WATCH PARTY: Annihilation (2018) dir. Alex Garland @ Richard Tucker Library
Details
We'll be in the meeting room with the nice big screen to the left of the entrance at Richard Tucker. From the director of Ex Machina, Civil War, and co-writer of the new 28 Years Later movies. Based on the novel by Jeff Vandermeer.
RUNTIME: 115 minutes
RATED: R, super scary
SYNOPSIS: Lena, a biologist and former soldier, joins a mission to uncover what happened to her husband inside Area X -- a sinister and mysterious phenomenon that is expanding across the American coastline. Once inside, the expedition discovers a world of mutated landscapes and creatures, as dangerous as it is beautiful, that threatens both their lives and their sanity.
BLURBS:
"Drawing on mythology and body horror, Annihilation is an intelligent film that asks big questions and refuses to provide easy answers. Sci-fi at its best." - Jonathan Pile, Empire Magazine
"The environment inside the Shimmer is gorgeous and terrifying in equal measure, like a cross between Jurassic Park and Tarkovsky's The Stalker." - Jo Livingstone, The New Republic
"In the cold, rational, beautifully decaying world of “Annihilation,” death isn’t just a violent end; it’s another state of being." - Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times