In a near future when environmental havoc is causing food shortages and compelling the government to protect its organized crop system by deploying sentinel drones, a handful of locals discover a sinister connection between sick farmland inhabitants and the tech that’s meant to be protect them.
Practical Effects
DIY drone effects that somehow feel more menacing than CGI.
Production
Pandemic-before-pandemic rural isolation aesthetic, accidentally prescient.
Director
Matt Osterman
Cleopatra Coleman
Claudia
Shane Coffey
Isaiah
Craig muMs Grant
John
Fabianne Therese
Tania
Rhoda Griffis
Anna Cook
Leo Fitzpatrick
Jason
Beth Grant
Joanna
Rhonda Johnson Dents
Helen Smith
Don Henderson Baker
Charles Raymond
David Jensen
Farm Intruder
Jim Gleason
Mr. Dunn
Cailey Fleming
Greta Dunn
Angel Giuffria
Flower Clerk
Rachel Wulff
TV Correspondent
Kasandra Bandfield
Priscilla Raymond
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in rural Georgia on a shoestring budget; the drones were largely practical effects built from hobbyist parts. Director Matt Osterman previously made 'Ghost from the Machine,' another low-fi tech horror.
Released in 2018 but plays like pandemic-era paranoia—agricultural collapse, forced medical procedures, and government surveillance hit uncomfortably different post-2020. Cleopatra Coleman would later star in 'The Last Man on Earth' and 'Dopesick,' building her niche as dystopian survivor.
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