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Zygote
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Zygote is a 2017 Sci-Fi Horror short film directed by Neill Blomkamp from Oats Studios. It briefly tells the story of the last two employees of an asteroid mining site in the Arctic Circle, part of the Far North Mining Operation owned by the mysterious Mega-Corp Cerberus Minerals in the future. However, although only two living people remain on the station, they are certainly not alone, nor are the other employees truly dead.The film is very similar in atmosphere and setting to films like Alien and The Thing (1982) , while also bearing a resemblance to SOMA. | |
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Brainwashed and Crazy | |
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Brainwashed and Crazy: The monster began as a creature living in an asteroid which "transmitted gigabytes of data" via light waves into peoples' eyes, programming its discoverers to construct a suitable host body for itself. | |
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Conditioned to Accept Horror | |
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Conditioned to Accept Horror: Canary-class miners of Cerberus are taught to hold the well-being of higher-class staff above their own at all times. Even worse, their purpose in the mining process involves mining at deeper levels in order to insure that expendable Canaries will face an emergency before higher-ranking staff are involved, much like actual canaries used for detecting gas in coal mines. | |
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Fingore | |
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Fingore: Quinn cuts off his own index finger to give Barklay access to a vault. | |
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Artificial Human | |
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Artificial Human: Mining corporations are said to commonly use "synthetics" to do more dangerous mining operations, such as the risky job of diving deep into the hearts of asteroids to mine their cores. Barklay thinks that she is one due to her status as Canary-class, though Quinn reveals to her that creating synths is expensive, thus companies like Cerberus tend to instead buy human orphans like Barklay at young ages, convincing them that they are manufactured instead. | |
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Tomato in the Mirror | |
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Tomato in the Mirror: Barklay is revealed to be a human, rather than being a synthetic. | |
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Eat Brain for Memories | |
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Eat Brain for Memories: Quinn warns Barklay that when the Creature kills him it will know everything he knows, including their plan to head for the Vault. | |
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Air-Vent Passageway | |
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Air-Vent Passageway: Averted; at the start of the movie Barklay wants to continue hiding in the steam vents, but this is rejected by Quinn — they're running out of food and water, and the Creature knows everything about the station from the people it assimilated, so it's smart enough to track them down there. | |
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Suddenly Shouting | |
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Suddenly Shouting: When Barklay hesitates to use the rifle because as a Canary she's not allowed to use it, Quinn deactivates the safety. "NOW PICK UP THE FUCKING GUN!" | |
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Meaningful Name | |
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Meaningful Name: Cerberus Minerals, after the multi-headed dog that guards the Underworld. | |
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Population: X, and Counting | |
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Population: X, and Counting | |
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Asteroid Miners | |
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Asteroid Miners: Downplayed as the asteroids have fallen to Earth and buried themselves in the Arctic ice. | |
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Immune to Bullets | |
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Immune to Bullets: No, just very hard to stop. Barkley puts it down with a clip full of explosive bullets, but it eventually hauls itself to its feet. | |
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Safe Zone Hope Spot | |
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Safe Zone Hope Spot: The plot involves them heading for the Corporate Vault which has food and supplies behind a safe-like door. However Quinn warns that if he is assimilated the Creature will also know all about the Vault. | |
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What Measure Is a Non-Human? | |
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What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Synthetics are used as expendable labor. Subverted with The Reveal that Barklay is actually human, as the real synthetics are too expensive and durable to use in this manner. | |
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Eye Scream | |
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Eye Scream: Quinn gouged out his eyes when he was first exposed to the monster's light to avoid suffering the same fate as his colleagues. He didn't do it quickly enough, and so feels himself falling under the Creature's influence. | |
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MegaCorp | |
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Mega-Corp: Earth's bombardment by asteroids 20 years in the future caused asteroid mining companies to become these, dominating the global economy. | |
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Bottomless Magazines | |
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Bottomless Magazines: Averted; there's only two magazines for the rifle, and they don't last long. | |
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Smart Gun | |
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Smart Gun: Quinn deactivates the fingerprint safety on his rifle so Barklay can use it. | |
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Flesh Golem | |
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Flesh Golem: The creature's body was created by the miners it had brainwashed. | |
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Slow Doors | |
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Slow Doors: The door to the Vault closes very slowly, just as the Creature is hauling itself to its feet and starting to shamble after Barklay. | |
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Cliffhanger | |
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Cliffhanger: Barklay makes to the Vault, but the Creature is still outside and has assimilated people who have biometric access to the Vault. | |
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Canned Orders over Loudspeaker | |
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Canned Orders over Loudspeaker: Barklay comes across an eviscerated corpse while being pursued by a Body Horror monster, as the computer announces. "If you are injured, remain calm." | |
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One-Word Title | |
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One-Word Title: It means the starting phase of a human organism, and likely refers to the monster. | |
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Cut the Juice | |
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Cut the Juice: The power keeps dropping out and so the backup generator kicks in, but it's unreliable. Quinn says they can't stay there because they'll freeze to death if the power goes completely. | |
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I Will Only Slow You Down | |
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I Will Only Slow You Down: Quinn realises he's falling under the influence of the Creature, which is outside the door trying to break it down. Barklay can't move quickly dragging a blind and injured man, so he tells her the truth about her being human and tells Barklay to warn the world about what's happened there. | |
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Android Identifier | |
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Android Identifier: Synthetics are created by Mega Corps to work dangerous jobs such as astroid mining. Synthetic humans like Barklay have a barcode to mark them as such. Subverted when it's revealed that creating synthetics is expensive and often human orphans are used instead and tattooed to fool inspectors. | |
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Light Is Not Good | |
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Light Is Not Good: Flashes of light are the medium used by the creature to influence the station's staff to construct a body for it to inhabit. | |
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Borrowed Biometric Bypass | |
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Borrowed Biometric Bypass: The Creature can gain access to all parts of the station as it's made up of the hands of those it has assimilated into itself. Quinn cuts off his own finger and gives it to Barklay so she can get into the Vault. However this doesn't work so Barklay chops off one of the creature's appendages, although she has trouble locating a finger with the proper security credentials. | |
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Body of Bodies | |
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Body of Bodies: Jesus Christ, is the monster not fucking around. Managing to assimilate the 96 other workers in the facility, it's a huge, hulking, and absolutely grotesque mass of limbs and Extra Eyes. | |
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20 Minutes into the Future | |
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20 Minutes into the Future: Word of God states that asteroids begin to fall to Earth much more often sometime in the 2040s, kicking off the creation of major asteroid mining companies like Cerberus. | |
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The Assimilator | |
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The Assimilator: The creature is definitely this, as it has obtained body parts from everyone in the mining center except for Quinn and Barkley by the time the film begins. This is also the means by which it is able to move throughout the facility by acquiring the hands and fingers of staff members with different levels of finger print scanner authentification. | |
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Population: X, and Counting / int_a5d9b112 | |
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Robots Are Just Better / int_a5d9b112 | |
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Slow Doors / int_a5d9b112 |
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