The Oldest View
(Contains Spoilers for The Oldest View {A horror film})
Note: I meant for this to go out right before Halloween. A few weeks ago, my friends and I sat down and watched a horror film titled The Oldest View. Going into this, I expected it to be terrible; However, I was wrong. The film has surprised me with how it was made digitally and the story driving it. I love movies, and this film was worth the time for my friends and me. The suspense in this series of videos, which all together add up to one hour, is awesome. From the first two shorter videos to the final video, which exceeds them both by 46 minutes is an experience to watch with people or without people.
The first of the three videos of The Oldest View starts with a very artistic approach: a forest with a man devoid of color while everything else is vibrant with color. In the background, we could hear thunder. This man seems to be creating a mask, and the thunder seems to be a sign of something devastating soon to come. As the video continues on, we see the creation of the adversary. They were being built up from cardboard, glue, wood, and other various items.
Soon, during the second video, we get shown to our main character, Wyatt. This college student is your average media influencer whose life changes when he encounters a mile-long staircase leading down to somewhere unknown. Halfway down the staircase, he gets scared and decides to head back and set up trail cameras that capture absolutely nothing important. After Wyatt sees this, he decides that he must explore deeper down the staircase.
In the last installment of this series so far. Wyatt explores deeper down the staircase, where he encounters a run-down door and a rusting gate seemingly meant to keep out something. After Wyatt goes through these entryways, he gets led to a regional shopping mall. The mall is dark and silent, and the space is considerably empty. Roaming the abandoned mall, Wyatt soon comes across the mask from before; However, it is now propped up on a fifteen-foot figure on wheels, with flowers for hands. We soon come to find out that this figure is called The Rolling Giant. Suddenly, cheery, upbeat, and yet suspenseful music plays down the mall. Scared, he quickly rushes back to the entrance he came from, realizing that the staircase was now caved in. Wyatt spends the next few minutes rethinking life and decides to head back out to find another exit. As Wyatt looks around to find an exit, he comes across a portrait of the creator from before. Since he doesn’t know who that is, he decides to head down a hall, realizing that the exits are now also caved in. Eventually, he runs into the giant, who disappears when he turns the corner. He soon looks behind himself, seeing the creature that begins to chase him. Thinking he lost the figure after running for quite some time, he discovers an old room with building plans for the mall. Of course, his life has now turned into a fight for survival. Our main character must plan his escape route. As he leaves the room, he comes to a door. Outside the door, we can hear children laughing and playing. There’s a sign to the left of the door, “Do you accept this impermanence?”. The sign talks about life's fragility; nothing lasts forever or lasts for a long time. All of this could be a nod to what the mall once was a vibrant mall where the community of artists would come to gather. Or this could be a nod to Wyatt’s future. As the video plays on, we’re heading to the climax of the story. The mall is now completely taken over by nature. The music is now somber, and the lighting is mournful. Wyatt adventures on through the halls, with voices ,possibly of whoever used to go there, in the background. The Rolling Giant quickly emerges from behind an escalator, chasing Wyatt up the stationary staircase. The young entrepreneur who just wanted to explore the mall is now facing down the fifteen-foot figure, realizing there was no other place to go except for an exit across the mall. However, he must walk across ceiling beams to get there. Knowing this, Wyatt does what he must do and proceeds to walk across, with the giant crushing his only other chance of escape. As Wyatt approaches the exit after fighting for so long, the beams sadly break away, and the character we have been with since the beginning falls to his death.
The final scene from the latest installment of The Oldest View shows a forest. We can see our main character, Wyatt, now devoid of color. Out in the distance, we see the monster that has been chasing him for so long.
This popular piece of work done by someone known as Kane Pixels has been in development for quite a while. This is his best work so far. He has raked in millions of fans with his other work on horror, such as The Backrooms. The mall that Wyatt was running around in is based on an actual mall that is now demolished. The Valley View Center was once a popular area that featured plenty of art galleries. They also featured parades. One of these parades was the Parade of Giants, which had giant statues such as The Rolling Giant rolling throughout town.
