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“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” ― William Faulkner
Antebellum is a 2020 American psychological horror thriller film written and directed by Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz in their feature directorial debuts. It stars Janelle Monáe, Eric Lange, Jena Malone, Jack Huston, Kiersey Clemons, and Gabourey Sidibe, and follows a modern-day African American woman who must escape from a 19th-century Southern slave plantation.
timespace coordinates: 1945, 1950, 1957, 1965 rural southern Ohio and West Virginia
The Devil All the Time is a 2020 American psychological thriller film based on the novel of the same name by Donald Ray Pollock, who also voiced the narration in the film. Directed and co-written by Antonio Campos and produced by Jake Gyllenhaal and Randall Poster, the film stars an ensemble cast comprising Tom Holland, Bill Skarsgård, Riley Keough, Jason Clarke, Sebastian Stan, Haley Bennett, Eliza Scanlen, Mia Wasikowska and Robert Pattinson. (wiki)
timespace coordinates: 2020 South Korea / Hong Kong
Peninsula (Korean: 반도; Hanja: 半島; RR: Bando; marketed in the United States as Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula) is a 2020 South Korean action horror film directed by Yeon Sang-ho.
It is a standalone sequel to the 2016 film Train to Busan and follows a soldier who is sent along with his team to retrieve a truck full of money from the wastelands of the Korean peninsula now inhabited by zombies, rogue militia and a nice family. (wiki)
spacetime coordinates: 2020. family farms near the small towns of Delmont and Letcher, South Dakota.
Before the Fire is a pandemic thriller directed by Charlie Buhler. The film follows a TV actress whose career is cut short when an influenza pandemic sends her back to the small town she fled years before. (wiki)
spacetime coordinates: 1983 Soviet Union / Soviet Kazakhstan
Sputnik (Russian: Спутник) is a 2020 Russian science-fiction thriller film directed by Egor Abramenko in his feature directorial debut. It stars Oksana Akinshina as a young doctor who is recruited by the military to assess a cosmonaut who survived a mysterious space accident and returned to Earth with a dangerous organism living inside him. Alongside Akinshina, the film’s cast includes Pyotr Fyodorov and Fyodor Bondarchuk. (wiki)
‘Sputnik’ is a word associated with space exploration, as it was the name of the first artificial satellites put in orbit around the earth. It is also the Russian word for ‘companion’ or ‘fellow traveler’, alluding to the companion the commander brings along.
spacetime coordinates: near-future New Orleans
Project Power is a 2020 American superhero film directed by Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost. It stars Jamie Foxx, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Dominique Fishback, alongside Colson Baker, Rodrigo Santoro, Amy Landecker and Allen Maldonado, and follows a drug dealer, a police officer, and a former soldier who team up to stop the distribution of a pill that gives the user superpowers for five minutes. (wiki)
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