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Jul 14, 2023 · The Flood: Directed by Brandon Slagle. With Casper Van Dien, Nicky Whelan, Louis Mandylor, Ryan Francis. A daring jail break during a dangerous Louisiana hurricane is interrupted by a horde of large hungry alligators.
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- Action, Horror, Thriller
- Brandon Slagle
- 2023-07-14
- History
- Flood Forms
- Biology
- Combat Behavior
- Non-canon and Dubious Canon Appearances
- Production Notes
- Gallery
Origins
1. "Our urge to create is immutable; we must create. But the beings we create shall never again reach out in strength against us. All that is created will suffer. All will be born in suffering, endless grayness shall be their lot. All creation will tailor to failure and pain, that never again shall the offspring of the eternal Fount rise up against their creators. Listen to the silence. Ten million years of deep silence. And now, whimpers and cries; not of birth. That is what we bring: a grea...
Interim
Due to the lack of evidence, most Forerunners were unaware of the existence or of the true nature of the Flood, and many dismissed it as a simple excuse for humanity's aggressive expansion before and during the initial arrival of the Flood. However, several high-ranking Forerunners were fully informed of the threat, and in secret began developing countermeasures should the Flood ever return. This became the source of a major political strife, with the Builders proposing the construction of an...
Forerunner-Flood war
1. Main article: Forerunner-Flood war 1. "It fed on intelligent life and, in doing so, became ever more intelligent itself. The Flood was unique; it used their very strength against them." 2. — Cortana on the Forerunners' war against the Flood. The Flood reappeared as a viable threat in the galaxy when they were first encountered by the Forerunners on the planet Seaward. Initially, the Forerunners severely underestimated the potential threat that this parasitic lifeform posed, and used tactic...
The Flood is composed of a variety of specialized forms, each filling a different role in combat. The most basic Flood forms are the infection forms, which come in various types and infect hosts by hijacking their bodies and nervous systems.Infected hosts then undergo a rapid series of transformations, becoming lethal combat forms. Combat forms are...
The Flood is an anomaly in all known biology; their mode of growth and reproduction would make them incompatible with any natural ecosystem.They are extremely adaptive, and transform hosts to suit the species' current needs. Capable of surviving extreme environments ranging from -75 to +53 degrees Celsius and even underwater, the Flood can withstan...
The Flood's combat strategy is simple: they throw themselves at potential hosts in huge numbers and with any and all weapons available. The parasite seeks to saturate its opponents with an excess of noise, so thoroughly it impedes the enemy's ability to process information and prevents them from organizing a meaningful resistance.The Flood exhibits...
Silver Timeline
1. Kwan Ha: "What is it?" 2. The Mother: "It is the cohesion. The meaning. The final equilibrium. This is the end. This is the Flood." 3. — The Mother reveals the monster's true identity. The Mother repeatedly warns Kwan Haof a "monster" that is approaching in visions. After accessing a Forerunner site on Onyx, Kwan, Dr. Halsey, and Miranda Keyes are shown a star mapdocumenting the Flood's spread, causing Kwan to realize that the monster is real. An overeager biologist named Janine Caryyew in...
Miscellaneous
1. The Flood's AI routines in Halo: Combat Evolvedwere originally intended to be "every bit as complicated as the Covenant", but full implementation was prevented by time constraints.
References
1. The name of the Flood is a reference to the biblical story of the Great Flood. Some of the parasite's history mirrors the story, in which God destroyed all life except for that which was carried by Noah's ark. 2. The Flood bear a strong visual resemblance to an enemy cut from Marathon 2, the “fungal zombie.” These were to be the result of a bioweapon invented in the final days of the ancient S'pht and reused by Robert Blake's forces on Lh'owon, designed specifically to target Pfhor. Both t...
Early concept art for the Flood by Robert McLees.Early concept art for the Flood by Robert McLees.A large unidentified Flood form seen in Origins I from Halo Legends.An up-close view of the same Flood form in Origins I.Jul 16, 2023 · “The Flood,” an alligator-attack movie that’s also a violent prison-break thriller, takes its cue from that scene. Set in a backwater Louisiana police station during a hurricane, the film ...
Nov 8, 2019 · Noah was the grandson of Methuselah, the oldest person in the Bible, who died at 969 years old in the year of the flood. Noah's father was Lamech, but we are not told his mother's name. Noah was a tenth generation descendant of Adam, the first human being on earth. Scripture tells us Noah was a farmer (Genesis 9:20).
Jul 14, 2023 · The Flood. Watch The Flood with a subscription on Hulu, rent on Fandango at Home, Prime Video, or buy on Fandango at Home, Prime Video. A horde of giant hungry alligators is unleashed on a group ...
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Genesis flood narrative. The Flood of Noah and Companions ( c. 1911) by Léon Comerre. Musée d'Arts de Nantes. The Genesis flood narrative (chapters 6–9 of the Book of Genesis) is a Hebrew flood myth. [1] It tells of God's decision to return the universe to its pre- creation state of watery chaos and remake it through the microcosm of Noah's ...
