A "documentary" sci-fi/horror film that works

Rating: 9/10 (26 September 2009)

Films that follow the "documentary" style of story telling, with its crude camera work and choppy editing, tend to fail miserably in creating a believable story (films like Cloverfield, which was supposed to be this great horror film but was pure trash and laughable)...District 9, thankfully, achieved and even surpassed the "believability test." For those who haven't seen it, over a million aliens have "crashed landed" on earth in South Africa and are being "isolated" in an area known as District 9. The "documentary" follows a civilian NGO (non-goverment organization) member who is supervising the transfer of these aliens from District 9 to the up-to-date District 10. Needless to say, things do not go smoothly. Produced by Peter Jackson (who directed horror films before his Lord of the Rings fame) if this gives you any indication to the creepiness of the film...believe me, this film gets down right disturbing 1/4 of the way through and doesn't stop till the end.