Ah yes Threshold another guilty pleasure film from the Sci-Fi channel that premiered in 2003.
So we start off in the orbit of earth where an astronaut is making repairs on their shuttle-craft from the outside. Suddenly a cloud of space-dust approaches the shuttle-craft. With the astronaut still outside a tiny meteor from the space-dust penetrates his suit and embeds into his arm. After the shuttle returns to earth the injured astronaut is taken to a hospital where things take a turn for the weird. His injured arm starts to grow weird cocoons which outcomes dozens of moths. A medical officer Dr. Jerome "Geronimo" Horne (played by Nicholas Lea) and an entomologist Dr. Savannah Bailey (played by Jamie Luner) are called in to examine the body of the astronaut. They discovered alien DNA which came from the tiny meteor was genetically altering the astronaut into some type of human with insect characteristics and an extra set of insect arms. Later at a neighborhood in Houston; the space moths swarmed on the unexpected Frank Hansen (played by Steve Bacic) infecting him with the alien DNA. So now the infected Frank goes on the search for other infested humans to begin their new evolution. Geronimo and Savannah came across an infected woman who was reported missing. They examine the body after the infected woman died of starvation and discovered she had a B-negative blood type.
So it's established that the alien moths can infect people who have B-negative blood types while the people who don't are lunch. That's right if you're not B-negative you're basically food not just to the space moths but to the infected as well. So infected Frank sneaks into a blood bank and gathers a list of people with B-negative blood types in Houston. Obviously the film pads out with the infected gathering people with B-negative blood types. Geronimo and Savannah propose to the government that they have to find where the infected are nesting and destroy them. Instead of you know nuke the site from orbit. Let's face it that kind of response is never the perfect solution in most sci-fi films. Because otherwise the planet would already be F'ed up the ass a thousand times over. Anyway they must destroy the nest before the infected reach the "threshold" population. So Geronimo and Savannah manage to find the nest at a cargo ship. They've encounter some resistance from the infected but they managed to cause the ship's engine to go into overload. Ultimately causing the ship to explode killing all of the space moths and the infected...or did it? Yes there are a few space moths that survived the explosion and yet no sequel has ever been thought up. And trust me its better that way.
My Final Verdict: This film has that 60s sci-fi feel that really tickles me in a good way. There's not all that much of creature F/X except for the space moths. But for the infected they keep the F/X simple and not all that over-the-stop and honestly I prefer it that way for a film like Threshold. I mean would you really watch this film if the infected turned into poorly CGI insect creatures? So I fully recommend watching this with some enthusiasm. Let's see October's coming real soon so to celebrate Halloween I'm reviewing 5 films through the month of October starting with Dog Soldiers. Stay tuned.
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