‘Annihilation’ Review: A Thrilling, Terrifying Surrealist Trip

Something strange is happening in science fiction. Mutating flowers. People with eels for intestines. Crocodile-shark hybrids, part-plant deer, and moaning skull-faced boar-bears. (Oh my.) Such are the flora and fauna of what’s now being called, rather neatly, the New Weird, the genre’s version of the grotesque—though it’s only “new” in the sense that it’s finally …

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