Surprisingly, this 11-Minute ‘Metroid’ Fan Movie Doesn’t Suck

However, a fan-made short movie called Metroid: The Sky Calls shows that a Metroid movie might not be such a terrible idea.

The 11-minute video, directed by Sam Balcomb and starring The Nerdist’s Jessica Chobot, works because it gets the mood right. It has the sci-fi horror vibe of Ridley Scott’s Alien, but with all the sound effects and iconography of the Metroid games, specifically the GameCube-era Metroid Prime games. The ship, the power suit, Aran’s signature move of turning into a speedy ball, even that eery feeling of being alone on an alien planet—the short movie just nails that Metroid feeling. I don’t know if I’d watch 90 minutes of Aran alone in space, but I could definitely watch more.

The special effects are also pretty good for a small production, but really, the most amazing thing about it is that Chobot is able to say lines like “It’s a Chozo signal” with a straight face.