"Dead Snow"

kestrell and I watched "Dead Snow" yesterday. It's a somewhat silly horror Norwegian horror movie. A group of young medical students vacationing in a remote cabin in the woods accidentally disturb some undead Nazis. Gore ensues.

One interesting feature is that the zombies are rather non-traditional. Notably *not* mindless. They don't talk with each other, but they definitely are capable of coordinated action. Not nearly as decayed as many versions. Preternaturally strong, and reasonably fast (except when he plot calls for them not to be). We see them bite people, but that seems to be more about savagery than about 'hunger for human flesh', as far as I could tell. They clearly do enjoy mutilation, though, as one memorably disturbing scene makes eminently clear. Their Oberst is clearly still in command, and he's even less decayed than his men. He actually does speak at one point in the movie: one word only, but it's a doozy.

After the fact, I was reminded of a story gyzki told one halloween, about a norse revenant of some kind, though I misremember the details. Hey, gyzki, were these filmmakers merely following old local custom about what the undead do?

Kes and Alexx go to the Ocularist

At long last, kestrell was able to get fitted for her new prosthetics. She asked me to document the process, so I took lots of pictures. A few of them may not be for the squeamish!

The ocularists are still a little un-hip about the whole 'Delerium eyes' thing, so have been largely cropped out of the photos.

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Wow, this uploading process takes a long time, and I'm paranoid that LJ will eat the post. So I'm going to split this into multiple parts.

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Ocularist, part 2

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Ocularist, part 3

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Ocularist, part 4 (and last)

There were several more rounds of test fittings of the wax forms, but the pictures are pretty repetitive, so I'll only include a few that stand out in one way or another.

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That was pretty much it. [Kes: total time for all these processes, approx. 2.5 hours.] We return on Thursday the 8th to pick up the finished product!