The Creepy, Clever Sci-Fi Thriller You Need to Watch
<em>The Vast of Night</em>, now on Amazon Prime Video, is a sharp debut from a filmmaker you should pay attention to.
couldn’t be more explicit about its influences. Andrew Patterson’s debut film, streaming on Amazon Prime Video as of today, is presented as a spooky episode of a –esque show called broadcasting on a retro TV. The film is a cleverly paced, micro-budgeted sci-fi thriller set in the late ’50s, in the shadow of Sputnik. And thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, the only way to see it when it opened on the big screen two weeks ago was at the most 1950s of venues:.
