Alien Visitor

Starring:Ullie Birve, Syd Brisbane, Alethea McGrath, Chloe Ferguson, Phoebe Ferguson
Director: Rolf de Heer
Studio: Miramax
Product Type: DVD

Description

IT SEEMS LIKE ANY SMALL TOWN. But it isn't. Daniel is about to leave his home, Point Ridge, and move away to college to begin a new life. As his eighteenth birthday approaches he begins to notice that something feels different. As Daniel's eighteenth birthday approaches, the Colony waits for its leader to take his place among them. When the clock strikes midnight Daniel learns the astonishing truth… it had been written long ago and he cannot escape his destiny…

Customer Reviews:

You Can't Judge A Book By Its Cover.......2006-06-05

Obviously, the same goes for this DVD and the aliens contained within it. Nana Visitor, Alison Eastwood, Bruce Boxleitner, and Hunter Tylo head-up a cast of newbies who make a go of this dismal alien farce. Based on the DVD cover, you'd think that this flick was full of gory alien action and plenty of blood and guts. Unfortunately, the menacing alien on the DVD case only makes a couple of brief and uneventful appearances. Instead, we're left to figure out why aliens are preparing for a big celebration by doing the deeds of "Uncle Bob," who seems to be the top alien until the leader is reborn via Visitor and Boxleitner's son. Of course, he ain't havin' none of that, so he teams up with Eastwood, his drop-out bud and the girl he's always longed for in an attempt to stop the alien party and save the world.

This flick is boring. It drags along at a snail's pace, keeps the viewer nice and confused as to why things are happening, and eventually ends with the promise for a potential sequel or a TV series.

The cast comes off as really fake, especially Visitor and Boxleitner, who are so full of wholesome goodness that it makes you want to throw up. Corbin Bernsen reprises his sleazeball "L.A. Law" persona but instead of fighting for justice, he keeps the aliens' skins intact as a doctor.

The effects are okay, but then again, there weren't many effects necessary for this flick since only one alien appears to have not been a guy in a suit.

In closing, I don't recommend this flick to anyone unless they've got a fixation with Scarecrow or Clint Eastwood's offspring. Keep clear of this snoozer.

THANKS FOR THE WARNING.......2005-10-04

THEY ARE AMONG US is a somewhat flaccid rehashing of INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS, with an obvious made for television veneer. A small town is plagued by what appears to be aliens inhabiting human bodies, but the script is plagued with an unfocused narrative and confusing red herrings. Alison Eastwood gamely plays an alien hunter, but we're never really sure where she's coming from or how she came to know about the aliens. A seemingly perfect family of father, mother and son are at the heart of the upcoming "event" which seems to be taking place on the son's 18th birthday. Good luck in guessing what this "event" is. Although the movie has decent effects, it is far from reaching the status of BODY SNATCHERS and ultimately ends up looking like a failed tv pilot.

They Are Among Us, keep ignoring them........2005-09-13

This is obviously a straight to DVD release, or better yet it's fresh from the Sci FI Channels annals. All the old gang was here from Sci Fi high Nana Visitor, Bruce Boxleitner, Corbin Bernsen, Hunter Tylo; you know all the big names. The whole story is about this community, who early on you figure out they aren't normal, and there are creatures assumingly from outer space. The creatures are big headed, big teethed, and not really scary though I am not sure they were supposed to be. We have a teenager, Daniel, who is going to be turning 18 and something big, is going to happen at his birthday "celebration", and I guessed it wasn't going to be a new car with all the ominous music and hints. His parents, one of which is an alien his mother, the other of which is Laura Ingalls husband , try to protect him by sending him to Australia, the aliens don't swim I suppose or like Outback steakhouse. We have an outlaw alien bounty hunter in a Winnebago, Allison Eastwood (poor thing just couldn't ride on her fathers coattails like the rest of the Hollywood spawn), she is out to revenge her missing father with vials of collagen and bad one liners. The whole town is on a mission to convert our Daniel into whatever alien teenagers turn into, Hunter Tylo clumps around the entire movie with giant lips (I thought they ate collagen not injected it) and epileptic seizures when she is hungry. The ending is predictable and the aliens are supposed to be reminiscent of old 50's creature features but end up really looking and acting like my middle schools production of Journey to the center of the earth. I forced myself to finish watching it. So I would say skip it, watch children of the damned instead.

They Are Among Us--a good scary sci-fi movie!.......2005-07-19

At the beginning of this movie, the music, the rain, and the graphics all set the mood perfectly. You know that you are in for a scary hour and a half. The premise of the story is good and made me wonder, "what if these things could actually happen?" I thought the actors/actresses played their roles well and were all believeable in their parts. On the technical side of it, the editing was very effective, especially toward the end of the movie with the numerous flashbacks. The director also did an admirable job and the ending left me thinking there might be a sequel in the works. I would highly recommend They Are Among Us to everyone who is a sci-fi fan and also to all who just occasionally like a good scary movie.

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Another gem!
Thoroughly Enjoyable!
worthless, save for the unintended comedy in pretension
Alien Visitor
One of my favourite movies

Alien Visitor
Starring: Ullie Birve , Syd Brisbane , Alethea McGrath , Chloe Ferguson , and Phoebe Ferguson
Director: Rolf de Heer
Manufacturer: Miramax
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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Release Date: 2000-09-19

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The Australian outback has seldom looked so beautiful as it does in this pretentious excuse to cram environmental issues down our throats. Not that there's anything wrong with being green--far from it. It's just that the film's allegorical and pedantic style is off-putting, and film narrative doesn't easily support didactic storytelling without insulting the audience's intelligence. It seems that an alien known simply as "She" (Ullie Birve) has arrived on Earth, the armpit of the universe, due to some error on the part of her compadres. "She" ends up in the Australian outback where "She" meets "The Man" (Syd Brisbane), a gregarious every-Aussie and Earth's representative to superior aliens. If only there had been a vote. "She" has the ability to speed up and slow down time and then jaunt about the planet, and the two of them go mind-tripping around the globe as an excuse to show how awful we humans are, with our pollution and the plight of frogs. While their relationship flowers into something as beautiful as a friendship card, "The Man" (we learn from the narration) becomes the emissary of "She" and presumably saves the world. Once again, it takes these superior aliens to show us the way. Gag me with a billabong. --Jim Gay

Description

Get ready for the cool, uniquely intriguing sci-fi story of a beautiful and sexy woman who's really from out of this world. "She" is an inhabitant of the planet Epsilon who's mistakenly transported to Earth ... and dropped into the middle of the Australian outback! There, she happens upon a man camping alone. By the time she convinces him that the intellectually inferior people of Earth are destroying their planet, the two have fallen in love. As this highly unconventional saga leads you in one surprising direction after another, the man ultimately takes what he's learned on a crusade to save his planet!

Customer Reviews:

Another gem!.......2007-01-15

Short and to the point...pick this one up. You won't be disappointed. An ECO/scifi movie you say? Yes...and it works. IF you care about our polluted Earth, this movie will touch a cord in you. Nuff said...

Thoroughly Enjoyable!.......2005-05-02

This movie is quite original! It's dream-like quality is simply delightful. I thought to myself while watching this film, "imagine what could have been accomplished with a larger budget and a harder edge!" This is a subversive story, one that conservatives will detest. With chests puffed-out they will sing the following chorus: What gives the "right" to an "outsider" to condemn our destruction of the environment and ostracize our way of life? A filmmaker with guts, that's who!

The love affair between two lonely strangers, is shown to be both confusing and inspiring. While one being is obviously an alien with a unique ability to control time & place, she is in some ways, all too human! How ironic!

While message movies are, for the most part, out of vogue. I dearly hope that when they come back in fashion they tackle issues regarding the health of the environment with a vengeance!

worthless, save for the unintended comedy in pretension.......2004-01-09

I have long been a fan of the best of Australian movies. So when this was recommmended as Aussie sci-fi, I took a chance. What rot. It is little more than a long commercial for radical environmentalists. I say that as one who loves the outdoors and bemoans urban sprawl that destroys wildlife. But both radical environmentalism, which far too often comes very close to hating the human race (oddly enough, except for the most environmentally destructive and least environmentally aware and concerned peoples: such as Marxists and black Africans and Haitians), and bad, boring, self-indulgent movies are revolting.

Alien Visitor.......2004-01-09

This is a thoughtful film, that, in addition to the communication between the man and the woman, uses the beautiful Australian outback to emphasize the message. Yes, it has a strong environmental message, and at the end, an excellent speech is given about man's coming together to fight wars to right perceived wrongs, but as we continue to despoil the earth....we have yet to come together to "fight the war" to right the wrong that is being done to our own habitat: the earth. The photography is great. Makes one want to go to Australia.

One of my favourite movies.......2003-12-06

What can I say, this movie is so good because of the way it shows humanity at both its unconciously worse and its highest potential. The centre of the story is a slowly building romance between an alien woman who sees earth as nothing more than a planet slowly commiting suicide, and a man who thinks things are pretty nice.

This film is a deep ecology showpiece, because it suggests that another life is possible besides the heavy industrialised one we have accepted as a default. I definitely ramped up my bicycle riding after watching. The jusxtaposition of the highway scenes over against the natural world is particularly powerful.

If you are looking for Star Trek you will be dissapointed, but if you are open to being taken on a world tour from a slightly different perspective then you are in for a treat.

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