
After a mysterious atmospheric event, a small group of people wake up to realize that their entire lives have been a lie. They are in fact aliens disguised as humans. Now they have to make a choice.... (Full plot summary below)
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After a mysterious atmospheric event, a small group of people wake up to realize that their entire lives have been a lie. They are in fact aliens disguised as humans. Now they have to make a choice.
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| User ReviewAlexander PYou can only describe this movie as brooding, but it is not a in a bad way. The dark atmosphere strongly enhances the storyline and the understated delivery. If you are looking for an action and adventure movie, or one that explains everything to you step by step or just want a brain break and don't want to think much, I suggest you forgo this film. On the other hand, if you like and are in the mood for a smart, indie film that make you think, have at it. And yes, I did notice the cheesiness of the space rock, but it is easy for forgive it. |
| User ReviewJonathan WA bit talky, but an interesting new sci-fi with a touch of horror. Kind of a mix of Cronenberg's THEY CAME FROM WITHIN & INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS. At Hulu. |
| User ReviewDin JJust a little more effort on the SFX would surely have put this movie on the map. Believable performances all round, especially Jennifer Spence and Amelia Turner, make this a very watchable flick that indie film fans will embrace. There's an underground in the film world even in the States that challenges all that Hollywood has to offer. Films such as Primer, Another Earth, Bellflower and Earthling deserve some kudos and a cult fan base. |
| User ReviewMatthew SClay Liford is an innovative filmmaker without a budget. There are some interesting ideas brewing in Earthling, but the SciFi genre used fails to convey them. It seems as if there is a compelling existential examination of loneliness and the societal challenges that form barriers preventing true connection to each other. The problem is Liford is trying so hard to overcome the limitations of special effects and plot that is all too familiar. It doesn't work, but I'd rather pay to see a talented artist taking risks that fail --- than a mediocre SciFi/Horror movie with lots of great special effects without any attempt at character development. The director aims to high, but there are some engaging moments to be found. |
| User ReviewDavid MWhat you'll take home from it: -If you've ever had intestinal worms, you probably also had an alien's spawn. -Extraterrestrials are tourists with an exquisite appetite for human cuisine. -Everyone's family tree/genealogy should be reevaluated by an exterminator. -If you have bad bouts of acne, you should find others like you to find out what planet you are really from. |
| User ReviewJason GThis movie was 1 hr 10 min too long. If you want to have a life, please do not watch this movie which contains a paper thin plot, bad writing, hardly any editing, and is not even good enough to be called a "B" movie. Spoiler Alert!! Like it would matter...basically, 10 minutes into the movie, baby squids/octopi start coming out of people's mouths, whereupon they take to the lake. Anytime someone comes near the lake, a "Jaws" like foreboding sound gets added to the soundtrack. This movie is beyond stupid. I hope some millionaire buys all the copies and makes a nice bonfire. |
| User ReviewArchibald TThe feeling of insignificance permeates this film as you view it. Mood triumphs over story, but when you're left in the dark all you can see is nothing. Images begin to make sense when characters don't and when that happens you have a film that doesn't really need your sympathy but is pretty to look at. Writer/Director Clay Liford isn't really interested in the details of his story, but is interested in how words travel back and forth. Especially the incoherent kind of words that only a group of pod people could understand. Judith recently had a miscarriage. It's left her traumatized in the form of being emotionally withdrawn. Her husband isn't happy with his wife becoming less interested in their marriage and her work life (she's a school teacher) is also on the rocks. It's until a new student named Abby enters the fray. She keeps eyeballing Judith like a lion to it's prey. At first you may think you're witnessing a forbidden lesbian romance between a student and teacher only to find out that it's something much more erotic: Aliens. Some have compared this to a Cronenberg film, but it is so much more closer to Charles Burns graphic novel 'Black Hole'. It may not be entirely inspired by it, but the mood of the film immediately got me thinking of that book. I have always wanted to see that graphic novel brought to life and this might be the closes I'll ever have to seeing it. I mean there were a couple of scenes that reminded me of that book. Like for example the fact that these characters have large mutated bumps on their foreheads which are to resemble tumors, but could be perfectly placed in the form of horns like a devil or demon would have. So close to that book in tone, but so very far away. After a strange disturbance on the International Space Station sends back it's only survivor, he shares a sort of psychic link between himself and Judith. Judith dreams about this astronaut and something has to do with him carrying apart of the spiky asteroid-like ball that had struck the I.S.S. It's never exactly straight forward with you in what this ball really is. Is it a rescue pod? Does it link them back to the home planet? You see Judith, Abby and a few others have known that they're not really human. They've taken the human form because of...well, I don't fucking know. I mean it's never really explained. All I could figure out was that they tried their best to keep away from the signal that is leading them to the spiky ball because they want to stay on Earth? Also there's some type of impregnation subplot that didn't add up either and Abby was really a husband to Judith on another planet and blah blah blah. It made no fucking sense in the end. This film's artistic merits stand up well. I'll give it that. So does the first act of the film which was done wonderfully. BUT IT FALLS THE FUCK APART AROUND THE ONE HOUR MARK! It begins to become an incoherent mess. You can even see it in the faces of the actors that they themselves don't really know what the fuck they're saying. Yeah. They show A LOT of emotion, but you can just feel they're out of the loop as much as we are. That was disappointing. The acting is great though. Rebecca Spense who plays Judith holds the film together, but even she can't hold the film up in the last act. Amelia Turner who played Abby was incredible and I'll be keeping my eye out for her films. It's just too fucking bad that Clay Liford couldn't at least elaborate more on WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON?! Instead he just has his characters spout of vague things that only THEY are more aware of then we are. It's starts off mysteriously beautiful before it evolved into a turd. A pretty turd, but a turd none the less. Overall, this film had potential if it wasn't for the director's ADHD screenplay. |