# Help me identify this foreign horror film
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-foreign-horror-film/697819
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [September 8, 2014, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-foreign-horror-film/697819 "2014-09-08T01:48:13Z")
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### Author:  [@TGWATY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TGWATY)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2014, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-foreign-horror-film/697819/1 "2014-09-08T01:48:13Z")
I saw this trailer sometime in the last six years I’m guessing. If I remember correctly it was foreign, European maybe. It seemed that aliens were invading earth from another dimension. Maybe it involved a rift in the sky? Physicists and/or astronomers were involved. that’s about all I remember.
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2014, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-foreign-horror-film/697819/2 "2014-09-08T06:23:56Z")
Sounds a lot like **this movie** to me (in its own way, Wisconsin is about as exotically foreign as you can get):
> **[The Giant Spider Invasion (1975) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073043/)**
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> The Giant Spider Invasion: Directed by Bill Rebane. With Steve Brodie, Barbara Hale, Robert Easton, Leslie Parrish. Giant spiders from another dimension invade Wisconsin.
The cheap-o budget gave it a cheezy, kind of early-'60s European SF feel as well (cf. _ **Zontar, the Thing from Venus** _ and _ **Journey to the Seventh Planet** _).
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2014, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-foreign-horror-film/697819/3 "2014-09-08T06:31:49Z")
I think they mention Canada once or twice, too (the Great Lakes, and all that). It was in fact filmed in some jerkwater northwoods town during the US Bicentennial, which will be patently obvious to you if you actually lived through the thing!
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### Author:  [@TGWATY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TGWATY)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2014, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-foreign-horror-film/697819/4 "2014-09-08T21:20:57Z")
Thanks. I don’t know if those were serious responses or not.
This film was recent. The trailer was dark with a lot of night scenes.
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2014, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-foreign-horror-film/697819/5 "2014-09-08T21:24:58Z")
> [@TGWATY](#):
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> Thanks. I don’t know if those were serious responses or not.
I never joke when it comes to bad movies! :dubious:
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### Author:  [@Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mole)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2014, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-foreign-horror-film/697819/6 "2014-09-09T00:08:09Z")
[District 9](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1136608/?ref_=nv_sr_1), maybe?
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### Author:  [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2014, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-foreign-horror-film/697819/7 "2014-09-09T00:21:24Z")
Errr… is [The Rift](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rift_(2012_film))too obvious?
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### Author:  [@Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mole)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2014, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-foreign-horror-film/697819/8 "2014-09-09T01:59:16Z")
> [@Sparky812](#):
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> Errr… is [The Rift](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rift_(2012_film))too obvious?
I just watched the trailer and The Rift is exactly as the OP describes, so I’d say yes. Also, I’d like to change my guess.😛
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### Author:  [@TGWATY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TGWATY)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2014, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-foreign-horror-film/697819/9 "2014-09-09T18:11:55Z")
> [@Sparky812](#):
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> Errr… is [The Rift](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rift_(2012_film))too obvious?
Yep. The trailer I watched just now isn’t the same trailer but it is clearly the same film. Big thanks.
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### Author:  [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2014, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-foreign-horror-film/697819/10 "2014-09-10T20:50:47Z")
Anytime