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A fairly decent invasion genre flick for little money that turns into an atmospheric, evil, wild and violent ride from the Christmas dinner onwards. One of the gore scenes is already virally roaming the internet and getting a nice thumbs up. Visually, it's average and the actors don't impress much either, but for a film I knew nothing about beforehand and that flew under the radar, I'm pleasantly surprised. I would definitely rank the film among the better things to come out in the last month. Story***, Action***, Humor>No, Violence****, Entertainment***, Music***, Visuals***, Atmosphere****, Suspense***. 6.5/10. (05.10.2020)

Basically, a new spin on The Invasion of the Body Snatchers and certainly one of the best, most intense, harshest and most uncompromising horror experiences available in this weak year of COVID. It’s likely that this year we won’t see a more brutal scene, the one where things get properly “serious” at last (I’d rather not spoil it). However, to my taste the film as a whole is unfortunately too one-dimensionally evil for me to be fully satisfied. Maybe, if they had developed a deeper mythology that would give some sort of meaning to the events, I would take it, but they never move that initial premise in any interesting direction. 7/10 (03.10.2020)