{"id":30116,"date":"2026-06-24T16:30:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T15:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=30116"},"modified":"2026-06-24T11:42:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T10:42:47","slug":"quiet-apocalypse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2026\/06\/24\/quiet-apocalypse\/","title":{"rendered":"Quiet Apocalypse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/quiet1-big.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/quiet1.jpg\" alt=\"quiet1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More monochrome cosmic horror. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wf8D2Acra5o\" target=\"\"><em>Quiet Apocalypse<\/em><\/a> is a short black-and-white film by &#8220;Insolitum&#8221;, a combination CGI with stock footage that nods to<em> Cloverfield<\/em>, Ishir\u014d Honda&#8217;s monstrous menagerie, and the last few minutes of <em>The Mist<\/em>, if that particular film had continued beyond its abrupt ending. &#8220;Made using Blender, Zbrush, Substance Painter, After Effects and Davinci Resolve. Stock footage provided by Envato, Pexels and Pixabay,&#8221; says the YT note.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/quiet2-big.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/quiet2.jpg\" alt=\"quiet2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Most of the visuals are self-explanatory and could easily get by without the narration that enters later on. Sublime horror is seldom enhanced by excessive explanation. HP Lovecraft made the point succinctly in <em>The Call of Cthulhu<\/em>: &#8220;A mountain walked.&#8221; Sometimes that&#8217;s all you need to know.<\/p>\n<p>(Another tip from Scotto Moore&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/scotto.org\/listing.php?id=1092\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This Newsletter Cannot Save You<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More monochrome cosmic horror. Quiet Apocalypse is a short black-and-white film by &#8220;Insolitum&#8221;, a combination CGI with stock footage that nods to Cloverfield, Ishir\u014d Honda&#8217;s monstrous menagerie, and the last few minutes of The Mist, if that particular film had continued beyond its abrupt ending. &#8220;Made using Blender, Zbrush, Substance Painter, After Effects and Davinci &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2026\/06\/24\/quiet-apocalypse\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Quiet Apocalypse&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"New blog post: Quiet Apocalypse","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,22,20],"tags":[14646,7066,13209],"class_list":["post-30116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-horror","category-science-fiction","tag-cloverfield","tag-ishiro-honda","tag-scotto-moore"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-7PK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30116"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30118,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30116\/revisions\/30118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}