If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

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.

Neill Blomkamp ? Hey I remember him . He shocked the cinematic world with his exciting sci-fi thriller DISTRICT 9 that combined action with biting satire. He then directed a couple of flops which means Blomkamp is now known as "Hey I remember him .He directed DISTRICT 9 all these years ago" With ZYGOTE one wonders if Blomkamp is trying to put himself in the shop window as in "Look I can make an effective hard hitting sci-fi horror movie" and indeed he can. The monster itself is derivative visually owing elements to John W Campbell's WHO GOES THERE and the works of Clive Barker but as far as imagery goes it's a superbly designed monster that is guaranteed to make your flesh creep!!!!! SUGGESTIVE SPOILER !!!! The fundamental problem with ZYGOTE is that it is not self contained in anyway . Imagine you're watching the most compelling DOCTOR WHO story ever made with the scariest monster in the Universe when all of a sudden there's a power cut. That's how the story is structured. It starts off sudden and ends even more suddenly. You'll be frustrated and you're left with the cynical feeling the director is asking for funds to film another 70 minutes of screen time . If Blomkamp gets his wish does this mean everyone who has commentated on this site get cheap tickets for the feature length ZYGOTE ?

There is nothing innovative or new about this short apart from one image. The idea and execution seem more tired than anything else, and i got the feeling of a few excited kids getting their hands on a lot of high-tech gear and funds and not really knowing what to do with it - which is kind of a shame. So there's a lot of effort here, but at the end this was more boring than anything else.

"Zygote" is a Canadian English-language short film just released the other day, so this 2017 film is really new and fresh. The writer and director is South African Oscar nominee Neill Blomkamp, which explains its instant popularity I guess. I must say I really really loved his breakthrough movie "District 9", but this one we got here does not do that much for me and sadly overall I am not too much in favor of his Oats Studios works recently. The first was maybe still the best. Anyway, this one runs for 22 minutes and 22 seconds and stars Jose Pablo Cantillo and (the probably more known) Dakota Fanning. As always with Blomkamp, you could describe it as creature horror, but here the one component that makes his films usually so strong is missing: I am of course talking about the national component. For example District 9 would not have worked outside of South Africa because of the high quantity of references about race, racism and more. Maybe that's the reason why I did not end up liking these slightly over 20 minutes. Or maybe it is that I am in general not a great SciFi fan. I see this is receiving pretty good ratings, so maybe if you like the genres SciFi and horror, then you can check this one out. Not even the claustrophobic component that I usually appreciate in films did a whole lot for me. Same goes for the ending, which felt abrupt and not really good in a way where you could discuss it after the movie. The acting is okay, it's not an actors' film at all I guess, more about the effects and maybe the story, so you can't blame Cantillo or Fanning for the mediocre outcome, even if this film does not change my opinion that the younger Fanning is the more talented. All in all, I am disappointed. I hope Blomkamp can return to his best with his full feature works in the future again. His more recent stuff (also outside of Oats Studios) left me underwhelmed.