Sightings

Surprisingly well done for an indie flick about bigfoot aliens. A movie like this could've gone way wrong and been super cheesy. This had a Hitchcockian feel to it. Simple, basic production with a focus on human characters. No flashy, gimmicky SFX. Refreshing approach to the sci-fi/horror genre.

Some good performances, a brooding atmosphere and some effectively creepy background music help this film make a lot out of brief glimpses and not much action. BTW, the deer urine was a good idea, the aloe not so much...If such things were real.

I liked it. I recommend. Funny at times. Good suspesnse

Really just don't. You know it's bad when the filmmakers created fake accounts just to boost ratings by giving 10 star reviews. This is a solid D movie. Has a cool cover image and interesting take on the alien abducting trope but thats about it. Acting is mostly forced without much emotion to it. It has zero humor and no horror. THE WORST PART is the soundtrack. It does that cheesy "suspense" music thing for the entire film, it doesn't stop even for a moment. You can't help but notice it in every scene as it has a odd funny noise like a ghost saying woo woo wo. Good example on what not to make a creepy noise sound like. The filming itself was fine and they tried as best they could but just didn't have much to work with. This actually could have been a better movie if the budget was higher. I'd love to see this films creature concept be done as a big action movie.

Believe it or not, the acting isn't what makes this movie hard to watch. They did their job for the most part, making amateur mistakes and a few scenes that were overdone, but passable. (There are a few exceptions, like the reporter with the hamfisted Spanish accent.) The direction carries a bit more of the burden, making poor choices like having a daytime scene where there's no excuse to keep the camera off the thing all the characters are staring at.

In the case of this movie, the director is also the writer, which is where Sightings blew its chances of being a watchable movie. Like his other movies, director Dallas Morgan saved money by writing the script himself. His direction is improving, but his writing has a long way to go. Even the best actors are confined by the limitations of the words they are given to say. If Morgan had invested more in this one element of film production the result would have been much better.