A waste of 90 minutes of my life

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

As much as I hate to admit it, aliens creep me out. It's probably the simplistic form they usually take, their silence, and yet knowing how intelligent they are. Even a low budget, shoddily acted bit of hokum like Night Skies, has enough to unsettle me for the most part. A lot of it is in the amateur leagues, but the director certainly has an eye for sticking stuff in the background. It gets even creepier when we see things that the characters don't. It's a shame that there's such a bombastic musical score to ruin a lot of the intensity. It's tolerable when it keeps itself simple, but when it goes aliens overboard it loses the mystery.

Night Skies(2007) is a great movie with spooky moments definitely not for the faint hearted. On the DVD disk you can SEE more of Richard and Lily on the UFO and HEAR more gunshot and screams. And if you watch closely in the scene where Richard is in the forest after shooting the other guy, you can see a real freaky alien! Yipes! I flinched after later glimpsing the alien again when Richard got back on the RV. Totally scary as we see Lily running for her life(or maybe it was one of the other girls ?) and trying to make it till morning after they get abducted and Richie has to kill her. Yipes! The cops at the end of the film find Richie scared as hell! Definitely not to miss! 9.98/10! Hire it out or buy it today!

This may contain a spoiler or two, but I will try to avoid that.This movie is supposedly based on the regression-therapy records of someone who experienced the "Phoenix Lights" on March 13, 1997. If you have read the book "Communion" by Whitley Strieber then the plot will seem very familiar to you. Also if you have read the narratives from people who claim to have had encounters with aliens, the story might seem familiar to you. So much for the complaints about the story being predictable.If the statement about where the story comes from is true, then that would also explain why the dialogue and the story don't seem all that engaging. This is a true story. Ask yourself this: If someone made a movie of 3-4 hours out of your life, how interesting would it be? How snappy would your "lines" sound to an audience? Would the people watching "your story" think the events were "predictable?" Would they think the dialogue was "unimaginative?" For my money, the dialogue was believable as was the storyline. If this is a true story, I would expect it to be mundane, with ordinary conversation instead of scintillating conversation full of artful badinage. This is supposed to be true life, folks, not some screenwriter's fantasy! Given the above paragraph, I would say the acting was true-to-life. How many people do you know that are not all that great to be around? How many people do you meet everyday that are really engaging and you want to know more about them? Think about it. If this is a true story, then the actors managed to be come off being ordinary and uninteresting characters, just like you might expect. True life is not "Ocean's Eleven!" I thought the special effects toward the end were very good. The aliens looked like most of the descriptions that you will find in the book "Communion," mentioned at the first part of this review. From that standpoint, they were believable. Real life just does not always look as good as Hollywood movies.If this movie was indeed based on the source claimed, then it delivered exactly what I would have expected it to deliver: an incoherent story with a lot of holes and unanswered questions in it.

At the time of this writing it has a 4 average rating. That's just ludicrous for a movie of such quality. I don't understand the complaints I've read about the acting in the least bit. It was all quite believable and I was actually surprised how well they managed in the strange premise of such slander-sensitive material. Instead of seeing the actors' awareness of being in a movie that's doomed from the start because of its subject matter, they have not shown this at all. What makes it extra tense is exactly the fact that the actors did such a fine job in making it possible to identify with them. I've seen a lot of thrillers based on this exact same theme, and this is BY FAR one of the best. Amazing last 15 minutes, splendid work on the visual effects. The low budget does not show.Sure, it might have some predictable elements in it, but I wasn't bothered by them one second while watching it fly by. Simply very well executed script-writing, beautiful camera-work, full of good raw tension and really scary at times, even more so thanks to the unknown documentary-like doubts it will raise in the viewer's minds.Very often bad or cheap audio gives away the mediocrity of such a movie, but not so here! Top notch quality and extremely fitting sound will help this movie gain cult-status. Hats off to the engineers and all those involved in scoring, arranging, editing and mixing for this film. For that I'm tempted to give it an 8, but I have voted 7 because in my opinion the movie should have been fifteen minutes longer, to show some more of the documented facts surrounding the true story for example.