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A man locked in a room faces inter-dimensional terror
Make sure you check out my first pilot: GRRL SCOUTS! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8Gt4Jxn3lk

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Shot for the Guillermo Del Toro & Legendary pictures "House of Horrors" competition.
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DIRECTED BY: MIKE DIVA
CINEMATOGRAPHY BY: JAN-MICHAEL LOSADA
CO-DIRECTED BY: SAM SHAPSON

STARRING: NICK GREGORIO

PRODUCED BY: MAXWELL JAMES

STORY BY: MIKE DAHLQUIST AND JAN-MICHAEL LOSADA
WRITTEN BY: MIKE DAHLQUIST, JAN-MICHAEL LOSADA, SAM SHAPSON, GEORGE "MADDOX" OZ, JACKSON LANZIG, COLLIN KELLY

EDITED BY: SAM SHAPSON AND MIKE DAHLQUIST

LEAD: NICK GREGORIO
DOCTOR: RUBEN PLA
MR X: DOUGH OLSSON
1ST AC: ALLYSON LAQUIAN
2ND AC: MARISA GERARDIN
GAFFER: TYLER HART
KEY GRIP: JOEL SUTHERLAND
HAIR AND MAKEUP: AVIAN SUMMER

PRACTICAL EFFECTS: ERIC FOX & TEAM AT MORB X EFFECTS

VFX SUPERVISOR: CHASE LEVIN
VFX ARTISTS: CHASE LEVIN, MIKE DAHLQUIST, MATTEW ROBILLARD, SCREAMER CLAUX, AARON NELSON-PURCELL, DANNY CORONA

ANIMATION: SCREAMER CLAUX, AREEBA KHAN, JUSTINE STEWART, ELIOT SIRA

MODELS: SCREAMERCLAUZ, TIM TRANKLE, AND TURBOSQUID

AUDIO POST-PRODUCTION AND MIXING: RICHARD ALEXANDER WITT VILLARREAL

PRODUCTION SOUND: KEVIN BELLANTE, ALEX STEEN, BRIAN PARKHURTS

SWORD WRANGER AND FOG BENDER: GEORGE "MADDOX" OZ

MUSIC: ROLLER MOBSTER - CARPENTER BRUT
UNTITLES - DAVID DAHLQUIST
SEGUIDILLA - GEORGE BIZET
PRO SCORES - VIDEO COPILOT

PA/PROP MASTER: MICHAEL HUFFMAN
PA: BRIAN PARKHURTS

LOCATIONS PROVIDED BY YOUTUBE SPACE LA, LEGENDARY, AND LORD DANGER PRODUCTIONS

ADDITIONAL PROPS AND SET PIECES PROVIDED BY ERIC FOX

This video was shot at the YouTube Space House of Horrors with @Legendary Entertainment

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The most unassuming movie I was recommended, but turned out to be spectacular: Upgrade. I read somewhere the producers had really low expectations for this movie as it is low budget and not about comic book superheroes. Apparently, there are no plans for the 2nd installment. But, imho, creative camerawork, beautiful cinematography and wild choreography put it anywhere above and beyond most any superhero flick out now.

The movie that shattered any expectations I had for it: Enter Nowhere. I stumbled upon it on Amazon Prime, thought the synopsis was somewhat interesting and went into watching it with extremely low expectations (the title is crap, the poster is crap, it has Clint Eastwood's son with wooden expression throughout the movie). But this movie turned out to be a trippy puzzle unlike what we are used to (Cube, Saw, Escape Room). Instead of wealthy people with kinky(?) sense of entertainment and insane philosophers, it has something to do with WW2. Unusual.

Low budget movie that takes place in a single room, yet won't bore you even for a second: Circle. It's a survival game movie where predicting the outcome of the game is half the fun. Blew all my expectations out the park. I watched a lot of survival movies of late and this is one of the (very few) best.

The movies that deserved all their hype: Arrival, It, Us, Annihilation. In Arrival I loved the design of aliens, their environment, the way the linguist tries to decipher their language and the final twist. One negative is how the movie deals with geopolitics - it's crude and laughable. For a movie led by kids, It (the movie) is really a solid one. It is polished like a huge budget superhero flick, but also, uh, literate and entertaining. Us is a beautiful, very slick movie that pops in your face. It has a couple of interesting twists and some funny bits. Refreshing break from the regular Hollywood fare(schlock). That said, Us is riddled with holes as if someone shot at it from a semi. But even with that it's fun to watch as Hollywood doesn't make movies like Us often (only on special occasions?). Annihilation is gorgeous. Period. The set design is a work of art and I love the subject matter. Again, H'wood doesn't dabble in this sort of stuff very often. The move signals the ending twist half-way through, but I am not sure it's even a twist. This movie doesn't end with a bang as it's all about the process. To me it is a meditation on research, often frustrating and unsuccessful (though, the linguist in Arrival was very much successful in her endeavor :) The soundtrack is unusual (and beautiful) for this kind of movie (although the movie itself is unusual). I love the sound design in all these four movies. Really attractive.

Among the memorable shorts (I watch a lot of them; I can recall many, but can't remember their titles) I saw are The Gun Fighter [0], Paradox (try solving the problem in the movie before it ends)[1], Thresher [2], Rakka [3].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWs4WA--eKU

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnfh3qcpBxA

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqNdbHHWtBc

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjQ2t_yNHQs

yesenadam
Thank you! :-) Really great answer, I shall check those out. Yup, Upgrade was awesome.
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