Powerful

Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

This movie seems to be getting bad reviews and I think if you watch it expecting stellar acting then I can sort of understand the less than great reviews. However, I don't think the actors were all that bad and the special effects were actually far better than I expected. I've seen a lot of horror/science fiction films with more well known actors that were far worse than this film had to offer. I do not want to put any spoilers in here so I'll just say that I was definitely entertained and actually on the edge of my seat during the last twenty minutes or so. The special effects were as I said very, very good. If you are looking for a film with a well thought out plot and original story, don't bother watching this. If you are looking for a film to pass some time and be entertained by however, give this one a shot.

Okay, well I knew this movie was not going to be overly impressive or anything, and rightly so. This movie was bad.The acting was mediocre at best, though in certain cases it was terrible.The movie suffered from a poor story. Strange humanoid creatures suddenly surfacing inside a building because of some earthquakes and electrical blackouts? That doesn't really make much sense. And better still, the creature was really poorly made. So you don't buy into it at any point.The best thing in the movie would have to be the music, though even here there was some flaws. The music was way too loud in most places, drowning out much of the dialogue. This might be a good thing, as the dialogue was bad in places.There was a lot of things that didn't really make sense or come together in a greater unity throughout the movie. But still I managed to make it through the entire movie, although I was hoping for a blackout to end the movie prematurely! This movie is definitely in the low scale of the horror genre. If you got nothing better to do for an hour and a half, put this movie on. But don't blame me...

This was the worst film ever, at each turn you could either:a) guess the outcome b) write a better sceneThe movie had all the potential to be good, a interesting mix of characters (combined with the usual monster fodder "spare" people)There was no real explanation of why all this was happening, despite there even being the techno/nerd character with the usual hardware Why were so many points raised and then discarded. e.g. the smell of sulphur suggesting some demonic influence? The creatures being photo sensitive and yet showing no problem with light sources? Why did the black guy have a gun, and where did he get the second one from?This was very much a made for TV movie, to be shown during the 2am -4am slot!If there was a hope to make this into a series with humans valiantly battling each week for survival then please don't!

I watched this movie just get over Uwe Boll's stupid dead people's disease movies. I must say i was quite impressed in the beginning. Some couples and their stories, nice acting and family presentation, and a good plot: it's Christmas eve and westphalia is under quakes and severe high temperatures with power surges going around the city( Los Angeles that is) . Scientists can't figure it out. There's a Christmas party in a tenement block, and the couples presented are living in the same building - 1 family (man + woman + man's brother + 2 kids boy and girl) , 1 about-to-get-divorced-couple, 1 about-to-get-married-couple, and some random dudes and girls. The newsman tells the power-surges are connected with the temperature and the quakes. Mom and dad are trying to have fun(in bed) but the kids find them out and they get sent to the basement to bring up their presents. Nasty creature eats their guts.There's an agoraphobic guy at the 2nd floor, friend with the superintendent and the electrician, and he's a master in discovery channel and electronics and communications. Electrician "Ralph" gets torn to bits. The party is ruined, more creatures come and claim lives. Some guy's brother tries something he saw on TV ("Hey the creatures might be photosensitive" ) but he gets a big head-shot and dies. The little girl is not dead - apparently she managed to survive ( somehow I have no idea ) and she got in a defunct elevator ( again HOW is a big question ). The group manages to kill 2 creatures, find out the main building entrance is blocked and head for the roof. They go through that defunct elevator's shaft and find out the little girl. The dad and dad's brother end up dead, and tadam: 3 survivors - The mom, the little girl and that agoraphobic fat guy. They get to the roof where they see LA has been torn apart by some nasty volcano-type spikes ( ?!WTF ) that erected from the underground. They start squirting something out from their top (lava probably), and... that's it.. The movie ends. I must say the ending was very stupid. I expected the military or something to grab and save them...like "ye mam we got everythin under control". There's no outcome. The FX were pretty good I must say... OVERALL: Plot: 9/10 Roles & Play: 8/10 Script: 4/10FX : 7/10 Ending: -1/10 (and yes that's a negative)Monster Behaviour: 5/10 (it's monster movie after all)