Absentia

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I saw this last night, and I'm still not sure what to think of it. It wasn't what I was hoping for in a horror movie at all, and yet I was completely engrossed...

Opinions from anyone else who's seen it?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aa1UJLqYeBU[/youtube]

Don't remember it too well, but I thought it was very striking and original. The idea of an otherworldly tentacle just dragging people away is uncomfortably surreal, like something out of a bad dream, and such imagery is way more effective to me than the typical killer with a knife or the usual gamut of spirits and monsters.

I don't remember that scene too well, but I think they probably looked pretty similar.

Still, the similarities might end there. Absentia is a personal nightmare while The Mist was more about a group experience.

It was pretty cool.

The movie itself appeared far more "real" than many other monster movies; just some average people (even the cop, where going by horror, should be Rambo), and a cool science fiction twist of an old tale.