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Thirst started out kind of fun. By the 30 minute mark we had a nicely established cast of characters (if a little cookie cutter), in a plausible wilderness scenario and I was enjoying myself ready for them to get picked off one by one by the creature.

The creature itself was satisfying enough. The sfx, while not great, were passable, and the centaur/biomechanical alien design was unique. They showed it a bit too much imo, when they could have hidden some of the dodgier cgi moments with cleverer direction, but overall the beast was well done.

Unless I'm very much mistaken, the director and writer were going for a fun, 80s style horror in the vein of Tremors or The Blob remake. Props for that, because in these days of convoluted plots, a simple people vs monster story is always welcome.

However, after the first act, the film falls apart quickly. The characters become increasingly unlikeable as the movie progresses due to really dumb choices and forced bickering. The director makes the poor decision of killing off the most likable and interesting character first, and so the one guy who might have carried the movie is quickly lost.

Thirst also suffers from the same problem many indies face - ill fitting music. The score might be fine as a standalone composition but it really just doesn't fit with what's going on on screen. It's tension building when it should be exciting, exciting when it should be tension building, ominous when it should be sad... it's almost like the composer was flying blind and trying to score without actually seeing the film. This along with some lackluster directing really kills any sense of fun, atmosphere or excitement that the movie could have had. Shame, because I usually love these kinds of films. 4/10

I wish I could have given this movie more stars as there were some definite highlights, but too many clichés to rank it higher. Now I know that the film was low budget, but the things that took away from the movie were things that don't require money to improve on. A little more creativity would have saved this movie.

The effects were good; some really great explosions mixed with some cool looking wounds & kill scenes. The biomech alien looked really cool, and I loved it's teeth! The acting was also good, with the exception of one character (the asshole was just terrible)& the script was decent, not too many lame one liners or anything like that. The action and pacing were also really well done.

Overdone stereotypical personalities; beer-guzzling hick, geek, smart-ass jerk, come-into your own hero, even down to the token black character made this movie less interesting than it could have been. The Alien was (of course) feeding itself & it's baby, survived a bunch of things that should have killed it & then died by something a little less spectacular but also not anything new for this genre of movie. There was also, not once but twice, the extremely over used (and now eye-rolling bad) 'the car won't start' shtick.

Overall it was pretty good and I had fun watching it. I wouldn't say to avoid it, especially if you're a fan of horror/sci-fi. It definitely has some really good moments. You have to just enjoy it for what it is and not expect it to be an awards contender.

It moves quickly; has good writing in the form of a tight plot and some believable characters; and features interesting Utah landscapes and respectable special effects - pound for dollar (and it's free on SyFy), it's a worthy effort.

The weakness is the inability of the director to control the mood in a perfectly competent manner. This inability is often seen in movies of this genre, and while THIRST doesn't make as many mistakes as other, lesser entries, the mistakes are certainly there.

Here we have a group of people being terrorized and slaughtered by an alien creature, and yet they still have the wherewithal to make bad jokes at random moments and to seem oblivious to the epoch-making mystery of it all.

To see what a grade A production can do with this kind of material, watch the 2011 version of THE THING. After her first horrific encounter with the creature, the young paleontologist gazes up at the stars and says, "I'll never look at them in the same way again..."

An even better example of tight control is the Tom Cruise masterpiece EDGE OF TOMORROW. The humor is always there, but it's always apropos.

I wasn't expecting the world with this one, though I rarely ever do when it comes to lesser-known movies. While it was a passable flick that doesn't really let up once the monster attacks and our doomed group finds itself in peril, what really dooms this movie was just how clichéd it was, from start to finish.

Another movie with a somewhat similar plot (2008's Grizzly Park) really should be no better than this one, but that one at least had a few tricks up its sleeve to stray itself off the all-too-beaten path a bit. There was a movie that used its quirks for its comedic advantage, but here was a movie that didn't do much to stand out from the many other monster movies seen before it. And, sadly, the unoriginality here really hindered the entertainment value of the movie.

If you want to see a mish-mash of several of your favorite monster movies with the all-too-familiar slasher premise, then go ahead and check this one out. It's not bad by any means, just plain and average.

Save yourself! I watched this movie so you don't have to. This movie takes every bad cliche, trope, plot point ever put into a horror film and not only uses it, but actually makes it worse. Yeah, I know, I didn't think it was possible either. I gave it one star because the format requires something but if you consider it a minus 5 you will be much closer to the real rating.

It's early evening out in the desert. A hayseed is driving along in his pickup drinking a beer and listening to country-western. Within moments, in the course of a single song, it's the dead of night. Since all the characters in this movie are cookie-cutter, two- dimensional and stereotypical, and this particular cookie-cutter is the hayseed-truck-driving-beer-drinking-country-western-listening- cookie-cutter, he must do what cookie-cutter stereotypes do. In other words, he must go unload that beer whilst fully illuminated in the high beams of his own truck. And we get to watch. You can already tell this is going to be a winner.

Suddenly the electricals in his truck start to act up. For the rest of the picture we know that this means the space alien/monster is close by. In this movie, this is what passes for foreshadowing.

For no apparent reason, an orb-shaped whatsit crashes in the desert not far from a down-on-its-luck retreat for wayward boys and girls. Nosy hayseed pokes around the impact site too much sees an egg-like object in the open sphere and promptly has himself sucked dry of all of his innards by a space alien/monster. Takes less time than it's taken me to describe it.

The alien/monster is overtly biomechanical with a very heavy emphasis on the mechanical part. About the only part that seems to still be biological is the proboscis/sucker that pops out of his chest to suck out your insides.

Structurally, the alien/monster looks like a love child between a T1000, a centaur, and Johnny Bravo. Everything is so heavily biased towards the front with 4 little short legs that, physics being honored, it would spend all of its time keeled over on its face. But it can outrun a truck. Uh huh.

The only potential reason for its presence, tentatively and halfheartedly put forward by one of the kids whose primary purpose is to be menu items, is that it is here as part of an initial salting operation.

At one point in the movie there's a person glued to a cave wall with a baby monster stuck on its chest winding up for dinner. Thank you all the Alien movies.

To emphasize how tough the alien/monster is, it rather effortlessly survives a full-size helicopter ride smack into a vertical granite wall 200 feet up with subsequent explosion and freefall to the desert floor. And some more fire. And it just comes out with kind of a sunburn.

It finally gets taken out with a pipe bomb. Lucky for us it had that T1000 father. And apparently teenager reprobates make the best ordinance.

Really, this movie is formulaic from front to back. You could substitute any given teenage slasher character for the alien/monster and not miss a step. Unexplained, apparently indestructible antagonist kills (and optionally eats) teenage victims one by one until Hero Teenager, Love Interest and Plucky Nerd are all that's left. Then they do that One Magical Thing that stops the antagonist. The End.

What really kills this movie is the monster design and bottom-of- the-barrel story. The CGI is actually pretty good for a low-budget film. The acting is adequate and middle-of-the-road with two notable exceptions. The Only Looking out for Myself teenager character does some of the worst acting I've ever seen (but at least he doesn't See the Light just prior to dying). The Teenage Hero character, on the other hand, is actually quite good.

Good writing can almost save anything. Bad writing can kill anything for sure.

It was a okay flick. The monster was cheese ball. That mixed/Hispanic girl looked delicious. The parts I hated was why they just didn't kill Trapper right when started be a jackhole. The girl Summer who had issues with guns. Dumb Tom the and the dumb older woman. I really wished the monster skull farked Trapper . It's much better than Amazon's other z grade crappy horror movies.

THIRST is an all-too-familiar low budget enterprise shot in the Utah desert. A group of kids are on their way to a tough boot camp, but instead they come across a meteorite site which has brought with it a CGI alien that appears to be a mixture of different creatures. Mucho low-rent action then takes place as the kids are bumped off one by one by the beast while they attempt to figure out a way to kill it. Aside from a small role for THE WALKING DEAD's Karl Makinen, who is reliably good, this is pretty poor, with unoriginal plotting and uninteresting special effects. Films like this only really work when they're bursting with suspense and you won't find much of that here.

An alien creature made of metal (lol) lands in the desert and kills everyone in it's sight. The idiots shoot the metal creature and of course the bullets just bounce off it but they still keep shooting at her anyway. (it's apparently female and lays eggs in a cave.) The short guy who made himself the leader of the group was annoying as all hell and I was praying he'd get sucked dry by the alien. I would've given it more stars if it did because he grated on my nerves with his terrible acting. The guy who played Trapper was the villain of the group but he was much more likable and entertaining than shorty. The woman who played Claire was a lousy actress too so when the alien sucks her dry you'll surely applaud (and laugh at her amateurish death scene). Overall it's a passable movie if there's nothing better to watch and you want to kill 90 minutes. But a metal alien?! I just don't know what the hell they were thinking with that. If they come from eggs, how the hell are they made of metal?!

You know that a movie is really bad when the only place you can find it is on You Tube. With all due respect tp peoples right to choose, I have to say that anyone who rated this above a 1 is just not telling the truth.The acting is bad, the script is worse and the camera work is really bad. I don't know how this is actually classified as a movie.

While the creature looked cool it's roars where obviously taken from doom 3, alien, and Godzilla Wich really killed this film for me

This movie is one that certainly shines when viewed for what it is: an entertaining action flick. It's shot in such a way that it feels almost like a graphic novel. Quick, dynamic camera moves, heart- pumping action sequences, big explosions, and a nearly invincible baddie combine to provide an entertaining viewing experience.

As with most films in this genre, you won't find much in the way of character development. In some ways, that's part of the fun. I found myself laughing out loud at the gratuitous shotgun-pumping, the Rube-Golberg-esque final sequence, and John Redlinger's character, which takes on the full breadth of the action-hero caricature. Though I didn't feel very invested in any of the individual characters, I found their cohesive whole entertaining.

Many of the technical elements are exemplary, especially when one is aware that this movie was put together by only a handful of people in under four weeks of shooting time. There are a couple of interesting long single-shot sequences and some strikingly composed scenes. True, there are a couple of CG moments that are very rough - low budget does have its drawbacks - but the monster itself looks pretty awesome.

The music is phenomenal.

This is definitely a film to be appreciated for what it is: a straight-up action-thriller flick you'd watch with your mates. It's also a movie that shouldn't be taken too seriously. It's not ground- breaking cinema, but it is certainly good fun, entertaining, and worth a watch.

The one thing you'll notice right away is that the creature looks just this side of Copyright Violation like the Xenomorph from Aliens. It proceeds to pick off the characters one by one, starting with the characters who provide leadership/adult supervision and then working its way down.

Because- again- heavily cliched, the character you spend most of the movie growing to hate gets the most gruesome death because of course he does.

The movie ends like all these movies do, with a final battle where the monster is lured into a trap to kill it, because we wouldn't want to have an original idea, would we?