Spectral (2016 film)
Summary
"A supernatural Close Encounters of the Third Kind." A sci-fi/thriller story centered on a special-ops team that is dispatched to fight supernatural beings.
Details
- Release Date: 2016
- Country/Language: US, English and Russian
- Genres/Technical: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Thriller, Action, War
- Runtime: 1 hr 47 min (generally formatted for a 30-minute commercial television slot)
- Starring: James Badge Dale, Emily Mortimer, Bruce Greenwood
- Director: Nic Mathieu
- Writer: Ian Fried and Nic Mathieu (story), George Nolfi (screenplay)
- Producer/Production Co: Legendary Entertainment, Mid Atlantic Films, Netflix
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Ratings
MPAA Ratings
- Rated: PG-13 (Violence and Profanity)
Tentacle Ratings
A rough measure of how "Lovecraftian" the work is:
- S____ (One Tentacle: Debateably Lovecraftian; has almost no direct connection to Lovecraft's work)
This film does seem to have a sort of Delta-Greenish aspect of a secret military organization that deals with supernatural threats, and the vaguely "Lovecraftian" element of blurred lines between supernatural horror and science fiction, but does not seem to otherwise have much in common with Lovecraft's work.
DAR in the YSDC forums: "...More sci-fi than horror - and thus somewhat misses the mark as 'a DG Op' - 'not explicitly Lovecraftian but easily mineable'."
Note: This rating is not intended as a measure of quality, merely of how closely related to Lovecraftian "Weird" fiction the work is.
Reviews
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Synopsis
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A sci-fi/thriller story centered on a special-ops team that is dispatched to fight supernatural beings, the result of a foreign government's super-science attempt to engineer "super-soldiers" using 3D Printer technology to print "apparitions" and remotely control them using the disembodied brains of vivisected human beings connected to computers.
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Comments, Trivia, Dedication
Associated Mythos Elements
- TO DO
- setting: Delta Green
Keeper Notes
- Delta Green is in a race against time when they become involved in investigating reports of deployed military forces being attacked by "apparitions" connected with strikes against a terrorist cult who have made a hideous pact with a Mi-Go brain surgeon....
