Pretty terrifying!

Rating: 9/10 (16 July 2005)

Wow, well I was surprised at this film. I did not expect it to be as chilling as it was.
Some people don't seem to have the same reaction, but I'm gratified to find one or two people who were as affected as I was. I thought the film was brilliantly put together, the "harvesting" of humans being one of the more hair-raising things. I think it depends on one's personality; I am the sort with rather a vivid imagination and if you're a bit apathetic, it's not going to affect you. Indeed, there were some moronic teenage girls giggling behind us the whole time; but if you let the atmosphere of the film take you in it's pretty amazing.
Possibly the scariest part of the film was nothing to do with the aliens; the scene where the main family are the only people with a car, and suddenly mass hysteria grips the mob around them as they try to be allowed in with them, they are dragged out of the car bodily, a man tries to rip apart glass with his hands, people are shot just for the possession of it, etc etc. I was quite amazed at how powerful this scene was.
The ending was a tad strange, and a tad sudden. But I will finish by saying this - this is the ONLY film I have EVER seen where I genuinely thought every single main character was going to die. I have never thought that before. I've always thought "eh, they'll survive somehow, they don't kill main characters." But I just thought they were totally screwed here!