Dr. Jennifer Stillman (Nastassja Kinski) from NYC arrives in a small town to be the school psychologist. She takes an interest in the troubled boy Ben. He's haunted by his mother's death. His father Dr. Michael McCann (Randy Quaid) is probably not his biological father. Michael is hostile to Stillman's interest. Ben has horrifying visions and wonders if he has extraterrestrial origins.This starts as a psychological mystery. It's low budget but holds a little bit of potential. Then it goes into creature feature territories. It still tries to do something out of the ordinary with it. However it doesn't work at all and the movie collapses.

This was a movie that I saw a long time ago that I finally decided to do a short review on. The movie is essentially about a psychologist, Natassaja Kinski, who is investigating the death of a mother and believes that it is a boy who may be related to an alien. Another psychologist, played by Randy Quaid, holds the boy in his custody and believes that it is all in the kids head. From what I remember from this movie was that the creature effects seemed a bit too corny and seemed more like dreadlocks that anything else. The acting was far from anything that should be noticed, especially Quaid's. There was one very random and horrifically odd sex scene between the school secretary and the principal, played by Steve Tobolowsky. I also remember that this movie wasn't really that scary as much as it was funny.However, what I did enjoy what it's, either intended or not intended, tribute to the good old 1950s alien movies that you watched on TV, or some kind of older Roger Corman movie. I also did enjoy the plot structure that this movie that many horror films like this didn't have. Though I would probably never see this movie ever again, I guess the I would recommend this movie to those who do enjoy really cheesy 50's and 60's sci-fi movies as well as those who enjoy cult classics. As for me, this movie could destroy the world and I still wouldn't care.

Nastassja Kinsky is easy to look at, and the performances aren't bad, and that's about it.Now, if you're going to make a science fiction movie about some weird stuff going on in town, some conspiracy or secret, there are a couple of ways of approaching it. You always begin with a normal person, as this movie does with Kinsky. And there should be someone else around who behaves normally, so that the hero or heroine can have someone to talk things over with. Katherine Ross, in "The Stepford Wives", has the bosomy, candid Paula Prentice to talk to, until Prentice became part of the problem instead of the solution.Alternatively you can have the entire town act normal until its residents one by one become creepy, or a group become, let's say, unusual. See "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" for an example of the first kind, and "Village of the Damned" for the second.In this remake, the entire town resents Kinsky from the moment she first drives into it, even before they can possibly know who she is. Actually, she's the school's resident psychological counselor, which puts her in the position of being nosy and turning the town's resentments into full-blown hatred. We know she's resented from the first few minutes of the movie when the director has carelessly positioned the extras so that they all stand with their hands on their hips, glaring at her.Does she get help from the school's nurse? How about the school's principal? Are you kidding? This raises an interesting question right off the bat. If no one in the town wants a snoopy school psychologist, then why did they hire one? I have it on now in the other room. Somehow it was mistakenly included in a box of DVDs someone sent me. I won't watch it until the end because I don't care what the town's secret is. I imagine, though, that, since this is a remake of a cheap science fiction film from the 50s, and because the cover tells me so, that a monster appears courtesy of special effects. The appearance of a modern CGI monster is, I take it, the chief reason for the appearance of the movie. I can't think of any other reason.Who would enjoy it? I think lots of kids around 10 or 12 would get a kick out of this undemanding and commercial pap. And, meaning no disrespect, I imagine some adults with a taste for cheaply done science fiction movies with slobbering creatures killing off characters would also enjoy it.Not my cup of tea though. Not a soupçon of originality. Can't speak for everyone.

A waste of time. A thrown together TV flick with a plot that is thin and full of holes. A school therapist (Kinski) drives in to a small town and quickly encounters several of the odd characters who reside there. A sheriff stops her to administer a lecture about her driving techniques and gives off the 'we don't cotton much to strangers in these parts" vibes. The school principal comes off as a doofus and the school nurse appears to have received her training in a prison. Kinski immediately encounters a young boy who is in the school office after a playground scuffle. She realizes that the kid is troubled (or just weird) and begins a head shrinking dialog. The lad's father (Randy Quaid), the town doctor arrives to fetch his son and tells Kinski to back off and leave the kid alone. As the movie drones on we learn that the boy's mother was murdered by the townies..no reason given...and the boy believes that his father was a space alien who has returned to take him home, wherever home may be. There is some gore with murdered citizens having their faces ripped off and an armed mob of town crazies takes to the woods to "get" the supposed alien. The movie grinds to a soggy and unsatisfactory ending....thankfully.