I just watched this movie. Wtf man. Like. Wtf

I believe that Don was buried in the wall replacing Sarah.

The nurse lady at the end is a terrific actress, she seem possessed.

The philosophy in this movie is very destructive. It allows people do worst things believing nothing matters anyway.

They did a great job with this film. Wonderful review!

James badge dale is James from San Francisco “excuse me what is this ? Oh yeah I’m from San Francisco 😂😂😂”

After your complete explanation I manifested you as Bryce Harper with a 15” hardon and won 2 World Series titles

Pretty certain Kenneth was a mentally ill twelve year old in a man’s body who got him and Darius blown up at the end of the movie. I highly doubt the government would keep any components that can be used for time travel easily accessible to some guy in a random lab in the middle of nowhere, no those things are going in an underground bunker filled with a military-load of around-the-clock security. This movie showed a childlike idealism presented through Kenneth, and while there’s nothing innately wrong with that, I think the movie is trying to show that it can be as destructive as the carefree childlike fratboy attitude shown through Jeff. Both are equally destructive, but in one case it was more figurative and the other one was literal. Those government agents were chasing Kenneth for stealing government property, plain and simple, they were not time machine parts. Kenneth represents a different kind of boyish persona from Jeff (Kenneth is the “nice guy” who only ever lands women he is in love with as friends and Jeff is the “a-hole” who truly did love someone but drowns himself in others he does not love since he couldn’t win the heart of the one who got away), but both are equally undesirable forms of people, both are destructive. I hate to piss on people’s bonfire here, but it’s extremely clear through Belinda that Kenneth was mentally unstable, the “time travel” was not meant to be taken literally (not to me anyway). The themes and lessons of the movie do run deeper, but this is one element I believe people seem to be skipping over since they want a happy interpretation of the events, when in fact, it probably is something more twisted and crappy (ie, not good/happy).

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Also - also: one other reviewer stated that Pontifex was translated to 'bridgebuilder' and to me, Pontifex just sounds like pontification - thinking, lamenting, considering

I found this video after another "explanation" video which was twice the length but with half the depth. Made me wish this video was longer! Im glad I'm not the onlly one who noticed the visual parallels happening here. Thanks for sharing!

1. James' surname, Lasombra, actually means "the shadow" in Spanish. 2. Pontifex means "bridge maker". 3. One of the folders in Camp Elsewhere is named "Quail/A" (Amanda Quail) which may also pertain to the concept of qualia - a term use to describe the nature or content of our subjective experiences.

There is no bridge.

"Exorcist is a classic, dont touch it" just comes off like gatekeeping Nothing is ruining horror. The reality is today just like in the past, there's movies we like and dislike. There's no "dip in quality" from a factual standpoint. Furthermore, remakes,etc. dont interfere with the existence of original films, i dont get why people even think this is the case. Blueberry Cheerios doesnt stop fans of the classic or honey nut variations from having their favorite kind nor does it stop new cereal brands from being made. I think a fundamental misunderstanding of how supply and demand works, is at play with this this kind of reasoning. Why do they keep making movies with familiair characters,etc. ? because thats the demand and the business is to supply that demand. It seems some fans think its the other way around and that the studios create the demand. If you operate a business and you cater to the smallest demographic rather than the largest, you;re not gonna be in business for long. Studios aren't into creating stuff nobody wants End of the day, people want to see new and old things. This notion that old IPs are taking away from new ones is nonsensical. its not like Blumhouse and Miramax share budgets,etc. Halloween part 25 will have a place right next to whatever new horror comes out by then. Bonus Footage: The events of Halloween Ends, dont work as a middle chapter because its contingent on everything that happens in kills, not just 2018.

What happened to Amanda!!!

Good to see you! Missed your videos!

Omg he is so hot and has an amazing personality ❤

Those girls were underage (they were at the highschool game). It's obvious they were supposed to be small town prostitutes being pimped by that trans looking dude.

Such a good little comedy. Was pleasantly surprised by it.

Thanks for the recap of the flic. Didn’t find any breakdown that was meaningful.

my only issue with the film (hence me looking for a explanatory video) is why Liz was absolutely all over Jeff after their first meeting, almost felt like she had an ulterior motive that was never mentioned or at least fully fleshed out by the time of the movies release. What you think?

One thing I couldn't figure out was that Amanda started the Empty Man blowing ritual on the bridge with all her friends and each one died, but why is Amanda spared after blowing into the bottle then and also in the room with the other worshipers in the building. Is Amanda special in some way?!? Things also don't make sense in that the protagonist was able to find the camp in the forest with no proper map or guide - was it because he knew it there in some kind of manifested way?

Great review. It is awesome movie

Great breakdown. Thank you for this!

Dope

How this isn’t become a movie yet is beyond me. Take my money Hollywood and cast this man for god sakes.

There is very much more to extract from this film; one important thing to realize is that _everyone is in on it!_ Anyone who isn't has no idea who James is.This is made evident throughout the film, that everyone who interacts with him is part of the experiment. Amanda pretends as much as Nora is pretending that James is a real person. As they are Mother and daughter, both are involved and Pontifex society members...just as Garrett and the Detective informed him that the society was 'next level' dangerous in its scope and that noone would ever solve the 'crimes' happening in that small town. Also note that like some religions that never directly reference the 'name' of God (Adonai beings a substitute for IHVH, Muhammad have no known identity but a history all the same, i.e. is 'unnamable' (Lovecraft) Paul (the last 'prophet' before the next) has no name and so is only referred to as a 'carrier'later, the the 'Empty Man' as the vehicle or Earthly substitute (tupla, avatar) for the real thing. Paul being a purely human host can't physically contain it indefinitely, while a tulpa can as long as the focus on his manifestation is maintained, and even if not could just as easily be replaced by another if needed (this is the most frightening aspect of the films premise).

The concept of the film is influenced or in some way derived from the writings of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin who coined the term 'Noosphere' which is mentioned as the source of the Empty Man's essence 1. That James is the Empty Man, besides being a vessel for whatever is in the Noosphere, suggests from the start he, as was Paul himself is responsible for or influencing the suicides and thus only discovering (as does Harry Angel in Angel Heart) his own handiwork, or rather subjecting himself to fear trauma, a state that has to be maintained in order for the nothingness of the Noosphere to creep in. 2. The idea of repetition is consistent with the visual hints of Eastern Philosophical influences over the course of at least 500 years, everything from Vedic, to Buddhism to Islam, even Martial Arts (Tai Chi, Yoga) where the focus on Mantras and the repetition of words, movements or vocalization of sounds to induce altered states of mind or empty the mind of intrusive thoughts to achieve a 'flow state' of awareness that is carried by some perpetual media; OM for example. 3. The bridge motif suggests the idea of 'crossing the abyss' , i.e. (Psalm 23) or bridging the infinite gap between any polarity (0 and 1 for example relative to the innumerable permutations computer systems use to communicate ideas, synonymous with divination and therefore 'prophecy', seeing or soothsaying 4. The multi-limbed humanoid fossil in the cave could be any number of things; A:The remains of a human mutation with many limbs that served as the actual 'thing' from which Vedec dieties such as Indra, Shiva and Kali were worshiped and still in India today such persons are regarded as avatars thereof B: Some type of inorganic humanoid being that emerged from the Noosphere, or the Astral Plane, captured or buried or died there, as anomalous artifacts with odd properties are buried in ancient tombs C: This however not being the true form of that entity and otherwise an appropriate vehicle for the entity to possess, that being the tentacled shape shifting i.e. formless thing that possessed Paul and crawled into James' body. Take whatever Lovecraftian thing you'd like: Shub-Niggurath, Azathoth (blind idiot god of chaos), Nyarlhotep...the crawling chaos, the Thing on the Doorstep (Teddy Bear), The Whisperer in the Darkness etc. 5. The Tulpa or empty man is 'just' flesh and an automaton in spite of it seeming to have real self awareness, is no less a Golem, an experiment ( Frankenstein's Monster) incapable of distinguishing its reality from its own awareness of reality. The early attempts at creating the Tulpa were temporary and either dissolved or were burned, one we see mindlessly uses its own viscera to paint an image that communicates a future event (NOTE: The Golem or Tulpa is aware of itself but not its false reality and control of it can be lost- it can become violent and destructive tear itself apart, or do harm to others, hence the Wiki article about the Pontifex members found dead in the cabin. The artle never states how they died, since the thought form left no evidence). This is why James' nose bleeds and he coughs up blood, as a result of breaks in the equation Thought +Concentration+Time = Flesh.

Pov : what James smoking was weed

Omg that clown..

Also, when he's talking to the nurse his hands are in the same weird position as the skeleton...it almost felt as if she was being hypnotised.

What I don't understand is why some people die after blowing in the bottle and others don't. Why were Amanda and others at the institute spared?

5:02 haha yeah true!! I say Butch’s girlfriend Fabienne in Pulp Fiction lol that hair bro 🤐

I really don't care for Halloween 5 or rob zombie's Halloween part 2

My question is what was with Don swallowing the marble. was it trying to symbolise him fully letting sarah in??

You get pegged?

OMFG the STUPIDEST movie I've ever seen, complete WASTE of my time!

GREAT, NOW IT'S MY DICK THAT'S KILLING ME. Kincaid

Great explanation. I liked that.the part when you said she’s a changed person at the very end

All of the videos I’ve found “explaining” this film seem to be made by people that saw the movie once, thought about it for five minutes, and made the video. It’s actually quite funny.

I'm late to the party on this masterpiece, and I could honestly write a goddamn thesis on it! So, I'll just try and sum it up because the ending tells you all you need to know ( in my opinion), and then the great fun is seeing how the movie is telling you what's really going on as it shifts from one horror sub genre to another. The Empty Man isn't the entity in the cave at the start. There is a supernatural creature, and it needs a vessel to work it's dark magic in our world....an EMPTY vessel!!! Paul becomes that vessel at the beginning, and thus becomes the empty man. But Paul is merely human, and being the vessel has drained him, so the cult have of course created James so that he can be the new empty man, or vessel for the dark entity. The question is, who is the entity? This is where you need to know your Lovecraft. The entity is Nyarlathotep, who is an elder god looking to bring about the end of humanity by using/manipulating others. He can take on many forms, and we see two of them in the movie. His most common form is a humanoid creature with a giant tentacle for a head. We see this just before he enters James at the end. He's also referred to as the Crawling Chaos, and at one point the cult do mention that title. There is another scene where if you listen carefully one of the cult members actually whispers "Nyarlathotep".

Took me a long time to finally get around to watching The Empty Man. I'm glad I did. Very creepy, and especially excellent for the first film by the director! I really appreciate your take on the film. I feel like there's a lot of gaslighting of James going on by Pontifex. If he's only "3 days old" and his history is a lie, why bother showing the events of his wife/son's death? Technically that never happened. How had the cop ever heard of him before? I'm just not buying that it was all manifested and fictitious. I think he was broken down mentally in order for him to become a vessel. What's truly a mystery to me, is that skeleton. Look how large that skull is, the number of arms, the amount of fingers. It doesn't seem human. So what is it, where is it from? How was it the previous vessel 500 years ago? Very thought provoking film, and I enjoyed the video.

Best interpretation is yours, thanks o/

I ain't gonna lie, Gabriel looks like mincemeat in a trenchcoat. Then againnnnnn, spending your life as a sapient screaming teratoma tucked under someone's occipital lobe isn't really the best way to live. Poor bastard.

This movie is technically smarter than what most people give it for. 😉🎃

That helmet-style bowl cut, though! Just like Will in the latest season of Stranger Things. Why do they always do that to at least one character?! It would be fine if they were in middle school, but they're TEENS! Teens in the '80s and '90s didn't wear their hair that way.

Snazzy track. I'll look forward to the other ones, especially "HalloweeN KILLS". 🎃💀

It creeped me out the same way Nightcrawler did