They're making a pun because the island of Bora Bora is surrounded by a ring of coral reef, which is otherwise known as an "atoll."

I really liked the show a lot and binged it in a day. I was hoping it would come back because I found the premise very interesting and the main characters really compelling.

>Why did they name this show Station Eleven?!

The reason it's titled Station Eleven is because one of the characaters in the book wrote a graphic novel titled "Station Eleven" that is integral to the plot of the book and show. That graphic novel gets its name from the central character (Dr. Eleven) who lives on a space station.

Saying, "That's the name of the book on which the show is based" doesn't really answer the question.

The reason it's titled Station Eleven is because one of the characaters in the book wrote a graphic novel titled "Station Eleven" that is integral to the plot of the book and show. That graphic novel gets its name from the central character (Dr. Eleven) who lives on a space station.

It's a world class kitchen and the chef said they had everything, so that's the answer.

If you want more of an explanation than that, keep in mind that the restaurant had been up and running for a while, serving any number of diners any number of dishes. Plus, everyone who was living on the island would need a variety of food to eat themselves.

Any theorizing about why he had the ingredients other than "it's a kitchen and they have ingredients for food so people can eat" is nonsense.

As to your second question, the answer is No. She found a way to play his game and get out according to dining rules, plus she gave him back something he had lost: the joy of cooking. He never wanted or intended to kill her, so he was happy to find a loophole to let her leave.

Even from one of the database linked to by OP, the found footage films only make up like 1% of the total horror movies and 2% of the horror movies released in 2022. I don't care if they like them or dislike them, but they're just wrong about how many are being released.

Don't bother wasting your time speaking reasonably with OP. I pointed out to them several times with different sources that there aren't that many found footage films being made, and they accused me of attacking their opinion and blocked me.

Whether you like the movies or think they're any good is your opinion. And like I've said before, I don't care about your opinion of these movies. In fact, I tend to agree with your opinions as it relates to found footage films in general because I also find most of them to be of a poor quality.

But whether there's a lot of them being made isn't really an opinion. It's either true or not because it's something that can be proved or disproved with facts and statistics. Less than a percent simply isn't a lot, so your perception or assumption was wrong. And it's okay to think something and be proven wrong. But what you don't get to do is hide behind saying, "It's my opinion," for facts, data, and statistics. That's not how it works.

That you're trying to twist this into me attacking your opinion on the quality of films is utterly disingenuous, and you know it.

EDIT: Apparently OP can't take it when someone calls them out because they've since blocked me, lol.

That database only includes 9,426 horror movies, which obviously doesn't include every horror movie that's ever been released. But even among the database that you provided, only 167 of them are found footage, which equates to 1.7% of the total database. The database includes 403 horror movies from 2022 and 12 of those are found footage films, for a whopping 2.9% of the total horror movies in 2022.

How you can talk about found footage films and seriously claim there's a lot of them is hilarious.

You'd be correct. In 2021, IMDB indicates there were 1,388 horror movies released and of that total only three of them were found footage, which equates to 0.2% of the total horror movies released that year. I don't know how many horror movies have been released over the years, but according to this list on IMDB there's a little over 500 found footage movies in existence, which is definitely less than a percent of the total horror movies that have ever been made. OP is reaching, and badly.

EDIT: I've seen some other websites that list additional found footage films not on the aforementioned list, but even assuming there were 15 total released in 2021, that would still only be about 1% of the total horror output.

The reason you haven't seen that many is because contrary to OP's assertion, there actually aren't that many found footage films. According to IMDB, in 2021 there were 1,388 horror movies released and of those only three were found footage films. If you consider every horror movie that's ever been released, or better yet every film that's ever been released, you're talking about a film style that makes up a fraction of a fraction of a percent.

Not only is it not true, it's never been true. Here is a comprehensive list of every found footage movie that's been released over the years. It indicates only three were released in 2021. According to this list on IMDB, there were 1,388 horror movies released in 2021. That means 3 out of 1,388 horror movies or 0.2% were found footage films, lol.

EDIT: It's weird that OP would even make that claim because elsewhere in this thread they linked to a horror movie database that's incomplete and doesn't include every horror movie by a long shot. But even the information they provided has found footage films at 1.7% of their total database and 2.9% of the movies released in 2022. It's laughable to talk about these films as though they're a huge part of the film industry or horror genre.

Why do you insist on moving the goalposts? So now you want to talk specifically about supernatural horror movies that are currently available on streaming for free in the United States? Are you kidding me with that bullshit?Here's what you originally said, since you keep shifting your argument when it suits you: "As a horror fan this is upsetting because so many these days are found footage."

That's clearly not true when you consider of the 1,300+ horror movies released in 2021 only three of them were found footage. That's a far cry from the "so many these days" that you initially and erroneously claimed.

So how about you provide information that backs up your claims instead of shitting on other people who prove you wrong? Considering there were only three found footage movies released in 2021, I find it hard to believe they'd even make up a substantial percentage of a subgenre in horror movies, but feel free to prove me wrong with sources instead of what you think about the numbers.

Or you could just accept that you were wrong and overreaching in your initial comments.

I don't care about your opinion of the quality of found footage movies. But you can't say, "iT's mY oPiNiOn ThErE aRe A lOt ReLeAsEd," when that is easily disproved with facts.

What does this have to do with anything? I'm not here saying found footage movies are masterpieces in the cinematic landscape. I was literally just backing up what the other redditor said about this genre being less than a percent of movies. Why are you so salty about being proven wrong?

EDIT: Just to further drive home this point because you're being such a dick about it...IMDB lists 1,388 Horror Movies released in 2021 and this comprehensive list of Found Footage Movies indicates 3 were released in 2021. That's less than a percent...

Maybe you should avoid making bullshit, generalized statements like "so many horror movies these days are found footage" instead. They're not, plain and simple.

And I actually replied to you elsewhere in this thread with sources to back up my claims.

EDIT: Just to further drive home this point because you're being such a dick about it...IMDB lists 1,388 Horror Movies released in 2021 and this comprehensive list of Found Footage Movies indicates 3 were released in 2021. That's less than a percent...

Here's a comprehensive list of 520 Found Footage Films. As of 2022, IMDB has 629,807 movie entries in its database Those 500+ movies make up 0.08% of IMDB's database. Obviously both lists might not include everything, but it's at least a good metric to give us a rough idea.

In 2016 there were 736 films released in theaters in the United States, meaning in a single year more movies were released in theaters in the United States than even exist in the found footage genre. And that's not even including all the direct-to-DVD and streaming exclusive releases. India releases thousands of movies every year and countries like China, Japan, United Kingdom, Germany, France, and Italy also release a lot of folks every year. Nigeria also has a rather substantial film industry as well.

In short, you really are complaining about a fraction of a fraction of the movies in existence.

EDIT: IMDB lists 1,388 Horror Movies released in 2021 and this comprehensive list of Found Footage Movies indicates 3 were released in 2021. That's less than a percent...

Except your original post said, "As a horror fan this is upsetting because so many these days are found footage." And that's simply untrue because it's such a small percentage of the horror genre. Even if you look at subgenres within horror, it's still not true...unless you're talking about the "found footage" subgenre, lol.

I agree that a lot of them are of poor quality, but there's a lot of good ones too. And oftentimes it's not so much a money saving measure as it is a narrative or stylistic choice to tell a specific story in a specific way.

Not to mention all the unofficial spin-offs that have existed alongside the Doctor Who universe for years before that even.

I can just picture them now screaming, "INVESTIGATE! INVESTIGATE!"

That was the one I was going to immediately check for as well.