Threshold is a 2003 Sci Fi Pictures original film adaptation of the 1958 black and white
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(directed by Edward L. Cahn). The film stars
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(The X Files'
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),
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(Melrose Place's Lexi Sterling), and
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). Other notable cast members include
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, television mogul
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(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 Oklahomas 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.