It's fun in the way that '80s horror was fun, particularly when it begins to let it rip with the gore effects, which it finally does during its bloody climax.

| Oct 31, 2019

There's nothing wrong with doing a straight-up piece of genre filmmaking as long as one can pull off familiar genre elements well enough to make them exciting again.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Jun 21, 2019

Human strains because it is so busy feeding the various mouths of it being a sci-fi invasion flick, slasher B-movie and alien saga that it overlooks the cohesiveness of simply resting in its scaly skin as a solitary and cunning creepfest that registers

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 11, 2018

I just can't pick up my pompoms for it.

| Aug 21, 2018

or Almost Human, writer/director Joe Begos does a brilliant job of blending together the alien abduction and slasher subgenres all while hearkening back to many genre fans favorite era of horror films- the 1980's.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 8, 2016

Be sure to stay through the closing credits for a tag--not that it's worth it, but I was the only one at my screening who did, and misery loves company.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Mar 16, 2015

A pretty eerie and tense, albeit flawed, horror entry.

| Nov 2, 2014

Character motivation, cleverness and intelligence don't factor into Almost Human, a gory genre homage that could have been an underground terror treat, instead of a "Cult Movies' Greatest Hits."

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 13, 2014

It's a bit rough round the edges but just wait for Begos to get his hands on some real money and we can expect something very special indeed.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 4, 2014

This project ... has clearly diverted too much of its small budget toward special effects.

| Feb 25, 2014

It's hard to see why IFC Films would attach themselves to this ho-hum scarefest.

| Feb 25, 2014

...more than competent and less than inspired, [Almost Human] should find a nontheatrical niche among genre fans.

| Feb 25, 2014

Writer-director Joe Begos and [...] editor/star Josh Ethier, clearly adore 1980s horror [...] Their first no-budget feature [is] a deliberate throwback to the era's slapdash passion, ignoring every direction the genre has taken in the decades since.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 25, 2014

Almost Human is a hybrid alien abduction/slasher film that embodies everything awesome about horror in the 1980s - gooey practical effects and all.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Feb 23, 2014

It's gruesome, sure, but Begos is hardly your run-of-the-mill grue merchant. He knows how to tighten the screws and, with a tip of the hat to 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers,' ensnarl us in an ever-widening web of paranoia.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 23, 2014

Existing as some sort of low-rent Eli Roth imitation that miraculously leaves us wishing we were watching one of Roth's films instead.

| Original Score: C- | Feb 23, 2014

While the cast and crew's competence well exceed what anyone would expect from this breed of B movies, they cannot compensate for the flawed internal logic in the screenplay.

| Feb 20, 2014

Is "Almost Human" an alien invasion story? A gory slasher flick? A tribute to B-movies as a collective? It is all of the above, and really rather groovy.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 19, 2014

Some of the voluminous attention paid to details ... should have been spent on good old-fashioned shivers.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 18, 2014

The degree to which Almost Human ultimately peters out is rather distressing (to put it mildly)...

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 29, 2013