This 2020 film was released during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

This is the movie for you.

This movie doesThe Twilight Zonebetter than any of the revivals that have come along over the years.

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Director Andrew Patterson wastes no time to flex his filmmaking, though.

Plain and simple, he immerses his audience first, then gives them the good stuff.

Incoming calls start pouring in, taking them down a deliciously chilling rabbit hole of people’s UFO accounts.

2 radio hosts in front of a microphone.

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This is where the movie gets really good.

Actually, lower them a lot.

This movie, on the other hand, is all about the simple stuff.

A girl is scared in the car in a still from The Vast of Night

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Fay and Everett took strangely similar precautions to those watching the movie that they were in.

What it ended up being was an accidentally relevant science fiction mirror to our world.

A boy and girl from the 1950s are walking down the street in The Vast of Night

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