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Synopsis: In the spring of 2002, filmmaker Joe Berlinger traveled to Vienna to witness the burial of the preserved brains of over 700 children killed at a Nazi "euthanasia" clinic. GRAY MATTER ...
Genre: Documentary
Director(s): Joe Berlinger
Production: Docurama
  1 win & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
7.3
Year:
2004
52 min
Website
138 Views


lower abdomen area.

K, moving on to the

posterior examination...

Jesus!!!

It appears to be

some sort of... parasite.

It's nothing I've ever seen or

any clue what it may be...

[SCI FI AMBIENCE SOUNDS CREEP

IN AND SLOWLY INTENSIFY]

I'm gonna try removing it

from the subjects neck.

[ALIEN SHRIEKS]

CORONER:

Ugh! Aagh!

CORONER:

[SCREAMING]

[DRUM ROLL SOUND EFFECT]

[SUSPENSEFUL AMBIENCE BEGINS]

[ELEVATOR DING SOUND]

CORONER:

[ALIEN SCREAMING SOUND EFFECT]

[CYBER BLAST SOUND]

SUSPENSEFUL:

CINEMATIC MUSIC PLAYS

[CYBER BLAST SOUND]

CINEMATIC CHASE MUSIC

[MUSIC STOPS, EERIE SOUNDS]

SUSPENSE MUSIC:

[FIGHT SOUNDS AND SCREAMS]

[CYBER BLAST SOUND EFFECT]

[CAR ALARM SOUND CAN BE HEARD]

CINEMATIC ACTION MUSIC

[MUSIC STOPS WITH CYMBAL HIT]

[LIGHT CITY AMBIENCE]

CORONER:

[YELLING SOUND EFFECTS]

CAT LADY:

Get off of her!

[SOUNDS OF STRUGGLE]

[BONE CRACK SOUND EFFECT]

[ALIEN-LIKE SCREAM/

HISSING SOUND]

[CYBER BLAST SOUND EFFECT]

[HIGH PITCHED SIREN WAIL]

[EERIE STRING SOUND]

[DRUM HIT SOUND EFFECT]

ALLEY COP:

Hey!

Don't you move!

Put your hands in the air

and lace your fingers

behind your head

Do it!

[CYBER BLAST SOUND EFFECT]

SUSPENSE MUSIC:

[CREAKING DOOR SOUND EFFECT]

EERIE MUSIC AND SOUNDS

ELECTRONIC DANCE MUSIC

PATRON #1:
What was I just saying

about the universe providing?

PATRON #2:
You are right

man what can I say?

Tell her how much you

like blondes... love them.

PATRON #1:
Who are you

supposed to be sweetheart?

PATRON #1:
I don't know what look

you're going for there but ah...

I like it!

ELECTRONIC DANCE

MUSIC CONTINUES:

[CHARGING MECHANICAL SOUND]

[CYBER BLAST SOUND EFFECT]

[UNIFORM SCREAMING ENSUES]

[SOUNDS OF STRUGGLE

AND GRUNTING]

DANCER:
Ahh!

[SOUNDS OF STRUGGLE CONTINUE]

[MECHANICAL POWER

OUTAGE SOUND EFFECT]

[FIGHTING SOUNDS CONTINUE

WITH SCREAMS AND GRUNTS]

ELECTRONIC DANCE

MUSIC CONTINUES LOUDLY

[EXPLOSIVE SOUND

EFFECT CAN BE HEARD]

ELECTRONIC DANCE

MUSIC CONTINUES:

[DOOR OPENING SOUND]

[CYMBAL SOUND]

SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC

SLOWLY CREEPS IN

SUSPENSE MUSIC CONTINUES

(footsteps underneath)

TACTICAL OFFICER #2:

Clear! Coming out!

[DOOR OPEN SOUND]

[LIGH ATMOSPHERIC AMBIANCE]

GEEK:

Yeah, yeah, yeah... No, sh*t.

LIGHT GROOVY MUSIC PLAYS

[CREEPY SCI FI SOUND]

[OMINOUS AMBIENCE]

[INDISTINCT CONVERSATION

COMES FROM THE TELEVISION]

[OMINOUS AMBIENCE

CONTINUES AND INTENSIFIES]

[ALIEN HISSING SOUND EFFECT]

GEEK:
Ahhh!

ACTION MUSIC ENSUES

[ALIEN HISSING SOUND]

CINEMATIC ACTION

MUSIC CONTINUES:

WHAT... THE... FRACK.

Oh my God.

This is isn't happening.

This isn't happening.

Okay... Okay.

Calm down... breathe.

[KNOCKING ON DOOR]

LANDLORD:
What the hell's

going on in there?!

Oh sh*t!

I saw you come home

and I know you're in there.

Now open the Goddamn door!

Just go away and call

the police Mr.Bartell...

And animal control

while you're at it!

Can you hear me?!

Open the damn door!

Between all the noise and

your rent once again being late

you're really starting to try

my patience.

Not to mention piss me off!

Ugh!

...the damn door!

Call the police!

Dumbass.

I can't open the door!

That's it!

I'm coming in!

No, no, no you idiot!

Hello?

Where are ya kid?

Get your ass out

here and talk to me?!

Just get the hell out of

the apartment Mr Bartell

and call the police!

What are you talking

about kid? Where are you?

I am in the bathroom!

Just call the police!

The police?

Why do I need

to call the police?

What's all the

commotion in here?

You need to get the hell out

of the apartment Mr Bartell!

What a sight!

There is some sort of ugly ass

creature in there with you.

And I think I

really pissed it off!!!

There's a what?!

Like I said...

there is some sort of creature

thingy in there with you.

A... a what?

What's in here with me?

Are you on drugs or something?

Really?

I can't afford rent! How

am I supposed to afford drugs?

Speaking of rent...

...where's my money?

[ALIEN SCREECHING

SOUND EFFECT PLAYS]

LANDLORD AHH! AHHH!

AHHHHHH! AHHHH!

[SQUISHY LIKE SOUND

EFFECTS ENSUE]

[DRAMATIC AMBIENCE]

[DRAMATIC/SPPOKY AMBIENCE]

[DRAMATIC/SPOOKY

AMBIENCE CONTINUES]

[CELL PHONE BEEPS]

[CELL PHONE DIAL

TONE SOUND EFFECT]

911 OPERATOR:
911...

What's your emergency?

Umm...

911 OPERATOR:
Hello? Please

state your emergency.

Are you there?

I'm sorry... Ha.

Never mind... forget about it.

No, no.

They will lock you in the loony

bin and throw away the key

No more... No more

buying sh*t online.

[ATMOSPHERIC AMBIENCE]

[HEARTBEAT SOUND

AND DRIPPING SOUNDS]

[FIZZING SOUND AND HER PANTS]

[LIGHT MECHANICAL ZAPPING SOUND]

[MECHANICAL BEEPING

SOUND EFFECT]

[ATMOSPHERIC AMBIENCE]

SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC BEGINS

OFF DUTY DANCER:

Oh! Jesus! You scared me.

Oh, Is this your room?

I... I can leave

if it is. I am sorry.

Anyway do you know what

the heck is going on downstairs?

I tried to come in through the

front there was a whole

bunch of commotion and sh*t

so I had to go through the back

Hello? Anyone in there?

What? It was on f***ing sale.

CINEMATIC MUSIC ENSUES

[CITY AMBIENCE,

EERIE SOUNDS UNDERNEATH]

DRIVE THRU CASHIER: Welcome to

Mucho Burrito, how can I help you?

DRIVE THRU PATRON: Hey hey

hey, (Spanish) Hey girl!

Ayy... I ahh I am

Very hungry here, I'm hungry right?

Eh? (Drunken Spanish)

I'll have a dos el Classic. Ah

mucho carne, con pollo right?

Um... add some guac... that would

be good. And I, I, I...

Oh wait a sec, wait a sec...

we could get a tango trio here,

give me one of those and um,

scratch the first one, have a

taco trio add the shrimp

add the guac and um...

and the triple, eh... Ay... y--you

know what wait. wait a second.

My... I cut out... My PH

level, my doctor says...

So yeah. Back to the Classico

ok? Yeah and maybe a large

drink, a jurrito.

Ah dos. That would be... good.

DRIVE THRU CASHIER:

Is that everything today?

Si.

- Are you sure?

- Y... Yeah.

Yeah I'm sure,

how much more sure can I be?

Your order is $16.78...

ROCK AND ROLL MUSIC BEGINS

What? Whaaa!

MOOCHO FUCKO!

ROCK AND ROLL MUSIC CONTINUES

Hey dude! A**hole!

[CREEPY SPOOKY AMBIENCE]

[CREEPY ALIEN LIKE SNARL SOUND]

[CREEPY LIKE ALIEN

SNARL CONTINUES]

PARKING LOT JOHN:

Oh ah... just like that, ah.

- Oh, you like that?

- Mhm.

Ah, keep going.

Don't stop. Come on.

- What the f***?

- What?

Don't go anywhere,

I'll get rid of this freak.

The f***'s

your problem man?

Get the hell out of here

you f***ing meth head!

[SOUNDS OF STRUGGLE

AND SCREAMING ENSUE]

Please, oh, no... Please!

[CREEPY AMBIENCE,

HER PLEADING]

No, please, no.

[GLASS BREAKING,

HER SCREAMING]

[SHE CONTINUES SCREAMING]

RADIO:

I say unto all the evil...

DRIVER:
Those sinners man

they're going to hell!

They're going to hell.

RADIO:
Go to hell one day.

We live...

DRIVER:
...the gospel

truth, the gospel truth!

RADIO Where nothing makes sense,

Satan and his claws into us.

You would look up and say oh

lord Jesus please save me,

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Joe Berlinger

Joseph "Joe" Berlinger (born October 30, 1961) is an Emmy winning and Academy Award nominated filmmaker and producer. A pioneer in the genre of True Crime documentaries, Berlinger draws attention to social justice issues in the US and abroad in his films such as The Paradise Lost Trilogy, Crude, Whitey: The United States of America V. James J. Bulger and Intent to Destroy: Death, Denial and Depiction. more…

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