No One Gets Out Alive (film)

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No One Gets Out Alive
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Official release poster
Directed bySantiago Menghini
Screenplay by
Story byJon Croker
Based onNo One Gets Out Alive
by Adam Nevill
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyStephen Murphy
Edited byMark Towns
Music byMark Korven
Production
company
Distributed byNetflix
Release date
  • 29 September 2021 (2021-09-29)
Running time
87 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

No One Gets Out Alive is a 2021 British horror film directed by Santiago Menghini from a screenplay by Jon Croker and Fernanda Coppel, based on the 2014 novel of the same name by Adam Nevill. The film stars Cristina Rodlo and Marc Menchaca. It was released on 29 September 2021 by Netflix.[1][2]

Plot[]

Ambar, an undocumented Mexican immigrant, moves to Cleveland after the death of her mother. She used to take care of her ailing mother and could never live a normal life as her mother's condition deteriorated further. Ambar tells her friend that she relocated to the United States to support her mother. She finds a dilapidated boarding house run by Red; he demands the first month's rent up front, which Ambar gives him from a reserve of cash she appears to have saved up for her move. Soon odd things start happening to her both at the new boarding house and outside. One night she sees a man banging his head against the door, who she later learns is Red's sick brother, Becker. She gives a co-worker the remainder of her savings to obtain a fake ID that will allow her to continue working but the co-worker betrays her, taking the money and quitting the next day. Ambar asks her boss for the co-worker's address and then an advance on her next pay but is fired instead.

With no money, unable to receive help from Beto, a distant cousin, and not wanting to return to the house after the visions, Ambar is forced to call Red. They meet at a nearby cafe and Red promises to refund her deposit, but only if she returns to the house as he claims to not have enough cash on him. When they arrive at the boarding house, Ambar confronts Red since the cash is not in her room as promised. Becker forces Ambar into her room and she locks herself inside, joined by two Romanian women who have also moved into the boarding house. The two women start singing a lullaby which prompts Ambar to sleep yet again.

As Red and Becker are preparing the women to be taken down to the basement, Beto comes looking for Ambar but is killed by Becker. Becker takes one of the Romanian women downstairs; Red tells Ambar that his dad was an archeologist (as seen in the home movies at the start of the film) who brought back a stone box from his trip to Mexico in 1963. Something about the box led Red's father, along with his mother, Mary, to trap and murder women (the ghosts that Ambar has seen and heard throughout the house). Discovering what they had done, Red wanted to leave but Becker insisted on staying: each woman sacrificed improved Becker's health. Becker comes back and takes Ambar to the basement, where she sees the other girl decapitated. He ties Ambar to a stone slab in front of an altar where the box sits, opens the box and leaves the room, shutting the door behind him. Beto is still alive, unties Ambar and they try to escape. But it's only a dream.

Ambar begins dreaming about her mother on her deathbed while a creature slowly emerges from the box and takes Ambar's head between its hands in order to read her mind and learn what Ambar has sacrificed. In the dream, Ambar strangles her mother, whose eyes and hands have morphed into those of the creature. This causes the monster, the Aztec goddess Ītzpāpālōtl (God of Paradise made possible through sacrifice), associated with the moth seen in the movie (Rothschildia erycina), to accept the sacrifice and retreat into the box. Ambar hears Becker and Red preparing the last girl for sacrifice. Becker notices he isn't healing. Ambar grabs an ancient weapon from the study and goes upstairs where she injures Red and is then attacked by Becker. The Romanian woman tries to help but is thrown over the balcony and killed by him. Becker begins choking Ambar but she slices his carotid artery and smashes his head with the weapon. She hears Red shuffling around in the next room and manages to get him downstairs and tied onto the stone table where she watches the monster bite off his head. As she is leaving the house her ankle, broken by Becker earlier, suddenly heals as she had sacrificed Red to the monster. In the background, Red can be seen as a ghost.

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Reception[]

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 67% based on 18 reviews, with an average rating of 6/10.[3] Metacritic gave the film a weighted average score of 43 out of 100 based on 5 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[4]

References[]

  1. ^ "No One Gets Out Alive – Netflix Review (3/5)". Heaven of Horror. Retrieved 29 September 2021.
  2. ^ "Netflix's No One Gets Out Alive Review: Goofy, Bloody and Gory". Leisure Byte. Retrieved 29 September 2021.
  3. ^ "No One Gets Out Alive". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Retrieved October 6, 2021.
  4. ^ "No One Gets Out Alive". Metacritic. Red Ventures. Retrieved September 30, 2021.

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