Pregnant women seem to be disappearing in a small town in Texas as an author and his pregnant wife happen to make a pit stop in that same exact town. In turn his wife disappears and he's stuck in town looking for her and an explanation on what the hell exactly happened.
Now the movie starts with a girl on her way to her parents gabbing on the phone with a friend when suddenly police lights come on. Like all good friends do the girl on the phone tells her not to trust that it's a real cop because someone they know had been raped and left for dead prior by someone posing as a cop, so she calls the highway patrol to verify if it is in fact, a real cop. Instructed to pull over and lock her doors until the operator can verify the squad car she gets a moment of terror when she finds that there's no police in the area, so she tries to drive off but her car is mysteriously chained down and she goes nowhere! Now terrified she looks out into the lightning filled sky when a huge blue glowing light covers her and in one last scream everything goes black and the credits roll.
Next were introduced to Henry and Jill who are on their way to Florida to promote Henry's newly finished book, by the request of his agent, to get him a little coverage to try to sell the book. So half way between California and Florida they end up outside Waco Texas, an area where amazingly I'm personally from, which was a trip. Anyways we find that Jill is, in fact pregnant, and at a moment she needs a breather so Henry pulls over on the side of the road while Jill jumps out to get some fresh air. As Henry goes back to his car to get something he turns around and she's GONE, vanished, and being that they were pulled over by a field with no cover, it's just strange. So scared Henry goes to the closest town to a pub where he finds that the only cop in the area won't be in until the next day. After running into a couple of backwoods punks, Toby and Sweet Lilly, Henry heads over to a motel for the night.
 
That night Toby and Sweet Lilly, with the help of a couple other family members, rob a donut shop and have a little fun. In the midst of all the fun Sweet Lilly, covered in yellow and black paint, sees a blue light herself and vanishes without a trace. So now Henry and Toby have something in common, lost loved ones, so they go on a search for the girls that leads them into something INSANE and unnerving...
Honestly, I'm kinda on the wall with this movie, first of all the story jumps around too much and doesn't explain a lot, especially what the hell the blue light is or who was in the cop car at the beginning of the movie. Aside from that Toby breaks out in song and dance TWICE in the movie which really terrified me, being that the voice dubbed over his for the singing scenes was terrible. Aside from that there's a lot of originality in this move tossed off with annoying humour that really isn't all that funny.
Not really a movie for gore hounds or seasoned horror flick watchers, this is more for indie fans with a tolerance for stupidity.
A little good, a little bad and a little ugly; this movie tosses you around like a rag doll. In all this movie really needs a lot of work to be a hit, but it doesn't piss me off like most indie films so I'm fine with that.
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MOVIE YEAR: 2007
DIRECTOR: Matt A. Cade
WRITING CREDITS: Matt A. Cade
GENRE: Horror
CAST: Mark Reeb, Fritz Beer, John Mense
COUNTRY: USA
RUNTIME: 0 min
RATING: 5/10
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