Annihilation and the Hugo Dramatics

Watched Annihilation for Hugo purposes - I refuse to watch Quiet Place (I don't like horror! don't like being tense and upset!) but I figured Annihilation would be the lesser of two evils and also I was curious about it as an adaptation. I still found it pretty unpleasant even having read a spoilery synopsis awhile ago... Josh, in contrast, said he didn't even feel like it was horror, that he never found it scary, but I very much felt like they were doing horror stuff with the tense music and atmosphere of worsening dread. Anyways, it was interesting to see how they went about filming what I would have said was an unfilmable book (which I talked about here), imposing a more movie-friendly narrative, and how they visually represented the weird biology.

Hugo Dramatic Long thoughts/predictions/ballot under the cut; I can say right here that in the Hugo Dramatic Short category I am watching none of the television and casting a vote for Dirty Computer anyways.

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