Almost Human is about two men and a woman who have a strange encounter that leaves one of them missing and one under a cloud of suspicion. When the events surrounding that mysterious night begin again, one of the men searches for the only survivor to figure out what happened. Almost Human is an alien abduction meets slasher film with homages to John Carpenter’s Halloween, Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead, Terminator, Invasion of the Body Snatchers starring Donald Sutherland and Night of the Living Dead. Unfortunately bad acting hobbles any potential for an enjoyable viewing experience. I would issue a rape trigger warning for viewers. There is one scene that is disturbing and threatened but not completed in the second season of The Strain, but occurs in Almost Human.
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It is basically oral and vaginal rape by alien proboscis. This situation has happened in other alien abduction movies, but Almost Human is pretty graphic and will probably disturb some viewers. If you can handle the rape by a demonic tree in Evil Dead, you can probably handle Almost Human. I was disappointed that the audience never got an answer as to why the alien’s experiment on the friend did not work, but it worked on the boyfriend. There were some neat telepathic communication scenes, and I enjoyed the working class Terminator vibe. The gore works, but the dialogue is dreadful. I love the depressing Romero-esque ending: save the world, get shot in the head.
Almost Human was clearly made by an ambitious movie lover, but the result is uneven. B movie lovers should give Almost Human a chance, but if you have a low threshold for bad acting or hate gore, skip it.