Leofwine_draca THIRST is an all-too-familiar low budget enterprise shot in the Utah desert. A group of kids are on their way to a tough boot camp, but instead they come across a meteorite site which has brought with it a CGI alien that appears to be a mixture of different creatures. Mucho low-rent action then takes place as the kids are bumped off one by one by the beast while they attempt to figure out a way to kill it. Aside from a small role for THE WALKING DEAD's Karl Makinen, who is reliably good, this is pretty poor, with unoriginal plotting and uninteresting special effects. Films like this only really work when they're bursting with suspense and you won't find much of that here.

lolchicken-98780 Very minor spoilers.I started out watching this somewhat reluctantly, but found myself really liking it once the clichéd opening scene was over with. Although the obvious character tropes are present, it was the characters that got me engaged. I felt somewhat sad early on because I liked all of them - except the guy you are not meant to like - and I knew most of them probably wouldn't make it.The Alien creature is very well done, but they show it off too early and ruin the suspense somewhat. It looks like a highly magnetized H.R. Giger Alien centaur that ran through a junk yard. The cyborg design doesn't really fit the "vampiric" nature of the alien and its ability to sneak up on people, although I suppose it presents a good reason for it to be bullet-proof.The acting and script is mostly good. They avoid having the characters do anything obviously stupid, although there is some character in-fighting that pops up at moments where you would expect the group to be too bothered about survival to have a go at each other. Most set pieces were well done, and tense, except for the ending which was highly unoriginal. Despite the great alien, the other effects are very bad, with poorly done CGI explosions and one scene where the alien picks someone up by the neck that is laugh-out-loud fake looking.The two young leads, John Redlinger and Clare Niederpruem have great chemistry and are very effective in their roles. Hopefully we see more of them in "better" movies.Overall, a really good film of this type. I would certainly watch it again.

crandalls-76404 Save your money, unless you can watch this movie for free. Even then, you may waste your time watching it. I'm ashamed to say I watched it all the way through. I wasted valuable personal time. It is one of the poorest motion pictures I've ever watched. I'd actually have to say it is the worst. Yes, it is that bad! The only reason I gave it a score of two (2 out of 10) is out of respect to the fact that this film was completed and distributed for viewing. That took effort. And it is that effort that I salute, but nothing more.No matter how hard I try, I cannot imagine a crew of adults producing and completing this piece of cinematography. It's awful, across-the-board, across all aspects of movie industry cinematography. The acting is especially poor. People do not act and react, in reality, as they did in this movie. Hello Director...The Alien - a five year old would have better imagination. The only "Alien" to ever look like that would have to come from the planet "Earth". The effects were on the level of an early 60's Godzilla film.I'm just upset by the fact that this film was completed. Because that meant it would have to be distributed, in an attempt to generate income for the sole purpose of paying for the cost of making this film. I cannot think of a single Drive-In that would show this film, as it is that bad.

Walter Goldenberg It moves quickly; has good writing in the form of a tight plot and some believable characters; and features interesting Utah landscapes and respectable special effects - pound for dollar (and it's free on SyFy), it's a worthy effort.The weakness is the inability of the director to control the mood in a perfectly competent manner. This inability is often seen in movies of this genre, and while THIRST doesn't make as many mistakes as other, lesser entries, the mistakes are certainly there.Here we have a group of people being terrorized and slaughtered by an alien creature, and yet they still have the wherewithal to make bad jokes at random moments and to seem oblivious to the epoch-making mystery of it all.To see what a grade A production can do with this kind of material, watch the 2011 version of THE THING. After her first horrific encounter with the creature, the young paleontologist gazes up at the stars and says, "I'll never look at them in the same way again..."An even better example of tight control is the Tom Cruise masterpiece EDGE OF TOMORROW. The humor is always there, but it's always apropos.