This film was released 2024 by Pacific Pictures. The film revolves around a Los Angeles family....Jack, Lily, and Richard whose lives are turned upside down by entities of a seemingly unknown origin. An incident at work exposes Richard to a substance that he is able to survive from. He then goes directly home and infects there son Jack. In a week, Jack will be leaving to college....his mother and father will be seeing him off. Jack has been upset as he has to go cross country, leaving his girlfriend behind. His mother encounter him in a strange state the next morning and after calling a friend for help, she goes off the rails believing her son is possessed. Eventually she figures out it is her husband, and it was do to exposure to something at work. However when she confronts her husband it is too late, as he has infected his co-workers and are planning something for Jack. Eventually she is able to thwart their plans and save her son.....but everyone else dies....with the entity still around.
The title of the film and poster are misleading as there are no UFO or aliens in this movie at all.
The movie is intriguing and has several concerning tropes hidden within the film, but you have to put up with the film. A big mystery is how the core sample got to Richard without incident. When first shown, his co-worker perished from exposure. Yet someone managed to package the samples without incident and the location was not quarantined off. I guess the USGS is run by a bunch idiots. The guys death was highly unnatural....and things should have been locked down. Second...the substance made itself inert to hide itself....in order to expose itself to a low official in the USGS. There would have been better chances with all the officials at the initial site...during the initial investigation.
The story itself fall on its face as it is centered around Lily who is a clueless and horrible mother of the year. When her son first shows signs of something quite not right....she simply gets him to the shower and tucks him back in bed...has some wine and calls her "spiritual" friend to check things out. Seriously.... your son has blue blotches all over his skin and is deathly cold....you don't call 911 or take him to a hospital? Her friend does the stereotypical white sage burning and BS which provokes the entity to throw a trophy at her. She flees the room and goes and drinks more wine. She figures its above her, and gives Lily and address to contact someone that never ever comes up.
Fast forward through a lot of stupidity which one involves a priest from Glendale that goes and checks it out.....Lily figures it her husband. Eventually the entity threatens her and then does a 360 asking her to come to a party with Jack later that night. When her friends show up possessed she gives them the slip and makes plan to overpower Richard. However it is too late...as he and his co-workers are ready to send Jack off.....but Lily comes in and overdoses her son. The group tries to translocate Jack and his girlfriend.....but everyone drops dead. Jack, Lily.....and the girlfriend manage to survive. Despite them being discovered at a party were several people died....they seem all okay. Right before Jack and Lily leave...the girlfriend is discovered to be possessed.
The film suffers from very poor choices from the mother Lily...who has days to either call the authorities or take Jack to the hospital. When she notices her husband stop taking his medication, again she doesn't do anything. When her husband boss call her regarding Richards absence....from work...she doesn't inform right away about him acting strange..it isn't till days late before it too late does she give an inkling of suspicion.Makes matters worse....the wino mom's big plan was to beat her husband with a baseball bat and overdose her son. although she realizes there are others among Richard's group that can take her son....she completely forgets about that. Ugh....it like those zombie movies were all common sense goes out the window.
However some good parts....the entity is first discovered in a core sample came from goo that apparently was seeded within an Asteroid some billions of years ago. Now what would be in this goo? The most common geological goo is oil....but this pink substance can be a type of fungus/slime. Initially physical contact is need to infect a potential host. However initial exposure cause the first host to burn up and die within minute. The films second exposure has Richard being and idiot in which the goo enter his blood stream through gash in his hand. The third victim, Jack, is exposed when Richard project vomits blacks goo into his son's mouth. The next victim, Monique the spiritualist, has some pores or energy forced into her mouth. Apparently the results cause all of the host to be possessed by an entity...except with Jack and Richard being at a higher functionality. Sadly the entity is confusing as it seems both singular and a collective. However, it is biological in nature and it can override a biological system. Ironically if you see the movie "Cold Storage" 2026 it behaves like that fungus, or you could say like "The Stuff" circa 1985, or even as far back as 1959's Alfred Hitchcock's "Special Delivery" as well. It does state it has a mission, as it was seeded within asteroids an sent to countless worlds.
Sadly whatever this entity is....it is stupid. Lucky for us then. If it where a primitive organism with a basic purpose...it would spread easily. For what ever reason it over complicates its plans and is not very good at reconnaissance and assimilation. Seriously it who plan was to take the Jack....after a week and use a cell phone buried near a hiking trail that is linked to a satellite? Must be a good data plan, cell phone, and awesome battery to get service there. It also wastes a lot of time....doing nothing. Its gone for 8 hours at least, comes home, and goes to bed. It takes an hour drive up to Eaton Canyon to check the phone and then drives around? I get it eventually targets other co-workers...but to do what?
This is where it comes into discussion about possession. The entity here is at least a billion years old. It has telekinetic powers, racial memory, and limited telepathy. It is a biological collective..as the goo is found in the core sample, deep below ground in death valley, the extraction and site, and presumably within the hosts. The organism is able to mentally override a host, with the host being a puppet and mostly suppressed by it. Once the host is dominated the entity has a clear agenda....it can adapt and learn, most likely using the host's abilities. It can express itself and its' desires. Now is it a living organism that has taken over or a chemical interaction that exposes oneself to inter-dimensional energies?
That part leads to LSD, DMT, Psilocybin, and Lanmaoa Asiatica trips. LSD is made from the ergot fungus, while DMT is found with plants. Psilocybin, and Lanmaoa are mushrooms. All four are known to cause hallucinations...or as some believe to allow our consciousness to contact something else. Could this goo...jump starts a process which a physical being comes directly in contact with a hyper-conscious plane of existence and allow a bridge between it? We also seen in various sci-fi media that mycelium can be used as a transport network to bridge space and consciousness. What if this goo does that? Especially considering it survived a billion years...and believes itself still out there in the universe...not to be obsolete biotechnology..
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