Abruptio

Now, this is a uniquely weird movie. A bizarre and gory tale of unseen forces manipulating humans to commit acts of extreme violence is told entirely with human-sized puppets, which are detailed enough to go straight down the uncanny valley: they blink, they appear to have nearly-real-looking human skin with stray hairs and razor stubble, although the facial expressions are largely unchanging. It helps that it's filmed in real locations.

At first it seems like someone knew they had a fair-to-middling-at-best horror sci-fi on their hands so they decided to make the best of it and elevate it into something truly strange, making suspension of disbelief much easier with the puppet-only production. But, boy, the trick kinda worked.

One critic said, "too damn strange to completely ignore", and I agree with that.

To give an idea of what's going on here, turns out some of the characters are voiced by James Marsters, Jordan Peele, and Sid Haig in his last performance, so this isn't some low-budget indie flick, although it certainly looks like one.

I can't say it's a great movie, but it pulls off its bizarre conceit so well that it punches above its weight. I was even tempted to put it under "honorable mention" just for pulling that off. It is definitely different from anything else.