Zygote

2017
Not Rated
23 Min.

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Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuStranded in an Arctic mine, two lone survivors are forced to fight for their lives, evading and hiding from a new kind of terror.Stranded in an Arctic mine, two lone survivors are forced to fight for their lives, evading and hiding from a new kind of terror.Stranded in an Arctic mine, two lone survivors are forced to fight for their lives, evading and hiding from a new kind of terror.

Regie
- Neill Blomkamp
Drehbuch
Hauptbesetzung
- Dakota Fanning
- Jose Pablo Cantillo

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7,2/10

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IHRE BEWERTUNG

Regie
- Neill Blomkamp
Drehbuch
Hauptbesetzung
- Dakota Fanning
- Jose Pablo Cantillo

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

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Dakota Fanning

Barklay

Jose Pablo Cantillo

Quinn

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7Platypuschow

Zygote: Damn fine effort

Zygote is a short scifi horror film with outstanding production values and led by Dakota Fanning.

The first thing you notice is how good it all looks and sounds, this is a film with money and talent behind it and it shows.

Telling the story of two survivors of some horrific event in a base while being stalked by a gigantic creature seemingly made up of the body parts of its victims.

Though it does only stand at around 20 minutes and therefore isn't an entire story it does entertain regardless.

I would love to see a full length version of this, a sequel perhaps?!

The Good:

Monster looks incredible

Dakota Fanning is actually on decent form

Fantastic production values

The Bad:

Messy plot

8Fella_shibby

Comparison to Carpenters The Thing is inevitable but this movie really succeeded where the remake failed. It is claustrophobic, tensed n fast paced.

Recently been on a spree of revisiting Tales from the crypt on Youtube. Was searching for a short horror film n when i saw the name of Neill Blomkamp, i was totally interested in checking this out. The 22 minutes was worth it. Comparison to Carpenters The Thing is inevitable but this movie really succeeded where the remake failed. It is claustrophobic, tensed, fast paced, superbly acted n directed. The film is set in the mining colony in the Arctic circle. We r told that outta 98 crew only two r remaining. One of em is wounded n blinded n the other a frightened junior female crew member. The monster/thing is made up of body parts of the dead members. There is no safe chamber or place to hide as the monster has the fingerprint ids of all the doors. The creature was terrific though.

8Hitchcoc

Endless Bloodbath

Once again, we have the arctic, cold and claustrophobic, and two people who are miners, the last left of a huge work crew, trying to survive while an amorphous creature tries to kill them. The one guy, the boss, is blind, and the other is a woman who doesn't fit the usual protocols on this encampment. It's one bloody scene of dismemberment and slaughter after another. Never cared for this, but I am granting it a good rating on technical grounds and intensity. I wish I knew a little more about what they were up to.

9peamorrortu

Should be a feature film

Short runtime brings about some plot contrivances, but, overall, this short is pretty good: the story is interesting and compelling, worth expanding, and I would love to see the two main characters more developed. The monster is just awesome: really well done and disgusting, as a monster should be. Hope Oats Studio makes features films some day.

8boris_unanimate

This is why Blomkamp should've done Alien 5

It is obvious just from watching Neill Blomkamp's short video stories that he is a much more visionary and skillful director than Ridley Scott now (Scott was as visionary back in the 1980s but time has moved on and Ridley has not adjusted well). This short film in particular is a wonderful work of art, sci-f and thrilling action. There is basically only one downside - it's too short. Judging solely from the art he did for his supposed Alien 5 project, it would have been or could be the best Alien sequel since Aliens. I hope some big shot in the production companies will give Neill a few hundred million to make the best Alien sequel and use all of his imagination displayed in this and several other short films to do a sci fi masterpiece, in the vein of this mind-blowing work of art.

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Filmed at the Diefenbunker, a decommissioned Cold War era nuclear fallout shelter of the Canadian government - now the Canadian Cold War museum. Der Anschlag (2002) among other movies have used the location in the past.

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When Quinn presses the button to open the gate to the outside, the supposedly 'concrete' wall flexes under the pressure. (@ 7:24)

Zitate
Quinn: Synthetics must be used as mining labour. Protocol 7, statute 9. But do you know how much true synthetics cost? The overhead involved? Synthetics... They cost more than orphans. We purchased you from the Strata Group. The company bought you when you were two weeks old. You're a fucking human, Barklay. That barcode we put on you was to fool the OSHA inspectors. We bought a couple of synths just to fool them. You're Canary class, right? What's their job? Your job is to crawl down in the mineshafts, deep down into the asteroids. Your job is to die if you walk into a pocket of poison gas, right? Now, do you think a synthetic would get sick like that? Here, take the gun. Take it. You're going to get out. You're going to tell everyone about this place. About you, about who you are. About the quartz, how it flashes. You tell them.