the borderlands , released in the united states as final prayer , is a 2013 british found footage horror film and the feature film directorial debut of elliot goldner , who also wrote the movie 's script .

it had its world premiere on 24 august 2013 at the london frightfest film festival and centers upon a group of vatican investigators researching an old church rumoured to be the site of a miracle .

the borderlands ( 2013 film )

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, hmz film had the pleasure of sitting down with the creators and cast of sensational horror film ‘the borderlands’ for an in depth discussion .
the borderlands ( 2013 ) is a found footage film and found footage horror paranormal film . a team of vatican investigators descends upon a church in a remote area to demystify the unusual happenings , but what they discover is more disturbing than they had first imagined .
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we ' ve got our hands on the terrifying trailer for british horror film the borderlands , which went down a storm at frightfest 2013 . called
genuinely horrifying
by our very own jamie graham , dare you watch it ?
the performances were excellent and the scenery and location of the film and . . .
gearbox , of course , was working on borderlands at the time and had run into the big 11th hour art style change , with the vast bulk of gearbox ' s development resources poured into the overhaul . after the wild success of borderlands , the studio dove directly into development of borderlands 2 .
umbartha ( translation : threshold ) is a 1982 marathi film directed by well known marathi director , jabbar patel . the film’s main protagonist sulaba mahajan , played by smita patil , struggles with the demands of family and her role as the superintendent of a women’s home . the film was adjudged the best feature film in marathi at the 29th national film awards . smita patil’s performance in this film inspired well known film maker costa gavars to organize the first ever retrospective on an indian female actor ( smita patil ) in paris .
. it’s hard to top the prestige factor of just his presence in the film , and then you throw in francis ford coppola’s screenplay along with the film’s two oscars .
the central characters are brilliantly acted , the film offers genuine scares and the atmospheric setting is creepily effective .
is a great fan of the film and the horror genre in itself . the first time he saw the film , he was half tempted to walk out of the cinema , he was so unsettled .
prof . dipesh chakrabarty will introduce the film . discussion and reception with the director to follow .
the borderlands gets the edge as far as i ' m concerned because of its two main characters and a fantastic final act .
the most surprising thing about the borderlands , a brilliant british found - footage horror , is that it has such good characters .
they ' d been in touch with the film ' s creator prior to the game ' s release .
a brief look at borderlands and aliens : colonial marines developer gearbox and its peculiar place in the video game business .
soundtrack . it makes the film infinitely more marketable , especially to the coveted younger crowds filling multiplexes this summer .
jennifer : metrodome in the uk are putting the film out in april so buy your tickets early ! it will have a small theatrical release , please do pimp our facebook page as likes do matter for us . the film is being premiered at the american film market shortly which will heavily dictate our us release .
the color palette is different . codehunters is basically sepia - toned . borderlands is more vibrant . but the similarities are impossible to ignore .
the words
low - budget found - footage horror film
usually signal disaster . . . not so for the borderlands , which turns out to be a smart , funny and genuinely spooky movie , and british to boot .
anchoring the film in the everyday stands the film in very good stead as the borderlands enters its second half . some well - deployed boo - scares keep the tension high , and the mystery of what exactly is going on is developed at a deliberate , effective pace . there’s a real sense of atmosphere and menace here that doesn’t just come from its chosen camera technique .
codehunters was the brainchild of ben hibon , who had been commissioned to produce the film by mtv back in 2006 .
rural devon ' s the setting for the off - beat found - footage horror , the borderlands . here ' s ryan ' s review . . .
though the exact details of gearbox ' s involvement ( or lack thereof ) in the development of colonial marines remains somewhat murky , it ' s become clear over time that the bulk of the studio ' s efforts and resources went into the development of borderlands and borderlands 2 rather than the licensed aliens ip .
suman mukhopadhyay’s film kangal malsat ( 2013 , 1 hour 53 minutes ) depicts groups of choktars ( wizards ) and fyataroos ( flying humans ) jointly launching guerilla attacks against the ruling communist party in west bengal . they are advised by an ageless primordial talking crow and an indo - colonial half - breed . total chaos in calcutta ensues .
that was the hard question facing gearbox . the vast bulk of work on borderlands had already been completed but something obviously needed to be done .
the project may not have materialized , but borderlands certainly did , and hibon says he ' s more than a little confused by the outcome .
borderlands is an international thriller following morgan anderson as he searches for his missing girlfriend across california , london and stockholm .
excellent sound design and that strong sense of pacing ensure that the film’s grip on the viewer doesn’t stop tightening . there’s a wobble or two as the film heads into its final third , but the mystery of the church’s past is handled with the right combination of hints and exposition ( hp lovecraft is an obvious and welcome inspiration ) as the film builds towards a strong finish .
the relationship between robin hill’s jolly techie character gray and gordon kennedy’s tormented priest father deacon is one of the great pleasures of the film .
further investigation shows the cracks in the film’s seemingly - fine foundation . the two oscars it won were for costume design and music , and they were the only nominations the film received . coppola—a staple of cinema and the oscars throughout the 1970s—was nowhere to be found . redford was also missing from the nominations’ list .
borderlands and borderlands 2 are games that are truly unique in their own right .
halo meets diablo
is a concept that really hadn ' t been tried before , and gearbox did a solid job at genre - blending . so it is strange that the games would borrow so much from an animated short film , especially without involving hibon or anyone else on the project .
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atmospheric british horror the borderlands reminds us how effective found - footage can be . . .
engaged in a fascinating discussion on all aspects of the borderlands . we discussed the initial conception of the film , the decision to shoot in a found footage style format , the blend between the comic and terrifying plus the religious aspects of the story . with plans in place for a limited theatrical release in the uk in april 2014 , this is definitely one to look out for .
if you choose to ignore all that or baz somehow botches the retelling , the misunderstood romance at the film’s center should still resonate with lovelorn theater patrons everywhere .
dont believe the blurb on the dvd case , it has many good reviews but it is a boring found footgear film in which nothing happens .
in fact , gearbox was very much aware of codehunters when they made the art - style changes , though no credit was given to the film by the studio .
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the borderlands provides all the requisite jump - scares , blasts of static and long shadows , yet the film’s at its strongest when the three characters are talking and pondering the nature of what they’re investigating - it’s the stumbling around in the dark and screaming that feels more by - the - numbers . this in itself marks the film out as something slightly unusual , since most found - footage films - see , for a recent example , devil’s due - feature leads so generic and unremarkable that it’s almost a relief when they do stop talking .
eliot goldner ’s film refutes the rulebook when it comes to the modern day found footage rulebook , in that every handy - cam film must have gobby teenage characters ( in fact that stereotype is literally punched in the face here ) . the borderlands is not only good because it breaks new ground or because it is scary ( which it genuinely is ) but it is the strength of the characters and acting that enthralls . there are few horrors where you hope there will be inactivity to listen to more of the character’s unashamedly british banter but this is one of them . on top of that it is an excellent horror film too . a film thats influences span as wide as tv’s the league of gentleman and peep show to the annals of hammer horror and h . p . lovecraft .
this out - sourcing reportedly took place in 2010 around the same time as work on borderlands 2 began and a whopping four years after aliens was announced by publisher sega .
virginie sélavy : the film has a great sense of the moody , ominous british countryside in the tradition of the wicker man . there has been a resurgence of the british rural - horror genre in recent years , with ben wheatley ’s films , and most recently in fear . did you consciously try to make the film fit this sub - genre ?
thoroughly enjoyable found footage horror film , with a lot of decent scares . i ' ve seen it 2 times since getting it the other day . the performances were excellent and the scenery and location of the film and how it was shot really impressed me . it ' s like a remake of the blair witch with an actual script and fleshed out plot . the big problem i had with it is the high amount of unanswered questions in the film . even the dvd packaging has a picture on it that leaves me wondering whether it ' s supposed to be a comment on one of the characters in the film . the idea that these mysterious
why the hell did that character do that
moments are up to the interpretation of the viewer are not properly earned by the filmakers in my opinion . still it ' s a fairly small criticism on an otherwise great and frightening horror film .
it ' s important to note , also , that borderlands didn ' t always look this way . once upon a time , it looked like this :
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elliot : the title , that’s interesting , we didn’t really talk about it until a very erudite journalist at fangoria picked up on a book called house on the borderlands which is a victorian horror novel about a guy finding a diary that contains stories about stuff that happens . it’s very different to our film but it was one of the early inspirations for it and the borderlands title saw its way through to the end . it felt kind of relevant even though it’s not clear immediately why the film is titled that way ; it has a lot of resonance to a number of things . it’s definitely worth checking out , it’s quite an interesting piece which was written in the late 1800s
like many of the best comedies and tragedies , this weimar - era silent film understands how each mode is often a hair ' s breadth from the other .
before borderlands , the studio had developed a number of brothers in arms games , some half - life spin - offs , and a number of other titles , but it wasn ' t until borderlands caught fire that the company really staked out its place as a major game developer doing important - - - some might say groundbreaking - - - work .
i honestly think this is the best british horror film in ten years . it ' s simple , original , thought provoking and truly scary .
the found footage film has become colonised and almost completely overworked by the horror genre in recent years to the point that one greets yet another attempt to mine the form here with ennui . the greatest success among these was
it is far from perfect and there are some flaws in there , but the borderlands is a really good found footage movie as it puts more emphasis on character than scares , at least for the first two thirds . the final act could have done with a bit more refinement and there were a few unanswered questions , but the borderlands is easily one of the better found footage movies produced in recent memory and could rival frankenstein’s army for the best of the year .
the film will be introduced by program curator ashish rajadhyaksha , senior fellow at the centre for the study of culture & society , bangalore and co - author of the encyclopedia of indian cinema . a reception with the program curator will follow the screening .
2015 also marks the long awaited by some united states release of the uk thriller “the borderlands” under its new name of “final prayer . ” interestingly , the copyright notice seemingly cites the film as “devil lies beneath , ” which would have been a title superior to the other two in spite of being a touch of a spoiler . destined to be deigned “yet another” first - person horror film by the grumpy bunch alluded to above , “final prayer” nevertheless has the ability to instill eerie chills into anyone still susceptible to the unique appeal of “found footage , ” even if the movie grabs from a familiar bag of tricks to do so .
footage from the question and answer session after the screening of the borderlands , a uk found footage horror film , at the mayhem horror film festival ( nottingham , england ) . in attendance is producer jennifer handorf , writer / director elliot goldner and actors robin hill and gordon kennedy . to read my review of the movie , head here - http : / / mavensmovievaultofhorror . blogs . . . warning : the sound isn ' t perfect as i shot this on my phone sat quite a few rows away . there ' s also a spoiler towards the end of the q & a ; session .
critical reception for the borderlands has been predominantly positive and the film holds a rating of 79 % on rotten tomatoes , based on 14 reviews . common elements of praise centred upon the acting and the interactions between gordon kennedy and robin hill ' s characters , and radio times commented that
it ' s the pair ' s easy - going chemistry that firmly anchors this slow - burning shocker , whose rural setting deliberately evokes the wicker man
. time out london and the hollywood reporter both gave mixed reviews for the film , and the hollywood reporter wrote that it has
plenty of chilling atmosphere but lacks bite
.
it is an early , self - conscious hint that t he borderlands is conjuring the spirit of robin hardy‘s woodward - starring the wicker man , which also features smalltown conspiracy and heathen heterodoxy . meanwhile , the opening sequence of the borderlands , in which catholic investigator deacon ( gordon kennedy ) , is shown looking into an unexplained incident abroad – in this case in belem , brazil – has pointed instead to the structure of another 1973 picture : william friedkin‘s the exorcist .
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the borderlands is a game changer . elliot goldner shifts through the gears as action ranges from the utterly hilarious to the devastatingly terrifying . underpinned by an important religious subtext , the borderlands has reinvigorated the found footage sub - genre . fine lead performances from robin hill ( down terrace , kill list ) and gordon kennedy ground proceedings with a gritty realism . the tonal shift is expertly built into the church investigation ; the setting is inherently creepy which lends itself to the deeply haunting and often startling moments of shock . the memorable ending is bold and will send shockwaves through the genre . a must see .
much of this may sound familiar , but the borderlands ' crafty virtue is that it understands that hand - held camerawork and boo scares aren ' t an excuse to neglect plot , dialogue or characters .
instead of drawing so much on folklore , old ghost stories or menacing hoodies ( although all these things play a part ) , the strongest element of the borderlands ’ identity as a british horror film is its central relationship . deacon and grey’s bickering , boredom and bonding has the easy chemistry of a flat - share comedy in the best possible way ( the head - cam shots are occasionally a little reminsicent of peep show ) , and if we didn’t like the characters so much , their fear in the face of the unknown would be far less affecting . as it is , the borderlands is a tense , atmospheric chiller that will send a shiver down your spine and definitely make you jump .
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you have to watch this film to the end to truly appreciate it . the ' found footage ' genre is rightly criticised but sometimes little gems come through . this is one of them . a lot has been made of the ending , but the rest of the film is quite good as well . i don ' t want to say too much regarding the film as several others will have done so before me , but you should perservere with the irritating ' techie ' and the scottish priest . the vatican team leader is an irritation . watch it with an open mind and appreciate the ending . . . . . . . . . .
the sort of god would be chthonic . of the earth or underworld , took sacrifices . . . not quite lovecraftian , but the beast in the borderlands reminded of chthonians , which have been added into lovecraft ' s mythos by other authors . the tone of the rest of the movie has very much a traditional lovecraftian worship vibe .
plano , tx based game developer gearbox has been in the game - making business for a long time . in fact , this past february marked the developer ' s 14th anniversary . but prior to the release of borderlands in 2009 , gearbox flew largely under the radar .
the sudden overhaul of the game was a brash gamble that ultimately paid off , with borderlands selling well over 4 million copies since its release . the combination of rpg elements and a very unique art style led to a welcome critical and consumer reaction .
( 1988 ) you keep thinking . this quasi - lovecraftian ending leaves the film ending on a question mark where you are never sure what is happening or what the agency behind everything is .
elliot : that’s right , that’s the number one ! i mean i’m sure there are faults in this film but i’m sure there not the usual ones . i wanted to get past that .
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as his comic gray plays against kennedy’s straight man deacon , hill brings an earthy humour here that’s reminiscent of his rôle in ben wheatley‘s down terrace , grounding the borderlands ‘ weirder narrative byroads in absurdly mundane hilarity . this , combined with the shakicam and the banal ordinariness of the wiltshire village , with its “betting shop , fish bar , laundry” , and of course pub , lends the film a low authenticity that soon clashes with its more unsettling elements .
a film for the ages may appear an impossible task . just look at gatsby himself : an in - his - prime robert redford coming off his first academy award nomination for
he’s just a funny person who’s wandered into a horror film as opposed to it being a comedy film . the situations aren’t funny and the lines aren’t . as my character becomes progressively involved in the events of the story , there aren’t any more jokes . he doesn’t say anything funny after a certain point in the film , i mean he’s genuinely scared and you see the character go from being quite light hearted to being terrified . the progression is hopefully reflected by the audience , from when you can be more laissez fare and then gradually becoming increasingly serious and terrified . this is not pick myself up but the idea is to continuously play it seriously . you play the jokes and horror in the spirit of the character and it’s all the same essentially .
found footage movies are nothing new and ones based around religious / paranormal events are even more cliché . but the borderlands manages to do something that all the others have failed at doing – it’s entertaining , tense and incredibly well put together .
in 2013 america—depending on who you talk to—we’re either living in a continued recession or recovering from the worst economic collapse since the one so close to gatsby ’s original release . the various causes to america’s latest recession have created a furthering of the class divide . occupy wall street . a fierce hatred of corporations . anything ostentatious being scaled back to avoid reproach . the american dream has become something modest . it’s closer to just getting by , with many afraid to hope for the lavish lifestyle that seems so far out of reach .
a huge thank you from hmz film to mayhem festival and jennifer , elliot , robin and gordon for taking the time out to engage in such a fascinating interview . you guys will
a film can be horrible , but there ' s a difference between that and it searching for a purpose . if a film can ' t grab my interest or attention in the first 40 minutes , i may give up on it . even if , pretend , the last 50 minutes are brilliant . that ' s not better in my eyes , quality for me means that it ' s well planned even when badly done . this film plays like a brainstorm , akin to some stories that i saw in undergrad .
this all came to light when moss expressed his disappointment over the artwork via twitter :
i ' m a huge gearbox fan so i was really disappointed to see this image inside the borderlands 2 box ,
he said , including an image of the box art .
critical reception for the borderlands has been predominantly positive and the film holds a rating of 80 % on rotten tomatoes , based on 15 reviews . [ 3 ] [ 4 ] common elements of praise centred upon the acting and the interactions between gordon kennedy and robin hill ' s characters , [ 5 ] [ 6 ] and radio times commented that
it ' s the pair ' s easy - going chemistry that firmly anchors this slow - burning shocker , whose rural setting deliberately evokes the wicker man
. [ 7 ] time out london and the hollywood reporter both gave mixed reviews for the film , [ 8 ] and the hollywood reporter wrote that it has
plenty of chilling atmosphere but lacks bite
. [ 9 ]
falters when it comes to the pay off . this smacks of not really knowing how to end the film more than anything else . we get the two principal characters following the path of patrick godfrey who has disappeared down under the church , finding a vast labyrinth of tunnels . [ plot spoilers ] this is followed by several minutes of the two characters running / crawling through tunnels by torchlight  the point where the film starts to travel into more standard found footage territory . finally the characters become trapped in a narrow defile , finding that it is organic matter that starts to close in around them before it would seem ( the film is never very clear ) that they are inside the gullet of a creature  some giant worm a la
elliot : i felt quite bad for aiden ( who plays mark in the film ) actually . i think it worked really well for the dynamic of the film , you two had been on set and had been acting together . aiden turns up a little bit later and he’s like the antagonistic . he was doing some really funny improvisation but i had to tell him sorry ! just don’t be funny ( laughs )
not exactly a
lovecraftian
film in the sense of being based on any of lovecraft ' s work or containing references to his creations , though some viewers may find the location and atmosphere suggestive of lovecraft ' s work ( an
eldritch location
film ) ; the addition of cultists and gothic buried secrets push this a little further into lovecraft ' s genre than many such films .
great found footage horror film that feels like a dogme film at times due to it ' s naturalistic setting . the alternate title
final prayer
i think was better suited to this especially since i saw this at necronomicon conference which celebrates the works of h . p . lovecraft and the incorporation of pre - christian religious rituals and it is as startling as one of his weird stories .
and this was only possible because the film manages to build well a tense and believable atmosphere and maintain it until the final moment . the beginning is slow , but in the second act we have the first moment of impact involving an act of pure cruelty . really fucked up stuff .
and why didn ' t gearbox follow through with hibon on directing cut - scenes or working on the borderlands project in some other faculty ? i would love to answer that question , but gearbox has declined to comment on this story .
6 - this film was very clearly made within the very strict and troubled guidelines of modern found - footage horror , but it ' s effective and entertaining enough to be credited as a superior specimen of the former .
soon the characters will abandon the carefully erected structure of their , and our , modern belief systems for something more atavistic and appetitive that lies beneath , dormant yet undeniable . the borderlands might dramatise the precarious footing of catholicism – and science – or the ultimate failure of colonialism , or the return of the repressed , but mostly it takes the viewer to a deep dark place of nightmares , where reason is devoured by the primordial shadows .
goldner is plainly working in the shadow of ben wheatley , the young director who has revitalized the british horror scene in recent years , mixing nightmarish shocks with visceral violence and savage humor in films such as kill list and sightseers . he even borrows wheatley’s regular editor and occasional actor , robin hill , to play a leading role here . but the borderlands is a much more conventional film than any of wheatley’s work to date , lacking their stylistic brio , visual sorcery and creeping menace .
the borderlands
, also known as
final prayer
, has one of the most surprising and horrifying endings i ' ve ever seen in a horror movie . even though it has been spoiled to me by a goddamn list on a site , the final scene is still shocking .
there is understandable fatigue with the found - footage genre , conjuring memories of countless films where a camera shakes in the dark whilst someone screams for sixty minutes . thankfully [ rec ] , lake mungo and the bay have shown that done well the medium can be effective and , whilst it may not be ground breaking , the borderlands is a welcome entry to the genre .
having lived for many years , only a few miles from where this was filmed , i fully appreciate the atmosphere and sense of isolation this film manages to evoke . do not be put off by the ‘found footage’ nature of the film , it really works as there is still a lot of fixed footage as well . the cast is excellent and again shows how well comedy actors can take on serious roles . this will not suit anyone of a sensitive disposition but if you enjoy a solid , psychological horror film , you should give it a try . finally , as many other reviewers have said , make sure you watch it all the way through to the climactic ending .
it ' s unclear whether gearbox wanted to credit timegate for their hard work or in order to deflect criticism over the game ' s shoddy release . that may sound uncharitable , but no similar credit was given to ben hibon for codehunters for the much more successful borderlands .
with last year ' s release of borderlands 2 , gearbox firmly cemented its place on top of the gaming world . the critically acclaimed sequel was better than the original in almost every way , offering up a more colorful , better written game full of diverse environments and enemies and even more guns .
jennifer : it was the brief really . the brief was bought to elliot that it should be a found footage film that involved a country church and there were a few more details beyond that . truth be told , we got to the edit and some of the notes from the executives were ‘can you make it any less found footage ? ’ obviously trends change . over the course year and a half it takes to make a film , what was hot when you started isn’t necessarily hot when you finish
the film does sadly turn into your average found footage affair as it reaches the movie’s climax and they can only use their headcams , which is disappointing as all the build up to it is great and it never relied on cheap tricks to unease its audience . director elliot goldner chooses his angles wisely and he only resorts to the genres tropes every now and again to produce a couple of scares . you could never say that the borderlands is scary , but it can at times be very unnerving and you’re never quite sure where the movie is heading .
elliot goldner’s debut as writer / director uses a lot of the familiar found - footage tropes , but where the borderlands succeeds is in understanding that handheld camerawork , “what - was - that ? ” boo scares and panicked off - screen voices aren’t an excuse to neglect the plot , dialogue or characters .
constructed as found footage ( or is it ? ) , this film recalls the likes of the blair witch project and , especially , the last exorcism . what makes this much better than the latter ( though not the former ) , is the relationship between the two lead characters and the strength of the performances , and an especially claustrophobic and genuinely unsettling final act that is up there with the likes of the descent for squirm inducing nastiness . really very good indeed ,
we didn ' t want to be considered a poor man ' s rage ,
said gearbox chief creative officer brian martel at gdc 2010 in his talk borderlands & the 11th hour art style change ( don ' t try this at home . )
much of its content may be common to the genre but the borderlands does boast occasional moments of originality , including a lovecraftian conclusion that will be unbearable for those troubled by the claustrophobic caves found in the descent . the movie is built on a solid story and entertaining characters so when a dark tunnel is discovered beneath the church even a found - footage cynic may be tempted to explore below .
the premise is a familiar one , but the borderlands’ setting and tone is refreshingly different . for one thing , the gloomy , drizzly british town actually feels like a real british town ; father clerrick’s congregation is dwindling out of existence , the pub’s low - lit and unfriendly , and a gang of hooded youths hang around the local bus stop , drinking and muttering .
it is also tempting to read the claustrophobic final chase sequence as a sly homage to the blair witch project , but that may be crediting the film - makers with too much knowing subtext . after all , what kind of idiot ventures into demonically possessed tunnels in the dead of night ? are they insane ? haven’t they seen any horror movies ? damningly , even this chilling climax misses the target , never delivering the nerve - shredding adrenaline rush required by genre rules . neither as scary , as original or as funny as it needs to be , the borderlands is a cultish curiosity for indulgent hardcore fans only .
jennifer : i think so too , despite the fact it was in the original brief , there was a technical plus a financial reason to do it in that format . from a storytelling and creative reasoning , found footage makes sense in context of the story , in many ways is about judging the veracity of what you see and whether or not the image is truth . if you really want to get university cinematic film thesis on it , it’s what the characters are doing : judging whether or not they can believe their eyes and that’s a theme throughout the film
very slow , dull and boring . . . . . could have been a very good spooky film but instead it was just 2 men in some house that did nothing but talk talk talk . . . then a 3rd chap joined in and ( yes you guessed it ) . . . talk talk talk ! . . . . . lacked so much in excitement , i thought i ' d persevere and let the film run to the end ( even though i was nodding off ) then , low and behold . . . . it started to pick up . . . . . . . . . about 5mins . before the end of the film . definitely a no no from me and then let ' s not forget the
shaky camera job
and torches blinding your eyes while you try to watch the film . . . . . . very disappointing . . . . . save your money ! ! ! ! !
the recent glut of found - footage horror has made it easy to be snobby about the sub - genre , but there’s never been anything inherently wrong with it , as independent british horror the borderlands proves . by combining the wobbly - cam technique with a strong script and excellent central performances , this is a chilling reminder of how good found footage can be .
the end of the world is just the beginning in geoff murphy’s the quiet earth from 1985 . urltoken 1 week ago
at ut , he serves on the advisory council of the native american and indigenous studies program . he also serves on the editorial board of cinema journal , the official journal of the society for cinema and media studies . tahmahkera consults on film projects , curates indigenous film series , and writes curriculum guides ( e . g . , ladonna harris : indian 101 ) for vision maker media and pbs . he also has delivered invited talks , such as the 2017 annual shaw lecture in american studies at dickinson college , and recently completed a three - year term on the community advisory board of klru , the austin - based affiliate of pbs .
gordon : what’s quite positive is that everyone starts by saying ‘i know this is another found footage but…’ and i think the style is becoming its own separate genre . i think for people to complain about that now is redundant . it’s a style of film like you might make a black and white or in a documentary format , found footage is just another style / genre or whatever you want to call it . there is a real reluctance to like that style at the moment because there have been a few poor ones since paranormal activity . so the reviewers are saying this is found footage but it’s ok don’t worry ! as with any film : the beginning , middle and the end of it depend on you being interested enough in the characters that you won’t get bored no matter what the journey is . in this film , most people genuinely care . it wouldn’t matter if you made it in swahili , it’s been interesting that there’s been a knock back on found footage . cloverfield has been and gone , that was the action found footage film which worked .
the above video isn ' t a trailer for borderlands , but no one would hold it against you if you thought it was . after all , the art style is remarkably similar - - - disconcertingly similar , one might say - - - and even the silent plot appears to share some similar elements with gearbox ' s first - person shooter .
to be absolutely clear ,
hibon told gather your party ,
i have never created or designed anything for gearbox or borderlands . gearbox saw my work and decided to reproduce it – make it their own – without my help or my consent .
whatever happened behind the scenes during the development of aliens : colonial marines or during the transition from a
poor man ' s rage
in the 11th hour borderlands art - style overhaul to a rich man ' s codehunters , gearbox has set itself up both as an accomplished and obviously talented developer , and as a studio apparently willing to push the boundaries of acceptable ethical use of other peoples ' creative property .
i thought the ending had something to do with
the belly of the beast
quote / verse from the bible .
goldner’s own faked recordings are full of half truths half - glimpsed , which will amply repay a rewatch without ever giving away the whole magic trick . much of the film’s insidious impact derives from his studied refusal to connect all the dots , so that by the end we , no less than the priests , become lost in the circling labyrinth , or trapped in the holes , of this worm - that - turns story .
so the borderlands isn ' t going to change too many people ' s minds but it is going to satisfy those of us already fans of the format . while not being a particularly revolutionary attempt , what it lacks in originality it earns back points in chills , characters , a good set - up and a hugely tense finale .
beyond that , jay - z has long been known to blend musical styles and also has a proven track record of using films as inspiration for compelling creativity . his album american gangster ( brought on by the 2008 film of the same name ) may have eclipsed its cinematic predecessor in relevancy , even if you agreed with jay’s high regard for the film’s quality ( i do ) . knowing what can happen when jay gets energized adds a whole new level of possibility to the picture , especially when you think of pairing him with a director known for producing impeccable soundtracks .
meanwhile deacon’s attempts to debunk a video as fraudulent also serves to deconstruct the naturalistic fictions of the very found footage we’re watching . deacon’s arguments with grey and mark introduce a dialectic of faith and fakery that is key to our reception of the borderlands itself , as scientific rationalism must compete with both manipulative chicanery and the ineffably , monstrously divine – and superstitions , once dismissed , have a habit of biting back .
the borderlands succeeds in giving logical reasoning as to why there are cameras on all the time as both the house and the church are rigged big brother style and all the team members wear headcams to record first person perspectives . you could argue the case of ‘who has edited this together’ , but in a medium that has produced lazily put together farces , it’s commendable that they at least tried and succeeded . the camera set - up creates a very tense atmosphere and are much more preferable to the headcams which produce the annoying shaky shots we’ve become accustom to with this genre .
tim bowman here from west texas a & m university . the following is a “call for book reviews” that i write in my capacity as book review editor for the west texas historical review . our journal is published annually , so any completed reviews of the following titles will be published in next year’s edition of the journal . scholars of the u . s . west , texas , native americans and the u . s . - mexico borderlands should find some of these appealing .
this is a creepy feature that chills your spine solid but the characters are what stick in the mind . deacon is likable but sympathetic , with an interesting back story and thankful moral fibre . gray is blunt in how he speaks occasionally but a real stand - up guy that might remind a few viewers of one of their own mates whilst the avid religious member of the group , priest mark ( aidan mcardle ) is reliably no nonsense and surprisingly cynical . the dialogue veers from hilarious to actually quite serious and goldner’s grasp of the proceedings is pretty impressive . perhaps some will be left irritated by the film’s lack of answers but more will be left intrigued by what goldner does next and if we might ever see a return to the world of the borderlands , which would be welcome on this evidence .
jennifer : it’s worth noting too , that for a short time the film was actually called ‘the devil lies beneath’ which was a bit more of a commercial title , maybe a bit more on the nose but ultimately we went for the more artistic version which was great . we’re always happy to go with something subtler and not quite so in your face .
it really is . a lot of that is the sound design . martin pavey , who is ben wheatley’s sound designer , did it all , he’s an incredible artist . he added a lot of life to the church , with creaking rafters , and wind , adding things to make it a proper character in the film .
“the housemaid” is an elegantly eerie thriller with the grand gothic style of “dark shadows” before barnabas collins became the star of the show .
more importantly , those who saw the film were less than ecstatic . it’s metascore ( via metacritic . com ) comes in at 43 , implying mixed reviews ( but only three points away from being “generally unfavorable” ) . the great gatsby ’s tomatometer is a woeful 34 percent , and none of the “top critics” give it a positive review .
the beginning of this film is a little bit meandering , but after about twenty minutes the plot starts to move forward at a speedy pace , and it ' s not particularly unique , but it ' s executed very well . and it also has one of the scariest third acts in the found footage genre . the only people this will really appeal to are big fans of the found footage genre , but it ' s a worthwhile watch .
following the priest’s death , deacon and gray find themselves ostracized by townspeople at the local pub . mark terminates the investigation with the vatican’s approval .
it ' s always satisfying when a new found footage film is a critical success considering all the shite thrown at the sub - genre ( it really is no worse than , i dunno , let ' s say the ' action ' genre ) , but it ' s still finding its feet i guess . these things take time to bed in sometimes .
the inhabitants of the village start to behave with hostility towards the team . the local pub landlord evicts deacon and gray from his premises after overhearing the two men discussing local folklore and the credibility of the tenets of old pagan religions versus those of christianity .
it really is . the film wouldn’t be what it is without the chemistry that exists between those two . there are a lot of scenes that are straight improv from the two of them . when they’re looking at the map and picking out the different places , gordon , who is a comedian , and has written comedy , is actually being forced to play the straight man by rob , who won’t let him be serious for a minute . they’re a real treat .


the neanderthal man is a 78-minute , 1953 american black-and-white science fiction film produced independently by aubrey wisberg and jack pollexfen , as global productions inc. , from their own original screenplay .

it starred robert shayne , richard crane and joyce terry , was directed by e. a. dupont , and was originally distributed in the united states by united artists corp . beverly garland , in a supporting role , appears here in her first feature film .

the neanderthal man

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an exhibition at the neanderthal museum in mettmann shows that man has always been on the move . ( 15 . 08 . 2017 )
keywords german , germany , düsseldorf , neanderthal , human , dna , neander , valley , the bones of neanderthal man were found near düsseldorf 150 years ago and still prompt questions .
neanderthal man : in search of lost genomes and over 2 million other books are available for amazon kindle . learn more
this year marks the 150th anniversary of the discovery of the
neanderthal man .
an international exhibition and congress in july in bonn brought together 220 scientists from 20 countries , to discuss topics ranging from the origin of neanderthal man , to the species ' relationship to modern humans .
an anthropologist who is part of an arctic exploration team discovers the body of a prehistoric neanderthal man who is subsequently resuscitated . the researcher must then decide what to do with the prehistoric man and he finds himself defending the man from those that want to dissect him in the name of science .
the return of the neanderthal man became a festival hit in the usa . the film won thirteen awards and was also officially selected by more than fifteen other festivals .
knock - out centre . a similar dutch version with jukebox centre also exists : hotlegs - neanderthal man a
hotlegs
production
it was the first fossil man and the first clear evidence that there is some other one like modern man ,
said von königswald .
it was a time when one discovered that all aborigines of the various continents in those days were absolutely human beings and they did interbreed with europeans . with neanderthal man , it became clear that there were other types of man in the past .
wighart von königswald , chair of paleontology at the university of bonn , and co - organizer of the symposium , said the importance of the discovery of neanderthal man cannot be underestimated .
scientists decode majority of neanderthal man′s genome | science | in - depth reporting on science and technology | dw | 12 . 02 . 2009
professor groves’ evolutionary chart shows cro - magnon man prior to neanderthal and has the hoaxed piltdown man on the list . no wonder the local scientists group at the naturalist’s club thinks he is loony . and a mad scientist in the california woods is not to be fooled with .
a prehistoric neanderthal man found frozen in ice is revived by an arctic exploration team , who then attempt to use him for their own scientific means .
encino man saves its worst for last , especially with life lessons about being yourself .
is man the eternal migrant ? : neanderthal museum explores history of human movement | culture | arts , music and lifestyle reporting from germany | dw | 15 . 08 . 2017
i just finished the book neanderthal man : in search of lost genomes by svante paabo and it was one of my favorite books in recent years . i really enjoyed the way it was written .
professor groves , an expert in prehistoric life , proves his theories with an extract that ' ll regress a cat to a saber - tooth tiger and man to a neanderthal .
an instant cult classic . the return of the neanderthal man is a screwball comedy with a freudian twist . the story of a young woman ' s quest to find the perfect mate , who is embodied in a 10 , 000 year old neanderthal man . a tongue in cheek look at relationships in our modern age , the return of the neanderthal playfully examines all of our preconceived notions about love and romance and turns them inside out and upside down . part woody allen , part ingmar bergman , and a whole lot of fun .
the thursday horror picture show will screen the neanderthal man thursday , sept . 4 , at 8 p . m . in theater six at the carolina asheville and will be hosted by xpress movie critics ken hanke and justin souther .
less than half a gram of bone has been used to decode a large portion of the genome of neanderthal man , an extinct evolutionary relative to modern humans , scientists announced thursday , feb . 12 .
an instant cult classic . the return of the neanderthal man is a screwball comedy with a freudian twist . the story of a young woman ' s quest to find the perfect mate , who is embodied in a . . . see full summary »
a primitive man shows up in modern - day germany in this screwball comedy from director florian steinbiss .
analysis has shown that neanderthal dna still lives on in modern man , disproving the long - held belief that the more primitive homo species never interbred with humans and had in fact died out some 30 , 000 years ago .
the return of the neanderthal man success story on the american film festival circuit was just beginning . jon chardiet and rick zieff accepted on behalf of florian steinbiss award no . 4 for
best feature film
in las vegas at the vegas cine fest .
award no . 8 came literally from sky , from a virtual film festival with cult character . the skyfest in asheville , north carolina awarded a prize within the category feature film to the return of the neanderthal man . you should watch the awards show of ralph roberts on the internet .
for example , according to ralf schmitz , an archaeologist and co - organizer of the
roots
exhibition at the rheinisches landesmuseum in bonn , scientists now know what the neanderthal man discovered in germany was like , and how he would have lived .
in bonn , germany , neanderthal specialist ralf schmitz said he expected these studies to reveal within 10 years how the two species were related . he said the neanderthal genome
has been read , but not yet decoded .
svante pääbo is the man who is rewriting the story of human evolution . from 1856 , when the first neanderthal skeleton was discovered in germany , to the dawn of the 21st century , the map of our origins had to be pieced together entirely from fossils . all this changed with the coming of rapid dna sequencing and the human genome project .
it is now accepted that neanderthals inhabited europe and parts of western asia and scientists now know part of neanderthal man ' s dna code , which schmitz helped to crack in 1997 , with fellow archaeologist jürgen thissen .
one of amazon ' s top 100 books of 2014 neanderthal man tells the story of geneticist svante pääbo ' s mission to answer this question : what can we learn from the genomes of our closest evolutionary relatives ? beginning with the study of dna in egyptian mummies in the early 1980s and culminating in the sequencing of the neanderthal genome in 2010 , neanderthal man describes the events , intrigues , failures , and triumphs of these scientifically rich years through the lens of the pioneer and inventor of the field of ancient dna . we learn that neanderthal genes offer a unique window into the lives of our hominid relatives and may hold the key to unlocking the mystery of why humans survived while neanderthals went extinct . pääbo ' s findings have not only redrawn our family tree , but recast the fundamentals of human history , the biological beginnings of fully modern homo sapiens , the direct ancestors of all people alive today .
this analysis is achieved by comparing the neanderthal reference to the human and chimpanzee reference genome sequences as well as to the genomic variation among humans today , the statement said .
steinbiss , the press notes breathlessly informs , grew up just miles from the german valley where the remains of the first neanderthal man were discovered . unfortunately , that seems to have provided little inspiration for this sketch - like effort straining to fill its mercifully brief feature - length running time .
the special exhibition
2 million years of migration
runs until november 5 , 2017 , in the neanderthal museum in mettmann near düsseldorf .
[ t ] his book is a vibrant testimonial to what might be the greatest creation of modern humans : the scientific method .
- - salon neanderthal man tells the story of geneticist svante pääbo ' s mission to answer this question : what can we learn from the genomes of our closest evolutionary relatives ? beginning with the study of dna in egyptian mummies in the early 1980s and culminating in the sequencing of the neanderthal genome in 2010 , neanderthal man describes the events , intrigues , failures , and triumphs of these scientifically rich years through the lens of the pioneer and inventor of the field of ancient dna . we learn that neanderthal genes offer a unique window into the lives of our hominid relatives and may hold the key to unlocking the mystery of why humans survived while neanderthals went extinct . pääbo ' s findings have not only redrawn our family tree , but recast the fundamentals of human history - - the biological beginnings of fully modern homo sapiens , the direct ancestors of all people alive today .
encino man is frighteningly dated , but it was never made to be timeless . i just wish the picture had more laughs or instinctive madness .
check out this clip from the neanderthal man ! you can buy the blu - ray from scream factory at : urltoken a mad scientist uses his new serum on his housekeeper , turning her into an ape - woman . like most crazed scientists , he then tries the serum on himself , creating . . . the neanderthal man ! robert shayne ( how to make a monster ) and beverly garland ( it conquered the world , the alligator people ) star in this harrowing creature feature . want more screams ? subscribe here : urltoken check us out on facebook : urltoken follow us on twitter : urltoken
a hard - to - put - down true - life science detective story about decoding the neanderthal genome . later chapters include denisovans .
part memoir , part popular science book , neanderthal man is a cracking read . it is especially impressive that pääbo is not , for instance , a journalist or a bit - part player in the process : he is the main man in one of the most important developments in human evolution in the past 50 years . it’s rare to be able to read a first - hand account of science in action by the key player . ( the fact that it’s also a really good book makes it seem even more improbable . ) rare ? well , yes , it’s about as likely as finding neanderthal dna in the first place .
what’s ironic is that the “scientific data” on the neanderthals at the time was completely out of left field . they were depicted as apelike brutish creatures , an opinion based on no evidence . later discoveries show that the neanderthals were much like homo sap and if a neanderthal man wore a suit and walked down the street you might not notice anything out of the ordinary .
the finding comes from a first draft of the neanderthal genome , using partly rotted material from the bones of six individuals , sequenced at the max planck institute for evolutionary anthropology in leipzig , germany .
neanderthals live on in modern man | science | in - depth reporting on science and technology | dw | 07 . 05 . 2010
unfortunately , the list for now is just a catalog of names . neither paabo nor any other scientist can yet clearly link our mutations to our human nature . for most of “neanderthal man , ” the goal of sequencing the neanderthal genome feels like a distant finish line that paabo is moving toward with the steady pace of a long - distance runner . but when he snaps the finish - line tape at last , we realize that we’ve actually reached the starting line of a much longer race .
the neanderthal man is standard b picture fare , nothing startling , nothing revelatory . the acting is ok to poor . the special effects budget was somewhere between $ 5 and $ 20 . the saber toothed tiger looks amazingly like a real tiger ( occasionally on a not - unseen leash ) though the tusks are only seen in close up shots . in other words , the saber toothed tiger walking looks like a tiger walking without the saber teeth . the neanderthal make - up looks like it’s from a bad werewolf movie , replete with the time lapse fur - growing scenes .
schmitz heads a team that is studying the original neanderthal bones discovered in 1856 in the neander gorge near duesseldorf in germany which led to the species ' name . there is a museum at the site today .
the teams used bones from neanderthal skeletons found in croatia , spain , russia and germany . paabo said the next step would be to compare the newly discovered genome with that of modern humans .
pääbo has provided us with a fabulous account of three decade of research into ancient dna , culminating in 2010 with the publication of the neanderthal genome .
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a scientist ( robert shayne ) turns his maid into an ape - woman , his cat into a tiger and himself into an ape - man .
when the neanderthal genome is finally published , paabo is justifiably proud . we can’t begrudge him the opportunity to regale us about the news conferences and honors . but readers may start to wonder what exactly the payoff was for those many years of struggle . reconstructing a neanderthal genome was a tour de force , we can all agree , but why does it matter ?
given virtually nothing to work with , the actors resort to shamelessly mugging for the camera , with only the charming muehlhause managing to preserve a shred of dignity . like her character who falls in love with the primitive man , she deserves better .
the cracked skull of a neanderthal provides the first scientific evidence that these early humans used tools to fight each other—and took care of one another as well . ( april 23 , 2002 )
the show ' s organizers are aware of the fact that there is no direct connection between the migrants of prehistorical times and those of today . the reasons for migrating have changed . whereas the early hunters followed their prized herds , people nowadays flee the wars and poverty of their home countries . still ,
the development and the evolution of man are closely intertwined with migratory movements ,
weniger added .
the mobility of man and changes in his environment are part of the picture . considering these facts , simply closing off borders cannot be a solution to the present refugee crisis , weniger claimed .
in 1856 , two workers found 16 bones in a limestone quarry in the neander valley , east of düsseldorf . it was thought the bones belonged to a cave bear , but they were subsequently found to be the remains of early man .
half man . . . half beast . . . he held them all in the grip of deadly terror . . . nothing could keep him from this woman he claimed as his own !
the most famous collection of neanderthal bones resides at the north rhine westphalia state museum in the former german capital , bonn . the collection consists of 16 pieces , including a skull cap , two femurs , three right arm bones and two left arm bones .
neanderthal still posing questions 150 years after discovery | germany | news and in - depth reporting from berlin and beyond | dw | 20 . 08 . 2006
some images resonate and remain with us . we want to see them over and again . the return of the neanderthal man also called neander - jin , an award - winning film , has been connecting with people just like that . at its core , connections are a cave man and a self - directed , collegiate young woman of today . the film is mesmerizing , a thoughtful beauty and the beast , sci - fi , comedy of manners , political and social satire , that sticks with viewers young and old . never totally serious , the return of the neanderthal man has a raucous and riotous cast of characters including : precocious female college students , straight forward maintenance workers , patriot chiefs , two questionable professors , crazy doctors , hired guns , anthropologists , tabloid personnel , sensational tv , and the gamut of spoofs on satire , social criticism , silent movies , experimental film , the surreal and the absurd ! in truth , viewers have a good time , they laugh , they are entertained , maybe a little bit overwhelmed by the multi level story telling and various genres and styles .
speaking at one of two simultaneous press conferences on the project ' s results , head scientist svante paabo said the two teams had sequenced more than three billion sections , or 60 percent , of neanderthal dna .
then in 1991 a well - preserved body was disgorged by a glacier in the tyrol . ötzi , as he was named , was 5 , 300 years old and pääbo honed his technique on this serendipitous find . ötzi ' s dna was similar to that of any modern southern european , except that he lacked the mutation that allows adults to digest milk , a gene known to have spread rapidly in the past 5 , 000 years . pääbo was working in germany at the time , and his thoughts turned to neanderthal man , a german icon . the first neanderthal dna sequences were published in 1997 , but it took another 13 years of painstaking work before the landmark , full neanderthal genome , based on three individuals , was published in a mammoth 174 - page section of science in may 2010 .
neander - jin : the return of the neanderthal man is a desperately unfunny comedy whose premise and execution are as ungainly as its title . directed by debuting german filmmaker florian steinbiss , who really shouldn’t quit his day job , this amateurish effort has garnered some awards at obscure film festivals . but much like its titular inspiration , it’s bound to go extinct after its limited theatrical release .
using the chimpanzee and human mitochondrial dna sequences ( mtdnas ) as reference points … the divergence date between human and neanderthal mtdnas is at 660 , 000 ( plus or minus ) 140 , 000 years ,
the statement said .
ruth notices changes between the man she fell in love with and the current professor . and , no wonder ! the professor has run out of test subjects other than a small cat which he injects with an experimental fluid . we can now guess where the tiger has come from .
all three books are stories of scientific triumphs , but they’re presented more like memoirs . at their best , memoirs are sustained drilling expeditions , in which writers mine their experiences to gain a deeper understanding of themselves . for all sorts of reasons , scientists are often unwilling to dig so far . “neanderthal man” is a case in point .
in the first bar scene when the hunter pours beer from the bottle to the glass , the beer is totally flat , no foam appears in the glass .
the first cinematic outing by pauly shore is a half decent comedy . though fun , and comical at times , encino man is not a great film . i see it as an a borderline effort in the genre , and one that can actually be quite forgotten . encino man gave us the taste of pauly shore , and what was to come with one good comedy and three other bad , repetitive comedy . in encino man , pauly shore plays a surfer type dude who he duplicated in the many films that followed . the plot is simple , two friends find a caveman in their backyard and use him to gain popularity . encino man is a fun film , but it ' s nothing knee slapping hilarious . whats funny to me though is how pauly shore has faded into darkness and how brendan frasier , sean astin and robin tunney managed to all have pretty good careers . encino man is a average film with a few laughs throughout , but also you have to keep your expectations low . nothing really good happens . the films plot is simple , even by comedy standards and the acting of course isn ' t great . along with son in law , encino man manages to be one of the few pauly shore films thats watchable . but the film is really a one trick poney with shore acting like the weasel . oh well , at least he made two decent films before being overly repetitive . encino man is a comic film with a few decent gags , but it ' s nothing to write home about .
neanderthal bones have been discovered down the years at 300 places in europe and asia . the species was named after a valley , the neandertal , which lies in western germany near the city of dusseldorf , where the first officially recognized bones were found by men digging in a quarry in 1856 .
the conference in bonn couldn ' t answer this specific question , but was organized to help find the answers to questions such as these and provide a forum for scientists to discuss neanderthal technology , anatomy and environment .
when
charlie
awakens in the vivarium , he goes about life in general until he
catches
the water filter hose in the stream / pond . but as the scene continues , there is no way that he wouldn ' t notice the man - made construction of the glass enclosure or the fact that he cannot see the whole sky . only when he roams hysterically around the vivarium does it become apparent .
the tourville - la - rivière site thus allows the confirmation of the remarkable capacity of neanderthal man to adapt to different situations from which he benefitted . in this sense , this context is a good illustration of complementary subsistence activities practised by these men about 200 000 years ago . future analyses , practised on the remains , as much on fauna ( palaeontological and archaeo - zoological ) as on the flint - knapping industry ( technicological and edge wear tests ) , will tend to confirm or weaken the present vision of the site .
his depiction of neanderthal man and homo sapiens reflects , to an extent , the archaeological evidence . his neanderthals have no artefacts or containers , whereas the new people have necklaces , paintings , wine - skins and clay pots . inventing containers ( bags , baskets ) was an important evolutionary step as it allowed hunter - gatherers to bring back and store foodstuffs . fa , the brightest neanderthal , almost hits on the idea of containers when , watching the old woman cook broth in a deer ' s stomach and dip a stick in it to get it to mal ' s mouth , she has an image of seashells full of water .
the song wild child is performed by brent bourgeois . the movie version of the song cannot be found anywhere online . the only know version of this song is found on youtube . this version of the song can be found on youtube by searching : wild child - brent bourgeois ( big man on campus forgotten song )
it concerns the miraculous appearance in modern - day germany — despite its provenance and setting , the film is in english — of a time - traveling neanderthal man ( jon chardiet ) who inevitably causes a stir among the more unscrupulous figures with whom he comes into contact . attempting to protect him from the corrupt forces of commercialism — yes , that predictable villain , reality television , comes into the picture—is the comely barbara van schmerling ( sarah muehlhause ) , a young environmental activist whose feelings for the prehistoric visitor soon take a romantic turn .
schmitz said genetic studies had not yet been conducted on a female neanderthal he discovered in 1997 at the neander site .
she ' s still in a holding pattern ,
he said .
paabo’s genetic jigsaw - puzzle work , on the other hand , wins his sustained attention . you can practically hear the 20 - year - old lab notebooks creak open as paabo works his way systematically through his experiments . the narrative occasionally slows down when paabo gets deep in the weeds about a scientific journal reviewing one of his papers , or the political intricacies of obtaining a chunk of a fossil from another country . for the most part , though , “neanderthal man” is a revealing history of a new scientific field .
initially , however , this theory was unpopular . von königswald said amateur naturalist johann carl fuhlrott , who was the first to pronounce the neanderthal ' s bones as human , was disbelieved by many , as this notion contradicted literal interpretations of the bible .
with his big cat dead , the professor does what any sane man would do . he injects the serum into his own body . within minutes he has grown lots of hair and bad teeth . he runs out into the woods and attacks nola who is posing for photos with her boyfriend . the boyfriend dies in the scuffle .
in this euro - screwball comedy , which plays with multiple genres and narrative styles , florian steinbiss tells the story of a neanderthal man who mysteriously rematerializes in modern day germany and seeks sanctuary in the garden of barbara van schmerling , a 23 - year - old student of environmental planning . to save and protect this ‘last living evidence of former humanity and naturalness´ from exploitation by a p . t . barnum wannabe and a power - crazed media savvy anthropologist , barbara takes him under her wing . failing to protect him from the corrupting influences of western civilization , her altruistic feelings turn romantic , threatening either to compromise her ethics , or lose the only person - or primitive - she ever truly loved . meanwhile , the neanderthal man must choose between barbara , the only person who loves him for what he really is , and the siren call of fame , suitcases of money , and easy access to gummy bears .
a face divided into three parts with different skin colors . with this poster , the neanderthal museum draws the visitor into its current special exhibition on migration . the show highlights some interesting information . did you know that lighter skin types only developed around 4 , 500 years ago ?
the exhibition tries to build a bridge between the ice age and the contemporary era . how does the show try to realize this ? a great part of the exhibition deals with the milestones of prehistorical migratory events . early man emigrated from africa some 100 , 000 years ago . roughly 7 , 500 years ago , farmers and cattle breeders from the middle east migrated to europe . in the early metal age , horse breeders and merchants from the steppes of western asian migrated to central europe .
past studies had concentrated only on mitochondrial dna , a type where no intermixing was found .
it was another surprise that even the chinese carry neanderthal genes , although neanderthals never lived in china ,
said schmitz .
- style dissolve briefly turns shayne into a believably feral creature until he’s fully revealed to resemble the unholy union of a bullfrog and an ape ( with a perm to boot ) . with this hilariously static apparatus applied to his face , shayne does his best to terrorize the surrounding area , and his victims do a good job not to laugh him off of the set . further diluting the horror are the expected 50s restraints : there’s very little on - screen violence and one sequence inevitably ends with the neanderthal man carrying off a girl ( beverly garland in one of her earliest screen appearances ) .
egyptology entered pääbo ' s life when his mother took him to egypt at the age of 13 . attending summer schools at the mediterranean museum in stockholm , he realised that egyptology was a ritual - bound slow - moving discipline ; it was too sluggish for such a driven man .
this is one of the best accounts of research that i have ever read . not only does it describe the results of pääbo ' s groundbreaking research , it also explains the fundamentals of the scientific method , not in philosphical theoretical terms , but in how a real scientist works . the anxiety and joys of the scientific endeavour are made clear . i recommend this to anyone interested in science , not only to those interested in the particular subject of the history and evolution of man .
fragments of skull found in a german quarry have turned out to belong to java man , an early human previously thought to be native to asia , triggering speculation that asian hominids colonized europe . ( 18 . 07 . 2008 )
what is there to say about the neanderthal man ? i mean what is there to be said , apart from noting that it’s unintentionally very funny ? not much really . robert shayne ( billed as shane ) — already established as inspector henderson on tv’s superman — stars as a loony scientist of the george zucco school . in other words , he’s as much out to prove that his detractors are wrong as he is to make any scientific breakthrough . an expert on prehistoric life ( you can tell because he owns a book on the topic ) , he gets it into his head that neanderthal man was actually more advanced than we are . to this end , he’s prone to transforming his mute maid ( jeanette quinn ) into a kind of ape woman ( we only see photos of this ) and housecats into saber - tooth tigers . actually , he just turns them into tigers — except for a few lovably awful inserts ( see above ) of the dopiest looking stuffed toy saber - tooth tiger head imaginable .
in “neanderthal man” paabo offers a fascinating account of the three decades of research that led from a secret hobby to a scientific milestone . the book follows the style of two previous memoirs by pioneering geneticists — james d . watson’s “the double helix” ( 1968 ) and j . craig venter’s “a life decoded” ( 2007 ) . in “the double helix , ” watson described discovering the structure of dna . in “a life decoded , ” venter told how he led a team that developed new ways to read dna and eventually assembled a rough draft of the entire human genome . paabo now recounts his success in recovering a human genome that has been sitting in fossils for tens of thousands of years .
the special exhibition is accompanied by a special research project entitled
our way to europe
that has been carried out in cooperation with the neanderthal museum since 2009 . in it , scientists from the universities of aachen , cologne and bonn explore the movement of people from africa to europe . where did they come from ? and where did they go ?
the imagined and the real fit together in a number of other ways as well . one of dick ' s characters muses , for example , that the basic insanity of the nazis is that
they want to be the agents , not the victims , of history . they identify with god ' s power and believe they are godlike … man has not eaten god ; god has eaten man .
that ' s a reasonable analysis of nazi obsessions . but it ' s also a reasonable analysis of american obsessions , as carl freedman points out in his book critical theory and science fiction . dick , freedman says , is linking
the quintessential western will to domination with the horrors of genocidal nazism .
and that western will to domination is shown most clearly in the book through the nazi plan to drop a bomb on the japanese home islands . but in the real world the nazis didn ' t drop a bomb on the home islands . america did .
is another empty - headed romp in the tradition of the z - grade creature features of the day . the effects aren’t just unable to compensate—they exacerbate the problem by making the premise even more laughable . an expected
then sound came in and he apparently didn’t adapt too well . by 1933 his career in europe came to an end and he spent the next few years knocking out b movies in hollywood . even that came to an end in 1939 . he wouldn’t make another movie till he entered the realm of the low - grade independent film in 1951 . this would lead to working for exploitation schlockmeister writer - producers aubrey wisberg and jack pollexfen and the neanderthal man — a very low - rent production that is indefensible on every level , despite the once great dupont and having been shot by the still great , but never very choosy , stanley cortez , who two years later would shoot night of the hunter .
his book is also valuable for showing just how modern research teams work together and , sometimes , fall out . along the way , a key collaborator became a competitor and , midstream , pääbo abandoned one collaborating gene - sequencing company for another . the race for the neanderthal genome is reminiscent of the human genome story of 10 years previously , as recounted in james shreeve ' s the genome war .
we know his age - - he died at the age of 42 . his geo - chronological age is 42 , 000 years , his food was mostly meat , and in the rediscovery campaign of the neanderthal type locality , we found stone implements and animal bones ,
schmitz said .
for the first time , we have an idea of the culture of that special type specimen .
it begins with professor clifford groves ( robert shayne , mistakenly credited as robert shane ) living in the mountains of california , where he conducts experiments and formulates theories about man’s ascent up the evolutionary ladder . he is working at home when he hears a loud noise and a crash . something has happened in his laboratory .
a neanderthal may have been less likely to be brutish and warlike than homo sap . but where would be the fun in that ? i’m surprised i missed this gem when it came out . we used to make a point of seeing all scifi matinees .
he said he also expected key data on neanderthal metabolism using the dna data
within five to 10 years .
this might explain why the neanderthals became extinct 30 , 000 years ago . one theory suggests they could not adapt to changes in food supplies and types in times of famine .
the new people practise shamanism , and their shaman , marlan , is male , but golding gives his neanderthals a religion ( the worship of a matriarchal goddess , oa ) and this was his widest divergence from received opinion . as he would have known , no traces of neanderthal religion have been found , nor have any neanderthal grave goods that would imply a belief in an afterlife . he gets round these possible objections by making his neanderthals worship
ice women
and place meat and water in the grave for the afterlife , none of which would leave any remnants forarchaeologists to discover .
the waterfall , he notes at the end of the manuscript , is vital :
the centre symbol is the waterfall , the time stream , the fall , the second law of thermodynamics . it must be vivid .
this ties in with what he told the critic virginia tiger - that he wrote the first draft as a rebuttal of the 19th - century doctrine of progress but , in the rewrite , stressed on the contrary the evolutionary life force that drives the new people upwards
at a higher level of energy
than the neanderthals possess . this is symbolised by their ability to haul their canoes up past the waterfall and sail upriver against the current .
unusually intelligent sci - fi , about a group of polar researchers who discover a hibernating ( and slightly too human - looking ) neanderthal . the scientists ( predictably ) just want to cut him up , but tim hutton plays the lone anthropologist who befriends him and teaches him how to sing along to neil young . at times the film ( pre - cgi ) seems dated in appearance , but its strength is not to underestimate the difference between the neanderthal ' s world and our own , nor his capacity to deal with it . good to see a sci - fi film that for once is more interested in substance than surface .
now firmly established as the master of neanderthal dna , pääbo continues to unravel the genome ' s deeper secrets . a recent major paper reports the best full neanderthal sequence so far . remarkably , modern humans have only 96 changes in protein - coding genes compared with neanderthals . that is , almost every modern human across the world has these altered genes , so we can be sure they are significant . several of them , not surprisingly , relate to brain development . we are edging closer and closer to an answer to that elusive question – what was it that made us human ? svante pääbo will forever be celebrated as one of the pioneers .
german scientists announced their findings on friday in a paper published in the us journal science , which shows that between 1 and 4 percent of the dna in people living in europe , china and new guinea has neanderthal origins . the rest is attributable to the main homo sapiens line with its roots in africa . previous laboratory tests had missed the hard - to - find clues and assumed the two species forked 500 , 000 years ago , never to rejoin .
elimberris is situated on the right bank of the gers , today just below the modern urban center . across 800 m² , the excavation revealed . . .
after the first award
the best of show
from the indie fest in la jolla and a second award
emerging narrative feature filmmaker
at the geneva film festival , the third award in the category
feature comedy
came from the indie gathering in ohio .
amazon ' s new television adaptation the man in the high castle —part of the streaming service ' s 2015 pilot season —opens in a conquered new york . the nazis won world war ii , and the american flag now bears a swastika . a few freedom fighters struggle on—we see one in particular brutally tortured and beaten to death—and the police are everywhere . life in this alternate dystopia is a thing of fear and hardship , as in 1984 , or the handmaid ' s tale , or the hunger games . the familiar forces of freedom struggle against the familiar totalitarian forces of dystopia , epitomized , in the usual way , by a cruel , sadistic supervillain ( here portrayed by rufus sewell as ss officer john smith ) . if the nazis had won the war , the tv series warns us , the world would have been much , much worse .
if there’s one instance where the film attempts to be genuinely disturbing , it’s the aftermath of that encounter . dr . groves ( in neanderthal form ) carries her off , and she mysteriously turns up later ; when relaying her story , she can’t bring herself to reveal exactly what happened after he made off with her . the implication seems pretty clear to me , which is kind of outrageous given the time period , and , within this context , it comes off as so much schlock in the guise of highlighting the animalistic qualities of the neanderthal . even more troubling is the film’s attempt to suddenly empathize with groves ; by the end of the film , we’ve learned that he’s committed several heinous acts , including experimenting on both animals ( the saber - tooth running around is his mutated housecat ) and humans without their consent . in its attempt to hew to every expected beat , though , we get the treacly deathbed moralizing and contrition .
the exhibition seeks to offer a new perspective by enabling visitors to move back in time in order to look at the issues with a point of view that has not been influenced by current events at european borders . the show in the neanderthal museum asks visitors to think about their own origins before talking about immigration limits . as one visitor put it :
we ' re all just people .
the youngest neanderthal bones ever found were unearthed in the united kingdom and croatia . all of these specimens were dated between 32 , 000 and 33 , 000 years old . no verifiable specimen has been found that was younger than 30 , 000 years old , leading scientists to declare that to be when they died out .
regardless of how you categorize yourself in relation to migration , the exhibition provides some light - bulb moments as it tries to make clear that , ultimately , we ' re all migrants .
our objective is to show that migration is an intrinsically human phenomenon going back millions of years ,
said gerd - christian weniger , the director of the neanderthal museum .
noah berlatsky edits the online comics - and - culture website the hooded utilitarian and is the author of the book wonder woman : bondage and feminism in the marston / peter comics , 1941 - 48 .
neanderthals are very fascinating people , because they disappeared only 30 , 000 years ago ,
he said .
it was the last archaic type of man who lived on earth parallel to us for a long time , and the question is when neanderthals could go extinct , could we also go extinct ? that ' s a very important question .
novel in which the main characters are called lok , ha , fa , nil and mal may well send some readers running for cover . their identity has been signalled before the first chapter , in a quote from hg wells ' s a history of the world :
. . . we know very little of the appearance of the neanderthal man . . .
actually , this inclusion now seems a touch heavy - handed : more intriguing to work it out for yourself . but that is neither here nor there ; addicts of this powerful and provocative book are hooked from the opening episode , in which the family party is trying to negotiate the crossing of a river , their habitual log bridge having disconcertingly gone missing . they don ' t like water ; they are not good at communal endeavour ; but they cherish their children and bury their dead .
in the novel , the neanderthals are one family , relationships vaguely indicated ; the old woman is the mother of lok , through whom golding tells the story . he is maybe the father of liku , a child - perhaps fa is the mother , or nil , who has a baby , the new one . mal , the old man , dies in the mountain cave to which they have come from their winter habitat somewhere by the sea . they nurse him through his illness ; one of the women visits a great hidden cave to offer up what seem to be prayers to oa , their concept of an earth mother . when mal dies , the rest mourn and bury him by the hearth in the cave . but all of this is an expected cycle ; the people know about birth and death . what is about to happen is the entirely unexpected , when the certainties of their perilous , precarious world are eroded by the arrival of others . a different people , barely recognisable as such - people who make incomprehensible noises , travel on the water in hollow logs , shoot at the neanderthals with barbed sticks , steal their children , hunt them down .
one of the more depressing careers in the history of movies has to be that of e . a . dupont , who went from being one of the most celebrated of german filmmakers in the world — thanks to a film called variety ( 1925 ) — to making the neanderthal man ( 1953 ) . variety ( which the imdb insists on calling jealousy for some reason ) pushed him into the ranks of f . w . murnau . carl laemmle brought him to hollywood to work at universal . he made one film , love me and the world is mine ( 1927 ) , and , for unclear reasons , beat it to england where he made two more big hits — artistically and financially — moulin rouge ( 1928 ) and piccadilly ( 1929 ) . ( the latter the imdb claims is “uncredited , ” but this is because the imdb can’t get it through their heads that in that era “an e . a . dupont production” was the equivalent of our “a film by , ” and does not mean it was produced by dupont , but was directed by him . the imdb makes me tired . )
it was the start of what has turned out to be an extraordinary scientific career . paabo went on to find dna in a 2 , 400 - year - old mummy and then from much older animals , like extinct cave bears and ground sloths . in 2010 , he became world - famous when he and his colleagues unveiled the neanderthal genome .
i found this book a fascinating , if demanding read . this is not my field but i managed to follow most of it . it tells the story of paabo ' s experiences researching genetics and , in particular , extracting ancient genomes . i have run many projects in computer science and recognised some of the ' project people problems ' he encountered . the book tells many stories of his life at the top of the research ladder and many ' genetic pennies ' dropped on the way . in particular the battle with contamination of ancient dna by the modern dna of the people who have handled the bones in the past . he clearly has a phenomenal memory which supplies the details of the quest to find neanderthal dna , right down to what he ate at certain meetings . this makes a nice contrast to dry textbooks . highly recommended .
wheeler , a tourist - hunter in the california high sierras , is not believed by the patrons of webb ' s cafe when he claims to have run across a live tiger with tusks . among the scoffers is game - warden oakes - until he is driving home later that night and the critter hops on the hood of his car . oakes convinces a skeptical dr . harkness , state university zoologist , to come to the small town to investigate . at webbs ' , harkness meets ruth , fiancée of prof . groves who maintains his home and lab outside the town , and thru her meets groves ' daughter , jan . groves himself is down in the city , angrily trying to convince the naturalists ' society of the truth of his theory that the size of skull and brain equate with intelligence , and therefore neanderthal man was equal , if not superior , to homo sapiens . he is rejected , and by the time he returns home , seems completely unhinged , rejecting his fiancée and secluding himself in his lab . there , he has developed a serum with which he is experimenting . . . .
. instead , i’ll focus on one of the film’s few positive aspects : it could have the most arrogant and condescendingly loathsome mad scientist i’ve seen in one of these . robert shayne’s clifford groves doesn’t just sneer at the plebs unable to comprehend his genius : he’s absolutely contemptuous of them and mankind in general . his solution ? turn himself into an even lower evolutionary state of man to prove he’s still superior . take that , darwin .