AniInterview Sorry, this movie sucks

Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Bezenby Bill Rebane's first film proper (as far as I know), and I was half curious about it, half dreading it since I'd read nothing good about it. Sure, it's as low budget as you can get, has questionable acting and has little going on, but is it really that bad? The answer is: Probably. After some red mist appears and people begin falling dead in the street, we cut to hunter Jake and his sister, who were putting up three students who are now ready to return to civilisation via plane. However, once heading for the airport they are prevented from stopping by a sick man who then collapses on the runway. Jake takes the students to the next airport and finds it deserted, where they also witness a plane crash.Our students are Eric, Dan (whom you'll be shouting 'kill him first' as he's the joker of the pack) and a guy either called Tom or Sam (I don't remember). Tom, let's call him, is the cynical one who wants to get back to society, even after witnessing strange red light bouncing about the place. Dan on the other hand is full of theories as to what's happening, although to me it sounded like he was making stuff up off the top of his head.They all head back to Jake's cabin where the film settles down good and proper for a whole load of nothing. They try the radio, look for food, try the radio again. Sometimes a mysterious voice contacts them asking where they are (I'll admit these bits were quite effective). And just when you're cutting this film a whole lot of slack, you run into the last half hour when things take a complete nose dive when the remaining people decide to wander around outside for the rest of the film until the completely bizarre ending.Add to this the Kraftwerk style take off of The Good, The Bad and the Ugly theme tune, those hilarious flying saucers and shots of people running around panicking, the random TV show, and most of all Dan (Or Stan) giving a brain melting speech about how Mars and Earth were right next to each other at some point, and you've got a film that cranks the weirdness up to ten. The fact that things almost happen sometimes is about as much 'action' as you're going to get here, as very little happens. There's also some bizarre hint at some point that Jake killed his father somehow to get insurance money that crops up from nowhere and is never mentioned again.Fans of things happening in films are going to fall into a coma with this one. Fans of Bill Rebane will need to see it anyway just to see where it all started. Fans of bad movies will have to see it to see some of the most inept aliens ever…I wouldn't say seen…I'll say hinted at – smoke bombs and flashing lights.

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.

Thorsten-Krings Okay, most of the film is pretty boring: people sitting around in a cabin, listening to an alian invasion, nothing much happening in terms of group dynamics. Special effects are beyond belief. That's something that would not have happened to Ed Wood, he would have made an awful film on the same budget but with much better special effects. However, the film does have its redeeming features. The idea of having radio/TV stations still running while earth is being taken over clearly influenced Romero in Dawn of the Dead. Some dialogue is reasonably funny and some shots are pretty atmospheric. like the deserted airport in the beginning. The final scene is really funny, the last survivors turn into Adam and Eve in a completely over the top scene, and it's not the hunk but the nerd who gets the girls. That's funny. However, the music takes the biscuit. The theme tune is a rip off of The Good, the bad and the Ugly and no one except for the great Ed Wood in Jail Bait has ever used music so completely clueless. 20 or 30 minutes less and the film would have been acceptable.