Annihilation 🎥 2018 Movie Info

Plot Summary

Cellular biology professor and former United States Army soldier Lena is under interrogation. She is the only survivor of the latest expedition to an anomalous zone known as the Shimmer. The Shimmer emerged three years prior, from a meteor that landed at the St. Marks Light lighthouse in the St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge in Florida, and has been gradually expanding. Many exploratory expeditions were organized, but only Lena’s husband, Kane, returns home after a year of lost contact. Kane cannot explain where he was and how he came back, and his condition quickly deteriorates.

Lena calls an ambulance, but she and Kane are intercepted by security forces and taken to a secret facility. As Kane is put in intensive care, psychologist Dr. Ventress prepares a new scientific expedition into the Shimmer, and Lena joins her. Three other women participate in the expedition: Cassie, a geomorphologist; Anya, a paramedic; and Josie, a physicist. Communication equipment does not function within the Shimmer’s territory, and the expedition encounters unusually mutated plants and animals. Josie is attacked by an albino alligator with several concentric rows of teeth. At an abandoned military base, the group finds a video message from Kane’s expedition, in which Kane cuts open another soldier’s abdomen with a knife to reveal slithering intestines.

The group finds the soldier’s corpse, which has turned into an overgrown colony of lichens. At night, Lena and Ventress share a watch and reflect on humanity’s strange instinct to destabilize and destroy itself. They’re joined later by Cassie, and the base is attacked by a mutant bear that drags Cassie away. Lena later finds her mutilated corpse. Within an abandoned village, Josie studies plants that have taken on a humanoid form, and theorizes that the Shimmer functions as a prism, distorting and transforming everything that falls within its boundaries—including the expedition members’ own DNA.

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