Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

disgusting, overrated, pointless

Wow! What a bizarre film! Unfortunately the few funny moments there were were quite overshadowed by it's completely weird and random vibe throughout.

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

Strange gas erupts from the earth and mysterious red lights appear out of nowhere, causing the world's population to slowly die off as this unknown menace moves from the North & South Poles toward the equator. The main part of the story focuses on 5 folks in the woods and how they deal with the situation. How? By talking...and talking...and talllllllking. Somehow one guy into UFOs lets everyone else know it is UFOs because, well, he is into UFOs and knows aliens from Mars moved into Earth's core 8,000 years ago. Good lord Rebane, what are you thinking? Even if this has a germ of a good idea, the execution is so terrible that nothing can be forgiven. Not even the cool, snowbound setting. I can take cheap any ol' day, but not cheap and boring. The only thing that kept me amused was that this uses the same theme from James Bryan's LADY STREET FIGHTER. Well, I was amused until I remembered that theme was stuck in my head for weeks after LSF and now it will be stuck again.

I have seen a lot of bad movies in my life, ranging from "Glen or Glenda", to "Manos, the Hands of Fate", to "Wild Women of Wongo", but I have never encountered a movie that horrible. That is, and until someone makes a movie consisting entirely of scraping chalk on a fingernail, my least favorite movie ever. Why, you ask? Prepare to know. Mainly, it's because the people who made this film have no sense of pacing. For each important scene that actually advances the plot, there are two scenes that are completely random, freakishly annoying, and utterly irrelevant to anything. Many of these scenes focus on character development of characters who then proceed to do nothing with their newfound character traits, but others include boring walking and snowmobiling and random cuts to other people doing other things that relate at best tangentially to our friends back at the cabin. Add to this the acting, the budget, and the general plotting, and you've got yourself a physically painful little piece of cinema. Incidentally, what the deuce was up with the ending? Everyone disappears except for two people who turn into half naked children in a random meadow in soft focus? That's right down there with "Monster a Go-Go". Don't watch this.

Once upon a time, I naively believed that a film could be THE WORST simply by its own dubious merit. Years of hearing people describe "Seven Mummies" or "House of the Dead" as THE WORST eventually changed my mind... these are notably bad movies, but are enjoyable enough despite/because of this, and thus cannot possibly be THE WORST. 'No,' I reasoned, 'a movie can only truly be called THE WORST by disappointing its audience. The many sub-subpar giallo attempts must truly be THE WORST for offering a glimmer of tasty material, tricking us with what seems like a tense build-up, and finally, cruelly, robbing us of any payoff.' This philosophy carried me through many a night of terrible-movie-watching.Then... I saw "THEY".I had no expectation, unlike my viewings of "Kill, Baby, Kill" or "Silent Night, Bloody Night." Had I been less than entertained, I would have thought nothing of it. I received the movie as part of a 50-movie pack (from Mill Creek) and only put it on to pass the time. And yet, something happened.Aside from the plot and effects there was nothing overtly laughable about this movie. The acting was far from the worst I've seen, and the locations were believable if a bit cheap. Nothing immediately sparked my interest (aside from a mention of "bizarre creatures" in the DVD blurb) nor pointed out that this movie would be shockingly, horrifying dull. But this was far from Middle Of The Road bad. It was abysmal. It both terrified and sedated me. I suppose many could have slept through this, saving themselves the trouble of figuring out why such apparently total devastation resulted from such minor vandalism (perpetrated by such teensy, frail saucers). Only the bearded hippie's mind-scrambling "logic" kept me awake long enough to witness the utterly flabbergasting ending. A few questions remain: -What was that light? -What caused the humorous loss of motor control exhibited by various character? -Where was Eric crawling to for half an hour? -Why did God not mercifully strike me down before witnessing the last minute? -Who--dear god, WHO would fund this??I've been enlightened. This is THE WORST movie I have ever seen, despite my lack of expectations. I'm infected with rage at how bad it was. My girlfriend is literally showing symptoms of poisoning. Even a Torgo couldn't salvage this boring, sniveling, half-assed, hick/hippie-oriented sack of filth.Goonfactor: practically nonexistent, spiking to extremely high in the last ten seconds.

in that the ending makes no sense whatsoever.This film is parsecs away better than, say, Highlander 2 or UFO: Target Earth, but it doesn't have the naive charm of Rebane's Monster A Go-Go. It was just a mediocre SF film until the ending ... very seventies in characterization ... but with no real hints as to the real motivations of the "invaders", the ending makes no sense. If an invading force is killing everyone, why create (and I assume the invaders created them) a new Adam & Eve from the last two survivors from the lodge? I liked the claustrophobic feel of the lodge, and the presentation of the story came close to having the same feel of something like Night of the Living Dead or Invisible Invaders. But on the theme and story as a whole, it really wasn't pulled off right ... we the audience just didn't get the information we needed to figure things out either before or with the characters.