Annihilation (2018) on Netflix
R20181h 55mAdventureDramaHorror
Lena's husband Kane returns a year after vanishing, then falls ill, and agents take them to a secret facility. She joins a team entering the Shimmer, a quarantined zone of mutated life.
- Netflix3.1/5
- IMDb6.8/10398,641 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes88%
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Biologist and former soldier Lena is held at a secret facility, recounting her expedition into the Shimmer, a quarantined zone that appeared three years earlier when a meteor struck a lighthouse in Florida, and where natural laws break down. Teams sent inside have vanished without trace. Kane, Lena's husband, went missing on one of those teams, and a year later he reappears in their home, then collapses. Agents intercept the ambulance and take them both away; Kane is placed in intensive care. Psychologist Dr. Ventress invites Lena to join a scientific trip into the Shimmer alongside three other women, Cassie, Anya and Josie. Lena keeps it to herself that Kane is her husband.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Annihilation (2018)
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- A poorly received test screening left David Ellison, a financier and producer at Skydance, worried that the film was "too intellectual" and "too complicated"; he demanded changes including making Portman's character more sympathetic and changing the ending, but producer Scott Rudin sided with the director, who did not want to alter the film.
- In the Southern Reach novels the biologist is described as being of Asian descent and the psychologist as mixed-race and half-Indigenous, so when Portman and Leigh were cast in those roles the Media Action Network for Asian Americans and the American Indians in Film and Television accused Garland of whitewashing in 2018.
