The Vast of Night (2019)
| director: | Andrew Patterson |
| release-year: | 2019 |
| genres: | scifi, suspense |
| countries: | USA |
| languages: | English |
In a late-50's/early-60s small desert town, all of the kids are enamored with their new-fangled radios, cameras, tape recorders, and telephones.
Most of the town is caught up in the local high school basketball game, and thus otherwise occupied.
Only the switchboard operator, the radio DJ, and a handful of other locals are still hanging around town awaiting shenanigans.
They have pleasantly detailed conversations with each other during long, smooth shots that move seemlessly between the dimly lit indoors and the dark, misty outside.
Portions of the story are told through old-fashioned TVs, in a Twilight Zone throwback.
The telephone switchboard starts behaving ever-so-slightly out-of-the-normal. The operator keeps her cool, but calls around town a bit to try to figure out what's going on. Things get ever-so-slightly out-of-the-normalier. She continues to keep her cool.
She tells the radio DJ that she's hearing some crazy space sounds, and he plays them on the air. Mysterious folk start calling in to give creepy 15-minute-long War of the Worlds style monologues about space aliens.
They run around town looking for some space aliens.
They find some space aliens.
