#shadow in the cloud

[wolfasketch]

So, watched this horror movie on Netflix called Shadow in the Cloud(movie about a military woman who gets in a military plane under the guise of being on a secret assignment, but in reality, she lied so she could escape her abusive husband with her affair baby. Turns out there's also a bat-like monster on board.). It was a good movie, liked it very much, but there's one thing that puzzles me. Why did the gremlin(the monster) keep stealing the baby?? Like, it seemed intrigued by the baby cause it didn't throw the baby off the plane like it did with plane parts or straight up kill the infant like it did with other humans, but every chance it got, it did and tried to steal the baby! Why??? Why, Netflix, why??

[aesthetically0b5essed]

She shoots down two planes, fear factors her way across the bottom of a bomber during a dogfight while carrying her baby, kills a gremlin with her bare hands and then breastfeeds her kid.

[oliskyesisdaddy]

just started watching Damsel and oml how did I not know Nick Robinson was in it!?!?

this man makes me fold I swear to god

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Don't underestimate me - latest artwork

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[imaginariumwanderer]

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Pinky cake :) 🩷 simple art

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[scary-movies-on-netflix]

SHADOW IN THE CLOUD (2020)

It is 1943.  A woman furtively prepares for a mission.  She is Chloe Moretz, who we last saw in “Let Me In” (2010).  She dons a flight jacket, types up some orders, and looks at something in a big leather “radio box” (just a big box with a strap).  She heads to the airfield, and after some spookiness, boards the plane.  It is a B-17 “Flying Fortress.”  It was an iconic bomber plane of World War 2; it’s been featured in movies before, but this might be its first horror movie appearance.  Anyway, the all-male crew are incredulous at Chloe Moretz’s presence, but she shows them some orders, and they reluctantly let her aboard.  She says that her radio box is confidential and cannot be opened, and one crewmember, Quaid agrees to protect it.  Chloe Moretz is shoved into the “Sperry ball turret” on the bottom of the plane. 

The plane takes off, and we’re subjected to the casually misogynistic radio chatter of the men toward Chloe Moretz.  She talks to them over the radio, and a good part of the movie is just this: Chloe Moretz talking to the men over the radio.  In a fine English accent, she explains that she’s in the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) of the Royal Air Force.  Then she sees a gremlin hanging off the bottom of the plane!  She reports what she sees.  The crew is, again, incredulous, and the captain orders her out of the turret.  Unfortunately, there are mechanical issues with the hatch.  Chloe Moretz attempts to defend herself and disabuse the men of their disdain for her.  In a fit of male pique, the captain just has the men turn off her radio, and they leave her in the turret. 

Chloe Moretz is then attacked by the gremlin!  It tries to enter the turret, but she drives it away with a bullet from her pistol.  The crew demand to know what’s going on, but she says she’s fine.  They then learn from base that there’s no one with her name on the WAAF roster!  But then someone says that they see the gremlin!  Then Chloe Moretz sees an approaching Japanese airplane!  She activates the turrets and shoots at it!  She shoots it down!

As the men react to what’s just happened, Chloe Moretz asks about her package, but now she has an American accent.  After some conversation, engine three goes out.  Chloe Moretz sees a gremlin crawl out of the wing.  It sees Chloe Moretz and approaches to stare at her.  It looks like a big bat.  It crawls back into the wing and destroys some more of the plane.  Engine four begins to fail!  The men on the plane suspect that whatever’s in the package is the cause of their trouble.  They seize it from Quaid, and we hear a baby crying over the radio.  Chloe Moretz explains that the baby is hers and Quaid’s.  She is also married, so they had an affair, and Quaid left her.  Then her actual husband showed up.  He’s a drunk wife-beater, so she’s just trying to escape him.  She says, “I will not let myself be dishonorably discharged so that a drunk can choke me to death in the privacy of his own home.” 

The captain says that he’s turning the plane around, but then they spot a trio of Japanese Zero fighter planes!  Then the gremlin attacks Quaid, who’s in the top turret with the baby!  Then there is silence, and Chloe Moretz screams.  She sees the gremlin crawl out the wing, with the radio box!  Then the Zeros attack!  Chloe Moretz looks at the gremlin and shouts, “You have no idea how far I’ll go.”  She pops open the turret and shoots at the gremlin, and it flees.  The box with the baby dangles from the wing from a pipe.  Chloe Moretz then crawls along the bottom of the wing and grabs the box.  This seems kind of unrealistic.  A Zero shoots off the Sperry ball turret, so she crawls back to the hole.  She shoves in the baby box, then then she falls out of the plane!  As she is plummeting to her death, a damaged Zero explodes right underneath her, and the explosion propels her back into the plane. 

A crewmember who saw that is flabbergasted, as am I, and then he dies in a hail of bullets.  A crewmember then gets into a fight with the gremlin, and it shoves him out the open bomb bay.  Chloe Moretz manages to dislodge the gremlin from the plane, but it sprouts some wings and flies away.  Chloe Moretz proceeds to the cockpit and tells the captain and co-pilot that they have to make an emergency landing, but then the captains is shot to death.  As he dies he tells Chloe Moretz, “What were you thinking?”  She convinces the co-pilot that they have to land.  She goes to the rear to find a place to land, and then another crewmember, who is both misogynistic and racist (because the co-pilot is a native New Zealander), is shot to death. 

Chloe Moretz then discovers that Quaid, her baby-daddy, is still alive.  He must have been hiding in the wing.  Then they see the gremlin attacking another crewmember!  Chloe Moretz takes her time aiming her pistol, and she shoots it in the upper chest.  It falls out of the plane and toward the ground.  Chloe Moretz then runs to a turret and shoots down the final Zero.  Then the B-17 begins to dive uncontrollably!  Chloe Moretz runs back to the cockpit, sits in the now-empty pilot’s seat, and basically says that they have to, sigh, invert the plane.  Denzel Washington did this in “Flight” (2012).  Everyone straps in and we see them hanging upside down.  We can tell because Chloe Moretz’s hair hangs from her head.  Strangely, we don’t see an exterior shot of the inverted B-17 Flying Fortress, which would have been neat.  I can imagine that it would have damaged, perhaps smoking, with bits flying away as it streaked over the forest below.  Maybe they couldn’t afford a decent 3-D model of the plane.

Anyway, the maneuver works.  They crash land.  Chloe Moretz has a vision of both Quaid and her baby dying, but they are fine.  They have to flee the plane because it’s about to explode.  She and Quaid open the baby box, and the baby is fine.  The surviving guys (both of them) explain how they’ll cover for Chloe Moretz.  Quaid is then proposing to Chloe Moretz, but the gremlin attacks!  Again!  It runs away with the baby box, but Chloe Moretz bonks it on the head.  She gives the box to Quaid, and then she stalks the gremlin.  It attempts to flee, but she shows no mercy.  She beats it to death and finally kills the gremlin by shoving its own claw into its throat.  She returns to her baby, sits down, and begins to breast-feed it.  She looks at the burning plane and its icon, “The Fool’s Errand.”  She looks at us.

(That’s the end, but over the credits we see archival footage of WAAF members during World War 2.  This is a nice touch.  Yes, women contributed to the war effort.)

I want to say that this is ok, but it’s actually meh.  In some respects it’s a decent horror action movie.  World War 2 has been mined before for its horror potential, but this might be the first full-length movie to feature a wartime-era gremlin.  There have been other productions with similar types of monsters, such as the “Twilight Zone” episode “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet” (1963), starring William Shatner!  There was also a remake of that short in the “Twilight Zone: The Movie” (1983) starring John Lithgow.  These are classic shorts, and probably just the right length for this type of story.  This movie, “Shadow in the Sky,” is overly long and repetitive.  The gremlin is attacking the plane.  But then the Zeros attack!  Then we have to save the baby!  The Zeros attack again!  The gremlin attacks again!  Save the baby! And so on.  The movie can’t quite figure out what it wants to be.  We’re also bludgeoned with the casual misogyny.  The men comment on Chloe Moretz's appearance, ask her if she’s a lesbian or a whore, and wonder if she’s menstruating.  It’s all a bit much, stretching both our patience and our sense of verisimilitude.  The highlight is Chloe Moretz.  The monster effects are also pretty good, with the movie not afraid to show the gremlin in the daylight.  But, as for Chloe Moretz, she spends forty minutes out of the total runtime of seventy-four minutes sitting by herself, and she acts the hell out of her part.  She can deliver both a heartfelt speech about the horrors of domestic abuse, and then she can beat the shit out of a monster on a beach. 

[plush-tsukki]

[moviereviews101web]

Shadow in the Cloud (2020) Movie Review

Shadow in the Cloud – ABC Film Challenge – Female Directors – R (Roseanne Liang) – Shadow in the Cloud – Movie Review Director: Roseanne Liang Writer: Max Landis, Roseanne Liang (Screenplay) Cast Chloe Grace Moretz (Kick-Ass) Nick Robinson (Love, Simon) Beaulah Koale (Outlaw/King) Taylor John Smith (Hunter Killer) Callan Mulvey (Thank You for Your Service) Plot: A female WWII pilot…

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Shadow in the Cloud: Directed by Roseanne Liang. With Chloë Grace Moretz, Nick Robinson, Beulah Koale, Taylor John Smith. A female WWII pilot traveling with top secret documents on a B-17 Flying Fortress encounters an evil presence on board the flight.

[moxferrer]

waiting for the moment when devs will show how his own epic cookie follower looks like... if he has any, of course

upd: candy apple cookie is here!!!

[hobgobknowsbest]

I remember Moretz in Kickass, and dug her in that, but wooee... this is a rough one so far

I get that sexism has been alive and well for a very, very long time, but so far every one of these characters is two dimensional