SKYLINE
USA
2010
92 minutes
A group of Los Angeles friends awakens to a series of strange phenomena leading to a full-scale alien invasion. Low-budget War of the Worlds rip-off, but a smart-looking one made entirely outside the studio system by a crew of visual effects specialists, offering a non-stop array of loud action sequences with nifty trick effects and a surprisingly bleak cliffhanger ending to make up for its non-existent plot and character development.
Starring Eric Balfour, Scottie Thompson, Brittany Daniel, Crystal Reed, Neil Hopkins; with David Zayas; and Donald Faison.
Directors and visual effects supervisors, Colin Strause, Greg Strause; produced by Colin Strause, Greg Strause, Kristian James Andresen, Liam O'Donnell; written by Joshua Cordes and mr. O'Donnell; music by Matthew Margeson; director of photography (Technicolor prints, widescreen), Michael Watson; production designer, Drew Dalton; costume designer, Bobbi Mannix; film editor, Nicholas Wayman Harris; creature designers, Alec Gillis, Tom Woodruff Jr.
An Hydraulx Entertainment/Transmission production, in association with Rat Entertainment and IM Global. (US distributor, Rogue Pictures via Universal Pictures. World sales, IM Global.)
Screened: distributor advance press screening, Cinema City Campo Pequeno 2 (Lisbon), December 17th 2010.
2010
92 minutes
A group of Los Angeles friends awakens to a series of strange phenomena leading to a full-scale alien invasion. Low-budget War of the Worlds rip-off, but a smart-looking one made entirely outside the studio system by a crew of visual effects specialists, offering a non-stop array of loud action sequences with nifty trick effects and a surprisingly bleak cliffhanger ending to make up for its non-existent plot and character development.
Starring Eric Balfour, Scottie Thompson, Brittany Daniel, Crystal Reed, Neil Hopkins; with David Zayas; and Donald Faison.
Directors and visual effects supervisors, Colin Strause, Greg Strause; produced by Colin Strause, Greg Strause, Kristian James Andresen, Liam O'Donnell; written by Joshua Cordes and mr. O'Donnell; music by Matthew Margeson; director of photography (Technicolor prints, widescreen), Michael Watson; production designer, Drew Dalton; costume designer, Bobbi Mannix; film editor, Nicholas Wayman Harris; creature designers, Alec Gillis, Tom Woodruff Jr.
An Hydraulx Entertainment/Transmission production, in association with Rat Entertainment and IM Global. (US distributor, Rogue Pictures via Universal Pictures. World sales, IM Global.)
Screened: distributor advance press screening, Cinema City Campo Pequeno 2 (Lisbon), December 17th 2010.
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