Review – High Plains Invasion

Here we have yet another ribeye cream pie, a blend of two things that might have been great on their own but don’t come together particularly well. The characters and setting are a watered-down version of Deadwood. The monsters’ appearance and their mining operation strongly resemble H.P. Lovecraft’s Mi-go. The two genres could have worked together (as they did in The Burrowers), but here they don’t. The characters are cartoonish, so it’s hard to care about them when the monsters start chewing them up. And though I suspect this was part of the point, the aliens themselves are just a little too weird. This might get an A for “Attempt,” but not for “Achievement.” Mildly amusing