Shlocktober movie:Phantoms

Right  if you ever herd of Dean Koontz you'll know he's like the K-Mart Stephan King. Not a bad writer but not up to par with the Maine man ((see what I did there)) We''ll a least Kings had more movies of his books made and if you watch Phantoms you can see why. Its a movie with great idea's and a decent cast but badly executed.

Basiclly two sister played buy scream queen Rose McGown and Joanna Going from Wyatt Earp return to their small home town to find all the locals have been killed buy an unseen evil. The local sheriff department arrive to investigate led buy no other then Ben "Batffleck" Affleck. The girls inform them that everyone seems to be dead or missing. The guys decide to hold up in a local hotel rather then getting the fuck outta the creepy ass town Afflecks men are picked off one buy one. Fuck Liev Schreiber has his face eaten the fuck off buy a giant moth.

Meanwhile the FBI hire a writer played buy Peter O'Toole to help them take out this unseem monster at the town. Army turns up Army dies. Affleck, O'Toole and the two sisters are left and have to take out the monster/Evil/Alien/ devil what ever you want it to be.

Phantoms has a good cast and while not at their A game dont phone home their roles either. Affleck was still starting out but he's not bad...its no Gone girl or Good Will Hunting but its decent. Peter O'Toole steals the show as the "expert" moments when people ask how powerful is this thing he replys with "Well it killed the dinosaurs so I say its one tough fucking customer!" Liev Schreibers characters is odd as this cackling nutball who you know is going to pop up in the end as a villain.

Is Phantoms a bad movie....well no...the cast is good, some of the effects are cool but it lacks any real scares and the plot goes a little too big for its boots considering this is a cookie cutter B-movie with a good cast.
But you know what don take my word for it.