Grey Skies

Grey Skies

Starring Aaron McPherson, Stacy Jorgensen, Michael Cornacchia, Anne Griffin

Directed by Kai Blackwood

Synopsis:
A group of former college friends meet together in an excluded cabin to spend some quality time together.  While there, dark secrets come to light that threaten to divide the friendship forever, but there's bigger things to be worried about: aliens are stalking the group, and they have nefarious plans for them.

Review:
Alien films are either hit or miss for me.  Some ("Alien, "Aliens," "The Fourth Kind") were exceptional, while most ("Dark Skies") failed to pique my interest.  "Grey Skies" falls along the same lines as its closely named cousin "Dark Skies" in the disappointment department.

First there's the cast.  The typical stock characters: the engaged couple with a dark secret, the gay couple with the overly flamboyant head, the horny stoner couple and the lone girl.  To that end they play their parts brilliantly, but that's not saying much.

Next is the action.  There is none.  The aliens stalk the friends (for whatever reason we're never given), and abduct them one-by-one, turning them into mindless zombie-like people for, yet again, some unknown reason.

Finally is the story.  Nothing comes to a conclusion.  We never get the argument between the couple after the woman finds out about the boyfriend's infidelity.  We never know why the aliens chose that place to abduct people.  We never know what really happened to the friends, or what the aliens turned them into.

Summary:
Better than other low-grade alien movies, but not by much.

My Rating: C-