Aliens...you gotta love'em. They account for quite a bit of the horror movies we see. Alien,Predator,The Thing, Mac and Me...... you know real horror. Im a creature feature fan..guilty as charged but for the most part the creature feature list has not been very high until recently, which Im grateful of. One movie I had been keep my eye on was a movie called "The Feeding" which then changed its name to the movie Im doing my review on today "Night Feeders".
Night Feeders starts us off with some very unconvincing CGI effect sequence of a meteorite and a satellite in space. The meteorite ends up heading towards earth smashing into a small country area with hardly any civilians in site. After a brief sequence of people seeing it land and some people getting killed by the "somethings" from the meteorite we then get to our main story.
4 Guys on a hunting trip to this location find themselves not alone as the beasties try to kill them one by one. The movie has a running time of 85 minutes but if you cut out the credits at the end its more like 75 to 80 minutes which does not leave a lot of room for character development but they do a rather decent job for the limited time to get us to know the characters. However a rocket scientist you do not have to be to figure out the characters and what they are about.
The creatures and gore are what these movies are about and unfortunately things could have been better. The gore on display is OK but it really is more aftermath footage as oppose to actually seeing an arm or head being ripped off or a person being eaten by the creatures. Speaking of creatures remember I said there was a crappy CGI shot in the beginning, well we get a heavy dose of it in the creatures in the movie. Man are they bad!!! I mean Sci-Fi Channel Movie bad!!! I mean Playstation 1 bad!!! However when they are kept in the dark and in silhouettes they are rather effective.
If you can overlook the bad CGI and the sometimes annoying dialog this movie is not all that bad. It was entertaining and though I hated those effects (guys,next time man in suit,stop motion or puppets animatronic or otherwise) the movie really did hit all cylinders in the middle act. The ending was adequate and what I expected but I would have liked to seen how "The Boys" took care of business.
Anyway in conclusion Night Feeders is not a stinker and not a winner it floats in that average rating area. Kudos go to the story as it is quick and gets to the action as well as entertains but those crappy CGI effects and better gore sequences would have rose this to at least a cult worthy film. Take it for what it is though,a low budget sci-fi horror movie,and you will probably enjoy yourself more than most. If low budget horror is not your bag....SKIP THIS!!! 5/10: Average, nothing garbage (except the CGI) nothing great but fans of monsters and old school horror may enjoy themselves just keep your expectations low.
Night Feeders starts us off with some very unconvincing CGI effect sequence of a meteorite and a satellite in space. The meteorite ends up heading towards earth smashing into a small country area with hardly any civilians in site. After a brief sequence of people seeing it land and some people getting killed by the "somethings" from the meteorite we then get to our main story.
4 Guys on a hunting trip to this location find themselves not alone as the beasties try to kill them one by one. The movie has a running time of 85 minutes but if you cut out the credits at the end its more like 75 to 80 minutes which does not leave a lot of room for character development but they do a rather decent job for the limited time to get us to know the characters. However a rocket scientist you do not have to be to figure out the characters and what they are about.
The creatures and gore are what these movies are about and unfortunately things could have been better. The gore on display is OK but it really is more aftermath footage as oppose to actually seeing an arm or head being ripped off or a person being eaten by the creatures. Speaking of creatures remember I said there was a crappy CGI shot in the beginning, well we get a heavy dose of it in the creatures in the movie. Man are they bad!!! I mean Sci-Fi Channel Movie bad!!! I mean Playstation 1 bad!!! However when they are kept in the dark and in silhouettes they are rather effective.
If you can overlook the bad CGI and the sometimes annoying dialog this movie is not all that bad. It was entertaining and though I hated those effects (guys,next time man in suit,stop motion or puppets animatronic or otherwise) the movie really did hit all cylinders in the middle act. The ending was adequate and what I expected but I would have liked to seen how "The Boys" took care of business.
Anyway in conclusion Night Feeders is not a stinker and not a winner it floats in that average rating area. Kudos go to the story as it is quick and gets to the action as well as entertains but those crappy CGI effects and better gore sequences would have rose this to at least a cult worthy film. Take it for what it is though,a low budget sci-fi horror movie,and you will probably enjoy yourself more than most. If low budget horror is not your bag....SKIP THIS!!! 5/10: Average, nothing garbage (except the CGI) nothing great but fans of monsters and old school horror may enjoy themselves just keep your expectations low.