Decoys 2004

A jock Luigi Saracino sneaks into his supposed girlfriend’s house with flowers, hoping for a quiet celebration, but the air is bitterly cold inside. When he reaches her room, he finds a dead man with his mouth frozen open, and the shock deepens as he discovers two more corpses. The atmosphere is hushed, clinical, and terrifying, as if the winter itself has stalled life in place.

Across campus, Corey Sevier plays Luke Callahan, a freshman with a reckless streak, who teams up with Elias Toufexis as Roger, another newly minted student with more nerves than experience. The two are desperate for romance, and their night takes a wild turn when Luke meets two seductive girls, Lily and Constance. In a sunlit laundry room, Lily and Constance lure Luke with flirtation and a coin trick that backfires on his better judgment. When Luke returns the quarters, he slips into Lily’s cold residence and hides as the girls begin to strip in the chilling air. What starts as a risqué prank quickly erodes into something terrifying: reptilian tentacles unfurl from the girls’ chests, and Constance uses liquid nitrogen to spray Lily, turning a moment of arousal into a scene of danger. Luke’s curiosity hardens into a decision to uncover the truth behind the strange spectacle.

Meanwhile, the campus is shaken by a grisly discovery. In a nearby room, the body of Bobby Johnson, a young man from the college, is found frozen from the inside out, his face contorted in terror. Police assume a grotesque keg-drinking tube was shoved down his throat, but the evidence points toward something far more alien and deadly. The alert is raised, and the investigation threads its way toward the strange, otherworldly force that seems to be thriving in the cold.

In another strand of the story, Ennis Esmer brings Gibby into a cemetery where he and his girlfriend Natasha, Rosey Edeh, wander into a mausoleum for a private moment. As they begin to have sex on a cement slab, Natasha’s true nature surfaces: tentacles emerge, and a toothy ovipositor unfurls as part of an alien mating ritual. Gibby’s fate is swift and brutal—immobilized and then killed as the alien life cycle completes. Natasha’s disturbing revelation locks Luke and Roger into the conflict, emphasizing how far the threat has penetrated the night’s ordinary rituals.

To prove the aliens exist, Luke and Alex devise a plan to capture them on film. Meghan Ory portrays Alex, Luke’s partner in this dangerous venture. Luke plants a camera in his bedroom and lures Lily into a private moment. The room’s warmth contrasts with the cold air outside, and Alex watches from another room as the two characters disrobe. The tape malfunctions at a critical moment, and Lily, realizing she’s being recorded, becomes ferocious, threatening to rape Luke with her tentacles. A candle topple sparks a fire, forcing Lily to shed her human disguise and reveal her true reptilian form. She escapes, leaving Luke and Alex with nothing but a dangerous glimpse of the aliens’ true faces.

As Constance grows emotionally involved with Roger, she explains the aliens’ mission: they have come to Earth to impregnate men in order to preserve their dying species. The plan hinges on the male body tolerating their cold environment and the invasive tentacle mating procedure, which often proves fatal. Roger, moved by Constance’s sincerity, consents to allow her to mate, hoping to spare her people. Just as Luke arrives to intervene, Constance’s mouth becomes a conduit for the mating process, and Roger collapses, dying soon after. The emotional toll is heavy, and Constance is left to grapple with the consequences of the mission she’s been forced to carry out.

Luke’s investigation deepens as he discovers a crucial insight: the aliens thrive in cold and fear heat. He teams up with Amanda Watts, Nicole Eggert the detective who is connected to the case, and they fashion a homemade flamethrower to push back against the invaders. In a brutal confrontation, Luke faces Natasha and Lily and burns them to death, but Constance remains a deadly, calculated foe. The fight culminates in a desperate moment where the flamethrower runs dry, and Constance seems poised to overpower Luke. Amanda arrives and fires at Constance, giving Luke a chance to turn the tide. Luke then uses a makeshift hot-steam setup by rupturing high-pressure pipes, killing Constance and extracting some real evidence of the aliens’ existence.

With the immediate threat seemingly contained, Luke and Alex retreat to a safer space and share a moment of tenderness, confirming their love for each other. The story then circles back to the opening scene as a grim reminder: the jolt of the night’s revelations lingers in streets and rooms where life once felt ordinary. In the final twist, the camera pulls away from Luke and Alex’s apartment as they begin to connect on a deeper level, only for a chilling moment to reveal that Alex is an alien in disguise. The last line of the film closes on Luke’s realization and a scream that fades into the closing frame.

You’re early.