Annihilation Minute

Thorensen wants to turn back, Ventress wants to go ahead, even if she is on her own, and Lena must decide what happens next in Annihilation minute 58.

Sheppard is gone. Thorensen and Radek want to turn back. Ventress wants to go forward. And, we look into the death of the anthropologist in the novel, in #Annihlation minute 57.

Something comes through the fence, and it takes Sheppard away, in #Annihilation minute 56.

Lena's and Ventress' conversation about self-destruction is interrupted in #Annihilation minute 55.

Lena asks Ventress about why Kane volunteered for a suicide machine and they (and I) discuss self-destruction, in #Annihilation minute 54.

Lena finds Ventress alone with a map in #Annihilation minute 53, and we sample J G Ballard on cataclysmic science fiction.

Lena is troubled by what she sees in the microscope, then she and Sheppard share a quiet moment in the guard tower in #Annihilation minute 52.

Kane leaves, Orpheus fails to retrieve Eurydice, Lena awakens in the middle of the night. #Annihilation minute 51.

Before we flashback to Lena and Kane on his day of departure, we get sidetracked by Orpheus and Eurydice in #Annihilation minute 50.

Lena, Sheppard, and Ventress move closer to Mayer's exploded body while Radek and Thorensen back away, in #Annihilation minute 49.

Lena rejoins the group as they come upon the deformed and exploded body of Mayer in #Annihilation minute 48.

In the found video, Kane cuts own Mayer's abdomen to reveal that his internal organs are not what they should be. After watching the video, the women separate in Annihilation minute 47.

The video plays and the women start to see what horror befell the previous expedition, in #Annihilation minute 46.

Instead of respite in the abandoned mess hall, the women find a guard rota and video that may reframe what is going on, in #Annihilation minute 45.

Thorensen finds a machine gun and Lena finds evidence that the previous expedition stayed at Fort Amaya in #Annihilation minute 44.

The women enter the mess hall at the abandoned Fort Amaya, and we have one more note on the closed RAF Bentwaters, in #Annihilation minute 43.

The women enter Fort Amaya, in a location real-life aliens may be familiar with, in #Annihilation minute 42.

We leave the crawler and the tower and the novel behind (for now), and approach a guard tower as Sheppard tells Lena everyone's secrets in #Annihilation minute 41.

Sheppard and Lena continue to have a more personal conversation in their boat, #Annihilation minute 40. Meanwhile, in the novel, we learn what is on the walls within the tower.

The film slows down to show us some strange fish and Sheppard and Lena start to talk in #Annihilation minute 39. Meanwhile, in the novel, we begin to venture into the tower.