current version of the game is based on the Da Ren building alternate reality game. Inside the game itself, players can experience three urban legends. One Man Hide and Seek, the Four Corner game, and the Elevator Ritual. Summon the resentful ghosts in the game and defeat the final evil spirit to rescue all the souls inside the Da Ren building"**
- Why do you keep holding onto that lamp?
- Remember how in the video on my brother's phone, there's a person who wrote incantations on a lamp? Later, I discovered in my brother's notebook that this lamp can apparently ward off evil spirits. There are some things I haven't told you. When I tried out the "Elevator Ritual" and tested "One Man Hide and Seek" I ran into ghosts both times. Look. This is the secret code my brother and I used as kids. When I tested "One Man Hide and Seek". I saw it on the door. It means "be careful." I know it sounds crazy. I didn't believe it at first either, but…
- You think your brother's soul is trapped in the Da Ren building?
- Yes.
"In Resentful Ghost Building, every ghost and person is trapped in a different dimension, an endless cycle"
"Let light lead the way. Guided by blood. Ignite the soul to suppress evil"
*
original title·····女鬼橋2：怨鬼樓 (Nǚ guǐqiáo 2: Yuàn guǐ lóu) / Female Ghost Bridge 2: Resentful Ghost Building
language·········Mandarin
**
The plot follows a group of students who test out an augmented reality horror game at the Da Ren building in the Chinese Culture University in Yangmingshan,Taiwan. According to legend, this building was supposedly built where the realms of the living and dead collide. The university hired a Architect to do a bagua design to ward off evil. Instead, he designed an inverse bagua that attracts evil spirits. After killing his lover, he committed suicide in the building. Countless apparition sightings and paranormal incidents have plagued the building ever since. Soon enough, the line between the game and reality starts to blur, and the students end up releasing something sinister that hunts them through the Da Ren building.
[Looks like the show's got some heat. Time to go off script. Tonight, Father, you'll have a chance to save your own soul. If you don't, I'll kill sweet little Sabrina. Drew, if you cut the live feed at any point, I kill the girl. Max, if you step off set at any point, I kill the girl. Anyone tries to run I'll kill you. You have 49 minutes to lift the veil]
- It needs a vessel. It needs the confessions. It needs the torture. 'Cause it's all to drive up viewership, Flex your muscles in front of a crowd. Demon defeats priest, cosmic fucking payback. Nobody gives a shit what you do to us if they can't see it. Everything out of your mouth has been a lie, and why should we believe you now? It's just going to kill us anyway, isn't that right?
- [From fake priest to false prophet. You got it all figured out, don't you?]
- I see the writing on the wall.
- [But I see everything!]
- Holy shit! That can't be. It was supposed to work. We said all of Aamon's rites.
- [You are no man of God, and I am not Aamon]
- We narrowed down all the names. We wrote the names all the names on the list.
- [It was my list]
- Oh, God!
- [He's not here right now]
"The whole time you were telling us to cut the feed. There's more to it than that, isn't there?"
[This property comes with a special tenant. Lives in the basement. Now that your name is on the title deeds, she's tied to you too. You're her guardian. She'll obey you, and only you. To a point. There's a hole in the far wall. She can't harm you as long as you stay on your side, so you stay away from the hole. She has the power to bring back the dead]
[She only gives you two minutes. Two minutes with the dead. After that, she's in control. No chains or straps will hold her down. The longer you talk to her, the stronger she becomes. She'll crawl inside your head. Even if you try to leave, sickness and death will follow you. Her spells float up from the basement like ghosts. One way or another, she'll bring you back here. Anything to have you set her free. That's her one goal. So, you cannot let her out of the basement. Ever. You're the one thing that stands between her and the outside world. She's your responsibility now. And it's for life. You're a prisoner as soon as you signed your name on that deed. You can't escape this place now. Wherever you go she will haunt you until you come back. And we all come back. We are the cursed ones]
[There is no way out. Your fate was sealed 400 years ago when an ancient brotherhood discovered a woman who could conjure the dead. The brotherhood tried to abuse her power. But when she refused, they branded her a witch and burned her at the stake. But death could not hold her. Rising from the dead, her vengeance was ruthless. Disease spread among livestock. Crops shrivelled, and the plague spread among the people. To stop her, the brotherhood performed a dark ritual and imprisoned her in this underground tomb, leaving her alone and almost forgotten. Centuries later, the descendants of the brotherhood opened her tomb to abuse her power once again. The more they used her, the more power she gained over the brotherhood, who fell to sickness and death. Now, there is only one guardian to stand between her and the outside world. The one who signs the deed inherits the curse and must prevent her from releasing her revenge]
- Three young women have been killed in London within the space of two weeks, each murder more horrible than the last. There's no doubt we're dealing with a brilliant maniac.
- With no apparent motive. A deranged killer, operating alone, using weapons similar to those we have in our Black Museum.
- I know now something I should have realised earlier. You're a sick man. Dangerously sick.
- Are you trying to alarm me?
- I don't think you frighten easily and that makes your aberration even more serious. After each horrifying murder in London, you go into a state of shock. Why? Because you have a close link with the murderer. And now I've seen the morbid atmosphere in which you live and work, things become even clearer to me. I'm convinced you create murder so that you can write about it. I've talked to you, read you books, your columns. I'm convinced you live by murder.
- That's quite a diagnosis. Do you actually think I'm the killer they're looking for?
- I believe you're the force behind the killings, and I know you're mad.
- Well, Doctor, although I can't agree with your diagnosis, I must compliment you on your courage. Goading the lion, a mad lion at that, in his own den!
"The Black Museum in Scotland Yard (watch<|>read) is not really selective. A great deal of clutter. A meagre little collection of guns and knives. Trunks in which hacked up bodies were shipped. Death masks. Ropes and neckties in strangulation. All in all, a dead collection that belongs to the past. But mine is alive. Not only it pays tribute to the past, but it's part of the present. And with the new electronic equipment, the future too. And what do their little weapons add up to? Failure. Each one represents some stupid murderer who was caught. But I shall demonstrate that my weapons can be used again and again. Freely, successfully, and that the murderer will never be caught. When I command you to do things, you know it's for your own good. As you know, I have no offspring, no kin. Someday everything I possess my home, my money, my books, my files, and our private Black Museum will be yours. As an authority on crime, you will go far beyond me. For you are sound of body, fleet of limb, and you have the gift of obedience. Someday, you will go deep into the black soul of man. Deeper than anyone on Earth and you will remember that it was I who sent you on that journey. Of all the weapons in my museum, our museum, this is the most valuable. It makes reality out of legend, truth out of myth. The world thinks that Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde were the figments of a great writer's imagination, but no. I have clearly demonstrated that it is a fact. Man is born with a dual nature, good and evil. Society tries to suppress evil, but not I, not you!"
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