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‘Decision to Leave’ trailer stirs award season buzz with Park Chan-wook’s triumphant return
South Korean cinema is phenomenal. And if you’re an aficionado familiar with Park Chan-wook’s work (Oldboy, The Handmaiden), you’ll know that Decision to Leave is going to be a must-see.
South Korea’s official submission for Best International Feature Film at the Academy Awards, and winner of Cannes’ 2022 Best Director award, Decision to Leave reveals a detective and his prime suspect entangled in a web of secrecy, infatuation, and forbidden romance. When a businessman falls to his death from a mountain peak, detective Hae-joon (Park Hae-il) oscillates between ruling the death off as an accident, suicide, or murder. He soon meets the deceased’s wife Seo-rae (Tang Wei), and simultaneously begins suspecting her involvement while falling in lust.
With magnificent art direction and an eerily electrifying orchestral backtrack, Decision to Leave promises to be a great watch for fans of Chan-wook’s work, and movie-goers who are ready to dip their toes into international cinema.
Decision to Leave premieres across theaters Oct. 14.
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Dogman / Cryptid Canine Recorded in Paradise Park, Chisago Lake, Minnesota (VIDEO/CAPTURES)
The following screen captures were from a video that was originally posted on Facebook. The creature was apparently seen and recorded in Paradise Park in Chisago Lake, Minnesota.
“I and the kids saw some kind of creature at the edge of a field stalking a group of deer today right before sunset about 7-8PM and yes it was moving its head and ears. It was not a tree stump. We only captured its attention a few times to where it turned and looked directly at us (you can see it turn its head and look over at us in the video) and then would immediately turn back to watching the deer. It wasn’t concerned with us at all, it was completely fixated on the deer. I know it’s another typical blurry picture where you can barely make out its features, it was across a large field and this is the clearest picture our phones could get. But you can clearly see its ears, an eye, the shape of its head, long arms in the front, and what looks like a mane around its neck where the hair is longer/thicker. It doesn’t look like a bear to me and there aren’t any cougars around this area, not that I know of anyways. This was out east from Chisago Lake, Minnesota where a family friend of ours had a pretty terrifying encounter some years back with a “creature” that walked on 2 legs “bent backward” and ran across the road right in front of her vehicle. She’s so traumatized by the experience she won’t even talk about it. Anyways it taught me to keep an open mind about things (we have 2 encounters not far from this area actually, maybe I’ll come back one day and tell those stories) but for now, I’m just looking for some feedback on what others think it might be because I have no idea, it looks pretty weird.” SG
NOTE: The actual post and original video can be found at North American Dogman Project – Region 3 It can also be found on YouTube. What are your thoughts? Lon
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‘Large Black Figure’ Reported Lurking in Madison, Wisconsin Dog Park
The Singular Fortean Society was recently made aware of a sighting report submitted to the Madison, Wisconsin subreddit on the social media site Reddit.
According to that report, a man was visiting Quann Dog Park in Madison when he saw what he described as a “large black figure” lurking in the woods nearby.
I may have seen something near Quann Dog Park [and] my best guess would be that it was Mothman. Looking off towards a gap in the trees next to the railroad tracks was a large black figure. It was like someone with football shoulder pads had a big black cloak over themselves, peeking out, or even a giant black bear for some reason, I thought.
It didn’t make sense to me. It seemed to be looking out onto the park and definitely noticed me noticing it. They crouched down a bit and things shifted. I couldn’t get closer [from] where I was because of the fence (dog/baby) so we walked around and up the bike path, but I didn’t see anything.
Are there homeless people that sleep up by the tracks in those woods?
I’ll always just assume it was Mothman
The woods are west of Quann Dog Park and run along both the railroad tracks and Wingra Creek, which border the park to its west and northwest, respectively.
Investigator Tobias Wayland contacted the witness, who revealed himself to be a 41-year-old man living in Madison. He agreed to be interviewed over the phone by Tobias but asked that he be kept anonymous.
During the interview, the man reaffirmed his previous testimony and added some details that had been left out.
He told Tobias that he was roughly 200 to 250 feet from the figure during his sighting, which took place at approximately 9 a.m. on July 28th and lasted between 30 and 45 seconds.
“I lost sight of it when I needed to pay attention to my dog,” the man said.
The figure, described as “someone wearing shoulder pads and a big, black cloak,” appeared to be approximately seven to eight feet tall and three to four feet wide.
He said the figure “crouched down and spread out” when he saw it, as though it were reacting to being spotted.
Neither his dog nor any other dog present reacted to the figure, although, he said, that could have been because they were too distracted from playing with one another.
The man had his infant son in a baby carrier strapped across his chest and his dog was running loose in the park, both of which prevented him from taking immediate action to pursue and investigate the figure.
However, he said, when he returned later to examine the area, he found no evidence of human habitation.
“There was nothing there,” he said, “no tarp, sleeping bag, nothing.”
Tobias and Emily Wayland visited the park on the morning of August 13th to investigate the sighting.
Tobias entered the woods but could find no signs of habitation, human or otherwise. While there was some debris present, it represented nothing that couldn’t reasonably be assumed to be litter consistent with what one would expect to find next to a biking/walking trail.
The undergrowth in the woods is overgrown in the summer, which would make camping difficult.
Furthermore, none of the foliage appeared to have been flattened or removed.
This sighting of an anomalous figure in Madison isn’t the first to be compared to Mothman.
In 2002, a woman claimed to have seen what was later described by her daughter as a large, black, winged creature with glowing red eyes. The investigation into that event revealed a series of seemingly paranormal phenomena that had affected their family at around the same time. Such incidents are relatively common in potentially paranormal-winged humanoid sightings.
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Park Beyond Hands-On: A Park Simulator That Lets You Build The Impossible
Playing out the fantasy of owning and operating your own theme park can be a lot of fun, but why limit yourself to merely what’s possible when you can create masterpieces of excitement that could never exist in real life due to technical limitations, the laws of physics, and an inevitable mountain of lawsuits? That’s the central question behind Park Beyond, a theme park simulator that blends true-to-life park management simulation with over-the-top and wonderfully absurd rides and roller coasters that quite literally go off the rails. While I enjoyed the highly detailed and painstakingly realistic park management features, it was in the mishmashing of that realism with purposefully untethered possibilities within my park’s attractions that drew me in and kept me laughing for the duration of my time with it. That’s a deadly combination that hit all the right notes with me and helped me embrace my inner park-trepreneur.
In a lot of ways, Park Beyond is exactly what you’d expect from a theme park simulator. Chiefly, you’ll be concerned with developing a playground for your customers to enjoy themselves while turning a profit to build new, exciting attractions. All of that is very detailed and has an addictive loop(-de-loop) to it. In one instance, I took out a loan to help pay for a very ambitious roller coaster, then got to watch my drained coffers creep dangerously close to bankruptcy as I nervously hoped my enormous gamble would pay off. That stuff is the bread and butter of any simulation game, but as the name implies, Park Beyond is all about mixing it up with things you’d never be able to get away with in real life.
That’s where “impossification” comes into play, a feature that lets you store the joy you create in your customers as a resource that can be spent on making your park attractions perform feats that could never exist in an actual theme park. For example, I turned a milquetoast octopus ride into an insane and hilarious kaiju attack that threw park-goers into the air with reckless abandon. My swinging pirate ship ride, on the other hand, broke apart like the Titanic mid-ride and began swinging the shattered parts in different directions before reassembling itself again at the end. I only got to play the first set of missions and thus have only seen a fraction of what’s possible with impossification, but watching these unhinged creations come to life already has given me a lot more motivation to cultivate my park than most other simulators have been able to do.
I was also able to build roller coasters from scratch, complete with their own impossification options like ramps that let me untether the coaster from its rails, cannons that let me fire my customers into the air, tunnels that could burrow deep underground and through mountains, and more. Of course, I couldn’t just blow off the laws of physics entirely. For example, I was still expected to use chain lift tracks to drag coasters upwards before sending them careening downwards, and if I launched a rollercoaster off of a ramp, I was expected to catch them on the other side of the jump. I also had to be conscious about how much speed my roller coaster was picking up, lest I send my paying customers flying off the side of a cliff. I mean, just because Park Beyond deals in the impossible doesn’t mean I get to be downright unreasonable…right?
Even better, once I was done building my rides, I could put myself in the customer’s seat and ride my creation through to completion. Doing so became my ultimate reward for completing an interesting roller coaster, or upgrading and impossifying another ride into something unique and over-the-top.
Rides aren’t the only things that could be impossified, either. I also played around with impossifying my staff, like when I did so to one of the janitors I hired and he began carrying around a flamethrower to purge the park’s trash cans with a cleansing fire. Eco-friendly? No. But an impressive spectacle nonetheless.
So far, Park Beyond has captured my interest by pairing realistic park management with larger than life rides. I look forward to devising more fantastical creations when it’s released next year.
Park Beyond’s tools make it easy to craft hilariously dangerous rollercoasters
Park Beyond, an upcoming theme park management sim in the vein of a juiced up Rollercoaster Tycoon, is trying to balance two slightly opposed teams in its target audience. There are people who love doing the management bits – the bean-counting, optimising the amount of salt on fries to make people thirsty and buy more drinks, paying close attention to demographics and average spends and that sort of kidney*. Then there are people who want to design a park full of cool-ass rides and different themed zones, a true magical wonderland. Inside this Park Beyond are two wolves, in other words, and each needs a different but equally robust set of tools to wrangle.
After some hands on with an early build of Park Beyond, I have a little more faith that Limbic Entertainment are going to be able to pull it off. The toolset for building a rollercoast is, in particular, impressive. It’s never been so easy to make a ride that breaks both the laws of physics and the laws of health and saftey. The coasters in this game are an absolute menace. In a good way.