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Today I'll show you a horror-thriller film: "Assimilate"
Spoiler ahead, watch out and take care
The movie begins with a worried young woman alone in her house at night
The woman has a bandaged wound on her arm
She frantically tries to get ahold of her mother's cell phone,
concerned about what to do with the bite on her arm,
and wondering why she hasn't heard from her mother in hours
Suddenly, a figure runs past her window, and tries to open her front door
Whoever it is is acting like a deranged animal
More figures surround her house; and she notices too late that she left a sliding door open
Luckily, she runs to the door, and is able to close it,
before another aggressive person can step inside
The person bangs on the glass; and the woman gets a good look at them
Her eyes widen in surprise, right before the person breaks the glass
Morning dawns on the small town of Multon;
and two best friends, Zach and Randy, start the day by secretly filming people around the town
They have a YouTube channel that features the people who live in their town;
and they hope that the channel can blow up someday
Multon is a sleepy little town on the surface;
and Randy and Zach think that through their channel,
they can expose who the people in town really are
The two have a snazzy hidden camera,
that they can pin on their shirts while walking around the town,
so people won't know that they are being filmed
As they make their way through town, they meet several people
They encounter the local pastor, who invites them to participate in an upcoming musical
They also capture their sheriff on camera,
just letting the underaged Dylan and his girlfriend buy liquor
Their neighbor, Ms Bisette,
tells Zach and Randy that there have been strange bugs feasting on the fruits in her garden
They also see a crying toddler being dragged by his mom
The toddler keeps saying that she is not his mother; but the woman doesn't say anything
Both Randy and Zach just think that the kid is throwing a tantrum,
and doesn't pay him much attention
At the same time, some strange virus floats in the air, and descends into the town
Next, they go to their school,
and catch up with their childhood friend Kayla, who's a good lacrosse player
They've known each other for years; and Zach also harbors a secret crush on her
Randy encourages him to date Kayla out;
but Zach is scared that it will ruin their friendship, before it could turn into a hormoneship
Later that afternoon, Kayla and Zach video call;
and Kayla reveals that she will be attending her dream summer program in Peru
Zach is happy for her;
but he also feels a twinge of sadness, because he won't get to see her for months
That night, Randy visits Zach's house, and chats with his mother
However, Zach's father also arrives, and notices Randy's camera
His legs were amputated; and he is now in a wheelchair
It's obvious that Zach's father is not taking things well;
and he comments that Randy's camera was made by the same companies,
that replaced him with automated machines in his job
Since things are a little tense in Zach's house,
the two decide to just hang out at the football field
Randy tells Zach that they can go to Acapulco; and he can have a job bartending there
Zach thinks it's a great dream; but he can't just leave his disabled father behind
Their conversation is cut short by the curdling scream, coming from Ms Bisette's house
The two boys immediately rush to her place, and find drops of blood on her floor
Randy calls the cops; and someone answers, then hangs up on them
A small creature flies out of the bedroom wall and escapes outside;
while a sobbing Ms Bisette huddles in a corner
Zach and Randy chase the creature into the woods
but it moves too quickly
They then see the creature dart inside a box, held by a person waiting for it
The person gets in a car, and drives away;
but not before the two boys get a glimpse of one of the three people inside it
It's the pastor they had encountered earlier in the day
The two friends walk back to Ms Bisette's house;
and they see her crying on the phone, while clutching a bite on her leg
The next morning, Randy and Zach head to the police station to report what happened
However, the two are confronted by Dylan, who they filmed at the liquor store yesterday
He is angry about the video,
since his father found out that he was drinking and confiscated his Xbox
The deputy defuses the situation, and sends Dylan on his way
Inside the police station, the two boys show last night's footage to the deputy
But he doesn't believe them, and just says that they photoshopped the video as a prank
Zach and Randy decide to handle things by themselves, and confront the pastor
They find him in the dimly-lit basement of the church
The pastor is so far from the warm man, who invited them to join the musical just yesterday
He is now cold and emotionless
Despite the footage that Randy got of him being in the car last night,
the pastor denies ever being there
To make things even creepier, in the room behind him are several people,
who are as emotionless as the pastor, including the sheriff
They all just stare at Zach and Randy blankly
Outside the church, Zach has the idea to upload the video;
but cellular service is blocked all over town
The two boys then go back to Ms Bisette's house
She is acting strangely too; dressed in sexier clothes,
and wearing more make-up than she usually does
A strange sound is coming from upstairs; but she just ignores it
Randy and Zach inform her about their encounter with the pastor
but to their surprise, Ms Bisette denies that the accident happened
What's even weirder, she invites them to her bedroom
The two are understandably shocked by the radical shift in Ms Bisette's behavior;
so they leave her house
But Randy and Zach circle around the house, and see Ms Bisette's bedroom through the window
An unconscious Dylan is strapped to her bed
Then something strange happens
A man who looks exactly like Dylan, appears and notices the two boys peeping inside
They are flabbergasted,
and can't think of a plausible explanation as to why there are two Dylans walking around
They run like bats out of a cave, spooked by what they saw
When they get to Zach's house, they tell his parents everything
but they don't believe Zach and Randy's story
Afterward, Kayla comes by the house, and shares that her father is acting strangely too
They make a plan to go to her house and film her strange father;
so they can finally show the world that they're telling the truth
Once inside Kayla's house, they see her father sitting at the kitchen table,
and coldly staring at the dismembered pieces of a doll in front of him
Like all the others, the father's personality has completely changed
Setting their plan into motion, Zach pretends that he's going to the upstairs bathroom to pee
He goes to the attic, and sees some dirt on the floor
He also discovers that Kayla's brother is hiding there
Downstairs, Kayla's father gets concerned about why Zach is taking too long in the bathroom
He goes up; and Zach quickly steps into the nearest bathroom,
where he finds Kayla's mother stuffed inside a laundry hamper
Zach opens the door; and the father is satisfied that he isn't doing anything suspicious
The three leave the house;
and Zach reluctantly shows Kayla and Randy the footage he got of Kayla's mother's corpse
Kayla breaks down; and Zach comforts her
She feels hopeless, because both of her parents are gone;
and she was forced to leave her brother behind with her father
Another dawn breaks; and the three kids meet with the deputy,
to finally convince him that something nefarious is going on in the town
They swear to him that the footage is real;
so all of them head to Kayla's house to confront her father
But to everyone's amazement, Kayla's mother walks out alive and well
But she has changed just like the others, and acts coldly when Kayla hugs her
The kids try to insist that the footage is real;
but Kayla's mother lies, and says that Kayla is mentally-ill, and is making the story up
The pastor also emerges and paints the three kids as fame-seeking liars,
who want to use the town for their web show
In the end, the deputy sides with the pastor and Kayla's parents
He gets furious at Zach and Randy for lying to him
Left with no other choice,
Zach decides to get their parents and then some evidence;
so they can show the rest of the world what's happening
Once word gets out, they are hoping that they can be rescued
They race home, and find Zach's father inside their barn
But they are already too late
He has already been cloned; and he even has his legs now
Right then, a group of the cloned townspeople,
led by the pastor and Ms Bisette, block the entrance of the barn
They release two creatures from their boxes, and lock the kids inside
The barn goes immediately dark; and something brushes against Randy, and bites him in the leg
They flail around, and find a massive dark cocoon hanging from the ceiling
It opens; and a woman who looks like Zach's mother crawls out
The mother's clone walks to where his real mother is lying tied up
and puts her hands on the real mother
Apparently, the clone absorbs his mother's memories, and the transformation is complete
His real mother's body is now lying lifeless on the floor
Luckily, Kayla finds a way out; and they run as fast as they can
The only person left who they can turn to now, is the deputy so they head to his house
However, they aren't sure if the deputy has been cloned since they last saw him
so the three teenagers just stare at him uncomfortably,
and wait for him to reveal if he is still his true self
After a few seconds of silence, the deputy assures them that he hasn't been transformed
They go inside his house;
and he informs them that he is able to capture one of the insect-like creatures,
that have been biting the town's citizens
The deputy proposes that if they can manage to get the creature and the footage to the FBI,
they can send reinforcements to eradicate the threat
The four of them piece together what they know
They think that the insects bite people to get their DNA
Then they start creating a clone inside one of the cocoons
Once the clone is complete, it will go to the original person,
and absorb its memories and kill the original; so it can replace them totally
This is why Ms Bisette and the woman shown at the beginning of the film,
were bitten first before being replaced by their clones
This also explains why Zach and Randy saw two Dylans in Ms Bisette's bedroom
The one tied to the bed was the real Dylan being killed; so his clone could replace him
Shortly after, the clones begin to gather outside the deputy's house
One of them is Randy's clone, freshly created after the insect bit him in the barn earlier
They lock the doors; but the determined clones just pushed and flipped the deputy's RV many times
The deputy is even dragged through a window and killed
The teenagers are now surrounded on all sides; and they have nowhere to go
Randy chooses to be the hero
He sacrifices himself by running outside, and drawing attention to himself;
while the rest of the group escapes
It's just Zach and Kayla left
Since the cellular signal is still blocked,
Kayla comes up with the idea to get the delivery van from her mother's flower shop
They can get it and rescue Kayla's brother;
and then go to a nearby town and upload their footage on the internet
However, they have to walk through the clone-occupied town square, so as to get to the flower shop
Along the way, they pass by the clones, burning the bodies of the original humans in a huge bonfire
Kayla and Zach pretend to be clones by acting emotionless; and they finally reach the shop
Zach goes in to look for the keys to the van; while Kayla waits outside
But she sees her brother inside one of the other buildings; and she follows him
Inside, there are dozens of children,
being forced by their clone parents to be bitten by the creatures
Kayla sees her brother, and walks up to him with tears in her eyes,
which however, gives her away as a real person, not a clone
So the clones seize her;
and she screams for her brother to run, and go to their family's cabin
They are about to force her to be bitten, when Zach crashes the delivery van into the building;
and the two manage to escape
While driving, Zach notices a bite on Kayla's arm
She begins to cry; and he comforts her
Suddenly, a creature jumps from the back of the van, and bites Zach before fleeing into the woods
They try to catch the creature; but it's too fast
Zach and Kayla walk through the surrounding woods,
and see that a thick crowd of clones is waiting for them outside the clearing,
blocking their way to the next town
Therefore, Zach makes another plan to go to a nearby cable company,
to upload his video to the channel instead
While walking, they encounter Randy's clone
Kayla comes up behind him, and clubs him in the head with a rock
Then she and Zach drown the clone in the river
They sneak inside the cable company
but before they can get into the main server room, Kayla and Zach's clones chase them
They lock the door to the room, and successfully upload the video to YouTube
However, the clones are about to break the door down at any moment
Zach gets the idea to switch on the cyanide gas in order to kill the clones;
while he and Kayla run out of the room
They go to Kayla's family's cabin next, where Kayla's brother is hiding
The siblings emotionally reunite
but what they see next on the TV screen, chills them to their bones
Footage of emotionless people around the world is playing on the news channel
Thousands of clones are now slowly taking over the world;
and Kayla and Zach realize that they are not the first town to be invaded by the virus,
but the last
The movie ends with one of the last survivors around the world commenting on Zach's Youtube video,
asking if they are still alive
Other commenters from Boston, Prague, and Nanjing reply that they are still
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