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tonight's feature: No One Will Save You (2023) on Hulu
(SPOILERS?) Another "aliens are NOT our friends" film for the ages, No One Will Save You has the best and most menacing aliens I've seen in a long, long time. I'm talking giant praying-mantis-legs mantis, gangly bone snappingly pop-and-lock body contortionist aliens who chitter and bark and scream in supernatural sorts of ways. Not to mention they have telekinesis and absurdly jointed feet and hands, and the ability to control human beings like puppets.
The main protagonist is Brynn, a lonely, young seamstress in a big house in a small town where everyone doesn't like her. We briefly follow her daily routine until later that night, when she is terrorized by a home invasion of the third kind. These aliens aren't E.T. trying to phone home, they're more like the terminator, hellbent on destruction. The story goes from zero to 60 and barely lets up in intensity until the last few minutes.
The craziest thing about this movie is the almost complete lack of dialogue, which I almost didn't notice. Everything about No One Will Save You seemed to be well done, the story, the aliens, the message, the sound effects and even the strange twist ending. Your mileage may vary. 9 small tentacled creatures crawling into your mouth out of 10.
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