Excellent adaptation.

disgusting, overrated, pointless

This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Arnold Vosloo plays Craig Burton, a doctor who when making love to his wife one night experiences an "alien abduction" and begins to suspect that his wife (Jillian McWhirter) who became pregnant on that night is really carrying an alien baby, and he goes to great lengths to prevent the alien baby from coming to term ending up with him hacking her to pieces trying to get the alien out.That's it. I've summarized the whole film, and now you don't need to see it. Why? It's possibly one of the stupidest things I've ever seen. The acting is some of the worst I've ever seen, with Vosloo putting in a one-note, flat performance that evokes Tommy Wiseau, and the supporting cast hamming it up in an attempt to be emotional but just coming off as plain funny. The special effects are hilarious. When the "grey aliens" turn up, they look like unconvincing rubber blow up dolls being waved around, and the "alien experimentation" scene where McWhirter is impregnated by aliens is laughable as she writhes around screaming among a bunch of fake looking "alien tentacles". Also, Vosloo being "floated off" his wife in bed is done in a really daft way, and just adds to the naffness of the whole thing. I watched it to the end and derived some amusement from the poor acting and special effects, but this is not one of those "so bad it's good" films, it's just bad. For a better "alien abduction" film try CBS's 1991 miniseries Intruders, the bizarre Christopher Walken flick Communion or find the alien abduction flashback sequence from Fire in the Sky online, all of which offer better special effects, a better plot line (in the case of the Fire in the Sky alien sequence, a ten minute scene is better than 70 mins of this) and are just better entertainment.Vosloo went on to become Imhotep in The Mummy, which mostly just required him to grin in an evil manner and let the CGI do the acting which was a marked improvement over his performance in this film. I think Lindsay Crouse, who plays Vosloo's shrink, went on to have some minor bit parts in some TV series, and the rest of them appear to have gone on to have small parts in direct-to-video horror and action films that populate the bargain buckets of the country's supermarkets.Avoid.

An odd beam of light penetrates the bedroom of Dr. Craig Burton(Arnold Vosloo)and his wife Sherry(Jillian McWhirter)as they are making love. About two hours are unaccounted for as they embrace seemingly unharmed. Under hypnosis during a session with psychiatrist Dr. Susan Lamarche(Lindsay Crouse), Craig discovers that his wife was impregnated by aliens. Sherry resists this notion as absurd and is quite happy to relay news to her husband that she is indeed pregnant. Ecstatic after their trying for ages to get pregnant, Sherry is frightened at Craig's persistence of the fetus not being his..this stems from a check on his low sperm count with odds especially high that he could in no way have impregnated his wife. Awkward, troubling experiences with the fetus inside her leads Sherry to some scary discoveries..her doctor, David Wetherly(Wilford Brimley)finds that the ultra-sound gives some unusual results of the developing infant's appearance, but it's Craig who notices that it resembles an alien! Sparks ignite cutting out the electrical equipment, even shutting off Wetherly's pacemaker! Through hypnosis, Sherry reveals the experience of her abduction, but Lamarche believes her problem is psychological not physiological. With no one believing his wife's alien impregnation theory, Craig turns to sociologist Dr. Bert Clavell(Brad Dourif), whose work is in the studies of alien life and abduction. But, Bert is reluctant to help Craig who will go to the ends of the earth to save his wife's life from possible harm. Tragic results occur as Lamarche and others try to keep Craig from his goals of "cutting the thing out" believing he is mad. Craig will still pursue his task trying to drag Bert down this path with him.Grim, absorbing horror tale about one man's struggle to save his wife from the harm of beings no one else believes exist. Thankfully, Dourif's character isn't some quack nutjob but an intelligent doctor who wishes to learn more, but his pursuit of the truth of aliens isn't hostile..he does hope to learn from Sherry, but isn't incredibly demanding in this goal. The story is told realistically..it's easy to understand why others might deem Craig off-his-rocker. Vosloo doesn't take the character too far, but expresses the distress of his current situation. How can he save his wife from this hostiles and prove to others that he's not nuts? McWhirter deserves credit for the demands of the difficult abduction scenes where her unfortunate character is naked on this table being probed and molested by these things. Crouse is fine in her limited, but important role as the voice of reason in a situation where her clients seem out of control psychologically. The monster effects are icky and effective. I think the film works quite well and director Yuzna deserves credit for restraining himself for this film at least. The final twenty minutes as Craig tries to perform his "removal surgery" with a scared Bert watching the crazy situation escalate is nail-biting.You know, fans of "Fire in the Sky" might dig this flick.

***SPOILERS*** Trying to have a baby for over a year Dr. Craig Burton, Arnld Vosloo,gets the good news from his wife Sherry, Jillian McWhirter, that she finally got pregnant and the two look forward to the blessed event. It's later when Craig starts to have a number of self-doubt if he's in fact the father and if the baby that Sherry is carrying is in fact human at all. Something about Sherry's conception and pregnancy just doesn't seem to be right to him.Getting a test on his sperm count it reveals that it's impossible for Craig to have children and later Sherry, with under two months into her pregnancy, begins to suffer violent spasms as if the baby is about to be born. Craig is also a bit worried about what happened when the union between him and Sherry happened that resulted in her pregnancy September 20. It was on that very evening that he had strange experience of being paralyzed and Sherry abducted with two hours of his life completely erased from his memory.One of the many alien abduction movies that were inspired by books like the very first reported alien abduction story of Barney and Betty Hill in 1961 in the ground-breaking book "Incident at Exeter: The Interrupted Journey" and followed by scores of other books on the subject like "Commmunion" and "Missing Time". The movie "Progeny" takes the story-line of what happened to both Craig and Sherry Burton in what seems like a sitting on the fence direction where you don't know for sure if what Craig, and later Sherry, believe happened to them really happened? We get to see in a number of flashbacks with Sherry being abducted and lifted into the air and on to an alien spaceship.It's there where she's examined and impregnated by the alien's, who look like a bunch newborn tadpoles. Every time were about to have some proof if this really happened and if Sherry's baby is an alien we get sidetracked with the evidence evaporating into space, due what were lead to believe alien interference and manipulation. In one case the only person who could confirm Sherry's unusual condition Dr. David Wetherly, Wilford Brilmey, suddenly goes into cardiac arrest and eventually dies on the operating table never regaining consciousness!Craig starts to go mad as he feels that Sherry's life is in danger and in desperation gets in touch with alien abduction specialist Dr. Bert Clavell (Brad Dourif) who you would think would be the the person, with the big build up that he gets in the movie, who finally brings Sherry back to normal but the exact opposite happens.Before Dr. Calvell could really do anything Craig takes charge of what to do with Sherry and just uses Dr. Carvell as a gofer to get a camcorder and videotape an operation he has planned, an abortion, for Sherry. Dr. Calvell quickly realizes that Craig is crazy as he commandeers the comatose Sherry out of her hospital room and takes over the operation unit in the hospital. It's there that Craig preforms one of the sickest and most gruesome hatched or cut-up jobs that you'll ever see in a movie. With blood gushing all over the place even splattering the lens of Dr. Carvell's camcorder with him nauseated at what's going on he just about had enough when Craig, who's by now completely off his rocker. Craig now decides to flat-line Sherry, or put Sherry into some kind of simulated death trace, in order to get the alien fetus to leave her womb! That has the now sick scared and disgusted Dr. Carvell, at what the crazy Craig is doing, runs out of the operating room and out of the movie in a total state of panic.Craig's insane plan to save Sherry turns into a disaster with her dying on the operation table and him ending up in jail for the rest of his life in her, what else could you call it, murder. Were given another surprise at the end of the movie with Craig doing a disappearing act in his prison cell; was he also abducted by the aliens to be experimented on like his late wife Sherry was?The movie never makes the point if Sherry was indeed abducted and impregnated by aliens. After a while all that what were given to believe about her experience with aliens from outer space seems to be just a figment of her husbands wild and insane imagination. With the mind-blowing cut-up job that Craig did on her at the end of the movie you just lost all sympathy for him and felt like everyone else in the film that he deserves everything he gets by getting the book thrown at him in a court of law.

Bearable but kind of a mediocre flick. While this is mildly watchable, this is just a so so time. This is completely passable stuff with a mediocre script that has lots of pointless scenes that don't make much sense and i was confused throughout Pass ** out of 5