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jormis29
Since: Mar, 2012
perotinus1983
Since: Nov, 2021
6th Dec, 2021 02:41:33 PM
Thanks!
I live to breathe
I’m looking for a movie about creatures that live in darkness. Any space big enough for a man to fit seems to do, but mainly alleys, tunnels, vents, dark rooms - room enough to hunt in. They hunt humans, presumably solely but I can’t remember exactly.
These creatures would dissolve the instant the light/flashlight/street lights/cigarette lighter flares. Lucky for them they harness some kind of electric jamming psychic skill and incidentally matches and lighters tend not to work until the very last instant.
These creatures seem humanoid but incomprehensibly fast like leopards and limber enough to take on insectile forms like mantes or spiders, in which forms they keep still, like predators waiting their chance. Upon moving they move more like apes, running, leaping. I forget if they cling to walls or ceilings, but it’s very conceivable they did.
If I can remember correctly, the female protagonist’s brother was hunted and seemingly became paranoid, talking about a device like a gps marker making him easily huntable. Of course he was quite right; the lead finds such a device planted in her own head later on and understandably gets depicted as a paranoid. It must run in the family.
At the end of the movie she gets sucked into the ‘web’ of shadows which to the outside world is invisible. The last scene shows an inspector watching a coat hanger suspiciously as it is moving. The lead screams and bangs on the semi invisible web, ineffectually. The officer closes the closet with gut-wrenching finality. Stangely enough the lead, being caught, doesn’t seem captive or in acute danger of being eaten or killed. It’s as if the creatures are just programmed to hunt her forever around their dark world. It was really one of the most horrible and hopeless movies I ever saw.
… any takers?