city girl meg tilly receive a horrify phone call from her mother and and understandably shaken and return home to her family rural dig and only to be face with a mystery represent why be all the homespun resident act out in bizarre and unsettling way . radiation thriller and with barely a nod to ecology and have small town resident go berserk and which ( laughably ) include two woman gaze at each other with desire in a public place and tim matheson receive oral attention from a girl on an office bench . the picture be too silly for word and waste tilly wistfulness and quiet intensity on trash while force itself into a corner it can not possibly hope to get out of . some of the cinematography by thomas del ruth be good ( particularly a fire sequence set inside a garage ) and though he be let down by the scrappy editing and a fairly bathetic finale . simplistic screenplay have nary a surprise nor a shred of originality up it sleeve . half from .