Evil Aliens (2006)

The Camera work was extremely bad. The acting was also bad and sounded like it was being read from a script. The story was pure rubbish and the special effects looked like it was made without any kind of budget.The fact this can even be classed as horror is a joke, it's more like a terrible comedy with the worst costumes for the aliens. The 'horror' scenes are so predictable it's almost boring.This was clearly aimed at the teenage boy audience since it contains aliens and women showing their bust for 80% of the 'movie'.If you're looking for a good movie, this isn't it. The only decent bits were with the farmers who added some decent comedic value to the movie, who were soon killed off, making the movie boring again.

What could possibly sound dumber than a title like Evil Aliens. The answer is...maybe nothing. For what this film is trying to do, it's not half bad actually. Set up very much like Shawn of the Dead, but I prefer to think of Evil Aliens as being another addition to that category of Z-movie sci-fi/comedies, that are not only deliberately cheesy, but deliberately fake looking. I can't think of any great examples at the moment, other than Killer Clowns from Outer Space.Odd as it may sound, it actually requires skill to make something like this. The key is not to over do it. While the first half hour of Evil Aliens is fine (even laugh out loud), it gets carried away quickly and in the last half of the film, the ratio of goofiness to humour starts to get less even. Both need to be consistent for the film to be good. In the end Evil Aliens is moderately good.A British film crew wants to do an interview with a farm girl, who claims that she was abducted and even impregnated by alien life. The crew takes a mockumentary approach to the whole idea at first (thinking it will get more viewers this way), before long however they find themselves filming the real thing, and then fighting it for their lives.Evil Aliens' sense of humour is pretty cynical towards the media. The protagonists are the kind of morons that you might be tempted to root against. One of the problems I had with Shawn of the Dead was that I didn't care much for Simon Pegg and his buddy, despite their copious one-liners. As far as video productions go, this one is surprisingly good. The way it is shot and edited, it looks more like film than a home video movie. I didn't even mind that the CG space craft looks like a cartoon. Though the creatures are supposed to look fake, I can't help but think that they could've been made to look more authentic. Honestly, they look like muscle boys in Storm trooper helmets, and their movements are way too human. When they run they look like Barry Pepper in Battlefield Earth. Perhaps the best way to approach Evil Aliens is to see it as pure satire of Ed Wood, and some of his more successful contemporaries.However you choose to see it, you may get a kick out of Evil Aliens, but other films have done this sort of thing better, and not simply because they had more money.

...but nowhere near deserving the cult status that some might claim for it, "Evil Aliens" manages to merit a cheap viewing, although preferably the cheaper the better. Would-be auteur Jake West, who apparently wants to be Britain's answer to Peter Jackson (or more likely someone on the level of Uwe Boll) has blessed the world of cinema with yet another splatter comedy. The focus this time is on (what else?) contact with extra-terrestrials with a decidedly hostile bent, who mostly wear cut-rate Predator costumes, fly around in (surprisingly effective) CGI spaceships that draw power from the Earth's magnetic field (I think) and are controlled by a large, unprotected brain (presumably alien, but who knows?) A small band of low-rent actors make up the erstwhile heroes (and alien fodder) who end up defeating this menace after numerous gooey encounters of the worst kind.This is one of those films that I find very frustrating. At times shot quite beautifully by West conspirator Jim Solan, "Evil Aliens" intermittently looks as cheap as anything shot by an eager film student in his or her backyard. The sfx range from nauseating realism to cartoonish absurdity, slopping back and forth almost willy-nilly. The acting is pedestrian at best, but mostly embarrassing. West's direction is haphazard and mostly ineffective, but that comes as little surprise given the quality of his script (which is to say, debatable).I've seen much worse in my day, and I've certainly seen better. One need only look at any of the truly classic lo-fi films ("Night of the Living Dead" and "The Evil Dead" spring instantly to mind) to see what a good script and acting that transcends amateurism can do. "Evil Aliens," though stuffed with homages to other films of its ilk (mostly others that are vastly superior), falls flat on its face in terms of "memorable." In aping and referencing identifiable genre favorites, "Evil Aliens" fails to establish any identity of its own.Most certainly, I couldn't rate it higher than a "5" since it's quite obviously sub-par, little more than an adequate time-killer for genre fans and insomniacs with a strong stomach for grue. If Mr. West actually had any sort of reputation, I'd have to rate "Evil Aliens" lower, if only to help differentiate it from similar films that still manage to transcend themselves with above-average talent and vision. Mr. West may yet have a good film in him, somewhere, but "Evil Aliens" wasn't it.

Evil Aliens owes a huge debt to Peter Jacksons early films Bad Taste and Braindead.I must confess to never enjoying those films particularly and i say the same about this.Jake West is a director who clearly lacks inspiration of his own and chooses to steal from those whom he looks up to.I lost count of the amount of times a major Hollywood film was quoted most notably James Camerons Aliens.The amount of blood and gore on show here isn't funny either,the latter end of the film becomes tired and dragged out.Maybe it would have worked better as a short film.The actors a poor,the direction is weak and the plot is non existent.I can see what the director was trying to do,the homage he was trying to pay,but others have done the same thing a lot better than presented here. 4/10