The Void (2016 film) - Revision history

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	* Shahbaz Khayambashi at Wylie Writes Film Reviews ([http://wyliewrites.com/tad16-the-lure-the-void/ link]) - "''The Void'' is ruined, or at least lessened, by its plot which is a convoluted mess with undercooked characters and very little payoff."		* Shahbaz Khayambashi at Wylie Writes Film Reviews ([http://wyliewrites.com/tad16-the-lure-the-void/ link]) - "''The Void'' is ruined, or at least lessened, by its plot which is a convoluted mess with undercooked characters and very little payoff."
	* Meagan Navarro at ModernHorrors dotcom ([http://modernhorrors.com/void-ff-review/ link]) - "On the one hand, it hits me in my monster loving feels, and I revel in it’s unabashed adoration of ’80s horror. It fills a gaping hole in horror that I’ve missed. On the other hand, however, the film doesn’t feel like anything more than a series of beloved homages. ... Unfortunately, that means that the film loses any sense of true originality as a result."		* Meagan Navarro at ModernHorrors dotcom ([http://modernhorrors.com/void-ff-review/ link]) - "On the one hand, it hits me in my monster loving feels, and I revel in it’s unabashed adoration of ’80s horror. It fills a gaping hole in horror that I’ve missed. On the other hand, however, the film doesn’t feel like anything more than a series of beloved homages. ... Unfortunately, that means that the film loses any sense of true originality as a result."
			* Ren Zelen at Attack from Planet B ([http://www.attackfromplanetb.com/2017/04/the-void-2016/ link]) - "''The Void'' avoids jump scares, but instead suffuses the film with dread, heightened by grotesque monster effects..."

	==Synopsis==		==Synopsis==

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	~~A police officer~~'s ~~routine patrol~~ of a ~~deserted highway is interrupted by a blood~~-~~soaked~~, ~~limping figure~~ of ~~a young man~~ and the ~~disturbing mysteries~~ of the ~~fire~~-~~damaged hospital~~ the ~~officer takes him~~ to, ~~where~~ his ~~ex-Father-~~in-~~Law~~, a ~~doctor~~ at the hospital, ~~has opened~~ a ~~portal into The Void in~~ a ~~misguided attempt~~ to ~~bring~~ the ~~doctor~~'s ~~dead grand-daughter back to life; of course~~, ~~anyone~~ the ~~doctor brings back to life comes back wrong~~. The hospital is soon isolated when radio and telephone and all other contact with the outside world is cut off, and a group of strangely-robed deadite cultists surround the hospital and tentacle-monsters invade the hospital from the portal its basement....		The villain, Doctor Powell, lost his daughter in the film's backstory, and, prompted by her death, went a little mad, trying to solve the mysteries of life and death through his own occult research, killing people and bringing them back from the dead - a project which, predictably for the genre, goes sour because they all "come back wrong" as Lovecraftian tentacle-monster horrors, and the things in the white robes. The doctor, who considers his occult work altruistic, justifies this wrongness by comparing people to moths which look one way before going into the cocoon of death, and become something else on the other side (of course, in Call of Cthulhu terms the doctor is simply just a mad servant of the Mythos, making unreliable-narrator excuses for the awful work he's compelled to pursue)....

			As the film begins, two men, an angry father and his son, have broken into Dr. Powell's house to destroy Powell's cult.

			Doctor_TOC: "...The angry father and the mute son are clearly in the role of [investigator] PCs - they're hunting down the remainders of the evil cult they've wiped out after having their families murdered. For them, this is the last reel of the picture. For everyone else (and us) it's the beginning of the story...."

			Meanwhile, officer Carter and (Doctor? Nurse?) Allison were happily married until she lost her daughter in a freak accident of birth; they took the death very hard, and eventually divorced. Carter, at the end of a late shift of his routine patrol of a dark, lonely stretch of highway near the Doctor's house, comes across one of the victim's of the secret raid on the house, a drug addict who happened to have stopped by the house for drugs and fled when the violence began, stumbling onto the highway bloody and traumatized. Faced with a rare emergency in the seemingly quiet town, he rushes the man to the nearest hospital, which had partially burned down at some point before the film began (apparently at the hands of the father and son who raided the farmhouse), and is in the process of being moved to a new location, leaving only a skeleton crew to staff it.

			It soon becomes clear that not all is right at the hospital, as Powell's followers, resurrected by the Doctor, begin turning into killers and monsters. The hospital is soon isolated when radio and telephone and all other contact with the outside world is cut off, and a group of strangely-robed deadite cultists surround the hospital and tentacle-monsters invade the hospital from the portal its basement. The doctor gets killed partway through the film, but comes back from The Void through the portal in the hospital's basement, to continue his work for the film's second half: bringing his a monster in the form of his "daughter" back from the Void as well....
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	===Comments, Trivia, Dedication===		===Comments, Trivia, Dedication===
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			* See also the discussion at the ([http://www.yog-sothoth.com/topic/31052-the-void/ YSDC Forums]) about this film.

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	* Country/Language: Canada, English		* Country/Language: Canada, English
	* Genres/Technical: Horror, Art/Experimental		* Genres/Technical: Horror, Art/Experimental
	* Setting: [[~~Modern~~]] small-town Canada (?)		* Setting: [[1980s]] small-town Canada (?)
	* Runtime: 1 hr 30 min		* Runtime: 1 hr 30 min
	* Starring: Ellen Wong, Kathleen Munroe, Stephanie Belding		* Starring: Ellen Wong, Kathleen Munroe, Stephanie Belding

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	** ''[[The Thing (1982 film)]]''		** ''[[The Thing (1982 film)]]''
	** ''[[In the Mouth of Madness (1994 film)]]''...		** ''[[In the Mouth of Madness (1994 film)]]''...
			* film: the director's own "[[Insanophenia (2007 short)]]"

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	* Runtime: 1 hr 30 min		* Runtime: 1 hr 30 min
	* Starring: Ellen Wong, Kathleen Munroe, Stephanie Belding		* Starring: Ellen Wong, Kathleen Munroe, Stephanie Belding
	* Director: Jeremy Gillespie, Steven Kostanski		* Director: Jeremy Gillespie, [[Steven Kostanski]]
	* Writer: Jeremy Gillespie, Steven Kostanski		* Writer: Jeremy Gillespie, [[Steven Kostanski]]
	* Producer/Production Co: Cave Painting Pictures, JoBro Productions & Film Finance		* Producer/Production Co: Cave Painting Pictures, JoBro Productions & Film Finance
	* Official Site: ([https://thevoidmovie.squarespace.com/ link])		* Official Site: ([https://thevoidmovie.squarespace.com/ link])

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	* SS___ (Two Tentacles: Barely Lovecraftian; could be a very loose adaptation)		* SS___ (Two Tentacles: Barely Lovecraftian; could be a very loose adaptation)

	Some viewers may find the dreamlike location and atmosphere suggestive of Lovecraft's work (an "Eldritch Location" film), there are weird [[Deadite]] cultists and [[Tentacle Monster]]s, and a couple references to Lovecraftian names (like "Carter in Marsh County"). The film appears to be a deliberate homage to the work of [[John Carpenter]], resembling films such as ''[[The Fog (1980 film)]]'', ''[[The Thing (1982 ~~Film~~)]]'', and ''[[In the Mouth of Madness (1994 film)]]''...		Some viewers may find the dreamlike location and atmosphere suggestive of Lovecraft's work (an "Eldritch Location" film), there are weird [[Deadite]] cultists and [[Tentacle Monster]]s, and a couple references to Lovecraftian names (like "Carter in Marsh County"). The film appears to be a deliberate homage to the work of [[John Carpenter]], resembling films such as ''[[The Fog (1980 film)]]'', ''[[The Thing (1982 film)]]'', and ''[[In the Mouth of Madness (1994 film)]]''...

	''Note: This rating is not intended as a measure of quality, merely of how closely related to Lovecraftian "Weird" fiction the work is.''		''Note: This rating is not intended as a measure of quality, merely of how closely related to Lovecraftian "Weird" fiction the work is.''
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	* film: the work of [[John Carpenter]], resembling films such as:		* film: the work of [[John Carpenter]], resembling films such as:
	** ''[[The Fog (1980 film)]]''		** ''[[The Fog (1980 film)]]''
	** ''[[The Thing (1982 ~~Film~~)]]''		** ''[[The Thing (1982 film)]]''
	** ''[[In the Mouth of Madness (1994 film)]]''...		** ''[[In the Mouth of Madness (1994 film)]]''...

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	Some viewers may find the dreamlike location and atmosphere suggestive of Lovecraft's work (an "Eldritch Location" film).		Some viewers may find the dreamlike location and atmosphere suggestive of Lovecraft's work (an "Eldritch Location" film), there are weird [[Deadite]] cultists and [[Tentacle Monster]]s, and a couple references to Lovecraftian names (like "Carter in Marsh County"). The film appears to be a deliberate homage to the work of [[John Carpenter]], resembling films such as ''[[The Fog (1980 film)]]'', ''[[The Thing (1982 Film)]]'', and ''[[In the Mouth of Madness (1994 film)]]''...

	''Note: This rating is not intended as a measure of quality, merely of how closely related to Lovecraftian "Weird" fiction the work is.''		''Note: This rating is not intended as a measure of quality, merely of how closely related to Lovecraftian "Weird" fiction the work is.''
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	* location: [[Other Side\|The Void]]		* location: [[Other Side\|The Void]]
	* "name-dropping": "This is [[Randolph Carter\|Sherriff Carter]] in [[Marsh (family)\|Marsh County]]...."		* "name-dropping": "This is [[Randolph Carter\|Sherriff Carter]] in [[Marsh (family)\|Marsh County]]...."
			* film: the work of [[John Carpenter]], resembling films such as:
			** ''[[The Fog (1980 film)]]''
			** ''[[The Thing (1982 Film)]]''
			** ''[[In the Mouth of Madness (1994 film)]]''...

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	===Associated Mythos Elements===		===Associated Mythos Elements===
	* TO DO
	* race: [[Tentacle Monster]]s		* race: [[Tentacle Monster]]s
	* race: [[Deadite]]s		* race: [[Deadite]]s