Dark Skies seems like a good, terrifying premise, until it just gets old. Scott Stewart seems to still be looking for the hit that he didn't find with Priest and Legion yet. Dark Skies has good effects, which he is known for, but the story just panders. You also have to find aliens scary, and as someone who has only been terrified by one Alien I just don't find them scary otherwise. This movie tries to make aliens just as spooky in the same way that demons and ghost are in Paranormal Activity and Insidious.
Summary: The Barret family is trying to get their peaceful suburban life together. The mother and children seem like they are unaware of the father's struggles to maintain a job, and provide for their family. When Lacy and Daniel begin to suspect something is happening to their children though their lives begin to get a lot worse than they would have expected. Not only are the children waking up to wander strangely outside at night, or having convulsions in the middle of the day after blacking out, but the same occurrences are beginning to happen to the parents as well. Now the force causing these things is closing in on their family, as the family struggles to find out what it is they are after.
