Evil Aliens (2005)
Runtime: 90 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Starring: Christopher Adamson, Norman Lovett
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Reviews
Before he started turning out $200 million fantasy epics, Peter Jackson used to do this sort of thing while napping, and he was much better at it.
West seems to mistake smugness for genre savvy, and his aggressive, arm-punching brand of pandering quickly grows tiresome, and then unbearable.
While nowhere near as witty as Shaun of the Dead (2004), it has a rude energy and a go-for-broke willingness to try anything.
Gruesome schlock -- but whether it's beyond or beneath criticism is a matter of individual taste.
After a lacklustre start, Evil Aliens builds up a crazed momentum.
Eventually wins us over, despite a hyperactive, amateurish filmmaking style
To be fair, Evil Aliens is going for a very specific audience, and viewers who ordinarily enjoy this sort of thing will probably not be disappointed.
It's splattery and loud and frantic and laden with wall-to-wall gore of the nastiest kind. And yes, I mean that in the nicest way possible.
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posted by Scott Weinberg August 02, 2006
I saw Jake West's "Evil Aliens" at last year's Toronto Film Festival, and I thought it was a seriously...

