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Aberration
A nature field researcher is investigating the strange extinction of small animals and insects in the area, which indicates that something is wrong. His suspicions are soon to be proven right when he meets May, who lives in a cabin in the forest nearby. May says that her house is infested by small creatures that she thinks are mice or rats. When the couple search the house further, they notice that they're not rodents or insects. They are fast evolving lizards that have the appetite for animals and humans, no matter what size their prey are...
Release : | 1997 |
Rating : | 4.6 |
Studio : | Victor Film Company, Grundy Films, |
Crew : | Art Direction, Production Design, |
Cast : | Pamela Gidley Helen Moulder Norman Forsey |
Genre : | Horror Science Fiction |
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Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!
Sorry, this movie sucks
Excellent adaptation.
The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
We're talking about, "Aberration, A 1997 movie, Directed by Tim Boxell, and Written by Scott Lew, and Darrin Oura. Spoiler Alert, I will be talking about it, watch if you like, it is entertaining to a point. Then come back and see if I'm on target. There use to be something called "camp". This movie defines it. Suffice to say that my favorite actor was Merlin the Cat, The small but earnest cast tried their best with the comic book dialogue they were given.OK the story, Talking about targets, Our lady with a shady past, Amy Harding played with spunk, by Pamela Gidley, is one sharp shooter, unlike the dorky collage student, who talks to himself a lot, Played with evolving dumbness, by Simon Bossell as Marshall Clarke. The lad is clearly blinded by Science. These are the main players the rest are just the usual lot of victims, save for the Macho Ex boyfriend that she stole fifty grand from. Uri Romanov played by Valerie Nikolaev. Playing it like he was from another movie. Like a sharpshooter in a gallery arcade Only in this movie they got him shooting pop out rubber lizard heads. No kidding, see these things are suppose to be mutant geckos. To spice things up, they are evolving defenses by the minute. Yep unkillable. Even with Amys amazing twenty one shooter. Mashall is no slouch himself with his thirty seven shooter shotgun, The movie got everything you want from a low budget production, fitting all the used plot devices they could on a shoe string, and a "figure it out as we go", attitude that dares to take every cliché to heart. Start with the obligatory Bath scene, where Amy is directed to do everything she can, not to hear the monster in the room, want More? Lets see, the Hunter looses his dog, How long will the cat last? too bad, We get a lot of stomping eggs, shades of "It", They make disgusting squishing sounds, It will drive some fetishist crazy We also get to see them drive and breakdown twice, in a snowstorm; blinding one moment and clear in the next shot. Keep these guys away from cars or trucks, every one they touch goes Boom. The cinematographer fancies himself working on far more artistic endears The stark whiteouts which is impressive the first time, is repeated eight times throughout the film, likewise the knocking down furniture looking for the rubber tails, three times. The creatures are equal opportunity biters, everybody gets bit. What if it spits in your eye, but you are wearing glasses? You take em off. Lots of Hokey fun here I would give it a, gets tiresome; Six out of Ten ("Oh no, they killed my cat") Stars.
A woman goes to her families cabin in the woods to get some free time, and hide away from her dangerous boyfriend with thousands of dollars she's stolen from him. She gets there only to find the old cabin is infested with a new breed of killer lizards. She and her new scientist friend must try to get out alive.I watched this for the second time and rather enjoyed it. It was set in the woods and also had moments set in the snow and that's two angles I always like seeing in horror films. It did have many of the clichés, that made it cute, like the old man telling her to get out of those woods and also the nice cozy little general store.Direction was OK and the little creatures were just pretty normal looking lizards, but they were mean and caused a lot of bloody messes, which is good. The music was all from a group called PLAN 9 and they did an OK job too. I really liked the acting in this movie especially from Tim Boswell.I recommend this to anyone who likes the creepy movies set in the woods or enjoys movies about strange little monstrous animals.5/10
It is a silly little movie, obviously a really low budget film. The only thing that kept me watching this on the SciFi channel was the lovely Pamela Gidley. Fortunately she was in virtually every scene after I turned to that channel. I imagine her thinking to herself while filming this, "why the heck did I sign up for this film?!?!?! I'd better do the best job I can or I'll never get better roles!!!!" And she turned in a wonderful performance, all things considered. It was a treat just to watch her.So the best thing by far about this was Pamela Gidley. The most retarded thing about it was the "monsters" themselves, and how the characters could survive time after time their attacks and bites, and how they could almost instantaneously adapt to being attached.But even all that was worth being subjected to just to watch Pamela Gidley.
pamela gidley shows that she really knows how to take control of mutated reptiles, although she can't do too much with the script. the actors are so forgettable that the creatures should get top billing. on-screen chemistry between gidley and simon bossell is perhaps the worst ever if not for the recent star wars trilogy.the effects and props are outlandish but there's plenty of them - a guy's head explodes and you've gotta love that, another guy gets eaten by mutant lizards, and there's an absolutely great scene toward the end where gidley almost loses her leg to a hasty operation on (of all places) the counter in the general store. more lizard battles follow, lots of blood, puss, etc. it's a miracle that the characters' lack of anything resembling common sense didn't get them dusted in the first ten minutes.if you're a fan of gore, crackerjack horror, B-anything, peter jackson's older work, or have a "thing" for pamela gidley, then you'll probably enjoy it. it succeeds where a lot of cheap movies fail, which is to say that while the plot is essentially brainless, it manages to stay consistently fun and entertaining. aberration's biggest drawback may be its 'TV movie' feel but given the subject it doesn't suffer much for it.