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I wish I'd seen this as a kid because it would have been my jam. I found it to be an interesting spectacle of production design, but a pretty obnoxious <PERSON>-type kids adventure, screechy and claustrophobic. 144
I think it's cool that <PERSON> made some gnarly kids movies, but I cannot think of another master that has the peaks and valleys in quality as <PERSON> does. The studio-bound artifice is occasionally beautiful (the hill set behind the house) and several performances are really compelling (<PERSON> in particular), and of course the alien designs are great. I often find that there's a fine line between throwback camp style and bad filmmaking, and this frequently falls into the latter. 252