Night Skies

Don't thing there are spoilers in, but if you are very pedantic, there might be something mentioned, very little and that will not affect the inhuman joy of watching the movie. But however : SPOILERS !!!11! The characters reactions are very unnatural. It must be some kind of rare combination between terrible directing and bad acting to achieve it. Every scary-wannabe element in it is such a cliché, we laughed during the whole movie - you just know what will happen. It is not interesting, nor scary, nor it has any sense in it. When one of the guys went in the forest in the middle of nowhere (without even checking if she is back in the RV with the others, where she was of course) screaming the name of his girlfriend, looking for her, it was impossible not to remind me for the Pablo Francisco jokes about dumb horror movies : "Anybody home?" A man is obviously entering a house. Scary killer's music (in this movie it was the dumb scary creatures' sound ala Grudge) "Billy?" the scary sounds again "I'm gonna get naked and take a shower" They are so easy to kill you can strangle them with a wireless phone All together, the movie sucks. Don't watch it. Go to youtube and watch some Pablo Francisco instead ;)

Awful story, awful script, awful acting, awful editing, awful direction. What's good? Surprisingly it's not badly shot and the aliens were also well done, not so surprisingly because the director comes from a background of makeup and special effects. The film would be excusable if it was his first attempt. It wasn't. he should go back to makeup and special effects. As for the story, whichever extra-terrestrial visitors might actually be flying around this planet could, and probably should, sue the filmmakers for slander. Even in the most horrific of actual abduction accounts the aliens show more compassion for the humans than the shipboard dissections without anesthetic that are thrown at us here. The purpose throughout is to shock. If you like laughing at truly bad films with a lot of hokey jolts and multi-colored latex slime this film is for you.

Yes, this was pretty awful. It's somewhere between a Dubya economics essay and waterboard torture. Only watched it because Blockbuster is closing all their stores and this is one of the few movies still left in a store. Low budget, horrible dialog, horrible plot, horrible acting, and extreme boredom combine forces with this one. It's so boring, could listen to any insurance seminar for days with a big smile on my face. When they'd say, "How can you stand it??" I'd say because I've watched Night Skies, I can take ANYTHING. When the price of gas rises, less seems to happen in U Know Where. With this movie, gas must have been $8 because absolutely nothing happens.

Nothing's out there Night Skies is about a person who insists that he and a group of people were abducted by aliens during that big UFO sighting that happened in Arizona in March 1997. The introduction tells you that some people came up with stories through memory regression therapy. Truthfully, I wished the entire group of characters had been abducted and never returned. The characters were a bunch of morons. If this was a true story, these people should never reproduce. Other than that, the film was frantically suspenseful. (Ratings: Bad=1; Average=5; One of the best=10); Acting=04; Plot=04; Scenery=02; Character believability=03; Continuity=05; Dialog=05; Directing=07; Casting=08; Special effects=05; Overall Rating=04

Movie built up a lot of tension and executed to a great ending. I am taking two Valium tonight because i know i will have a nightmare. It may be a lower budget feature, but using an actual event that happened made it pretty believable. The aliens and the special effects were top notch and the use of gore helped out a lot I wish i had a budget to be able to shoot the same type of movie. the only thing i was upset about, i watched d it on pay preview and it wasn't in letter box format. I prefer to be able to see the whole movie and not just the middle. The camera angles were great, they weren't extreme in nature and there was good pacing between shots. Had god audio and the music really added to to the tension. Good Work

The story is a bit repetitive, we all have seen alien's movies with plastic monsters and a group of friends whose car breaks in the middle of the nothing... This one isn't different (although it's based on the testimony of lots of witnesses who assure to have seen UFO's). I think the movie is a cliché of all the first ET's movies but I have to admit that in some moments I was tense and the cameraman did an excellent job... It's a shame that the ending of the movie was so disappointing, but the real thing is we'll never know if the Phoenix lights they swear to have seen where actually aliens... Other alien movie to watch at midnight.

Lately, I've been on sort of an alien movie binge. I've been trying to watch as many real-life alien sort of flicks as I can. Some have been okay, and some have been just plain old weak. And I must say this one definitely belongs in the latter category. Night Skies is the supposed true story of an alien encounter during the famous Phoenix Lights UFO phenomenon in 1996. Toss in a pretty much useless side-story with a bunch of young lovelies and you have the makings of a pretty weak movie. How weak is up to you. Right from the get go, for me, the acting and writing, felt like a slap in the face. The back and forth between the young adults was eye-rollingly weak. Night Skies didn't deliver really anything note worthy besides in the special effects department. And that also still felt ScfI Originial-like. It honestly felt like the only real reason they made this movie was because of the gooey stuff you see ALL OVER THE PLACE at the end of the film. "Wow, this stuff is gross, doesn't it remind you of that stuff in Fire in the Sky?" Even though there's a crowd for everything, I still become surprised when people vote a movie like this a 10 and say nothing but good things about it. Maybe they're just overly optimistic people? Maybe I'm just a dude that sees the glass half empty. I think it's a combination of that and probably just not seeing that many flicks. Night Skies isn't the worst movie in the world, but it's certainly nothing recommendable. I'd really only rec this flick out if there were other people out there who also want to see all the alien abduction movies there is. Lots of bad acting, really bad writing, weak directing, mixed with alright effects and loads of exploding windows, plus a moderately grim finale, you could do worse, but I'd recommend this as a party movie instead as a serious sit-down.

Night Skies starts as Matt (George Stults) & his fiancé Lilly (A.J. Cook) along with his younger sister Molly (Ashley Peldon) plus two married friends Joe (Joseph Sikora) & June (Gwendoline Yeo) are driving across the Arizona desert in an attempt to get to Las Vegas, all seems fine until they notice some strange lights in the night sky flying in formation. However much to Matt's cost looking at lights in the sky & driving a large motor home don't mix & he loses control, almost hits another truck on the road & puts the motor home into a tree. In the aftermath of the accident it comes to light that Joe now has a huge kitchen knife stuck in his back & there seems to no way to get him to hospital, as the night draws on it becomes apparent that they are not alone as they are stalked & taken by alien beings... Directed by Roy Knyrim I was rather surprised by Night Skies, sure it ain't Alien (1979) in the excitement department & it reminds heavily of an X-Files (1993 - 2003) episode which were airing over 10 years prior to this being made but as a stand alone film I found it quite impressive. The sci-fi/horror orientated script by Eric Miller which takes itself extremely seriously is apparently based on true events that happened in Arizona during 1997, living in the UK I really don't have a clue about these events, & is based the usual witness statements & the like. To be fair it's sort of predictable up to a point & it only goes as far as to dramatise one night seemingly based on one guy's recollection so it doesn't offer any of it's own answers up & it just ends abrupt without really trying to say anything about what happened, but then again I suppose it's just trying to relay the facts of the case & wants to let us, the audience, decide for ourselves. To be fair during the first 20 minutes of Night Skies nothing happens, it just introduces the character's, not that much happens after either but at least the film has now put them in position where the last 30 minutes are actually terrific, the stalking of the group by the aliens & what they finally do with them is pretty cool. The character's are OK as is the dialogue & if it wasn't for the coma inducing first half Night Skies could have a great film, as it is I'll say it's a good one. Director Knyrim does a great job here, there's a decent atmosphere & the alien attack at the end is really good even if it's a bit rushed at times. The special effect are excellent & are very impressive, the aliens themselves look somewhat stereotypical with very thin pale bodies, elongated heads with bulbous black eyes & spindly fingers & most of the time they're shot in partial or complete shadow until the very end in they're spaceship where you can appreciate the excellent effects work. The very organic looking interior of the spaceship is cool with strands of what looks like melted cheese & slime hanging everywhere like huge cheesy spider webs! There's some gore, that knife in Joe's back looks painful as there are plenty of close-ups with blood spurting from the wound, someone is shot & there's some decent blood splatter. Technically Night Skies is excellent, the cinematography is good even though it may be a bit bright considering the situation the film is trying to portray. The acting was pretty good, Sean Connery's son Jason gets abducted & experimented on by aliens. I wonder if his dad has seen Night Skies? If he has at least Jason can say something like 'well dad it could have been worse at least I didn't appear in The Avengers'.... Night Skies surprised me as I thought it was going to low budget crap, while the first half is a snooze-fest it picks up for an excellent climax with some highly impressive special effects which wouldn't look out of place in your local theatre & it's got Sean Connery's son in it, enough said. Certainly nothing original but I liked it a lot more than I thought I would all the same.

I suppose it has been my enjoyment of previous movies in this genre; Fire in the Sky, and Communion being my favorites, together with my reluctant opinion that quality in movies is just not what it was even 10 years ago, that made me bring a certain amount of prejudice along as I watched this. The movie itself is supposed to be based on "fact" although in reality it was a series of regression sessions with 1 witness. If you've seen Fire in the Sky, it will be slightly familiar ground, except with a stark "B movie" feel. The plot seems drawn out from the beginning with a group of 20 somethings traveling in a motor-home. They get lost, crash it while narrowly avoiding a person fixing his own truck out in the middle of nowhere. There is little to no chemistry between any of the characters to make one believe that 2 of the couples are even married. The aliens themselves bounce around like paranoid speed addicts eyeballing their neighbors, while appearing "evil". This stylized approach to making things look twisted, ugly, and menacing to depict evil is childish and phony. Real evil doesn't let itself be recognized. The creatures therefore cheapen the effect the could have been possible. SPOILER! SPOILER! SPOILER! The last point I will make, and this could be considered the spoiler, is the scene at the beginning and it's appearance again toward the ending. If one were to just see the beginning, it would be natural to assume she is getting chased by an alien. This is almost obvious when the reflection in an out of place shiny hubcap shows a distorted alien creature standing behind her. Well, come to the second viewing of this scene at the end, it isn't an alien, and even the reflection shows that it isn't. Why did they have to fool the audience into thinking something completely different? Very cheap. Very cheap. If you have nothing else going on, and just feel like zoning out, watch this. Otherwise, i am sorry to say, this movie just isn't worth it.

I was watching this movie for about 10 minutes and decided it was pretty crappy. The over-zealous acting and the camera shots make this film pretty lame. Personally, I'd advise anyone not to see this movie, unless you want to make fun of it, then go right ahead. But I did warn you, it is pretty corny! So don't waste your time or money to see this movie. It started off okay, and got me interested but only to watch a horrible movie I could have made with my own video camera.