Altered (2006)

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Wyatt	Adam Kaufman
Cody	Paul McCarthy-Boyington	½
Duke	Brad William Henke	½
Hope	Catherine Mangan
Sheriff Henderson	James Gammon	½
Otis	Mike C. Williams	½

Review

Eduardo Sánchez, who was one half of the duo behind The Blair Witch Project, is back with his second feature, entitled Altered. The alteration which is implied in the title is of a familiarly alienish type in which nasty aliens abduct stupid American youngsters for some reason or the other. On a thematic level, Altered is a complete rip-off from nearly half a century of sci-fi/horror literature, but what Sánchez actually manages to accomplish here, after a badly acted and very unengaging intro, is a cleverly executed and surprisingly mind-based battle between the Adam Kaufman character and the quite fascinating alien life-form. Ultimately, the strength of Altered is the rather complex psychology of these aliens, which of course is hidden behind the film's all too conventional narrative structure.