No One Gets Out Alive Trivia | 25 facts about the horror movie

«No One Gets Out Alive» is a 2021 British horror film directed by Santiago Menghini. It is based on the 2014 novel of the same name by Adam Nevill.

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1. No One Gets Out Alive is a 2021 British horror film.
2. It was directed by Santiago Menghini.
3. The screenplay was written by Jon Croker and Fernanda Coppel.
4. The plot is based on the 2014 novel of the same name by Adam Nevill.
5. It stars Cristina Rodlo and Marc Menchaca.
6. It was released on 29 September 2021 by Netflix.
7. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 67% based on 18 reviews, with an average rating of 6/10.
8. Metacritic gave the film a weighted average score of 43 out of 100 based on 5 critics, indicating “mixed or average reviews”.
9. At one point in the film, a newscaster mentions four lost hikers in the Swedish woods.
10. This is a reference to the 2017 film “The Ritual,” which also used an Adam Nevill novel as its source material.
11. Two of the books in the office stand out: “Banquet For The Damned”, which is also a novel by Adam Nevill.
12. On top of it, “Moder,” the name of the demon in Adam Nevill’s “The Ritual.”
13. Actress Joana Borja, who plays the Brazilian girl at the start of the film, is actually Portuguese.
14. The long sword-like weapon Ambar grabs to defend herself with during the film’s climax is called a macuáhuitl.
15. The macuáhuitl was the Nahuas and Aztecs’ weapon of choice when in battle.
16. At around 30:59, one of the images from the book is the Borgia Codex. On the left, the drawing is that of the goddess Itzpapalotl (meaning “Obsidian butterfly”).
17. She was the main deity for the Chichimecas but the Borgia Codex explains that she was some kind of demon. The drawing shows the ash-like color of the goddess’ hands, just the same color depicted when the creature (that looks like a butterfly) uses both arms to move around. All this means that the creature is no other than Itzpapalotl.
18. Itzpapalotl is actually described in Aztec mythology as ripping the victims chest to eat their hearts. The victims then would become deers.
19. Also, since she can disguise herself as a beautiful woman, the victims are male. In the movie, the heads are taken instead and the victims are mostly females, that become “ghosts” with bright eyes.
20. Both the original novel and movie initially seem to tell the story of a human trafficking ring, only to reveal bizarre supernatural villains near their respective endings.
21. However, the movie changes the book’s monster massively, with the source material’s ageless spirit Black Maggie nowhere to be found in Netflix’s movie.
22. Instead, Ambar discovers that a gigantic moth-human hybrid lives in the stone box that has been haunting her dreams, and it is this monstrosity that is revealed to be behind the many deaths in the house.
23. When Ambar snoops around the office earlier in the film, she sees a sketch depicting Itzpapalotl, an Aztec religious myth with butterfly wings, emerging from a stone box to consume a human sacrifice.
24. “No One Gets Out Alive” made no direct connection between the monster in the stone box and the Aztec Warrior Goddess, Itzpapalotl. But the term, Itzpapalotl literally means “clawed butterfly” or “Obsidian Butterfly”, the metaphor often suggested throughout the film. Some Aztec artifacts present in Professor Arthur Welles’ study room also hinted at the monster’s origin.
25. However, filmmaker Santiago Menghini chooses to focus on the influence of deities on human greed and madness rather than indulging in myths. “I respect his approach because Cinema is a medium of ‘human emotion and interaction’ and not a collage of ‘conspiracies.'”