Review of Aberration

The horror movie comes to the table with a promising idea -- a new species of lizard runs amok in a small, snowbound Minnesota town (though, inexplicably, this movie was supposedly filmed in New Zealand). Every time one of the dies, the species develops a cockroach-like immunity to that form of death. Therein lies the problem. They only seem to develop that immunity for one scene, then you can kill them any way you want again. Had they stayed consistent with that immunity theme, this could have been a pretty creative, entertaining horror movie. But the producers seemed instead to opt for the "handful of people trying to avoid being killed by monsters while trapped in a storm" direction for this flick, which has been done to death. I also kept expecting the lizards to grow to Komodo-dragon sizes by movie's end, which never happened and was kind of disappointing. And the scene where Uri bursts in to get his cut of the stolen money was absolutely asinine. You could have left that 20 minutes on the cutting room floor and it probably would have improved the overall content. I give this movie a 3, largely because it could have been a uniquely entertaining horror film but they completely dropped the ball.