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Riya (Eiza González) awakes in her quarters injured and unable to recall anything much. People she vaguely remembers as colleagues have been brutally murdered and the installation is malfunctioning. As she tries to get things working again she begins to get flashes of what happened: it might be that she is responsible.

Soon, Brion (Aaron Paul) arrives from the orbital station to find out why they've gone offline.

No good will come of this.

CW: gore, body horror

This B movie sci-fi horror from Flying Lotus riffs off everything from Event Horizon to The Thing.

There are some nice bits: excellent space suit/exoskeleton designs, a cheery surgery robot in a box that sings a little "sorry for your loss" message after autopsies and just a general air of weirdness.

Sadly the middle is boring as fuck, early on there's a lot of male gaze, with tiny dimly lit sets and Aaron Paul kind of sucks.

As ever though when something just cost $1m I'm willing to cut it a lot of slack and this is sort of OK in a "Shudder Original" kind of way. It delivers exactly on what I imagine they pitched it as so 6/10 and I'd love to see what Flying Lotus can do with more. Much worse movies have been made with much more.