Mysterious figures begin sliding out from amongst the trees. It’s therefore Pasquariello’s job to ratchet up the sense of claustrophobia for his character’s sake and ours. For S.U.M.1, conspiracy theories become his go-to entertainment. When there’s literally nothing to do but stare at computer screens, excitement must be created elsewhere. Maybe V.A.X.7 went insane and shot himself. What happened to the man he was supposed to replace, V.A.X.7 (Rainer Werner)? Why is there what appears to be a bloodstain on the wall of his quarters? How did a benevolent white mouse come to reside within Cerberus? And whom could V.A.X.7 have been talking to on a walkie-talkie S.U.M.1 finds in his locker? Home has told him that his predecessor had to be evacuated early due to health concerns, but would they have left his dog tags and belongings behind? Perhaps a Nonesuch penetrated the defenses and killed him. He serves as a necessary line of defense.Īmidst the boredom, however, are questions. It’s a lesson in futility, but backed by purpose.
Sometimes he exits the concrete tower to search the surrounding area (he isn’t allowed to travel past his own border) for animals or survivors, always wearing sunglasses until his vision has adapted to the sun. The computer wakes him in the morning before doing sit-ups on the balcony, monitoring the surveillance cameras watching his base’s perimeter, checking in with a disembodied voice (Tim Williams) back in Exilium to learn the ever-changing security code, eating a non-descript paste of nutrients, and smoking his single government-issued cigarette labeled by the day’s number in countdown from one hundred to one.
#2017 alien invasion series
Only his predecessor isn’t there.Īnd so begins a series of twenty-four hour periods marred by monotony and repetition. Outfitted with a sun-blocking helmet due to eyes evolved in darkness, S.U.M.1 (yes, “someone” as in “anyone” as in “us”) arrives to replace his predecessor. He embraces this notion, joining the cause to do his part and protect outpost Cerberus along with any human refugees lost in the forest without direction or hope. Families exist with parents and children and love, but it makes more sense to catalog rather than individualize when there are so few left and everyone lives for a common goal.
#2017 alien invasion serial
Said man (Iwan Rheon) is known by the title’s serial number, names erased from human consciousness as a worthwhile concept. This is the background to Christian Pasquariello’s debut feature S.U.M.1 - a high concept, low budget one-man science fiction show. Now it’s a matter of staying alive to save those who were left behind. Battles still rage, but humanity has all but resigned itself to its defeat. If any of them do want to risk their lives for a glimpse of the sun they’ve only heard about through stories, though, they can enlist in the military and become a soldier tasked with a one hundred day mission meant to find stragglers and point them towards sanctuary: Exilium. The old guard who survived remembers the war that drove them subterranean, memories of life on the surface and the beasts that present-day generations hope to never encounter. It’s been decades since a new world order changed Earth forever, an alien invasion by creatures known as the Nonesuch forcing humanity underground.
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