Director: The Polonia Brothers and Jon McBride
Year: 1996
Country: USA
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Creature Feature
Plot:
Taking a trip out into the countryside, a couple of friends on a cross-country trip stumble upon a devasted area of the forest and try not to let it ruin their time, but they soon realize that the cause of the events is a race of alien beings looking to make a home on Earth and must try to stop them.
Review:
This was a pretty solid shot-on-video effort. What makes this one quite a bit of fun is the quick and to-the-point storyline that manages to bring together some highly enjoyable aspects. Offering up the main setup of the aliens arriving in a ship continuously mistaken as a strange fireball flying through the local sky and constantly leaving behind a wave of devastation in their midst that few know the truth about which the guys manage to stumble across inadvertently on their trip serves this all rather well. It gets them out to the woods rather early, gives a solid starting point of the aliens attacking the various hikers and fishermen in the area while not being caught, and generates an exceptionally cheesy atmosphere at the same time.
That continues quite nicely with the gradual discovery of the aliens and the series of confrontations that take place. With scenes taking place in the woods, at the local hospital, and at a friend’s house, the inclusion of the cheesy effects as well as the laughable gore keeps this one pretty enjoyable since this tone matches the action pretty well. The finale is a bit too chaotic and convoluted with the action in the farmhouse and the attack on the ship where one of them is abducted and experimented on which simply introduces way too many elements for its own good, especially with a rather bizarre clock function repeatedly telling the time that’s never paid for some reason, but mostly it’s the low-budget on display that gives it it’s cheesy tone but also the biggest issue here.
Overview: ***/5
An impressive and wholly enjoyable shot-on-video creature feature, this one manages more than enough to be likable and quite fun even though the usual drawbacks of the style do appear. Those who are fans of this style and approach, or are fans of the creative crew, will have quite a lot to like here while most others who aren’t into this style or approach should heed caution.
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