|  USA
/ Hallmark / 2x120 minute
episodes / 2006
Scifi drama
serial. You can feel it. Something isn’t right with the world. You can
see it. People are acting stranger than usual. You can hear it. It’s
coming from beneath the earth. Now you’re going to fear it. Because
they’re here…
Three years ago, a team of astronaut miners completed a daring space
expedition. In hyper-sleep they embarked on their journey home, but by
the time the craft returned to Earth, their commander had gone
mad—taking a terrible secret with him to a heavily guarded state
asylum for the insane. Today, archeologist Lloyd Walker (Gil Bellows, Ally
McBeal) and entomologist Marianne Winters (Suleka Mathew, Battlestar
Galactica) are among a select group of people who are questioning a
possible link between the tragic space mission, the mystery of the
commander’s madness, and a series of bizarre disappearances and
strange accidents in San Francisco. The answer arrives when they stumble
upon an underground colony of insect-like creatures harvesting human
bodies for survival.
Liz (Daryl Hannah, Kill Bill, now an employee of the mayor’s
office, knows all too well the secret of the aliens. She is their Earth
Queen. The city’s highest representatives are her consorts. With
police and government officials taken over by aliens masquerading as
humans, Lloyd and Marianne realize they can trust no one, except
Phillips (Campbell Scott, The Exorcism of Emily Rose), the one
man who knows the ultimate goal of the aliens. He also holds the
mysterious key to their defeat—it’s in his blood. He is the
commander himself—the sole mission survivor being held as prisoner.
Lloyd and Marianne must find him before he becomes a victim of an
unearthly experiment. As more human bodies are hijacked and as the
Selenites horrifying harvest threatens to reach end-of-the-world
proportions, a battle royale for ultimate survival between human and
insect begins.
A kind of high
budget take on Nigel Kneale's Quatermass and the Pit.
cast
Daryl Hannah as
Elizabeth Quinlan / Campbell Scott as William Phillips / Gil
Bellows as Lloyd Walker / Suleka Mathew as Marianne Winters / Serge
Houde as Korshaft / Beau Starr as Oliver Halden / Patrick Gilmore as
Spence / Tygh Runyan as Nick / Tina Milo as Bella / William MacDonald as
Cruikshank / Mike Kopsa as Dalton / Eric Breker as James Bowen / Ryan
McDonell as Jonathan Ellis / Sophie Alden as Sally / Michael
Bardach as Homeless man / Denis Simpson as Chief Administrator / Robert
Turner as Lieutenant / Joseph Cassini as Jake Roth / Cameron Forbes as
Clerk / Mark Baur as Supervisor / John Mann as Room 86 Clerk / Graham
Andrews as Workman / Michael Montano as School Boy / Dean Redman as EMT
/ Jenny Mitchell as Teacher / Tim O'Halloran as Hospital Guard / Michael
Jonsson as Foot Patrol Cop / Ian Thompson as Motor Cycle Cop / Tomas
O'Dwyer as Bus Driver / Mary Black as Old Lady on Bus / Jeff Chubey as
Bus Cop / Greg Michaels as Czarski / David Lovgren as Collins / Jerry
Wasserman as Markley / Mark Pawson as Newsman / Nathan Deveaux as Paul /
Eric Breker as James Bowen / Robert Turner as Large Cop / Cam Chai as
City Hall Reception / Everick Golding as Lieutenant / Tom Heaton as
Casey / Christine Barrie as Soccer Mom / Greg Scott as Cop in Hall /
Gina Doty as Unemployment Clerk
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