Synopsis
Five friends set out to a cabin in the woods for a fun weekend getaway that is, until extraterrestrial visitors turn it into a fight for their lives. The group is pulled from their reverie when a flickering object crashes deep in the woods. As they investigate, the friends stumble across an alien spacecraft, and its inhabitants have not arrived in peace.
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Cast
- Brittany AllenApril
- Melanie PapaliaMelanie
- Jesse MossSeth
- Anja SavcicLex
- Sean RogersonDeputy Mitchell
- Emily PerkinsNancy
- Mike KovacClerk
- Ian BrownFarmer
- Fred KeatingMike
- Michael IronsideTravis
Recommendations
- 60
The Dissolve
There’s absolutely nothing new or innovative to be found here, but sometimes it can be almost comforting to watch a movie do an unironic tour of the classics. - 60
Village Voice
All My Children's Brittany Allen proves herself a big-screen presence as the lead earthling; her commitment to each scene's emotional truth is all the more impressive considering that the schoolboyish Vicious Brothers introduce her character ass-first. - 50
Variety
Good-looking and entertaining, if unmemorable. - 42
The A.V. Club
Even the downer ending plays like an unconscious nod to the over-familiarity of the material, with one character declaring that it’s “the same thing we do every time.” - 40
Time Out London
Extraterrestrial doesn’t amount to much beyond a mish-mash of movies we’ve seen before. - 40
The Hollywood Reporter
Depicting a close encounter of the decidedly low-budget kind, Extraterrestrial boasts an undeniable technical competence but can't shake off its inevitable been there, done that quality. - 40
The New York Times
Underlying this overlong and overheated enterprise is a surfeit of ambition. Maybe too much. - 38
Slant Magazine
A knowing mélange of recognizable genre tropes bordering on shopworn cliché, with little else introduced to the equation to justify its existence.
