Release Dates:
- 14th October 2011 (UK, USA) -
Director: Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.
Many of you may already know of the original movie of the same name from 1982 and if you don't then make sure you watch it in the future! That is unless you plan on watching the new version as the 2011 release is a prelude to John Carpenter's classic and so if you know how that one started then it might significantly reduce the tension they will build up in this one.
Set in the Antarctic at a research site, palaeontologist Kate Lloyd (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) joins up with a Norwegian scientific team that has stumbled across an extraterrestrial ship buried in the ice with an organism that seems to have died in the crash intact. Unsurprisingly, the specimen wakes and is unleashed into the isolated colony. Being a shape-shifting creature it has the ability to turn itself into a perfect replica of any living thing and once the scientists realise this, paranoia spreads amongst them as they try and work out who is infected by the alien before it gets them too.
Trailer:
While I can imagine the graphics will be improved, I doubt they will trump the original as it used some cool puppetry to create its aliens. It will have good suspense as you try and discover who is no longer human but the fact I basically know how it ends makes me think that I won't enjoy it that much.
Rating: D
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