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Based on a Ray Bradbury story; a professional photographer(Brian Kerwin)returns to his modest home near a tiny desert town, where most of the citizens wishes he stayed away. A lonely boy(Jonathan Carrasco) latches onto him for the attention; and the two witness the landing of an alien craft in the rocky region of the desert. The aliens turn themselves into the images of townspeople. Kerwin must convince evacuation of the town and falls in love with the young boy's mother(Elizabeth Pena). Acting is pretty shallow; the story line is no worse than some others; this movie leaves you feeling that you got shorted on a decent ending. Supporting cast includes: Howard Morris, Dean Norris and Mickey Jones.

Despite its poor reputation, I really wanted to see this sequel that's actually a remake. I'm a big fan of the original It Came from Outer Space. I missed this when it originally aired and these days it's hard to find streaming. Finally I got a copy of an old dvd set that has a bunch of 90s sci-fi tv movies on it. Having just finished the film I can say it's nothing great but also not the compete dud its ratings would suggest. It's a perfectly watchable time-passer. I don't regret watching it.

The cast is nice even if many of the notable character actors that make up the supporting cast aren't given much to work with. Of the main cast, Elizabeth Peña is the best. Brian Kerwin does fine. He's just a little vanilla and the wide-eyed expression does start to remind you of the kazoo kid meme after awhile. The child actor in this is annoying but tolerable when onscreen with Peña. The stock music and poor 90s CG effects are strictly no-budget. The script is nothing special. Not a lot happens in the movie until the final third. Still, I was never really bored which is a testament to the actors I think. They're a mostly likable bunch who did well with what they were given.

The opening was a steal from "Eight-legged Freaks", a film that is everything this one isn't. Stilted and pedestrian are the words that apply - along with others that can't be repeated..! Drifter type returns to his home(?)town, meets up with old friends etc.... the usual annoying kid, single mother,local loudmouth and so on..Bad special effects, alien ship, atmospheric disturbances, (hey, didn't the Director see "Close Encounters"?). Good acting? Good story? Good camera angles? Good cutting? Not here! Do not rent, unless you are sharing the cost and have a lot of beer handy. Do not watch on TV, go and drink a lot of beer instead - you'll enjoy it more!

I've seen this movie more than once. It isn't the greatest scifi flick I've every seen, but it is not a bad movie. The acting is good and the characters are more "real" than most in low budget sci fi. (At least it isn't full of dumb bimbos like so many other low budget scifi.) I especially like Elizabeth Pena. She is a good actress and she does worried single mother as well as any and better than some.

Don't let the nay sayers run you off. See it for yourself and judge it for yourself.

As is common in very bad films plenty of face to face shouting by the macho men of the town to go with the other many instances of bad acting, just about the whole film was very bad acting. Odd that the main character's Toyota had a "GB" sticker on the back of it, were they pretending that it was a Land Rover but couldn't afford one?

This is a very bad film in every way possible and should be avoided as it's not in the category of being too bad that it's good, it's just very bad with zero redeeming features.

Do not waste any of your time watching it as you will never get that time back again.