I got a kick out of the dark factory scenes. I worked in factories when I was young and they were all lit up, but they felt as dark as the one here. My favorite role, the old guy with TV problems; freakiest role, the mom who can't be reached; most endearing role, the daughter of the old guy; most sympathetic role, the guy who has to bum rides to his job. I thought the other actors were good too. Anyone who's been a grunt will recognize the perennially angry cigarette-smoking foreman. The deleted portions included on the DVD were lively and some of them added to the story and made me wish they'd been included in the movie. A couple things didn't make sense to me, but neither did the fact that I nearly got creamed by a tow truck that drove onto the sidewalk while I was walking home from work tonight. Moody, weird, tells a story ... I liked it.

Nobody screams. Nobody calls the police. A 10-year-old boy stares agape on one side of a door while his mother repeatedly smashes her head into the other side, and does nothing. It takes the decimation of an entire factory staff to make the heavy chick get up off her duff to find out what's going on. Then she moves at a glacial pace through the human wreckage looking for the perp, rather than trying to get the hell outta there.To its credit, the film manages to capture the repetitive, dull routine of a one-horse town in winter quite effectively. Some of the (amateur) acting is actually quite good at certain points, while being just awful in others.The biggest problem with the film is that the plot is void of motivation. WHY was the entity that was doing what it was doing, doing it? What did it achieve? Or did it fail? All these questions are left unanswered, and the voice-over news commentary at the end, tacked on as a kind of explanatory coda, just doesn't work as a denouement.Could have been much better. But it is what it is, esoteric title and all.

50s/60s, anachronistic, low budget style horror film. humans are the monsters. most younger(and enough older)horror film fans will find this disappointing/boring... i think people who praised it did so b/c they're from the same part of the world where it was filmed... d-d-d-d-d dat's all folks... i just learned, after trying to submit the above, that the IMDb folk require 10 lines of text, using no 'junk words'. what are junk words? and that doesn't make my summary 'concise', does it? seriously...there's not a whole lot more to say about this film... and i'm trying to do potential viewers a service. i hope the IMDb personnel understand this... personally, i enjoyed the mood that the setting -- backwoods America -- lent to the overall effect. i guess that's 10 lines...

This is the way horror oughta be! Reminiscent of the style of horror movies done in the early 1970s such as the original "The Hills Have Eyes", this eerie, disturbingly-realistic portrait of a secret government experiment performed on an average small American town and its unwitting townsfolk will have you peering out your window at any suspicious vehicle lurking about. With a relatively unknown cast and an obvious shoestring budget, the director of this movie knows what it takes to creatively construct a sinister atmosphere within an everyday, common setting and hold your attention. The acting is well above-average for such an inexperienced cast and they are able to pull their roles off most convincingly. Shot in northern Indiana, the bleak winter landscapes add an unsettling feel to the overall mood. At the risk of letting any spoilers out of the bag, let's just say I was mesmerized throughout the first 3/4 of the film and found myself jumping at every little noise. While the last 1/4 of the movie does end up relying on cheap special effects, the majority of the film is very creepy and sure to satisfy most sci-fi/horror buffs. 8 stars.