Category: Cinematic Immersion Tank

I’m ready to do a second Cinematic Immersion Tank. Check out the explanation on my first CIT post and the results when I watched Martha Marcy May Marlene once a day, every day, for an entire week.

This time around with the spookiness of the Halloween season I will take on a film that is horrific in some way.

Place your vote here!!.

Your choices are:

 

A Field in England (2013, dir. Ben Wheatley)

Set during the English Civil War, a deserter/alchemist joins up with a band of disparate soldiers to discover a treasure buried in a field. Psychedelic cosmic horror ensues.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbqgwSQk7vI

Here Comes the Devil (2012, dir. Adrian Garcia Bogliano)

A couple loses their children in the hills, but they are returned safe and sound. But are these really their children. A violent, disturbing story of demonic possession and the lengths parents go to protect their children.

 

House of the Devil (2009, dir. Ti West)

A college student needing some extra cash takes up a job babysitting at a creepy old house in the woods. Filmed in a 1980s retro manner, Ti West manages to walk the line between respectful homage and originality.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SOur3WwZvM

 

Nightcrawler (2014, dir. 2014)

Less supernatural and more real life horror. Jake Gyllenhaal plays a hardworking man who finds his calling in is exploiting the tragedy of others for television ratings. A deeply disturbing character study.

If you haven’t been watching the excellent Welcome to the Basement film series on YouTube, start doing that. Hosted by Matt Sloan (Chad Vader) and Craig Johnson, the series has the men watching a film that either both or one of them has never seen before. In one of the episodes, Mr. Sloan brings up the Cinematic Immersion Tank, a variant on some previous challenges where a person would watch a film for a consecutive 30 days or 7 days. Sloan’s variant sets it at five days, a more reasonable accomplishment. The goal of the CIT is that the viewer will begin to extrapolate a greater understanding of themes and more subtle elements of the picture upon viewing it so many times, so close together.

So, whether this is foolish or not, I am going to let you good readers vote on which film I shall go into the tank with. The dates of my immersion will be June 21st thru 25th. The choices you can vote on are listed below with a brief description if you aren’t familiar with the film. I have seen all of these only once. My theme is mysterious films released in the last five years.

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