What happened to the man he was supposed to replace, V. Outfitted with a sun-blocking helmet due to eyes evolved in darkness, S. And despite some effects compromising our belief in this world, Rheon holds our attention enough to pity him, empathize with him, and ultimately fear for his safety. Pasquariello does a great job keeping us on our toes as far as motivation and ambition because so much happening could be taken multiple ways. . Control seeks to calm him down and relay that nothing can enter his perimeter without tripping alarms, but the first instance of power failure renders such assurances half-hearted.
Why is there what appears to be a bloodstain on the wall of his quarters? The special effects in this low-budget thriller often show their seams, but not enough to remove the audience from the experience and the largely strong visuals. Suddenly the fact that Christian Alvart serves as producer makes sense, his own psychological horror Pandorum possessing many of the same stripped down themes with a moderately more robust budget for effects an estimated one million dollar price-tag for Pasquariello against thirty-three million for Alvart. Shadows start to present like monsters, their similarities to the Nonesuch remaining an unknown quantity since S. In a post-apocalyptic world where the Nonesuch have committed massive human carnage S. Ironically, this would have been the ideal punishment for Ramsay Bolton had he not been thrown to his own flesh-eating hounds.
He questions everything out of fear and isolation; we question him because he cannot be trusted. The old guard who survived remembers the war that drove them subterranean, memories of life on the surface and the beasts that present-day generations hope to never encounter. Amidst the boredom, however, are questions. While this is a totally different movie from or , it has that same atmospheric feel of total darkness versus intense light that unnerves you with or without extraterrestrials. In a post-apocalyptic future, an alien invasion has driven most of the survivors underground, with soldiers doing lonely 100-day tours of duty to patrol the surface for human stragglers and alien attackers.
He is sent to hold down a remote outpost forebodingly called Cerberus that locks him away from the alien swarms—for one hundred days of isolation. So if you can get past the name, which might remind all you ex-scene kids of the band Sum 41, Alien Invasion S. He serves as a necessary line of defense. Perhaps a Nonesuch penetrated the defenses and killed him. Tensions rise, the voice of a neighboring base is heard Norman Reedus as K. And so begins a series of twenty-four hour periods marred by monotony and repetition.
Mysterious figures begin sliding out from amongst the trees. The film is also boosted by Rheon, who is alone for most of its running time and ably shoulders the load. You know things are grim when a raven picks what looks suspiciously like a human eyeball out of an abandoned baby carriage. Extended time in solitary has him struggling between carrying out his duty or piecing together what fragments of his sanity are left. Families exist with parents and children and love, but it makes more sense to catalog rather than individualize when there are so few left and everyone lives for a common goal.
But how far does it go? How did a benevolent white mouse come to reside within Cerberus? Battles still rage, but humanity has all but resigned itself to its defeat. What if the ruling class fabricated the Nonesuch for control, these missions merely ruses to retain it? Home has told him that his predecessor had to be evacuated early due to health concerns, but would they have left his dog tags and belongings behind? He embraces this notion, joining the cause to do his part and protect outpost Cerberus along with any human refugees lost in the forest without direction or hope. . . . .
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