What I Liked: It’s competently made and tries its best to
move the story along.
Christopher Reeve (The
Aviator) really grew on me as the movie went. At first he seemed wooden and bland with his
dull medical practice and his dull wife and all that. But as he gets deeper into the evilness of
what’s going on around him he becomes more compelling and pretty pissed off. I like it.
What I Didn’t Like: Kirstie Alley (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan) wasn’t very good but at the same
time it’s not a great character. I think
the government agent keeping tabs on what’s happening with the mystery children
and town is fine to have in the movie but it’s just that she didn’t need to be
so inhuman. Maybe they’re saying the ol’
it takes an unfeeling creature to catch/understand an unfeeling creature? I dunno.
If this character is gonna be this devoid of emotion she should be more
badass. But instead she doesn’t do a
whole helluva lot.
Overall Impression: This is a little better than I remembered
from many years ago but not much. You
all know I’m a huge Carperterant and I get a kick out of anything the man does
but this one is down there in his repertoire.
The setup isn’t bad with this town full of women being
impregnated by an unseen alien force.
And even the part where the babies are first born and no one’s on to the
kids being totally evil is fine. But
once the demon children grow and the town simply accepts their fate to be
subservient to these malicious kids it becomes uninteresting and predictable.
Interestingly this was a slight anomaly, a weak blip in the
middle of a damn fine run from In theMouth of Madness through Vampires. It’s completely non-essential but if you’re
starting to run out of Carpenter material this isn’t the worst picture he’s
made.
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