Review: The Others; Doom From the Stars (2026)
This time I’m reviewing a new film that is inspired by H P
Lovecfaft…
2065 - Earth is establishing bases in space. When one
station detects an unusual object and launches a probe at it, everything
changes. People are hearing voices in their sleep and public transmissions from
our space bases are halted.
0k, I have to says as a sci Fi fan and a lover of Lovecraft
l was royally disappointed by this film. This film would have made a very
palitable radio drama but as a feature film it was a headache causing slog to
watch. The reason why is this film is all just talking heads. It is all
communications, news reports, and ,amusingly, podcasts by people from the year 2065
talking, and I do mean TALKING, about
the great Old Ones from the writings of H P Lovecraft invading peoples dreams
and a “Thing” coming to Earth.
Now, we don’t actually see anything of this thing coming to
Earth. All we see is people talking about it.
The filmmakers do put
up a few scenes of people rioting and a few lovely space scenes of stars, But
all else is people talking rather than any
action, which is a big no no in a science fiction feature film.
They also bonk the viewer on the head insessiantly with a
blue triangle logo with a one in the middle of it.This actually got horribly
annoying for me after a while.
Another annoying aspect of this film which it shares with
films of its type, like Unfriended, is it tells the viewer what is happening
rather than showing it, which it I guess
couldn’t do due to budgetary constraints. Unfortunately, films are supposed to
be a visual medium and this doesn’t work well given the format, Thus causing
the film to be a boring slog of never ending dialogue.
In the end I found this a hard film To watch and I doubt
you’re average horror, sci fi, or Lovecraft fan is going to find much enjoyment
from this film. But if you are one of the one percent of the fans that
absolutely love a talking head film I say go for it. For everybody else this
would be a party with a lot of mind altering drugs and lots of booze…Yep… NOW
IT’S A PARTY!!! NOT!!!!
Keep on Creepin’ , Horror Bob’s Blog..
Also, I’m sorry to the gentleman who gave me the screener
for the film, but you wanted an honest review and I gave it to you.
Oh, and also to my audience for subjecting you to this
namateur production.
Oh, also one last thing..it is a first year film school
mistake made by D grade filmmakers that they tell action instead of showing it.
Usually by the time these students graduate class they get over such a juvenile
mistakes, But, some don’t unfortunately. It on the endshows the quality of the filmmaker.
But, of course it is those D graders who deny this fault. That is why Sci Fi is
in such a pathetic state for the most part. Have yourself a nice day.
