20 Most WTF Movie Moments Of 2018

7. The Trippy "Dance-Off" Finale - Annihilation

Much has been made of the unforgettable "bear" scene in Alex Garland's sci-fi horror masterpiece, but in terms of prolonged WTF, nothing tops the deliriously ambitious finale.

Protagonist Lena (Natalie Portman) finally makes it towards the epicentre of the DNA-altering extra-terrestrial structure known as the Shimmer, entering a lighthouse there.

Inside she discovers that her husband Kane (Oscar Isaac) succumbed to the Shimmer's effects, committing suicide after a doppelgänger of himself had been created.

She then briefly meets up with team member Ventress (Jennifer Jason Leigh), who after some brief rambling turns into a bizarre nebulous entity, which absorbs a drop of blood from Lena and creates a metallic entity which mirrors Lena's own movements.

A brief "battle" ensues, in which Lena's movements end up working against her in the most entrancingly weird dance-off you've ever seen, until she realises she can trick the entity by placing a phosphorus grenade in its hands.

This is enough to "kill" the creature, while burning down the lighthouse and appearing to destroy the Shimmer. Sci-fi sure didn't get any more inventive or deliciously creepy than that in 2018, that much is certain.