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Synopsis
Iron Lung is about Markiplier in a submarine. That’s the one thing that I can confidently say. there are a lot of other details, but none of them seem as salient. Sure all of the galaxy’s, universe’s(?) suns have gone out, and there are factions of the remaining humans fighting for resources but that is really window dressing on Markiplier being in a submarine. Also, he’s exploring an ocean of blood on some moon.
Now you may ask me Bryce, how could they possibly functions as a society without a sun? How are they making new oxygen? Doesn’t blood congeal or separate or something? how did they fine this moon without light? shut up nerd, Markilpier’s in a sub, now sit back and be scared.
Review or Iron Lung
before i go further, let me answer the main question first, yes this is better than Shelby Oaks. I will say that it’s not as bad as I expected, but i wasn’t blow. away either. The movie is basically all shot in one room, so that limitation let all the energy go into the story and the performance. It dod hold my attention for the most part, but it didn’t deserve a two hour runtime. They could have edited out 40 mins and lose almost nothing.
Markipliers performance was better than expected, but definitely leaned heavily into the melodramatic verging on overacting.
The production design was well done except for the fact that it faithfully replicated the cartoonish UI of the video game, which I felt was a lazy choice.
As far as delivering on suspense it did well. the movie was atmospheric and moody throughout. The ending goes full cosmic horror and feels like a good payoff.
Score
4/10
“Horror Movie Talk” needs to have Eldritch Horror explained to them. Im not surprised really… is the movie for everyone? No… is this review Valid? In the sense of it being an opinion piece yes, in the sense of understanding the movie… not at all.
was this drafted like once, theres a spelling mistake- in bold no less
I mean, to answer your questions: 1) they don’t. That’s the movie in a nutshell. 2) you remember the giant tree? 3) It does congeal. That’s the ocean floor. They say that. 4) They have lamps. This isn’t a hard scifi movie and there is definitely something supernatural involved. That’s pretty clear. But those questions do have pretty simple answers.