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    Davio: Well, I'm not sleeping tonight. more »
    Starwatcher: Well, the blithe circus music makes the first video all the more disturbing. I really find that almost too distasteful to watch, but it's certainly w... more »
    frederic: please... no more zombie movies.. it's not cool, it's not a "edgy" way to become a film maker. It's just tired, amateur crap, in all languages and co... more »
    Seamus McClernan: I think a better ending would've been for the doll (now in Alma's body) to exit the shop, erase the name "Alma" on the wall across the street and writ... more »
    Bigdamnhero: I like how the window looks like the gaping maw of the shop, with the creepy doll in the center. Any second there I was expecting a high pitched elec... more »
    Jon: 2084 looks like a general "meh" but reminds me of the Dr Who episode involving the motorway. more »
    it must be bunnies: Didn't alma see Coraline? A doll that looks and dresses exactly like you is not a good thing. more »
    Jesse Astle: The only thing that would've made that animation creepier is the sound of little feet scurrying around in the background. more »
    Spider Sister: Now I have a justifiable reason to find dolls of that variety creepy. more »
    riotnrrd: Alma was lovely; such great secondary animation on the hat, and some really good facial animation. An that trailer for "2084" may be the least inform... more »
    sicboi: without scale it's hard to know but that Blackout creature looks almost too fragile to be out looking for trouble with humans, no? #werewolves more »
    kosai: If the goal of the Blackout trailer was for me to hate every single one of those characters and want to see their horrible deaths it succeeded. #werew... more »
    Alessar: Ah, I was hoping Ice was an adaptation of a really good disaster porn novel, "The Empire of Ice," in which a volcanic erruption mid-Atlantic diverts t... more »
    squidink: You're right, Bill. It's a mugwump. A naked mugwump, at that. #werewolves more »
    Bill-Lee: The creature from "The Blackout" looks like a mugwump from "Naked Lunch". more »
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