Extraterrestrial

So I am not one to write reviews whatsoever. I am simply a 16 year old boy who purely watches movies for entertainment because I am a movie lover and don't not like to nitpick the hell out of a movie . So reading some reviews of this one, as I so often check reviews before I decided to watch a film just to get a general idea of the opinions of others, I was expecting it to be rather bad . And God am I glad I went ahead and viewed the film . I love creature features, and when I watch them, I get that some people like the suspense of not seeing the creature and for everything to be subtle and what not . But I'm kind of sick of seeing that and this film was literally just what I wanted in an alien film, FINALLY . It wasn't really a slow-burner . I mean it took about what, 20 minutes to get started but after that it was on a roll . Needless to say I enjoyed the hell out of this movie, like a lot . So let's hit some points here . The acting was, I feel, pretty decent collectively . There were some moments I was like "okay... we'll let that go" but overall nothing that broke the immersion from the film . One of my absolute favorite parts was the musical score . Yes it's cliché as hell and has probably been done in millions of movies out there, but since I was so engrossed with this film, every time something alien-esque happened and the intense soundtrack would kick in, it sucked me in even more . I loved it . The special effects I thought were rather nice . My sister and I were saying how it seemed like a lot of fun working on set with all the flashing lights and crazy goo and just, it seemed like a blast . Again, am I in no way a qualified critic . I am no JeremyJahns . But I do highly suggest that, although reviews can reflect a films quality, that's not always the case . So glad I took a chance with this one, I wasn't disappointed . I was looking for some horror alien abduction fun, in a genre where that's quite difficult to find and I got it . I highly enjoyed this film, and if your looking for just a fun alien time where your willing to accept the loopholes that may be blatantly or present, I would recommend this .

Since the 90's where great extraterrestrial movies were made, there's not a unique movie of this theme i can say its a good one, and I'm not talking about alien or predator movies made since then. I talking about the kidnapping subject,body marks or even people traumatize by experiences . Its always the same things, spaceship accident, they came after the people o saw them, shots, people dying along the way, and if they miraculously survive the horror there's always an American secret agency to kill every witness involved in the incident. Like this one, it ends with a ridiculous imitation of the cigarette man from the X-Files series....Come on...what rip off

I scored the film quite highly because I genuinely enjoyed about 80% of, but I went into it knowing it wasn't exactly going to be a groundbreaker. Without wanting to give too much away, it incorporates a lot of UFO mythology and people who are into that kind of thing will probably enjoy it, as I did. The special effects are very well done, for a film without a huge budget and the UFO's are genuinely ominous and 'other - worldly'. The plot isn't too bad really, it ends in an interesting way that you probably won't expect and there are some scenes in the last 20 minutes that are actually quite spectacular. It's bad points though - the actors are a bit annoying and not very endearing. The main couple are quite nice and their story plays out well, but everybody else in it seems to just be there to add filler to the plot. One of the guys in it is actually very annoying, from start to unfortunate end. It's all a bit loud and flashy and over the top in parts as well. The musical score is definitely not up to a very high standard in my opinion. I think it deserves a little more respect than some reviewers have given it - but not much. ;-)

I saw a lot of negative reviews for this movie, and I just don't get it. I found it far superior to the garbage that Hollywood typically churns out. On a minuscule budget, The Vicious Brothers truly have come through with a frightening and atmospheric sci-fi horror movie. Once the aliens start popping up, there is a true feeling of paranoia and desperation in that log cabin as everyone tries to survive the night. Excellent performances from all of the young leads and a truly daring ending make this a must see. I'll take this movie over Sinister, A Haunting in Connecticut, etc. any day. I want to see more from these directors.....

I'm a B-movie fan and this was crap. That being said, I have to say the usual negative IQ teens leaving weapons lying around and jumping around screaming (the police shotgun left in the cruiser or the double barrel on the floor in the mess somewhere in the cabin) while being terrorized by the aliens making spooky noises and lights outside the cabin was formula and acceptable. If one of these stories was written with characters with half a brain among them the movie would be about 10 minutes long. Pick up the gun, kill the alien, go to Denny's, end of list. They hit upon several plot points that could have made the movie at least watchable. The psychic thing was a good idea, had good lead in with telephone booth girl (they put things in your head, blah, blah), dropped like a dead trout full of maggots on fire. The missing sheriff's wife. Aliens did it! You lousy... Ooo pretty lights, BANG. Duh? K' see dead trout, maggots, fire. I'm trying to remember other points, but it makes me feel like dumping lye in my brain and mixing it in with a splintered wooden spoon. The saccharine sweet romance. So lame it's mind bending. Well, until the end. She slips him the ring to put it on her finger after they are both shot by the military (there is a god!) then double tapped by said military, thrown into a hole and burned. Now, I'm having a hard time finding words. I wanted to puke blood and dose myself with brain bleach, seriously that stupid. The X-Files wanna be isn't even worth mentioning. Don't bother watching it.

Written and directed by 'The Vicious Brothers' (seriously?), 'Extraterrestial' is about as inspired and original as its title. Despite some decent moments and one genuinely shocking curve ball, the film, on the whole, was pretty poor. The good stuff, i.e., the tense, creepy stuff the audience wants to see, is padded out with a cheesy romantic subplot boasting some of the worst dialogue I've heard. In fact, the dialogue, throughout was uniformly poor. The performances from its largely unknown cast ranged from awful to mediocre. One character in particular, Seth, ends every other sentence with the word 'muthafucker' and delivers his lines at a similar decibel level to a jumbo jet taking off. The instant he appears in the film, you find yourself longing for the moment he'll be killed off. The romantic subplot, as I've mentioned above, belonged in an episode of some angst-ridden teen drama. It's been thrown into the mix in an attempt to try and make us care about these people but is done so badly that you find yourself laughing at them when you're meant to be rooting for them. The ending is particularly awful. Our couple, having been abducted, is released by their alien captors when they are discovered in each others arms, resigned to their fate. They wake up in a field and set off to look for help only to be gunned down by the US military who are tying up any loose ends as they attempt to cover up the UFO crash that took place in the area. As our lovers lie dying, the girl reaches into her pocket for the unwanted engagement ring her boyfriend presented her with earlier in the film. She places it in his hand so that he, with his dying breath, can slip it onto her finger. As he does they are finished off with a bullet to the head and thrown into a pit. They just happen to land in a spooning position, with the boyfriend's arm draped lovingly across the girl's body. Thankfully, a couple of grunts with flamethrowers torch them before they can rise from the grave singing 'My Heart Will Go On'.

This movie inspired me, from the first minute i was very reserved, thought its just another one not so smart written,poorly executed, pathetic effects and acting sf movie but boy I was... well not so right. This is a movie where you can say A production, Hollywood up Yours when it comes to alien movies, sure it could be better, sure they could do this or that different, no meter what you think one cannot be denied, this movie delivers it all, not all the time all the way but considering everything delivers a lot more than you've been bargain for. It jumps away from movie united mediocre clichés(not that there's non in this one) and delivers its goods on a new fresh level of sf B rates. I am very happy to see how they approach to this particularly miss understood very often laughed at theme and yet even with some moments that could be categorized as funny and pathetic, movie still somehow holds its seriousness even when all the other tries to fail. Everything is not great nor bad, its just flirting around those low medium high great moments constantly and tries to stay on the road along the way, and as far for me, they did a pretty good job at it.

The film takes us to the common young characters in a trip to the woods. Aliens who traveled the deep space with incredible technology and still have no clothes and just wanted to terrorize people. If they were always angry about humans, there were no humans. The film has some nice pictures and scenes, but the characters are horrible and kind of empty, nothing build in a sense of creating the need to know more, everything is predictable. Sounds from the same sample pack of Transformers. I liked the image of the film, some visuals, light, places, but the story, the characters and the sound effects were just wrong to me, in the way of they may have created something deeper. I don't know what else to say here, because I don't understand how they can create such beautiful images and destroy that with a horrible story, and fail realizing that the story sucks. Or maybe they knew...

As I look through the IMDb scores for Extraterrestrial, I have a theory that the lower ones are coming from children of the 90's and aughts - those who have grown up to expect a particular bleak atmosphere from alien abduction movies such as that set by efforts like 'Dark Skies' or 'The Fourth Kind'. I suspect the reviews giving it the higher scores are from kids who grew up in (or are just fans of) the older school 'adventure' horrors that became popular in the late 80's. Movies like The Lost Boys, Waxwork, Evil Dead 2, Night of the Creeps, Return of the Living Dead 2, Creepozoids, The Blob remake etc. - you know the ilk, movies whose subject matters varied wildly yet they always had the same sort of vibe - a fast-paced, popcorn-entertainment 'adventure' feeling. That, I feel, is what the Vicious Brothers were purposefully going for in Extraterrestrial. Although they mixed in a generous dollop of the 90's cabin in the woods type characters and the 2000's abduction movie clichés, it's the late 80's vibe that rings clear throughout. If Extraterrestrial had been made 25-30 years ago, it would likely have starred the Two Corey's, or perhaps Zach Galligan and Brinke Stephens. The cop would have been Tom Atkins or Lance Henriksen; and the crazy Michael Ironside character would have been Dick Miller... or perhaps Michael Ironside, come to think of it. Bottom line is, Extraterrestrial clearly has a primary intent of being fun rather than scary. There's a few creepy moments - most memorably the skeletal body of a dead alien vanishing into the murky waters of a swimming pool - and a few more serious turns towards the end, but overall, it's more of an adventure/survival flick than a psychological/terror flick. If we still had drive-ins, it would be playing in them right now to crowds of frisky teens instead of on Netflix. Check your expectations before you turn it on. You're not going to get scared, or grossed out, or made to think too hard, or put on the edge of your seat with tension... but if willing, you are going to have a lot of fun. 7/10.

If you've seen the final destination movies, then expect the same quality acting in this movie minus the nudity. There are so many dumb things these kids do, such as - get out of the car and stare and the humongous glowing red spaceship as your friends yell at you to get back in the car but you ignore them for whatever reason. There are so many clichés that the only reason I finished the movie was to see how bad they got, and man Oh man, they didn't disappoint. I haven't ever written a review on IMDb but this is one I couldn't resist writing about. If you like criticizing a movie because it's so dumb then I would recommend this one.