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1. No One Will Save You (Hulu)

So my first official October movie was one I was excited to watch for some time! I held off until this month to watch it because it felt like a perfect one to watch now.

No One Will Save You is very simply a home invasion alien movie that ends up far more expansive than just that. Kaitlyn Dever plays a girl who lost her mother and appears to be completely isolated from the community around her. And one night, an alien breaks into her home, and she must survive this alien, but that's not the only threat.

Brian Duffield is the mastermind behind this movie, and he's done a lot of writing and production for things like The Babysitter, which I love, Underwater, Cocaine Bear, and others, and his first feature film was Spontaneous which I liked well enough. I didn't love it, but I liked it. Fun little movie. But this movie shows precisely what he's capable of, and I'm going to follow anything else he makes now.

There's a sense of overwhelming tension and dread, with some moments of levity tossed in as well. When the movie wants to be terrifying and anxiety-inducing, it is. When the movie wants to tug at your heart strings, well it does that too. It's completely unpredictable and there's a lot of bold decisions made in this that all frankly pay off. Perhaps the biggest one is that there are exactly five words of dialogue in this movie. Something that can really fall flat, but they don't need dialogue to tell their story. Everything we get tells the story precisely how we need it.

More than all of that, it feels like a love letter to all things alien invasion films too. Every trope you can think of? It's here. And it does them all so well. There is some nightmarish imagery in it I don't think I'll forget.

If I had any complaints, it's that I feel like this movie could have done with more practical effects. There's a lot of CGI in it, and it definitely feels every bit the $23 million budget as a result.

I would say that the ending felt satisfying enough, while leaving you thinking a lot about what happened as well. It's clear that this was the end goal, and that the film's title was certainly no mistake.

So yeah, watch No One Will Save You. It's an outstanding film that is incredibly ambitious and it really blows it out of the park.

Rating: 8.5/10