allain’s review published on Letterboxd:
A frightening Lovecraftian horror film about a college couple who went to a beach house, unexpectedly meeting an older couple and a mysterious illness in the process. The film felt like a mixture of A Color Out of Space (2019) and The Mist (2007), with an unidentifiable infection of some sort in the water and a mist that was potentially triggered by human actions. The foreshadowing of what’s to come using an introductory dialogue about astrobiology and the presentation of the other-worldly, slimy creatures are what I think are the highlights of this film. The focus on the four characters, while conveying a story of creatures that are beyond our understanding made me stick until the end, as I try to learn the underlying implications of the events shown piece by piece. It goes to show how we humans are incredibly vulnerable in unexpected unworldly catastrophes like this. The ending is anticlimactic, as it offered no concrete answer as to what really happened. Good thing I drank water before watching this film, as it brought back the anxiety I had in drinking any fluid back when I first watched A Color Out of Space (2019).
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