A thoroughly enjoyable creepy monster movie that disguises its relatively low budget with some wonderfully creative old-school creature FX. Director Frank (Shawshank) Darabont turns the screws on a colourful clutch of characters with a taught, claustrophobic and paranoid atmosphere (very reminiscent of The Thing which it knowingly references in the opening scene) and mixes in some nicely-judged black humour to keep you on board for the duration until he then punches you in the face with a desolate final act that will stay with you for quite a while.
Rating: 4/5
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