Film review: Red Sands
Red Sands is Alex Turner’s follow-up to the undeniably eerie Dead Birds, an American civil war period piece, involving a squad of soldiers coming across a terrifying house situated in a field of corn, haunted by vaguely Lovecraftian horrors. In Red Sands Turner takes the same set-up and updates it to Afghanistan, placing a unit of American soldiers in an isolated location and spooking them out with a series of strange phenomena and bloody deaths; except, this time it doesn’t work.
Charged with seizing and then monitoring an important road the soldiers get lost due to some random artillery fire, come across some ruins and out of boredom (regardless of the fact they’ve just been attacked) set about shooting up the statues carved in the sides of the red sandstone hills. This act of ignorance unleashes a Djinn which then takes its revenge on the soldiers. We know it’s a Djinn because there’s a plaque in the stone that says so.
Welcome to The Great White Space
Well, hello there. So now that I’ve finally got some bits and pieces sneaking out into the real-world, (from the twilight world of acceptances), I’m setting up this place. It’s named after one of my favourite novels written by one of my favourite authors, Basil Copper. The Great White Space may also be an appropriate title if I get lazy, sell nothing else, or simply have nothing of interest to say.
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I have no intention of making The Great White Space a daily destination as, for me, (at least at the moment), the writing and publication of said writing doesn’t progress quickly enough to warrant daily updates. However, placing some news and stories, a few book and film reviews, as well as some other snippets of genre-related news here and there might hopefully make this a place of interest, and somewhere to return now and then.
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