For some hardcore kinefiles, there is no greater pleasure than digging in the roots of some of their favorite directors. It is often a very lighting experience to see the first cinematic efforts of directors who go to bigger and better things. Whether they need a few features to build up to the amount of their powers, or if they come out to storm the gate with originality and spare attitude, there is usually some comprehensive story of these directors and their craft to be discovered when they are discovered When looking at these early works.

If you can find them at all, it is. While most young directors these days are used to growing up in a world where their baby pictures are still posted on their social networking accounts, Yore's analog days meant old media can not only get lost, but to get lost for good . That risk goes double for films that catch legal issues, whether it involves some form of entanglement or unclear ownership, with no one to answer his availability or where he is. Another question is the one that is the hardest to break through, and that is that the directors themselves sometimes have their own film, but they simply want to not let the light of the day for any reason. That last question seems to be why Director Jameseims Van The first feature, entitled "Stigian", never received official release of any kind to this day. While Van and his associates of the film made sure that the "Stigi" remains unprecedented, the view and hints that are Available only to tantalize WAN fans about what secrets this almost lost, wild horror movie may or may not be.

According to Vikita of the lost mediaStigian was made in Australia around 2000 for a production company known as hybrid films. That company is owned by director Shannon Young, who co-directed "Stigian" with Van. Young people can be seen in this short clip behind the scenes (From a documentary about his film "Razor Eaters") mentioning "Stigian", along with several short clips on the film itself. Interestingly, Young does not describe it as a horror movie, but a "Film-Fantasia Film", and the shown clips show that there is some kind of action advantage of the actions. According to Description from the screen in Australia Screen GuideThe movie sounds like some kind of slave zombie meets Clive Barker Mesh-Up:

"Stigian is the story of Jameimi and Melinda, an innocent young couple who find themselves as unintentional sacrifices in a chance to death - and over it. By accident, becoming a mystical talisman carried out by the wicked" Riaper's Brothers ", The couple are trapped in another A world called "exile", a "gutter punk" cleaner for the dead guys in the world.

Apart from that description and documentary clip, no further official comments on Van or Young's "Stigian" have emerged. The only hint we have because the film remains buried is This Reddit user post Who, after asking to find the film, was reportedly contacted by Young, who informed them that although they had a copy of the film in their personal archives, they wished to remain unused. Despite the fact that neither the young nor Van said anything definitely about why the film remains hidden from a look (nor has anyone involved in the film, really, including Lee Vanel, who was an actor in him), it seems that It can be read between the lines and the conclusion that the "Stigi" must be disappointing enough that its producers simply do not think it is worth freeing.

Despite all the signs that indicate "Stigian" not worth the time to find, the hidden nature of the film only makes it more tempting, no less. After all, the surface of similar debuts and/or features from other horror luminari such as Sam Raimi and Edgar Wright accepted only fans who reject the shame of directors in their wounds, unpopular films. The biggest example of this exclusion between artists and fans about their early films is Stanley Kubrick's first game, "Fear and Desire" of 1952. Kubrick has spent most of his life trying to prevent the film from seeing, but those who have seen it (which is now a larger number of people, thanks to the availability of the film about the domestic media). iosubopity.

The film school nature of Stigian can really mean it is at best amateur, but the fact that it is a lost film, which is co-directed by one of the biggest names of the horror genre, will only allow interest in growing . From the aforementioned official description and the short moments of YouTube footage, it sounds like some elements of the WAN's later work to be able to look at the movie-idea for a similar area purification, where disgusted creatures reside sounds particularly close to the concept of further The series "insidious"And a few characters seen in the clips remember Van's aesthetic horror. There's even a little Easter egg within Van "Official" first film, "saw", That nodded with "Stigi", as a detectives TAP (Dani Glover) and Singh (Ken Leung) reveal that the puzzle hideout is on 213 Stigian Street.

Who knows whether a young, van or someone will eventually release (or leak) "Stigian" in its entirety. If it ever happens, it will undoubtedly provide interest to Van's film fans, whether he works on his own. Although it would be nice to have a sense of closure and finally just to see the film, there is no denial that it is a little more fun to imagine and theorize what it can be. For the time being, the elusive "Stigian" exists in almost perfect shape: it is purely of dreams (or nightmares).