No One Will Save You Review: A dialogue-free sci-fi classic

It’s not very often you come across a film which has characters in it but there’s next to no dialogue, and it’s not deliberately a silent movie like The Artist; it’s even rarer in the science fiction space. 

That’s the central premise of Brian Duffield’s No One Will Save You, and within those parameters, it’s an unexpected triumph. 

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Brynn Adams, played brilliantly by Kaitlyn Dever, carries the narrative on her back, portraying a young woman with a difficult past that has left her ostracised within her small US town. One evening at her backwater home she is visited by an extraterrestrial spacecraft, from which emerges an alien antagonist who pursues her around her own home. 

As the story develops we discover that these creatures are able to inhabit and control the bodies of other humans using a parasite, and Brynn is forced to flee for her life as the stakes and the threat grow exponentially. 

Duffield, who wrote the screenplay for the recently underrated Underwater, is both writing and directing here and in a packed genre he managed to produce effects which feel utterly unique and yet make sense in respect of the prevailing story. 

2.89 (311)

No One Will Save You (2023)

Creative and talented young woman Brynn Adams is alienated from her community. Lonely but always hopeful, Brynn finds solace within the walls of the home she grew up in, until one night she is awakened by strange noises from unmistakably alien invaders. What follows is an action-packed showdown between Brynn and a group of aliens who threaten her future and force her to deal with her past.

Directed by: Brian Duffield
Stars: Kaitlyn Dever, Zack Duhame and Ginger Cressman

Dever is astonishing; the film simply doesn’t work unless she is completely likeable and believable, and she’s in a position to attempt to showcase a range of emotions, from the depression of a broken woman with something she can’t escape to the abject fear of being pursued through the rooms of her house. 

Often in these types of films, these creatures are kept hidden to save on design but also on CGI budgets, and that’s the case early on, but once the aliens are revealed they are at once generic and also novel in their appearance and sensibilities. They aren’t immediately frightening, but their methods are downright creepy. The opening cat-and-mouse chase through the house is one of the most effective set-pieces in the film, and this might be because you haven’t quite seen the alien fully yet. 

There are some clear nods here, not least to Robert Rodriguez’s The Faculty, but also to the main X-Files’ TV narrative of abduction. The ending is skillfully done and Duffield is able to provide a complex solution that is open to interpretation and again relies on the range of Dever to take us to the climax. 

No One Will Save You has been the breakout streaming hit of the past two weeks and its popularity may mean that Duffield might be handed a bigger budget to work with on his next outing