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cousinshelley) wrote2023-01-07 10:51 am
cousinshelley) wrote2023-01-07 10:51 am
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Snowflake Challenge #4
In the 1958 film The Trollenberg Terror (titled The Crawling Eye in the US and riffed on the first network episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000), there's a scene where poor jolly Dewhurst's body is found in a cabin on the side of the mountain. He's been beheaded, but his head is nowhere to be found, and his body is in a cabin that's locked from the inside.
The movie is about big octopus looking aliens with a single large eyeball on their heads that push a cloud ahead of them that drops the temperatures so far below zero that phone lines disintegrate. They can get into the minds of certain people who have the gift of telepathy and mental sensitivities to compel them to come to them so they can kill them, because their mental powers somehow put them at risk. They also resurrect dead people temporarily to do their murder-the-mind-readers bidding.
I love the movie a lot, and a big part of that is the chemistry between the leads Alan and Philip, whom I ship like burning. And in a recent exchange, one of my prompts was basically how the hell did Dewhurst get beheaded in a locked cabin? How did the head get removed when it was locked from the inside with no exit through the windows?
The creatures are shown bursting through a door with their arms in the film, and obviously they could have used the resurrected character Brett to kill Dewhurst (which seems to be the case), but none of that explains how the door was locked from the inside and all this happened.
So I'm going to cheat and add to this canon by making the story I got as a gift part of it. The Decalogue shows Alan and Philip investigating the cabin to solve this locked room mystery, and there's romance, banter, peril, desperate sex when they think it's over for them, and just a wonderful theory on poor Dewhurst and his head. It's so much fun watching them figure the mystery out together, and later take care of each other, and is a perfect answer for what happened. It's canon now, so sayeth me.
(Also, setting aside how Dean died (shouts a little), I still wish Castiel had appeared in the final episode of Supernatural so it's implied that he still sees Dean, or better yet, not died after confessing to Dean that he loved him. I gave up on Supernatural doing what I wanted eons ago and didn't even watch more than an ep or two of the last season, but still. Monkey fucking pawed. )
The movie is about big octopus looking aliens with a single large eyeball on their heads that push a cloud ahead of them that drops the temperatures so far below zero that phone lines disintegrate. They can get into the minds of certain people who have the gift of telepathy and mental sensitivities to compel them to come to them so they can kill them, because their mental powers somehow put them at risk. They also resurrect dead people temporarily to do their murder-the-mind-readers bidding.
I love the movie a lot, and a big part of that is the chemistry between the leads Alan and Philip, whom I ship like burning. And in a recent exchange, one of my prompts was basically how the hell did Dewhurst get beheaded in a locked cabin? How did the head get removed when it was locked from the inside with no exit through the windows?
The creatures are shown bursting through a door with their arms in the film, and obviously they could have used the resurrected character Brett to kill Dewhurst (which seems to be the case), but none of that explains how the door was locked from the inside and all this happened.
So I'm going to cheat and add to this canon by making the story I got as a gift part of it. The Decalogue shows Alan and Philip investigating the cabin to solve this locked room mystery, and there's romance, banter, peril, desperate sex when they think it's over for them, and just a wonderful theory on poor Dewhurst and his head. It's so much fun watching them figure the mystery out together, and later take care of each other, and is a perfect answer for what happened. It's canon now, so sayeth me.
(Also, setting aside how Dean died (shouts a little), I still wish Castiel had appeared in the final episode of Supernatural so it's implied that he still sees Dean, or better yet, not died after confessing to Dean that he loved him. I gave up on Supernatural doing what I wanted eons ago and didn't even watch more than an ep or two of the last season, but still. Monkey fucking pawed. )