the_darnn
I honestly can't think of anything more boring than this movie. Literally. Nothing comes to mind. I can't stress this enough.It's supposed to be a horror movie. But nothing happens. There's an ominous van that goes around with a radar dish poking out of it, shooting rays at people. One woman gets blasted with them, and proceeds to... sleep in all day. Then, once fifty five minutes of the movie have passed and nothing aside from the boring, boring life of a small town was shown, the woman beings to bang her head against the wall. Color me terrified.Choice bits of dialogue:"Did you take half of my super sandwich?" "What sandwich?""So you're saying a strange humming knocked out your TV? What did it sound like?" "Hummmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!"
Michael O'Keefe
This Tyler Tharpe Sci-Fi flick flat-lines rapidly in accordance with the story not making much sense and dragging on and on. RETURN IN RED is a little-known military test classification for serious and fatal experiment results. Gloom and doom hangs over a small rural town that has no stop lights, shopping mall, cable TV...let alone Internet service. The residents unknowingly are guinea pigs in an experiment where electromagnetic frequencies play havoc on the human brain. This is a strange mesh of Sci-Fi and horror. One question...what in the hell was the purpose of the 'factory'? It appeared to just be a garage producing or processing nothing. Besides having an irritating whistle it was the site of a bloody gore-fest. Starring: J.J. Huckin, Amy Paliganoff, Michael Ray Reed and Becky Niccum.
ehabich
I had to watch this movie in two sittings after falling asleep after the first 45 minutes.What kept me going were some positive user comments in the IMDb, however, after watching further minutes of this film being wasted on endless shots of walls and doorknobs I was galvanized to write this comment.What did come across quite well in this picture was the portrayal of dull working class life in America and the depiction of deadbeat contemporary steel manufacturing, which may not be what the film maker intended primarily.The filmmaker needs to work more on the element of surprise for startling horror, like in "The Descent" for instance.
Rabh17
I give it a half n half because despite the great acting and atmospherics, I kinda felt put off. I mean, that rural town and it's people were NICE. There were no bad people who you felt should "Get whacked". No Philandering husband. No venal prostitutes. No crooked sheriff. Just hardworking, ordinary likable folks. So the ending just left me angry and unhappy and puzzled. If you like monsters or monstrous people and events like Texas Chainsaw Massacre, you may like this. But if you don't like hopeless secret governmental conspiracy plots, the movie may leave you with a bad taste.
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