They Are Among Us (2004)

I'll tell you why so serious

A lot more amusing than I thought it would be.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Writer/director Jeffrey Obrow is another relatively unknown filmmaker, but surely fans of '80s creature features will remember his slimy magnus opus "The Kindred" (1987). In recent years the man brought us "They Are Among Us". What if our parents were actually aliens, starting colonies on earth, converting human beings into their race to secretively walk among us? With a mouthful premise like this, the script could have used a talented supervisor as Obrow's story feels very inconsistent. But still a handful of interesting ideas stand out and the special effects are commendable. In an era where CGI had taken over, Obrow opted for real make-up effects and old fashioned creature designs. A muddled affair, but a curious watch nonetheless.

Well, they got a washed up star from Babylon 5 AND a washed up star from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, as the parents of the alien hybrid kid who is worshiped by a cult of aliens who are here for some reason, but honestly, it was all convoluted. And there are about three times where you think Boxleitner got killed before they actually bothered to kill him.Bruce, bud, that's your career dying... Babylon 5 was the high point.The rest of it is some minor actors actually carrying the weight while the real actors do forced cameos while waiting for their paychecks to clear. Or something.

My friends and I rented this from Blockbuster because we saw Nana Visitor's name on the box. This movie is a travesty I hope she negates from her CV.The "plot" was lose and flaccid, the acting was mostly dry and unbearable in some parts. The movie made no sense whatsoever. The rough plot of an alien parasite species that infects humans has been done many times by films with much better scripts than this, for example, invasion of the body-snatchers and The faculty.If you ever have the misfortune to come across this movie, I suggest you burn it.How it classes itself as a horror movie when there was no use of fear, suspense, gore, terror or any of the usual horror film techniques I don't know, however if you still find yourself wanting to watch this film I suggest you have a lot of sugar before hand, so you can find parts of it funny.

I watched this the other night and it was just okay. I wouldn't watch it again most likely. At first the acting was a little weak (like watching an amateur student film or something), but it got better as the movie went along. I really liked Michael Maples (Harlan) performance the best of the unknown teens in the movie. Liked the Old Chuck character too.During Hunter Tylo's first scene, she was in bed with a guy and I laughed out loud when I realized that it was her real life husband. Of course his scene was very short LOL.There were a couple of things that didn't make sense or weren't explained in the movie though. When Harlan confronts Tylo's character, she tries to seduce him and says she's going to eat him up (which is what she apparently did to the first guy it showed her in bed with, though it didn't show that, it just showed them in bed and then the camera panned out of the bedroom and you hear the guy scream and you hear kind of a crunching sound), but he has her number (he knows what she is in other words) and he tells her to stay away from him and he calls her an "alien wh*re". She tells him to keep his mouth shut and just look pretty. It fades to another scene with other characters. Next time it shows Harlan, it appears that he's been taken over by one of the alien parasites. Later, we find out he was pretending to be one of the aliens. It didn't make sense why the female alien character didn't kill him like she did the other guy. They didn't explain it at all. They just left you wondering. That was pretty stupid and a big whole in the story on the part of the writers.The giant alien creature in the movie was pretty goofy looking for a movie anyway. It looked like something that would appear on an episode of "Buffy" or "Angel". It wasn't as bad as something that might have appeared on a "Hercules" episode (like that stupid giant rooster or the muck monsters/creatures that Autolycus and Iolaus turned into in that same episode).The form of the aliens before they took on a human host weren't too bad looking though.There are plot holes and some bad dialogue and the ending is kind of blah, but overall, it's all right for one viewing, especially if you're bored. You're not missing much if you skip the movie, but if you tape it off of sci-fi and then watch it later and fast forward through the commercials and some of the more slower scenes, it's over quickly enough that you're not wasting too much of your time. I started it at like 2am and was finished before 330 am.