This was a weird movie. We start off normally enough with a backstory to the protagonist woman having a child who died of cancer. She is briefly conversing with people some time later about pulling off an apparent robbery attempt, only for her to get a phone call and... she's not a criminal but a government agent. This apparent robbery attempt is never brought up again.
What makes it weird is that virtually every scene has incessant music going through it, before, during, and after most scenes, varying between trance-like German electronica pop and a generic 60s sounding psychedelic rock. This goes on constantly in almost every scene, to such a point that I felt genuinely confused about the production or if this was a European style of moviemaking like a rock opera without the singing.
Sometimes this music greatly aids and enhances the plot, but most of the time it's distracting. Without it, though, the film would be pretty bland.
The plot involves this woman agent, along with a CIA agent played by Ken Foree putting on his best Keith David at times, a Serbian agent guy, and a professor and former astronaut, going to investigate a satellite crash.
When they get there, there's no satellite and no crash site. What we get instead is them being attacked by a feral-looking elderly couple in a house where they have an astronaut lying on a table. A shootout ensues at the start and the Serbian guy is shot and presumably dies. When they get inside, they find the astronaut. The professor somehow recognizes him (despite the helmet glass being utterly opaque) as being a fellow astronaut during a classified moon mission in 1976 where they found a "rift", a purple portal which the astronaut went through and disappeared.
What follows is a colossal waste of a good idea, as they have a brief sequence where the woman finds the Serbian guy alive and walking around, and she herself encounters a rift as well, one in which she sees an astronaut, and the astronaut grabs her and takes her crucifix necklace.
It's soon revealed that the professor was that astronaut, as he tells of a mission going back to the moon in 1976 to try to find the original astronaut, and he remembers reaching into the rift and grabbing the necklace. The rift apparently bridges time and space.
Inexplicably attached to the Rift phenomenon is the idea of "death is dead", in that the people in the house are constantly coming back to life, and CIA Agent guy John Smith discovers that cutting their heads off stops this permanently.
From there, we get a lot of incoherent eerie voices saying stuff like "Nothing" and "Death is Dead", and CIA Agent guy is roaming around killing the owners of the house and trying to kill their teenaged boy with an axe while the female agent runs from him with the boy. He never once threatens her, and frequently catches her, only to give her a stern talking-to and her escaping.
this takes up the majority of the film, complete with the incessant music going through almost every scene, until the end where it's implied that the astronaut escapes and brings the Resurrection to the entire world. Zombies without the zombies. It could've been an incredible idea to explore in a movie, but instead we get a build-up that goes nowhere, and an inexplicable, anemic slasher-movie chase sequence from a hardly dangerous "killer".
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