Stranded (2013 film)

Stranded is a 2013 science fictionhorror film directed and cowritten by Roger Christian starring Christian Slater, Brendan Fehr, Amy Matysio, and Michael Therriault. Astronauts stranded on a lunar mining base attempt to survive an attack by a shapeshifting alien life form. Filming was at the Canada Saskatchewan Production Studios by Regina, SK based Minds Eye Entertainment. The film was one of the last financed by the provinces canceled film employment tax credit and was produced entirely in Saskatchewan.

Stranded was released on July 26, 2013. It was released on home video August 27, 2013, and made 1,733,694 on US video sales.Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, reports that 0 ofsurveyed critics gave the film a positive review the average rating was 310. Metacritic rated it 27100 based onreviews. Neil Genzlinger of The New York Times called it decently made and acted but too derivative of Alien. Ernest Hardy of The Village Voice called it more tedious than scary. William Harrison of DVD Talk rated itstars and called it an unremarkable rehash of classic scifi movies. Robert Abele of the Los Angeles Times wrote that the film stops at being merely seriously dull and trite, rather than tipping into trainwreck silliness. Justin Chang of Variety called the film a blandly competent, thoroughly forgettable lowbudget scifi thriller assembled from the stray parts of countless other, better movies. John DeFore of The Hollywood Reporter wrote that it offers neither originality nor thrills. ........

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