Spaceship ***½ (2016, Lara Peake, Alexa Davies, Harry Jarvis, Antti Reini) – Movie Review

Alexa Davies impresses as teenage cyber-goth Lucidia, whose mother died mysteriously seven years earlier, and who now disappears in her own faked alien abduction. This leaves her archaeologist father Gabriel (Antti Reini) searching for her in the strange teenage world of her outsider friends. And he meets Tegan (Lara Peake), a girl obsessed with unicorns and black holes.

Both the visuals and the soundtrack keep coming at you, completing the weird, audacious teen culture experience. The disco party sequence with the kids in day-glow neon make-up looks particularly striking visually and the fitness-freak goths climbing trees and leaping from logs makes for an outstanding embrace-the-strangeness sequence.

Tallulah Rose Haddon plays Alice, Harry Jarvis plays Vampire Boy, Lucian Charles Collier plays Luke, Kristof Gerega plays Kristof and Steven Elder plays the Squaddie.

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