#potc:dmc

Has the same energy as this scene from The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023) :

DMC, but with a pinch more gothic horror this time around:

Truthfully, she never expected to see James Norrington again, and in some ways Elizabeth is not sure she has: there is a man in a hammock who answers to that name, who has a captain’s coat, and the same sharp-tongued disdain for what irritates him – but (and here, when she has thought on it, she has struggled) either there is some familiar thing missing, or some unfamiliar thing at home. Awake, he speaks familiarly, insultingly. Traces of the old, slow, methodical coolness remain, but only in the same way that the ribs of an old wreck reach out of sandbars. Some part of her thought he was dead – dead, or (thinking of the pale-faced revenant that had deposited James Norrington's sword in her father's office and bowed to her wordlessly, those months ago) as good as. In the old stories, it was never a good thing when the dead returned.

Cinematic parallels

PotC: Dead Man's Chest (2006)