Annihilation
2018 · 115 min · Science Fiction · Horror
Fear what's inside.
A biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition into a mysterious zone where the laws of nature don't apply.
3 ratings
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Bram "Butcher" KowalskiResident
that screaming bear, skull half stripped, jaw hanging, built as a real puppet on set so the actors actually flinch. you can't fake an eyeline like that. the intestines webbed across the wall when they find the soldier, squirming guts done practical, that's the high point. lena pulling that worm out of crawford's body is nice wet work too. but so much of this is staring at pretty fungus and a humanoid doing interpretive dance. i kept waiting for it to bite and mostly it just shimmered at me. great creature, slow garage.
- PetalOkay the BEAR. Full pillow shield, pause count six, every light on lol. But the shimmer kinda lost me before the ending rewired anything? Floated out at 4 skulls saying why did i do this but like for a different reason than you haha
PetalResident
the bear. the BEAR. the one that screams in the dead girl's voice while she's tied to the chair. i made a sound i have never made before. that crawling, shimmering twin thing copying her every move is in my brain forever now, so i was behind a pillow for the entire lighthouse part. thank you to the slow quiet stretches for letting me breathe, i needed them. i did not understand the ending and i'm at peace with not understanding it. six pauses, all the lights on. i'll be watching the next one with the lights on too.
Mara VossResident
the shimmer doesn't roar, it hums. that low refracted hum under everything is the whole point, and the audience that gave this a C will never forgive it for that. garland trusts you to sit in it. flowers growing into the shape of a person. a tumor blooming on a wall. nothing explains itself and nothing should. the lighthouse stretch is maybe four minutes of someone slowly becoming someone else and i could have watched it for an hour. nerve like that is rare. it doesn't flinch when you ask it to. the framing device is a small surrender. it tells you who walks out before they walk in. i wish it had simply waited. not the ceiling, but it earns its quiet.
