Five government employees find themselves being terrorized by a predatory alien at the infamous Area 51 military base. Writer/director Kelly Schwarze keeps the gripping story moving along at a constant pace, takes time to develop the characters, and generates a good deal of claustrophobic tension. Moreover, the solid acting by the capable no-name cast keeps this movie humming: Elly Brown as the sweet, but tough Hanna, Eduard Osipov as the antagonistic Dimitri, Michael Monteiro as the amiable Russell Turner, Sabrina Cofield as the distraught Gail Sullivan, and Michael Tushaus as the selfish and untrustworthy Master Sergeant Ryan Pierce. The alien looks pretty gnarly as well. A cool little flick.
Alien Domicile
2017
Horror / Mystery / Sci-Fi
Plot summary
After decades of conspiracy theories and shrouding secrecy, the CIA finally acknowledged the existence of Area 51. But that was all. The actions on the enigmatic military base continue to be unknown to this day. Now, a motley crew of military service members, government workers, and lowly technicians find themselves thrust into the center of the infamous site's darkest mysteries. Soon, they will know exactly what's happening there-for better or worse. While patrolling the territory's tunnel system, Master Sergeant Ryan Pierce leads his Special Forces unit head on into a bloody confrontation with something as horrific as it is indescribable. At the same time, another group awakens in a haze, miles underground. If it isn't the utter confusion that alerts them something's wrong, then it will certainly be the wave of hallucinations and illness that hits like an avalanche. The explanation is far worse than they could ever imagine.
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1280*534
English 2.0
NR
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Tense sci-fi thriller
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Interesting first 10 minutes, but the rest of the film's a dud
ALIEN DOMICILE posits itself as a creepy X-FILES style thriller with an Area 51 setting and scenes of marauding aliens, but this part of film only lasts for ten minutes or so. The opening scene has soldiers hunting for an unknown lifeform, and it's predictable in itself although mildly entertaining.
Sadly, this 10 minutes is the only interesting part of the entire movie. The rest is a locked room thriller in which a bunch of boring characters end up trapped in a single room. Nothing happens of interest for the rest of the story. The acting isn't bad as these films go, but the lack of action really killed it for me.
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My back hurts
The film opens in Groom Lake, Nevada at an underground plant at an Airforce base with a squad hunting an...? with the proverbial woman being dragged across the floor because we have never seen that in a film before. Our subplot consists of four people in a room not knowing how they got there. Soon a fifth person joins them. and we find out "it" wants to evolve, although all we get are scenes of metamorphosis, not really evolution and I wonder if the author knows the difference or is just tossing terms around that he learned in the fifth grade.
Of course evolution means growling, losing all control of speech, growing huge fangs and killing for the sake of killing. I am not sure how that works either. We eventually discover that kicking them while wearing sneakers is more effective than wearing military issue boots and a small knife hurts them more than automatic weapons. The sound track grew annoying like a made-for-TV sound track that was played too loud. I never understood the old fashion music that was playing, other than it is creepy in slasher films, so why not? Lights for eyes? Seriously? I thought special effects has gone beyond that. That is at the level of a voice distorter.
The characters were not well developed and the plot which they wanted to keep a mystery remained a mystery and was that a time distortion scene? As of this writing, no awards, no nominations. It is that good.
Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity.