Stan Winston's "Creature Features" offers up another reworking of a Samuel Z. Arkoff/American International flick (this time re-doing the 1956 original) as the small mountain town of Sierra Vista finds itself invaded by a nasty alien.

The problem is though that eccentric young boy Bobby Edner believes it's his long-lost father and new-in-town school psychatrist Nastassja Kinski and adoptive father Randy Quaid try to stop him from hurting himself while the rest of the town is picked-off by the creature.

Fairly watchable entry (one of five remakes by Winston's company in 2001) has adequate creature effects and a steady cast of character actors but it suffers from a script that gets a little bit muddy when it tries to explain everything and it's just not that entertaining.

There's some okay gore (like during the first appearance of the alien) and it contains a homage to the original (by showing it playing on a TV set) but it just doesn't have enough of the old fashioned 50's "feel" to it to really work.

Directed By: Terence Gross.
Written By: Annie DeYoung, Max Enscoe.

Starring: Randy Quaid, Nastassja Kinski, Bobby Edner, Debra Christofferson.