Ventress leaves the group and heads for the lighthouse, the center of the Shimmer. The bear kills Anya, while Josie frees herself and shoots the bear. The bear returns and lures Anya away by emitting a cry for help in Cassie's voice. Anya, overcome with paranoia after watching her fingerprints change, disarms the other members and ties them to chairs, and accuses Lena of murdering Cassie. Within an abandoned village, Josie studies plants that have taken on a humanoid form, and theorizes that the Shimmer functions as a prism for DNA, distorting and transforming everything that falls within its boundaries, including the expedition members' own bodies. At night, the base is attacked by a mutant bear that drags Cassie away, and Lena later finds her mutilated body. The group finds the soldier's corpse, which has turned into an overgrown colony of lichens. At an abandoned military base, the group finds a video message from Kane's previous expedition, in which Kane cuts open another soldier's abdomen with a knife to reveal slithering intestines. Three other women participate in the expedition: physicist Josie, geomorphologist Cass and paramedic Anya.Ĭommunication equipment does not function within the Shimmer's territory, and the expedition encounters unusually mutated plants and animals Josie is attacked by an albino alligator with several concentric rows of teeth. Ventress prepares a new scientific expedition into the Shimmer, and Lena joins her. As Kane is put in intensive care, psychologist Dr. Lena calls an ambulance, but she and Kane are intercepted by security forces and taken to a secret facility. Kane cannot explain where he was and how he came back, and his condition quickly deteriorates. Many exploratory expeditions were organized, but only Lena's husband Kane returns home after a year of absence. The Shimmer emerged three years prior from a meteor that landed in a lighthouse in Blackwater National Park in Florida, and it is gradually expanding and increasing its boundaries. She was part of an expedition to an anomalous zone known as the "Shimmer", but she was the only one to return. Army soldier Lena is under interrogation. Plot Ĭellular biology professor and former U.S. According to Empire magazine, the film addresses "depression, grief, and the human propensity for self-destruction". It received positive reviews from critics and audience. It was released digitally by Netflix in a number of other countries on March 12, 2018. The story follows a group of explorers who enter "The Shimmer", a mysterious quarantined zone of mutating plants and animals caused by an alien presence.Īnnihilation was released theatrically in the United States by Paramount Pictures on February 23, 2018, and in China on April 13, 2018. It stars Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gina Rodriguez, Tessa Thompson, Tuva Novotny, and Oscar Isaac. Annihilation is a 2018 science fiction psychological horror film written and directed by Alex Garland, based on the 2014 novel of the same name by Jeff VanderMeer.
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