Rebirth

Nick Winney

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anything with pods! felt quite alien-esque in parts! nature subsuming us! i love this concept!

Thanks very much Nick 🙏

Glad you liked it 👍🏼

Looking forward to part 2 of your story. It’s really great 👏

thanks Dan…im cutting it down a little should be later today after the CHORES

Ah yes. The CHORES. First stretch of dry days up here so cutting the grass has jumped to top of the agenda 🙄😁

This was such a slice of life story and then it shifted in a very clever unexpected way. I was thinking it would be a traditional haunted house tale but it was so much more. Almost sci fi in feel but with a definite fantasy horror twist. Something about it gave me Guillermo de Toro vibes. Well done!

Thanks very much Garen 🙏

I’m so glad you enjoyed it 👍🏼

There’s definitely a wee bit of Pan’s Labyrinth in there towards the end as I re-watched it recently so was probably on my mind 🙂

Yes! It has that balance of darkness and whimsy that I love so much in De Toro’s work. Now I want to rewatch Pam’s Labyrinth too!

awesome! loved it.

Thanks very much EJ 🙏

This starts so grounded it almost feels like a character study… and that’s what makes the turn work.

The slow build of Craig’s life, the monotony, the quiet grief… it lulls you just enough that when the house and the forest start shifting, it feels less like horror and more like inevitability.

I especially loved how the transformation isn’t framed as fear, but as relief. That final acceptance… being chosen, being absorbed… lands in a really unsettling way.

There’s something deeply eerie about horror that doesn’t resist. Loved it!

Thanks very much Waymon 🙏

You have perfectly understood everything I was going for here. As I mentioned on the call last night, these are the stories that I particularly enjoy. Where under the normalcy and banality of everyday life is something else. Another world that we can find if we only look hard enough

I’m so glad you enjoyed it 👍🏼

I loved Nightbreed!

It’s a great movie 👍🏼

I’ve got the blu-ray with the directors cut on it and you can really see how much the studio messed with it.

I met Barker not long after it came out and he was quite sanguine about the whole experience and was looking to making Weaveworld next. Unfortunately that never happened but it would be a movie I’d love to see 👍🏼

Dude! Hot off Books of Blood and Hellraiser i bought Weaveworld when it was first published—i was 19(?) at the time…so sad the movie didn’t get made

Subbed!