Thirst (2016)

Too much of everything

A Masterpiece!

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

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.

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

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.

What would you get if you take the creature from Alien and give it A Terminator skeleton well other than a lawsuit from James Cameron you get this metal alien. This alien crashes into earth and starts feeding on some young adults in a second chance rehab program in a remote area. One by one they get picked off until they decide to fight back.This one is more action than horror. Looks like they had a decent budget though. The characters are paper thin. I just watched it and I can't remember them.Nothing new or original here. They couldn't even pick an original title!