by Eden
Unlike a lot of “found footage” horror, Ghostwatch actually aired “live” on Halloween night, 1992 (it was taped weeks earlier). While it was an episode of the drama anthology series Screen One and aired in its usual timeslot, beyond some brief credits, there was little to indicate that this was anything other than the live special it was purporting to be.
For the first half-hour of The Falling, we’re in what feels like a quiet English drama about a girls’ school in the late 1960s. But after the beautiful popular Abbie (Florence Pugh) dies and her best friend Lydia (Maisie Williams) and other girls begin fainting without cause, it becomes something much stranger and darker. Writer/director Carol Morley’s film is a moody exploration of every-day horrors through the eyes of girls and women.
Average time until the loop begins (mean): About 16 minutes The cause of the loop or inciting incident: I watched The Map of Tiny Perfect Things and decided to do this Number of time loops (at least the ones I counted): 213 Lessons learned: Time […]
For the last movie for In the Loop, I decided to go with the earliest one I could find — Repeat Performance from 1947. It’s also a slight cheat since there’s really only one time loop, but it still counts. (I’m not claiming this is the first time loop movie — just the earliest one I could find.)
For the majority of The Fare, there are two characters — Harris (Gino Anthony Pesi), a cab driver; and Penny (Brinna Kelly, who wrote the movie), his mysterious passenger. The set is the inside of Harris’ cab. That’s it. That’s essentially the movie.