Aliens are back on Earth in this new trailer for the upcoming horror sci-fi hybrid Extraterrestrial, and they’re not bringing cookies.
The newest feature from the filmmaking duo The Vicious Brothers (Colin Minihan and Stuart Ortiz) is due to crash land in theaters right in time for Thanksgiving (what’s with all these horror movies coming out in November? I want to see these things before Halloween, not after…), and Yahoo! Movies scored the brand new official trailer to help prepare you for the fight of your life.
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before – a group of teens head to an isolated cabin in the woods to party and do all the other stuff teenagers do. While there, an alien craft crashes in the forest nearby. The kids investigate, encounter an alien, and kill it. The aliens then go all Marked for Death on the kids and it’s a fight for survival as Michael Ironside veers into The X-Files territory by explaining the government has known about the aliens for years, and the kids broke the peace treaty between humanity and the guys from outer space by killing the little gray man.
Extraterrestrial is The Vicious Brothers’ second directorial feature. The duo generated lots of positive buzz in the horror community with the release of their 2011 indie film, Grave Encounters, which followed a paranormal investigation reality show inside a supposedly haunted mental asylum. The film heralded the arrival of two interesting new voices in the genre – filmmakers who had ideas of their own, but weren’t afraid to reshape classic genre tropes in the process. The tandem also wrote the script for Grave Encounters 2 – a disappointing sequel in every sense of the word – but they passed the directorial duties off to John Poliquin on that one.
That ability to re-utilize the familiar conventions of various genres looks to be present and accounted for in the new clip, which evokes memories of movies like Fire in the Sky, Cabin in the Woods, and pretty much every other evil alien film released in the past few years (including Jake West’s Evil Aliens, most likely).
Extraterrestrial debuted at this year’s Tribeca Film Fest. Early reaction to the film has been mixed, but it’s got Michael Ironside in it, so I’m totally onboard. Ironside is joined by Brittany Allen, Freddie Stroma, and Melanie Papilia.
Have a peek at the trailer and let us know what you think. In the meantime, keep watching the skies…
