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[adventuresofahasselblad]

No gaze, all gauze 

Jose in costume as Quinn 

Diefenbunker, Ottawa, Canada 

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[refractionaldistillations]

From renowned DISTRICT 9 director NEILL BLOMKAMP and his new brain child OAT STUDIOS comes ZYGOTE - a genuinely terrifying, hair-raising sci-fi horror.

Barklay is a grizzly security agent, and Quinn is a low-level functionary synthetic. They are the sole survivors of a devastating accident on an isolated arctic mining colony, and they’re being relentlessly hunted down by a Frankensteinesque abomination who’s murdered the rest of the colony’s crew.

Sound a bit familiar? It should. ZYGOTE echos with the harrowing footsteps of RIDLEY SCOTT’S 1979 sci-fi suspense horror epic ALIEN.

Many films have attempted to captive audiences in the same way as Alien did but ZYGOTE is a little bit special. The creature’s haunting appearance and bone-chilling shrieks are genuinely fear-inducing and the spartan, minimalist corridors of the trashed mining colony give the setting a cold and inhospitable feel. Coupled with a soundscape of irritating sirens and alarms, it all comes together beautifully to instil in the audience a chilling, unnerving sense of impending doom.

But, as good and enjoyable as ZYGOTE is, it’s falls a little short of it’s potential. I feel like the film should have teased the audience more - we should have been given a single, distant, blood-curdling howl. A furtive glimpse of a horrifying silhouette. A bloody, disfigured limb sliding across a window.... And then BOOM, JUMP-SCARE, as the abomination is revealed in all it’s petrifying glory for a final show-down with it’s prey.

Instead, the abomination is a whiny, shouty, marauder. It doesn’t come across as particularly cunning intelligent or stealthy. Perhaps that’s the point - it’s strong and bold enough, that it doesn’t need to hide.

But for me, it’s more terrifying to be stalked from the shadows by a mysterious, silent, unseen killer, than it is to be chased by a marauding beast.

Fear comes from the unknown.

[palitoseafins]

Vistos. Cara, curtas metragem de terror e ficção científica matadores deste estúdio. Quem curte estes temas TEM que ver os curtas deles. Muito bom mesmo. Recomendo especialmente Firebase, Rakka e Zygote. Este última por sinal tem um dos melhores e com certeza mais bizarro e grotesco monstro que vocês vão ver! Heeh Procurem no youtube que vale a pena. #oatstudios