The Barrett family have problems. Dad Daniel is out of work, and there is money pressure. Worse, an apparent nocturnal intruder is piling the groceries in weird designs and stealing photographs, hundreds of birds are flying into the house and dying, and youngest son Sam is having bad dreams of the Sandman. And things go downhill from there. Is it ghosts? Poltergeist? Paranormal teens? Malevolent spirits? Some sort of demons? Naah, it's aliens.
Dark Skies is a pretty standard haunting/possession-type horror movie with aliens as the monsters. While it is quite nicely done - there is a decent build up and some good made-you-jump moments - it comes pretty much straight out of the cliché store. We even have idiot Dad who won't believe the evidence in front of his eyes (and behind his ear and running out of his nostrils). It's moderately entertaining all the same, if you like that sort of thing.
The ending is not bad, if not entirely unexpected, but the little aftershock is badly mismanaged.
Dark Skies is a pretty standard haunting/possession-type horror movie with aliens as the monsters. While it is quite nicely done - there is a decent build up and some good made-you-jump moments - it comes pretty much straight out of the cliché store. We even have idiot Dad who won't believe the evidence in front of his eyes (and behind his ear and running out of his nostrils). It's moderately entertaining all the same, if you like that sort of thing.
The ending is not bad, if not entirely unexpected, but the little aftershock is badly mismanaged.