Invasiveis a 2024 survivalhorror filmdirected bySyFyalumJem Garrard.
But when Pierce returns home early,a tense game of cat-and-mouse ensues.
But the real stand out of this scrappy littleTubioriginal comes in the form of its lead actors.
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Chouler and Ngema both put on gripping performances that alone makeInvasiveworth a watch.
Khosi Ngema plays at thedesperation and isolating natureof such a lavish yet remote home.
The brutalist angles she critiques at the beginning of the film become a prison of Pierces own design.
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Ngema’s Kay is haunted, young, and vulnerable but clever and, above all, a survivor.
With wide, wet, panicked eyes she sprints about the hollow, concrete home trying to escape.
Khosi Ngema brings a doe-like yet gritty effect to her performance as Kay.
It isn’t only when he’s an active danger to her, either.
Surely, as ayoung working-class woman, part of this is the class and age disparity between them.
Kay is extremely easy to like.
She’s written as sympathetic and competent two qualities a lot of horror protagonists struggle to hold at once.
Ngema expertly conveys the abject horror of Kay’s circumstances in a way lesser actors would fail to.
There is not a moment in the film where this isn’t present.
Before the immediate danger of Pierce comes the complicated, heavy, domestic horrors of her everyday life.
Another fantastic performance inInvasivecomes in the form of Francis Chouler’s Pierce.
However, Chouler chooses to imbue the character witha subtextual pathetic air that makes the film so much richer.
But Chouler doesn’t play Pierce like an important man with important things to say.
He reiterates throughout the film that his time is too valuable to waste.
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He might maintaina chilling, disaffected expression, but it isn’t genuine.
He considers others beneath him, surely, but true apathy does not beget revenge.
Kay clocks his insincerity from the moment she meets him even if she doesn’t know why.
Her later witnessing of Pierce’s methods makes the cat-and-mouse game between them all the more intriguing.
Pierce can’t use his usual methods with Kay because he can’t hide behind the same facade.
But at least we got one.
