The term genre-bender is often applied to director Kiyoshi Kurosawa for his mix of horror and drama. The movie opens with a bang, as a blood-spattered schoolgirl calmly walks away from a scene of carnage. Before long we learn that she is one of three aliens in human form, the vanguard of an assault. The body-snatching ETs are pretty open about their plan, so certain are they that humanity won’t be able to stop them. Before We Vanish opens Feb. 16 in Toronto and March 2 in Montreal, with other cities to follow.

Source: National Post February 15, 2018 18:11 UTC