Very much like the creature that lands into the pool disrupting three girls weekend away, this movie seems not at all to be what it presents on the surface. Behind the glossy colours and banal patter of the characters there appears to be a much darker metaphor at work. One that speaks to a very modern horror in which we all participate.
The film opens like fairly regular a genre horror sci film - three women on holiday in a remote villa, a monster arrives and trouble starts etc - It's admittedly initially a bit of a slow burn but there is more going on under the surface than you see at first glance.
As soon as the skinned eraser head baby thing lands in the pool, the guests phones die and they are unable use them to post or to call for help - The alien has essentially replaced their phones. This sweaty 'dog rat' goes on to seduce, desensitise and impregnate the characters and finally threatens to destroy the planet. An appropriate analogy for the state of mobile communication if ever there was.
The alien is not a get up, run round and kill you sort of a guy, it's in fact initially weak and vulnerable and only survives due to the compassion of the heroine Charlotte - In an unusual twist it is Dee, the trashy influencer type who initially most wants to kill the alien rather than Charlotte the geeky last girl heroine, so the usual tropes are nicely reversed - Dee who is the most dislikable character in the film is also the one who had it right.
At least that's how I read it.
The film is an unusual highbred of genres and won't be for everyone but I thoroughly enjoyed its B move craziness. Any film that equates mobile technology with intergalactic black oil squid sex and the destruction of the planet is ok by me.
The film opens like fairly regular a genre horror sci film - three women on holiday in a remote villa, a monster arrives and trouble starts etc - It's admittedly initially a bit of a slow burn but there is more going on under the surface than you see at first glance.
As soon as the skinned eraser head baby thing lands in the pool, the guests phones die and they are unable use them to post or to call for help - The alien has essentially replaced their phones. This sweaty 'dog rat' goes on to seduce, desensitise and impregnate the characters and finally threatens to destroy the planet. An appropriate analogy for the state of mobile communication if ever there was.
The alien is not a get up, run round and kill you sort of a guy, it's in fact initially weak and vulnerable and only survives due to the compassion of the heroine Charlotte - In an unusual twist it is Dee, the trashy influencer type who initially most wants to kill the alien rather than Charlotte the geeky last girl heroine, so the usual tropes are nicely reversed - Dee who is the most dislikable character in the film is also the one who had it right.
At least that's how I read it.
The film is an unusual highbred of genres and won't be for everyone but I thoroughly enjoyed its B move craziness. Any film that equates mobile technology with intergalactic black oil squid sex and the destruction of the planet is ok by me.