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Sep 22, 2023 · A sci-fi horror film with one line of dialogue and a lot of sound. Kaitlyn Dever plays Brynn, a lonely woman who faces an alien invasion in her home. The film is creative but lacks narrative context and emotional depth.
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A home invasion thriller with an extraterrestrial twist, No One Will Save You serves up more genre fun from writer-director Brian Duffield -- and proves Kaitlyn Dever doesn't need much dialogue to...
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Sep 21, 2023 · Aliens invade a young woman's home in 'No One Will Save You,' the new sci-fi thriller from Brian Duffield, director of 'Spontaneous.
Brian Duffield's brilliant alien-invasion flick No One Will Save You manages to tell a pitch-black tale of the dark desires of the human soul without ever playing like a "down" picture.
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By Marya E. Gates
Posted: Sep 22, 2023 4:00 am
Bringing a new twist to the alien invasion subgenre isn’t exactly an easy task – the iconography of UFOs and extraterrestrials has become so ingrained in society we even have emojis to represent both. With the new thriller No One Will Save You, it seems like writer-director Brian Duffield didn't try to reinvent the flying-saucers-and-men-from-Mars wheel. Instead, he borrowed ingredients from past interplanetary incursions, threw them in a blender, and arranged the results around a game Kaitlyn Dever. And for 45 tense minutes or so, this strategy pays off pretty well – before No One Will Save You becomes both an action film and yet another onscreen allegory that is "about grief, actually."
Dever plays Brynn, a young woman living alone in her family home. She leaves this isolated farmhouse deep in the woods only to mail the dresses she sells for a living and to visit her mother's grave. She never speaks to anyone, but she does write letters to her friend Maude. It's clear early on that Maude is actually deceased as well, and that Brynn may have had something to do with her death.
Awakened by something going bump in the night, Brynn discovers that someone else is in her house – and they're not from this world. She’s able to successfully fight off this first intruder, but over the course of the next day and night she must fend for herself against a growing horde of attackers.
Duffield successfully creates tension on the first night by keeping his camera focused solely on Dever, whose face is almost always awash in a beautiful blue light. The space invader, an archetypal gray with big black eyes, is mostly only seen in shadows and silhouettes; props to cinematographer Aaron Morton for filming so many night scenes in such a way that while the darkness remains eerie, the action always remains visible. Staging Brynn's close encounter like a home invasion thriller in this first sequence mostly works, as long as you suspend a bit of disbelief. It's best not to question why these beings can manipulate energy to burst open thick wooden doors, but wouldn’t pull the same trick while Brynn hides behind a refrigerator door. (Probably because doing so would cut the delicious, old-school heebie-jeebies that Duffield is trading in.)
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No One Will Save You is at its best when it marries the tension of a home invasion thriller with the thrills of an alien abduction film, and Kaitlyn Dever proves she has the chops to carry a whole movie on strength of her facial expressions alone. However, the film ultimately fumbles when it becomes both a convoluted action film and an on-the-nose ...
Sep 21, 2023 · No One Will Save You stars Booksmart’s Kaitlyn Dever in a sci-fi take on the home invasion horror-thriller. The movie will be streaming on Hulu on Sept. 22.
Sep 22, 2023 · ‘No One Will Save You’ Review: It’s Alien vs. Dever in Hulu’s Clever and Nearly Wordless Invasion Thriller. Brian Duffield's well-crafted second feature stars Kaitlyn Dever in a movie that...
