They say this discovery is a major step toward establishing global quantum internet, but who knows? It could also open gateways to other dimensions. Science could make it happen, though religion could get there first with the power of prayer, bizarre sex rituals and human sacrifice.
This week's Thursday Thriller is The Void.
Writer-director team Jeremy Gillespie and Steven Kostanski created this 2016 cosmic horror about a cop named Daniel (Aaron Poole) who picks up a meth head having some kind of fit in the middle of the road and drives him to the hospital where Daniel's estranged wife Allison (Kathleen Munroe) works. The hospital is low on supplies because it's closing down after a recent fire. While there, Daniel catches a nurse named Beverly gouging out a patient's eyes, so he shoots her. The sheriff shows up and takes Daniel's gun away, which is really inconvenient when the two rednecks who were trying to kill the meth head in the first place show up. Then Beverly comes back to life as some kind of hideous otherworldly beast and Daniel tries to tell everyone to leave the hospital, but the rednecks won't let him leave and take everyone hostage, because the hospital is surrounded by religious nuts wearing robes that look like a cross between a burka and a hazmat suit.
To top if off, the pregnant teen whose grandpa brought her to the hospital goes into labor, so Allison goes off in the building to find supplies while Daniel and the rednecks go to his car for a shotgun. They make it back, but Allison doesn't. Their search for her reveals a sinister plot to unleash trans-dimensional abominations upon this earth.
The Void is a twisty, Lovecraftian thriller and comparisons to The Mist and The Thing have been batted around, but if I had to use math to tell you about it, I would say it is greater than The Mist, but less than The Thing. It streams on Netflix.
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