Evil Aliens

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Evil Aliens

This review may contain spoilers - or maybe turn up your expectations! Mine was kind of low at first, but: This was one great movie! Starting out rather easy-going, it turns in to this delightful study of... well, slashing. Tons of gore, gallons of blood squirting right in the faces, limbs ripped off and some nasty aliens - they didn't have a chance against that big harvester though...! I don't think I've ever actually seen a slasher/sci-fi-movie this much fun. And that was just the story! The actors did OK, the FX was what it was supposed to be, the plot was what it had to be, but the twist at the end really made me laugh. You expect some thing in a certain direction with a title like this. And that is just what you get. If you're in to movies like this, don't miss it!

Last night, I had the honor to see the birth of a cult movie at the San Francisco HoleHead festival, where Evil Aliens had it's world premiere. This movie takes the Splatstick genre as defined by Peter Jackson's 'Braindead'/'Dead Alive' to just another level - a gory one. If you thought the lawnmower was the end of the line, you'll be up for a nice surprise. This movie just works on all levels. Great casting, demented characters in the dozen, raw humor and tons of blood and guts. Acting is great - well over the top, just what a movie like this deserves. Not to forget the subtle references to all the best horror movies out there. All this tied together with an original script that provides punchlines that will become standard references themselves in the future. This film is made with a deep love for the genre. If you dig gory comedies, you really don't want to miss this one! *** Spoilers deliberately avoided ***

The premise of this film is that a girl in Wales has an alien encounter and winds up pregnant. This attracts the attention of a bottom feeding "tales of the paranormal" show. A crew of misfits go out to an isolated island to film the story, only to find themselves hunted by the aliens. Okay, I kind of get from this picture that the Welsh are the hillbillies of the United Kingdom. They go in for every backwards joke involving hygiene and bestiality here. The highlight of the film is the scene where a mob of aliens is chased down by one of the heroes driving a combine-tractor while playing a variation of "I've got a brand new pair of Roller-skates". Beyond that, you have the usual alien probing jokes, the fecal matter jokes, the vomit jokes and just about everything else you could want in a movie that was made in very poor taste. Still, it's better than average because it is clearly winking at the viewer in the sense of a Monty Python sketch.

To be honest I knew what to expect before I watched this film, and I've got to say it has the worst acting I've ever seen. It does have its moments, and on a comedy level its very entertaining, but i'm afraid its not scary, and stupidity is taken to a new level. There's a lot of unnecessary gore, and the plot is all over the place. I have no idea why the aliens were evil, and why they even came to this remote part of wales, (i mean who'd go there anyway?) but I didn't care at that point, because I was amused by the costumes, and the bad CGI. As far as B-movies go, this deserves the title of 'being so bad, its good', and kudos to the film-makers, because they probably knew what they were doing. Long may these films continue.....

I can't believe I actually read reviews where people said this was on the level of Peter Jackson's BAD TASTE and BRAIN DEAD or Sam Raimi's EVIL DEAD series. It is in a way because "director" Jake West rips them off completely. He rips off direct gags from those films while polishing his fingernails on his chest as if they were his own. For example, he has a bit where the alien pops some eyeballs out of a head and they fly across the screen into someone's open mouth. Sound familiar? That is right out of EVIL DEAD 2. I don't object to embellishing something, but a straight up steal is cheating and tacky. Not subtle references or homages, but straight up rip offs. Worst film I have seen in a long, long time. Stay away.

The title gives it all away, really. They're aliens. They're evil. With this in mind, should you really expect high art? Go into this with the right frame of mind and you'll thoroughly enjoy it. If you've seen Jake West's previous feature Razor Blade Smile, you'll enjoy this, although Evil Aliens is miles ahead in production value and acting. I'm not going to discuss the plot beyond this: Aliens are abducting Welsh sheep farmers and performing exactly the sort of experiments you'd expect. Enter the gorgeous Emily Booth as the presenter of a dodgy satellite TV show on alien abductions. Add some inbred farmers, fantastically sadistic aliens, surprisingly good gore effects and a lot of laughs and you have Evil Aliens. A perfect after the pub movie, and a shot in the arm if you're sick of the oh-so-serious po-faced horror movies of today. In a nutshell - Peter Jackson's successor is here - Evil Aliens has everything which made Braindead (DeadAlive) fantastic and more.

About thirty seconds into the film you'll find yourself with your jaw dropped somewhere down to around about your knees as it opens with a sequence so hideously disgusting you can't quite believe you are really seeing what you are seeing. Comparisons will doubtless be made between this film and Shaun of the Dead and also Peter Jackson's Brain Dead / Bad Taste neither really took things to such a painfully funny - quite beyond belief - level that this film does. Whilst the film will always be remembered (rightfully so) for the combine harvester scene - which is truly hilarious - it is so much more than an individual collection of gross out sketches - it is a wonderfully silly but engrossing yarn that doesn't let you go from the very first moment to the last, with visual effects - both prosthetic and CGI that quite literally first rate. Watch it – be amazed – be offended – be thankful that the British film industry has some balls in it yet

NOT! :) This is an English black comedy/parody movie that most resembles a combination of Signs, Alien vs Predator and Bad Taste set up in the Welsh country side. It's funny, gory and has a lot of references to other sci-fi horror movies including Evil Dead, StarGate, Night of the Living Dead and many others, but without being pushy about it. I mean, you will never see a Scary Movie type of scene when they recreate a portion of another movie in a stupid way and laugh about it. Anyway, if you are a fan of "bad" horror movies and funny gory films like Bad Taste or Evil Dead, you will love this one. There are no known actors, they don't even have IMDb pictures, except one, Scott Joseph, who ironically wears an alien mask the whole movie :)