In the new magnetic field that surrounds the house, radiation poisoning takes over, cell phones go dead, the car won’t start, and each member of the Gardner family disintegrates, both mentally and physiologically. Everyone’s skin grows gnarled and wrinkled as tree bark. Prize fruits and veggies from the garden turn rotten.

Purple mists envelop the atmosphere in a fog the color of a grape popsicle. Morning becomes night, night turns into day. Starring: Nicolas Cage, Joely Richardson, Brendan Meyer and Madeleine ArthurĪs the terror escalates, so does Nicolas Cage’s delirium. Written by: Richard Stanley, Scarlett Amaris Blood pours from all the faucets, and woe to anyone who drinks the water. Theresa chops her fingers off with a butcher knife. The mother is already dying, but after hell breaks out, everything turns malignant. Little brother Jack (Julian Hilliard) simply goes catatonic.

Her brother Benny (Brendan Meyer) escapes any brush with reality by staying stoned. Teenage daughter Lavinia (Madeleine Arthur) spends her time practicing witchcraft and thinking up ways to flee the monotony of country life.

His wife Theresa (Joely Richardson) has cancer and is trying to recover from her latest round of surgeries, but there’s no peace in a house full of flesh-eating E.T.’s. Patriarch Nathan Gardner (Nicolas Cage) already has enough trouble without an invasion of monsters. The rock has barely hit the ground when a mutant organism from outer space infects their minds and bodies, transforming the peaceful rural lives of the Gardners into a horrible nightmare.

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