Alien at the Movies

 A family of five get an eerie welcome to the suburbs in this remake of the 1982 classic horror flick of the same name. It's poor Maddy when the youngest of the Bowen clan gets taken and must be rescued a la Twilight Zone episode "Little Girl Lost". Who are you gonna call? Poltergeist Busters... no parapsychologists & a reality TV celebrity. The dialogue is a bit cheesy and the reaction to this strange situation seems almost nonchalant at times. If you never have seen the original, you might think this is a decent scare. Many scenes track from the original but have been high tech updated. It is not a scary as one would hope.

Alien gives it 2 ½ "weird clown toy with odder pull string device" stars out of 4.