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Film director and one-shot wunderkind Marcus Reed (Reshad Strik) hasn't been able to make another movie because of his reputation for eccentric behavior and unorthodox ideas. Producer Josh Petri (Henry Thomas) decides to take a chance on financing Marcus' next movie to be shot in Romania at an old film studio that was abandoned years ago because of its bad reputation. Seems that, 80 years earlier, another director, Béla Olt (Eli Roth) attempted to shoot a film there based on an old folktale about a young Gypsy girl named Matya (Zelda Williams) who was murdered by the villagers, who claim that her mother Chavi (Ajla Hodzic) agreed to bear a daughter from the seed of the Gypsy devil Beng (Robert Towers) in exchange for marrying a powerful man. The set was plagued by problems, the film was never finished, and Olt vanished. As the filming progresses, Marcus begins to have hallucinations, actors begin to die mysteriously, and Marcus comes to believe that the film set is possessed.
Don't Look Up is a remake of the 1996 Japanese film Don't Look Up (1996) (Ghost Actress), which was written by Japanese director Hideo Nakata and screenwriter Hiroshi Takahashi. Joyû-rei was adapted for the English-speaking audience by Chinese director Fruit Chan and screenwriter Brian Cox. It follows in the same flavor as Nakata's previous horror mystery film Ringu (1998) (1998).
Marcus came across an old production still, the only one remaining from Olt's movie. He was fascinated and began fashioning his own version of the legend from his dreams and apparitions.
A caption at the beginning of the movie relates the story of the young Gypsy girl whose mother conceived her from demon sperm. In the Dark Ages, Romanian villagers tortured and killed a young Gypsy girl, Matya, because she was born with a birth caul that marked her face -- a sign of the Devil. Villagers claimed the girl's mother, chavi, made a pact with Beng, the Gypsy devil, in which Chavi could choose any powerful man she desired if the couple gave mortal birth to the Devil's seed. After her murder, Matya was said to haunt the village as a 'mulli' or unclean spirit. A curse Beng would not lift until their crime was known and another woman carried his seed and Matya was reborn. In 1928, Hungarian director Béla Olt began to film Matya's story with Gypsy actress Lila Kis (Rachael Murphy). The film was never finished and Olt vanished.
The caul is a portion of the amniotic sac that covers the head of a fetus like a veil. In medieval times, a child born with a caul was sometimes seen as cursed, marked by a demon, or a sign that the child may become a vampire.
The main similarity is that the story lines in both movies revolve around the belief that some traumatized individuals can store their emotional energy as imprints on materials such as film or tape and that these imprints can be sensed by other sensitive individuals who come near them. In The Ring, this ability was possessed by Samara Morgan, a young girl who was murdered by her mother and tossed down a well. Her ability was referred to as nensha, or "projected thermography." In Don't Look Up, the ability was possessed by Matya, the murdered Gypsy girl, and was referred to as "residual haunting".
When Anca (Elena Satine), the wardrobe assistant, falls to her death from a scaffold in the middle of a filming shot, everyone panics and races off the set toward their cars. Believing that the deaths, the flies, the smell, and the mysterious events have all been triggered by Marcus' psychic abilities, they turn on him. In order to protect himself, Marcus picks up a knife dropped by one of his attackers and runs around to the back of the studio where he hears screaming and has visions of Matya's torture and death. He then encounters the demon Beng. Laughing, Beng tells him that he's been waiting for years, keeping the seed in a large mass on his neck until someone like Marcus would come along who could plant it for him. Beng taunts Marcus into cutting it off. The seed jumps from the mass into Marcus. "Plant it well for me," Beng says. "I want my girl." Marcus returns to the set where he is pursued by a fly-covered Matya. Romy suddenly appears and informs Marcus that she chose him because he appeared to be powerful and that she made a promise to Beng to bear a child with Marcus and give it to him. Romy is joined by Lila Kis and Chavi, all three of them begging Marcus to give Beng his daughter and end Matya's pain. Suddenly, a door opens, the flies, Matya, Lila, and Chavi disappear in the light, and Claire (Alyssa Sutherland) enters the stage. Marcus rushes into her arms, and Romy drops to the ground in defeat. Josh notices that Marcus is talking to thin air. Then Marcus tells him that he's talking with Claire, Josh reminds him that Claire died months ago. As two policemen escort Marcus away, Josh helps Romy to her feet, and Romy looks up to hear sobbing. Sometime later, back in Hollywood, Marcus sits in his car watching a tape of Romy pleading with him to give Matya life. Claire can be seen standing behind her. Meanwhile, in Romania, Romy and Josh are sleeping together and, as Romy kisses him, a large mass can be seen growing on Josh's neck.
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- How long is Don't Look Up?1 hour and 25 minutes
- When was Don't Look Up released?July 27, 2010
- What is the IMDb rating of Don't Look Up?3.1 out of 10
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- Who are the characters in Don't Look Up?Lila Kis, Béla Olt, Olt's Cameraman, Marcus Reed, Claire, Josh Petri, Grigore, Beng, Romy Bardoc, Tami, and others
- What is the plot of Don't Look Up?Evil spirits released from old celluloid cause a film crew to slowly go insane while in production on a new project.
- What is Don't Look Up rated?R
- What genre is Don't Look Up?Horror
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