This film could have been great, but overall it's only very entertaining. This movie is not one to be taken that seriously. if you see the trailer to the end and get the hint of an actual "anal probe" scene you understand what you're in for.
This movie follows a bunch of college kids, you'll forget their names because they're honestly not that important. They go out to do what every group of young adults do in horror movies: stay in a cabin and party but suddenly horror happens and blah blah you know this one by heart. However while watching you get the impression that the filmmakers knew that so they just ran with it. The movie doesn't take itself too seriously and there are a few deliberate gags here and there. Michael Ironside for instance is mostly played for laughs and it's clear some other bit parts are hamming it up a lot. This doesn't make for quality film making but it's entertaining.
Despite this though, there are parts of the movie which are genuinely good. A B plot of the film involves a small town sheriff investigating instances of Alien sightings and these parts are actually quite compelling. The actor playing the Sheriff does a good job and these are the only times the film ever invokes a sense of mystery and suspense. Perhaps if they had thought about it longer, they may have realized that this plot would have been an actual good movie.
That being said the Sheriff scenes have their effect only to a certain point. About halfway through the film the wise, "less is more" mentality pretty much flies out the window. Remember how in some X-Files episodes whenever aliens appeared they were always in shadow, never seeing their eyes and with constant bright lights behind them. Or in Signs where you only caught glimpses of them and then when they did show themselves they were kept in a wide shot, keeping an aura of mystery and terror. Well in this movie they didn't care about that because there are aliens all over the damn place. After a while the jump scare of having one appear loses its effect if it ever had one to begin with.
All that being said, this is a movie to sit down with friends, share some drinks and just be entertained which I think was the filmmakers' intention - hopefully.
This movie follows a bunch of college kids, you'll forget their names because they're honestly not that important. They go out to do what every group of young adults do in horror movies: stay in a cabin and party but suddenly horror happens and blah blah you know this one by heart. However while watching you get the impression that the filmmakers knew that so they just ran with it. The movie doesn't take itself too seriously and there are a few deliberate gags here and there. Michael Ironside for instance is mostly played for laughs and it's clear some other bit parts are hamming it up a lot. This doesn't make for quality film making but it's entertaining.
Despite this though, there are parts of the movie which are genuinely good. A B plot of the film involves a small town sheriff investigating instances of Alien sightings and these parts are actually quite compelling. The actor playing the Sheriff does a good job and these are the only times the film ever invokes a sense of mystery and suspense. Perhaps if they had thought about it longer, they may have realized that this plot would have been an actual good movie.
That being said the Sheriff scenes have their effect only to a certain point. About halfway through the film the wise, "less is more" mentality pretty much flies out the window. Remember how in some X-Files episodes whenever aliens appeared they were always in shadow, never seeing their eyes and with constant bright lights behind them. Or in Signs where you only caught glimpses of them and then when they did show themselves they were kept in a wide shot, keeping an aura of mystery and terror. Well in this movie they didn't care about that because there are aliens all over the damn place. After a while the jump scare of having one appear loses its effect if it ever had one to begin with.
All that being said, this is a movie to sit down with friends, share some drinks and just be entertained which I think was the filmmakers' intention - hopefully.