‘No One Gets Out Alive’ Review: Seeking Shelter, Finding Terror
When Ambar (Cristina Rodlo) arrives in Cleveland after being smuggled into the US, she wants a spot to remain that received’t ask questions. So she turns to an all-female boardinghouse with the fundamental facilities: apparitions. Flickering lights. A live-in landlord and the creepy, bulked-up brother he uncared for to say. Unusual sounds emanating from the plumbing.
“No One Will get Out Alive,” directed by Santiago Menghini, is now circling the drain on Netflix, the place few will watch it deliberately and those that by no means discover it received’t be lacking a lot. Even seeing it, in a literal sense, is troublesome: The imagery crosses the road that separates “atmospherically darkish” from “murk.”
Directed by Santiago Menghini, whose background in visible results has not helped him mount convincing ones right here, the film grafts commonplace horror-movie tropes onto a portrait of the struggles of undocumented immigrants in America. Ambar, who has a grueling job as a garment employee and is determined to cobble collectively cash for a pretend I.D., has no nowhere to go however a haunted home.
Nonetheless, the film has not bothered to attach its concepts. Whereas explanations in horror are overrated, not one however two prologues — the primary styled as 8-millimeter footage shot in Mexico in 1963, the second depicting the demise of a pre-Ambar boarder — go unaddressed in any significant means. Nor does the film present greater than a cursory cause for why what it implies are historical Meso-American rituals are being practiced in a Cleveland basement.
No One Will get Out Alive
Rated R. Violence and gore. Operating time: 1 hour 25 minutes. Watch on Netflix.
