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Six years ago NASA believed they had finally discovered alien life in our solar system and went about trying to gain themselves a sample. Unfortunately the probe they sent crashed upon re-entry over an unsuspecting Central America. It wasn't long before new (''and terrifying'') lifeforms emerged and spread at such an alarming rate that half of Mexico found itself quarantined. Now as the Mexican and American military struggle to prevent the creatures from expanding outside of the "Infected Zone" our story begins.
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''The film cost under $500,000''.
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* [[Berserk Button]]: Fighter jets flying overhead send the giant aliens into a killing rampage, presumably because they've come to associate the sound with [[Death From Above]].
* [[Bioluminescence Is Cool]]
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* [[Crazy Homeless People]]: The only person left in the Texas Evacuated Zone is a mentally-ill bag lady who apparently didn't evacuate with the sane folks.
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: An unwanted bunch of aliens from Mexico are constantly attempting to cross the US border and actually succeeding ''despite'' a giant fortified wall being put in place to stop them. Substitute "aliens" with "aliens" and you've got the American immigration controversy.
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* [[Great Wall]]: To keep the monsters out of the US, a huge wall is built along the US-Mexico border. The main characters are trapped in Mexico and are trying to reach the wall to cross back into the United States -- but they may not be the only ones trying to reach and pass it.
* [[How We Got Here]]: The movie opens with a convoy of soldiers retrieving a young couple, then getting attacked by a giant alien which kills or wounds the woman. The rest of the movie depicts how the couple got to that point, {{spoiler|but ends before actually reaching it.}}
* [[Humans Are
* [[Non
* [[Oh Crap]]: {{spoiler|While travelling down river in a boat the engine cuts out. Then it gets dark. Then a large fin slices through the water -- subverted when it turns out to be a downed fighter aircraft. Then another Oh Crap moment when giant tentacles yank the aircraft under water again, showing just how easily it can sink the boat. Another example is when the protagonists reach the Great Wall on the US border only to realise that the aliens have already spread far beyond it.}}
* [[Our Monsters Are Different]]
* [[Reality Subtext]]: The U.S really is building a wall on all of the Mexican-American border. Some parts are already finished.
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* [[Road Movie]]
* [[Runaway Bride]]: A passive version with Samantha clearly reluctant to return to her fiance and get married, but unwilling to take action to call the whole thing off.
* [[Shout
* [[Terraform]]: Alien spores growing on trees.
* [[The Un
* [[The Wall Around the World]]: Those living in the Infected Zone joke that the giant wall erected around them by the US government is becoming this.
* [[X Meets Y]]: Sometimes cited as [[District 9]] ''meets'' [[Cloverfield]]. Minus the "documentary style" it does share a few traits with these films but overall it arguably does a good job of creating a different experience than either. [[Word of God]] says that ''Jurassic Park'' was actually the influence for the film.
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