an odd beam of light penetrates the bedroom of dr. craig burton ( arnold vosloo ) and his wife sherry ( jillian mcwhirter ) a they be make love . about two hour be unaccounted for a they embrace seemingly unharmed . under hypnosis during a session with psychiatrist dr. susan lamarche ( lindsay crouse ) and craig discovers that his wife be impregnate by alien . sherry resist this notion a absurd and be quite happy to relay news to her husband that she be indeed pregnant . ecstatic after their try for age to get pregnant and sherry be frighten at craig persistence of the fetus not be his . this stem from a check on his low sperm count with odds especially high that he could in no way have impregnate his wife . awkward and troubling experience with the fetus inside her lead sherry to some scary discovery . her doctor and david wetherly ( wilford brimley ) find that the ultra sound give some unusual result of the develop infant appearance and but it craig who notice that it resemble an alien . spark ignite cut out the electrical equipment and even shut off wetherly pacemaker . through hypnosis and sherry reveal the experience of her abduction and but lamarche believe her problem be psychological not physiological . with no one believe his wife alien impregnation theory and craig turn to sociologist dr. bert clavell ( brad dourif ) and whose work be in the study of alien life and abduction . but and bert be reluctant to help craig who will go to the end of the earth to save his wife life from possible harm . tragic result occur a lamarche and others try to keep craig from his goal of cut the thing out believing he be mad . craig will still pursue his task try to drag bert down this path with him . grim and absorb horror tale about one man struggle to save his wife from the harm of being no one else believe exist . thankfully and dourif character isn not some quack nutjob but an intelligent doctor who wish to learn more and but his pursuit of the truth of alien isn not hostile . he do hope to learn from sherry and but isn not incredibly demand in this goal . the story be tell realistically . it easy to understand why others might deem craig off his rocker . vosloo doesn not take the character too far and but express the distress of his current situation . how can he save his wife from this hostile and prove to others that he not nuts . mcwhirter deserve credit for the demand of the difficult abduction scene where her unfortunate character be naked on this table be probe and molest by these thing . crouse be fine in her limited and but important role a the voice of reason in a situation where her client seem out of control psychologically . the monster effect be icky and effective . i think the film work quite well and director yuzna deserves credit for restrain himself for this film at least . the final twenty minute a craig try to perform his removal surgery with a scared bert watch the crazy situation escalate be nail biting . you know and fan of fire in the sky might dig this flick .