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Directed by: Jake West Starring: Emily Booth, Jamie Honeybourne, Jodie Shaw Evil Aliens is a British film that opened in March in the UK but opened this weekend in select theaters in the US. I went to see it at a midnight screening last night in Minneapolis. Standing in front of the theater were three people dressed up like aliens and time-travelers trying to wrangle people into seeing the film and giving away free little alien figures. For the movie itself, think of a sci-fi Shaun of the Dead but with ten times as much gore. Michelle Fox [Emily Booth] is the host of a tabloid alien news program and as she and her crew come up with the best possible story [woman pregnant with alien baby], the story comes to life as aliens invade the planet and dismember, behead and impale anyone who gets in their path. It's a classic battle between humans and aliens with horrifying images and hilarious dialogue. I counted over 10 movie references in the whole thing. It's more silly than scary. Who could pass up the perfect gag of an alien actually slipping on a banana peel complete with a cartoony sound effect? What about fighting an alien with deer antlers, the scene being shot Evil-Dead style? And how about a wheat thresher scene that rivals Peter Jackson's lawnmower sequence in "Dead Alive" without a doubt? Oh and the opening sequence? Wonderfully stomach churning. Who knew aliens really probed people? Almost every character is hilariously stereotyped [the slut, the gay guy, the nerd] and the three inbred brothers are priceless. Jamie Honeybourne is laughable as Gavin Gorman, the whiny diehard UFO enthusiast. If you are into excessive gore and quirky-shot scenes with groanable dialogue by characters that just look like they are having fun [like me], you'll love this movie. Everyone else would probably never want to watch it again. RATING: 4.5 PROS: Gallons upon gallons of blood and gore, hilariously stereotypical characters CONS: Took about a half hour to get the movie underway, a "who's" when it should be "whose" in a subtitle [I notice those things] ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0383353/
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