Altered (2006)

User Rating:

5.8/10   

Director:

Eduardo Sánchez

Writers:

Jamie Nash (screenplay)
Jamie Nash (story)

Release Date:

15 December 2007 (Japan)

Genre:

Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Tagline:

They will find you...

Plot:

Fifteen years ago, a group of men's lives were forever changed by a strange occurrence. Now, the same group of men will spend a night together ... in terror.

Plot Keywords:

Alien | Shot In The Head | Blood | Spaceship | Loss Of Brother

Cast

Misty Rosas	...	Foki Scout
Paul McCarthy-Boyington	...	Cody
Brad William Henke	...	Duke
Michael C. Williams	...	Otis (as Mike C. Williams)
Adam Kaufman	...	Wyatt
Catherine Mangan	...	Hope
James Gammon	...	Sheriff Henderson
Joe Unger	...	Mr. Towne
John William Wright	...	Monger Warrior
Shea Elmore	...	Monger Warrior
Klaus Heesch	...	Monger Warrior
Matt McCann	...	Monger Warrior
Phil Stevenson	...	Monger Warrior
Eduardo Sánchez	...	Monger Warrior (as Ed Sanchez)

MPAA:

Rated R for strong violence and gore, and for pervasive language.

Runtime:

88 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

USA:R | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:14A (Ontario) | UK:15 | Canada:18A (Manitoba) | Singapore:M18 | Australia:MA (2007) | Portugal:M/16 | South Korea:18 | Philippines:R-13 (MTRCB) | New Zealand:R16 | Finland:K-15 | Netherlands:16

Filming Locations:

Florida, USA

Company:

Haxan Films

Trivia:

Was originally planned as a horror/comedy with the title "Probed".

Goofs:

Crew or equipment visible: When Wyatt is telling his friends to return the alien to the farm and Cody begins to get angry, there is a red dot from the camera on Wyatt's white tank-top.

interesting to see that Blair Witch wasn't just a fluke

Eduardo Sanchez, the director of the Blair Witch Project, hasn't done anything after that until this, and while I was sort of expecting to be disappointed, I was pleasantly surprised how good this was. This film begins with some men hunting something in a rural area, and you realize what they're hunting are aliens, and they actually capture one and bring it to a garage owned by a young man named Wyatt. As the film goes along you realize that many years ago this same group of men were captured and examined and even given tracking devices by these same aliens and are out for vengeance. But are they dealing with something more than they can handle? You bet they are. Wyatt also seems to be somewhat of a "wild card" in this, as the aliens are afraid of him for some reason & he is more attuned than the others to what exactly is taking place. This is creepy as hell and the unnamed rural setting really adds to this. There are plenty of pretty gruesome effects and the strange little bone-like "clicker", which is apparently some kind of tracking device inserted into the intestinal tract, is probably one of the weirdest ideas I've ever seen in a horror or science fiction film. This film has an atmosphere of dread throughout, and is definitely worth seeing for fans of creepy horror and sci-fi. 8 out of 10.