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A wealthy recluse hosts four accomplished guests at his stylish mansion for a once-in-a-lifetime experience, but their intrigue soon turns into terror.
Directors: Panos Cosmatos
Writers: Panos Cosmatos, Aaron Stewart-Ahn, Guillermo del Toro
Starcast: Peter Weller, Steve Agee, Sofia Boutella
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Directors: Panos Cosmatos
Writers: Panos Cosmatos, Aaron Stewart-Ahn, Guillermo del Toro
Starcast: Peter Weller, Steve Agee, Sofia Boutella
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00:10what happens when the collector becomes the collected when a ruthless wonder hunter finds
00:17someone or something with a will a hunger far greater than his own printed in heavy paper embossed
00:26not quite pocket size an imitation to a viewing a night of pleasure for like-minded folk a night
00:34that may also prove to be their last our story tonight is the viewing and the director is panos
00:42cosmatos
01:00so
02:02Saturday, September 22nd, 1979.
02:07Instructions to follow.
03:00I'll see you next time.
03:28I'll see you next time.
03:34Sorry, I'm late.
03:35Yeah, late for what, exactly?
03:39Uh, you guys are here for the viewing, right?
03:42Indeed, we are gathered for the viewing.
03:45Yeah, and so far we've established the three of us have been on late night talk shows.
03:49What about you?
03:51Me?
03:52Yeah, I have, uh, I, that's weird.
03:57Yeah.
03:57Well, welcome to the club.
03:59I guess our host likes late night talk shows.
04:01You know, when you never leave the house, you probably watch a lot of TV.
04:05Uh, well, um, I'm Charlotte.
04:09Yes, I felt that.
04:11I'm Tog Reinhardt.
04:14Nice to meet you.
04:15I'm Randall.
04:16Oh, I kind of know who you are.
04:18Big fan.
04:20You're like a legend.
04:35Hi, I'm Hector.
04:39Hop on in.
04:54Hey, buddy, you got a smoke?
04:56Yeah, of course, man.
04:58Great.
04:59Great.
05:16I was intrigued for sure.
05:19Well, of course, I wasn't surprised.
05:21But even I cannot pierce the veil of secrecy surrounding our host.
05:27Really?
05:28That's a little dramatic.
05:29There's plenty of rich, powerful people that nobody knows about.
05:32Yes, but there was a time when everyone knew everything about him.
05:37Surely men like ourselves, accustomed to being in the public spotlight, know how difficult
05:42it is to retreat from glory.
05:44Yeah.
05:46Speak for yourself.
05:50What do you do, dear Charlotte?
05:53Oh, um, I'm an astrophysicist.
05:57Maybe this is a dumb question, but where's someone like you stand on horoscopes?
06:03If I'm honest with myself, I'd say...
06:06They're not for me.
06:08Very Capricorn of you.
06:11Yes, but what is her sun sign?
06:14That's the real power of astrology.
06:18Your host would prefer if you remain silent than the remainder of the ride and listen to
06:22the audio program.
06:23Well, let's get back to that.
06:27Here we go.
06:28There you go.
06:29There you go.
07:46Softer?
07:50Brighter?
07:57Or cleaner?
08:04Surprise me.
08:58Oh, my God.
09:43Oh, my God.
09:46Smells amazing.
09:48What kind of flowers are these?
09:50Those are stargazer lilies, a breed that's only existed for four years.
09:54Before, lily flowers tended to point toward the ground.
09:58As these things go, many people assumed the flowers were wilted or dying.
10:05So they became unwanted.
10:07A brilliant woman in California hybridized them until she had a lily whose blooms turned upward, gazing at the sky.
10:15Well, it looks amazing and sounds amazing.
10:19Every measure was taken to preserve the natural habitat, integrating it into Mr. Lassiter's vision of a home.
10:26Wow.
10:27This music is a trick.
10:29I like this music.
10:31Oh, typical.
10:33What does that mean?
10:34This music.
10:36It sounds like vibrating crystals and all that other shit that you're into.
10:39What do you do?
11:37Please.
11:38Please.
11:40Where should we sit?
11:42By your favorite drink, of course.
11:47Oh.
11:48Oh.
11:55Um, I'm, I'm Charlotte.
11:57I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm.
12:17Mm.
12:19This screwdriver is exactly what I needed.
12:21This is a superb, dear.
12:25Ice cold.
12:27Refreshing, too.
12:28Just how I like it.
12:32Oh, wow.
12:33Um, ginger ale.
12:34That's, uh, that's my favorite.
12:38You don't drink?
12:39What, you think scientists don't like to party?
12:41Hm.
12:52Lapsang sushang tea.
12:56At the perfect temperature with the exact amount of honey I like.
13:01How did this motherfucker know I like Lapsang sushang?
13:11Oh, man.
13:14I'm trying to quit, but these are those super hard to find Tibetan menthol cigarettes I dream
13:21about.
13:22Don't you think if you were really trying to quit, the exact cigarette you desire wouldn't
13:26be there?
13:29I am not gonna let temptation get the better, man.
13:34Hello there.
13:35Welcome guests.
13:37Sorry to keep you waiting.
13:39Please enjoy yourselves, and should you have any personal needs, Hector or Dr. Zara, to
13:45take care of you.
13:58Hey, um, I don't think, um, we met properly back there?
14:05That is novelist Guy Landon.
14:08Is there something funny about selling more books than corn dogs at a country fair?
14:15This architecture is remarkable.
14:19It's clearly brutalism in the Müller tradition, but there are subtle Aztec influences.
14:26Aztec, huh?
14:27Oh.
14:27You big expert on Aztec architecture now?
14:30Among other varieties of ancient civilizations that exceeded the capabilities of their time,
14:36yes.
14:38Well, I thought you were just famous for bending spoons with your mind or something.
14:42Or some shit.
15:03Good evening.
15:05I trust that all of you are comfortable.
15:10in my hand is a 50 year old tetsurahara single malt whiskey the distillery opened in 1921 in a
15:18small suburb of kyoto where the water was so revered the legendary tea masters had been coming
15:24there for centuries to perfect their brews this particular bottle survived aerial bombing in world
15:32war ii that damaged that distillery the bottle then fell to the ground during an ankaido earthquake
15:38of 1946 chipping it here as you can see yet it remained intact it made its way across all that
15:47chaos all of that potential destruction longer than many human lives to us here tonight in 1979
15:57for us to share and enjoy
16:4115 hours later they all woke up naked in a ditch
16:49so
17:01Oh, my God.
17:21It was worth it.
17:30Guy Landon, you are one of the most gifted novelists of our era.
17:37Tonight I'm going to gift you a singular experience, a gentle push to inspire the best writer to greatness once
17:45again.
17:46I want to know what your stunning mind makes of it.
17:50Well, I am even more curious than ever before.
17:56Targ Reinhart, I am told that you're getting extraordinary results from lab-controlled experiments into your extrasensory perception.
18:04Yes, well, instead of continuing to debate the scientific community, I've tried to bring them into the fold.
18:10And our results are striking.
18:41But as you say, let's consider the scientific point of view.
18:42Cicero, Giotto, Gutenberg, Leonardo, Magellan, Copernicus, Galileo, all the great pioneers of philosophy, art, and science.
18:52It's like my first, I mean, like, uh, first rough draft.
18:56I wouldn't go that far.
18:57No, let's go that far.
18:59Let's do as far as your unique mind will take us, Charlotte.
19:05Randall, what are the chances we can gain some insight into your auditory voyages?
19:11Oh, I don't know.
19:13It's hard to talk about it in words, you know?
19:15Yeah, I know.
19:16But we're going to have to grease those wheels, Randall.
19:19Randall Roth, you are a star to the stars, a mastermind behind all the biggest hits.
19:24Every turn of the dial and some piece of musical brilliance that you have had a hand in comes on
19:29the radio.
19:31The whisperer to every great recording artist.
19:35Every night is made a little bit brighter by the presence of your musical talent.
19:40And your presence here has made this night so much brighter to me.
19:47Why don't you tell us how you really feel?
19:50I sense he means what he says.
19:52I do.
19:54I'm talking about music.
19:58Music, man.
20:00All art can only aspire to music.
20:04And everything Randall Roth has a hand in, I want to hear it.
20:08I'm not so sure about this next album.
20:11Oh my god, are you having trouble capturing the old magic?
20:14Randy?
20:15Come on, man.
20:16No one ever calls me Randy.
20:17We just met.
20:19Show some respect, Landon.
20:21Randall has dominated the charts and I have no doubt that his new album will top it once again.
20:27Yeah, I'm not so sure.
20:29I have no idea that this next one will be received.
20:32What's the concept?
20:34It sounds ludicrously simple, but it's one word.
20:36Fantasy.
20:38Eh, it's gonna fucking flop.
20:40It's guaranteed to be a hit.
20:42I mean, I don't know about that, Mr. Lassiter.
20:45Science tells us that you can never truly know the future state of a particle.
20:49You're charming, Charlotte, but...
20:51Gentle push, someone like me, can make people flow.
20:55Okay, well maybe that's the thing I'm conflicted about.
20:58Am I really taking a big creative risk here, or is the machinery of my industry all that matters?
21:03Perhaps control of the machinery is a real ambition.
21:06I don't know.
21:25You're amazing.
21:35It's too kitsch.
21:45I'll try your drink.
21:49You haven't touched it.
21:56Go ahead, Randall.
22:02He's my guest.
22:14He's my guest.
22:57I couldn't be more satisfied with this room.
23:03This music is pretty incredible.
23:07It's impossible to find music that really suited the dynamic of the structure, so I had it custom made in
23:12Italy.
23:13By who?
23:13A gentleman from Venice by the name of Massimo Contini works exclusively for me now.
23:20So you can't buy this album in stores?
23:24Never.
23:25By the way, Randall, I hope you don't take offense that didn't ask you to make the music for the
23:29Sandpiper house.
23:30None taken, man.
23:31I want you to know that I have you in mind to create the entire sound dynamic for a new
23:35house I'm having designed in Ecuador.
23:37Is it going to be like this place?
23:39Only in its striving for a feeling of innate transcendence.
23:43Oh, that reminds me.
23:44Targ had some great ideas about the architecture of this place.
23:48Targ, what did you think the influences were?
23:51Yes.
23:52Well, obviously there's an Aztec motif and...
23:54Let me spare Targ the discomfort.
23:56The architect is no one whom anyone has ever heard of or ever will.
24:02I collect beyond the known.
24:04So you collect people?
24:08How do you do that?
24:09You just pay for it?
24:10Money is irrelevant.
24:11It's only the pursuit of my tastes, and there's no accounting for taste.
24:18Is it rude to ask?
24:23Mr. Laster, everybody's always wanted to know, how did you make your fortune?
24:27Pretty rude.
24:29But I'll let you off the hook there, Lynn.
24:33As a younger man before World War II, I had already invested heavily in stockpiling uranium.
24:38Isn't that a violation of international law or something?
24:42Not for me.
24:43So you're a scientist?
24:45No, but you have no idea how much money it takes to be this rich.
24:57That stuff makes me paranoid.
25:00I guarantee you this won't.
25:03Doesn't make me paranoid.
25:14All right.
25:28Smoke up, Randor.
25:29No.
25:31No.
25:33No.
25:36No.
25:37No.
25:38No.
25:38No.
25:52Randor, what would it take to get you to make music for me?
25:56What can I give you to sweeten the deal?
25:58When you ask people that, do they always have an answer?
26:06What is it you really want?
26:10I don't want to think.
26:15I want something that doesn't exist.
26:18Then tell us what it is.
26:22There's a void inside of me.
26:25You, everyone, an endless abyss, and everything you collect, every success, everything you take
26:39to shrink that void down, none of it works.
26:43It's like, uh...
26:45Like a black hole?
26:50Everyone has a black hole inside of them.
26:54What I want is for mine to stop eating everything up all the time.
27:10You are really harshing my mellow, old man.
27:22I don't touch that hippie shit.
27:26So what's the story with the gold AK?
27:30Ah, the gold AK.
27:31Well, that is Hector's story to tell.
27:32Hector?
27:42The most important thing is, is that we've put them on display to render these killing
27:47machines armless.
27:53Oh.
27:54A man of peace.
27:56I bet you're voting for Carter.
28:00Voting?
28:02Yikes.
28:04It's a very paranoid time.
28:05The truth is much more complicated.
28:07What do you expect when the truth is so often kept from us by those in power?
28:12As if we could not handle the revelations.
28:14I have seen things that would make you shit your mind, Kimo Sabi.
28:23Well, how about sharing a small, complicated truth amongst us?
28:29All right.
28:32Look at Dr. Zara.
28:36I look at myself.
28:37Most people assume that she works for me.
28:40My story is nowhere near as interesting as hers.
28:44Well, I would love to hear it from her.
28:46Good luck.
28:49My degrees are in hematology.
28:54But at one time I was a private physician for Colonel Gaddafi.
29:00Well, she must really dig you to give that up.
29:04I do think Charlotte is fascinating.
29:07A kindred spirit, I hope.
29:10I hope so, too.
29:15So what's Gaddafi really like?
29:21I can't tell you about an image you already have in your mind.
29:25Did you know he preached for liberation?
29:31He's even charming.
29:35He told me he didn't like doctors and thought of me as an artist
29:39and would give me anything that I wanted.
29:44As his physician, I saw his blood, I saw his tears.
29:54Can you believe that sometimes, for no reasons at all,
29:59he would cry like a lost child?
30:09I almost felt sorry for him.
30:14I also saw with my own eyes
30:19that the tiniest mistake,
30:23a word he didn't like,
30:25he would burst into the most brutal violence.
30:32He kills people.
30:37What's he really like?
30:42Sometimes when no one is watching,
30:43he dresses up like a fucking T-Range rock star from the future.
30:51You should work with him, Randall.
30:54Can't wait.
30:56Who would I be without Dr. Zara?
30:59She keeps me alive.
31:02I would do anything for her.
31:06Everything I have is hers.
31:09The way I see it,
31:12I serve her.
31:27Now let me serve all of you.
31:48Peruvian.
31:50Handmail.
31:52Grown in a private forest.
31:54Only a select few buyers in the world.
31:57Spurity is the highest ever recorded.
31:59Once a year,
32:00a charted vote arrives on Catalina Ivy.
32:03Is that cocaine?
32:06Uh, what does it look like, man?
32:09Never touch this stuff.
32:11It could dull my psychic abilities.
32:14Well, I'm sorry, Targ.
32:15I thought your daddy let you out alone at night.
32:18It's hard, buddy.
32:19Maybe it will enhance your abilities.
32:22You ever think of that?
32:27Wait, what?
32:28What is that?
32:30Don't be afraid of a little fairy dust.
32:34I made it myself in my laboratory.
32:39What is your trust in a fellow scientist?
32:41I just want to know what I'm putting into my nervous system.
32:44It will make you feel confident
32:46without any sharp edges of anxiety, depression, or...
32:50Oh, what an oiler.
32:56This is not your dirty, dirty street drug.
32:59This is special.
33:01It was derived from a medication intended to stop bleeding.
33:05Like so much in science, it had other uses.
33:10I'm furthering exploration
33:12in the pursuit of human enhancements.
33:17Merci.
33:21Let yourselves go.
33:24Be in service to Dr. Zada's brilliance.
33:28It's changed my life.
33:37Is this some kind of test?
33:39I admit it is.
33:51Oh, a test where I have to do cocaine?
33:55Finally, a test I can pass.
34:02Done.
34:11I'm afraid I'm holding up the party.
34:13If you're ever going to do cocaine in your life,
34:15now it's the time to do it.
34:34Just the nostrils there, Ace.
34:42Randall,
34:45it's not as if you've never done this before.
34:48That is the problem.
34:50If anything, I'm trying to get you only to function at the peak of your capability.
34:56Each one of you has been precisely chosen tonight to take part in this wondrous moment.
35:04We need to be in sync.
35:07Like a music group, Randall.
35:14Randall, what's the best song you ever heard?
35:18Uh, 1969.
35:25I'm in Greece, and I fall in with these freaks making psychedelic music.
35:31One of them played this song one night.
35:34Never been recorded, just something they knew.
35:38It made me nostalgic for things that never happened.
35:43It only existed in the moment.
35:46I can't even remember it.
35:51Well, you gotta stop living in the past, Danielle.
35:56We are not that much different.
35:57What, you and I?
35:59Yeah, I don't know, man.
36:01Randall, there's an old Zen koan.
36:04It goes like this.
36:06Everyone has two lives,
36:08and the second life begins the moment you realize that all along,
36:11you only had one.
36:19Fuck it.
36:26Oh!
36:28Fuck, I love this one.
36:31Ah, shit.
36:33You can't be fucking serious.
36:35Charlotte, we need you.
36:37With your vast, empirical, scientific mind
36:40enhanced by Dr. Zada's creation,
36:43you will gain a deeper insight
36:45into the item.
36:47Don't you want to feel the way I do?
36:56This item better be worth it.
36:58I assure you,
37:01it will be.
37:02I assure you,
37:13Bye.
37:14Bye.
37:15Bye.
37:18Bye.
37:21Bye.
37:24Bye.
37:29Bye.
37:37Oh, my God.
38:26Oh, my God.
38:29I chose to bring you here.
38:33It's because from each of your own distinctive worlds
38:36and with your own individual talent,
38:39you may shine some unique and profound appreciation
38:43on what it is that I have to show you.
38:48And the item that I have chosen to show you
38:56was acquired with the utmost difficulty
39:01at the greatest expense.
39:09It is time.
39:17Oh, my God.
39:21Oh, my God.
39:30Oh, my God.
41:09That is an ancient power totem.
41:13No, really, what is this thing?
41:19It's me.
41:22It shares features and striations associated with fragmented meteorites, but never one so large.
41:29None of its surface exhibits forces of destruction of its acceleration into our atmosphere.
41:33Have you analyzed its mass?
41:35First, we had it x-rayed.
41:37It proved impervious to x-rays.
41:39Yes, it clearly resonates as emblematic of unknown origin.
41:43Randall, there's no smoking in the obelisk chamber.
41:47Oh, sorry.
41:49Sorry.
41:50Mass spectrometer analysis?
41:52Gloriously revealed nothing.
41:53Uh, what about isolating it in a Faraday cage and using electric mechanic?
41:57Yes, yes, electromagnetic fields.
41:59No magnetic field carbon dating was useless.
42:02In fact, it is composed of nothing that can be found on the periodic table.
42:09Bullshit.
42:10Randall, Randall, Randall, there's no smoking in here.
42:16You never said anything about Jay.
42:17Regardless, there's no smoking.
42:21Have you brought any psychics or telekinetics near it?
42:26Yes.
42:27You.
42:30I sense a tremendous energy from within it.
42:33Oh, my God.
42:35Do you?
42:36Give me a fucking break.
42:38Uh, thank you for the space cocaine.
42:39That was fucking incredible.
42:41But you brought me all the way out here to show me a fucking rock.
42:47I think it's mesmerizing.
42:50Randall, no smoking in the obelisk chamber.
42:52I beg of you.
42:54I hate you.
42:59Did you see that?
43:01Relax.
43:02It's a fucking rock.
43:03Did you not hear anything we just did right now?
43:06This rock is unlike anything humankind has ever encountered.
43:39It's...
43:40It's...
43:41So...
43:42Beautiful.
43:49You think you're looking at it?
43:52What is looking at you?
43:55It is.
44:21I think I broke your rock, dude.
44:26You think...
44:54Oh, my God.
45:28Oh, my God.
45:57Oh, my God.
45:59Oh, my God.
46:04Oh, my God.
46:05Oh, my God.
46:12Oh, my God.
46:42Oh, my God.
46:52Oh, my God.
47:00Oh, my God.
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47:31Oh, my God.
48:25Oh, my God.
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48:41Oh, my God.
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48:53Oh, my God.
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49:34Oh, my God.
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53:53Oh, my God.
54:13Oh, my God.
54:47Oh, my God.
55:38Oh, my God.
55:47Oh, my God.
56:13Oh, my God.
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