Night Feeders

This was actually pretty darn entertaining. It's biggest downfall was the cgi. If they had the budget for practical effects it would be great the effects that were practical were great.

I have to say for a low budget film this was very well made. The actors were great in there roles and played the parts well with a touch of humor. Not many people like a humorous horror flick , but I found this to be quite humorous for a horror flick , but not so much so that it took away from the actual script of being a horror flick. So if you like a touch of humor and horror combined I do recommend watching this show. I gave it a 10 because, for low budget the plot and graphics were well done as well as the acting. The ending was perfect also , gave just enough to make ya wonder... OK is there gonna be a part 2 eh :-) way to go guys good job. ^*^

It's not exactly intellectual and you can tell there wasn't a STAR WARS-level budget to be thrown around, but this backwoods blue-collar monster movie is a pleasant surprise on many levels and shapes up as one of the best of its kind. Four hunters pick a very bad time and place for a weekend camping trip. Little do they know their secluded patch of North Carolina woods is crawling with carnivorous alien humanoids that just escaped from a crashed meteor. The four-foot-tall, green creatures look like classic bulbous-headed UFO aliens but with huge sharp teeth and voracious appetites for human flesh. They hate bright light and only attack when it's dark. Can the bubbas band together and stay alive until morning? The characters are impressively portrayed as real guys who may not be rocket scientists but do have loyalty and determination on their side. There's a tendency in low-budget horror to depict Southerners as hateful, trigger-happy inbreds who can't tie their own shoelaces or spell their own names, so it's refreshing to see a movie of this kind that credits good-ol'-boy types with human intelligence, integrity and even bravery. Even the forest ranger is only doing his job, checking things out and asking to see hunting licenses, instead of indulging in typical cheap movie unprovoked harrassment stuff. The best character is big fat Donnie, who keeps wishing his redneck buddies were there. Donnie is a likable and believable guy, and I fully expected him to be the first to die because (A) he's overweight and (B) he's over 20 years old. But NIGHT FEEDERS doesn't play it the same old Hollywood way when it comes to characters and their actions, and I am pleased to report that Donnie gets to do plenty of first-class monster whuppin'. He emerges as one of the genre's most unlikely and believably human heroes since Carl Kolchak. You'll have to be ready to forgive some cheesy computer animation at the beginning when the meteor splashes down, but unconvincing computer animation was everywhere (including many projects with a lot more budget than this one had). Happily, the aliens are impressively presented and the gore effects are excellent and plentiful, as arms and legs are bitten off, bodies are eviscerated and all sorts of bloody mayhem is seen. The only really dumb part is when precious daylight is wasted on burying the mangled remains of the victims-- time that would have been much better spent trying to reach help. Other than that, the cast's laid-back style of acting and reactions to their predicament is realistic enough throughout to make NIGHT FEEDERS well worth a watch. It probably won't win any awards, but it was obviously made with the intention of really scaring and entertaining its audience instead of just going through the same old motions. Yay Donnie!

Rednecks and friends encounter aliens delivered to Earth by way of a meteorite that happens to land in a North Carolina pond. The diminutive splash caused by the falling space rock, looks more like a pebble being thrown into the water for the effect, but what the heck it is a low budget movie. The acting, locations, dialog, and character development, are above average considering the obvious monetary constraints. The aliens are hidden in darkness most of the time and that negates to a certain extant whatever flaws they may have. I thoroughly enjoyed "Night Feeders" for it's interesting story, well placed humor, and production quality from what was obviously a very limited budget. - MERK

Techincally speaking, Night Feeders is about as cheap as they come. It has all the trade marks of a Z-grade feature, starting with the obvious, it is a video production (film would've been too expensive). In the end quality doesn't matter so long the film is entertaining. As it happens Night Feeders is one of those rare cases of a Z-grade feature that delivers what it intends to; extreme campy entertainment.

Movies of this sort are always too cheap to be taken seriously. Some movies embrace that and are played for laughs, like Evil Aliens or Killer Klowns from Outer Space. Night Feeders has a few good lines, and parts of it are pretty chirpy, but it is not a comedy. The movie presents four quirky rednecks who find them selves up against little green men. In horror films, I am used to seeing a mean spirited portrayal of South Eastern Americans (see Texas Chainsaw Massacre, or House of 1000 Corpses, among others). These guys, though they don't amount to anything thicker than cardboard, are not as unlikeable, and for an eighty minute feature (which is short) Night Feeders spends an appropriate amount of time with them before getting to the point.

Director Jet Ellors biggest mistake is his over confidence in his special effects crew. For about fifty minutes, Ellor is smart enough to keep the little men reduced to haloed silhouettes in the undergrowth but he cannot maintain this subtlety, and eventually, one of these guys steps into the light, and what we see is something that looks like it was generated using the same equipment that constructed the light cycle sequence for Tron thirty years ago.

Night Feeders runs out of steam in the last twenty minutes, and I found myself quickly loosing interest, what little climax there is is not very good. In the end, the movie entertained me, and if anything, it increases my understanding of Z-grade features. There is nothing really to understand other than, they are made mostly for fun and then the makers hope that the product will find it's way to a minor film festival or that the sponsors will offer more money for the next project.