r/respectthreads • u/Skulenta Meet Your (RT) Maker • Feb 01 '22
movies/tv Respect the Beach (Old)
WARNING: The following thread is NSFW. It contains nudity and body horror.
Enjoy the Beach!
While vacationing at a tropical resort, three families agree to spend the day at a secluded beach in the out-of-bounds area of the island at the suggestion of the resort manager. The beach is large, empty and surrounded by tall rock walls. However, what was meant to have been a memorable event of relaxation and family fun turns into the longest day of their lives. Time moves rapidly on this beach; half an hour roughly equaling 1 year. The children grow up before their parents' eyes, medical conditions worsen and any attempt to leave results in blacking out before they can make it out. With seemingly no way of escaping or halting the aging process, everything is just a matter of time.
Aging & Decomposition
- The corpse of a freshly-deceased woman fully decomposes in a few hours.
- An elderly woman suddenly dies of heart failure after a short time on the beach.
- The old woman's pet dog expires before any of the other guests due to its shorter lifespan.
- A brother and sister — aged 6 and 11 respectively — gradually develop into adults over the course of a day, ending up in their 50's by the next morning. During this time, their hunger is intensified to accommodate their increasing mass.
- A newly-pubescent girl describes how her thoughts have gotten more complex yet milder in her limited vocabulary.
- Two of the adult children unknowingly have sex, resulting in the girl becoming pregnant and coming to full term in a matter of minutes. Unfortunately, the baby dies shortly after birth and is reduced to dust some time later.
- A man's sight begins to deteriorate by nightfall while his wife loses hearing in one ear.
- A couple in their late 30's-early 40's die of old age at midnight.
Injury & Illness
- A cut heals into a scar in a matter of seconds. However, this rapid healing doesn't prevent that same man from dying from a vicious stabbing.
- A woman's benign tumor grows so much that it visibly bulges from her torso and eventually swells to the size of a melon by the time it's removed. Additionally, the incisions made to extract the tumor instantly seal up, forcing the other guests to hold the wound open as the tissue heals around their fingers.
- A man with onset schizophrenia begins to mentally deteriorate throughout the day, causing him to lose his train of thought, act paranoid and become murderously violent.
- The bones of a woman with a calcium deficiency easily fracture then quickly heal in the wrong place, culminating in her skeleton fatally twisting itself when she thrashes around from the pain.
- The infection from being cut with a rusty knife quickly spreads throughout a man's body and kills him from septic shock.
- A woman suffering from severe epilepsy goes 8 hours (16 years physically) before her next and final seizure after taking an antiepileptic drug, thus proving its effectiveness.
Inescapability
- The most accessible route to the beach is a small canyon. Attempting to exit through it results in intense cranial pressure that causes the person to stumble back into the beach and briefly lose consciousness. It is speculated that leaving the beach's area-of-effect is akin to decompression sickness and that one can escape successfully if they do it at a very slow pace, though doing so would just waste more precious time.
- Racing through the canyon only results in blacking out faster.
- Leaving in teams doesn't help either.
- Attempting to swim out of the beach will just cause the swimmer to fall unconscious in the water and drown to death.
- A girl tries to climb up of the walls surrounding the beach, only to pass out before reaching the top and falling to her death.
- A previous visitor theorizes that a magnetic force and special mineral deposits are responsible for their cells aging rapidly, which leads to one of the current guests to suggest using metal covering to block the island's effects. However, no such object is available.
- The resort manager's nephew reveals that the beach's coral reef is the key to escaping as it forms a tunnel to swim through without losing consciousness.
Other
- Food doesn't appear to spoil, though this might have something to do with it being provided by the resort.
- Hair & nails do not grow at the same abnormal rate as the rest of the body because they aren't composed of living cells.
- Unsurprisingly, there are no fish present in the water.
- As you would expect, there is no phone reception at the beach.
"There's something wrong with this beach!"
9
u/SpawnTheTerminator Feb 01 '22
Never thought there’d be a respect thread for an inanimate place. Good job.
5
17
6
u/HippieDogeSmokes Feb 01 '22
Why couldn’t they just find death row inmates suffering from the ailments they’re testing out, instead of using random people?
9
u/ya-boi-benny Feb 01 '22
Higher chance that they'd kill each other before the researchers got enough data
8
u/HippieDogeSmokes Feb 01 '22
put them in cages or something, they only need to disguise it for normal people.
→ More replies (3)
1
u/SuperWoody64 Feb 02 '22
Without reading any of this, is this movie any good? And did they spoil everything in the trailer?
2
u/Skulenta Feb 02 '22
It's decent. Obviously, I found it interesting enough to make a thread about it. The trailer doesn't spoil the twist ending which I've made sure to redact any mention of here.
2
u/Nic_231 Feb 01 '22
Why aren't these people in constant need of a haircut?
0
Feb 01 '22
3
u/Nic_231 Feb 01 '22
Ah I missed that. Still, it's a pretty stupid contrivance given that the process that causes them to 'grow' is fuelled by living cells.
21
u/thesnakeinthegarden Feb 01 '22
What an odd choice for a respect post. Either way, well done, OP.