Annihilation- An Odyssey that's down to earth.
Its so hard these days to find cosmic horror in the unknown. With the world connected by the global zeitgiest and fear being portrayed in social constructs rather than aliens from outer space. It feels like films such as 2001:A Space Odyssey (1968) and The Thing (1982) aren't leaving the same fear of the existential that they once did when they first came out. So in 2019, we have a contemporary addition to the cosmic horror genre in Alex Garlands latest eerie sci fi flic Annihilation. Based on the trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer, Natalie Portman stars as Lena, a biologist whose husband (Oscar Issac) reappears after being presumed dead now with a strangely different personality. Suddenly his body breaks down as Lena is thrown into an all women expedition lead by Dr Ventress (Jennifer Jason Leigh) into an unknown expanding area called "The Shimmer", which could have the answers that Lena seeks about her estranged husband. Before this movie was even released, there was a