many element of this movie weren not bad in concept . i can hardly fault the acting and campy style and special effect and or even the plot . unfortunately and the movie fail in direct and edit and which trump all the others . for example and the plot be basically specie and but the writing be horrid and and the character be not believable a a result . be you go to believe that a college kid be still flirt with a space alien after he see tentacle . no . same for the special effect and the tentacle effect could have be great if they slow them down by a factor of 10 or so . again and just bad direct on that . it all make you wonder how the crew burn through $ 5 million while they certainly do not pay the writing and edit crew anything .