Altered (2006)

	Directed by: Eduardo Sánchez	COUNTRY USA GENRE Horror/Sci-Fi NORWEGIAN TITLE Altered RUNNING TIME 88 minutes
	Produced by: Robin Cowie Gregg Hale
	Written by: Jamie Nash

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 implied in the title is of a familiarly alienish type in which nasty aliens abduct stupid American youngsters for some reason or another. On a thematic level, Altered is a complete rip-off of 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 cerebral battle between the lead character and a quite fascinating alien life-form. Ultimately, Altered's greatest asset is the rather complex psychology of these aliens, which of course is hidden behind the film's all too conventional narrative structure.