Once one gets past the eye-catching artwork on the video box and the nifty computer-generated title sequence, it's straight downhill for this alien-on-Earth schlocker.
A meteor crashes on the campus of a Boston girls' college, disgorging a humanoid monster, a leather-clad space girl (Kadamba Simmons), and a number of shattered crystal shards. The school's janitor turns the crystals into necklaces that he gives to the coeds before the monster kills him. Ashley
(Todd Jensen), a teacher having an affair with student Louise (Samantha Janus), spots and pursues the space girl, only to witness her being dragged under the street by the creature. The beast then abducts another student, Myra (Katy Lawrence), and a squad of policemen venture into tunnels under
the school, only to be bumped off one by one.
The crystal necklaces possess the coeds, who wander to a subterranean chamber where the shards leak a slimy fluid that encases them in cocoons. Ashley rescues Louise from a similar fate, and the two head out after the possessed students. The space girl reveals to Ashley that the creature is using
her to carry its eggs, with the coeds destined for a similar fate. While he's too late to save the coeds, Ashley is able to rescue Louise from the monster's assault and destroy the beast. Outside, though, more meteors are approaching Earth....
Boilerplate scripting, cliched dialogue, and pedestrian direction all help sink this low-budget horror entry, which further suffers from its attempt to stretch about 20 minutes' worth of plot to feature length. Writer-director Paul Matthews, whose previous movie GRIM (1996) at least had more
atmosphere, appropriates the alien-impregnator theme explored in several previous exploitationers (including a 1986 movie also called BREEDERS), but fails to develop it in an interesting or coherent way. He evidently also lacked a decent budget--the student body overtaken by the monster numbers a
dozen girls at most--and the actors' inability to maintain American accents points up the fact that this inauthentically Boston-set project was actually shot in England. The whole movie, in fact, bears the cheap, halfway-between-film-and-video look one associates with British television
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