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Annie Burch (Steffie Neubauer) is the program director and screener for "Under the Stars" radio talk show out of Gulf Breeze, Florida. Sol Worthington (Bob Glazier ) is the host of the program that generally deals with aliens. Annie provides a skeptical view point. Annie has been losing time. There is a meteor shower and a strange hollow mechanical noise being heard at certain locations in the world. A frantic caller gives us an answer to what is happening that doesn't include diabetes or tinnitus.

The movie had an interesting premise and presentation. The characters didn't appeal to me. We really didn't know much about Annie. A subplot from the Arch Corporation would have been interesting with some decent special effects. The dialogue needed to go up to a higher level.

Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity.

So reading other reviews and the summary, I guess there's supposed to be another part to this? But that's not at all implied in the film I saw.

I'm all for independent, low budget movies and this one had an interesting premise but unfortunately it did not deliver. I can handle bad acting if there's a good plot, and crappy plots if there's decent acting. This was bad on both counts.

For the plot, there's never any real explanation as to what is going on but basically it's just Invasion of the Body Snatchers but at a radio station instead of a military base.

The acting though is what made it nearly unwatchable. They seem to subscribe to the school of thought that the only way to show fear is to hyperventilate. Seriously, the last twenty minutes or so are nothing but the main character wandering around breathing like she just hiked Mt. Everest.

The music did not fit the tone of the film, to the point of being distracting. All of this combined to leave me feeling physically aggravated while watching it. Not how I want a movie to make me feel.

The average rating for this when I looked was 3.3 but experience has taught me that IMDB rankings don't mean much as do this turned out to be such a time. The story is very good. The cinematography for an Indy is very good. The script is good. The acting is a bit woeful I admit but looking past that overall it's an interesting venture. It's obvious from the start what is going on as the director leaves enough clues but the ending can go one of two ways. Thankfully it wasn't a happy ending. I'm glad I watched through the credits. I normally don't but by doing that it gave a bit of closure. If you like scifi without ray guns etc this may be for you.