the audience applauded

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

After stealing money from her gangster boyfriend, Amy (Gidley), is on the run. She decides to hide out at an isolated cabin in the Minnesota woods until she figures out her next move. Her cat turns up dead and Amy begins to see glimpses of tails that look like they are from large lizards slip around corners and behind furniture. She seeks help from Marshall (Bossell), a biologist working in the area, to help her exterminate the critters. Soon they find out that they have a lot more on their hands than some pesky lizards. These mutations have grown large with sharp teeth and the ability to spit poison. This movie is a basic set up as a mini monster movie. It features two people in an isolated cabin doing battle with the deadly over-sized lizards. There is some fun to be had with some gooey gore that ranges from cheesy to decent. Director Tim Boxell's pace is very leisurely. This leaves long stretches of boredom in between the action with the monsters. With her short blond hair, Pam Gidley looks a lot like Sharon Stone and fortunately her acting is respectable. The film is decent, but would have benefited greatly with some jump scares and more attention to suspense.

A woman goes to her families cabin in the woods to get some free time, and hide away from her dangerous boyfriend with thousands of dollars she's stolen from him. She gets there only to find the old cabin is infested with a new breed of killer lizards. She and her new scientist friend must try to get out alive.I watched this for the second time and rather enjoyed it. It was set in the woods and also had moments set in the snow and that's two angles I always like seeing in horror films. It did have many of the clichés, that made it cute, like the old man telling her to get out of those woods and also the nice cozy little general store.Direction was OK and the little creatures were just pretty normal looking lizards, but they were mean and caused a lot of bloody messes, which is good. The music was all from a group called PLAN 9 and they did an OK job too. I really liked the acting in this movie especially from Tim Boswell.I recommend this to anyone who likes the creepy movies set in the woods or enjoys movies about strange little monstrous animals.5/10

The horror movie comes to the table with a promising idea -- a new species of lizard runs amok in a small, snowbound Minnesota town (though, inexplicably, this movie was supposedly filmed in New Zealand). Every time one of the dies, the species develops a cockroach-like immunity to that form of death. Therein lies the problem. They only seem to develop that immunity for one scene, then you can kill them any way you want again. Had they stayed consistent with that immunity theme, this could have been a pretty creative, entertaining horror movie. But the producers seemed instead to opt for the "handful of people trying to avoid being killed by monsters while trapped in a storm" direction for this flick, which has been done to death. I also kept expecting the lizards to grow to Komodo-dragon sizes by movie's end, which never happened and was kind of disappointing. And the scene where Uri bursts in to get his cut of the stolen money was absolutely asinine. You could have left that 20 minutes on the cutting room floor and it probably would have improved the overall content. I give this movie a 3, largely because it could have been a uniquely entertaining horror film but they completely dropped the ball.

"Aberration" is often trashed by horror fans,but this film is certainly well-made and fairly entertaining.Pamela Gidley plays a vacationing young girl who comes back to the cabin of her childhood.Unfortunately she begins to hear strange noises throughout the house and her cat is killed.A wandering research scientist working the area meets up with her and they both fight with mutant geckos."Aberration" is clearly not as bad as it's reputed to be.There is a lot of action and plenty of gore,so I wasn't disappointed.The monsters are cheesy looking,but generally they are convincing enough.So if you enjoy watching low-budget horror films,give this one a look.7 out of 10.