Evil Aliens
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The place is the nearly-deserted Devil's
With her every-ready microphone, industrial-strength pushup bra and a vigorous libido matched only by her nose for a story, the buxom Brit sets out for dreary neighboring Wales with her camera crew, a UFO expert, and a few reenactment actors to get to the bottom of the tabloid tale. Of course, Michelle thinks it's all an elaborate hoax, and of course… It's not. There are extraterrestrials invading the derelict island, and they're extremely pissed off.
If you're a fan of low-budget horror comedies like Brain Dead, Undead and Killer Klowns From Outer Space — or even more polished fare like Mars Attacks! or Shaun of the Dead — you just might like to give Evil Aliens a whirl in your disc player. (It's on DVD in the
Evil Aliens pulls no punches when it comes to bodily fluid — vomit, blood, ejaculate, afterbirth… you name it, and it slimes the silver screen. I'm not necessarily a fan of that sort of thing, but luckily the balls-out gross-out is tempered with well-drawn characters, truly funny, ironic dialogue, and aliens that are both scary and silly at the same time.
Matching each other for ingenuity, the homo sapiens give as good as they get when dispatching the evil aliens: One uproariously memorable scene in which the humans get the upper hand is set to The Wurzels mid-70s ditty, I've Got A Brand New Combine Harvester. There's also a dedicated through-line to death by beheading — so finally, fans of 'those scenes' in The Omen, Friday the 13th, and The Patriot will get to see more severed skulls than the head executioner on Bastille Day.
While I must confess I didn't like Evil Aliens as much as writer/director Jake West's more original, satiric foray into the vampire genre (1998's Razor Blade Smile), I still found myself grooving on the quirky characters and bizarre, comedic scenarios of gratuitous death and dismemberment in Evil Aliens.
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Reviewed by Staci Layne Wilson