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Great visuals and designs wasted on an immensly frustrating and illogical story and mind-bogglingly idiotic characters that seem to be that idiotic simply in order for things to actually happen at all, because anyone else would've stopped in the first 10 minutes of this movie and gone "Wait, hold on, this is insane.". Not to mention that their lab would've ABSOLUTELY notice this happening and they would NOT have kept this secret for as long as they did. Come to think of it, why did one of the main characters even get to work at this lab to begin with? She's clearly friggin insane and devoid of morality or ethics. THE CEO'S ARE THE ONES THAT ARE SENSIBLE AND REASONABLE!

That aside, the highlight of the movie is cute yet repulsive and unnerving. The monster design and the acting for it is great. It really brings home how vile and immoral what these lab workers have done really is. You feel both empathy and revulsion towards the creature.

What at first appears to be a fairly standard sci-fi horror with some standard sci-fi horror elements and characters eventually does more twists than your grandma in the 50's. And much like your wonderful grandma, these twists are interesting and turn this around quite quickly, back and forth. You think you know what will happen, but I promise, you won't. YOUR EXPECTATIONS ARE SUBVERTED! In a good way.

The worst mockumentary I've seen. Tension doesn't exist. Scares are jumpscares. The intro is a lie about how it's all based on "real events" of some hidden archive or other, a story that was concocted by the studio who also made a fake website for the launch of this movie. The fake website contained fake news articles, but included the name of a real Alaskan newspaper, who sued the makers over the fake articles and won. Usually there's a little ounce of truth to some of these mockumentaries, but when you learn that even the so-called archive footage is faked, all the characters are fake and nobody's identities are being hidden because none of them ever existed, you feel cheated and insulted. I suppose this movie started the trend of making up fake garbage to make a movie seem interesting, but all it does to me is make me angry at people who think I'm so stupid I'd let myself be manipulated like that.

Even on it's own it's an awful movie because it's SO BORING.