This is an excellent little flick that's free on Amazon. Apparently it's the debut of a new film maker, and you can bet he's going to go on to big things (probably involving Marvel superheros). It's set in the 50s in small-town New Mexico (presumably near Roswell), and manages to be completely gripping, despite being almost entirely a two-hander of teenagers, one, Fay, a science nerd switchboard operator (when she's covering for her mother, who has another job)
and the other, Everett, a budding radio personality/DJ.
The film takes place during a high school basketball game that draws almost everyone in town except our two leads. A strange electric sound interrupts Everett's radio broadcast (and can be hear along the line at Fay's switchboard), and when Everett asks if anyone recognizes it, an older man, Billy, retired from the Army, calls in to recount an experience he had on a secret mission in the middle of nowhere where the sound seemed to be associated with a strange craft. He reports that he got sick after being exposed to it, and that he investigated along with other ex-military men who'd been similarly exposed, and he believed that the sound was coming from above the Earth. After Billy is cut off, an old lady in town calls in to say she has something to add, but Everett has to meet her at her house. Thinks get more and more creepy up until the shocking climax. I can't say too much, but check it out. It's Spielbergian in a
good way. It also has an incredibly talky script, but again, in a good way.
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