I am reminded of the image of a Bonobo standing in water "Smiling" with his hand outstretched to the camera.
Which, for apes, is a sign of hostility... and yet both stupid idiot people and also AI thinks to be a sign of excitement or happiness, saying they'd happily take it's hand. Forgetting that "Baring one's teeth/fangs." is a phrase people use to say someone/something showed aggression.
honestly you wouldn't want to leave the water because if they fighting you're best bet is to drag it down to drown it as we can hold our breath while they can't.
Or just like, lure him close to the pool and yank him in. Sure one of the guys will have to negotiate their arm, but it’s a chimp, he can’t swim, just drown the fucker.
Pretty sure it does both. There's a video that circulates pretty frequently of an Indian guy with rabies and he recoils pretty violently every time the guys with him try to offer him a cup of water.
It's also accurate. Like I cannot emphasize enough that chimps straight up maul people to the point that zookeepers are often given kill on sight orders if one of them breaks out.
They have literally carried out the closest thing to war that we have seen among animals in the jungle. The Gombe Chimpanzee conflict traumatized Jane Goodall.
Dude, never seen this but as a kid this literally was my fear every single time I went to the public pools. Thought I'd get sucked in somehow and stuck surrounded by gritty cold concrete lol
The Final battle in It Follows. The girl thought being in the middle of the pool will act as protection from the entity. However the entity then starts throwing things at her, turning the pool as a trap.
Haven't seen the movie but doesn't the one with the gun shoot someone else in the crossfire.....of a completly invisible entity? Like they're looking right at them
Yeah it's a shame, this scene kinda ruined the whole movie for me, which I found to be absolutely brilliant up until this point. The entity suddenly changing its behavior and own set of rules was infuriating.
I just looked it up and holy shit that was funny. Why were there so many random electronics around the pool? Why was it all stuff that plugs into a wall outlet? Why did the ghost not just get in the pool from the beginning?
Most importantly, how the fuck did that guy manage to shoot his friend in the leg while aiming at an adult sized ghost right in front of him??
They put the electrics there because they were planning on luring the entity into the pool and then electrocuting it, but it won't get in the pool, and luckily for the girl it doesn't fry her when the stuff gets thrown in. The guy can't see the entity, only the girl in the pool can, so he's just shooting air.
I totally believe it's supposed to be funny. For me it was the perfect way to go with the entity. The whole movie it seems unthinking and singularly focused. Then it starts hucking shit.
Not strangled, but since the intestines were caught by the suction, he would have drowned unless he chewed through to free himself in order to get to the surface. He had no knife or anything to cut with.
I did not know this could happen irl. I will assume you are lying for my own peace of mind but also never go in a pool again. Have a great (whatever time of day it is in your time zone.)
I mean, the experience is probably as bad as id imagine lmaaoo. Like I might not die but the trauma of my guts being actively sucked out, idk if I could recover from just the idea of that lol
The transhuman artist at the centre of the story is known for focusing on a specific shade of blue. It turns out his focus on this shade is because he was never human in the first place, he's actually a pool cleaning robot of all things, progressively upgraded until he had sentience then upgraded further until he was a humanoid indistinguishable from other post humans. The colour he's obsessed with is the colour of the pool tiles
His final artistic performance is shucking off all the upgrades to render himself a nonsentient pool cleaning robot once again, confined to a single pool, doing nothing but cleaning the tiles of that specific blue shade for the rest of his existence
Which is unfortunately not a hard bar to clear. The ones that hit are good, but most of them are really throw away. Did we really need TWO high speed mini figure ones?
Don’t want to ruin too much of the movie. Basically it’s a non malevolent cosmic horror situation. Patches of the world is being taken over by this phenomenon called The Shimmer and its basic method of “attack” is genetic.
Theres much more to it but I think it’s worth a watch to find out. It’s a crazy film with hair raising scenes. Not many jump scares. It lets you glide into being uncomfortable and settle in it for the most part.
Agents of SHIELD season 1 deepcut reference at that.
Do I recall correctly that the device that caused it was later turned into weather controling one and caused a massive hurricane or was it different episode.
I recall a gag scene of Coulson leaving the building only to close the door when outside was CGI created armagedon of a storm.
There's an episode of Teen Wolfe where Stiles and Derek are trapped in a pool. They can't get out bc they are being hunted by a creature that is scared of water. Derek is paralyzed from the creature so Stiles has to hold him above water.
This music video that traumatized my son in 2011 lmao. A bunch of kids break into a pool at night and then it rapidly devolves into "Horrors beyond your imaginationtm "
I like that scene because Daphne is legitimately worried about that while Fred is having the time of his life going full MacGiver much to her frustration.
EDIT: hell, It just clicked in my brain, both op and You meant it as a meta commentary on the show's quality, not as something that happened inside the show
She was with her friend at a pool party and she was left outside by herself alone. I forget how she started bleeding (i believe she cut herself on something?) but reguardless, a dimension hopping monster called a demogorgon sensed her blood and dragged her into the pool inside a mirror dimension called the upside down. She tried to use the pool ladder to climb out and start running but the monster killed her
My favorite part of this was how chill the actress turned out to be. Like she was iirc a waitress who showed up for a bit role and was legit surprised at the way fandom crashed out over her.
Since his sim is just him but sadder, Tom decides to put him in a pool and remove the ladder, but then he considers the possibility that God made Tom in his image but sadder, and that God may try to kill him too. After singing about how he still has life to live, Tom then buys his Sim a scuba pack to keep him alive until he can figure out how to get him out the pool.
Passengers kinda had this when the gravity turned off on the spaceship and Jennifer Lawrence got stuck in the floating water. Technically above the pool but I think it counts.
Also I vaguely remember the Dutch thriller “App” having something like this. The movie was about “what if Siri tried to kill us.”
I remember hearing about those first two movies from this “How To Beat” YouTube channel, on the most optimal ways to survive death situations in all sorts of movies.
saint gut-free in chuck palahniuk's haunted book (a series of short stories framed together really well) this one specifically from his short story 'guts'
just a heads up, this is vile, people would faint at the authors readings of it:
he would basically commit autoerotic asphyxiation, swimming to the bottom of the pool to masturbate when straining for air. his favorite part was sitting on top of the circulation pump vent because it would form a vacuum on his butt. one day he tries to swim back up but he can't, and he looks back and sees he's tethered to the filter by some sort of black rope. he has to chew through his intestines as they were sucked into the pump. and that's how he became saint gut-free.
I read that in 8th grade, and legit stopped reading the book and returned it to the library. Had night terrors for a week. I aint even gonna unspoiler that comment.
Most of his work is just edgy edgelord shock content. He captured lightning in a bottle with Fight Club and has been chasing increasingly desperate, cheap novelties ever since then.
I can't believe people actually know and remember this book, and this story specifically. I only know one other person who knows it and that's because she borrowed my book hahaha
Among the reasons he gave for wanting to leave the show was that the empty blue screen room he filmed in felt like acting in an empty swimming pool, and he was afraid he'd be permanently typecast as a children's show character if he stayed any longer.
Not necessarily what the point is, and I don't remember the song's name, but there was that one where the kids went to the swimming pool, and they turned into monsters, then on the other side of the pool's water there was an eldritch realm
Horribly disappointing movie, but there's a really cool scene in passengers where a character is swimming in a pool on a space ship and they lose artificial gravity and the entire pool turns into a sphere of water and the character is unable to swim to the edge due to the movement of the water.
Climax of The Faculty (1998) head alien infectee gets trapped in the pool by the surviving uninfected to vanquish it (can't remember why/how specifically)
Does Barb Holland from Stranger Things count? She got trapped in a pool, but it wasn't the pool doing the trapping. It was a hyper-predator from another universe which killed her when she tried to escape
When I was a teenager I only once had a single child in the sims 2... When the little asshole didn't stop playing with his trains and go to school, missed the bus, I sent him to the pool and removed the ladder to let him drown...
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u/Gekidami 14h ago
Primate.