High Plains Invaders

Sometimes there is nothing worse than living in a western town. The roads are muddy and peppered with horse paddies. The people care little about hygiene and the whiskey will make you blind. But perhaps the worst part of frontier town life are the damn alien critters terrorizing both locals and those who live outside of town.

Yeh, pardner, you heard me right. We gots us some critter problems right here in Grubity City. And no guns and no dynamite is gonna make no difference no how. For some reason related to rock mining, the 'invaders' of the title are digging huge holes all over the town.


Anyone who gets close to these bugs can be assured of getting speared by their sharpened legs and whip tails. They reminded me of the aliens from 'War of the Worlds' - a pretty simple CG effect to pull off these days.

James Marsters plays a train robber whose hanging was interrupted by an invader and who now has to figure a way to fight these bugs with the help of a local scientist, the town's lady doctor, a shop keeper, and a female bounty hunter. What happened to the rest of the town isn't really made clear. Just cut down on the expense of having extras that would just get in the way and cost money to cloth and feed.

The scientist specializes in rare minerals and his 'experiments' are obviously related to whatever is going on in this dusty old town. He has been hiring locals to mine rocks and create pitch, something that seems to be angering the bugs.

So settle in and see if these simple folk can do away with a whole quantity of digging creatures using only what they had available in the late 1800s - dynamite and bullets. No better and no worse than any other SyFy creature feature.