#Quicksand fetish movie

As a card-carrying member of Gen X, hot lava was the geological terror du jour when I was growing up. I should say here that I’m not a quicksand-man. Now, it’s weird, right? Not yet – proceed.

I’m just going to let that sink in (ba dum tss!) but you should know that Engber’s encounter with this strange but fascinating world was echoed a couple of years ago, when the Vice magazine staff went to Los Angeles to meet a community of quicksand fetishists and made a 20-minute documentary about the experience – including a visit to a quicksand fetish film set. Soren: Like fetish-fetish? Like sex fetish?

Engber was researching the relative decline of quicksand as a cultural preoccupation when an Internet search led him to a discovery he didn’t expect:ĭan: Within a minute, I discover the quicksand fetish community. Producer Soren Wheeler spoke with Slate columnist Dan Engber about his huge piece, Terra Infirma, the Rise and Fall of Quicksand. I first discovered quicksand’s gritty resurgence through a RadioLab episode. And it wasn’t through the front door of mainstream media either - rather the unlatched rear window of podcasts and fetish films. I admit I’m late to the party, since much of the media on quicksand’s slow sandy crawl from the celluloid bog to the popular imagination apparently began earlier in the decade. Except maybe Sartre.Ĭliffhangers, quicksand - it’s just too much earth science for this high school dropout. And it says it all right there - all of us in the story making trade go for a “cliffhanger” but no one has ever tried to ramp up their narrative with a slow sinking feeling.

#Quicksand fetish movie

But I think it was when he fell into quicksand and Shia LaBeouf tossed him a snake to pull himself out. Fucking, Shia.Īnyway, I understand that the entire Indiana Jones project is, in part, an homage to the movie serials of the 30s and that a quicksand scene is a prerequisite, like a car chase or a cliffhanger - a literal cliffhanger, not the term of art. A lot of people thought the movie Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull jumped the shark when Indy survived an atomic bomb detonation by climbing into a refrigerator.