Writer and director Michael Felker got his start in the film industry with modern genre masters Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead. Through editing almost all of their films, Felker absorbed everything that makes the works of Benson and Moorhead so special. Now he’s taken all of that learning and created his own touching, frightening, and beautifully lo-fi sci-fi horror film, Things Will Be Different.

In the film: In order to escape police after a robbery, two estranged siblings lay low in a metaphysical farmhouse that hides them away in a different time. There they reckon with a mysterious force that pushes their familial bonds to unnatural breaking points.

If there’s one movie you check out this year, let it be this one. It’s smart, heart-felt, and tense, a clever mix of family drama and genre film. You never feel its budget but you always feel the pulsing cosmic horror that’s closing in around our two protagonists…