The Thing in the Tall Grass - Full Movie - Part 2 of 2: Final Battle

Premiere: The after-winter conclusion to our story. NEW end credits over never-posted creature SM animation and SFX outtakes plus a closer HD still or two.

Coming soon: both parts together as one. Eventually maybe: A final-honest-no-really polished edit with the missing first part of the "luring Kroog in" final sequence. sigh. Need a computer upgrade and priority focus on crops and other work in the meantime. No World Premieres looming as long as folk can enjoy here for free. Thank you for watching. Salute to those giving advice along the way.
For the Record / Discussion At This Stage 08 AUG 23:
1. No intent on Day One that it would end up TWO HOURS 25 MINUTES LONG! Yeah, no intent on info yammer either but YIKES. 5 minutes+ are end credit / bonus so say 2 hrs 20 min. A true, reasonable final cut (FC) should be much more ... concise. Noted.

2. Realized too late that not overloading laptop with raw files and deleting them, this was first built and released as a serial. Relied on the posted ones to simply sequence correctly into a full movie but could not change or remove the titles, title numbers or their order. They go by pretty quick and moot as an easy to ignore typo ... not even appearing on most but there's some time to be had on those and some chapter ends tho provides a little breather on transitions.

3. Got story concept first in head. (Or was delivered by Muses per usual) Core elements simmered, general idea of ending gelled. As with writing one, took off with map blank between start and destination. Writing or, this case, filming was the process to mostly find out what happens along the way. Easier to DELETE text but since it rolled out as it did, I felt most included here were valid scenes. Maybe some for version of an extended cut, granted.

4. On subject of long scenes (I heard that), made slight ERROR here in using an original 4-minute of "Book of Elias - Avoid Attracting The Monster's Attention" instead of the 80-second or so edit intended. Some good music to mime but apologizes. I know youse would get the point already. Meh. A cheerful break from the scary stuff, at least! The other one of note ... (yes, this is a film guide)

5. "Danger Signs" is 6 min + of instrumental. Long yet chilling point to what's shown, the extent of what's shown and genuinely creeps me out on review thus there it is. It's my vision, dangit, and ... whassat? Oh, fine.

6. Copyright VM / Vince Moravek 2023. Story, that is. Audio copyright own entities as noted. What WILL come as noted is a credit sequence noting specific works, per chapter / in order of appearance with full references and data.

- Um, noted NO ANIMALS HURT (or involved x accidental background objects) yet had question on Lucky the dog at beginning. Statement stands. Lucky was only a compilation of free use audio.

- The plow discs were very old discarded pieces about property or in ranch dump. Great arts and craft pieces! Collected 3-4. First did 2 pieces with American flag bands w/a green Montana state shape in center. "MONTANA U.S.A." text. Gave one for some retail book support to the Ashland Merc (mercantile) and as of last week is on display (see owner Shayla's REAL painter art on display there as well).

- Put 2nd on wood utility pole on road access. "Hey! Who would vandalize things out here?" Bashed around or knocked off its hanging stud into mud several times. Later clued into fact that range cattle like to rub on things. And plow discs ... while not the razor sharp suggested in video ... have a nice scratching edge! At a perfect height! But next time, please attach it a little better. .... where is that now, by the way?

-- Made the Captain America shield design as seemed easy cool no-brainer for shape and size. Edge was NOT sharpened (tho could still cut a hot dog or pancake after maybe a century sitting in a dump). Became key prop as plot developed. Quick black Sharpie lettering vs painting it suggested. (May go over w/paint then seal it with gloss poly as a now-historic prop that may one day draw tens of dollars on Antiques Roadshow ... until rejected on shipping costs.

-- The character of ELIAS BOMAR was original conceived and appeared as main protagonist in my "short" (long) story, "Keep Off The Grass." When processing the story here, the characters matched so much that I went with what I knew and lifted him straight OFF the grass in, go figure, the TALL GRASS. (whoa. just realized that)

"Keep Off The Grass" is not published x on my old YT: MVTV VIgilante TV channel or current backup MVTV / 10 Mile Ranch one (sigh. tech hassles). This is in form of auto-scrolling text on screen. An experiment to test the concept. Easy to adjust speed to pref if desired, too. Oh. ALSO ON AMAZON KINDLE STORE if any wish to support efforts. Those and other of my titles are available there and most are 99 cents. sigh. Most of those ALSO on those sites, too. Maybe here too soon.

Manifesto discussion almost over . Warning as in other vids: I type FAST, freq unload on whatever topic fresh at hand on posting. Lots of text may be used later in books, features or my imagination and easy to blurt it all when in mood for cut/pastes later. Last answer to a raised hand:

No, do not have some special phobia, interest or problem with grass. The two titles of mention here are pure coincidence. KOTG was written 18 years ago. TTintheTG manifested late 2022. And THAT Elias Bomar triggers MUCH more mayhem by unleashing a voracious, unstoppable force intent on consuming all life on a previously pleasant, rather boring extra-Earth colony. All because he had nothing to live for but a little manly yard work. And go figure. Since Elias Bomar is at the heart of all the chaos, he just may be the only one to save the day. Probably no rocket science background needed to guess the general idea on THAT one.

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