Pod (2015)

Pod runs like an extra long (good) episode of The X-Files, just minus the Mulder and Scully.

Two siblings answer (or rather turn up when they were told not to) the call of their brother and find him boarded up in his remote home in a state of mental breakdown. Having been dismissed from the military on mental health grounds previously his stability is always at question.

He is apparently deluded and rambling paranoid insanities about a beast or an alien monster that he caught and trapped in his basement, after removing his teeth (that's how they track you) and stabbing himself in the neck the remaining siblings are left to discover what's really in the basement.

Pod plays out really well, it does nod back to shows such as The X-Files and Twilight Zone as there is an atmosphere of suspense and tension running through it. What starts off as a family drama becomes more twisted and we get to know if what ever it was the brother trapped, or believed he trapped is in the house at all.

It is the sort of movie that sucks you in and keeps you there with its lo-fi genuine grit. The heavy dialogue keeps you with the action and tension all the way.

7/10 Masks