People are holed up in a suburban house as everyone outside is slowly “changed”, taken over by an alien life form or some such—or, as it’s described by the people it happens to, “Perfected”, as they turn into blissed-out hippies who want nothing more than to “change” everyone else.
So, pretty familiar tropes. And this is a zero-budget film, not very well acted or written. But what I liked about this is it was more about the interaction of characters (even if the characters were a little thin), more about the captivity of the people in the house than anything else. There’s certainly almost no action. There’s a longer scene of people just sitting around waiting for dawn, when it’s been announced the last “unchanged” people will be rounded up and killed, than most movies would include.
I liked it for that. Judging by the IMDB reviews, most people absolutely loathed it, I imagine for the same reason. Fair enough.
If this had been an episode of a sci-fi TV show it would have been a cool one. As a movie, eh, the standards are different.
However, it should be said, all else aside the ending is absolutely terrible. The movie just sort of stops at a moment when you expect it to have a denouement. It’s an incredibly weak ending. A good ending might have saved this, for me, if it wasn’t saveable for anyone else.