The viral marketing for Prometheus has continued to be the most impressive viral marketing of the year, and today there was an audio puzzle that as the source article says, sounds like something from Event Horizon*, and that’s not too far off, however, this humble writer thinks it reminds him of something out of Leviathan**, since once you listen to the unscrambled audio, it sounds like it comes from a scene involving that disturbing looking EEL-like creature they encounter in the ampule chamber. If you haven’t seen Leviathan, there’s a scene towards the end involving an EEL-like appendage from one of the amphibious mutations that gets severed and left inside the complex to prowl and kill poor De Jesus.
Listen to it and still try to imagine this film as a PG-13 affair. It’s going to be R-rated all the way.
The scrambled audio.
The unscrambled audio.
*I just revisited my dvd of Event Horizon this weekend, and it’s still a really effective piece of sci-fi/horror filmmaking. I still remember seeing it in the theater back in 1997 and being creeped out by it. Really wish the uncut version existed.
**Leviathan is a masterpiece. If you haven’t seen it, see it. Peter Weller and Ernie Hudson implore you! Also a mutating Daniel Stern and wise Richard Crenna!
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“Leviathan is a masterpiece.”
Wait, Leviathan is a masterpiece? Are you familiar with the definition of the word masterpiece? If by masterpiece, you mean that it was a low-budget flick quickly thrown together with B-list actors (Weller included god love him) and third-rate FX to capitalize on the hooplah surrounding The Abyss… then yes, it is a masterpiece.
However, you come off a bit like Harry Knowles breathlessly throwing around the term so easily. Leviathan is many things, but a exemplary work of artistry, skill, and craftsmanship it is not. It’s not even the best film Meg Foster’s been in for chrissakes (They Live).
Rene, you’re going to have a magical life. Because no matter what you see, it’s always going to be better than Leviathan. 🙂
Have to agree…I like Leviathan, but I think calling it a masterpiece is a little to much hyperbole, especially in an article related to Alien( and its descandents)…a term such as “curiousity” or “underrated” would have been more appropiate…of course, maybe I should give it another look
Damn it!! Is it June 8th yet so I can see this thing!!!???! Stop teasing me with all this good shit!
And no, Leviathan is not a masterpiece. It’s ok, but if we’re talking masterpieces involving Weller and Hudson, then Robocop and Ghostbusters are much high on the list.
Much HIGHER!
I was a bit puzzled at the referring of “Leviathan” as a “masterpiece” and “Event Horizon” as an “effective piece of sci fi/horror film making”. Puzzled. I didn’t care for either. Well, “Event Horizon” was a visually good looking movie and “Leviathan” was just so-so. However all that, I listened to the scrambled audio and won’t even touch the unscrambled. Oh, how glorious the sound effects! Effin’ squishy and scary! Just how I like my horror.
“Masterpiece.” You kids and your sarcasm.
Now Ghostbusters’ a masterpiece? Funny film but masterpiece, really?
Holy fuck that was terrifying. At this point I’d be frankly amazed if Prometheus gets the PG-13 rating. Gonna be Restricted baby.
Rene – I’d be rather surprised it’ll be a PG-13 in the US. Over in the UK it is being sold as 15 (TBC). So they are expecting to get a 15, which normally translates into a soft R over in the US. Or I will get to see an international cut and it therefore sucks to be you.
“Really wish the uncut version existed.”
Wait, if it doesn’t exist, how can there BE an uncut version?
Really. Ghostbusters is a masterpiece.
Really hoping it doesn’t deliver as a “Soft R” here. That would be disappointing, but then again, the original Alien film was fairly light on gore.
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