Ambar (Cristina Rodlo) is a Mexican illegal immigrant who recently moved to Cleveland after the death of her mother. With very little money to her name, Ambar's best choice for a place to stay is a rundown boarding house run by Red (Marc Menchaca) and his brother Becker (David Figlioli). The only other tenant in the building is a woman named Freja (Vala Noren).
Of course, as time goes by, Ambar notices strange happenings in the building. Hearing things, seeing people in the building, and Becker seems like a very strange fellow.
The movie was released on Netflix on September 29th, 2021.
No One Gets Out Alive contains examples of:
- Ankle Drag: Ambar sees one of the ghosts get dragged off by the ankle into one of the apartments.
- Apartment Complex of Horrors: The apartment building Ambar is staying in is run by two brothers named Red and Becker. During her stay there, she finds she's being visited by ghostly apparitions, and hearing things inside the building. She eventually learns that Red and Becker have been sacrificing the tenants of the building to a creature in a box in their basement in exchange for good health for Becker.
- Bald of Evil: Becker.
- Beard of Evil: Becker. Also Red as an semi-willing accomplice.
- Bigger on the Inside: The stone box contains a long, small hallway.
- Creepy Basement: The basement of the boarding house contains a room full of candles with a slab in the center upon which the tenants are sacrificed.
- Cruel Twist Ending: Ambar has killed Red and Becker, seemingly ending their plans. Then Ambar stops before the front door, her broken ankle mending itself and the same veins that had appeared on Becker's head appearing near her eyes, ending on the implication that she will now start sacrificing tenants to the monster in the box.
- Eldritch Abomination: The creature living in the box has a larger set of arms for legs, a massive growth on its back, its face appears to be covered in cloth, and where it looks like its arms are bound together, there's a giant mouth inside the cloth big enough to bite a person's head off.
- Evil Feels Good: Quite literally, as sacrifices to Ītzpāpālōtl grant the one performing it improved health, visibly mending Ambar's broken ankle at the end of the film and implying that she'll now take up Becker and Red's old roles.
- False Friend: Ambar's coworker Kinsi offers to help her by buying her a fake ID, but instead she pockets Ambar's money, quits her job and disappears.
- George Jetson Job Security: When Ambar tries to ask her boss for Kinsi's address, he fires her for being such a headache.
- Head Desk: At one point in the movie, Ambar sees Becker in the boarding house hallway banging his head against the wall.
- Hope Spot:
- Ambar's cousin Beto arrives at the house looking for her. Realizing something is wrong, he forces his way inside and makes it all the way to her door before he is attacked and killed by Becker.
- When Ambar is chained up, she begs Red to let her go, and he reaches down and unlocks the padlock on her chains. Then he apologizes to her.
- Human Sacrifice: This turns out to be what Red and Becker plan to do to the tenants. For every tenant the Eldritch Abomination eats, Becker gets good health.
- The Illegal: Ambar's whole situation. She's an illegal immigrant in the United States with very little money. Just being able to get enough money to get by is a struggle for her.
- Pay Evil unto Evil: At the climax, having killed Becker, Ambar sees that Red is still alive - and promptly sacrifices him to Ītzpāpālōtl as vengeance for the women he'd helped kill.
- Trail of Blood: The corpse of the previous sacrifice leaves one on the floor of the basement as Becker drags it away.
