‘THEY LOOK LIKE PEOPLE (2016)’ tells a surprisingly human story against a frighteningly demonic backdrop

#31DaysOfHorror: October 1st, 2016

This October, as I have for the last three years, I’ll be watching 31 horror movies in 31 days and reviewing them all! You can see the ongoing list of what I’ve watched and reviewed here.

THE PLOT

When they run into each other on the street one day, old friends Christian and Wyatt realize that they’ve each experienced a recent breakup. Perfect time to reconnect, thinks Christian, inviting Wyatt to crash with him for as long as he needs. It turns out both friends are “going through some stuff,” and they start to rely on each other for support.

Christian has faced crippling insecurity his entire life, and the breakdown of his engagement has caused his addiction to self-empowerment websites and audiobooks to spiral out of control, to the point where he’s become a bit of an egotistical monster to those around him.

Wyatt, on the other hand, is facing what is either newly-manifested paranoid schizophrenia, or the secret knowledge that the world…