NO ONE WILL SAVE YOU (2023)

Director: Brian Duffield Cinematography: Aaron Morton

No One Will Save You, 2023.

no one will save you (brian duffield, 2023)

At the halfway mark of NO ONE WILL SAVE YOU

Point 1: I think I know what the twist is, and if I'm right, it's hella fun/clever.

Point 2: The vibes so far are, "An X-Files monster-of-the-week episode but 1) There's no X-Files division or Mulder & Scully, and it's a civilian dealing with it. 2) The monsters are alien greys and they're SCARY."

I'm loving it so far.

No One Will Save You, 2023

Dir. Brian Duffield

No One Will Save You (2023)

Director - Brian Duffield, Cinematography - Aaron Morton

No One Will Save You (2023)

No One Will Save You's original soundtrack is available on vinyl for $28 via Waxwork Records. The score is composed by Joseph Trapanese (The Witcher, Oblivion, The Raid: Redemption).

Shipping in January, the album is pressed on 180-gram "Invasion" (blue and white swirl) colored vinyl. It's housed in a gatefold jacket with matte satin coating featuring art by AV Print and a 12x12 insert.

No One Will Save You

directed by Brian Duffield, 2023

BLOGTOBER 10/31/2023: NO ONE WILL SAVE YOU

Boy, this is the latest I have ever finished Blogtober. Fortunately I picked a pretty memorable movie for the last entry--and one I don't have much to say about! But what I do have to say is mostly positive. Brian Duffield's saucer invasion thriller is a lot of fun, even if it never fully develops its thesis. Kaitlyn Dever plays a young woman who has been mysteriously ostracized from her rural community, and so she lives out a fantasy of rustic contentment on the outskirts of town. Her peaceful solitude is marred by her nagging grief over a past catastrophe that is never fully articulated, because NO ONE WILL SAVE YOU commits to the gimmick of dialog-free storytelling. This might be sort of annoying--and it definitely doesn't do the left-field ending any favors--but this movie is less about story than spectacle, and sometimes that is just fine.

The polymorphic gray aliens that descend on the heroine's home look great, and the action is legitimately scary and exciting. Actually, I put this movie on one night during a bout of insomnia, thinking it would be a breezy timekiller, and then I found the initial invasion scene so scary I wondered if I'd made a big mistake! But the thing that impressed me more than anything else in NO ONE WILL SAVE YOU is the set design (by Jaime Salazar if I'm not mistaken). I'd hazard to guess that most people think about set design more in terms of appearance than functionality, but the handsome, naturalistic farmhouse in which most of the movie unspools furnishes seemingly endless opportunities for wonderfully surprising chases and fight scenes. Every nook and cranny of the place becomes a hiding spot, a shortcut, a booby trap; each cute, collectible tchotchke becomes a crucial tool or a brutal weapon. While I was watching this movie, I became intensely aware that it takes a special kind of genius to figure out the right architecture to enable the fast-paced, complicated action that makes up most of NO ONE WILL SAVE YOU. I enjoyed this aspect of the film so much that I didn't wind up worrying about the hokey silent movie gimmick, or the fact that the underlying trauma-drama was only half-baked, or that the gonzo ending didn't quite make any sense. Sometimes when you insist on perfection, you deprive yourself of some pleasure that is abundantly available between the flaws--and I think that's a pretty good message to leave you with at the conclusion of this speed run season for Blogtober. Thanks for sticking with it! See you in 2024 (or as soon as I have another urgent judgment to hand down).

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Dir: Brian Duffield Star: Kaitlyn Dever / Ginger Cressman / Zack Duhame

Skull Island Teaser

A group of explorers find themselves shipwrecked on Skull Island ... home of monsters ... home of Kong.

Skull Island stars the voice talents of Mae Whitman, Nicolas Cantu, Darren Barnett, Benjamin Bratt, and Betty Gilpin. Brian Duffield serves as creator, writer, and an executive producer on the series. The animation is by Powerhouse Animation.

Taking place within Legendary’s Monsterverse, Skull Island hits Netflix on June 22, 2023.