After the attack subsides, Maria mysteriously reappears outside. To be honest, the first part of the movie was tremendously fascinating. It thoroughly explores and tells a story with purposeful, sentient characters, while nodding thoughtfully to the genres that inspired it. However, the alien beings took Maria too, although Jackson managed to capture one of the humanoids. Jackson admits that his father was involved in some sort of alien conspiracy that cursed his family bloodline. Jonah tells his mother it is time for the harvest as he shows her a large collection of alien summoning discs.
Partnering with a deputy , they track down the missing woman's husband and find that nothing is as it seems. Frightened when he spies farmer Jackson Pritchard shouting at an unseen entity, Pearce stumbles into a booby trap and dies. At first, Chris reads the family's overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter's interracial relationship, but as the weekend progresses, a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries lead him to a truth that he never could have imagined. Agente Daria Amanda Schull who, together with the local policeman Colt Shawn Ashmore , investigates the disappearance of both persons. And together we have two lovely kids , Karolien and Filip. Amanda Schull really helps elevate Gate a notch or two.
To my disappointment, the movie title turned out to be the name of the town where the story takes place. Daria discovers a strange humanoid creature held captive in a cage. As speculated at the start of this text, creators plant novel seeds for something sharp, smart, and original. The finger disappears in a beam of light from the sky. Jackson claims it is a demon like the one who took his wife and son, and he is holding it hostage in hopes of making an exchange. Who could have guessed that! In the end it felt as if I had watched a pilot episode of the umpteenth television series.
In the coastal town of Los Angeles, a gang of bank robbers call themselves The Ex-Presidents commit their crimes while wearing masks of Reagan, Carter, Nixon and Johnson. When Sebastian becomes serious about his relationship with Alicia, the stakes get higher, and Devlin must watch her slip further undercover. Now Daria is mired in a mystery seemingly no one, particularly Jackson, wants her to solve. Jackson confesses that he prayed for the creatures to come and heal Jonah when the boy got sick. While the introduction to this story is strong and the middle portions where the various characters attempt to figure out what is going on while they figure out how to survive the night, once the cat is let out of the bag as to who these creatures are, where they come from and what it is they want things become rather pedestrian in a SyFy Channel movie of the week sort of way.
Stranded motorist Pearce Bacca seeks help at the remote Pritchard farm. While Daria tries appealing to Jackson for help in confronting the impending alien assault, a creature uses psychic abilities to tear Colt apart. Another alien infiltrates the house, but Daria fends off its attack. Jonah returns to the stone circle in a flash of light. Staub uses it as a weapon, keeping both the characters and the audience constantly discombobulated, and it is frequently impossible to know what each little creak in the floorboards, whistle of wind or crack of lightning signifies let alone where they might be coming from.
The two types of creatures looked equal parts terrifying and gross, especially the white variety that resembled some sort of slimy vampire with large fangs and wings. Daria reluctantly realizes no one will believe the truth as she is driven away. Practical creature effects see their impact lessened by fiction alternating between leaving its potential unfulfilled and flat out falling apart from flimsiness. Nonetheless, the film is willing to gamble on its overall narrative goals, and by that point, I was willing to suspend my disbelief. Eye-rollingly cheesy dialogue combined with a story that starts off strong but eventually loses momentum combine to create a forgettable sci-fi horror experience that has some solid effects but little else. Lot of diversity in this movie.
The surprise effect is huge. Daria partners with kindly Colt to investigate the disappearance of Maria and Jonah Pritchard, the wife and young son of irritable local farmer Jackson Pritchard. A lack of action and conflict, through earlier parts of the film, just make the film drag too slowly. The economics of confining four main players to an isolated farm keeps the setup simple. The ranch itself was also well designed, with bear traps, electrified barbed wire and trip wires littering the property, delivering any poor soul who stops by a very bad day. Jonah is important because he is the first natural born hybrid. And when the two law enforcement officers make a rather disconcerting discovery in the Jackson cellar, the film will take a completely different turn.
And the downright suspicious acting Jackson Pritchard Milo Ventimiglia where the two enforcers of the law finally arrive. It becomes laughable and makes the movie impossible to take seriously. I immediately sat straight up in my chair and expected an intense horror. Eye-rollingly cheesy dialogue combined with a story that starts off strong but eventually loses momentum combine to create a forgettable sci-fi horror experience that has some solid effects but little else. What she actually has is a conundrum of Carl Kolchak proportions, as the cause of the crimes involves a cryptozoological component too impossible to believe. This film is overwrought and overacted and fits well into the middle of M. Daria recovers in time to confront Jackson outside.