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Cosmic Horror

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A community to discuss Cosmic Horror in it's many forms; books, films, comics, art, TV, music, RPGs, video games etc.

"cosmic horror... is a subgenre of horror fiction and weird fiction that emphasizes the horror of the unknowable and incomprehensible more than gore or other elements of shock... themes of cosmic dread, forbidden and dangerous knowledge, madness, non-human influences on humanity, religion and superstition, fate and inevitability, and the risks associated with scientific discoveries... the sense that ordinary life is a thin shell over a reality that is so alien and abstract in comparison that merely contemplating it would damage the sanity of the ordinary person, insignificance and powerlessness at the cosmic scale..."

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link youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI9fKfX5V68

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt22477180/

A religious girl prepares a presentation about a painting titled "Portrait of God". What she sees challenges her beliefs.

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[–] hexdream@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] superkret@feddit.org 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Great short. Post it in the group later 👌

[–] hexdream@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Thank you. I'll check it out.

[–] Corndog@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Saw this a few months ago and can not get it out of my head. Absolutely brilliant.

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

WOW they used so many lighting and negative visual techniques more effectively than most feature-length, professional films.

I really liked that.

great stuff, I want to see more

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago
[–] UniversalMonk@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

This was great fun!