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Cosmic Horror

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A community to discuss Cosmic Horror in it's many forms; books, films, comics, art, TV, music, RPGs, video games etc.

"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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Things Get Dicey In This 'Things Will Be Different' Exclusive Clip (www.dreadcentral.com)
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Writer and director Michael Felker got his start in the film industry with modern genre masters Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead. Through editing almost all of their films, Felker absorbed everything that makes the works of Benson and Moorhead so special. Now he’s taken all of that learning and created his own touching, frightening, and beautifully lo-fi sci-fi horror film, Things Will Be Different.

In the film: In order to escape police after a robbery, two estranged siblings lay low in a metaphysical farmhouse that hides them away in a different time. There they reckon with a mysterious force that pushes their familial bonds to unnatural breaking points.

If there’s one movie you check out this year, let it be this one. It’s smart, heart-felt, and tense, a clever mix of family drama and genre film. You never feel its budget but you always feel the pulsing cosmic horror that’s closing in around our two protagonists...

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