I had always told myself that if I could ever find the means or a viable pathway into filmmaking, I would try again. AI video generation is turning a corner. Anyone who has watched @Gossip_Goblin knows that it is possible to use the tools to create real immersion and feeling. Also, to go beyond the endless 30s demo-slop and create real narrative, with an original world, with real characters. I have been fascinated with psychological horror. Oddities in framing, composition, setting, dialogue that will both deeply unsettle the viewer while drawing their curiosity deeper, leading them through the character's unconscious, repressed psyche. Jung calls this "shadow work," where an individual explores or confronts their shadow in order to integrate it. As a warm-up before my first short, I want to try and match some of the greatest, most original forms of psychological horror and adapt them into renders from current photo or video models. While exploring Silent Hill's influences, I came across Francis Bacon, a painter from the 1950s who created some of the finest nightmare fuel ever manifested outside of, well... real nightmares. Man in Blue is one of those. A man with a distorted face caught in violent motion, in an extremely dark blue room, off-center, the frame mostly dark latent space. Using GPT Image 2.5, I began to examine what a modern version would be, complete with a more digital, cubic distortion, as a GPT could never replicate the work Bacon does with brushes. This photo is where I got. It's very different, but in my mind, a similar feeling. It's nothing I could use for video, but it helps me learn how to orient models toward producing emotion — which I think will help me in upcoming production.