fjaye Without a doubt, one of the worst films I have ever seen. Every aspect of it is rotten: the cast, the acting, the music, the editing, the script...It wants to be a sci-fi/horror movie, but fails miserably. The "alien" takes the form of a red flashlight beam. There are many intercuts of people in a city frantically running away from colored smoke that is pouring from containers on the ground; the shots are re-used several times, and are inserted seemingly at random.The soundtrack is just a collection of library music. During one long scene, the music was too short, so it just stopped. Several seconds later, the snippet started again, played through, and then stopped. Seconds later, it was back...kind of like someone lifting the tone-arm from a vinyl record and replacing it at the beginning of a track.The cast mainly sits around a cabin in the snowy woods and talks aimlessly about what has happened. No one knows. Except that, maybe, Earth and Mars were once very close together and the Martians escaped to Earth and went underground, only to reappear as red flashlight beams 2000 years later.At the end, the last two survivors walk along snowy railroad tracks and then -- in the next shot -- become naked children skipping and frolicking through fields of flowers.Then the credits roll.And I am NOT making this up.

Scaarge It's the end of the world with aliens invading and a mysterious plague spreading! But don't worry, Bill Rebane is here, he'll make sure things don't get scary or exciting or even interesting. You're trapped in a cabin with the most boring people in the world (maybe being dull is some kind of immunity?). Occasionally we'll cut away, once to a smarmy talk-show guy who prattles on cheerfully about the plague before introducing his befuddled guests, then to a bar with a comical drunk, and a couple of times to a bad DJ and some fleeing crowds. Most of the time, though, we're stuck with these terrible actors. The guy with the beard, seriously, he's just flat-out awful. When he tries to be romantic or funny, he makes the whole universe worse. Couple that with special effects that must have cost eighty-five cents, the most inappropriate music cues ever (I never knew one of those New Year's noisemakers meant "suspense"), dialog that makes you want to strangle your ears, and aliens who ask "How are you?" over the radio. There are two reasons to watch this: the first is the music over the titles. It's such a jaw-droppingly blatant rip-off of Ennio Morricone's "The Good, The Bad and the Ugly" theme that you'll be glad you heard it, just so you can believe it. The second is the ending, which is one of those "Wait, what?" endings that make you think you must have fallen asleep and missed something crucial. You didn't, though.

Mark Honhorst Or, I should say, the first Bill Rebane film I can make it through without being bored to tears. I got this film on one of those 50 movie packs called "Nightmare Worlds", so you know I couldn't have wasted too much money on it. I don't know why, but I really like this film. Maybe it's the goofy music that sometimes sounds like an off key version of the theme from "The Good, the Bad,and the Ugly". Maybe it's the attention grabbing beginning. Maybe it's the original characters that I actually started to like about a third of the way through the movie. There's the drab but somehow attractive female protagonist, her brother who cares so much about the group that he actually leaves the cabin for help, the rich snob who is slightly reminiscent of Charles Winchester from M*A*S*H, the guy the female protagonist is infatuated with, and the brainy, slightly crazy nerd who looks somewhat like a walrus, and is actually more important to the story than you think he is at first. The atmosphere and cinematography were also above average. Now, I'm not saying this is a great movie. Heck, I'm not even saying it's a GOOD movie... it's slow paced, has bad acting, and the quality of the DVD transfer is god-awful... but you might like it if you have a very distinct taste in cinema... a BAD taste.

d_indorf do not watch unless under the influence of strong alcohol......just kidding.....an awful movie worthy of cult classic/torture status. The special effects, were not so special. Smoke bombs in the snow, visible strings on the flying saucers. The dialog was capable of inducing a coma in the unsuspecting. Usuually in this kind of budget flick there is at least some gratuitous nudity. Not in this one. The mysterious aliens, were just a backdrop for bad flannel shirts and cheesy actors trying to look Canadian, but failing miserably. Besides.. Canadians, don't look any certain way, unless they are the mounties. (i guess)I may have missed some of the finer points of the plot, due to lapsing in and out of a stupor-us coma, and scaring my family in the process. If a structureless plot and cruddy cheesball acting are your thing.....give it a go!!!