Night Skies (2007)

User Rating:

4.7/10   

Director:

Roy Knyrim

Writers:

Steve B. Harris (story)
Eric Miller (adaptation)

Genre:

Drama | Horror | Thriller

Tagline:

This is no conspiracy theory...

Plot:

On March 13th, 1997 one of the largest UFO sightings ever recorded took place across the southwestern United States...

Plot Keywords:

Phoenix Lights | UFO | Bare Chested Male Bondage | Alien | Stranger

Cast

Jason Connery	...	Richard
A.J. Cook	...	Lilly
George Stults	...	Matt
Ashley Peldon	...	Molly
Joseph Sikora	...	Joe (as Joe Sikora)
Gwendoline Yeo	...	June
Michael Dorn	...	Kyle
Jerry L. Jackson	...	Radio Preacher (voice) (as Jerry Jackson)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
John McCain	...	Himself (archive footage)

MPAA:

Rated R for violence, disturbing images and language.

Runtime:

Greece:90 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Australia:MA | USA:R | Portugal:M/16

Filming Locations:

Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Ringleader Studios

Trivia:

According to a representative of Ring Leader Studios, there are 200 special effects shots in the film.

Goofs:

Continuity: After Lilly gets off the RV to talk to Richard and Molly, you can see her arms switching between shots from being crossed to being stretched down with her hands inside in her pockets.

Movie Connections:

Featured in The Devil's Tomb (2009)

Aliens hate windows.

Lately, I've been on sort of an alien movie binge. I've been trying to watch as many real-life alien sort of flicks as I can. Some have been okay, and some have been just plain old weak. And I must say this one definitely belongs in the latter category.

Night Skies is the supposed true story of an alien encounter during the famous Phoenix Lights UFO phenomenon in 1996. Toss in a pretty much useless side-story with a bunch of young lovelies and you have the makings of a pretty weak movie.

How weak is up to you. Right from the get go, for me, the acting and writing, felt like a slap in the face. The back and forth between the young adults was eye-rollingly weak. Night Skies didn't deliver really anything note worthy besides in the special effects department. And that also still felt ScfI Originial-like. It honestly felt like the only real reason they made this movie was because of the gooey stuff you see ALL OVER THE PLACE at the end of the film. "Wow, this stuff is gross, doesn't it remind you of that stuff in Fire in the Sky?" Even though there's a crowd for everything, I still become surprised when people vote a movie like this a 10 and say nothing but good things about it. Maybe they're just overly optimistic people? Maybe I'm just a dude that sees the glass half empty. I think it's a combination of that and probably just not seeing that many flicks.

Night Skies isn't the worst movie in the world, but it's certainly nothing recommendable. I'd really only rec this flick out if there were other people out there who also want to see all the alien abduction movies there is. Lots of bad acting, really bad writing, weak directing, mixed with alright effects and loads of exploding windows, plus a moderately grim finale, you could do worse, but I'd recommend this as a party movie instead as a serious sit-down.