Two men witness an unexplainable event in the sky as a historic solar storm approaches, and they try to survive as a terrifying life form hunts them.
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I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.
If you don't like this, we can't be friends.
Great Film overall
A Masterpiece!
If you are looking for a general viewing purpose then yes it is a bad movie..but if you are viewing this movie as a science fiction movie then you might enjoy it a little.a typical sci-fi movie under low budget made it little less than enjoyable for some. It is not that type of movies that keeps you thinking after the movie finishes, but it could feed the fear in some who watch this movie. I find the core story amazing and Julian Richings was good in this movie (his role enhanced the viewing of this movie). It needs lot of execution improvements but the core story is amazing and freaky! (this movie could be also under horror movies). If you are a sci-fi fan then you might like to give it a chance.My rating is 2/10 (2 means it is good for watching once)
Directed by Chad Archibald, "Ejecta" stars Julian Richings as William Cassidy, a man who has experienced a series of extraterrestrial encounters. Cassidy is visited at his secluded home by a documentary filmmaker, Joe Sullivan (Adam Seybold), who hopes to learn more about Cassidy's encounters."Ejecta's" reasonably creepy premise quickly degenerates into needless mayhem. A UFO crashes, soldiers bumble about in the dark and Cassidy is taken hostage by a woman who uses the opportunity to indulge in exploitative torture sessions. Whilst "Ejecta" does have several good scares – most of which find our heroes assaulted by aliens in a wooden house – and does capture several genuinely creepy nighttime images, this is ultimately a poorly written film which panders to low-budget horror conventions. Written by Tony Burgess.5/10 – Worth one viewing. See "Fire in the Sky" and "Session 9".
I wasn't completely disappointed with this film. There were a couple of things that really were clever. I wished they would have capitalized on those nuances that were unique and steered clear of the "found footage" filming style. Haven't we had enough found footage films to last a life time? What worked well is the use of real complaints that some of the abductees report; missing memory, showing up in strange places with no way of knowing how they got there, and the sleepless dull pain shrouded in unadulterated fear. That was creepy storytelling. It was a twist to consider the idea something is also controlling some of the visitors just like humans are controlled. Assuming all alien contact is only part of a bigger conspiracy of highly intelligent entities controlling the rest was a bright spot. Dire film with simple special effects made for a solid picture to catalog along with others that make the grade! Quick moving fun!
Being a huge fan of Pontypool and the very bizarre and completely unexpected idea it brought to the concept of zombies, I went into Ejecta expecting the unexpected. Sadly, when the movie ended nothing of the sort had happened but I did get the feeling it tried. The scenario is a weird mix of threadbare tropes and some nonsensical elements with very little connections or consequences between them. The special effects are not as good as some TV shows.One of the first thing we see is this testimonial from William, the main character of the story, about how aliens somehow came in his head and left something there, something that fills his sleep wit dreadful stuff that is beyond description. The delivery of the interview scenes are as chilling as it gets, but you can only speak of indescribable horror for so long before it starts being just vague. The fake documentary angle works though, and the delicate balance between the interviewer being impressed, skeptical, and a bit scared is well played.Then the opening credits roll, showing every mythical alien photo we ever saw. It is fitting, because most everything about the alien's appearance, behaviour and obscure motivations does not stray an inch from the established alien lore.So the titular solar ejecta happens, which somehow makes an alien ship fail and crash on earth... in the woods behind William's house. There is an ellipse, Soldiers are there. William gets shot. William gets captured and interrogated in a bunker. And this is where the situation gets from tense to grotesque, as he is being questioned and tortured by a women that people call "doctor" who is also single-handedly ordering the soldiers, when she's not shooting them in the head to ascertain her authority. I actually enjoyed the way she played fake-friendly and enthusiasm that switches instantly into dark sadistic glee, but I found the amount of multi-tasking a bit unnatural.See, Dr. Tobin also found the footage of the incident (which has somehow been neatly edited with music in-camera) and is watching it for clues and learning about its content in real time, at the same time the audience is. The tape mostly contains very long chase sequences in the wood and the house. The alien's beastly behaviour and casual nakedness is never adequately explained, they just chase and bully the hero around, staying out of frame and out of light at all times, emitting a wide variety of growls, wails and that fashionable staccato growl every scary creature and movie trailer started making a few years ago.Meanwhile, in the torture bunker, mysterious gadgets are used and misused with inconclusive results, there is much shouting and unpleasantness. Some weird things do happen at the end, but never really build up to a reveal or help in any way to explain the goal of the alien's actions. In the end there is no mystery, there is just the unexplained.