When a phone call and an interview is more creepy than horror gore then you are in for a treat. This movie is amazing IMO.

I don't feel like you explained anything, just described the movie Anyways this is what I think happened: As the old lady said the aliens distracts us from knowing the truth hence the basketball game happening at the same time. Both Fay and the guy (can't remember his name) were chosen from the start to go to the ship and everything that happened was controlled by the aliens to make this happen. The lines said by the old lady is meant to test if people are being controlled which is why she was saying it when they walked in, to test them. The couple in the car was being controlled to carry both Fay and the guy to the alien ship which is why the "spell" was broken when the guy played the tape of the old lady saying the lines I mentioned.

The camera work and long shots are fascinating.

I hope they make more movies in the "Paradox theater" , or hell, make a whole series based on that concept, Since i feel the new TwiligthZone show was a disapointment, and this would make a better show

I liked the part where Fay was describing gadgets that would happen in the future as small talk. This gives evidence to the notion the two/three where selected ahead of time as candidates for abduction. They would adapt more quickly to a futuristic environment. The story has many examples of these premonitions.

I thought that at the end they were incinerated rather than abducted, and the only thing that was left was the radio. and that 'dust' around it, is was actually ashes from them. That would explained the burnt area around it too.

This movie isn't asking too much in interpretation, but I think it has wonderful story-telling and dialogue; Everett and Fay were simply awesome. The portrayals of their characters and their times had a richly detailed veracity to accompany an unabashedly fantastical space alien abduction storyline. Fay on the switchboard - smoothly and properly connecting the front and rear patch cords, responding to supervision lights, hitting the switches to apply ring tone and connect parties through, without making a point of it, just a young 50's operator working her muscle memory... but at the same time capturing small-town operator culture and still playing her part in a sci-fi story. I loved it. Great acting. I can only imagine the actress, Sarah McCormack, thinking "they didn't really ever make phone calls like this, did they? It's nuts!" the whole time. The movie is worth it just for the dialogue and flow. Don't worry about the ending; just enjoy the show.

Don't know about radio but Fay certainly had a career in field sports. Damn you aliens, robbed her of an Olympic medal.

Loved the long scene of Fay on the board first discovering the noise, great acting on her part.

I actually think I have a really cool theory if anyone wants to listen :) In the end we see Fay and Everett holding each other but we don’t see Maddy (the baby), and afterwards we see many ashes on top of the recorder where they were standing. My theory, and hear me out, is that they just wanted the Maddy and incinerated Fay and Everett. The old woman’s kid heard the alien words and walked out to get taken by the “people in the sky”. Maddy was ALSO a kid who had a single mother and was probably very isolated from her tiny town. And the old woman said that was the target. But Maddy wouldn’t have been able to walk out to a spot where they could take her in. So the aliens orchestrated the all of the things that Fay and Everett did to take her in! The babysitter had seen the UFO hover near her house and called Fay to tell her. Fay then took Maddy with Everett and rode with the other couple who told them to get in, to the exact place with they wanted. You can later see that the couple is affected, and “possessed” by the alien words but not Fay and Everett. The “people in the sky” could only take in people who were “possessed” by them, so they wouldn’t want Fay and Everett. So why would they go through this whole process just so Fay and Everett could be burned to ashes? They wanted MADDY! (And if Maddy was in the middle of their embrace she could of been taken after... idk no ones gonna see this comment)

I by pure chance watched it the night it came out, not knowing anything about it and expecting nothing more than basic nightly entertainment, and boy i really enjoyed it, I thought it was a pretty neat flick. The next day i looked it up out of curiosity and found out not only that it was the director's first movie, but that his budget was so low that it wouldn't even cover one day of shooting for any of Disney's crap fest. This of course placed it on a completely different level, which demonstrates an unusual level of talent and ingenuity. Not only he succeeded into making a pretty common story feel fresh and captivating, but he did so with severe limitations, which in turn happened to be the driving force behind it, since the tricks and "hacks" used (hacks in a good way) pretty much make the movie. This proves that good writing and directing are all it takes to make a good product, so while Disney throws hundreds of millions at shit like Artemis Foul, shit that nobody will remember in 5 years if not for how bad it is, actual creatives make great shit for the price of one day in The Mandalorian studios. Epic.

I think the couple in the car (who looked up at the sound of the recording), and the son who disappeared are some type of hybrid alien/human beings. Both Faye and Everett reacted to the couple LOOKING UP when the recorder played the alien words. Their exit from the car was based on the realization that the couple were not what they appeared to be. And that sure changed the tone of things. There are many hints to that theory in the script. Great movie!

The hands are missing from the clock in the radio station at the end.

But was it a chipmunk or a squirrel?

What about the two friends in the car? Didn't they seem exactly like Faye and Everett? That was creepy and made me think it was Faye and Everett older selves (that were abducted)

WOTW War of the worlds.

You didn't explain the ending, you just went over what the movie already showed. I loved this movie! The acting was superb and the characters were so well developed, considering how short the movie is and they had such smart comebacks and were really entertaining to watch. I'd watch a movie of just them having a conversation. Maybe they'll make a 2nd movie (fingers crossed). But idk if I would actually like that if Fay and Everett aren't gonna be in it. I feel bad for Fay and Maddy's mom though, losing both her daughters. And I also felt bad for Mabel when Everett and Fay didn't take her.

One of my best friends wrote the screenplay.

The way Fay basically described iPhones from a 1950s perspective sounded soo scifi. Were so accustomed to them now its normal.

Okay quick fun fact about the long take showing the layout of the town, there are atleast 2 cuts that are blended in well. I went on google maps to find the location of the switchboard, the road they walk on between the school and the switchboard, the highschool, and the radio station, I realized that the IRL locations of the switchboard, and the school are in the same town but much farther apart than they appear but the radio station is in another town IRL also fun fact, since filming the movie the building used as the radio station has been demolished but the industrial area next to it is there IRL and showed me where the building was with some help of old street view images. The cuts I could make out in the long take are when the camera passes next to a house between the switchboard and the highschool cutting to across the street from the school, and then when the camera pans in the gym to the window there is another cut where we switch to across the street from the industrial area by the radio station. All in all it’s very smooth editing. Also you can faintly see the tracks of the go kart carrying the camera from previous takes as the shot is progressing.

After watching the movie, I felt like I just have seen a prequel to Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

Can we please address all the running Fay did across town in the third act? She's like a little track star but w Hushpuppies.

The ship design was handled very well.

I theorized that it wasn't a TV show, rather the Aliens watching people in town? Or that creepy old alien lady who set them up was watching them through the TV.

I have a picture of my mother in her cheerleading days, and, yes, the uniforms actually looked like that.

Yes, cheerleader outfits did look like that! 📣📣

Thank you for the great analysis and explanations. Also the information about the making of the film you provided were great context for its technical achievements.

Watched and enjoyed. Thanks for your review!!

If you remember, Fay said she lives with a single mom. For that woman to lose both of her children mysteriously would be devastating...

I think you missed a few key points. The ending is kind of hinted by the director. 1) The station's name was WOTW = War of the Worlds. 2) The trees were burnt. Something happened in that clearing. Fire is always a sign of hostility. The aliens aren't benign. They're hostile.

I saw this movie last night, and it was amazing. I hope more people cover it.

The words the old lady said as they walked in made sure they were being controlled. The old lady said -say the words to the people you meet. either she knew about the other couple or make sure you say the words to the “People”

Just finished this film. What an amazing surprise! This movie was so perfectly directed, shot, and acted. I really enjoyed it!

not to go full TMA Beholding-Meta, but: what if the aliens made the tv show? Getting into heads, forcing choices, forcing wars, and that really specific camera movement tracking all through the town, through the game, almost voyeuristically. Feels like a form of entertainment.

Good movie. I like what you said about the spaceship being made out of earth materials. Maybe they're us from the future. Sequel?

Everyone in school had a teacher or school staff like the lady in the beginning who tells Everett about the squirrel in the band room.

Great movie, so evocative of the paranoia of the era. But in my opinion, Faye, Everett and the toddler are all dead, reduced to Ash either by the engines of the ship or some weapon, the same as Hollis (remember Mabel said the ground was dry and dusty?). The dust we see at the end is all that's left of them. Only flaw in my suggestion is that if that were the case...there'd be no footprints. So maybe I'm wrong...I kind of hope so as I grew to like the characters.

Very well done movie, best low budget sci fi since Monsters in my opinion.

Ending EXPLAINED! "You figure it out idk lol"

This was a phenomenal movie..absolutely amazing..I felt like the camera/composition represented the "alien"! Loved it!

Okay so yeah. You DID clear up some confusion I was experiencing trying to figure out what was transpiring in the final few minutes of the movie so yeah, thanks for that. Cheers.

3:40 camera actually does cut, it's just a hidden cut/transition if you pay attention to whats happening inside the basket ball while the camera enters (3:35 - 3:37) you'll notice something's slightly off with depth. You don't usually notice it unless you're looking for it.

I thought when you put ending explained in the title you were going to explain the ending my bad

The shot from the switch room to the school to the radio station was really cool.

Really enjoyed this movie, it felt like watching an old movie, but with modern technology. The look feel and dialogue feels like something from the 50s too, which I really liked. I liked how it has an ambiguous ending. I wouldn’t be surprised if there are things that we can’t explain up there watching us

Well the boy and girl ( Fay and Everett) both said how they wanted to get far away from the town earlier in the movie. Also the old lady says something that seems to go under the radar and nobody has caught it yet,,,,, she says "WE WANT IT TO MAKE THE NEWS". when Everett asks if it's okay to record just incase it's a news story. ( WE). Also wether you know it or not I'm just gonna tell you without going into why,, but the old lady is the girl from the train and pay attention to how she uses the word " WITCH" with herself and the story of the girl who stole the horse.

Seems a lot of recent movies have these "think up your own ending because we run out of ideas."

I really wish Amazon released the part 2 of this sosososo good movie.....probably the best Amazon original I have ever seen!!

The whole movie was really well done, but it felt like the pilot episode of a series because the ending was so ambigious.

"Free will is impossible"...Being controlled by aliens...seems like the writers might have been influenced by They Live!

I love lil towns like this and people simple and kind. That's why aleins visit them may be

Mabel Blanche. a perfect 50's name.

The setting of the film is Cayuga, NM. Rod Serling named his production company after the lake in NY where his summer house was. In the classic TZ episode Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up? the bus line that is on the bus is Cayuga. This episode matches up with others that noticed that the radio station WOTW was War of the Worlds.

Well Everett and Fay both said they wanted to leave that small town so ....happy ending?

Hey think story, could you review either Into the night or caliphate on Netflix? Good shows to cover

10:51 I actually googled the history of cheerleading uniforms while watching this 😂

Loved this film! They did an awesome job of slowly building up the atmosphere and suspense. I only wish poor mabel would have been reunited with her son.

Pretty sure they were all incinerated. Maddy may have been abducted, and Everett and Fay were just manipulated to get her there, but someone most definitely got ashed there. The tech used to incinerate them may only affect organic matter, hence the recorder is still there. The footprints (which seemed paradoxical when I first watched it) suggest that "someone" came by afterward to dispose of any evidence. Walked through the ashes to get the camera and the tapes from the recorder (which itself was too big and cumbersome to bother with). In the end, the only witnesses not under opposition control are dust on the wind. Years later people in the town may ask "Remember when those kids disappeared?" They might speculate, and everyone will have their own theories, but ultimately it'll be dismissed as something as unimportant as "Was it squirrel or a chipmunk?"

I really liked this movie(though the constant running exhausted me!), but am wondering if the two young people and the baby were turned to ash as they stood there. The recorder certainly had a melted look to it, and there was a pile of ashes where the three of them stood. But it’s up to the viewer’s imagination, after all!👽🪐✨🛸

Thank you for the video, it was soooooo entertaining. I actually want to go watch this movie now but that’s nothing new. Every Time I watch one of your videos I always wanna go watch the movie; because you just somehow make every part of the movie seem entertaining and captivating lol. 💛💛💛💛

The twighlight zone vibes are cool

I noticed that a lot of people were wearing glasses. Almost everyone

I thought they were vaporized, turned into ashes.

Most underrated part is when Faye flips on the radio, and Everett’s voice gets distorted and the signal interrupts his broadcast. Holy shitballs that’s the most genius and disturbing part!!!

This movie has a sort of charm that you do not normally see in sci-fi movies anymore - not since the 50's anyway. The plot is good, but the characters and ambience are even better. The only off-putting part is all the pre-game jabbering at the very beginning of the movie.

The aliens are us, watching the show....

At the end it looks like the recorder is in something fine like ash, not really dirt. But we also see their footprints in it. So I'm not sure they would have been incinerated, or maybe other people would have been incinerated on that very spot not long before. I don't usually like open endings but this one was finely made.

5:01 unlikley, given the old laddy said they have been coming here for a long time, since she was little, and that her story was oldder than the other caller's story, showing the train kidnapping happened before the military took their crashed ships

Apparently anything circle resembles a suacer or is supposed to be a saucer

If someone could do the things Everett can nowadays, he would not be as cool as he was in the 50’s. I would love to talk as smooth as he can

Can someone explain why at the end there was a pile of Ash with and all about the tape recorder?

Really good movie! Awesome actors those two.

The music was epic... made the film for me

Favorite movie, I just finished it before I looked this up!

They weren't abducted, they were incinerated. Remember in the woods, everything was burned and the ground was ash. When you see the radio tape recorder, the tape was burned, and it was laying in 3 piles of ash. They were killed for investigating.

This movie was surprisingly good... well acted and like a twilight zone movie!

No that's NOT a pile of dust, that's their ashes, they got cremated when the ship took off.

Too funny, i literally just finished watching the movie and came on youtube to get ppls thoughts on it

Damn, Soviets are really advanced in their technology 😂

Any idea about the song? It sounded Greek.

The same feeling that Signs and La frecuencia Kirlian

I loved this movie I heard it because my name is Everett LOL

Funny references with word play: Everett, Ever ET.. WOTF, war of the worlds. On a side note: people in the sky reminded me of a documentary about the sky people and Aztec's people with helmet sculpted in stones, and also a spaceship landing terrain. Does anyone knows the name of that documentary? This movie left us wonder, and that's the beauty of it. I still want to know what the old lady said with those unknown words, do you really think it's just made up?

You Tube poll: Abducted or Vaporized?? I’m team Vaporized

Sounds like She said " must be like newly listener, may/me go far far away".

Great movie, different in a refreshing way🖤 if you love the Twilight Zone you will like this!

6:18 they are listening but they are from far away

Anybody know why he hid the trombone?

Thoroughly enjoyable adventure. I thought that they were disintegrated into a pile of dust. The foot tracks were Fays walking toward Everett resulting in her and baby sibs death too. Witnesses are eliminated, their curiosity got them killed. It was sad. Perfect ending for a Twilight Zone type of morality story. Mabels son was curious too and disappeared leaving the grieving mother unable to accept his death and fantasizing that he was taken. There is no evidence that he was taken, just Mabels hope...aka our hope for Fay and Everett.

Can you do Patal Lok. Please

Question I have not seen: what was up with those 2 random guys crouched in the dark in the beginning in the locker room. They sent that woman to go find Everett/ Emmit. They called Everett into that dark room and apparently they wanted someone else named Emmit. They said they thought Emmit worked at the radio station. Then Everett brushes them off and the movie continues.

Also did anyone notice the weird words at the bottom of the screen at the end of the movie?

I thought the dust was what was left of Fay and Everett.

Just got done watching this flick 2.5 almost 3 stars

I found the ending pretty haunting

"Mable Blanche" think that was the name of my cabbage patch kid lol Loved this little flick! 👽🛸

I don’t think that they were incinerated at the end. Andrew Patterson has said that this was an alien abduction movie and I don’t think he meant just the train passengers and the 9 year old boy. There was a description of circulating winds like a tornado. This might be a connection to the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz where Dorothy is taken to Oz by a tornado. Another connection between the two films is the transition from B&W to color.

Also the radio station is called WOTW,,,......take out the T or move it and it's WOW like as in WOW TELEVISION and Cable. Them going from showing the people in the Movie and then Showing them on T.V represents they're all being watched and know it while also being watched and not knowing it and that goes for everyone is being watched as of right now as well wether you know it or not. IN THE LAND OF THE BLIND THE MAN WITH ONE EYE IS KING!

I think the movie ending was open ended, allowing the viewers to make up their own minds of what happened. For me, even though there are two piles of dust, I believe they were abducted. Something that I took notice of was that earlier at the radio station there was a record of Peter Pan. That was the tipping point to me that the ending was benevolent.

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