Altered (2006)

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• David L

  
  Some spoilers here ************************************************************* Four friends in the deep south (or so I guess by their accents), face their fears and the past that haunts them. The result is a movie that has much more depth and suspense than the average straight… More
  Some spoilers here ************************************************************* Four friends in the deep south (or so I guess by their accents), face their fears and the past that haunts them. The result is a movie that has much more depth and suspense than the average straight to DVD movie. Brothers Duke (Brad William Henke), Cody (Paul McCarthy Boyington), and Otis (Michael C. Williams) accomplish what they thought they would never be able to do. They trap one of the aliens that abducted them 15 years earlier and killed their brother. The problem that comes next is what to do next. A quick decision by Duke sends them towards their one time childhood friend Wyatt (Adam Kaufman) who was also with them during the abduction years earlier. More so, he is the only one that "they" seemed most interested in. However, Wyatt upon learning of their capture wants nothing to do with the brothers or their capture. A paranoid who lives in a remote home surrounded by flood lights and with doors that can be locked various times, he himself has dealt with the abduction in his own way. Bringing them back to him is the last thing that he or his girlfriend Hope (Catherine Mangan) want. Even if they were the reason for the death of his best friend, Wyatt has done his best to move on. Wyatt though becomes the center of the story as we discover that the aliens do have a certain desire for him even though we never fully know why that it is. He received an implant and somehow the ability to sense them. During the final confrontation with the alien that Duke and his brothers captured, it appears that Wyatt himself has mental powers which he uses to cripple the alien. Again we find no explanation though we can guess that the past abduction gave him powers which he used. The conflict that fills Altered is not so much the alien vs man story that we are used to after years of sci movies. What makes Altered interesting is the relationship between four friends and how they dealt with an experience that only brought shame and ridicule. Much of Altered consists of conversations about the past and what was done and what should have been done. This is especially so between Wyatt and Cody where the latter especially feels remorse because of the belief that his father blamed him for the death of his brother. Hope herself also constantly bemoans any attempt to bring the past back into the present and struggles to understand why such aliens would show such interest in Wyatt in the first place. The most important lines come at the very end of the movie. As Hope and Wyatt flee, she asks how safe they are now that they killed perhaps a dozen of their kind. Wyatt can only say that they will have to wait and see. A soild straight to dvd film well worth checking out

• Jon O

  
  A cool little indie/horror flick. Terrible ending, but aliens and rednecks are always a good combination.

• Francisco G

  
  A pretty funny ocasionally gross comedy/horror flick with some nice easter eggs and reference gags here and there.

• Adam M

  
  Cool alien invasion type movie. The guys that made The Blair Witch Project got fucked over by Hollywood as the only time i knew this was available was when i saw it on DVD in the shops! Shame, because this is a suspenseful, at times scary, occassionaly slightly gory, well made and… More
  Cool alien invasion type movie. The guys that made The Blair Witch Project got fucked over by Hollywood as the only time i knew this was available was when i saw it on DVD in the shops! Shame, because this is a suspenseful, at times scary, occassionaly slightly gory, well made and acted horror/thriller about some friends that try to get revenge on some aliens for killing their friend. They manage to catch one but obviously things aren't as easy as that. Despite seeing a bit to much of the alien(which to be fair, is quite scary) and i'm still not totally sure about the ending, this is a decent film, well worth a look and i felt a bit sorry for the Blair Witch guys. Love it or hate it, that film made a shit load of money so there's obviously been some wankers at work somewhere because if there wasn't, this may have got a cinema release as its better than alot of the shit that gets put out most weeks these days.

• John M

  
  A surprisingly good horror from Blair Witch creator Ed Sanchez. Well-made, moody. dark and entertaining.

• Christopher B

  
  Looking forward to seeing this since it's from one of the creator's of the Blair Witch Project. It was a decent post alien abduction story with a few plotholes, but overall it was entertaining (and gory in one scene as well!)

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