Dreamcatcher

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Year:	2003
Country of origin:	USA, Canada, Australia
Director:	Lawrence Kasdan
Genre:	Alien paranoia
Starring:	Morgan Freeman, Damian Lewis, Thomas Jane, Jason Lee, Timothy Olyphant, Donnie Wahlberg, Tom Sizemore
Rating:	4/5
IMDB link:	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0285531/
Tagline:	Four friends hung a dreamcatcher in their cabin. It's about to catch something it cannot stop.
Favourite line:	"Henry, if we die before you get back, promise you'll tell everybody she wasn't my date…."

Big budget treatment of a Stephen King novel, this sees four lifelong friends tackling an alien invader that has the ability to control people.
A devastating blizzard strikes when the four friends are on their annual vacation in a log cabin, and they take in a stranger they find half frozen in the forest.
Unfortunately, the stranger is host to an alien virus / parasite of some sort, and it isn't long before one of their number is infected.
Morgan Freeman plays Colonel Curtis, a hard as nails special forces commander, whose job it is to isolate and quarantine the infection to prevent it spreading into the general population.
His plan?
Destroy every living thing within the quarantine zone with a military strike.

An unusual film this, with lots of elements thrown together, and they mix together surprisingly well.
There's post X-Files paranoia, there's some gore, some action sequences, and a spot of psychological horror too.
Clocking in at round about two and a quarter hours, this isn't short for a horror, but it doesn't drag for a second.
Would have got top marks but for the dreadful English accent of Mr Grey when he has control of Jonesy's body.
A superior slice of Hollywood horror.