Nearly a century later, the stretch of land where Swarts met her death was said to be haunted by a spectral horse dragging a 'hideous skeleton.' Other famous hauntings include a ghostly singer who can be heard in the wings of the historic Tarrytown Music Hall and the apparition of Sybil Harris King, who haunts Tarrytown's King House Mansion. Swarts was dragged to death behind the horse of a wealthy Catskill landowner in 1755. More likely, you’ll turn to your date and shrug, “Dang, that ending was kind of a letdown only because the rest of the film was so weirdly cool.” Like its alien creatures, the finale just goes “poof.Among the most intriguing true Hudson Valley ghost stories is the tale of Anna Dorothea Swarts. Hopefully you won’t feel cheated like you just wasted 90 minutes. However, it’s safe to say that most mainstream audiences will leave the experience scratching their heads and wishing for closure. If you dig transcendent existentialism like the Star Child finale of “2001: A Space Odyssey” (1968), you might contemplate the end of “Save Yourselves!” to find rapture-like meanings of souls being spared. Still, even if you rewind to that scene, you won’t find any concrete answers.

It may involve a callback to an early bar scene where Jack receives a tiny crystal from his friend who offered them the cabin. Instead, the final act is frustratingly bizarre, initially teed up to be wonderfully thought- provoking only to become disappointingly ambiguous. The heroes quarantine against an invasive threat sweeping the nation and decimating urban populations like New York City, while listening to voicemails from concerned relatives who don’t know whether to believe what they heard on “Fox & Friends.”Īlas, truth is stranger than fiction, as the president isn’t infected in this movie. In a way, the aliens are an unintended but prescient commentary on the coronavirus. We won’t spoil what the aliens look like, but let’s just say that they’re much cuddlier than “War of the Worlds” or “Independence Day” - at least they seem so on the surface. Sure, the cheesy visual effects are low-budget, but they fit the tone of the movie. Sometimes, the characters move too slow for their own good considering a deadly threat is hunting them, while a hallucination sequence is enjoyable but not adequately explained. Once the invasion plot begins, the twists and turns are consistently amusing like “Raising Arizona” (1987) or “Tucker and Dale vs. Jack has an easier time unplugging than Su, who is so addicted that she could have starred in the scary Netflix documentary “The Social Dilemma” (2020). They even test the lack of Alexa as soon as they reach the cabin.

The script also cleverly handles the business of cellphones, as the couple discards their devices for a peaceful vacation. As the protagonists embark on their trip, Jack delivers eerie foreshadowing: “It’s not the end of the world if we forget something.” Numerous pieces of dialogue contain double meanings. Not only is the dialogue admirably authentic, debut feature writer/directors Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson are adept at setups and payoffs.

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