Mothers and children
trapped in poverty in our inner cities; rusted -
out factories, scattered like tombstones across the landscape
of our nation; an education system
flush with cash, but which leaves our young and beautiful students deprived
of all knowledge; and the crime, and the gangs, and the drugs that have stolen too many lives and robbed our country
of so much unrealized potential.
The first half
of the film builds suspense by putting the group through a number
of classic hunting situations — from the perspective
of the prey — being
flushed out by dogs [though these alien «dogs» have all kinds
of horns, spine razors and bad attitudes]; a booby -
trapped companion; wandering into deadfalls, and the like.