Tag: Foreign

Movie Review: Attack the Block

“Attack the Block” on IMDB

Sci-fi/Horror, 88 Minutes, 2011

FINALLY an alien movie with something a little different!  No grey-skinned, multi-limbed, claw-handed, slit-eyed generic E.T.s here!  (OKay… there is one – kinda – but it’s small and gets killed almost immediately.)  The aliens here are jet-black, hairy, indistinct beasts with row upon row of luminescent teeth.  While this relatively simple effect may have been chosen for budget reasons it was used beautifully and to repeatedly great effect.

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