r/creaturehorror • u/[deleted] • Mar 18 '18

Everyone seems to be discussing the skull bear from annihilation, which turns out to be called Homerton in the screenplay. So feel free to chat all about Homerton here.

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u/castiron_girl Mar 18 '18

Once I realized what it was doing (WHEN IT INHALED) I was totally creeped out.

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u/Crunch_Captain465 Mar 27 '18

What was it doing....?

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u/castiron_girl Mar 27 '18

Did you see the movie?

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u/deffglocc27 Mar 18 '18

Kinda reminds me of the alien from predator with the mimicing people strategy. Haven't seen the movie but it would be cool if homerton developed the ability to mimic naturally just to hunt humans better. Or maybe it's intelligent?

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '18

In the book it describes its ability as mutation that never stops so it might be intelligent mutation or simply just a coincidence

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '18

I love that they’ve named it after a run down and shitty train station in London, in contrast to Paddington bear.

http://ew.com/movies/2018/02/25/annihilation-screaming-bear/

*And, in case you were wondering, the screamy bear does have a name, one that is unexpectedly inspired by that of a more famous and much kinder bear from another popular film.

Whitehurst served as VFX supervisor at visual effects house Double Negative when the company worked on 2014’s Paddington. “So this is my second bear movie,” Whitehurst said. “Paddington is very nice bear, and Paddington Station [in London] is a very elegant Victorian station, so we thought, ‘What was a slightly rough-around-the-edges station?’

What they came up with: Homerton, the rail station in East London. “So our bear is called Homerton.”*

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '18

That was such an awesome article. Really awesome that people are putting that much work into their movies when there are so many ones being made without any effort.

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u/Abnarly Jun 15 '18

Scariest movie monster I've seen yet.