There is a behind-the-scenes connection at work with this one, since the filmmakers who wrote, directed, and co-starred in the low-budget sci-fi tale were also behind the camera. The brothers were lured back to the desert community after receiving a mysterious videotape featuring its members. Cryptic images, a secretive group whose members only tell the truth, the possibility of some power pulling all the strings? If you've seen The Endless, you'll understand why 81 Archive was a perfect fit for them.
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There is a building with ties to the occult. A person is obsessed with a mystery. The media and reality are not the same. There is a lot of monitoring and paranoia. There is the possibility of other dimensions. Archive combines 81 elements and is a huge hit for the streamer. Archive 81 has eight episodes. What are you going to watch when you binge-watch all of the adventures of Dan and Dina Shihabi? Don't worry, we won't ruin any Archive 81 plot twists if it's still on your watchlist. A video archivist in Chicago is haunted by the loss of his wife. Soon, he begins to believe the images that appear in the clips may be tied to his own life, and his grasp on reality begins to spiral as he digs deeper and deeper into their origins and meaning. The broadcast signal intrusion came out last year, but it is set in 1999 and uses Y2K-era fears about technology in a time when the tech world was rapidly changing. While I was watching Archive 81, I came to think of this film, which has the same doom-laden mood as the one that unfolds across the series. Roman Polanski's 1968 horror movie "Rosemary's Baby" is probably the best example of a story set in a New York City apartment building with a sinister, supernaturally inclined past. Archive 81's curious, camera-toting grad student and Rosemary's Baby's pregnant housewife both start to fear their surroundings, and start to sense that someone or something is out. At one point, Archive 81 is equivalent to All of Them Witches, though Dan never does figure out an anagram using Scrabble tiles. The setting for this 1980 Dario Argento classic, in which an Italian music student picks up his sister's dangerous quest, is an ominous NYC apartment building. The residents of Archive 81's Visser Apartments are odd, but they don't have anything on the people who live in the dark hallways. This 1977 tale of a glamorous model (Cristina Raines) who realized too late that her new Brooklyn apartment was built over a hellmouth, and that the great deal she thought she was, is one of the three entries spotlighting weird NYC real estate. You knew this title was going to pop up on this list, as you know that the phone is going to ring with a dire warning after you watch The Ring. Whether you watch Hideo Nakata's 1998 original or the 2002 Gore Verbinski remake, you're guaranteed a cautionary tale about the terrors that can emerge from something as seemingly benign as a dusty old VHS tape. Archive 81 tells a story of found footage possessed of an eerie magic that allows it to find its way into the real world with devastating results. There is a blink-and-you will-miss-it alien invasion subplot, but the movie is more of a thriller than a genre movie. The Archive 81 connection is the fact that it relies almost solely on technology to solve a potentially terrible crime, following a father ( Cowboy Bebop's John Cho) as he frantically combs through his daughter's computer and phone, gathering scraps of evidence. It is similar to Archive 81 in that it makes the act of watching a character staring at a computer a genuine nail-biting experience. A film censor in 1985 Britain catches sight of a banned horror film and becomes convinced that it stars her sister who has somehow been alive all this time after going missing as a child. We don't know what to believe as Enid, who proves to be a highly unreliable narrator, becomes more unhinged in her pursuit of the truth, like Archive 81's Dan, who can hardly believe his eyes when the recordings he listens to. There is a behind-the-scenes connection at work with this one, since the filmmakers who wrote, directed, and co-starred in the low-budget sci-fi tale were also behind the camera. The brothers were lured back to the desert community after receiving a mysterious videotape featuring its members. Cryptic images, a secretive group whose members only tell the truth, the possibility of some power pulling all the strings? If you've seen The Endless, you'll understand why 81 Archive was a perfect fit for them. Wondering where our feed went? The new one can be picked up here.
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