Directed by Dejan Zecevic, "The Rift: Dark Side Of The Moon" is a sci-fi horror that takes familiar concepts and folds them into a mash-up of spy thriller and nightmare tripgasm. It stars . Ken Foree, Katarina Čas, Dragan Mićanović, Monte Markham, Denis Murić, Miroljub Lešo, Sonja Vukićević, Ratko Turčinović and Mick Garris.
An American military satellite crash lands in Eastern Serbia and a team of US and Serbian agents are dispatched to secure the remains of the satellite, but when they locate the crash site all is not as it seems.
With a kickoff more familiar to low budget black opd, I Spy movies, "The Rift: Dark Side Of The Moon" sluggishly and clumsily starts out. It is a beginning that feels forced into plotline and makes for a questionable start. I just knew I was gonna check out before the story really took off. Oddly enough , I hung in and found myself curiously intrigued, much like waiting for a train wreck.
Once "The Rifts" concept takes murky shape, and the sci-fi tropes really become centerstage, the film becomes a managabe, all be it, mediocre experience. The acting stays choppy, and filled with over acting and melodrama. Oddly enough it starts to actually work in the film's favor. Much like many of the bad but good episodes of the reboot to "Outer Limits" back in the day.
The special effects are mixed with almost trance influenced psychedelic CGI moments, and very horror inspired practical effects reminiscent of Lovecraft adaptations. Pick one. Overall I ended "The Rift" entertained, impressed even. What starts as a hot mess, so I thought, rebounds into a neat lowbudget ride into a little slice of Hell. (2.5/5)
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