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Brad P A film where paranoia runs rampant in a setting that will make suburbanites shudder with recognition and city dwellers remember why they fled their small towns in the first place. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review R R It was an "OK" movie I guess...it was rather dull at times.......ending was very drab.....hard to figure out connection between that critter & the kid. Seen much better movies, no doubt. I would probably not watch if someone would have told me.....& reading reviews before I watch anything really does not work for me to well. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/17/23 Full Review Jim S The main character has obvious abandonment issues from his childhood, but without his backstory one would believe he's autistic and undermine his character. It's not reasonable to have expectations of how someone should react to grief, but his over-the-top melancholy created a major plot hole in the storyline. His family and unrealistic ex-girlfriend were oblivious to the presence of his clearly visible severe mental health issues. I'm guessing he's behaved like that since his unfortunate abandonment events during his adolescence and it's merely been his norm or the status quo (thus the premise of an "Ex" is ridiculous unless she raised the "thirsty" bar beyond imagination because homeboy took "emotionally unavailable" to an all new level!). His extreme apathetic depressive state was just too big of an incidence of "the elephant in the room" to realistically have been ignored for viewers to realistically accept the possibility of the existence of such a temperament. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 10/04/22 Full Review Audience Member Sllllloooooowwwwww and really lacking. Obv Ethan's got issues and the "monster" (which isn't much) is his lonesomeness and inability to change his life. Been done much better a billion times. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/26/23 Full Review Ron T A dreary and depressing movie about a dreary and depressing character named Ethan who is as expressive as a kidney stone and has the personality of a bird dropping. He comes across a spider-like creature and, instead of spraying it with a large dose of insecticide thereby saving us from having to suffer through this nonsense, he somehow connects with it. The following scenes of Ethan laboriously dragging bodies and his torturous conversations with his younger brother who, for whatever reason looks years older than him, have the nimbleness of a three-toed sloth and exude the excitement of a thimble full of naval lint. I have had gall bladder attacks that were more entertaining than this mess! Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 08/05/22 Full Review Audience Member I'll give the film 4.5 stars because of the performance of Drew Matthews as the very disturbing Ethan. If Mr. Matthews is not simply portraying himself in the movie, than this performance is world-class, A-list acting. Five seconds on the screen and I thought to myself, "This is a man in dire need of a psychiatrist with a prescription pad." Just superb acting if Matthews is portraying a human being, just barely hanging on to a sense of reality. The movie was extremely well-edited, more so than most films I've watched. The story line is plausible: We see the white-suited government workers--probably from DOD--so we know the creatures is one of two things: an alien life form or a laboratory creation. Rather than a two hour movie, however, it should have been shortened to 1-1/2 hours. And, as one reviewer commented, the tension would have been greatly heightened if the townspeople were freaking out rather than acting calmly as events unfolded. If you want to watch a bit of horror and a first-class acting job, watch the movie. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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