[cannibal-yearn]

Widow's Bay | Ep, 1

[0dead-end]

Personally one of the scariest things about Iron lung is the fact even when he knew there was something down there with him he never fully saw it. Yes he has the x rays but those only showed him so much of the creatures they could have been larger than what just the bones show. He couldn't even tell what was alive and what was dead. There could have been things down there that didnt show up on x ray and thats horrifying.

[muddy-pawprints-on-my-mp3-player]

Absolutely. It’s what had my skin crawling when he jammed the ship into its face. You have no idea how much flesh & sinew is in the way. Wedged into the ship. That the ship for the rest of the film is likely covered in even more viscera. Maybe that’s what is seeping into the sub & corrupting it further. Simon tried to sample an unknowable being & in return it probed him so invasively that neither his mind nor body were spared. Simon bit first & the creature bit back.

[not-mary-sue]

Crack theory: There's nothing supernatural going on in Iron Lung. Simon is just experiencing the side effects of chugging almost pure ethanol like a fucking moron.

[rhodeisland-resorts]

It’s all gotta be worth it.

[starbittie]

i’ve seen a lot of people talking about the pacing of iron lung, and i kinda think that people are overlooking that the pacing is the point.

movies right now are absolutely terrified of silence. every spare second is crammed with motion and noise and information. there’s always something new to look at, something new to process. look here. now here. don’t blink. don’t breathe. it’s constant stimulation. there’s no room left for a moment to land before the next one is already gone.

there’s good sci fi horror out there that do silence and restraint well. i can immediately think of under the skin, annihilation, and ex machina. sometimes the silence is the point. personally i think iron lung works in that lineage.

this isn’t a movie that will let you sit there and passively consume. this is a movie full of visual and audial clues waiting for you to unravel them. this is a movie that wants you to notice your breathing. to feel the silence press in until it’s oppressive.

isolation is the movie. it’s you alone with your thoughts, with time stretching and warping, with nothing to distract you from the constant dread creeping in. it’s not the monsters out there that you’re afraid of. not the constant drip, drip, drip of impending doom. but you, alone, in an endless sea of red.

can you count your breaths in the silence? can you hear your heart beating in your ears? can you live with yourself?

that’s iron lung to me.

[corvid-khaos]

An ignorant god sees a sliver of our universe through a pinhole and thinks it understands all that is and all that will be-

[siins]

this is my iron lung fanart

[purpurlilies]

I saw iron lung twice in three days and drew this in a feverish delirium so needless to say I enjoyed it a perfectly normal amount

[benjaminketchup]

the eldritch being on the other side of the radioactive camera

[jailrotting]

hello guys my name is Markiplier

[brandedfool]

This Iron Lung review is taking me out

[leaving-earth]

[ministarfruit]

mmmmarkiplier movie

[funkylittlebats]

Iron Lung is great bc it asks the question what if the sacrificial lamb was evil. What if the lamb thought itself evil. What if everyone else thought the lamb evil. What if the lamb wasn't evil what if the lamb is just a lamb, bleeting desperately to escape its undue sacrifice. What if the lamb knew it was a sacrifice from the start. What if the lamb just wanted to live. What if the lamb wanted to live so fucking bad. What if the lamb wanted the flock to live more. What if the lamb accepts its own sacrifice, leans into the glinting knife, in the hopes that the flock survives.

[frejs-froggy-artblog]

Matching icons for you, your welder and the guy you're sending into unimaginable horror

[vampirecatprince]

Something something the oxygen meter going up and Simon somehow having enough air for days longer then he should and how the sub essentially becomes a part of Simon and how blood carries oxygen and what is the purpose of a real Iron lung anyways and iron is what carries oxygen in human blood after all and the blood trying to make him one with the ship because it was already breathing for him and the eldritch forces genuinely can't understand why he's still fighting to maintain his autonomy and sense of self in the face of something so much bigger than him, when it would just be so much easier and less painful to allow himself to be subsumed

Something about the indomitable human spirit in the face of something that's so incomprehensible that it can make metal breathe for you

[mimicben]

Snapshots of fear

Maybe this is what you deserve