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Annihilation (2018)

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Annihilation (2018)	comment	Annihilation is a 2018 sci-fi horror mystery film written and directed by Alex Garland. It is loosely based on Annihilation, the first book of The Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer, and stars Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tessa Thompson, Gina Rodriguez, Oscar Isaac, Benedict Wong, Tuva Novotny, Sonoya Mizuno, and David Gyasi.One day, a mysterious meteorite lands by a lighthouse somewhere in the southern area of the USA. Shortly thereafter, ground zero is surrounded by a strange iridescent shimmer, which is apparently some form of radiation emitted by the meteorite. Repeated attempts by the US government to examine the phenomenon all end in failure, as everyone sent in close — be it people or machines — immediately have their communication equipment go haywire once they cross the border of the affected area, and then they are never seen again. What is more worrying is that "The Shimmer" — now given the official codename "Area X" — is slowly but surely expanding outwards. And while the government can quarantine the area, they have no way of stopping the spread.A soldier by the name of Kane (Isaac) emerges from Area X as the Sole Survivor of his expedition after having been missing in action for twelve months. However, he is clearly disturbed and unable to offer any insight, as he speaks in riddles and soon thereafter collapses into a coma from massive internal bleeding. Lena (Portman), a biologist and Kane's wife, decides to put her name forward on another expedition into the zone in an attempt to figure out what happened to her husband. What she and her team — consisting of psychologist Ventress (Leigh), physicist Josie Radek (Thompson), paramedic Anya (Rodriguez), and geologist Cassie Shepherd (Novotny) — finds is not what any of them expect.The film was released on February 23, 2018 in theaters, with Paramount handling distribution in the United States and China, while Netflix handled international distribution, streaming the film 17 days after it was released in theaters.The trailer can be seen here.Not to be confused with Marvel Comics's Annihilation, or the 2004 War of the Spider Queen novel Annihilation.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_112daba0	comment	Retired Badass: Lena spent 7 years in the military before the raid through the Shimmer.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_113480b7	type	Canon Foreigner
Annihilation (2018) / int_113480b7	comment	Canon Foreigner: The mutant animals, such as the bear, the deer, and the alligator, and the human-shaped trees are original to the film. Except for Ventress, all the other members of the team and Lena's boss are also original. The unnamed interviewer is also likely original, though he may in fact be Control, the protagonist of the second book. In very broad terms Anya echoes the Surveyor and Sheppard the Linguist. The Humanoid doesn't exist in the books, but it fulfills roughly the same function as the Crawler.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_14c04cad	type	Butch Lesbian
Annihilation (2018) / int_14c04cad	comment	Butch Lesbian: Anya is a very muscular woman with short hair who tries to ask Lena out near the beginning of the film. Aside from that, her sexuality doesn't figure very much into her characterization though.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
Annihilation (2018) / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: When Lena runs for the door of the lighthouse, the way that the humanoid presses itself against her body from behind is very reminiscent of sexual assault.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_1869b4b1	type	Unreliable Narrator
Annihilation (2018) / int_1869b4b1	comment	Unreliable Narrator: The bulk of the story comes from Lena recalling what happened to the best of her ability, as all sense of time and reason were jumbled while in the Shimmer. This contributes a lot to the Ambiguous Ending, the Kane who returned from the Shimmer is likely not the original, but when he and Lena embrace both eyes have a fractal glow, implying that this Lena was not the original either.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_18ba2fe	type	Sound-Only Death
Annihilation (2018) / int_18ba2fe	comment	Sound-Only Death: We only see a split-second shot of the bear attacking Cass, and only see her mutilated body in the aftermath. Otherwise we only hear her screaming for help as the bear drags her away.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Annihilation (2018) / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: Like in the book, the movie's title gets dropped near the end. The context is completely different though. Ventress says that Annihilation is the ultimate result of the Shimmer, as the genetic code of everything inside the Shimmer gets reflected upon each other endlessly; eventually nothing will retain form, everything will become nothing. This necessitates its destruction by Lena.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_19ebe383	type	Never Trust a Trailer
Annihilation (2018) / int_19ebe383	comment	Never Trust a Trailer: Similar to other films whose genre is difficult to pin down (i.e. Crimson Peak, It Comes at Night, mother!), the trailer depicts the film as a typical sci-fi horror movie rather than the slow-burning think piece (in the vein of Solaris, Stalker, or the director's own previous work) it actually is.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_1b5c9c48	type	The Blank
Annihilation (2018) / int_1b5c9c48	comment	The Blank: One character has a totally blank face — The Humanoid which fights with Lena during the ending, at least before it starts turning into her. But then changes back to its original form when the real Lena sets off a phosphorus grenade it was holding. "Kane" may have been this at one point.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_1bb67d34	type	Transflormation
Annihilation (2018) / int_1bb67d34	comment	Transflormation: May be the case with the humanoid plants in the town the expedition finds, if Josie's disappearance is anything to go by. The other, less grisly possibility is that they are simply plants which are growing by the genes responsible for the human body plan.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_1e95dd12	type	Adam and Eve Plot
Annihilation (2018) / int_1e95dd12	comment	Adam and Eve Plot: One interpretation of the ending, in which a Lena amalgamated from her all-female squad and a Kane amalgamated from his all-male squad have both been altered by the Shimmer, forming a new species. Bonus points for the Shimmer being a psychedelic Garden of Eden.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_1f6983f7	type	Ambiguous Situation
Annihilation (2018) / int_1f6983f7	comment	An Ambiguous Situation example: Kane (who may or may not be the original) immolates himself with a phosphorus grenade after making it to the lighthouse and the unexplained deaths of his entire squad.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_23568a2a	type	Adaptational Job Change
Annihilation (2018) / int_23568a2a	comment	Adaptational Job Change: Downplayed with Lena. While she's still a biologist like in the books, her specialization has been changed from ecology to cell biology (she's seen teaching students about cancer in the opening; fitting, as the cancer motif recurs throughout the filmnote In the book, there was much more emphasis on Area X as an ecosystem, in line with her profession), and she now has a military background. Of the other members of the expedition, only the psychologist role is kept from the books. While the book team had a linguistnote Who supposedly left the expedition as it started, an anthropologist, and a surveyor, the other three in the film are a medic, a physicist, and a geomorphologist.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_27ba1b50	type	Skull for a Head
Annihilation (2018) / int_27ba1b50	comment	Skull for a Head: The bear lacks skin on its skull.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_2bdae2ae	type	Awesome, but Impractical
Annihilation (2018) / int_2bdae2ae	comment	Awesome, but Impractical: In-Universe. When the team reaches the previous team's FOB, Anya is positively delighted to find a M240B (a General Purpose Machine Gun) left behind by the soldiers. It takes her just a few seconds of holding it to realize the beast is way too heavy and unwieldy to replace her much more manageable assault rifle. A M82 anti-material rifle is briefly seen in the watch tower, and is ignored by the team, presumably also for its weight.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_2e76947a	type	The Topic of Cancer
Annihilation (2018) / int_2e76947a	comment	The Topic of Cancer: The whole film is essentially a cancer metaphor applied to First Contact. A meteorite crashes on a beach, and starts to reform the environment and wildlife around it in a hazardous and aimless manner, right down to the laws of physics. Made explicit by one of the first scenes where the main character gives a lecture about cancerous cells to her class.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_302730a	type	Fusion Dance
Annihilation (2018) / int_302730a	comment	Fusion Dance: Part of the Shimmer's effects include refracting all nature and DNA like a prism, until the life forms within it are merging with each other in ways that are pretty (like the deer with cherry-blossom antlers that Lena sees, or the multiple different kinds of flowers all growing from the same root) and not so pretty (like the bear with a human skull growing out of its head and who screams in Shepherd's voice after it kills her).
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Annihilation (2018) / int_31c5e7fb	type	Starfish Aliens
Annihilation (2018) / int_31c5e7fb	comment	Starfish Aliens: The entity that created the Shimmer is a bizarre being indeed. Seemingly arriving to Earth in a meteor at the start of the film, it first "appears" at the climax possessing Dr. Ventress, then explodes out of her body as an amorphous cloud of swirling colors, before assimilating a drop of Lena's blood to build itself a humanoid body with featureless, iridescent skin that mimics her every move.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out: The tower, the Crawler, and the moaning creature in the swamp are all cut, with their functions being fulfilled by the lighthouse, the Humanoid, and the mutated animals respectively.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_396e1c2a	type	Face Death with Dignity
Annihilation (2018) / int_396e1c2a	comment	Face Death with Dignity: Josie is completely content with her fate to become one with the Shimmer's environment. The real(?) Kane is eerily calm as he records his last video log and sets himself on fire with a phosphorus grenade.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_3aec9e5e	type	Properly Paranoid
Annihilation (2018) / int_3aec9e5e	comment	Properly Paranoid: The leaders of the Southern Reach won't let Lena leave and, after she emerges from the Shimmer, won't be in the same room as her without a hazmat suit. Given the stakes, they have every reason to be wary.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
Annihilation (2018) / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: We know from the beginning of the film that Lena's the only one who's going to make it out of Area X. The movie does throw a wrench into that with the reveal of the humanoid at the lighthouse, causing you to wonder for a bit if it is really Lena being interrogated. But then Lena destroys the humanoid, putting that idea to rest. Maybe.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_3c7ccb69	type	No Body Left Behind
Annihilation (2018) / int_3c7ccb69	comment	No Body Left Behind: Happens twice. Josie, after discovering plants growing on her body, walks away from Lena and is consumed by the Shimmer. Lena chases after her, but finds nothing, not even one of the human-shaped trees. Ventress dissolves into a ball of glowing, shapeshifting fractals at the end.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
Annihilation (2018) / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: The current expedition team consists of five scientists who are armed with M4A1 carbines — but only one of them has had any military training (Lena, the biologist with a background in the U.S. Army). When the mutated crocodile attacks, the other four spray bullets in its general direction but fail to make meaningful hits, until Lena focuses well-aimed kill shots at its head. Of course, the earlier expeditions of trained soldiers didn't last very long inside Area X either - it isn't the mutated wildlife that killed most of them... During the mutated bear's first attack, at the old military base, they similarly fail to hit it — a fast-moving target at night in the middle of a pitch-dark wilderness. Yes, that machine gun is really heavy. Just ask Anya.note Before you start thinking Anya just didn't have the power to haul it, the M240B is 27 pounds (12 kg) not including ammo. Just hauling one around for a long period of time is taxing, never mind being on a long march and having to fight.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_3f45f1e6	type	Adaptational Heroism
Annihilation (2018) / int_3f45f1e6	comment	Adaptational Heroism: In the books, the Southern Reach is a shadowy, duplicitous and borderline malevolent organization populated by people slowly going mad and using extremely unethical practices on its volunteers. In the film, it is simply a secret government agency of people honestly trying to save the world and keeping nothing back from their volunteers. In the book, the psychologist has ulterior motives as a member of the Southern Reach. In the movie, Ventress is simply a scientist who wants to see what is at the lighthouse before she dies of cancer.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_40d1bc9d	type	Ambiguous Clone Ending
Annihilation (2018) / int_40d1bc9d	comment	Ambiguous Clone Ending: It is heavily implied that the Kane who returned is a doppelganger of the original Kane. The same could possibly be said for the Lena that returned. Although the fact that Kane didn't die when the rest of the Shimmer disintegrated makes it even more confusing...
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Annihilation (2018) / int_42215dce	type	Ambiguous Ending
Annihilation (2018) / int_42215dce	comment	Ambiguous Ending: Crosses over with Bittersweet Ending. The Shimmer has vanished and Lena survives (maybe), but Lena's team members are likely dead, Kane might actually be another Humanoid like the one that "fought" with Lena, and it's implied that Lena may have acquired some of her own oddities in the Shimmer, as their irises both swirl right before the end credits...
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Annihilation (2018) / int_454b2f2b	type	Secretly Dying
Annihilation (2018) / int_454b2f2b	comment	Secretly Dying: Ventress decided to enter Area X on account of having terminal cancer.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_4655ec83	type	Important Haircut
Annihilation (2018) / int_4655ec83	comment	Important Haircut: In flashbacks, Kane has Oscar Isaac's naturally curly hair, but when he shows up at Lena's house in the beginning his hair is slicked back and down. This is one of the first hints that he may not be the same person who went in.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_466e561	type	Marked Change
Annihilation (2018) / int_466e561	comment	Marked Change: During the frame narrative, Lena is seen with a tattoo on her arm that isn't present before she went into the Shimmer. The tattoo was Anya's at one point, and seems to have migrated over onto Lena's forearm during her time within Area X. Not only that, but the same tattoo is also visible on the soldier that Kane vivisects, both in the video and in his remains found in the swimming pool.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_47f5fe7d	type	Inscrutable Aliens
Annihilation (2018) / int_47f5fe7d	comment	Inscrutable Aliens: The Shimmer is alien in every respect. There's no apparent motive to its behavior, no way to communicate with it, and it doesn't even possess a form in the way humans understand. Lena concludes at the end it may never have even been aware of her or anyone else.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_48c99e19	type	Death by Adaptation
Annihilation (2018) / int_48c99e19	comment	Death by Adaptation: In the movie, no previous expedition returned alive. However in the book, Area X has been in existence much earlier and there have been successful expeditions into the outer regions of the zone which helped establish the rules for later expeditions.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
Annihilation (2018) / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: The film is full of beautiful shots of Area X, courtesy of Mark Digby's production design and Rob Hardy's cinematography.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_4a57732a	type	Friendless Background
Annihilation (2018) / int_4a57732a	comment	Friendless Background: Ventress apparently has no family or notable social life outside of the Southern Reach.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_4ab9c868	comment	Pretty Little Headshots: Subverted when Josie shoots the bear. She fires multiple times into its skull at near point blank range and blows a massive hole in the side of its head. It still takes a little while for the creature to die after that.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_4ac8b81f	type	Humans Are the Real Monsters
Annihilation (2018) / int_4ac8b81f	comment	Humans Are the Real Monsters: The main theme of the film is about the propensity of humans to act in self-destructive ways and our tendencies to cause irreparable harm to our environment. The endlessly possible scenarios of an extraterrestrial invasion are unsettling, but the undiscovered depths of our own minds can be even scarier. While the extraterrestrial Shimmer is portrayed as utterly amoral, all the humans in the film are shown to have masochistic and malicious tendencies, tendencies that lead to nearly everyone's deaths and cause even the Shimmer to destroy itself as it learns to mimic them.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: One that's shocking not so much for the words themselves as it is for who says them.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: One that ends the movie: Lena's eyes flickering with light in the same way Kane's did, implying that both of them may have been cloned by the shimmer.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_4ef92d0b	comment	The Atoner: Implied. Ventress blames herself for the deaths of all the men she's sent into the Shimmer, and Lena blames herself for Kane going MIA, thinking he knowingly volunteered for a suicide mission because he found out about her affair.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: Prevalent throughout the film. In a found footage tape, a soldier from the previous expedition has his belly cut open to reveal that his intestines have transformed into eels, and his mutated corpse is later found by the other team. Josie's body slowly becomes covered in plants before she disappears. Dr. Ventress' body is transformed into a fractal (and before that, before she notices Lena has entered the room, though partially shadowed, her face is clearly warped, with her eyes apparently gone). Everyone on the team, and the teams before them, gets modified on the genetic level; the flesh of those who live long enough literally moves and swirls about. The bear has a grotesquely distended skull with no skin on it, and it also appears to have a human skull growing out of the side of its head.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_50f5dabe	type	Reincarnation
Annihilation (2018) / int_50f5dabe	comment	Reincarnation: Vaguely the result of dying in the Shimmer, with one's consciousness being "refracted" by it instead of being lost. When Cass dies, it's implied her consciousness ends up split — her suffering going to the bear that killed her and the rest ending up in a pair of deer found near her corpse. At the end, the "Lena" and "Kane" who leave the Shimmer show traits of several members of their respective teams, implying this is the case for them as well.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_553cbdc2	type	Eyeless Face
Annihilation (2018) / int_553cbdc2	comment	Eyeless Face: When Lena finds her in the basement of the Lighthouse, Ventress's mutations appear to have smoothed over her eyes. The bear appears to be blind, as its Skull for a Head has only one left eye. And although it's very hard to see in the dark lighting, it appears to be a human eye, too.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_588d6b3e	type	Vasquez Always Dies
Annihilation (2018) / int_588d6b3e	comment	Vasquez Always Dies: Downplayed. The Butch Lesbian Anya is the least feminine of the group and also gets the most brutal onscreen death. That said, almost everybody dies in this film.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_59a9605d	type	Never Smile at a Crocodile
Annihilation (2018) / int_59a9605d	comment	Never Smile at a Crocodile: Especially if it's a mutated alligator with shark teeth, as Josie finds out the hard way.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_5a3b8032	type	The Un-Reveal
Annihilation (2018) / int_5a3b8032	comment	The Unreveal: Anya suggests there are two possibilities for what happened to the rest of Kane's squad, that they were either killed by some kind of mutant inside the Shimmer, or that they went insane and killed each other. The only one of them whose fate the audience learns, other than Kane inside the lighthouse, and even that is never properly clarified, is the guy who was (apparently willingly) vivisected by Kane after his intestines turned into a living organism, and even then, we don't know whether that was actually what killed him.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_5a40d6a	type	Adaptation Distillation
Annihilation (2018) / int_5a40d6a	comment	Adaptation Distillation: The film greatly condenses the plot of the novel while still maintaining its tone and atmosphere. Garland described his writing process as "adapting a memory of the book", and deliberately took the story in his own direction with the original author's permission. The tower and Crawler are omitted, with their functions being merged with the lighthouse. The writing on the walls of the tower as well as the pile of journals from past expeditions are also omitted, with their functions being fulfilled by the video messages the team finds. Almost all of the drama involving the Southern Reach itself is excluded, giving the impression of a much more stable and competent organization than the one in the books. Hypnosis is mentioned, but it's not as major a plot point as in the novels, and the meaning of the final Title Drop is changed as well. The journey through Area X itself is more of a straightforward River of Insanity plot, whereas the novel featured a more gradual deterioration of the mission as the team members either disappeared or turned on each other. Deaths of team members are more sudden and violent, and the team comes face-to-face with more obviously bizarre and threatening monsters such as the bear, which makes for a faster-paced story overall.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_5d5cc3fd	type	Through the Eyes of Madness
Annihilation (2018) / int_5d5cc3fd	comment	Through the Eyes of Madness: In-Universe. Since no one but Lena actually saw the bear that took Cassie, Anya accuses Lena of killing Cass herself and either outright lying or hallucinating the bear. Of course, Anya finds out that the bear is very real soon enough, the hard way.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_5e105542	type	Magic Genetics
Annihilation (2018) / int_5e105542	comment	Magic Genetics: The Shimmer seemingly mutates DNA of organisms within it to produce hybrids that should be impossible.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_5ee26f31	type	Adaptation Amalgamation
Annihilation (2018) / int_5ee26f31	comment	Adaptation Amalgamation: Although mainly inspired by the first book in the Southern Reach trilogy, the plot point of Ventress wanting to see what's in the Shimmer/Area X before she dies of cancer comes from Acceptance, the third book.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_5ee6a992	type	Oh, and X Dies
Annihilation (2018) / int_5ee6a992	comment	Oh, and X Dies: In the very first scene, Lena tells the interrogator that Shepherd and Thorensen did not survive the mission into the Shimmer, and that the other two's fates were...unclear.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_5f146203	type	Dissonant Serenity
Annihilation (2018) / int_5f146203	comment	Dissonant Serenity: Josie, Ventress, and the original(?) Kane are all creepily calm during their deaths. The soldier on Kane's team in the first Apocalyptic Log remains amazingly calm while Kane is (apparently with his consent) vivisecting the man to reveal that his organs are moving on their own. The complete lack of screaming or crying from the poor guy arguably makes it all the worse.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_603f1a80	type	Pragmatic Adaptation
Annihilation (2018) / int_603f1a80	comment	Pragmatic Adaptation: The film was approached as a standalone, while changing some elements from the original novel to fit in the movie. Among the elements excised are the tower, the Crawler, the "Where lies the strangling fruit..." phrase, and the subplot about the psychologist hypnotizing the group.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
Annihilation (2018) / int_6163afd9	comment	Reliably Unreliable Guns: During the mutant croc attack, Anya's M4A1 jams on her. Holy fuck indeed.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_61a503a7	type	Hell Is That Noise
Annihilation (2018) / int_61a503a7	comment	Hell Is That Noise: The bear's roars, which are mixed with Shepherd's dying screams of agony... The movie's score goes berserk when Lena encounters the Humanoid.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
Annihilation (2018) / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: The remains of the man Kane's team vivisects have the same forearm tattoo as appears on Lena and Anya. At one point we get a quick, out-of-context shot of an intense bright light that, in hindsight, is revealed to be the glowing, shifting, fractal...thing that Ventress becomes.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_63ee8101	type	Reclaimed by Nature
Annihilation (2018) / int_63ee8101	comment	Reclaimed by Nature: Has happened behind the Shimmer.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Annihilation (2018) / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: During the bear encounter, Anya deliberately fires her rifle over the head of her teammates to attract the bear's attention and prevent herself from hitting her teammates, knowing that the bear would probably kill her in the process.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_652bf890	type	Drone of Dread
Annihilation (2018) / int_652bf890	comment	The movie's score goes berserk when Lena encounters the Humanoid.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_65e9d9df	type	Fooled by the Sound
Annihilation (2018) / int_65e9d9df	comment	Fooled by the Sound: After cracking and taking Lena, Josie, and Ventress hostage, Anya is stopped from starting on them with a knife when she hears Shepherd screaming for help outside. It's the mutated bear that killed Shepherd, now somehow mimicking her voice.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_663f35c0	type	Only One Name
Annihilation (2018) / int_663f35c0	comment	Only One Name: Lena and Kane (unless Kane is their last name, although it would be pretty weird for Lena to exclusively refer to her husband by his last name). The roster for Kane's team is at one point listed as "Peyton, Mayer, Kane, Shelley, Taylor", which heavily implies Kane is his last name. Since both Kane and Lena are ex-military, it's possible that's how they met (this seems to be supported by a photograph of the two of them outside somewhere with both wearing their uniforms.) If they first met in a military surrounding they probably got so used to referring to and hearing each other called by their last names that it may have just stuck. Some real life military couples do indeed refer to each other by last name only as it's what they're used to calling each other from their time spent in the forces.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_6654b17b	type	Facial Horror
Annihilation (2018) / int_6654b17b	comment	Facial Horror: The bear, which seemingly has an exposed skull as part of its face, as well as Anya after it tears her jaw off.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_666648a3	type	Hostile Terraforming
Annihilation (2018) / int_666648a3	comment	Hostile Terraforming: What Area X appears to be doing to the Earth. In the film, it's repeatedly compared to a cancer.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_6700b479	type	Hybrid Monster
Annihilation (2018) / int_6700b479	comment	Hybrid Monster: The alligator Lena shot dead has shark-like rows of teeth, and the bear has not only part of a human skull growing out of its head but also screams in Shepherd's voice.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_6a1c2a6	type	Cosmic Horror Story
Annihilation (2018) / int_6a1c2a6	comment	Cosmic Horror Story: A strange and unknowable alien presence has turned a harmless coastline town into a place where all signals (be it radio signals or DNA) are reflected back into itself again and again, mutating all life within again and again. And the site is only growing bigger, the worse case scenario being the mutation of all life on the planet into a chaotic bramble beyond human comprehension.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
Annihilation (2018) / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: Anya breaks down, becomes paranoid and ties up and holds the remaining party members bound and gagged at gunpoint. Considering that she discovered that Lena and Ventress had been lying about Kane all along, one cannot easily blame her.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_6b3c357e	type	Ivy League for Everyone
Annihilation (2018) / int_6b3c357e	comment	Ivy League for Everyone: Adult staff variation. Lena is introduced as a professor at Johns Hopkins, and Josie is fresh off a postdoctoral position at Cambridge. Both are used to characterize them as intelligent.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Annihilation (2018) / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: After seeing the gruesome way in which Anya and Cass have died, as well as the mutated bear mimicking Cass's voice, Josie decides to avoid that fate, allowing the Shimmer to overtake her completely and turn her into one of the tree people. Kane, having lost all sense of who he really is to the Shimmer's mutation, decides to immolate himself with a phosphorus grenade. It's not clear if the Kane who killed himself is the real one or a clone. The humanoid avatar of the Shimmer, though lacking in independent will, copies a suicidal urge given to it by Lena through another phosphorus grenade. The fire persists far past the phosphorus' real burn time and is copied through the whole of the Shimmer, destroying it.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_6ee10e0	type	My Greatest Failure
Annihilation (2018) / int_6ee10e0	comment	My Greatest Failure: Lena eventually realizes that Kane accepted the mission to investigate Area X as a form of suicide after he discovered she was cheating on him, driving her to tears.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_704d7e91	type	No Ontological Inertia
Annihilation (2018) / int_704d7e91	comment	No Ontological Inertia: Played with. Played straight, in that after Lena tricks the Humanoid clone into killing itself, the crystal trees outside the lighthouse fall apart and the Shimmer itself vanishes. Subverted, however, in that the rest of the squad who lost their lives remain dead. Also played with regarding Kane, who immediately heals from his life-threatening injuries after the Shimmer. What's not answered for sure is whether he's a clone of the real Kane, or if he is a clone, why he didn't die with the rest of the Shimmer.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_71748a39	type	Named by the Adaptation
Annihilation (2018) / int_71748a39	comment	Named by the Adaptation: None of the characters in the book were named, so as a necessity, they were given names for the film — Lena is the biologist, Dr. Ventress is the psychologist. Instead of an anthropologist and a surveyor, we now have Josie the physicist and Cass the geomorphologist. A new character, Anya the medic, was made to round out the cast.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
Annihilation (2018) / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: Upon arriving at the FOB that was abandoned by Kane's team, Lena's team takes the wise choice of sleeping up in the abandoned guard tower, high above the ground where no threats can get to them and they have an excellent vantage point of the entire base — but instead of doing the sensible thing of having someone stand on the balcony outside the tower cabin, the person who's put on guard duty takes a shift on the ground for no apparent reason, right next to the perimeter fence where visibility is either non-existent or so close that by the time any threats are spotted, it's too late, with only a small book light and a single pair of night vision binoculars to see. Ironically, it's neither Lena nor Ventress who gets taken and killed by the bear, but Shepherd, when she goes down to check on the other two.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_72d31973	type	Surreal Horror
Annihilation (2018) / int_72d31973	comment	Surreal Horror: One half of the movie's theme, combining it with Psychological Horror and First Contact.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_736d791f	type	Adaptational Badass
Annihilation (2018) / int_736d791f	comment	Adaptational Badass: The expedition is a lot more powerful than their novel counterparts. The novel had four members for the expedition while there are five for the movie's party. In the book, the team carried pistols and only the Surveyor had an assault rifle (and it was something slapped together from 30-year-old parts) while each member in the movie was carrying an assault rifle. Finally, the team was able to bring high-tech electronics over (and although in the end they're all useless, a vital clue about the Shimmer is provided from thinking what makes them useless), whereas in the book electronics were strictly forbidden as Area X would attack technology that was too high-tech.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_7453bc5b	type	Spared by the Adaptation
Annihilation (2018) / int_7453bc5b	comment	Spared by the Adaptation: In the book, the Biologist's husband is dead by the time the story begins, having died of cancer after having returned from Area X. In the film, he's alive for at least a little while after he's returned. He survives the entire film, but it's ambiguous as to whether he's the real deal.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_751fa24e	type	Missing Time
Annihilation (2018) / int_751fa24e	comment	Missing Time: After entering the Shimmer, the expedition wakes up with no memory of what happened after they went in. They check their supplies and find several days worth of food missing, indicating that they've lost that much time.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_7a1856ba	type	I Reject Your Reality
Annihilation (2018) / int_7a1856ba	comment	I Reject Your Reality: On seeing the video of a soldier whose internal organs have come alive, Anya insists that it's just a trick of the light, yet refuses to look at the video again.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_7d3f1d63	type	The Ending Changes Everything
Annihilation (2018) / int_7d3f1d63	comment	The Ending Changes Everything: In the very last shot of the movie, Lena's eyes flicker with light, suggesting this may not be the original Lena who returned.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_80251be3	type	How We Got Here
Annihilation (2018) / int_80251be3	comment	How We Got Here: The film opens with Lena in the compound and recounting the events, and what happened to the rest of the group.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_82accf22	type	Gainax Ending
Annihilation (2018) / int_82accf22	comment	Gainax Ending: It gets pretty trippy once Lena reaches the lighthouse.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_8344209e	type	BFG
Annihilation (2018) / int_8344209e	comment	A M82 anti-material rifle is briefly seen in the watch tower, and is ignored by the team, presumably also for its weight.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_86ae1278	type	Adaptational Dumbass
Annihilation (2018) / int_86ae1278	comment	Adaptational Dumbass: A really bizarre example; in the books Area X was a Genius Loci that was implied to be acting according to its own inscrutable will, while the film makes it more analogous to a cancer cell, mindlessly changing and destroying everything with no real intent or plan.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_8774fb47	type	Eldritch Abomination
Annihilation (2018) / int_8774fb47	comment	Eldritch Abomination Everything about The Shimmer violates all human understanding of the workings of the world as we know it, its motivations — if it even has any — are completely incomprehensible to humans, and madness has been known to occur to those who spend too long in its domain. The horrific human remains messed up together at the abandoned U.S. Army base could make even The Human Centipede blush!
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Annihilation (2018) / int_89b8822f	type	Go Mad from the Revelation
Annihilation (2018) / int_89b8822f	comment	Go Mad from the Revelation: The Shimmer does this to any of the teams that enter it. Notable examples include the video recording of Kane and his fellow soldiers, Anya tying up the rest of the team after feeling betrayed by Lena and Ventress goes from being a nearly emotionless commander at the beginning to a Dr. Weir-esque raving lunatic at the end with the Lighthouse.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_8b6e8d7	type	Anachronic Order
Annihilation (2018) / int_8b6e8d7	comment	Anachronic Order: The movie opens In Medias Res with Lena being interrogated over what happened, the narrative then jumps to the beginning of the primary story of how Kane returned and why Lena got involved with the expedition to the Shimmer. At different points, the story jumps back to the interrogation, while also showing flash-back scenes of the times before Kane left and of Lena dealing with his disappearance. It has the effect of not knowing exactly when a certain scene takes place, and needs a Once More, with Clarity, specifically Lena's affair with Daniel.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_8cd097d1	type	River of Insanity
Annihilation (2018) / int_8cd097d1	comment	The journey through Area X itself is more of a straightforward River of Insanity plot, whereas the novel featured a more gradual deterioration of the mission as the team members either disappeared or turned on each other. Deaths of team members are more sudden and violent, and the team comes face-to-face with more obviously bizarre and threatening monsters such as the bear, which makes for a faster-paced story overall.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_8d407165	type	Human Architecture Horror
Annihilation (2018) / int_8d407165	comment	Human Architecture Horror: When exploring the FOB after viewing the vivisection video, the protagonists discover the eventual fate of the man disemboweled by Kane: his corpse has been fused with fungal-like growth on the wall (the lower half of his body horizontally lying near the ground, while his torso and his skull (separated) are glued to higher areas of the wall.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_8d718b9e	type	Bears Are Bad News
Annihilation (2018) / int_8d718b9e	comment	Bears Are Bad News: A mutated bear kills Cass at the abandoned base and later kills Anya at the house before being shot dead. For bonus points, it can also imitate a person's voice to lure out its prey.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Annihilation (2018) / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Anya, after discovering the truth about Lena's true relationship with her husband, the lone survivor of the Shimmer, ties her and the other two survivors up and threatens to cut them open with a knife. She is promptly mauled to death by the mutated bear, which rips her lower jaw off.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_8fd7af48	type	Sir Swears-a-Lot
Annihilation (2018) / int_8fd7af48	comment	Sir Swears-a-Lot: None of the cast is particularly swearing-averse, but Anya in particular drops F-bombs like nobody's fucking business.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_94d0eb61	type	Lighthouse Point
Annihilation (2018) / int_94d0eb61	comment	Lighthouse Point: The apparent origin of Area X is in a lighthouse on the coast. This may or may not be the true reason for the Shimmer's spread, having copied the lighthouse in form and function and began broadcasting itself like a lighthouse broadcasts a beam of light.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_9600368d	type	Behind the Black
Annihilation (2018) / int_9600368d	comment	Behind the Black: Lena doesn't notice the camera tripod Kane left behind in the Lighthouse until the camera pans to show it, despite it being completely un-hidden in the middle of a bare white room.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_974b47a7	type	Men Are the Expendable Gender
Annihilation (2018) / int_974b47a7	comment	Men Are the Expendable Gender: Inverted. Out of the all-female team, only Lena makes it out of the shimmer, and it's unclear whether the Lena that returns is actually the same one that went in. At least one copy of Kane kills himself in the Lighthouse, but it's not 100% certain that it was the original.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_97d54bb0	type	Tragic Keepsake
Annihilation (2018) / int_97d54bb0	comment	Tragic Keepsake: After Cass's death, Anya takes her stuffed animal keychain.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_99298c71	type	Better to Die than Be Killed
Annihilation (2018) / int_99298c71	comment	Better to Die than Be Killed: After the horrific deaths of Cass and Anya, as well as not being motivated to continue as Lena and Ventress are, Josie gives in to the Shimmer, most likely becoming one of the people-shaped plants. An Ambiguous Situation example: Kane (who may or may not be the original) immolates himself with a phosphorus grenade after making it to the lighthouse and the unexplained deaths of his entire squad.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_99db72ee	type	Immune to Bullets
Annihilation (2018) / int_99db72ee	comment	Immune to Bullets: Lena immediately empties her assault rifle into the Humanoid at the moment of its birth, but the bullets just bounce off to become part of the creature's structure.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_9a5ae2a2	type	More Teeth than the Osmond Family
Annihilation (2018) / int_9a5ae2a2	comment	More Teeth than the Osmond Family: The mutated alligator has rows upon rows upon rows of teeth.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_9bd8f6c8	type	Nested Mouths
Annihilation (2018) / int_9bd8f6c8	comment	Nested Mouths: Played with. The mutated bear not only has a human skull fused into the left side of its own skull, behind-the-scenes material shows that it has human jaws protruding from the inside of its mouth.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_9bee1a7f	type	Eldritch Location
Annihilation (2018) / int_9bee1a7f	comment	Eldritch Location: Area X, a mutated landscape spanning an entire coastline that is both beautiful and terrifying.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_9c1f758a	type	Kill It with Fire
Annihilation (2018) / int_9c1f758a	comment	Kill It with Fire: How Lena dealt with the Humanoid and — in turn — the lighthouse. It was also the method that Lena's husband (or perhaps Kane's clone) used to off himself.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_9c5e78d0	type	Kill the Cutie
Annihilation (2018) / int_9c5e78d0	comment	Kill the Cutie: Sweet, motherly Cassie Shepherd is the friendliest of the party, and gets along with Lena the best out of anyone. Naturally, she's the one who gets not only mauled, but absorbed by the bear.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_9cede50e	type	Toplessness from the Back
Annihilation (2018) / int_9cede50e	comment	Toplessness from the Back: Lena is implied nude in one scene — while she's having sex with Dan — and is only shown from the back.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Annihilation (2018) / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: This line from Ventress: At the beginning of the movie when Dan approaches Lena about attending the barbeque at his house, he steps very close to her and rubs her arm at one point in their conversation. Lena doesn't quite move to stop him either... We later find out that Lena had an affair with Dan during her (and his) marriage, causing Kane to volunteer to enter The Shimmer as a form of suicide once he finds out.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_9d17b859	type	Made of Iron
Annihilation (2018) / int_9d17b859	comment	Made of Iron: The Humanoid in its original form can take quite a beating. Shrugging off multiple assault rifle rounds and a phosphorus grenade before eventually self-destructing, apparently due to having absorbed Lena's self-destructive mindset.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_9d1cc720	type	Barbie Doll Anatomy
Annihilation (2018) / int_9d1cc720	comment	Barbie Doll Anatomy: Subverted with Doppelganger at the end. A majority of its body is mostly featureless but it does seem to have what looks like female genitalia.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_a2cbad1	type	Half-Human Hybrid
Annihilation (2018) / int_a2cbad1	comment	Half-Human Hybrid: This is implied to what has happened to Lena at the end, evident by her glowing eyes.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_a412cd2b	type	Lens Flare
Annihilation (2018) / int_a412cd2b	comment	Lens Flare: There are several examples of the horizontal line version.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_a5a6d7b3	type	Mutants
Annihilation (2018) / int_a5a6d7b3	comment	Mutants: Lifeforms inside the zone are "stuck in a continuous mutation". Everyone who enters the Shimmer is affected in this way, as the area refracts light waves, radio waves, and even biological matter like a prism.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_a5e71bfb	type	Abandoned Camp Ruins
Annihilation (2018) / int_a5e71bfb	comment	Abandoned Camp Ruins: It's made clearer here than in the book that the Lighthouse is an abandoned camp for the previous expedition, where Lena finds the videotapes from her husband and which is also stained in blood.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_a5fb0d24	type	Healing Factor
Annihilation (2018) / int_a5fb0d24	comment	Healing Factor: Starting from the moment the Shimmer is destroyed, Kane goes from multiple organ failure and total unresponsiveness to being healthy, conscious, and lucid in a matter of hours.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_a806691d	type	Casanova Wannabe
Annihilation (2018) / int_a806691d	comment	Casanova Wannabe: When the team first meets Lena, Shepherd makes fun of Anya for apparently hitting on every woman in the base — Lena included. Though it's implied this has a lot to do with the suicide mission they are about to go on.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_a8a04f6f	type	And I Must Scream
Annihilation (2018) / int_a8a04f6f	comment	And I Must Scream Horrifyingly, despite mauling her to death, the fact that the bear has absorbed enough of Shepherd's DNA to mimic her dying screams seems to imply that part of her consciousness might still be alive inside it. A less disturbing and more pragmatic explanation may be that by ripping out its victim's throat (something seen with Shepherd's body) the bear can assimilate the vocal cords of its victims and mimics the distress call they made just before death to lure in more prey. Whatever the hell happened to the poor man at the abandoned U.S. Army base...
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Annihilation (2018) / int_aa30e350	type	Sole Survivor
Annihilation (2018) / int_aa30e350	comment	Sole Survivor: Kane is the only survivor of his expedition, and he's barely hanging on by the time Lena enters Area X. Lena is the only survivor of her own journey into the Shimmer, although the ending casts serious doubt on whether either of them is the same person that came in.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_ad22fa80	type	Apocalyptic Log
Annihilation (2018) / int_ad22fa80	comment	The soldier on Kane's team in the first Apocalyptic Log remains amazingly calm while Kane is (apparently with his consent) vivisecting the man to reveal that his organs are moving on their own. The complete lack of screaming or crying from the poor guy arguably makes it all the worse.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_ad982e04	type	Super-Persistent Predator
Annihilation (2018) / int_ad982e04	comment	Super-Persistent Predator: The mutated bear serves as the primary physical threat faced by the group, although it's not the focus of the film and is dealt with well before the final act. It even tracks the group over a full day's hiking to attack them at night. There exists a horrifying possibility that the bear's persistence is the result of it having absorbed part of Cass' consciousness, specifically the part of her that was in pain and fear as it killed her.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_b06bbf4b	type	Be Careful What You Wish For
Annihilation (2018) / int_b06bbf4b	comment	Be Careful What You Wish For: As one character puts it:
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Annihilation (2018) / int_b1346878	type	Fate Worse than Death
Annihilation (2018) / int_b1346878	comment	Fate Worse than Death: Being mauled to death by the bear is bad enough for poor Shepherd, but the fact that all of its vocalizations sound like her dying screams might imply that some of her consciousness is still inside the damned thing.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_b1a7cd14	type	Tap on the Head
Annihilation (2018) / int_b1a7cd14	comment	Tap on the Head: Anya knocks out Lena with one of these before tying her up.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_b2ceabcd	type	Nice Day, Deadly Night
Annihilation (2018) / int_b2ceabcd	comment	Nice Day, Deadly Night: Downplayed. The trip through the Shimmer has its fair share of daylight scares (including, yeah, a monster attack), but the majority of the flat-out fatal encounters occur at night.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_b486877f	type	Squick
Annihilation (2018) / int_b486877f	comment	In a found footage tape, a soldier from the previous expedition has his belly cut open to reveal that his intestines have transformed into eels, and his mutated corpse is later found by the other team.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_b5060b63	type	The Lad-ette
Annihilation (2018) / int_b5060b63	comment	The Lad-ette: Anya — the muscular, tattooed Butch Lesbian and Tank-Top Tomboy with the foulest mouth out of the party.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Annihilation (2018) / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: While most suicidally stupid moves can be blamed on people suffering from severe psychological distress (and potential brain scrambling), there is at least one absolutely qualifying event: the bivouac at the old Southern Reach HQ. Getting out of a ground-floor room and making camp in a guard tower at least 50 feet off the ground with a single point of access, unimpeded visibility, and a working door - perfect! The same team setting an observation post on the ground in an open kiosk with no doors that provides only partial cover and with a light guaranteed to wreck night vision and impair NV optics, stationing only one person at a time to ensure there's nobody to provide 360 observation and buddy support - terminally stupid. Made worse by the fact that they've already been through encounters with dangerous creatures at this point. Oh, and one of the team is ex-Special Forces.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_b869b5b1	type	Color Motif
Annihilation (2018) / int_b869b5b1	comment	Refraction is a recurring visual element throughout the movie. Mostly it's color refraction, as seen inside the Shimmer. There is a constant rainbow Color Motif throughout the scientists' time inside the Shimmer, but even before that, near the beginning of the movie, when Kane comes home, there is a shot where we see Lena and Kane holding hands behind a glass of water, and the water refracts their hands.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_b8dbe475	type	Blood from the Mouth
Annihilation (2018) / int_b8dbe475	comment	Blood from the Mouth: After Kane drinks from a glass, blood is left on the rim and floating in the water.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_b983a56b	type	Came Back Wrong
Annihilation (2018) / int_b983a56b	comment	Came Back Wrong: Kane returns from Area X alive and apparently unharmed, but he's an Empty Shell who barely remembers his former life and is slowly dying from organ failure. As it happens, the real Kane immolated himself with a phosphorous grenade in the lighthouse, and the Kane who leaves Area X is a doppelganger it created. Or it might be the other way around.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
Annihilation (2018) / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: Anya is the most foul-mouthed of the group. Lena also has her moments, such as:
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Annihilation (2018) / int_bdbfdf8a	type	The Dying Walk
Annihilation (2018) / int_bdbfdf8a	comment	The Dying Walk: After having noticed human shaped vegetation within the Shimmer earlier and having theorized that they are in fact people who've been transformed into vegetation, Josie tells Lena about how the Shimmer is inside all of them and she doesn't want to fight it. She notices vines and vegetation starting to grow out of her body and simply walks away from Lena. Lena tries to catch up to Josie and calls out to her, but Josie ignores her calls and keeps walking away. Lena then comes to a clearing and Josie is nowhere to be seen, instead there's only a group of the human shaped bushes standing in a field, with no way to even tell which one was Josie.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_bef696dd	comment	Mind Screw: Mind-bending visuals, the surreal nature of Area X, difficult themes, and a subtly chilling atmosphere makes for a film that has confounded several viewers. The Shimmer is itself a Mind Screw in-universe: simply being inside it may have driven all prior exploration teams insane — either through some direct energy waves acting on their brains, indirectly through biological mutations it causes in their brains, or just psychologically driving them insane from the stress of being in it. Moreover, while not quite Through the Eyes of Madness, the narrative we see is what Lena is recounting in flashback as best she can remember it. The narrative plays around with the framing device of film editing, as simply being in the Shimmer results in having incidents of Lost Time. Immediately after the scene of the team first crossing the perimeter into the Shimmer, the scene cuts to them waking up at their set-up campsite — but then the team members explain to each other that crossing the perimeter is literally the last thing they remember, as if they experienced a jump cut in real life. It's not just that their tents are already set up: a hand count of their rations reveals that they've gone through about four days worth of cooked meals but don't remember any of it. Other jump cuts between sections of the movie are tacitly implied to just be gaps in Lena's memory about what happened. Time doesn't move at the same rate inside the Shimmer — possibly not even at a consistent rate within it. By Lena's count, including the days they lost at the beginning, it should have taken them eight days to reach the lighthouse, but she admits that with the gaps in her memories they could have been there a couple of weeks. It was four months between when she went in and when the Shimmer collapsed and she came out. The scientist interrogating Lena in quarantine after she returns suggests that she might have hallucinated some of the more bizarre mutations and events inside the Shimmer, due to some energy or psychic influence it has on human brains. Lena admits she considered that too, but points out that all five team members saw the same exact things and interacted with them, e.g. the mutated crocodile. As the mind-screw events get more drastic the closer they get to the center of the Shimmer, however, it's never 100% certain that it is physically real (particularly the scenes when Lena is alone). Ventress directly points out as they get close to the center of the Shimmer that their bodies and minds are "disintegrating" — possibly just due to the physical changes it's influencing on their brains — and compares their current mental state to the early stages of dementia.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_c04b1231	comment	Jump Scare: Only two: Josie getting yanked back into the flooded cabin by the alligator, and Shepherd getting suddenly snatched by the bear.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_c1219c95	comment	Romantic Ribbing: In a Happy Flashback, Kane tells Lena that while he's on his upcoming mission, they'll be able to see the same stars when they look up at the sky. Lena starts laughing and asks him if he seriously thinks she spends her time melodramatically gazing up at the sky pining for him. She begins teasing him while he pretends to be offended, culminating in them making out. It helps establish that their relationship was genuinely loving until Lena cheated on Kane due to him always being away, which led to a heartbroken Kane going on a Suicide Mission.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_c3585f4a	comment	Boom, Headshot!: The mutated bear is shot multiple times in the head with an assault rifle... and still takes a few seconds to die after that.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_c4b09e97	comment	DoppelgÃ¤nger: The climax heavily implies that Kane was replaced by a clone of himself created by the Shimmer. It definitely tries to do the same to Lena, but we can't say for certain that it failed.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_c7541480	comment	Artistic License â€“ Botany: Josie theorizes the people-shaped plants formed because their hox genes, genes that determine where parts of the body grow, were replaced with those of humans. However, unlike animals, plants have no hox genes and it's doubtful they would develop a human shape even if they did receive any.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_c7c4dae7	comment	Possession Implies Mastery: Subverted. Despite the expedition all having carbines, only Lena is actually a good shot with them because of her Army background. During the mutated bear's second attack, Josie apparently learned from her prior failure to hit the crocodile, so she just ran right up to the bear and let loose in full auto from point-blank range. She still had to empty the magazine to finally take it down.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_cc28a8d7	comment	Have I Mentioned I Am Gay?: Anya is briefly revealed to be a lesbian who hopes Lena might be one too during her first scene, but that fact is irrelevant to the rest of the movie and never comes up again.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_cdfe12c3	comment	Nothing Is Scarier: Although not exactly a horror film, it's still extremely fucking creepy. The bizarre nature of the Shimmer, slow pace, and lack of any definitive answers make for a very disturbing atmosphere even when nothing inherently scary is going on. The only exception to this is the bear attacks, which are definitely horror film material.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_d08595d3	comment	Broken Bird: Cassie says all of them are this. Ventress has to live with all the teams she sent to their deaths, Josie cuts herself, Anya is an addict, and Cassie never got over the death of her daughter. Implicitly, it's because they're a bit mentally unhinged that the team members volunteer for the expedition in the first place.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_d500b978	comment	Adaptational Wimp: Zig-zagged with Lena. Her book counterpart is a brawny, assertive and unsentimental woman. The film version of Lena is more sensitive, emotional and waifish, though she is also given a military background and is shown to be the best shot out of the crew (see Surprisingly Realistic Outcome for more details).
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Annihilation (2018) / int_d75a1703	comment	Year Outside, Hour Inside: The opening scene has the quarantine scientist interrogating Lena, explaining that her team only brought about two weeks' worth of rations into the Shimmer, but she was inside for four months. She thought it was only days, maybe a week or two — but not months.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_d7c3ba61	comment	Race Lift: In the book, Lena is explicitly described as half-Asian, thus making her biracial. By contrast, the film version is clearly white since she is played by Natalie Portman, an Israeli-American actress of Ashkenazic Jewish descent. Similar to the Lena example above, the book counterpart of Dr. Ventress is half-white and half-Native American. In the film, she is simply depicted as white since she's played by Jennifer Jason Leigh.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_d99a228f	type	Unusually Uninteresting Sight
Annihilation (2018) / int_d99a228f	comment	Unusually Uninteresting Sight: As Lena crosses the beach to reach the lighthouse, she pays no attention to the impossible trees made of crystal or a seemingly deliberate arrangement of human bones. Justified because by this point, she's too traumatized and exhausted to acknowledge anything but her immediate goals.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_d9d2c40b	comment	Amazon Brigade: The expedition team is all women. In the book, it is mentioned this was done deliberately as another variable to test after the first team was all men.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl: Lena is a former soldier much like Kane and she is the leader of the expedition sent to investigate the Shimmer.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_db39ccfd	comment	Battle Couple: Lena and Kane formed one during their service in the U.S. military.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_dc1a6b76	type	Reality Is Out to Lunch
Annihilation (2018) / int_dc1a6b76	comment	Reality Is Out to Lunch: The Shimmer warps everything inside its sphere of influence in ways that simply shouldn't be possible. Plant and animals (humans included) are hybridized with ease, time doesn't flow naturally or even consistently, and near the center there are trees made of glass.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_dfb675b	comment	Dangerously Garish Environment: Area X is full of brightly-colored plants that have The Shimmer (which...shimmers, and which can infest humans if they encounter them, driving them to madness and/or death, including turning them into some of the brightly-colored plants.)
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Annihilation (2018) / int_e0aed924	comment	No Antagonist: Though the Shimmer is shown to spawn hostile threats, it never does so out of maliciousness towards the team.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_e1ba59f3	comment	Voice Changeling: The mutant bear mimics Shepherd's voice after it kills her, and — as Josie morbidly speculates — may have absorbed part of her consciousness.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_e4965307	comment	Composite Character: Lena is a composite of mostly the Biologist and also the Surveyor (in the novel, it was the Surveyor who was an ex-soldier and was the one tasked to protect the group, not the Biologist).
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Annihilation (2018) / int_e542d889	type	Gorn
Annihilation (2018) / int_e542d889	comment	Gorn: Downplayed. There's not much violence in the movie overall, but what violence is there is exceedingly brutal. The worst instances are the videotape of Kane vivisecting one of his team members to show that his intestines are moving, and Anya getting her jaw torn off by the bear.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_e543a655	comment	Light Is Not Good: Most of the time in the Shimmer has unnaturally vivid colors and rainbow-esque sunlight, which would make it incredibly gorgeous under other circumstances.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_ea7e3be8	type	Dramatic Gun Cock
Annihilation (2018) / int_ea7e3be8	comment	Dramatic Gun Cock: Lena pulls the slide of her carbine and departs alone only to find Shepherd's dead body.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_ea8de006	comment	Traitor Shot: Subtly done. After Shepherd's death, the camera holds meaningfully on Anya for suspiciously long several times before she goes crazy and ties the others to chairs.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_ece27800	comment	Kill and Replace: A possible interpretation of the ending is that it's not our version of Kane that returned... and possibly not our version of Lena either.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_ed68bcc9	comment	Dwindling Party: One by one, the party is lost, which is lampshaded. Cass and Anya are killed by the bear, Josie willingly surrenders herself to The Shimmer, Ventress disintegrates, and at least one copy of Lena dies. It's ambiguous whether the one that returns from The Shimmer is the one we've been following for most of the movie.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_edaedf90	comment	Vomit Discretion Shot: The very first thing Lena does after waking up in the Southern Reach complex is walk over to the bathroom and puke her guts out into the toilet... off-screen.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_f33ff01c	comment	Adaptational Context Change: In the novel, "Annihilation" was a Trigger Phrase to be used by the Expedition's leader to make other members of the Expedition kill themselves. In the movie, it refers to the Shimmer's expansion and inevitable consumption of Earth.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_f5eda11	comment	Mix-and-Match Critters: The Shimmer causes LEGO Genetics among every living thing within its range. This results in not only bizarre animal hybrids, but mutations blending with the local fauna. The most obvious comes from examining an alligator where it's revealed that it had shark teeth, which Lena states that such a hybrid is impossible. In another sequence they find a series of trees that grew into the shape of humans, due to picking up human structural DNA.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_fa5c1847	comment	Up Close with the Monster: There's an extended three-for-one when the mutated bear that killed Cassie earlier in the expedition finds Lena, Josie, and Ventress where they've been bound and gagged by their increasingly unhinged teammate Anya. The bear circles the three captive women, and has an opportunity to get up in everyone's face and terrify them as its mutations allow it to mimic its previous victim's dying screams.
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Annihilation (2018) / int_fdbdc112	comment	Practical Effects: Used extensively throughout. The bear and the alligator were both built on-set before being painted over in post-production, and Kane vivisecting his (willing?) comrade was done entirely in-camera using an actor with a prosthetic chest.
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Annihilation (2018)	hasFeature	Films of 2015â€“2019 / int_f0c61451
Annihilation (2018)	hasFeature	Fooled by the Sound / int_f0c61451
Annihilation (2018)	hasFeature	Human Architecture Horror / int_f0c61451
Annihilation (2018)	hasFeature	Inscrutable Aliens / int_f0c61451
Annihilation (2018)	hasFeature	LEGO Genetics / int_f0c61451
Annihilation (2018)	hasFeature	Luring in Prey / int_f0c61451
Annihilation (2018)	hasFeature	Men Are the Expendable Gender / int_f0c61451
Annihilation (2018)	hasFeature	Missing Time / int_f0c61451
Annihilation (2018)	hasFeature	Mouth Cam / int_f0c61451
Annihilation (2018)	hasFeature	Mutant Media / int_f0c61451
Annihilation (2018)	hasFeature	Mutants / int_f0c61451
Annihilation (2018)	hasFeature	New Weird / int_f0c61451
Annihilation (2018)	hasFeature	Ninja Prop / int_f0c61451
Annihilation (2018)	hasFeature	Pre-Climax Climax / int_f0c61451
Annihilation (2018)	hasFeature	Production Nickname / int_f0c61451
Annihilation (2018)	hasFeature	Romantic Hyperbole / int_f0c61451
Annihilation (2018)	hasFeature	Romantic Ribbing / int_f0c61451
Annihilation (2018)	hasFeature	Sci-Fi Horror / int_f0c61451
Annihilation (2018)	hasFeature	Suicide Mission / int_f0c61451
Annihilation (2018)	hasFeature	Tank-Top Tomboy / int_f0c61451
Annihilation (2018)	hasFeature	Telepathic Spacemen / int_f0c61451
Annihilation (2018)	hasFeature	The Marvelous Deer / int_f0c61451
Annihilation (2018)	hasFeature	The Topic of Cancer / int_f0c61451
Annihilation (2018)	hasFeature	Transflormation / int_f0c61451
Annihilation (2018)	hasFeature	Up Close with the Monster / int_f0c61451
Annihilation (2018)	hasFeature	Vasquez Always Dies / int_f0c61451
Annihilation (2018)	hasFeature	World of Symbolism / int_f0c61451

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