Terminal Invasion
Year: 2002
Director: Sean S. Cunningham
Written by: Lewis Abernathy, John Jarrell, Robinson Young
Threat: Aliens
Weapon of Choice: Airplane Propellor
Based upon: nothing
IMDb page: 
Terminal InvasionYear: 2002 Director: Sean S. Cunningham Written by: Lewis Abernathy, John Jarrell, Robinson Young Threat: Aliens Weapon of Choice: Airplane Propellor Based upon: nothing IMDb page: |
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The tyranist's thoughts
We love Bruce Campbell, but then I think everyone does, so when a buddy handed
me a tape of this one I couldn't pass it up. It might be a little bold, but I think that the
Sci-Fi channel is coming up with some of the best horror out there for its originals.
Not that this one was produced by Sci-Fi, but I can't imagine many other stations
showing it at all.
A couple of penal system officers are transporting some kind of mass-murderer (played
by your hero and mine, Bruce) through a blizzard. Well, some hot coffee gets spilled
and they end up wrapped around a tree. The nearest structure happens to be a rural
airport in which a bunch of disgruntled people are snowed in. Yea! Guess what happens
next.
The situation is derivative, the dialogue is campy, the effects mediocre, but I had a lot
of fun watching this one. Gimme a good B-movie with Bruce in it and I'll take it anyday
over some of the crap they're pushing in the theatres now.
There really isn't much to say about this one since it is a pretty straight-forward, made
for TV affair, but if you get a chance, check it out. You might enjoy it.
Total Skulls: 9
| Sequel | ||
| Sequel setup | ||
| Rips off earlier film | ||
| Horror film showing on TV/in theater in movie | ||
| Future celebrity appears | ||
| Former celebrity appears | ||
| Bad title | ||
| Bad premise | ||
| Bad acting | ||
| Bad dialogue |  |
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| Bad execution | ||
| MTV Editing | ||
| OTS | ||
| Girl unnecessarily gets naked | ||
| Wanton sex | ||
| Death associated with sex | ||
| Unfulfilled promise of nudity | ||
| Characters forget about threat | |
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| Secluded location | |
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| Power is cut | ||
| Phone lines are cut | |
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| Someone investigates a strange noise | |
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| Someone runs up stairs instead of going out front door | ||
| Camera is the killer | ||
| Victims cower in front of a window/door | ||
| Victim locks self in with killer | ||
| Victim running from killer inexplicably falls | ||
| Toilet stall scene | |
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| Shower/bath scene | ||
| Car stalls or won't start | ||
| Cat jumps out | ||
| Fake scare | ||
| Laughable scare | ||
| Stupid discovery of corpse | ||
| Dream sequence | ||
| Hallucination/Vision | ||
| No one believes only witness | ||
| Crazy, drunk, old man knows the truth | ||
| Warning goes unheeded | ||
| Music detracts from scene | ||
| Death in first five minutes | ||
| x years before/later | ||
| Flashback sequence | ||
| Dark and stormy night | |
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| Killer doesn't stay dead | |
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| Killer wears a mask | ||
| Killer is in closet | ||
| Killer is in car with victim | ||
| Villain is more sympathetic than heroes | ||
| Unscary villain/monster | ||
| Beheading | ||
| Blood fountain | ||
| Blood spatters - camera, wall, etc. | ||
| Poor death effect | ||
| Excessive gore | ||
| No one dies at all | ||
| Virgin survives | ||
| Geek/Nerd survives | ||
| Little kid lamely survives | ||
| Dog/Pet miraculously survives | ||
| Unresolved subplots | ||
| "It was all a dream" ending | ||
| Unbelievably happy ending | ||
| Unbelievably crappy ending | ||
| What the hell? |