No One Will Save You (2023), A Dialogue-Free Sci-Fi Horror Film
With the sheer volume of films coming out through streaming platforms, directors need a good hook to get anyone to notice them. In the case of (2023), the hook is verbal minimalism. I wasn’t sitting there counting, but if I remember correctly, there were only 5 words of spoken dialogue in the entire film. Now, you might assume that this made the viewing experience a snooze fest. On the contrary, the film keeps a breakneck pace for nearly all of its 93-minute runtime. But as exciting as it may be, Brian Duffield’s No One Will Save You doesn’t take its dialogue-free script into very interesting territory.
Have you ever watched a film and felt like the filmmakers desperately want you to love it? That sounds stupid, as pretty much every filmmaker wants audiences to love their films, but some do it through subtle mastery of the cinematic form, while others do it with all the nuance of a guy elbowing you in the ribs repeatedly and asking “ Did you see that? Did you see what I did there? “ Duffield brings his alien story to the silver screen with the latter energy, using a few well-timed jump scares and a comical amount of missteps on the part of the heroine to keep an otherwise humdrum plot afloat.
Brynn (Kaitlyn Dever) is a quirky seamstress living a quirky (albeit depressing) life in her childhood home. She…
