Okay right off the bat, why do they always use a low frequency rumble in space movies when they show a large space craft moving? There is no sound in a vacuum! Worse, in this one, the astronauts out on a spacewalk were first attacked by a piercing sound – come on, man, physics!! Speaking of sound, the driving to the cabin music was totally lame. So basically three guys and two girls drove to a cabin out in the woods to get away from strange storms and possible alien invasion. Hey it’s J.J. “Walt White Jr” Mitte as Brendan, and Wesley Snipes as The Hunter! What happened to good ol’ Wesley, he’s such a great actor. Both of these guys did a good job in this one. The rest of the B cast – not so much. Rob, played by Niko Pepaj, was especially hammy and annoying. I was really hoping he’d be the first one to get anally probed by aliens. Charlie and Annie were played by two nobodies.
Once at the cabin, Brendan set up a trail cam: hey I wonder what they are going to capture? By the way, sadly, Brendan was the third wheel of the group. They had an encounter with The Hunter before getting to the cabin, and when exploring around the area, they found an “abandoned” cabin with fresh animal skins outside. Were these clowns really that stupid? Hey I wonder who lived there??
Unfortunately, there was the usual ration of bad movie clichés – such as the hackneyed asthma sufferer, the alien spacecraft coming out of clouds – where have I seen this before, some movie Spielberg did in 1977? Then of course, the old: “my girlfriend died and I’m just a teenager” cliché.
Anywho, the aliens were attacking around the world, so of course, we had to see a military bunker scene. And man was this one cheesy – Jiminy Christmas! Even worse, the Russian “alien expert” guy did some of the worst “I’m being possessed” acting I’ve ever seen.
Another really annoying character was Kara, played by Hanna Rose May. Her best acting in this movie was playing dead – after Rob accidentally shot and killed her. With aliens invading the cabin (why they are out in the middle of nowhere in the first place was baffling), the four kids remaining fled via truck. And then they crashed during the getaway – good lord the clichés kept coming! Oh but the good news, Rob got beamed up by the aliens – yay! And then Brenden fell victim to a bear trap? Jiminy this was another endless cliché boo-fay.
For some bizarre reason, The Hunter decided to help these nitwits and led them back to his cabin. Why didn’t The Hunter just put the three remaining losers out of their misery? He said to Charlie, “Drink this?” Charlie said, “What is it?” The Hunter: “You don’t want to know”. In other words, it’s piss! And he drank it!
The Hunter revealed his telekinetic “powers” courtesy of this first encounter with these aliens. As Hedley Lamarr said, “I hate that cliche!”
Finally, we got to see the aliens – hey they were wearing clothes! Then the dreaded high pitched noise again – oh goody, no more Brendan. Only two losers left!
Wesley “The Hunter” Snipes gave me a “hail no!” – wooo!
Well, they finally got to the inevitable – Charlie and Annie got beamed up. Is this dreck over yet? Nope, now we see a total rip-off of the cult classic Fire in the Sky starring D. B. Sweeney as Travis Walton. Charlie awoke in an organic cell with an easily ripped membrane cover, then escaped undetected, free to wander about the space ship until he spotted aliens experimenting on humans. Almost the exact same scenes – ridiculous! And then, just like in the Alien movies, there’s Brendan incorporated into the wall, and still alive, sort of… At least these aliens had realistic sized neck and arms. And now Charlie was going to get reamed in the ass – yes!!
This had to be the end of the movie, right? Nope. All five kids awoke naked in the woods near their cabin, with all their clothes neatly folded next to them. Really? Why?? Incredibly, the ending was far worse than imagined. Remember the ending of The Blob, with that ridiculous question mark? I think more films should incorporate silly endings, especially bad movies like this one. The best ending for this movie would have been a loud fart noise. Awful! But still, Wesley Snipes and J.J. Mitte made this one almost tolerable.
Okay Netflix, fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Two duds in a row. Enough of Netflix “horror” for awhile. This one gets three alien anal probes out of ten.