Ah, what would a British flick be if everything didn't revolve around a pub, in this case it's called The Swan and it resides on the island of Tara. It is owned by a novelist and his wife. Into the pub comes a sassy young gal who claims to be the writer's new secretary. All the rest of the important cast members are at the bar sucking back the ale big time. Occupying an upstairs room is a nutty scientist who wanders around the island planting motion sensitive cameras.

Now, when the novelist first sets eyes on his new secretary he tells her to get lost, then he plants a big wet frenchie on her. Hmm, me thinks there's been some previous hanky panky between these two that wifey don't know about. When wifey does find out he tells her that the gal is a slut and he just wanted her body. Is this guy the coolest or what?

The island is in the midst of an unusually severe mid-winter heat wave. And it's hot. Very hot. How hot? Ninety degrees and climbing. Not only that, but there are some strange things happening that everybody blames on the heat. A flock of sheep has been burnt to a crisp as have a few of the local folk, televisions are exploding and the phones are screwed up. Also, an auto mechanic tries to rape the secretary. Yeah, like every time it hits 90 degrees here I always go out to rape and plunder, sure thing Bubbas. Don't worry though, the mechanic gets his come-uppance soon after.

Finally the nutty scientist blurts out his reason for being there. He figures the island is being invaded by beings from another planet. What beings from another planet? All we've seen so far is a light that kills people. Anyway, after a few laughs and a few more beers and a few more deaths, they start to believe him.

The barfly doctor tries to get his butt up to a weather station to radio the mainland for help but doesn't make it. So now the nutty scientist sets out and makes it, as do the rest of them soon after. At the weather station they all decide to blow up the aliens using dynamite. Whoops, that didn't work. Now they're in deep shit as we finally get to see the aliens. They begin to surround our heros who are now hiding out in some old ruins. The monsterous aliens kinda look like cow patties that glow. I kid you not.

Holy cow turds Batman, can it get any worse? Now there's a thunder storm getting our heros all wet. Hey, wait a minute, maybe this is good, yeah, this is good. The cow patties aren't glowing anymore. They're dead. The rain killed the glowing cow patties, way cool.

Okay, so the monster effects suck big time which is good since we only see them at the end. The director relied on an old-fashioned style of generating suspense to keep interest, which I guess has to be done if your monsters look like glowing cow turds. What it boils down to is this: It's corny as hell but it is watchable.