The producers of this short film seem to be admirers of the film Alien. They made notable references to him but built a very creative work with a surprising ending. The entire production is wonderful and very well cared for. They deserve great recognition for everything they have accomplished in this beautiful work. My admiration from Brazil.
Believe it or not. but the orderlies have already left for you. it's a cartoon. there are no clothes. everything is drawn here. you still say your father personally knows aliens and conceived you and endured you from one of them, you don’t treat fools in America at all !?
I've lived & breathed sci fi for 4 decades & this is as good as any short story by Isaac Asimov or Arthur C Clarke. In 20 min they tell a tale that most modern Hollywood directors would stretch out for 3 agonising hours. Good sci fi doesn't need to be hours long, it needs to leave you pondering your current existence & your future.
It wasn't that good. In fact, it was pretty bad. They tried hard, but it was predictable early on and the story falls apart as soon as the hole opens in the ground.
I lost that "acceptance of reality" with the spacesuits. They will no longer be that bulky at a time we're doing space mining. One of the fun things in Heinlein's "Have space suit, will travel" is his description of space suits (at a time when the moon is settled), and then the criticism the main character, a kid, has of suit design. He determines he'll become a space suit designer. This film would have been more impressive if they'd copied those ideas. And ... any Belter, citizen of the asteroid belt (Larry Niven) knows space is always out to kill you. Three redundancies, better 3 x 3. Why aren't these idiots carrying any tether lines? And if that's supposed to be an "alien" whose discovered a human ship on a dead earth, it needs to be clearer. A dramatic space shot of earth, with no air or water but continents recognizable would have been much more emotional.
@@veralenora4033 You're right, I hadn't thought of that. If they are so advanced that they can afford to send a ship light years away just to take some soil samples, their suits would most definitely be more streamlined. The bulky suits are needed to mislead the viewer, but as you pointed out, they wouldn't actually have those kinds of suits. Heck, I doubt they would even send "people". They could just as easily send probes to find the resources and robots to collect it. For me, it was the tinted helmets and the fact there were no interior shots of the spaceship, where we'd get to see the "astronauts" that tipped me off.
This was absolutely marvelous! Great plot, terrific visuals and an amazing "reveal" at the end. The reveal of the human skull at the very end, and the "alien" lifting his visor so we can see his non-human face, was just fabulous! I know I was not the only viewer who was cringing when the astronaut approached the "strange looking eggs"! I was expecting a scene from the movie "Alien"!! On reflection, I would have to agree with another person who commented that no Earth human would go near any "eggs" with a ten foot pole! These two men are about to become two of the most famous people in their planet's history. Can you imagine the field day that their archeologists and scientists will have with this discovery? It is a shame that the protagonists also come from a race that is destroying their environment----but that is a crisis that every intelligent race would have to face and overcome, if they are to survive and evolve. One has to hope that the discovery of the destroyed Earth will give their race the impetus and inspiration they need to save themselves. The destroyed Earth is a terrible lesson, but perhaps if that lesson helps to save a space going civilization, then the Earth did not die in vain. One can only hope.
Since the mining shuttle is named Ezekiel my thought is that the two geologists are not aliens, but possibly descendants of an offshoot human colony that evolved into another species that had forgotten where their ancestors came from.
@@williamking3301 I like your take William. It's along the lines of my own interpretation and a plausible explanation that requires less "suspension of disbelief" to accommodate alien-appearing protagonists speaking English. Moreover, unlike the dusty newspaper headline, it does not abandon hope. Many science fiction shorts often portray a bleak, or no future for humanity. Thinking people should heed Robert A. Heinlein's words: "The Earth is just too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in."
@@williamking3301 A classic 1954 science fiction story that resides somewhat vaguely within the same genre as your interpretation of "Unearthed" is F. L. Wallace's "Big Ancestor." If you are not already familiar with it, I think you'll enjoy the read. archive.org/details/galaxymagazine-1954-11/page/n67/mode/2up?view=theater
Absolutely love the major use of physical props rather than CG everything! And I find it funny that on a limited budget, the low gravity effect was more believable than a lot of big budget films.
I found it kind of odd that they did not have the one sixth gravity of the moon, so things fell pretty quickly. I thought this was a flaw in the film. At first.
@@catmand0 Low gravity compared to what they’re used to? Some other commentator thought the astronauts might be from an offshoot human colony that had lost most knowledge of Earth. If that colony had settled a higher-G world, then mutation/evolution would be a forgone conclusion over time and, to them, Earth would be a low-gravity world.
Having watched hours upon hours of DUST short films, this having been one of the very first, without any doubt this is one of the very best. A real great twist that most likely were not at all expecting.
@@JohnSmith-ft2tw Yep. The "everyone speaks English in the Universe" is another device they used to confuse us. Ok, let's say these are future humans coming back. But then why "Mitch" of all the names? Nice practical effects though.
This is the best dust film I've seen and I think I've seen most of them. The problem I have with them us that, despite how interesting they can be not all of course, they are every single one depressing. No hope or joy in any of them. Making depressing films is easy and lazy writing. Making hopeful and inspiring films take commitment and a lot of talent and hard work.
I like the whole concept of this film. It's compact and keeps the viewer's attention through the whole 22 minutes. Love the ending. The twist is carried out quite well. Big thumbs up for this. Well done!
Peter Stagg I enjoyed this too. what an awesome ending. aliens on dead earth. wake up people, save our planet NOW. the aliens having human voices wow! is there a part two to this?
This was amazing! I really liked the space suit design, that the helmet isn't separated from the torso-part, and the shuttle is nice too! And the story is great. I tought it'll turn into alien, with thoose "eggs", but the twis was very suprising and clever! Ah, man, give all awards to this film!
As you can see the sun has gotten smaller , the plane earh lost its atmosphere ,and has gone barren , the aliens have a deeper eye socket ,wider nose as can be seen through the visor while examining the human skull , what is this place ? An underground city , the humans sought refuge UNTILL ALL LIFE support resources were depleted , ,the crumbling metal beam IS testament as to how long the earth took over in time , one day the earth will collapse in its self , implode and explode due to its gravity and become a black hole , then the cycle of a new planet will start again but wait , the sun still has to supernova ALSO, , ...this is a cool film , one of the best I have seen , lots to learn here about space evolution ...U.S.MARINES...ALL 7 OF US FROM TEXAS...SEMPER FI...
I knew they weren't human and they'd found a dead Earth when the guy's light hit the mess of re-bar in the dark just past the entrance... Very cool story. No violence, no stupid romance, no explosions or movie-long battle-chases, just story. Loved this.
I figured they found some lost civilization I just didn't know it was earth! I figured it was gonna be real good when they found that evidence of civilization. I just didn't know it was gonna be a really cool twist!
Been watching a lot of these short science fiction clips. Most of which are horrorific/deranged. But this one was pleasant and euphoric. The concept of another sentient species discovering the remains of our society is rather stunning and awe-inspiring.
It became obvious that they werent human towards the end.. Nobody from Earth would have approached 'strange looking eggs' in a dusty chamber after all the 'Alien' films out there.
Wow, I'm really hoping that film making of this quality signals the end of the Hollywood monopoly on 'blockbusters'. I really hope this sort of movie heralds a new age of story telling rather than cynical exploitation and bottom line film making.
Ok, I didn't go past the first 3 minutes so maybe it got better, doubt it, but maybe, so first of all, hasn't this story already been told, several times by MUCH, much better actors, not to mention, scripts? All I needed to see was the little doll astronaut "flying" back to the ship, no movement at all? Human beings are only that still when dead and only during rigor mortis are we stiff as a board! Alien, best ever sci-fi! On the lower scale, but not the bottom, Vin Diesel's Riddick, but hell, to be perfectly honest, he could just read the phone book and I'd love it. "Gravity", as of late, was the worst sci-fi film made with huge stars, at least in my opinion and that's truly not a high bar to climb over! I love George Clooney and Sandra Bullock, just as much as the rest of the world, but it was a hyped up movie, with not much hype! He needed to pay for the wedding, I get it. She needed to stash away for Louie, I get it. But, damn, this is awful. I'm so thankful I love to read!!
Robin Addis-Vaughn I'm sorry but you lost me not even half way through your wall of text... your points were all over the place so bad that most of your comment didn't even make any sense. And I'm sorry but if you didn't watch it all the way through, then you don't really have any right to criticize it. If you saw the end, you would realize it was meant to make you think it was just another drum-ho humans exploring space for whatever reason film, but you would also realize it's not just that. You would realize it was so much more than that. You know what they say about never judging a book by its cover...
Megan Creech sorry you couldn't keep up with my thought process. I do jump from point to point, I readily admit it. Its simply the way my brain works and it has served me well. I'll put this on my to watch later list and maybe I'll get around to watching it and seeing something different. As far as talking about "Gravity" with Clooney & Bullock, I was responding to Ali Servan's comment about Hollywood's monopoly on blockbuster hits, that really shouldn't have been made, I was joking about the reasons they made the movie, but money usually is what gets big name stars in a movie like "Gravity". :)
Ali Ahadi I believe that is what is stated above and I'm not correcting anyone, so yes 2 or 3 minutes into it, I didn't like it. I didn't say anything negative to people who do watch the entire clip, I said I could tell it wasn't for me. Haven't you ever been flipping the channels on tv, come across something you thought might be interesting and a couple minutes into it, you say, nah and start flipping channels again. Same thing! At last for me.
Very well done and quite a twist. I first saw the objects all over the ground and thought they were skulls, then they said eggs and I went right with the story, then I was surprised when they were skulls.
This could've been an hour and a half of two astronauts just trading barbs while they worked and it still would've been a better movie than most of what is coming out of Hollywood these days.
That would make a great movie. Shit-talk in Space. A couple of astronauts, digging holes, singing songs and pondering the Universe. "Faaaaaaackin' 'ell, woodya look at the view! The Flat Earth Society Boys are feelin' kinda blue. The World is quite demonstrably a big, blue, faaacking sphere. The Flat Earth Society boys are cryin' in their beer".
What an amazing twist. That was addictive to watch. It didn’t need to be any longer. It captured all the suspense and the surprise just perfectly. Top marks for that👌🏼
I saw this sci-fi film sometime in late 2013 and never forgot it. Very well made,memorable,high production values and an awesome twist at the end!! Great job,Dalang Films!! 6-9-2018
This is a great short film. The music does it when the explorer sees what he's picked up is a skull and we see the explorer is not an earthling human. The music is what adds the emotional impact. Well thought out and not low budget or at least the production values have been obtained somehow. Just really good film.
What? In what age do you live? It's posted in 480p, blurry as hell, a huge bar on top and bottom and they screwed up the screen ratio so now those guys look like short fat astronauts. I mean, it couldn't have looked worse... Seriously dude?
The reveal at the end is ghostly true....if.... "There but by the grace of God go I" comes to mind. Excellent Work, Great Story, with a thinking person's ending. Simply Amazing.
Yeah my second time watching it... basically forgot I'd seen it and by the time I realized it was too late to back out. Love the cheesey 1950's style dialogue.
Very well done. I've watched this one several times now, and the only conclusion I can come to is that these visitors are the distant descendants of humanity discovering their long forgotten homeworld.
Or, they are a humanoid species that evolved on a semi nearby planetoid, and during exploration, they came across the remnants of humanity on earth, which had been devastated millions of years prior, as it would take this long for earth's atmosphere to completely disapate and the surface to end up similar to that of the moon or mars.
@@randyhutchinson9910 Primates. But I can't seem to make Terry's scenario work in my mind. Howzabout: both Earth and another nearby planet were seeded with the same "germs of life" from a comet or something and evolved similarly enough that primates became the dominant and most technologically advanced species on each, sharing a remote common ancestry. Homo sapiens destroyed Earth with nuclear war and winter, or global ecosystem cascade effects triggered by climate change, or a bolide hit, or Yellowstone blew again. Homo nearbyus hasn't suffered such a fate, but seeing as how they are prospecting for fossil fuels, they are just a decade away from the same fate.
Fascinating short film; thanks for sharing it here on TH-cam! It certainly seems at first to be future astronauts exploring the moon or a similar world. The mention of fossil fuels, however, reveals that there was once life in the distant past, since we all learned in science class about how fossil fuels are formed. The total absence of atmosphere and the disintegrating condition of the concrete in the underground structure all suggest an extremely long time has passed. The title _Unearthed_ first seems to suggest that the explorers belong to a society that has left earth a long time ago. But when artifacts are discovered in the buried chamber, _unearthed_ takes a new meaning. If the catastrophe was far enough back in the past, then the face we see could still be human (as a few have suggested already). Both meanings of the title could therefore apply.
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From the opening dialogue, the twist was predicted almost immediately. Same type of culture ends up doing what elon musk is trying to do (and will fail to do) on Mars.
I had an inkling as to what would be found when one of the explorers commented on there's some sort of a structure down here.....then went on to show a doll etc. Then the title 'Unearthed' told me what I'd already guessed. Brilliant ending!
ironically,,we were mined by aliens thousands of yrs ago,,for gold & mercury..gold was for radiation protection,mercury was fuel/electrical circuits.ect..look up sumerian tablets..they mined mainly in s africa..as we do now..fiction is realer than reality..most 60,s sci fi films are coming tru..soylent green,,was a good one..bit of ending like this one..
Great production values, a solid script and a memorable ending. Thanks so much for producing this and uploaidng it. You guys did a great job and should be proud. :) I'm definitely going to check out your other works!
So cool! And so clever! I was blown away when the astronaut pulled up his visor to reveal it was not a human but they had stumbled upon the remains of humans...and all around them were the remnants of a world long gone...this is our fate...we will destroy ourselves.we are a warring, killing species with greed that know no bounds.
Well it would have to be the following: Contact interstellar Gravity Ex Machina And this one I like the once with some meaning and not just nice effect and fighting
Awesome film. The revelation was a master stroke. The suspenseful build up had me on the edge of my seat. It's one of the best I've seen and I've seen a heck of a lot as it's my favourite genre.
I was on the edge of my seat in anticipation wondering what he would find, and Oh My God! What a fantasic ending. This was true fun watching this short movie, who needs 2 hours of Hollywood movies. I'm saving this one.
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It's been ages since I'd seen this. Such a good story and is very meaningful if you listen carefully to what they say about their world, and then what they find.
Fuck! Why aren't THESE people in charge of our daily entertainment ffs! THIS was by far more creative than some bull Hollywood wanted to shove down my throat...
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Why not abandon Hollywood in favor of these productions then? That is largely what I have chosen to do--no cable TV for more than three years now and haven't bought a new release DVD since "Avatar" almost a dozen years ago. Hollywood's crap got old and boring even before they mostly became Leftist idiots who seem to think they have something valid to say about the way our society should function.
Love the twist at the end . Who'd of thought these two would be aliens . And the heads looked like eggs until he turned it right around and whipped his helmet screen to reveal both himself as an Alien and the eggs as human sculls of which he still has no idea what it is . Fantastic story and animation .❤️💯
Very interesting and thought provoking story that had a kinda Planet of the Apes feel. It also had me laughing at the space suits with the black thongs, other than that, top shelf! 😎
This was awesome. Up to the revelation the the explorer was not human, really thought they were. It was only when i saw the skull and then the newspaper. Awesome cinematography. I love it. This gem is why we watch movies
This is awesome and i love the nod to the film Alien "you'll get whatever's coming to you" Eggs, hahaha so creative and imaginative. Thanks for sharing and as always keep building👍
From the beginning I was wondering, "can you really 'unearth' something if it's not on Earth? Wouldn't you unmoon or unmars stuff?" and then, as if to mock me, the whole thing was on Earth.
@Nathan Miller i think you are too optimistic about future. Oxygen on earth doesn’t come a lot from trees but essentially from oceans. We know now that great extinction came when seas became acidic from volcanoes and all was killed on earth by loss of oxygen. Now our oceans are almost acidic as in these times but because of human activities. This fact was well understood only last year. Scientists are pessimist on our ability to reverse the processus in time. Our future is not so good now. We’ll never terraform another planet for humanity, we’ ll never have time to clone eyes and so we’ll be dead in a very short time because our beloved blue pale dot becomes exhausted, as we lose our time with greedy presidents and stupid belligerent chiefs of our countries. Futur will not be for us.
@@murielvaillancourt3855 Well, more of the oxygen comes from the sea, but aren't more efforts being made to fix that? I do have faith that we will eventually pick up the slack. Or a solar flare 199 years from now will knock out any tech that isn't in a faraday cage and we'll end up stopping emissions altogether. Who knows?
there is a similiarity with the end but be honest this it,s not a blockbuster movie abut even for standard of movies at the end of 2019 is this short movie with very very yery small budget create a story and filmed and wrote an expecting twist what is really hard in present time after decades in movies industrie,for example aliens no 8 or begining of,,,,,new generetion no 3 and so on
Great effort! I was as fooled as everyone else was! My wife and I laughed so hard all the way through because of the "crack-up" dialog and drawn out theme, and the whole time we couldn't figure out what it was all about! But we're so happy that we continued to watch! We thought that it seemed like a Twilight Zone episode. Doesn't it? Seriously! The Twilight Zone always had a perceptual twist at the end like this one. Remember the episode where the beautiful woman was recovering from facial reconstructive surgery, and you never see anyone's face (not the doctors or the nurses, either) until the very end. It was only then, when they remove her bandages and reveal her beautiful features, that they cry out how hideous she "still" is! That's when they show you their faces for the first time, and they are the hideous ones! I love that episode! But this is the same kind of short film, in my opinion. That's what I saw! I applaud them for taking us on this "trip". It was more than just funny! It was Hilarious! The end was a bit more sobering, though, but still a very fun time! You just have to laugh at all of the laughable stuff! That's my suggestion! Have fun!
Wow this is a very good movie short, way better than many full length movies I've seen in a theater. Even now, 12 years later it is a stark warning of where we are headed if we don't watch where we are going in today's world and that's without putting any politics in this movie. VERY WELL DONE.
Nice! I liked it. Suggestions: Just leave out the name of the ship or ships, and don't show anything in writing. A working crew on a months-long project wouldn't bother saying ship names. Actually, you could study the dialog in a documentary about oil well drilling or taking samples in Antarctica, because this would be more like that, and less like an Apollo mission. You could also have everybody refer to each other with things that sound like nicknames: Lucky, Red, Rocker, Dizzy, Bumper, etc. etc. I know it's irrational, but I can ignore aliens speaking English, yet it seems jarring to give them ordinary human names. You'll notice it's common in sci-fi that aliens can speak English (often with a Universal Translator ) but their proper nouns are kept alien. "Would you like some more K'tang tea?" asked the Grkchorvian ambassador. I'd show Earth's moon at the end - there's no strong reason why it wouldn't still be there and look about the same. Also unless you think your main characters came from a cooled-off Venus or a somehow restored-to-wetness Mars, they are from another star system. But their mothership really does not look like a starship - looks way too much like a NASA Mars mission. Of course if they come from another star system, it's really implausible that they would be looking for resources to haul across interstellar space. If it's actually economical for them to haul megatons of matter between stars, then their ship would be big - because why not? I did find it distractingly weird that the astronauts were not more astonished and excited at finding evidence of intelligent life: They didn't act like this was the first time, but they didn't act like it was the 2nd or 3rd time either. Just puzzling. Still one of the best put-together sci-fi shorts I've seen! Kudos and congrats!
I remember my 3rd grade teacher showing our class this and I've tried to look so hard to look for it and now I've finally found it and that clip of the guy holding the skull always stook with me till this day
Was your teacher trying to SCARE the F*ck out of you...hey kids look Aliens find our skulls buried underground in the Future..now get you juice box and turn to page 30 in your text book
Loved it - didn't see that twist coming! At one point (and I'm not going to give any spoilers) I wanted to shout 'No, don't - haven't you seen 'Alien'?!?!' LOL. Very poignant.
I thought this was well produced, very thought provoking. I see how the name of the shuttle may be a little off for an alien race but then again, it that was the intended reason to keep the viewer off track. Then it was freaking brillant! It drew me in, capturing my imagination all the way to the end of the film. I wanted to see more. 10+ Ratings :-)
I love the film but I think they shouldn't have showed the watch, glasses and other items until after they reveal the skulls because that's what tipped me off that they weren't eggs If it wasn't for that I think I would have been completely surprised.
+lunacron I thought there going to be baby xenos or similar there, who killed the humans and that this was some kind of nazi moon base. Style of glasses and other artifacts kinda gave that kind of hint.
I think they were going for the Alien horror kind of stuff, even the glasses and the doll could have been a colony which was infected, the least I was expecting was an Alien race looking after our demise... Good Job
I can never understand why these posters do this. Just post the title and genre of the film and let the rest happen. This is one time I actually began watching the short before reading anything under it. Very good, btw!!!
I think writers and directors are fine without this one. Its producers and movie company heads you should thank for everincreasing stupidity. They think masses are dumbasses who needs dumb art products accordingly, but whats more alarming is that they have all the reasons to think so.
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The producers of this short film seem to be admirers of the film Alien. They made notable references to him but built a very creative work with a surprising ending. The entire production is wonderful and very well cared for. They deserve great recognition for everything they have accomplished in this beautiful work. My admiration from Brazil.
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Believe it or not my dad worked on this movie! He made the costumes for the astronauts, so proud of him 🥰
Is it a movie or short film?
He did an amazing job!!
Your dad is very talented. You should be proud!
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Believe it or not. but the orderlies have already left for you. it's a cartoon. there are no clothes. everything is drawn here. you still say your father personally knows aliens and conceived you and endured you from one of them, you don’t treat fools in America at all !?
I've lived & breathed sci fi for 4 decades & this is as good as any short story by Isaac Asimov or Arthur C Clarke. In 20 min they tell a tale that most modern Hollywood directors would stretch out for 3 agonising hours. Good sci fi doesn't need to be hours long, it needs to leave you pondering your current existence & your future.
I couldn't agree more! And I really, really liked that the reveal surprised me.
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It wasn't that good. In fact, it was pretty bad. They tried hard, but it was predictable early on and the story falls apart as soon as the hole opens in the ground.
I lost that "acceptance of reality" with the spacesuits. They will no longer be that bulky at a time we're doing space mining.
One of the fun things in Heinlein's "Have space suit, will travel" is his description of space suits (at a time when the moon is settled), and then the criticism the main character, a kid, has of suit design. He determines he'll become a space suit designer.
This film would have been more impressive if they'd copied those ideas.
And ... any Belter, citizen of the asteroid belt (Larry Niven) knows space is always out to kill you. Three redundancies, better 3 x 3. Why aren't these idiots carrying any tether lines?
And if that's supposed to be an "alien" whose discovered a human ship on a dead earth, it needs to be clearer. A dramatic space shot of earth, with no air or water but continents recognizable would have been much more emotional.
@@veralenora4033 You're right, I hadn't thought of that. If they are so advanced that they can afford to send a ship light years away just to take some soil samples, their suits would most definitely be more streamlined. The bulky suits are needed to mislead the viewer, but as you pointed out, they wouldn't actually have those kinds of suits. Heck, I doubt they would even send "people". They could just as easily send probes to find the resources and robots to collect it.
For me, it was the tinted helmets and the fact there were no interior shots of the spaceship, where we'd get to see the "astronauts" that tipped me off.
This was absolutely marvelous! Great plot, terrific visuals and an amazing "reveal" at the end. The reveal of the human skull at the very end, and the "alien" lifting his visor so we can see his non-human face, was just fabulous! I know I was not the only viewer who was cringing when the astronaut approached the "strange looking eggs"! I was expecting a scene from the movie "Alien"!! On reflection, I would have to agree with another person who commented that no Earth human would go near any "eggs" with a ten foot pole!
These two men are about to become two of the most famous people in their planet's history. Can you imagine the field day that their archeologists and scientists will have with this discovery? It is a shame that the protagonists also come from a race that is destroying their environment----but that is a crisis that every intelligent race would have to face and overcome, if they are to survive and evolve. One has to hope that the discovery of the destroyed Earth will give their race the impetus and inspiration they need to save themselves. The destroyed Earth is a terrible lesson, but perhaps if that lesson helps to save a space going civilization, then the Earth did not die in vain. One can only hope.
Since the mining shuttle is named Ezekiel my thought is that the two geologists are not aliens, but possibly descendants of an offshoot human colony that evolved into another species that had forgotten where their ancestors came from.
@@williamking3301 I like your take William. It's along the lines of my own interpretation and a plausible explanation that requires less "suspension of disbelief" to accommodate alien-appearing protagonists speaking English.
Moreover, unlike the dusty newspaper headline, it does not abandon hope. Many science fiction shorts often portray a bleak, or no future for humanity. Thinking people should heed Robert A. Heinlein's words: "The Earth is just too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in."
@@williamking3301 A classic 1954 science fiction story that resides somewhat vaguely within the same genre as your interpretation of "Unearthed" is F. L. Wallace's "Big Ancestor."
If you are not already familiar with it, I think you'll enjoy the read. archive.org/details/galaxymagazine-1954-11/page/n67/mode/2up?view=theater
You do realize that you should title your text with the word: "SPOILERS" before you spell out the story in your comment.
So , why aliens call each other human names?
Absolutely love the major use of physical props rather than CG everything! And I find it funny that on a limited budget, the low gravity effect was more believable than a lot of big budget films.
Maybe the creativity is better with limited resources. I think even Ridley Scott said something like that for Alien.
I found it kind of odd that they did not have the one sixth gravity of the moon, so things fell pretty quickly. I thought this was a flaw in the film. At first.
but if they were on earth, why would there be low gravity?
@@catmand0 Low gravity compared to what they’re used to? Some other commentator thought the astronauts might be from an offshoot human colony that had lost most knowledge of Earth. If that colony had settled a higher-G world, then mutation/evolution would be a forgone conclusion over time and, to them, Earth would be a low-gravity world.
@@jeffdickey Why a mutation would set a higher G world? I do not get it
Having watched hours upon hours of DUST short films, this having been one of the very first, without any doubt this is one of the very best. A real great twist that most likely were not at all expecting.
DUST is trash
Very good, though not great. The reflecting face plates were sort of obvious.
@@JohnSmith-ft2tw Yep. The "everyone speaks English in the Universe" is another device they used to confuse us. Ok, let's say these are future humans coming back. But then why "Mitch" of all the names? Nice practical effects though.
This is the best dust film I've seen and I think I've seen most of them. The problem I have with them us that, despite how interesting they can be not all of course, they are every single one depressing. No hope or joy in any of them. Making depressing films is easy and lazy writing. Making hopeful and inspiring films take commitment and a lot of talent and hard work.
I had a suspicion of what they were going to find, & the baby dolls head confirmed what the “eggs” were going to be revealed as.
I like the whole concept of this film. It's compact and keeps the viewer's attention through the whole 22 minutes. Love the ending. The twist is carried out quite well. Big thumbs up for this. Well done!
Thought so as well!
All thats missing is Rod Serling at the start, "Submitted for your perusal . . . . . "
Peter Stagg
I enjoyed this too.
what an awesome ending.
aliens on dead earth.
wake up people, save our planet NOW.
the aliens having human voices
wow!
is there a part two to this?
Peter Stagg
oh yeah, I know a lot of egg heads.
Nice movie earth 16 million years from now
I was yelling "Don't touch the eggs" -brilliant film well done
This was amazing! I really liked the space suit design, that the helmet isn't separated from the torso-part, and the shuttle is nice too! And the story is great. I tought it'll turn into alien, with thoose "eggs", but the twis was very suprising and clever! Ah, man, give all awards to this film!
the reason the helmets were different is because they had no necks !!!
A future earth as dead and barren as the moon. A sobering possibility to consider. Top notch sci-fi.
As you can see the sun has gotten smaller , the plane earh lost its atmosphere ,and has gone barren , the aliens have a deeper eye socket ,wider nose as can be seen through the visor while examining the human skull , what is this place ? An underground city , the humans sought refuge UNTILL ALL LIFE support resources were depleted , ,the crumbling metal beam IS testament as to how long the earth took over in time , one day the earth will collapse in its self , implode and explode due to its gravity and become a black hole , then the cycle of a new planet will start again but wait , the sun still has to supernova ALSO, ,
...this is a cool film , one of the best I have seen , lots to learn here about space evolution
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Nice touch humanizing the aliens. It makes what they unearthed that much more shocking.
I knew they weren't human and they'd found a dead Earth when the guy's light hit the mess of re-bar in the dark just past the entrance... Very cool story. No violence, no stupid romance, no explosions or movie-long battle-chases, just story. Loved this.
"no stupid romance"? Man, I was really hoping for a bit of it on it action at the end.
I figured they found some lost civilization I just didn't know it was earth! I figured it was gonna be real good when they found that evidence of civilization. I just didn't know it was gonna be a really cool twist!
Been watching a lot of these short science fiction clips. Most of which are horrorific/deranged. But this one was pleasant and euphoric. The concept of another sentient species discovering the remains of our society is rather stunning and awe-inspiring.
FOR REAL MAN
It has all elements of a short story: character, setting, conflict, plot, theme, and above all, a complete story with an unexpected ending... Kudos!
This needs to be made into a full movie!
It became obvious that they werent human towards the end..
Nobody from Earth would have approached 'strange looking eggs' in a dusty chamber after all the 'Alien' films out there.
George Masouras
I don’t know man. That fact that people today still do stupid things, I wouldn’t be surprised
I’m not so sure about that - have you see Prometheus?
their English was flawless
@@jhm3346 you right look all the people still support trump
@@Garacha222 And American accents too...
Wow, I'm really hoping that film making of this quality signals the end of the Hollywood monopoly on 'blockbusters'. I really hope this sort of movie heralds a new age of story telling rather than cynical exploitation and bottom line film making.
Ok, I didn't go past the first 3 minutes so maybe it got better, doubt it, but maybe, so first of all, hasn't this story already been told, several times by MUCH, much better actors, not to mention, scripts? All I needed to see was the little doll astronaut "flying" back to the ship, no movement at all? Human beings are only that still when dead and only during rigor mortis are we stiff as a board! Alien, best ever sci-fi! On the lower scale, but not the bottom, Vin Diesel's Riddick, but hell, to be perfectly honest, he could just read the phone book and I'd love it. "Gravity", as of late, was the worst sci-fi film made with huge stars, at least in my opinion and that's truly not a high bar to climb over! I love George Clooney and Sandra Bullock, just as much as the rest of the world, but it was a hyped up movie, with not much hype! He needed to pay for the wedding, I get it. She needed to stash away for Louie, I get it. But, damn, this is awful. I'm so thankful I love to read!!
Robin Addis-Vaughn I'm sorry but you lost me not even half way through your wall of text... your points were all over the place so bad that most of your comment didn't even make any sense. And I'm sorry but if you didn't watch it all the way through, then you don't really have any right to criticize it. If you saw the end, you would realize it was meant to make you think it was just another drum-ho humans exploring space for whatever reason film, but you would also realize it's not just that. You would realize it was so much more than that. You know what they say about never judging a book by its cover...
Megan Creech sorry you couldn't keep up with my thought process. I do jump from point to point, I readily admit it. Its simply the way my brain works and it has served me well. I'll put this on my to watch later list and maybe I'll get around to watching it and seeing something different. As far as talking about "Gravity" with Clooney & Bullock, I was responding to Ali Servan's comment about Hollywood's monopoly on blockbuster hits, that really shouldn't have been made, I was joking about the reasons they made the movie, but money usually is what gets big name stars in a movie like "Gravity". :)
Robin Addis-Vaughn uh... if you only watched the first three minutes then you kind of didn't see 80% of the short film.
Ali Ahadi I believe that is what is stated above and I'm not correcting anyone, so yes 2 or 3 minutes into it, I didn't like it. I didn't say anything negative to people who do watch the entire clip, I said I could tell it wasn't for me. Haven't you ever been flipping the channels on tv, come across something you thought might be interesting and a couple minutes into it, you say, nah and start flipping channels again. Same thing! At last for me.
Clever title, smart plot. The dialogue felt stilted and at times unnatural, but the mention of ‘eggs’ was a nice bit of misdirection.
+Leigh Lundin They did look more like eggs than anything else though. They certainly at first did not look like skulls.
I was at first put off by the dialogue, but after the final reveal that we were not watching humans it fits the story.
I thought the dialogue was fine for the characters that I took them to be.
Really? I saw it coming a mile away. This video was good, but far too predictable - its very title gave it away.
The dialogue was HORRIBLE! No excuse for that, whether it's aliens or humans speaking.
Very well done and quite a twist. I first saw the objects all over the ground and thought they were skulls, then they said eggs and I went right with the story, then I was surprised when they were skulls.
This could've been an hour and a half of two astronauts just trading barbs while they worked and it still would've been a better movie than most of what is coming out of Hollywood these days.
That would make a great movie. Shit-talk in Space. A couple of astronauts, digging holes, singing songs and pondering the Universe. "Faaaaaaackin' 'ell, woodya look at the view! The Flat Earth Society Boys are feelin' kinda blue. The World is quite demonstrably a big, blue, faaacking sphere. The Flat Earth Society boys are cryin' in their beer".
@@ianyoung7077 That's exactly how I imagined it.
I bid 39 seconds...
Its good to know that aliens will call each other "buddy" a lot
Enjoyable lil gem,right amount of suspense,characters believable,good effects and cool storyline with a twist,who cares if the science isn't perfect.
What an amazing twist. That was addictive to watch. It didn’t need to be any longer. It captured all the suspense and the surprise just perfectly. Top marks for that👌🏼
I saw this sci-fi film sometime in late 2013 and never forgot it. Very well made,memorable,high production values and an awesome twist at the end!! Great job,Dalang Films!! 6-9-2018
This is a great short film. The music does it when the explorer sees what he's picked up is a skull and we see the explorer is not an earthling human. The music is what adds the emotional impact. Well thought out and not low budget or at least the production values have been obtained somehow. Just really good film.
They did a very good job of concealing a classic sci-fi twist until the end.
Excellent quality upload of a great sci-fi short. THANK YOU.
What? In what age do you live? It's posted in 480p, blurry as hell, a huge bar on top and bottom and they screwed up the screen ratio so now those guys look like short fat astronauts. I mean, it couldn't have looked worse...
Seriously dude?
The reveal at the end is ghostly true....if....
"There but by the grace of God go I" comes to mind.
Excellent Work, Great Story, with a thinking person's ending.
Simply Amazing.
10 year old film. But so well made, so effective, iit's timeless.
Bravo ! My applause to this piece & its Creators.
"2019" anybody enjoyin this still!? I am!
2019 yessiree ,pretty darn good flick ,ending may not be so far fetched
dah, good work.
Yeah my second time watching it... basically forgot I'd seen it and by the time I realized it was too late to back out. Love the cheesey 1950's style dialogue.
This was awesome
yup
Very well done. I've watched this one several times now, and the only conclusion I can come to is that these visitors are the distant descendants of humanity discovering their long forgotten homeworld.
Or, they are a humanoid species that evolved on a semi nearby planetoid, and during exploration, they came across the remnants of humanity on earth, which had been devastated millions of years prior, as it would take this long for earth's atmosphere to completely disapate and the surface to end up similar to that of the moon or mars.
@@randyhutchinson9910 Primates. But I can't seem to make Terry's scenario work in my mind. Howzabout: both Earth and another nearby planet were seeded with the same "germs of life" from a comet or something and evolved similarly enough that primates became the dominant and most technologically advanced species on each, sharing a remote common ancestry. Homo sapiens destroyed Earth with nuclear war and winter, or global ecosystem cascade effects triggered by climate change, or a bolide hit, or Yellowstone blew again. Homo nearbyus hasn't suffered such a fate, but seeing as how they are prospecting for fossil fuels, they are just a decade away from the same fate.
scrubjay93 excellent perspective, I love your view on this subject, actually, I'm afraid, you may be right
@@scrubjay93 Although I thought he looked more reptilian than primate...
That's exactly what I interpreted in this short film.
Skull: "It took you long enough!"
a beautiful short!
Fascinating short film; thanks for sharing it here on TH-cam! It certainly seems at first to be future astronauts exploring the moon or a similar world. The mention of fossil fuels, however, reveals that there was once life in the distant past, since we all learned in science class about how fossil fuels are formed. The total absence of atmosphere and the disintegrating condition of the concrete in the underground structure all suggest an extremely long time has passed.
The title _Unearthed_ first seems to suggest that the explorers belong to a society that has left earth a long time ago. But when artifacts are discovered in the buried chamber, _unearthed_ takes a new meaning. If the catastrophe was far enough back in the past, then the face we see could still be human (as a few have suggested already). Both meanings of the title could therefore apply.
What a great twist you put in this one! Fantastic, is too mild a word to describe it!
It was very touching, in a very honest bit of poignancy...
Thank you!
Oh, fuck you. If this Shyamalan-level plot twist impresses you, your IQ is below average. Like Mid Night's twists, this was predictable garbage.
@@immikeurnot i guess im no longer allowed to enjoy the video.
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That was clever. Nice twist. Very Outer Limits and Twilight Zone,
You are right. The one definitely has Twilight Zone vibes.
From the opening dialogue, the twist was predicted almost immediately.
Same type of culture ends up doing what elon musk is trying to do (and will fail to do) on Mars.
YaYa Man , Agreed, yea they got me on that one. Wasn't expecting that!! Lol
I could smell the "twist" from 5th minute of the film.
Still enjoyable.
YaYa Man the earth is flat. So luckily this can't happen
I had an inkling as to what would be found when one of the explorers commented on there's some sort of a structure down here.....then went on to show a doll etc. Then the title 'Unearthed' told me what I'd already guessed. Brilliant ending!
Didn’t see that coming, great twist at the end.
ironically,,we were mined by aliens thousands of yrs ago,,for gold & mercury..gold was for radiation protection,mercury was fuel/electrical circuits.ect..look up sumerian tablets..they mined mainly in s africa..as we do now..fiction is realer than reality..most 60,s sci fi films are coming tru..soylent green,,was a good one..bit of ending like this one..
You REALLY didn't see that coming??
@@Chrisdrumz I did, about the halfway mark.
@Xavier the astronauts are aliens and they were on earth after it was destroyed.
we'reeaadda rr
I think the whole team on this was awesome ... the sound special effects voices production every body has done some exceptional work
Great production values, a solid script and a memorable ending. Thanks so much for producing this and uploaidng it. You guys did a great job and should be proud. :) I'm definitely going to check out your other works!
Tammy Silverwolf
Great feel for the timeless.
You said it right Tam.... Wish I had seen it earlier. Love sifi. Great comment!
So cool! And so clever! I was blown away when the astronaut pulled up his visor to reveal it was not a human but they had stumbled upon the remains of humans...and all around them were the remnants of a world long gone...this is our fate...we will destroy ourselves.we are a warring, killing species with greed that know no bounds.
Best 22 minutes of my life. Now I need part 2.
Love this guys, Thanks.
Have to say this short film placed on my top 5 scifi movies, it should be made into a full 2h long movie
+Lorenzo Gheorghe Nah, it wouldn't work as a longer movie. It's just the right length as it is.
+terrypussypower I had the very same thought just after seeing the movie.
can u share me your top 4 list
Well it would have to be the following:
Contact
interstellar
Gravity
Ex Machina
And this one
I like the once with some meaning and not just nice effect and fighting
Feels like I've seen this movie a lot already.
Awesome film. The revelation was a master stroke. The suspenseful build up had me on the edge of my seat. It's one of the best I've seen and I've seen a heck of a lot as it's my favourite genre.
I was on the edge of my seat in anticipation wondering what he would find, and Oh My God! What a fantasic ending. This was true fun watching this short movie, who needs 2 hours of Hollywood movies. I'm saving this one.
"You'll get whatever's coming to you" Ripley said that exact thing to Parker when he was griping about the bonus situation.
IF ONLY STANLEY KUBRICK COULD CHECK THIS MOVIE !!!
GREAT WORK GUYS.
Is this the missing 22 minutes from Eyes Wide Shut?
Excellent short movie, sucked me in real good with an excellent final twist. Job well done everyone involved.
The best Sci-Fi I've watched on TH-cam. I only wish there was more. Like a part 2
So much good short movies. They really should make MOVIES!
I would like to see a follow up to this short. Very well done.
"You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell! "
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It's been ages since I'd seen this. Such a good story and is very meaningful if you listen carefully to what they say about their world, and then what they find.
This short film has the essence of X Minus One. I really enjoyed watching the entire 22 minutes. Would love to see more! Big sci-fi fan!
I'd love to see some X Minus One stories put to film.
I enjoyed this quite a bit. Has a look and feel like a 1980s scifi.
Fuck! Why aren't THESE people in charge of our daily entertainment ffs! THIS was by far more creative than some bull Hollywood wanted to shove down my throat...
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@Wuan Brown i think i was just spamming the recommended word thing on my phone
@@le_epic_bodhi4004 What does all that mean, in English???
Why not abandon Hollywood in favor of these productions then?
That is largely what I have chosen to do--no cable TV for more than three years now and haven't bought a new release DVD since "Avatar" almost a dozen years ago.
Hollywood's crap got old and boring even before they mostly became Leftist idiots who seem to think they have something valid to say about the way our society should function.
I have watched this maybe 15 times or more over the years, one of my most favourite short sci fi films.
I am glad it wasn't mankind versus aliens again
I wonder how many of us scream Noooo don't touch the eggs! Lol
Well done piece!
"Man I'd like to get her oxygen levels over 75%." lol cute.
If your oxygen level is under 75% you're probably dead.
That's amazing! I know you must be proud of his work!
That was the coolest looking alien I have seen since Space: Final Conflict‼️
Love the twist at the end . Who'd of thought these two would be aliens . And the heads looked like eggs until he turned it right around and whipped his helmet screen to reveal both himself as an Alien and the eggs as human sculls of which he still has no idea what it is .
Fantastic story and animation .❤️💯
So thanks for revealing the twist while I was still watching the film!
Great film, though!
Note to self....do not read comments until after the film😂
One of the better sci-fi shorts !
Very interesting and thought provoking story that had a kinda Planet of the Apes feel. It also had me laughing at the space suits with the black thongs, other than that, top shelf! 😎
This was great. Also, the main character sounds like Hawkeye from MASH, so bonus points.
you too? The whole time I was thinking "Now what is Hawk getting himself into?"
Captain Cough- Hawkeye is a flat earther. And you people should realize that the earth is flat
He reminded me of Clooney in Gravity
First thing I noticed too!
I thought both of them were hawkeye and honeycut going back and forth
loved that, wish it could be a whole film
This was awesome. Up to the revelation the the explorer was not human, really thought they were. It was only when i saw the skull and then the newspaper. Awesome cinematography. I love it. This gem is why we watch movies
This is awesome and i love the nod to the film Alien "you'll get whatever's coming to you"
Eggs, hahaha so creative and imaginative.
Thanks for sharing and as always keep building👍
From the beginning I was wondering, "can you really 'unearth' something if it's not on Earth? Wouldn't you unmoon or unmars stuff?" and then, as if to mock me, the whole thing was on Earth.
I just thought if "earth" as a synonym for "dirt".
@Nathan Miller i think you are too optimistic about future. Oxygen on earth doesn’t come a lot from trees but essentially from oceans. We know now that great extinction came when seas became acidic from volcanoes and all was killed on earth by loss of oxygen. Now our oceans are almost acidic as in these times but because of human activities. This fact was well understood only last year. Scientists are pessimist on our ability to reverse the processus in time. Our future is not so good now. We’ll never terraform another planet for humanity, we’ ll never have time to clone eyes and so we’ll be dead in a very short time because our beloved blue pale dot becomes exhausted, as we lose our time with greedy presidents and stupid belligerent chiefs of our countries. Futur will not be for us.
@@murielvaillancourt3855 It's not just greed leaders. Unfortunately, to some extent, various countries often get the governments we deserve.
Perhaps, in the future, there are many planets called Earth?
@@murielvaillancourt3855 Well, more of the oxygen comes from the sea, but aren't more efforts being made to fix that? I do have faith that we will eventually pick up the slack. Or a solar flare 199 years from now will knock out any tech that isn't in a faraday cage and we'll end up stopping emissions altogether.
Who knows?
cut to charlton heston , camera zooms out as he screams"noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!."
My thoughts exactly lol
@sirreal6 a sick mind is a terrible thing to waste.
howzitgaunpeeps
there is a similiarity with the end but be honest this it,s not a blockbuster movie abut even for standard of movies at the end of 2019 is this short movie with very very yery small budget create a story and filmed and wrote an expecting twist what is really hard in present time after decades in movies industrie,for example aliens no 8 or begining of,,,,,new generetion no 3 and so on
Then he has to start Screaming about maniacs and blowing stuff up
Excellent ride! I enjoyed this story very much. Thank you for sharing this tale with us.
nice friggen twist at the end, well done bravo!!
I agree with fellow commenters, this is one of the best shorts I've ever seen......all aspects right on target. tomato meter: 10
Finally, a half-way decent sci-fi short film (emphisis on half-way decent though). It's like the Dust short films, but a slight smidge better.
Of all the sci-fi shorts, this is the first one the dialog was natural sounding. It also wasn't cheesy or flat. It was refreshing.
Now THIS......is great Original storytelling. These filmmakers deserve an award.
"I'm going to drop some glow sticks so I don't get lost" proceeds to put them all in one place
Okay TH-cam Space travel expert, thanks for that.
@@donaldsemora Haaa!
Haaaa!
really liked this one -- well done!!!
Great effort! I was as fooled as everyone else was! My wife and I laughed so hard all the way through because of the "crack-up" dialog and drawn out theme, and the whole time we couldn't figure out what it was all about! But we're so happy that we continued to watch! We thought that it seemed like a Twilight Zone episode. Doesn't it? Seriously! The Twilight Zone always had a perceptual twist at the end like this one. Remember the episode where the beautiful woman was recovering from facial reconstructive surgery, and you never see anyone's face (not the doctors or the nurses, either) until the very end. It was only then, when they remove her bandages and reveal her beautiful features, that they cry out how hideous she "still" is! That's when they show you their faces for the first time, and they are the hideous ones! I love that episode! But this is the same kind of short film, in my opinion. That's what I saw! I applaud them for taking us on this "trip". It was more than just funny! It was Hilarious! The end was a bit more sobering, though, but still a very fun time! You just have to laugh at all of the laughable stuff! That's my suggestion! Have fun!
That episode would be "Eye of the Beholder" (1960).
Now THAT was good! Twist plots are very exciting!
I liked the audio in this short film, very realistic.
Spectacular story telling -- effectively written, smart and tight, and filled with pathos. Congrats!
Wow this is a very good movie short, way better than many full length movies I've seen in a theater. Even now, 12 years later it is a stark warning of where we are headed if we don't watch where we are going in today's world and that's without putting any politics in this movie. VERY WELL DONE.
Nice! I liked it. Suggestions: Just leave out the name of the ship or ships, and don't show anything in writing. A working crew on a months-long project wouldn't bother saying ship names. Actually, you could study the dialog in a documentary about oil well drilling or taking samples in Antarctica, because this would be more like that, and less like an Apollo mission. You could also have everybody refer to each other with things that sound like nicknames: Lucky, Red, Rocker, Dizzy, Bumper, etc. etc.
I know it's irrational, but I can ignore aliens speaking English, yet it seems jarring to give them ordinary human names. You'll notice it's common in sci-fi that aliens can speak English (often with a Universal Translator ) but their proper nouns are kept alien. "Would you like some more K'tang tea?" asked the Grkchorvian ambassador.
I'd show Earth's moon at the end - there's no strong reason why it wouldn't still be there and look about the same.
Also unless you think your main characters came from a cooled-off Venus or a somehow restored-to-wetness Mars, they are from another star system. But their mothership really does not look like a starship - looks way too much like a NASA Mars mission. Of course if they come from another star system, it's really implausible that they would be looking for resources to haul across interstellar space. If it's actually economical for them to haul megatons of matter between stars, then their ship would be big - because why not?
I did find it distractingly weird that the astronauts were not more astonished and excited at finding evidence of intelligent life: They didn't act like this was the first time, but they didn't act like it was the 2nd or 3rd time either. Just puzzling.
Still one of the best put-together sci-fi shorts I've seen! Kudos and congrats!
I remember my 3rd grade teacher showing our class this and I've tried to look so hard to look for it and now I've finally found it and that clip of the guy holding the skull always stook with me till this day
Was your teacher trying to SCARE the F*ck out of you...hey kids look Aliens find our skulls buried underground in the Future..now get you juice box and turn to page 30 in your text book
NOT the ending I was expecting. But well presented.
Fantastic little movie. I felt the lovely taste of good old sci-fi movies through the entire 22 minutes. Thank you guys!
That, is very cool!!! Loved this film! Great concept! I love the twist ending! Keep up the great work!
This is why I regularly delete my browser history. Don't want no aliens digging me up and judging me.
I guess that depends on if aliens can recognise human porn or not?
Ha !
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@@cwdornice bait
How is to say that Humans aren't the " aliens " do we really think we are the Only Smart thing to have lived here on Earth
Great Star Wars plug at 10:26. "I've got a bad feeling about this".
Use the Force
loved it, awesome, great work, A+, one of my favorites.
Love this! Concise, clear storyline with a twist ending.
Loved it - didn't see that twist coming! At one point (and I'm not going to give any spoilers) I wanted to shout 'No, don't - haven't you seen 'Alien'?!?!' LOL. Very poignant.
great short film. looked like a major picture i want to see more
me too!
That was so excellent, a real slap when the world needs it most!
for an old short like this and what seems like a very limited budget, I gotta say they did a good, wish there was more to it.
I thought this was well produced, very thought provoking.
I see how the name of the shuttle may be a little off for an alien race but then again, it that was the intended reason to keep the viewer off track.
Then it was freaking brillant!
It drew me in, capturing my imagination all the way to the end of the film.
I wanted to see more.
10+ Ratings :-)
I love the film but I think they shouldn't have showed the watch, glasses and other items until after they reveal the skulls because that's what tipped me off that they weren't eggs If it wasn't for that I think I would have been completely surprised.
+lunacron I thought there going to be baby xenos or similar there, who killed the humans and that this was some kind of nazi moon base. Style of glasses and other artifacts kinda gave that kind of hint.
I thought the items where just large and it was going to be some kind of kid playing with toy astronauts in a pile of dust or under a bed or something
I think they were going for the Alien horror kind of stuff, even the glasses and the doll could have been a colony which was infected, the least I was expecting was an Alien race looking after our demise... Good Job
It was suprising I think. I tought it will be a secret base, with "xenomorphs" all around.
So u weren't tipped off at the beginning when u were wondering home come they not showing their faces? I mean come on.
Extraordinary! Great script & followthrough. 😎👍
Do not read the comments before seeing the full movie ok. it's gonna ruin it.
To bad your comment wasn't up at the top. Everyone added their bit of spoiler to it. By the time you get down here its all over.
I can never understand why these posters do this. Just post the title and genre of the film and let the rest happen. This is one time I actually began watching the short before reading anything under it. Very good, btw!!!
I've usually found that knowing the end makes me want to see "the journey" portion even more.
Too late 😥
Hey you! Hollywood writers / directors. Watch this and learn one thing or two about good sci fi.
I think writers and directors are fine without this one. Its producers and movie company heads you should thank for everincreasing stupidity. They think masses are dumbasses who needs dumb art products accordingly, but whats more alarming is that they have all the reasons to think so.
Good title... and what a sad discovery.