Annihilation
- heavy
- extreme
- surreal
Heavy, steady, extreme sci-fi / horror, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, epic, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →A biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition into a mysterious zone where the laws of nature don't apply.
Our read · Annihilation (2018) reads as a heavy, steady, surreal sci-fi · horror · mystery entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
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The shape of Annihilation
What watching it is actually like.
“You want eerie science dread, gorgeous horror, and an ending you'll debate for days.”
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The reading.
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