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Assimilate

Assimilate

Horror · Thriller · Science Fiction · 2019

Three friends making a web series about their town discover that their neighbors are being killed and replaced by creatures who are perfect copies of their victims.

Movie details

Assimilate

“The enemy is you”

2019 Horror · Thriller · Science Fiction 1h 33m

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TMDB

6.3 / 10

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Three friends making a web series about their town discover that their neighbors are being killed and replaced by creatures who are perfect copies of their victims.

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

John Murlowski

Written by

Steven Palmer Peterson · John Murlowski

Andi Matichak

Andi Matichak

Kayla Shepard

Cam Gigandet

Cam Gigandet

Josh Haywood

Calum Worthy

Calum Worthy

Randy Foster

Jessica Medina

Jessica Medina

Replicate

Joel Courtney

Joel Courtney

Zach Henderson

Katherine McNamara

Katherine McNamara

Hannah

Mason McNulty

Mason McNulty

Joey Shepard

Court is in session

Put Assimilate on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Arthouse Gremlin

“Its refusal to behave is the point.”

The strange choices create the kind of friction that follows you out of the theatre and into the argument.

The prosecution The Popcorn Loyalist

“Oddness is not depth.”

A film can break every rule and still leave nothing behind but the memory of how hard it tried to be singular.