prisoner-7 I really wanted to enjoy this movie but the level of ridiculousness was over the top and the movie just couldn't gain its footing. From characters not breaking windows to get into places when running for their lives, to believing that boarding up windows will stop aliens from outer space, to using flashlights in the dark when trying to hide from aliens. I really could make a nearly endless list for this movie; it was almost impressive. This movie left me more frustrated than scared... sigh...

targe1314 WARNING. IF YOU ARE AN ACTUAL ALIEN ABDUCTEE - DO NOT WATCH THIS MOVIETHIS MOVIE PRETENDS TO BE A FICTIONAL HORROR, BUT IS IN FACT A DOCUMENTARY ON REALISTIC ALIEN ABDUCTION.This is the most realistic movie on portrayal of aliens and abduction I have seen since Close Encounters of the Third Kind. The director did his homework on this one.THE ALIEN SPECIES REPRESENTED IN THIS MOVIE IS THE TALL INSECTOID GREYS. IF YOU HAVE BEEN ABDUCTED AND ASSAULTED BY THIS SPECIES IN PARTICULAR, DO NOT WATCH THIS.The portrayal of the aliens, specifically in this case the Tall Insectoid Greys, which are consistently described in hundreds of reports is VERY ACCURATE, and therefore TERRIFYING.Their skulls are somewhat over elongated, perhaps to weave in some non-human Ancient Aliens Giant Elongated Skulls mythos into the movie. The director has done his homework on this one.Animal mutilations are accurately represented Alien craft are accurately depicted Aliens themselves are frighteningly nearly 100% accurate. Alien weaponry and technology, such as EM disruption of cars and equipment, sound vibration immobilization tech, mind control, laser weaponry, anti-grav abduction ray, all are 100% modeled accurately.Also, government crash retrieval protocols are also very accurately portrayed.The movie tells the familiar tale of '5 cute kids who are partying in a cabin in the woods are terrorized by ..... (monster/alien/jason)' etc... but it tells it with 100% accurate representation of the aliens. The young cast does an OK job conveying the terror of their encounters, but need the veteran support of strong casting from Michael Ironside as the conspiracy theory grizzled war vet who is tracking the ufo's on his radar rig, and Gil Bellows as the weary and freaked out local Sheriff who is driving from missing persons to mutilated animals and wondering what the heck is going on in his town.The movie takes place over 1 night so there is no daylight reprieve from the sun to give you a chance to catch your breath. The aliens make their appearance soon after dark, skidding in a scoutship into the road, and after the crazy kids shoot and kill one, the hurt is on.Perhaps the only strangeness in the movie was a familiar trope I find annoying (witness 'fire in the sky' Travis Walton case movie) where we are supposed to believe that the aliens would just let people wander their ship aimlessly after beaming them up on board, and that the interior would look like something out of HR Gigers Alien.The surviving kids who make it to the spaceship soon realize they have been somehow teleported to some sort of gigantic mothership or alien base, as ufos the size of the one that abducted them are flying overhead inside the giant space.During this time there is a very disgusting scene involving an anus and a rectal boring machine that you may want to take a snack or brb for. They queue is when the guy strapped to the vertical table gets turned around backwards... no need to see that.To top this movie off, if you have ever played the very popular X-COM UFO DEFENSE or ENEMY UNKNOWN game series, the film borrows some of the creepy tracks from this popular pc game into the film, in some cases exactly as it is in the game. This movie blows other attempts like 'Signs' out of the water. I was very impressed, and only scaled down to an 8 because yes, the young crew needs some acting experience and it get's a bit cheesy at times.If you are scared by alien movies, this one will require a NIGHT LIGHT after.

Leofwine_draca EXTRATERRESTRIAL is a low budget, shot-in-Canada, sci-fi/horror movie about a group of teenagers holidaying at a cabin in the woods when they're interrupted by a UFO and a group of aliens desperate to abduct them. The film was made by the Vicious Brothers, who previously made the ultra-derivative GRAVE ENCOUNTERS, and like that movie this is a very familiar offering that mixes together bits and pieces of horror and sci-fi entertainment from the last few decades. The main source of inspiration seems to be NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, which is blatantly copied at times.It's the film's predictability that works against it in the end; the result is strictly routine and nothing you haven't seen before. The dialogue is completely unmemorable and the actors seem prone to shouting and screaming their lines rather than speaking rationally. After the slow set up, things play out in high tempo and it all becomes pretty wearying. Cast-wise, the only actor of note is the reliably odd Michael Ironside, but he has too little screen time. The rest is a mix of cheap effects, shaky camera-work, and routine plotting.

DBLurker I spent the whole movie trying to understand what they were trying to do with the whole thing. Was it intentionally so cliché filled, trying to be corny? Or was it trying to take itself seriously? I kept asking myself because the movie does nothing new with the aliens, in-fact, it's trying to copy X-Files with generic aliens and even a reference at the end. But then, the movie isn't smart enough to make fun of all this and looks like it's actually taking itself seriously.Then there's the ending. You know how in LOTR you kept getting fade-outs thinking "this is the end" but it suddenly keeps on going? This movie did that 3 times in a row where it just refused to end at the "right" moment and then kept making it worse by showing how dumb it can be, till the end.It's so bad that I rated it 5/10 and went down to 3/10 while writing the review. Pray that I don't go any lower..