Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Very Cool!!!

Thanks for the memories!

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

It's a shame that most viewers seem to have missed the boat on this movie. I think the whole intent was to EMBRACE, even celebrate the B-movie phenomenon. I fully expected it to be a stereotypical, low-budget alien movie . . . And yes, it WAS. Complete with cliche elements & characters: alien abductions; UFO crash; government cover-ups; cabin-in-the-woods; flying saucers; "The Greys" . . . the ditzy blonde; the cowardly idiot (boy, did they fix HIS little red wagon!); the pot-growing, paranoid, conspiracy-nut Vietnam vet, the heroic surviving (so you think!) young couple . . . . This movie employed every worn-out alien cliche out there, but with some dark humor & unexpected twists. Folks, my take on it was that the cliches & stereotypes were absolutely intentional. I rather enjoyed the homage & nods to the scores of past alien movies (& even to "The Smoking Man" from X-Files). Admittedly, many times throughout the film I thought, "Yup, here we go - I know what comes next." But then the darkly funny twists pulled me back in. While some of you found the ending disturbing, I think it was brilliant. It led viewers to the edge of an expected typical conclusion, with a feigned "happily-ever-after" sappy scene that had my eyes rolling . . . . Until the film kept rolling, & delivered its unexpected coup-de-gras. If you don't appreciate dark humor - then this one's not for you. If you're hoping for a deep plot, well-developed characters, a sweet, happy ending, or a never-before-seen portrayal of aliens & UFOs - then this one definitely isn't for you. But I found it to be delightfully entertaining. -OldFartAlienMovieBuff

So here we have another cabin in the woods story with a group of red- shirt young people, and as always their justification for being there is tenuous. Evidently, the cabin was the vacation home for April and her family. Now her family has fallen apart her mother has conned her daughter into going to the cabin to take a few pictures of the shack so she can sell it; apparently, real-estate agents charge the earth for this service. From the first night, the stereotypical group of friends encounter a series of strange and scary events.So this sounds very familiar... and it is, though it does have some pretty good points... in the beginning at least. I loved the opening sequence which is Bill and Ted's Nightmare. The thing which surprised me most was how good Gil Bellows is as Sheriff Murphy, the scene when he pulls the "let's go die'ers" over was one of my favourite scene's and Bellows is very believable, I wouldn't cross the Sheriff.Then when Michael Ironside appears I was already enjoying the film and was looking forward to seeing how it would progress...Down the toilet... with a double flush!Ironside and Bellows aren't in the movie anywhere near long enough, and though the rest of the cast are okay it's their storyline which lets the film down. Brittany Allan and Freddie Storma aren't too bad as the lovers, April and Kyle, though they're going through a rough patch. Melanie, played by Melanie Papalia, is such a bland throwaway character that if she stood in one place for too long she'd just fade away. Then there's Seth who's portrayed by Jesse Moss; too well if truth be told, as the character is unlikeable and you wonder how anybody could actually be his friend... Oh, I nearly forgot Lex, Anja Savcic, who is Seth's eye-candy "blonde", at the moment, girlfriend - guess who goes first...The story starts it's slide into the pan when Travis (Ironside) recounts to the red-shirts that the human race knows about the existence of aliens and it's excepted that if we don't mess with them then they won't do anything too bad to us... Okay! Unfortunately, April has killed one of them and this action has put her friends on their hit-list.Though most of the movie is pretty unoriginal, there are some good scenes like the opening and the one where Murphy comes across a taped abduction and when he gets mind-melded. The special effects are above average too - the guy's even built a wrecked UFO, though when you see the size of the greys you do wonder how they ever fitted inside. My favourite effect is the tractor beam... I wanna go!Though it's the ending that really kills the film. For some strange reason writer and director Colin Minihan, along with writer Stuart Ortiz (under the pseudonym The Vicious Brothers) opt for an over-the-top unbelievable schmaltzy ending. Though Minihan is capable of filming nicely stylised shots, with some interesting angles, he's not too great at handling emotion. The penultimate climax is risible and instead of making me think, NO! you can't do that!, it had me giggling... and cringing... And the homage to the X-Files is more of an Oh No! than a Cool! moment. However, he nearly makes up for it with the beautifully filmed climax, the effects and cuts are seamless, I skipped back a few times just to watch that scene over again.If the Vicious Brothers had risked it all to give the audience a fresh approach to the "Cabin In The Woods" sub-genre with some original characters and a more realistic outcome, as well as filling in some gaping holes in the story, then this could have been a brilliant movie. Shame.I would recommend it for the reasons I've stated above as they just outweigh the negative elements, though I would say rent it before you consider buying... and only rent when it's cheap.

Started out promising while the characters in the beginning seemed promising until I realized, they're all bland and boring AND are cliché we have the Pothead, The Jock, Pretty girl, Dumb Blonde, Hipster and ALIENS!!! So at some point in the film, they're all partying and having a good time until GUESS WHO COMES TO CRASH THE PARTY? YOU GOT IT RIGHT!!! ALIENS!!!!! There's a lot of cliché moments that had me yawning and nearly shouting "F**king stop!!!" There was a moment and *Spoilers* This blonde chick leaves the car during a serious scene in which a UFO is hovering over their car! she looks up at this thing while others are screaming at her and guess what, she gets abducted and guess what!! They obviously ripped some of that off of (Fire in the sky) (1993) The Aliens also look really, well, MEH. I hate this film, I HATE IT SO F**KING MUCH!!! Destroy it! Someone please destroy this horrible movie, wipe it from existence! 1/10, Don't spend nor waste data on this horrible "movie"

Though this film reminds me of Fire in the Sky on certain levels it did however manage to capture an essence not found in modern day abduction genres. Extraterrestrial is about a group of young folks who take to a cabin in the woods for a small holiday so Kyle can propose to his girlfriend except now as he is turned down a mysterious fire ball streaks across the night skies and crashes. Up to investigate the group finds the site only to learn it is an alien craft but without a crew. Soon grotesque killings start along with abductions which dwindles the group's size to just two survivors.I like how it ended. Though Kyle, and his girlfriend do get put back alive, and well... the idea that the aliens dropped them off near a military command post said that if they cannot kill them by their own means then it could be done by masked soldiers who cleaned up the site in order to cover up the incident, which included killing both Kyle, and his fiancée. Buried along with evidence no one would ever guess that a night in the woods would never happen at all. Michael Ironside who played Travis the ex-marine from Vietnam was a nice edition as the pot growing paranoid freak who lived in the very same woods. It stood to reason that it was the governments fault all along, and that an arrangement had to made in order for technology to be bartered just to extend the agenda for those in absolute power.It had moments of fright, visceral torture of Seth who only wanted to go home, and seeing inside of the alien craft that made me think that there are those who travel among the stars that do not see it as we do. Extraterrestrial is a statement which says... Not all aliens are friendly, that our existence is remnant of just cattle, and the owners are the US government along with their off world cohorts. The music was a nice touch with gritty songs of sorrow and sadness. All in all a nice flavoured movie all round.