Phantoms. 1998.
Inhabitants of a small Colorado town have either died or vanished, the local sheriff calls for help and the F.B.I bring in a academic who believes they are up against a ancient enemy,
You get a decent monster movie idea which Dean Koontz created and then a assortment of people who try one way to kill a monster and when that fails everyone begins to get creative and more ideas pop into their heads. But some ideas to create a monster have already been done but other's take that concept and change it around ie, we get a dog in this that's gonna turn out the same way a Huskey did in a film. Ben Affleck seemed to got a few haters in this with his role but he was actually not bad. Peter O'Toole is decent as the academic and occult professor. The alien/creature design is creative and has feel to it like H.P. Lovecraft Cthulhu monster. This is one i'd come back to watch again.
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