Into the Sewers

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Salt mines are crazy.

TURDA SALT MINE

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was going to try to contribute something to this thread but what i ended up with was so rambling and basically unrelated that i just put it here instead https://aloysiusplace.blogspot.com/2025/02/elm-street-tangents.html

it’s not difficult to extend this association with the unconscious to what produces these sounds: all these unseen utility inner-workings running through the walls/floor/ceiling/backrooms keeping the visible world running beyond our knowledge. so where is the underworld? in the other movie we watched, friday the 13th, which is set out in the forest, it’s in the lake - classical mythological stuff. an americana lake avernus. but in the suburban imagination it can be in these dark closed off utility spaces - the boiler room of a power plant in a nightmare on elm street (also a boiler room in the shining), or the storm drains in it.** afx famously described SAW II as being like “standing in a power station on acid”…

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feel like having sus around for commentary drastically changed how i watched this film. movie night at my apartment became a less braindead...

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This could also go in Luke's 'Industrial London' thread. A load of the interior stuff from the second film was done inside a disused London power station. There's an imgur folder of pics someone's mate's dad took inside when he worked there as an electrician. It's where some of the Axis Chemical scenes in Tim Burton's Batman were done too.

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Acton Lane Power Station - Wikipedia

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There's a story on Reuters today about Russian special forces getting inside a gas pipeline and sneaking down the pipe to surprise attack Ukrainians in Kursk.

Russian Telegram channels showed pictures of special forces in gas masks and lights, some using colourful Russian curses, along the inside of what looked like a large pipe.

 

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Surprised @Mr. Tea or @Corpsey never mentioned the mines of Moria in this one. The dwarves delving deeper and deeper until they disturb a remnant of the old world. Something similar happens in the Kristen Stewart film, Underwater. A mining operation drilling at the bottom of the sea releases something you very much wouldn't want to release.

 

[IdleRich]

Also Quatermass And The Pit if it hasn't been mentioned several times already.

 

[IdleRich]

Also this

London is built from concrete, steel and the creative urge.

Old technology gives way to the new. Progress is inevitable - but is it more fragile than its inhabitants realise?

A strange anomaly is uncovered in the new top-secret Crossrail extension being built under Buckingham Palace. It is an archeological puzzle, one that may transform our understanding of history - and the origins of London itself.

And if our modern world falls, we may have to turn to the technology of the past in order to save our future.

 

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Reza Negarestani, Cyclonopedia

 

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@sus

We can drag Alien (1979) and Aliens (1986) into this. Kane descending into the bowels of the derelict, Ripley descending into the hive.

 

[IdleRich]

@sus

We can drag Alien (1979) and Aliens (1986) into this. Kane descending into the bowels of the derelict in the first film, Ripley descending into the hive in the second.

Do we have a thread for Alien?

 

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[sus]

@sus

We can drag Alien (1979) and Aliens (1986) into this. Kane descending into the bowels of the derelict, Ripley descending into the hive.

Absolutely, you step into the Underworld and you drag something back, some undead horror clinging to your ankle, with you

 

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[IdleRich]

What's that Japanese film where he sees a guy stab himself in the eye with horror and then intrigued he wants to see what drove him to that and he ends up venturing into all these underground tunnels and bringing back a monster woman he has to feed?

 

[IdleRich]

Freelance cameraman Takuyoshi Masuoka (Shinya Tsukamoto) carries a camera everywhere he goes. He becomes obsessed with the idea of fear after seeing a frightened man shove a knife into his eye to commit suicide. Wishing to understand the fear that the man must have felt before his death, Masuoka descends into a labyrinthine underground area beneath Tokyo, where he sees quadrupedal humanoid creatures that are stark white and whimper like dogs. While searching the tunnels and passages, Masuoka encounters a homeless man dwelling there who warns him about the "deros". He encounters Kuroki, the man who killed himself, who discusses the underworld and The Shaver Mystery with him. After hours of searching, Masuoka discovers an underground mountain range and the ruins of a city. He finds a nude young woman (Tomomi Miyashita) chained to a wall, and takes her back to his apartment.

The girl, whom Masuoka dubs 'F', does not eat, drink, or speak, has strangely formed toes and sharp teeth, and appears to be something other than human. Masuoka becomes obsessed with understanding her. He sets up cameras that enable him to observe her from his cell phone when he leaves the apartment, and checks on her regularly. While out shopping, Masuoka sees F speaking to someone off camera, and a menacing man in black appears behind him. He returns to the apartment, where a woman in a trench coat is lingering in the stairwell outside his door. Inside, Masuoka finds F in convulsions and unsuccessfully attempts to feed her. He discovers that twelve seconds of camera footage is missing, and receives a mysterious phone call from a payphone warning him that he is in serious trouble.

After being beaten with his camera by a stranger whom he filmed, Masuoka cuts his finger on the broken lens and returns home. He discovers that F survives on blood when she licks his finger, and cuts himself to feed her further. Masuoka begins to care for her by providing animal carcasses, deciding to treat F more as a pet than a human. The woman in the trench coat confronts him in the street, saying the girl is her daughter Fuyumi and demanding to know where she is. Masuoka denies having a daughter and runs away, returning to the apartment to find the lock broken, the inside ransacked, and F missing. He wanders the streets searching for F and encounters the man in black, who expresses his disappointment in Masuoka's handling of her, speaking to him telepathically in the same voice from the phone call. Masuoka returns to his apartment to find that F has returned, her hands bloody.

Outside, Masuoka is accosted by the woman, who demands he speak to her. Beginning to film her, he silently walks into an alley. As the woman keeps demanding to see her daughter, Masuoka stabs her to death on camera. He drains her corpse of blood to feed to F, which she ravenously drinks from baby bottles. He then lures a high school girl to a park at night under the pretense of filming amateur pornography and kills and films her too. Masuoka calls the payphone and speaks to the stranger, who agrees that Masuoka is taking better care of F now. While filming for a news crew at the scene of the second murder, Masuoka sees the girl he murdered standing beside the crime scene and glaring at him as her body is taken away. He leads F out of the apartment and abandons her in a karaoke room, then boards a train with no destination in mind.

After a period of weeks spent aimlessly, in an onsen town, Kuroki appears to Masuoka, and they discusses Masuoka's interest in fear, with Kuroki opining that fear is primal human knowledge locked away in the subconscious. Masuoka returns to Tokyo and lives among the homeless in the park where he killed the girl. He briefly admits to himself that he murdered his wife and a stranger and treated his daughter like an animal, before seeing a pair of deros on the street and finding a cell phone with a picture of his own terror-stricken face on it. He returns to his apartment, his wife's ghost appearing unseen behind him in the elevator, and finds the weakened F on the apartment floor. F speaks to him for the first time, and he cuts his tongue out to feed her. F leads Masuoka back down into the underworld, where she films him, as it appears he has finally discovered the fear that so intrigued him.

Kind of feel that's all that needs to be said on this matter

 

[IdleRich]

I love the bit where he lures a schoolgirl to the park to film some innocent child pornography but it turns out to be a trick and he's actually a bad guy

 

[IdleRich]

Nasty film but for me the strongest bit was the guy driving the knife into his eye through horror, nothing that comes after can be horrible enough to explain that