I just discovered this show. Spoilers for everything I'm going to say about it.
The title is not really indicative of what it is about, but it is set in the late 1950s in a small town in New Mexico and takes place over the course of a couple of hours one night. It is a bit slow in developing, but eventually I started getting a Close Encounters of the Third Kind meets Fire in the Sky with a smattering of E.T. the ExtraTerrestrial vibe. And that's exactly what it is.
There is a good bit of tension derived from how they tell their story. It follows a couple of characters, a radio jockey for the local station, and a high school gal who works part-time at the telephone exchange. They cut between the gal doing her job, taking calls that seem a bit concerning, and the radio jockey doing his thing, and eventually their paths reconnect with a creepy sound coming through the radio. The movie being set entirely at night works well in driving that tension as well; think of how John Carpenter used the dark in Halloween.
They did basically lift a line of dialogue from Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull when an off-screen character relays a story of being put into a bus with blacked-out windows and driven out to an undisclosed location in the desert. No, there are no interdimensional beings in this movie.
It's not a terribly long movie, but it seems to be very well writen and paced well. All the production values are good, including the big visual effects shot at the end.
The title is not really indicative of what it is about, but it is set in the late 1950s in a small town in New Mexico and takes place over the course of a couple of hours one night. It is a bit slow in developing, but eventually I started getting a Close Encounters of the Third Kind meets Fire in the Sky with a smattering of E.T. the ExtraTerrestrial vibe. And that's exactly what it is.
There is a good bit of tension derived from how they tell their story. It follows a couple of characters, a radio jockey for the local station, and a high school gal who works part-time at the telephone exchange. They cut between the gal doing her job, taking calls that seem a bit concerning, and the radio jockey doing his thing, and eventually their paths reconnect with a creepy sound coming through the radio. The movie being set entirely at night works well in driving that tension as well; think of how John Carpenter used the dark in Halloween.
They did basically lift a line of dialogue from Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull when an off-screen character relays a story of being put into a bus with blacked-out windows and driven out to an undisclosed location in the desert. No, there are no interdimensional beings in this movie.
It's not a terribly long movie, but it seems to be very well writen and paced well. All the production values are good, including the big visual effects shot at the end.
