Threshold (2003 film)

Infobox Film
name = Threshold


caption = The infestation has begun
director = Charles Bowman
producer = Derek Rappaport
writer =
starring = Nicholas Lea Jamie Luner Steve Bacic
music = Richard John Baker
cinematography = Richard Wincenty
editing = Tanya Swerling
distributor = Sci Fi Channel
released = April 19, 2003
runtime =
language = English
budget =
amg_id = 1:285829
imdb_id = 0339789

Threshold is a 2003 Sci Fi Pictures original film adaptation of the 1958 black and white science fiction film "It! The Terror from Beyond Space" (directed by Edward L. Cahn). The film stars Nicholas Lea (The X Files' Krycek), Jamie Luner (Melrose Place's Lexi Sterling), and Steve Bacic (Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda). Other notable cast members include Teryl Rothery, television mogul Stephen J. Cannell (as Pacheco Laval), and Gloria Slade.

Plot

The crew of the space shuttle "Oklahoma" comes back to Earth, one of its crew members having been struck in the arm by a tiny meteor, which evidently contains alien life forms. This alien life parasitizes its human hosts to evolve into rapidly proliferating insect-like creatures. The "Oklahoma"'s chief medical officer (Lea) works to stop the spread of the infestation before it reaches the "threshold" population, at which humanity will be effectively unable to contain it and the alien life will take over.