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00:00All hail Cthulhu!
00:04Amazon original Carnival Row channels the best aspects of horror legend H.P. Lovecraft
00:09for a twisty whodunit fairytale.
00:12On this spoiler-filled IMDbrief, we break down how season 1 of Carnival Row gets Lovecraft right
00:19and what cringe to expect in season 2.
00:22Long before Orlando Bloom, Cara Delevingne, or Jared Harris had come apart,
00:27Carnival Row languished in pre-production hell as a feature screen villain for our heroes until the year 1920.
00:57Carnival Row
01:27All hail Cthulhu!
01:36Amazon original Carnival Row channels the best aspects of horror legend H.P. Lovecraft
01:42for a twisty whodunit fairytale.
01:45On this spoiler-filled IMDbrief, we break down how season 1 of Carnival Row gets Lovecraft right
01:52and what cringe to expect in season 2.
01:55Long before Orlando Bloom, Cara Delevingne, or Jared Harris had come apart,
02:00Carnival Row languished in pre-production hell as a feature screen villain for our heroes until the year 1920.
02:22Carnival Row
02:52All hail Cthulhu!
03:00Amazon original Carnival Row channels the best aspects of horror legend H.P. Lovecraft
03:08for a twisty whodunit fairytale.
03:13On this spoiler-filled IMDbrief, we break down how season 1 of Carnival Row gets Lovecraft right
03:20and what cringe to expect in season 2.
03:33We'll move in pairs, we'll go step by step and cut off every bulkhead and every vent
03:39until we have it cornered and then we'll blow it out into space.
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03:46I'll never join you if you only knew the power of the dark side.
03:56If you want to shine them on, it's hasta la vista, baby.
04:00Hasta la vista, baby.
04:06What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge bullets?
04:09No, Neo. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.
04:19I have it under control. I need to see out of control.
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05:22Alien is back and we ain't talking about Al.
05:26So what can we expect from the seventh installment in the Xenomorph saga
05:30that's set in between the franchise's first two films?
05:33It's a pretty big risk.
05:34Well, this is why we can't wait for Alien Romulus.
05:41Parking back to 1979's Alien, which director Ridley Scott visualized as a haunted house movie
05:47but set in a spaceship, Romulus director Fede Alvarez can put the ah back in Alien
05:53with the same keen eye for horror that he brought to 2016's mostly silent thriller Don't Breathe
06:00and 2013's blood-drenched Evil Dead.
06:05Two badass women.
06:07Ripley made Sigourney Weaver a sci-fi icon
06:10and the role earned the acting legend her first Oscar nom for 1986's Aliens.
06:16So Romulus stars Kaylee Spaney and Isabella Merced have a hard row to hoe to fill Weaver's high-top sneakers.
06:24Get away from her, you s**t.
06:26But Priscilla Spaney and Madame Webb's Merced have the necessary acting chops
06:31and galactic firepower to take on a derelict spaceship that's overrun with xenomorphs
06:37and their face-hugging offspring.
06:43Alvarez posted this video to Instagram showing off a remote-controlled alien hatchling
06:48that has our skin already crawling.
06:51The director admits, quote,
06:58When it comes to face-to-face encounters and moments with creatures, nothing beats the real thing.
07:11Taking place in 2142 on an abandoned research facility named the Renaissance,
07:16Romulus falls about 20 years after Ripley went into the stasis sleeping pod on the Nostromo
07:22at the end of Ridley Scott's Alien
07:24and almost 40 years before she's woken up by the Weyland-Yutani Corporation
07:29at the beginning of James Cameron's Aliens.
07:31Do you get it?
07:32The Renaissance is also a Weyland-Yutani-owned vessel,
07:36likely experimenting with the same alien eggs that Ripley and company stumbled upon in the first film.
07:42Alvarez is playing in the same sandbox as his predecessors,
07:45but he's not trying to redefine aliens' chest-bursting mythology like Scott did
07:51with his somewhat divisive prequels Prometheus and Alien Covenant.
07:56Sometimes to create, one must first destroy.
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10:04I was programmed to protect you.
10:08And now, we start again.
10:10How did Ridley Scott communicate the world of Raised by Wolves to you?
10:13He's an amazing artist, obviously, but he storyboarded everything.
10:20So before we even shot, we got to see the whole...
10:22You can put out his storyboards, you know?
10:25His drawings are just brilliant.
10:27As Travis says, he's an artist, so he communicates in visuals.
10:31So we all got the storyboards leading up to the shoot.
10:34So we got a visual idea of what it would look like.
10:38The first day on set was the spaceship landing.
10:41And Abu and I were just like...
10:44This is incredible!
10:45There was a guy controlling this spaceship so it could move and stuff.
10:49And we were just like...
10:51Yeah, it's so unreal to be a part of his vision because it's truly amazing.
10:57And then also when you see with all the effects after...
11:01I keep screaming when I see it.
11:03It's so beautiful!
11:05Should the Mithraic's Ark ever make it here, you will not listen to their words.
11:11Where did you begin building out this world?
11:13What was that initial spark?
11:14I have three young sons and just thinking about them
11:17and the encroachment of technology on their future
11:20and kind of the overlap that's starting to happen between humanity and technology
11:24and what might it be like when technology starts raising humans.
11:29So Scott, this is reminiscent of future scapes you've captured before.
11:33It's the milk-filled androids, the hostile alien creations, the hypersleep pods.
11:38Did you look back at past films to keep that consistency
11:41or is that always just atop your mind?
11:43I thought it was an interesting...
11:45I couldn't remember that because one day I'm in the dining room of a ship called the Stromo
11:51and Ian Holm is going to try and kill Sigourney Weaver.
11:55He had a bad moment and I'm a camera operator
12:00so I had the camera up and I was looking at him and saying,
12:03has anybody got any milk?
12:05And he came in with an eye drop and I just put the milk above his eye
12:10and then we said, right, rolling, roll, and he went,
12:13and then this rolled down, then it becomes history.
12:17Can you open the door?
12:18Has anybody got any milk?
12:19And he came in with an eye drop and I just put the milk above his eye.
12:25That was never planned, it was just one of those intuitive things.
12:29That's how it worked.
12:30So then I thought, why not we borrow from the past because it was so effective.
12:35So that was purely an affectation, okay?
12:39But the rest, I try and keep as original as possible
12:43by looking at what I've done before and trying to steer clear of that as much as I can.
12:48From what other sources did you pull inspiration?
12:50I feel like Mother's lethal robot form, the Necromancer,
12:53is inspired by Fritz Lang's Metropolis, right?
12:56She comes from a very masculine bronze iconographic statue
13:03at the Rockefeller Plaza.
13:05I think of Atlas holding a globe on his shoulder.
13:10I stood there and I thought, that is going to be the Necromancer
13:13except it's going to be majestically female.
13:16Majestically female.
13:22I hoped I might be employed here by you.
13:25Atlas holding a globe on his shoulder.
13:27I stood there and I thought, that is going to be the Necromancer
13:30except it's going to be majestically female.