A remarkably talented young cast, abetted by a wildly entertaining Stephen Baldwin performance and Billy Zane's fresh and utterly non-clichéd depiction of a small-town sheriff, help turn this suspenseful alien-abduction story into compelling human drama. Filmmaker Christian McIntire, who directed SCI FI Pictures' Lost Voyage and Antibody and produced and edited the independent hit Interceptor Force, has taken his work to a new level, his camera eye going from vertiginous fluidity to morning-light naturalism as each scene's emotional content demands. On a farm outside Porterville, Ore., paramilitary paranoiac Joe Vossimer (Stephen Baldwin, Born on the Fourth of July, TV's The Young Riders) isn't imagining things, at least not this time — there really are strange, hostile visitors in the cornfield. And given what happens to him, who could really call all his security precautions and video journals over-the-top? After Joe's violent death, his farm is bequeathed to his cousin Layne (Irish-born actor A.J. Buckley, Disturbing Behavior, Sean S. Cunningham's XCU: Extreme Close Up), newly graduated from college. The grieving Layne gathers his friends to help him renovate the farmhouse and put it up for sale. Setting out with girlfriend Macy (Callie De Fabry, Gabby on Birds of Prey), best bud Maurice (Ransford Doherty, What Matters Most) and three other friends, Layne returns to his hometown. After reacquainting himself with Sheriff Bill Willingham (Billy Zane, Titanic, The Phantom), a family friend who's watched over the property since Joe died, Layne heads to the farm — and the crop circle where Joe died. Soon the unexpected begins to happen — between Maurice and the troubled Iris (Kim Onasch, a 1998 Elite Look of the Year nationalist) ... between the Goth-influenced Katrina (Michelle Borth, Wonderland) and her boyfriend Stephen (David O'Donnell, Made Men, MTV's Undressed) ... and between aliens and humans. Before the dawn comes, all will deal with the horror of death, the reality of monsters, and the devastating confirmation that crop circles may not be merely innocent signs, but silent warnings. Joe Vossimer  …  STEPHEN BALDWIN Layne Vossimer  …  A.J. BUCKLEY Sheriff Bill Willingham  …  BILLY ZANE Macy Reed  …  CALLIE De FABRY Stephen Fox  …  DAVID O'DONNELL Maurice Hall  …  RANSFORD DOHERTY Iris Doyle  …  KIM ONASCH Katrina Munro  …  MICHELLE BORTH Local Yokel  …  MICHAEL ASH SCI FI Pictures United Film Organization Circle Productions Story by KEVIN GENDREAU and CHRISTIAN McINTIRE Screenplay by CHRISTIAN McINTIRE and BILL LUNDY Directed by CHRISTIAN McINTIRE Executive Producer CARSTEN LORENZ Producers JEFFERY BEACH, PHILLIP ROTH, STAN WERTLIEB Co-Producer T.J. SAKASEGAWA Line Producer JOHN CAPPILLA Assoc. Producers DANA TAPROGGE, JIM MILLER Director of Photography LORENZO SENATORE Editors DAVID FLORES, CHRISTIAN McINTIRE Music RICH McHUGH Director of Animation ALVARO VILLAGOMEZ Digital Effects Supervisor KEVIN K. LANE Visual Effects Supervisor KEVIN GENDREAU