This is a strange and unbalanced movie. It is billed as a horror story, but for over more than an hour nothing even remotely scary happens, in fact: nothing much happens at all. We see two neighboring dysfunctional families struggle with poverty on their dilapidated farms and barren lands, with as a result some sort of depressing social drama, a bit East of Eden-like. And then, in the last 20 minutes, the story totally tilts, all characters successively turn into ferocious killing monsters who go rampant. The end.
What on earth (no pun intended) is supposed to have happened?!? One of the families leases out their land to a gas winning company who starts drilling. There is some innuendo that all this drilling has stirred up some ancient evil looming in the earth, but real answers aren't provided.
It a pity, since the acting of all concerned is pretty good, with Adrienne Barbeau (with impressively aged features) as the unrelenting mater familias, they all had deserved a more convincing and solid story.
What on earth (no pun intended) is supposed to have happened?!? One of the families leases out their land to a gas winning company who starts drilling. There is some innuendo that all this drilling has stirred up some ancient evil looming in the earth, but real answers aren't provided.
It a pity, since the acting of all concerned is pretty good, with Adrienne Barbeau (with impressively aged features) as the unrelenting mater familias, they all had deserved a more convincing and solid story.