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Bearing the brunt of an innocent misstep, he’s sentenced to the netherworld of Nickel Academy, a brutal reformatory sunk deep in the Jim Crow South.
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Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 13 Dec. 2024
Even before Ellen starts levitating off the bed, going full Exorcist while spewing messages from the netherworld, Sievers realizes her ailment is beyond his skill set.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Dec. 2024
As an introductory experience that transitions visitors from the mortal realm to the netherworld of Jimmy Fallon’s sadistic dreams, this sequence feels directly inspired by the famous Stretching Room in the Haunted Mansion.
—Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2024
The Celts believed that the boundary between our world and the spirit world was thinnest on those days, and that residents of the netherworld could cross into this one to wreak some havoc.
—Aaron Mahnke, People.com, 27 Oct. 2024
Restless spirits and ravenous ghosts roamed there, in the waters, looking to pull unsuspecting humans into the netherworld.
—Zining Mok, Longreads, 22 Oct. 2024
There’s an interesting twist in that the big bad — Kate del Castillo as the mother of the man Mike fathered — is a participant in some vague form of black magic and seems to be communing with the netherworld.
—Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 12 Oct. 2024
The money, for its part, ultimately showed up, trapped in the netherworld of a Korean cryptocurrency exchange.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2023
And for fans of the film, the characters from the netherworld’s waiting room — including the shrunken-head hunter and suicidal Miss Argentina — are faithfully re-created.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Aug. 2023
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Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 13 Dec. 2024
Even before Ellen starts levitating off the bed, going full Exorcist while spewing messages from the netherworld, Sievers realizes her ailment is beyond his skill set.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Dec. 2024
As an introductory experience that transitions visitors from the mortal realm to the netherworld of Jimmy Fallon’s sadistic dreams, this sequence feels directly inspired by the famous Stretching Room in the Haunted Mansion.
—Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2024
The Celts believed that the boundary between our world and the spirit world was thinnest on those days, and that residents of the netherworld could cross into this one to wreak some havoc.
—Aaron Mahnke, People.com, 27 Oct. 2024
Restless spirits and ravenous ghosts roamed there, in the waters, looking to pull unsuspecting humans into the netherworld.
—Zining Mok, Longreads, 22 Oct. 2024
There’s an interesting twist in that the big bad — Kate del Castillo as the mother of the man Mike fathered — is a participant in some vague form of black magic and seems to be communing with the netherworld.
—Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 12 Oct. 2024
The money, for its part, ultimately showed up, trapped in the netherworld of a Korean cryptocurrency exchange.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2023
And for fans of the film, the characters from the netherworld’s waiting room — including the shrunken-head hunter and suicidal Miss Argentina — are faithfully re-created.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Aug. 2023
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“The netherworld.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20netherworld. Accessed 26 Dec. 2024.
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