Very Cool!!!

Pretty Good

Best movie of this year hands down!

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

A handful of people wind up stranded in a snowy mountain area in the wake of an airplane crash. They seek refuge in an old abandoned cabin. Moreover, the group find themselves being terrorized by a lethal predatory extraterrestrial beast residing in the basement of said cabin. Boy, does writer/director Paul Gagne strike out something rotten in every possible way with this mind-numbingly awful stinker: Slack (non)direction, sluggish pacing, terrible acting from a lame no-name cast (Merry Simkins cops the grand booby prize for her insufferably shrill portrayal of hateful whiny shrew Sandy), murky washed-out cinematography, zero tension or spooky atmosphere, tin-eared dialogue ("I'm scared, baby"), tacky gore, shoddy (far from) special effects, uniformly obnoxious and unlikable characters, an overly talky and meandering script, a generic hum'n'shiver score, and a pitifully hokey and unconvincing rubbery monster. Only a surprisingly hot lesbian love scene and some tasty gratuitous female nudity manage to make a favorable impression. A total clunker.

Watched this movie on zone horror one night during a bout of insomnia. I can honestly say that it is one of the worst movies I've ever seen. Basically, 7 survivors of a plane crash set up camp in deserted hut during a snowstorm but soon find themselves picked off one by one by a flesh eating alien. I thought it sounded like it could be pretty good - I couldn't have been more wrong.The directing, editing, lighting, acting, special effects - in fact, pretty much EVERYTHING about the movie - are absolutely terrible. The plot is basically non-existent. The movie is peppered with various scenes in which the actors are quite clearly standing in front of a blue screen. It really has to be seen to be believed, its THAT bad. Oh and there's also a random lesbian sex scene thrown on for good measure.An embarrassment to all involved.

OK, it's a crummy movie, at least according to the usual standards of film, but it is not that hard to watch. In fact, it's really pretty fun. (I don't mean that it's so bad that it's good; I mean that it's fairly interesting and it doesn't grind your soul down as you wait for it to end.) The story keeps moving and actually has some suspenseful moments. (You may actually be mildly surprised at who survives and why.) There are several lengthy topless scenes, including some lesbian action. The acting is wildly over the top and the characters do the dumbest things. But it plunges forward relentlessly and cheerfully.The alien(s) is a combination of puppetry and some of the hokiest animation possible. "Cheesey" doesn't begin to describe it. But that's also part of the fun. Plus, you just have to catch the airplane FX at the beginning of the movie.It appears that about half of the movie is blue-screen and this creates some truly surrealistic effects. During a confrontation in a room, for example, the shots of one character were clearly taken on location or on a soundstage (probably the former). The reverse shot of the other character is obviously blue-screen, but the background that has been inserted looks like Van Gogh painted it, with wild textures and colors. It's supposed to be the very same room, but you'd hardly know it.I also enjoyed the revolver that was used. Not only did it not require reloading (well...they DID reload it once, I guess) but it is clearly a toy with green paint on the muzzle so they could add CGI muzzle blasts when it was fired. It's fascinating.And be sure to pay attention to the clearly irrelevant snow cat subplot. And the styrofoam snow. And the fake "flame thrower" FX. And the "baby" aliens. It's like Disneyland...so much to see.Anyway, I watched it all the way through and suffered absolutely no ill effects. Give it a break...it IS what it aspires to be.

This film is so monumentally bad on every level it is honestly quite hard to believe :-) Everything you want to say about this film uses terms that have no place anywhere near this masterpiece - acting, special effects, plot, characters, take your pick .... none of them are here. It's worth watching for a benchmark to compare all other films by (although on zone horror it has some stiff competition as it's my new favourite place for truly bad films). Three things to watch out for in the film are 1) The spectacularly poor special effects - truly, truly jaw droppingly bad - done by his mate for a pint and a curry I suspect 2) The randomly changing and wildly fluctuating film quality 3) The everlasting 6 shot pistol (I think it must be belt feed!) Go on - it's 2 hours of your life you won't get back, but you will remember it.