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Mythological Pan creature is not supposed to look terrifying


Based on several imdb posters that this is indeed an intriguing movie, I'm going to see it.

It's true what is often said, don't judge a book by its cover. I've watched a number of movies over the past decades that had limited screen release but turned out surprisingly good, for example, "Existenz", back in 1999.

Okay, now for my post. I see by the imdb photos that the mythological Greek god makes its appearance from time to time as some kind of demonic apparition. The photo shows a terrifying monstrous creature. It makes you want to stock up on firearms with large-bore calibers.

Yet in Greek mythology, the mythological Greek minor god, Pan, is not supposed to look terrifying monstrous. He represents the wild, chaotic, oft-enjoyable side of Nature's life forces. The typical image of Pan is a playful creature of less than average height, the head and torso of a man with short, stubby horns on the forehead, and the legs and cloven feet of a goat/sheep, and a stubby bushy tail that sticks up. Pan typically carries around a Grecian handpipes, the sort that famous musician, Yani, plays. I think Pan was also depicted being able to play a small harp. Pan also played a sort of twin flutes, shaped like a, 'V', with the point of the V in his mouth. Mythology may also depict Pan using weapons like a sling or a short bow, but I can't be sure about it. In Dungeons and Dragons, the description write-up for Pan mentioned that the minor god could melee with his powerful fists. I'm not certain what kind of food Pan ate, but he was probably omnivorious. No, he didn't eat humans. Mythological Greek creatures, satyrs, are often confused with Pan. Pan supposedly had a strong sexual appetitie, which he tried to satisfy with the mythological Greek nympths, female spirit creatures who could manifest as flesh-and-blood, scantily-clad, sometimes nude human females, hanging around forests, woods, rivers, ponds, springs, the like.

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Yes, they're way off on Pan, unfortunately.
Pan (one of the only Greek gods to be 'dead' in their mythology, incidentally), was the god of shepherds & flocks, and a sort of folk music. His name means " to pasture". He was given the flute in essence by Arcadia, and played a battle of music against Midas, Apollo and some others. That's the extent of his 'evil nature' - none.
Sexually, he was written as being interested in sex frivolously, nothing extreme and certainly nothing malevolent.
So that's about the extent of Pan's 'evil'.
Not a lot of research on the movie folks' part?

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Guys...It's a horror movie. They had to make him look scary rather than sweet/funny. That's the point.

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Just the last in a long line of films in which Christian scumbags demonize other religions deities. No big surprise there.

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Regardless of anything that was done or relates to this movie, since when have satyrs and fauns not been categorized as mythological monsters?

Gamefaqs has a far worse population than IMDB

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