The Similars

1968: a bus terminal, four hours from Mexico.  A group of strangers are brought together, huddling in the bus station to avoid the incessant rain, waiting for a ride that will never come.  A husband, missing his children's birth.  A pregnant woman, desperate to save her child.  A mother and her sick son.  But there's more to the rain than they know, and someone is not who they appear to be.

This film is an homage to 1960s Twilight Zone, with a Mexican political bent.  The thing is, Twilight Zone episodes can present a scenario, and leave it unresolved, as just part of that brief but scary world.  Ninety minutes of the same thing with no resolution doesn't make it better.

Los Parecidos (The Similars)

2015, 89 minutes, directed by Isaac Ezban

Science fiction, mystery, alien, Mexico, subtitled, world premiere