Mimic

Mimic takes you into a cold, frigid world marked by a complete absence of any other being, save for a man with a dog as his companion. It is the same isolation that would come to consistently pervade the rest of the narrative as well.

Soon, the film reveals its motivations one by one - an investigator has arrived at the doorstep of an American navy veteran to look into a strange, catastrophic event that had occurred a couple of years ago. However, will he truly find the answers he has come seeking? Whether or not it answers this question, the ensuing conversation between them reveals more details to engross you further, while also heightening the tension and distress, simmering under the surface, threatening to attain overwhelming proportions any minute.

The physical space of a dim-lit cabin in a nondescript corner of a frozen world allows the film an atmospheric unease. Shadows and lights are employed judiciously in the build-up that is leading to the final reveal, and when it finally arrives, it withholds more than it answers, and it is indeed this specific characteristic that works most notably for the film.