EVIL ALIENS

UK, 2005, 93 minutes, Colour.
Christopher Adamson, Emily Booth, Samuel Butler.
Directed by Jake West.

Evil Aliens is a spoof. It is made by a thirty-year-old director who knows his horror films, relishes the B-budget and extreme splatter films. He incorporates all of them into an absurd screenplay about aliens in Wales and indulges in all kinds of splatter sequences. The film will not appeal to mainstream audiences who will find it rather disgusting. However, it will appeal to that coterie of experts on the smaller-budget, poorly-acted, eccentric horror movies.

This film focuses on a tabloid TV presenter, played by Emily Booth, who wants to revive her career. A Welsh farm girl claims to have been impregnated by aliens. The presenter and her crew go to Wales, find the girl with three inbred brothers. There is also then a mysterious circle – but it has been fabricated by the TV presenter.

The crew makes a reconstruction of the abduction. But cattle are mutilated, the spaceship is actually present, they want to photograph the invaders. What follows is a series of attacks, the young girl transformed into an alien, the brothers battling the aliens, the killing of a gay actor. When the mother ship arrives, then there are even more aliens who attack the presenter, impregnating her.

The screenplay becomes even more absurd. The film crew escape, but they cannot get off the island. The rest of the plot includes the UFO inspector having a liaison with an alien dominatrix, rescuing the television presenter. However, ultimately everybody is dismembered and destroyed. There is a powerful combine harvester sequence where most of the remaining cast are pursued.

Finally the writer-director has tongue firmly in cheek when everything is destroyed and only the sound man survives by swimming back to England – but the videotape that he has taken, with all the evidence of the invasion, has been ruined.

One for the splatter archives!