My good friend Neb Rogers did some audio work on this film while attending UNCG's film school. The director asked him to create some audio effects for the gunplay scenes, which he did though few appear in the final cut. As you watch the movie, whenever you hear a crisp sound effect, Neb probably recorded it. The rest of the effects sound generic. Neb wasn't credited with his role nor was he paid, though he was finally given some credit on the IMDb page.
I live in Greensboro, NC, where Alien Outlaw's "auteur" director Phil Smoot attended university. He directed this film and one other called The Dark Power in the mid '80's before graduating to work on direct-to-video horror movies, though never again with the level of creative control he had on these films. That's a good thing because more than twenty-five years after its release, Alien Outlaw is even harder to sit through than it was back then. It's inept in many ways a movie can be save the near-nudity of its leading actress and some cool costumes. Even the loving casting of Lash La Rue doesn't hide the technical limitations and lack of underlining story. Still, it's far from the worst movie I have ever seen.
A poorly rendered spacecraft crashes in central North Carolina and three maniacal aliens hell-bent on destruction are unleashed. This movie like many of its ilk completely adheres to the strange cliché where highly intelligent life forms inexplicably attack people like savage beasts. How did they manage to travel through space if all they seem capable of is acting like mindless movie villains? This film does better than most in this regard by positing the possibility that these beings are only destructive with no other motivations. Maybe higher life on their planet built the crafts to get them out of there. Perhaps if there were any kind of plot, we could satisfactorily answer that question.
Smoot deserves some credit by keeping the aliens focused on whatever their underlining objective is. He doesn't add a love story subplot like a lot of these flicks have, though he does show a bunch of rednecks drinking beer and chatting. This should be boring but one teases the other for his effeminacy, keeping it giggle-worthy. Interplay like that is only praiseworthy in trashy productions like this where it keeps us awake. Anyway, they're quickly killed off before the heroine Jesse Jamieson (get it?) and Lash La Rue's character make quick work of them. Their costumes aren't that bad either. They look like they were made from wetsuits and Smoot appropriately has them emerge from the water to attack various people.
Alien Outlaw has been released on DVD in the U.S., and isn't quite as bad as its reputation would suggest. At least Jamieson wears really short shorts and the direction is competent if unspectacular. It's still a poor movie, but I wasn't bored enough to call it unwatchable. If you ever see this on a public domain boxset someday, it's worth a watch. Not Recommended 21st of 2011
I live in Greensboro, NC, where Alien Outlaw's "auteur" director Phil Smoot attended university. He directed this film and one other called The Dark Power in the mid '80's before graduating to work on direct-to-video horror movies, though never again with the level of creative control he had on these films. That's a good thing because more than twenty-five years after its release, Alien Outlaw is even harder to sit through than it was back then. It's inept in many ways a movie can be save the near-nudity of its leading actress and some cool costumes. Even the loving casting of Lash La Rue doesn't hide the technical limitations and lack of underlining story. Still, it's far from the worst movie I have ever seen.
A poorly rendered spacecraft crashes in central North Carolina and three maniacal aliens hell-bent on destruction are unleashed. This movie like many of its ilk completely adheres to the strange cliché where highly intelligent life forms inexplicably attack people like savage beasts. How did they manage to travel through space if all they seem capable of is acting like mindless movie villains? This film does better than most in this regard by positing the possibility that these beings are only destructive with no other motivations. Maybe higher life on their planet built the crafts to get them out of there. Perhaps if there were any kind of plot, we could satisfactorily answer that question.
Smoot deserves some credit by keeping the aliens focused on whatever their underlining objective is. He doesn't add a love story subplot like a lot of these flicks have, though he does show a bunch of rednecks drinking beer and chatting. This should be boring but one teases the other for his effeminacy, keeping it giggle-worthy. Interplay like that is only praiseworthy in trashy productions like this where it keeps us awake. Anyway, they're quickly killed off before the heroine Jesse Jamieson (get it?) and Lash La Rue's character make quick work of them. Their costumes aren't that bad either. They look like they were made from wetsuits and Smoot appropriately has them emerge from the water to attack various people.
Alien Outlaw has been released on DVD in the U.S., and isn't quite as bad as its reputation would suggest. At least Jamieson wears really short shorts and the direction is competent if unspectacular. It's still a poor movie, but I wasn't bored enough to call it unwatchable. If you ever see this on a public domain boxset someday, it's worth a watch. Not Recommended 21st of 2011