#Lovely Dark And Deep

[acecroft]

GEORGINA CAMPBELL as Lennon in Lovely, Dark, and Deep (2023)

[fanofspooky]

Scream Queen - Georgina Campbell

[johannestevans]

watched lovely dark and deep and i'm so grumpy about it

it's important not to overexplain a horror concept because overexplaining or providing too much information can end up removing the fear aspect from your premise

but here it's just like. ok. why would she do that though

if she doesn't want to shoot someone in order to escape, why would she just stay in the woods and let it continue to keep other people? are we to assume that killing a deer is equivalent to a human life - and if so… what about many areas of wilderness, where hunting is permitted? what about the fact that most national parks do allow for some animal death even if not hunting, like necessary deer culling?

especially because this story is explicitly linking itself to and referencing the reddit SAR series and separately paulides' missing 411 work, it seems absolutely absurd to me for the story here to take the premise that the rules of the national park are somehow according to a spiritual law or practice or whatever set by "them" rather than a human thing put on signs to remind people not to litter or to accidentally cause damage to ecosystems within the parks

the problem with some of these films is that they're very attached to a white american's idea of ecology and particularly to like. nature-based spiritualism

and subsequently it ends up like "WELL IF YOU KILL AN ANIMAL… THE FOREST WILL KILL YOU BACK… LAW OF NATURE…" and it's like. no, animals die. humans die. death is fine and normal. humans are part of the broader ecosystem.

if you want as a storyteller to ascribe a higher meaning to humans dying or humans killing, you have to do it for a purpose or with some sort of reasoning in mind - trespassing, spilling blood on specific, sacred ground (not large swathes of wilderness), attach a reason as to why humans are more important than any other animal, particularly any other predator or hunter

because otherwise you end up with this fucking nonsense that's like "mmm mother earth wants us to go vegan because she feels bad for the deer <3" and it's absolutely fucking facile.

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[manticoreimaginary]

I just watched Lovely, Dark, and Deep and was so deeply unnerved and thought it was so good, and then went to look up some reviews and it turns out everyone fucking hated it. Damn son, me and my basic-ass taste I guess!

[oldfilmsflicker]

new-to-me #231 - Lovely, Dark, and Deep

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Summary: Virgil wants exactly two things out of life: Doctor Sanders’ advice on his dissertation and the freedom to pursue his research in peace. He thinks he’s gotten both of these things, and then he finds a wounded merman tangled in a net on the beach. he rescues him, because of course he does, and that’s not so bad. Then the others show up, and man, they are NOTHING like Disney led him to believe. At least one of them’s cute, right? (OR: the analogical mermaid!au that exactly one person asked for)

Author: @teacupfulofstarshine

Note from submitter: HOLY DHIT ONE OF MY FAVES EVER also hi teacupfulofstarshine if you see this i freaking love this fic <3

[horrorvillaintourney]

HORROR VILLAIN TOURNEY, ROUND THREE MATCH ONE: The Entities (Lovely, Dark, and Deep) vs. Longlegs (Longlegs)

[fuckyeahfightlock]

I have spent the vast bulk of this three-day weekend re-doing my daughter's bedroom; today was the final build-the-new-bed and reset everything--and she has A LOT of stuff--that had been moved to another room in order to lay down a new rug and move furniture and etc. I'm exhausted beyond exhausted! And unfortunately I had no time to sit and watch a scary movie today.

BUT! I did see a headline this morning that a horror movie I'd like to recommend to you has recently arrived on Hulu (it was and may still be on Tubi, too). Lovely, Dark, and Deep is an extra-dimensional horror about a rookie park ranger on her first assignment at an isolated ranger station in a vast national park. Lennon, whose sister Jenny disappeared in the park when the two were children, discovers a rash of missing-persons cases. Further investigation leads her to uncover secrets, and to a fuller understanding of her true purpose as a guardian of the park and its visitors.

This movie is wonderfully twisty, creepy, sad, and scary. It stars Georgina Campbell, who is intensely compelling and easily carries the film. Written and directed by Teresa Sutherland. Run, don't walk, to watch this unique, eerie, and smart film.

Also written by Teresa Sutherland, coincidentally, was my scary movie yesterday. Directed by Emma Tammi and starring Caitlin Gerard, The Wind is an historic horror set during the Westward Expansion of America.

Lizzie and Isaac have lived on their homestead in New Mexico for several years, alone, until a young couple, Emma and Gideon, move into an abandoned cabin a mile away, becoming their first and only neighbors.

The opening shot of this movie, of Lizzie standing in an open doorway, drenched in blood from her chin to her knees, holding a swaddled infant, sets the tone for the film beautifully. Shortly Lizzie is left alone for a few days, and begins to have eerie, threatening experiences with wolves, the goat, a wandering preacher, Emma's left-behind diary, and the ceaseless, howling wind. Through a series of flashbacks, the story of Lizzie and Isaac's own loss of an infant, as well as the brief history of their relationship with their mile-distant young neighbors (Emma, an unhappy city girl and Gideon, an ill-equipped homesteader are nearly exact opposites of tough and hardworking Lizzie and Isaac), unfold to reveal the existence of a pamphlet called The Demons of the Plains. Is Lizzie haunted by one of those demons? Driven mad by the demands of a lonely life in the empty west? Or is it something much simpler--jealousy of her pretty young neighbor?

I am a fan of horror in any historic setting that ISN'T the damp gaslit streets of Victorian England. Coincidentally just a few weeks ago I finished reading a book about the Donner Party survivors, with absolutely hellacious descriptions of what it took to make the westward trek from St Louis or Chicago toward the Pacific Northwest or California. I had an idea of families happily bouncing along in wagons with their kitchen pots and bedrolls, like Little House on the Prairie, but the reality was often positively harrowing. For instance, walking beside the wagon (and frequently leaving possessions along the side of the trail) to save the oxen from having to carry the weight. Walking. From St. Louis to Sacramento. Those who made it were the toughest of the tough, and not a single day of their lives was easy.

Caitlin Gerard's performance is fantastic and understated--even her "mad scenes" are free of histrionics. While the final act throws a lot at the walls in hopes every viewer will find something that sticks regardless of their idea of what's going on here, overall the movie is intriguing and well worth the watch.

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[fanofspooky]

Lovely, Dark, and Deep

2023 • 1h27m

Lennon, a new back-country ranger, travels alone through the dangerous wilderness, hoping to uncover the origins of a tragedy that has haunted her since she was a child.

[scary-movies-on-netflix]

LOVELY, DARK, AND DEEP (2023)

I should really like this.  It’s about spooky forests.

The film features “Lennon,” who we’ve also seen in “Barbarian” (2022) and “The Watchers” (2024).  She is a new park ranger at “Arvores National Park,” which we learn “is the largest collection of missing people anywhere in the world!”  She drives through the park and literally listens to “Missing 411: The Hunted” (2019), which is about people going missing in the forest.  She is dropped off at her ranger station, which is a cozy little hut with canvas walls and a flimsy wooden door.  She spends her days hiking about her territory.  Apart from her normal duties, she is obviously looking for some sign of her sister, who disappeared in the same park when they were both young! 

We don’t have much dialogue.  Lennon hikes about and we have lots of beautiful forest scenes.  Nights are spooky, and she sees a black deer.  She marks down on her map areas she has searched.  One night, a frantic dude bangs on her door and says that “we need help.”  She follows him and he says, “She was right there, and then she wasn’t.”  She summons the other rangers, and they organize a search for the missing woman.  Lennon is told to wait at camp, in case the woman shows up, but she disobeys and goes out to join the search!  She has visions of the past search for her sister.  Night falls, and she sees the black deer again.  Lennon finds the woman.  She is dazed and her hands and inner legs are bloody.  She asks Lennon, “Are you real?” 

The other rangers retrieve the missing woman.  Lennon is told to return to her station and wait for helicopter retrieval in five days, because she disobeyed orders and “is done for the season.”  She does not wait at her station!  She heads out to investigate where she found the woman.  Night falls, and she hears spooky noises, and she glimpses someone crawling around her camp!  She climbs into her tent and someone is standing outside, but they leave.  She receives word from another ranger (via walkie talkie) that there are reports of a missing person and she should follow them.  She leaves her tent and walks until morning, and then things get weird:

Lennon somehow finds herself all the way on the other side of the park.  She falls down and bonks her head.

Her walkie talkie accuses her of taking something whilst behind her, an image of the very woman she saved crawls down a tree.  Lennon sees her and she has weird eyes!  A vision of Lennon’s sister whispers into her ear, “replace what you took or they’ll keep you.”

Lennon has visions of a nice old couple that she knows.  She has visions of herself shooting them.  She points a gun at them but does not shoot. 

She hikes back to her ranger station.  She has a vision of the past, where a ranger handed to her mother her missing sister’s shoe, and the ranger has a weird head!  Just a mass of bloody tendrils.  Lennon enters the ranger station, but inside is an entire house of some sort, where she sees visions of her family.  She listens to a cassette tape, where she hears the head ranger lady saying that “she’s been taken, there’s nothing I can do.”  Lennon sees her mother chomping on her own hand, and she sees her father stab himself.  She sees a vision of her missing sister, who says, “they keep us here.”

Lennon finally finds herself standing on a dark lakeshore and sees the head ranger lady.  She asks her, “are you real?”  The head ranger explains that there are beings at the park, and they take people, “and we let them.”  The head ranger lady now regrets her complicity in this practice, and she trades herself to the beings for Lennon.  (See, Lennon interfered when she saved the other woman, and now they want Lennon.  Head ranger lady offers herself in Lennon’s stead.)  Lennon finds herself on the real lakeshore, and a ranger finds her.  “You all know,” she tells him.

She later returns to her ranger work.  We see a missing person poster for the head ranger lady.  Someone else goes missing and she joins the search.  Lennon is walking alone to look for the dude, and she finds him!  He faces her and asks, “Are you real?”  She says, “No,” and walks away.  The end.

This movie was ok.  I found myself mostly unsatisfied.  This is a tale of loss and alienation, but it’s not entirely successful as a horror movie.  Look at the trailer.  It basically has every spooky moment, and the movie itself doesn’t really add much more.  Lennon wanders around in a vision of some sort, but it’s unfocused.  Are the forest being trying to drive her mad?  Trying to convince her to stay with them?  The beings show her some weird visions and weakly threaten her with some unknown fate.  The movie could have really leaned into the cosmic horror aspect of the plot and shown her that the forest can be a portal into terror and madness.  Alas, no.  Perhaps worst of all, at the end she just gives in and decides to let someone be taken.  Didn’t she remember the pain of her own sister’s loss?  Maybe in that respect the forest broke her, and we’ll have to settle for that.

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[elizabethnightingale4]

Watching “Lovely, Dark, and Deep” for the first time and it is giving SUCH strong “Midsommar” vibes dude. I might have find another fav movie.