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THE SUMMONED (2022) Review for soul-selling horror movie - now with trailer

THE SUMMONED (2022) Review for soul-selling horror movie – now with trailer

‘There will be HELL to pay.’ The Summoned is a 2022 American horror film in which two high profile couples are forced to examine the cost of their success when they’re invited to an exclusive self-help retreat where their ancestors sold their souls generations prior. Directed by actor Mark Meir – making his feature directorial debut (he also co-stars) from a screenplay written by co-producer Yuri…

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#2022 #Angela Gulner #Emma Fitzpatrick #Frederick Stuart #horror #J. Quinton Johnson #Mark Meir #movie film #review reviews #Salvador Chacon #self-help retreat #The Summoning

[fearsmagazine]

XYZ Films Acquires THE SUMMONED Following World Premiere at 2022 Overlook Film Festival

XYZ Films announced their acquisition of director Mark Meir's Faustian morality tale, THE SUMMONED, out of the 2022 Overlook Film Festival. The distributor is planning a North American release of the film in July of 2022.

Tara Grandier (Actor - Angela Gulner) / DP - Justin Mark Morrison

In the picture, young Elijah (Hamilton's J. Quinton Johnson) attends a self-help retreat with his rockstar girlfriend Lyn, unaware that the enigmatic doctor who runs the estate has summoned him here to settle a generations-old supernatural debt.

Elijah Moulton (Actor - J. Quinton Johnson) / DP - Justin Mark Morrison

Directed by Meir with a script by Jewish-Ukrainian writer Yuri Baranovsky, THE SUMMONED's powerful cast features Johnson (Hamilton on Broadway, AMC's The Son), Emma Fitzpatrick (THE SOCIAL NETWORK), Salvador Chacon (FX's Mayans M.C.), Angela Gulner (Netflix's GLOW), and Freddy Douglas (Hallmark's The Odyssey). A Wicked Myth and Happy Little Guillotine Studios co-production, the picture is Produced by Baranovsky, Meir, Gulner, Justin Mark Morrison, and Dashiell Reinhardt.

Dr. Frost (Actor - Frederick Stuart) / DP - Justin Mark Morrison

James Emanuel Shapiro, XYZ Films' Executive Vice President of US Distribution, notes, "All I can say is that I felt summoned to work on THE SUMMONED! Mark, Yuri, and Angela created something smart and scary, and I can't wait to show this to as many people as possible!"

(L - R) Lyn Rose (Actor - Emma Fitzpatrick), Joe Agrippa (Actor - Salvador Chacon), Elijah Moulton (Actor - J. Quinton Johnson) & Tara Grandier (Actor - Angela Gulner)  / DP - Justin Mark Morrison

THE SUMMONED director Mark Meir adds, "We are thrilled to have XYZ bring this film to audiences. As leaders in the genre space, we’re honored to be among their titles."

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[vincekris]

Mark-Meir Paluksht

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[fadedday]

Photography by Mark-Meir Paluksht

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The ship 🤍 The first meeting 🥹

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the funniest thing about jaskier is that all canonically minor characters hate him and he doesn't even notice lmao

babes i love you but you do kind of suck sometimes

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[francescacammisa1]

https://perilmondomondicchiando.blogspot.com/2023/09/per-sempre.html

La ragione non è capace di accettare l’idea di estinzione o il concetto di “per sempre”, che con tanta disinvoltura usiamo nel linguaggio di tutti i giorni. “Per sempre” fa riferimento al futuro, nella nostra concezione comune, ma “sempre” comprende in realtà anche il passato, e questo non si estingue mai e non si cancella mai del tutto. Quello che è stato sarà e quello che c’è stato ci sarà. E se la ragione ha difficoltà ad ammettere e ad accettare questi concetti, non di meno ne ha il sentimento.

Javier Marías – Berta Isla

Ph Mark-Meir Paluksht

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Mark-Meir Paluksht

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[thepopculturearchivist]

SCHENECTADY GAZETTE, September 6, 1972

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[writingwithcolor]

Depicting Real World Religions Alongside Constructed Religions

Maya asked:

Hi WWC! Thank you so much for this blog, it's an infinitely wonderful resource! Do you have any suggestions for how I can balance representation of real religions with fantasy religions, or should I avoid including these together? Does the fact that certain things bleed over from our world into the fantasy world help legitimize the appearance of real world religions? I feel like I can come up with respectful ways to integrate representation in ways that make sense for the worldbuilding. For instance, no Muslim characters would practice magic, and both Jewish and Muslim characters would conceive of magic in ways that fit their religion (rather than trying to adapt real religions to fit my worldbuilding). I also have some ideas for how these religions came about that fit between handwave and analogous history (though I realize the Qur'an is unchangeable, so I'm guessing Islam would have come about in the same way as IRL). BTW—I'm referring to humans, not other species coded as Muslim or Jewish. I may explore the concept of jinns more (particularly as how Muslims perceive fantastical beings), but I definitely need to do a lot more research before I go down that road! Finally, I saw a post somewhere (*but* it might have been someone else's commentary) suggesting to integrate certain aspects of Judaism (e.g., skullcaps in sacred places/while praying, counting days from sundown instead of sunset) into fantasy religions (monotheistic ones, of course) to normalize these customs, but as a non-Jewish person I feel this could easily  veer into appropriation-territory.  *One of the posts that I'm referring to in case you need a better reference of *my* reference: defining coding and islam-coded-fantasy

[This long ask was redacted to pull out the core questions asked]

"Both Jewish and Muslim characters would conceive of magic in ways that fit their religion (rather than trying to adapt real religions to fit my worldbuilding)."

Just a note that while having religion be part of magic is a legitimate way to write fantasy, I want to remind people that religious characters can also perform secular magic. Sometimes I feel like people forget about that particular worldbuilding option. (I feel this one personally because in my own books I chose to make magic secular so that my nonmagical heroine wouldn’t seem less close to God somehow than her wizard adoptive dad, who is an objectively shadier person.) I’m not saying either way is more or less correct or appropriate, just that they’re both options and I think sometimes people forget about the one I chose. But anyway moving on—

Your decision to make the water spirits not actual deities is a respectful decision given the various IRL monotheistic religions in your story, so, thank you for that choice. I can see why it gets messy though, since some people in-universe treat those powers as divine. I guess as long as your fantasy Jews aren’t being depicted as backwards and wrong and ignoring in-universe reality in favor of in-universe incorrect beliefs, then you’re fine…

"I saw a post somewhere (but it might have been someone else's commentary) suggesting to integrate certain aspects of Judaism (e.g., skullcaps in sacred places/while praying, counting days from sundown instead of sunset) into fantasy religions (monotheistic ones, of course) to normalize these customs, but as a non-Jewish person I feel this could easily veer into appropriation-territory."

That was probably us, as Meir and I both feel that way. What would make it appropriative is if these very Jewish IRL markers were used to represent something other than Judaism. It's not appropriative to show Jewish or Jewish-coded characters wearing yarmulkes or marking one day a week for a special evening with two candles or anything else we do if it's connected to Jewishness! To disconnect the markers of us from us is where appropriation starts to seep in.

–Shira

To bounce off what Shira said above, the source of the magic can be religious or secular--or put another way, it can be explicitly granted be a deity or through engagement with a specific religious practice, or it can be something that can be accessed with or without engaging with a certain set of beliefs or practices. It sounds like you’re proposing the second one: the magic is there for anyone to use, but the people in this specific religion engage with it through a framework of specific ideas and practices.

If you can transform into a “spirit” by engaging with this religion, and I can transform into a “spirit” through an analogous practice through the framework of Kabbalah, for example, and an atheist can transform through a course of secular technical study, then what makes yours a religion is the belief on your part that engaging in the process in your specific way, or choosing to engage in that process over other lifestyle choices, is in some way a spiritual good, not the mechanics of the transformation. If, on the other hand, humans can only access this transformative magic through the grace of the deities that religion worships, while practitioners of other religions lack the relationship with the only gods empowered to make that magic, that’s when I’d say you had crossed into doing more harm than good by seeking to include real-world religions.

Including a link below to a post you might have already seen that included the “religion in fantasy worldbuilding alignment chart.” It sounds like you’re in the center square, which is a fine place to be. The center top and bottom squares are where I typically have warned to leave real-world religions out of it.

More reading:

Jewish characters in a universe with author-created fictional pantheons

–Meir

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In 1950, 13 year old Holocaust survivor Yisrael Meir celebrated his bar mitzvah as an orphan (his parents were murdered by the Nazis). 73 years later, Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau (the former Chief Rabbi of Israel) stood beside 13 year old Ariel Zohar -an orphan whose parents were murdered on October 7th- as he marked his Bar Mitzvah. Two orphans, two heroes, two links in a long chain of Jewish survival and triumph over darkness.

Via @stateofisrael

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THE SUMMONED (2022) Review and overview of soul-selling horror movie

THE SUMMONED (2022) Review and overview of soul-selling horror movie

‘There will be HELL to pay.’ The Summoned is a 2022 American horror film in which two high profile couples are forced to examine the cost of their success when they’re invited to an exclusive self-help retreat where their ancestors sold their souls generations prior. Directed by actor Mark Meir – making his feature directorial debut (he also co-stars) from a screenplay written by co-producer Yuri…

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#2022 #Angela Gulner #Emma Fitzpatrick #Frederick Stuart #horror #J. Quinton Johnson #Mark Meir #movie film #review reviews #Salvador Chacon #self-help retreat #The Summoning

[vincekris]

Mark-Meir Paluksht

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Photography by Mark-Meir Paluksht

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Mark-Meir Paluksht.

[david-goldrock]

השיר הזה לא מקבל מספיק הכרה

For the muricans:

"A song for Hamas" by Tamir Bar:

This isn't a war song

This isn't a song for peace

This is just the facts

We aren't planning on leaving

Not in the present

And not in the deep future either

The forever nation (nickname for jews) doesn't lie

And I also

Am trying to tell the truth

But to tell the truth

We are just planning on

Fucking you up

Givati Oi

Golani Oi

HaNachal Oioioioioi

Satilim Oi

Tomatim Oi

Drons Oioioioioi

The forever nation (nickname for jews) doesn't lie

And I also

Am trying to tell the truth

But to tell the truth

You've gone too far and we will come to

Fuck you up

And I've seen things

I have seen grandparents

Lose grandchildren

I have seen marks of war

Evacuations

Gestures of peace

Terror attacks

And Golda Meir

I have heard horors like morning

7th of October

This time no more

It always looks like we'll fall but no

We are coming to

Fuck you up

Givati Oi

Golani Oi

Satilim Oioioioioi

Drons Oi

Tomatim Oi

HaNachal Oioioioioi

And I have seen tears

I have heard many silences

Of many news anchors

Lebanon the first

And the second

Mighty edge

I have sat Shivas

And have been angry a bunch

And they tried to seperate

To left and right

Religious and secular, what didn't they?

But everyone's here

Reserves and regulars

And we are coming to

Fuck you up

Givati Oi

Golani Oi

Tznefim Oioioioioi

Tankists Oi

Tomatim Oi

Satilim Oioioioioi

We'll come from the sea

And the air

Military engeneering

Gurded by tanks

The forever nation (nickname for jews) doesn't lie

And I also

Am trying to tell the truth

But to tell the truth

We are just planning on

Fucking you up

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