I'm not sure why this movie has a small cult to it. To be sure, it has a once in a lifetime cast of "B" movie personalities (and an early appearance by David Caruso), though most of these personalities get killed off minutes after they first appear! Palance and Landau look and sound like they have been living a week on the streets with a diet of cheap wine, and you get the feeling that they took this job in desperation.
The rest of the movie is equally feeble. To begin with, it looks cheap and drab. I've seen a number of made-for-video low budget movies that actually look a lot more slick than this. It doesn't help that the locations are really dull, many of them looking like vacant lots a few steps from the production company's headquarters. The "spinning discs" look pretty laughable either spinning or stuck to someone or something.
The biggest problem the movie has is that it's slowly paced and has a screenplay filled with holes. For instance: Just how long has this alien been there? Why weren't the authorities alerted before? What is its main purpose in coming to this place and killing people? Questions like that keep nagging you, and leaving you unsatisfied at the end, to say the least. The last part of the movie does build some atmosphere, but it's too little, too late.
The rest of the movie is equally feeble. To begin with, it looks cheap and drab. I've seen a number of made-for-video low budget movies that actually look a lot more slick than this. It doesn't help that the locations are really dull, many of them looking like vacant lots a few steps from the production company's headquarters. The "spinning discs" look pretty laughable either spinning or stuck to someone or something.
The biggest problem the movie has is that it's slowly paced and has a screenplay filled with holes. For instance: Just how long has this alien been there? Why weren't the authorities alerted before? What is its main purpose in coming to this place and killing people? Questions like that keep nagging you, and leaving you unsatisfied at the end, to say the least. The last part of the movie does build some atmosphere, but it's too little, too late.