I saw that this was on Hulu and the premise was sort of intriguing. It’s about a girl who lives alone and encounters an alien invasion taking over her small town. Aliens are cool. I like aliens.

It is kind of an Invasion of the Body Snatchers with new twists. It turns out the girl is shunned by her community for her accidental killing of her best friend when she was younger. So you can imagine that no one wants to help her as the aliens start assimilating the townsfolk. That isolation helps drive her to survive on her own terms.

The story isn’t perfect and it feels like a lot of the action scenes were shoe-horned in, rather than organically developed by logical plot scenarios.

What I really liked was the lack of exposition. This movie doesn’t tell you much, but shows you a lot. The main character girl barely talks at all. It’s kind of jarring in a way, because you expect to be spoon-fed the whole plot as most movies do these days. Instead, you have to reset your expectations and really pay attention to what is going on. Even the ending is a little odd in that it’s clear what happened, but also takes a little bit of processing to understand.

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