Basically, a poor concept film. Think, Breakfast Club meets Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Like The Breakfast Club, it has all the stock characters of the school's mythologized hierarchy (the jock, the outsider, the brain, the popular one...). And, like the film it verbally associates itself with, Invasion... or Heinlein's The Puppet Masters; run-of-the-mill Ohio (middle America) is the site of an insidious plan to re-populate the Earth with Alien parasites. The concept and narrative thrust of the film is re-tread material at best. There's absolutely nothing new or interesting in this film. Robert Rodriguez's direction is woefully uninspired and Kevin Williamson's script is his worst yet.
It appears that with the release of this film, coupled with the recent and terribly executed remake of Psycho, John Carpenter's Vampires, and I Still Know What You Did Last Summer - that the fairly recent and much talked about "re-birth" of the horror genre has come to an abrupt (and welcome) end. Consequently, the wait for a new horror film to come along and breathe new life into this once again tired genre has begun.
It appears that with the release of this film, coupled with the recent and terribly executed remake of Psycho, John Carpenter's Vampires, and I Still Know What You Did Last Summer - that the fairly recent and much talked about "re-birth" of the horror genre has come to an abrupt (and welcome) end. Consequently, the wait for a new horror film to come along and breathe new life into this once again tired genre has begun.
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