October Horror Challenge 2023 #98: "No One Will Save You"

I knew nothing about this movie before i watched it, except that everyone seemed to love it and think it was great, which of course made me want to watch it (I need to be more careful with that, has "Midsommar" taught me nothing?) I even saved this movie for the last day of the challenge, wanting to end on a high note. I do that a lot, and it's like diving headfirst into an empty swimming pool when i finally do get to see the movie and then i don't like it as much as everyone else did. Poo.

So this movie is about a young woman named Brynn who lives in a small town. She still resides in her childhood home, which is the first sign that she hasn't really moved on in her life. She leads a solitary existence because the people in the town don't seem to like her and thus they shun her. She is still mourning the loss of her mother, Sarah, and her best friend, Maude, and she copes with her difficult and solitary life by constructing and maintaining a model town in her living room. One night, she discovers an intruder in her home, and she finds out that it isn't a human being but is rathet an alien, and she fights with the alien and kills it with a broken piece of one of the buildings in her little model town. She duscovers that there's no electricity and her car doesn't work, so she escapes to town by bicycle. Upon finding that most of the people in town appear to be under alien control, she returns to her home and starts planning to try and fend off the aliens. Will she be able to save herself, or will the aliens take over?

That synopsis makes this movie sound really interesting, I know. And it should have been interesting. Unfortunately for me, it's too caught up in reveling in how clever it is for it to actually be clever. The movie is almost a sulent film. it only has five spoken words in its 93 minute runtume, and the rest of the time it's just us watching Brynn ne hated by the townspeople, living her solitary life, being attacked by aliens, trying to fend off the aliens, trying to gove her life meaning, that kind of thing. It's never clear why the people in the town hate her so much, since there's no dialogue, but eventually the movie shows us why the townspeople hate Brynn, and it just leaves me with more questions than answers. The aliens are supposed to be scary, but they kinda look like E.T. so i couldn't find myself being afraid of them. I was mostly possed wanting someone to talk and explain what was going on. Amd WTF is up with that ending?! What were they trying to accomplish with that? I think it's supposed to be a happy ending of sorts, but it's just weird and awkward, like the rest of the movie. If you want to check it out go ahead, most people seem to have liked it more than I did, but I was just bored and frustrated and disappointed.