This sci-fi/comedy/western could've been a lot more entertaining with some expert editing, the performances by a cast of unknowns leave a lot to be desired also. Plot lines that lead no where, and a plodding story line make the 90 minutes seem like 3 hours. But if you like cheesy grade z action, with a tiny bit of gratuitous T&A thrown in you might want to lose 90 minutes you'll never get back. The entertainment I got from this shoe string budgeted flick was in watching the beautiful, almost scantily clad Kari Anderson (this was her only movie appearance??), and the chance to see two old (fairly well preserved) cowboy stars from the 40's Sunset Carson and Lash LaRue. An extra bonus for cowboy fans is the interview (more of a informal reminiscence for the old days of the B western) between Sunset and Lash.
19 Reviews
Alien Outlaw isn't painful to watch.
juliankennedy235 March 2019
Warning: Spoilers
Alien Outlaw: 4 out of 10: A whipless Lash La Rue and a girl without pants take on some aliens who like to do their killing offscreen as God intended. Also if you want to know the ins and outs of amateur shooting competitions well theoretically you might get some information as well.
Writer/Director Phil Smoot in a blaze of creativity wrote and directed his only two films in 1985; The Dark Power and Alien Outlaw. Both starred old western star and denture aficionado Lash La Rue and both were awful and strangely watchable.
Alien Outlaw sports some decent aliens, a decent lead actress that does not wear pants (Kari Anderson in her only role), Some other attractive females that would never act again, and occasional comic relief that is done on purpose.
The films main plot is Kari Anderson's attempt to get Diamond Talent to represent her trick gun show. She also needs to fire her old manager who was either the guy killed in the opening scene or the hairy guy who never leaves his hotel bed. I was honestly unclear on this. Some aliens show up after about half an hour but they have limited influence on whether she get Diamond to represent her and move to the big time.
Alien Outlaw really misses the mark on the whole Aliens attacking people angle but the amateur actors are sometimes decent and the scenery is nice and while I wouldn't recommend it, Alien Outlaw isn't painful to watch.
Rifftrax Version: 8 out of 10: Not their best work ever but they almost have too much on their plate. Definitely, the preferred way to watch this film Mike and the boys make this already watchable film breezy fun.
Writer/Director Phil Smoot in a blaze of creativity wrote and directed his only two films in 1985; The Dark Power and Alien Outlaw. Both starred old western star and denture aficionado Lash La Rue and both were awful and strangely watchable.
Alien Outlaw sports some decent aliens, a decent lead actress that does not wear pants (Kari Anderson in her only role), Some other attractive females that would never act again, and occasional comic relief that is done on purpose.
The films main plot is Kari Anderson's attempt to get Diamond Talent to represent her trick gun show. She also needs to fire her old manager who was either the guy killed in the opening scene or the hairy guy who never leaves his hotel bed. I was honestly unclear on this. Some aliens show up after about half an hour but they have limited influence on whether she get Diamond to represent her and move to the big time.
Alien Outlaw really misses the mark on the whole Aliens attacking people angle but the amateur actors are sometimes decent and the scenery is nice and while I wouldn't recommend it, Alien Outlaw isn't painful to watch.
Rifftrax Version: 8 out of 10: Not their best work ever but they almost have too much on their plate. Definitely, the preferred way to watch this film Mike and the boys make this already watchable film breezy fun.
1980s: The best of movies and the worst of movies
boocwirm-12 March 2016
Warning: Spoilers
This is what happens when you give a director $100,000 or so and tell him you want a movie in ten days...Some folks just don't appreciate bad films. I do. I've been an extra in a couple of them myself and, believe me, the people who makes these Grade Z pictures (the cast and the crew) aren't fooling around. They work hard at their craft, as hard as the people who make "real" movies, and with the added burden that they know the result is going to be pretty awful. They are basically professionals who have fallen on hard times or semi-professionals hoping to make it to Hollywood proper. When you watch ALIEN OUTLAW pay attention to the scene where the heroine is discussing her new contract with the head of the management agency. It's an interminable scene, with some of the worst dialogue ever written, but the two actresses give it everything they've got. You really have to give them credit for professionalism and effort. That being said, if you think you're going to be treated to something like the Sigourney Weaver ALIEN pictures you're going to be sadly disappointed. ALIEN OUTLAW is a mindless story about marauding extraterrestrials whose idea of attacking the Earth is, essentially, to sneak around the middle of nowhere bush-whacking Appalachian stereotypes and vandalizing parked cars. They make the aliens from PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE look like evil masterminds. They don't even have ray guns or blasters, but try instead to use Western six-shooters they clearly have no idea how to handle, as every second or third shot results in a jam. At which point they toss the weapon down in disgust and run slowly away from danger, no doubt squealing the alien equivalent of "Boy, we're in trouble now!" Earth should be so lucky as to be attacked by these guys. The film has a few good points. The heroine is quite sexy and not a bad actress. Most of the other actors (including several legendary B-Western stars at the end of their careers) at least give it a good effort. And for those viewers who might someday want to make their own picture, it carries a very clear lesson: no matter how small the budget, hire a decent screenwriter before you do anything else.
I watched the filming
barke_p19 April 2008
I have happy memories of a teenage summer staying near Sparta, NC, on one of the locations that this film uses. Specifically, in the film it was the farm house of the character played by Lash La Rue. I was staying with the family that owns that farm. The "barn" you see in some scenes there was actually the family's garage.
The film crew were there for several days and I joined in the shoot as a sort of unpaid runner, carrying things around. It was quite odd, not to say surreal, at times: a fifteen year old kid from the UK sitting on the porch chatting alternately with a grumpy B-western star, then the long legged heroine (they were FANTASTIC legs), then the "aliens", without their helmets. At lunchtimes we had fried chicken, mashed potato , biscuits and gravy I seem to remember. Tasted very good! At one point I overheard the director say something particularly uncomplimentary about his own film. He struck me as someone who could have made much better films if he had had the resources.
I just got the DVD, having never watched the film and it really is difficult to say anything positive about it as a piece of cinema. As a memento of the best summer of my life though it is priceless.
The film crew were there for several days and I joined in the shoot as a sort of unpaid runner, carrying things around. It was quite odd, not to say surreal, at times: a fifteen year old kid from the UK sitting on the porch chatting alternately with a grumpy B-western star, then the long legged heroine (they were FANTASTIC legs), then the "aliens", without their helmets. At lunchtimes we had fried chicken, mashed potato , biscuits and gravy I seem to remember. Tasted very good! At one point I overheard the director say something particularly uncomplimentary about his own film. He struck me as someone who could have made much better films if he had had the resources.
I just got the DVD, having never watched the film and it really is difficult to say anything positive about it as a piece of cinema. As a memento of the best summer of my life though it is priceless.
Only the Rifftrax version of this is worth seeing - barely.
mhorg201820 October 2019
While the crew of Rifftrax do make this incredibly stupid, ineptly made, boring film watchable, without them, it should simply be used for Land fill. Quite a few people are wondering why Jesse Jameson (haha - get it?) proprietress of the WORLDS GREATEST GUN SHOW, Kari Anderson was never seen as an actress again - that's because she's worked in make up, likely so embarrassed by this movie, she never wanted to be seen on the screen again. Her legs are really the star of this mess where, for no discernible reason, a bunch of aliens (two really, I think) with six guns and winchester rifles show up and start killing people. Then it's Jesse to the day. I have to admit, the fat guy whose always stuffing his face and barely escapes one alien - I really wanted to see him get killed. Supposedly made for 100,000 dollars, I'm wondering how much went into beer and weed. This is really one of the worst movies ever made. YOU'VE BEEN WARNED.
The plot is obviously not our affair!
TokyoGyaru12 March 2021
What is up with these faux sci-fi films that mostly focus on thick-tongued yokels? The women in this (including the heroine) are used as props to flash their T&A and service unattractive men they'd never touch in real life. SO MUCH TIME is utterly wasted on nothing but dragging out redundant, boring scenes and forcing us to spend time with annoying, unlikable people we'd dread sitting next to on a Greyhound bus. The talent agency woman/office are laughably pretentious. Oh, they book for some of the biggest, classiest events in the country? The tacky, cheap office that looks like a factory break room says otherwise! The Fauxcahontas outfit the put-upon guntrick chick (Jesse) wears is stupid, as is the movie's insistence she bend over in it. The music is ugly. And apparently the plot is something we have no business being curious about. However, though she wasn't a good actor, I liked Jesse and cared about her getting a better agent (I really wasn't given a choice). Also, Lash had an incoherent charm in his role. However, my favorite character was the black gas station attendant. He was very pleasant and behaved naturally. Finally, I appreciated them cheering Jesse on to fight the aliens, even if she did so in a Party City "Pocahontas" costume she apparently lost the skirt to.
Pre-Predator
BandSAboutMovies8 March 2020
Warning: Spoilers
If you didn't get enough of Lash LaRue in The Dark Power, have I got good news for you! The master of the whip - no, not El Latigo or Indiana Jones - returns to battle aliens this time, in a movie directed by Phil Smoot, whose name I will drunkenly yell at people for years because it amuses me.
Smoot also directed - surprise, surprise - The Dark Power, as well as serving as a camera operator on Carnival Magic, a movie that has wiped out whatever brain cells I had left from art school.
Jesse Jamison (Kari Anderson, a fitness model who now works as a makeup artist) is a gun shooting lady about to put on a show in a small Southern town - it was shot in Allegheny County and Sparta, North Carolina - and then some aliens just so happen to show up.
Luckily, she has the help of locals like Alex (LaRue) and Sunset (Sunset Carson, a former rodeo star who became a B level cowboy star for Republic in the 1940's).
Much like Without Warning, this movie somehow rips off Predator years before that movie was made. Life's weird like that sometimes.
Smoot also directed - surprise, surprise - The Dark Power, as well as serving as a camera operator on Carnival Magic, a movie that has wiped out whatever brain cells I had left from art school.
Jesse Jamison (Kari Anderson, a fitness model who now works as a makeup artist) is a gun shooting lady about to put on a show in a small Southern town - it was shot in Allegheny County and Sparta, North Carolina - and then some aliens just so happen to show up.
Luckily, she has the help of locals like Alex (LaRue) and Sunset (Sunset Carson, a former rodeo star who became a B level cowboy star for Republic in the 1940's).
Much like Without Warning, this movie somehow rips off Predator years before that movie was made. Life's weird like that sometimes.
"From the creator of The Dark Power!" ... O-oh!
Coventry3 March 2020
You can say a lot about this zero-budgeted amateur trash movie, but certainly not that it suffers from false modesty... The DVD-cover proudly cries out: "The movie that formed the inspiration for Predator!" Right, okay, I can maybe see some vague similarities, but to even try and compare this lame Z-grade nonsense with the sublime Schwarzenegger Sci-Fi/action classic is beyond preposterous. Another thing the DVD proclaims is: "From the creator of The Dark Power". That, on the other hand, should have triggered my brain to put the film safely back where it was. "The Dark Power" is one of the dullest and most imbecilic horror movies of the 80s, and "Alien Outlaw" isn't any better, in fact. The particular creator - Phil Smoot - must have had an epiphany in 1985, because wrote & directed his only two cheesy full-feature movies, and then vanished back into anonymity. In both movies, Smoot foresees crucial roles for his (I assume) personal childhood hero Lash LaRue; - a long retired actor who made a handful of western movies in the 1940s that nobody ever watched. The lead heroine is a travelling gunslinger expert named Jesse Jamison (get it?). She has such beautiful and sexy legs that she refuses to wear pants throughout the entire movie. Her two male employees are too busy sleeping around with local floozies, so Jesse is entirely alone to battle a couple of ugly aliens that land on earth and randomly start killing people. The aliens look like smaller versions of Chewbacca with bad hangovers and sunglasses. You'd also expect that the aliens bring along their hi-tech and far advanced space-armory, like laser guns or something, but nah. They just steal old-fashioned earthly pistols and twirl them around like Sunset Carson and Lash LaRue did in their stupid 40s westerns. This all may sound cheesy and fun enough, but you know very well that, in reality, this is the type of dreadfully tedious amateur flick with overlong and meaningless dialogues, atrocious acting, infantile humor and inept action footage. If you are really, really bored you can perhaps watch "Alien Outlaw" simply to gaze at Kari Anderson's beautiful legs, because it's the only movie she ever appeared in (and, judging by her acting skills, righteously so)
There's really only one reason to see Alien Outlaw
bensonmum216 July 2017
A group of three aliens comes to Earth to . . . well, I'm not really sure why they're here. They steal some guns - old style revolvers and rifles - and start shooting people. Oh, and they also beat-up a car for some reason. Our heroine, Jesse Jamison (Kari Anderson), seems to be the only person in the small town the aliens have landed who can do anything about them. She's an expert with a gun herself and it's up to her to save the day.
I would say that Alien Outlaw was trying to cash in on the success of Predator, but it actually came out first. I suppose the aliens are on Earth to do a little hunting as in Predator, but they don't seem to have any weapons of their own. So, like I said earlier, I'm not sure why they're here. You'd think that a civilization capable of interstellar travel would have a better plan than these three seem to have.
Beyond the plot's lack of logic, almost everything else is bad. The special effects are poor, the comedy is weak, and the acting is downright atrocious. The film features two old time Western actors, Sunset Carson and Lash La Rue. Neither brings much to the table other than some unintentional humor. In short, Alien Outlaw is pretty much a disaster.
As bad as it is, there are a couple of things to enjoy. There are a few scenes that actually (most likely by accident) work. For example, the scenes where the aliens come out of the water are effective and nicely filmed. But the main reason to see Alien Outlaw is for lead actress Kari Anderson. It's not that she's much of an actress (this is her only acting credit), but those legs! Anderson's legs are the real star of the Alien Outlaw.
I would say that Alien Outlaw was trying to cash in on the success of Predator, but it actually came out first. I suppose the aliens are on Earth to do a little hunting as in Predator, but they don't seem to have any weapons of their own. So, like I said earlier, I'm not sure why they're here. You'd think that a civilization capable of interstellar travel would have a better plan than these three seem to have.
Beyond the plot's lack of logic, almost everything else is bad. The special effects are poor, the comedy is weak, and the acting is downright atrocious. The film features two old time Western actors, Sunset Carson and Lash La Rue. Neither brings much to the table other than some unintentional humor. In short, Alien Outlaw is pretty much a disaster.
As bad as it is, there are a couple of things to enjoy. There are a few scenes that actually (most likely by accident) work. For example, the scenes where the aliens come out of the water are effective and nicely filmed. But the main reason to see Alien Outlaw is for lead actress Kari Anderson. It's not that she's much of an actress (this is her only acting credit), but those legs! Anderson's legs are the real star of the Alien Outlaw.
Cowgirls and Aliens
doctorsmoothlove5 August 2011
Warning: Spoilers
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
One of the finest "B" sci-fi's ever!
junky_mail2 January 2006
Where else would you get a mix of aliens wielding .44 Magnums and old cowboy stars coming to the rescue? You owe it to yourself to see what kind of fun can be produced on a shoestring. Phil Smoot rocks! Check out "The Dark Power" for more proof... He really knows how to dish up camp with his over-the-top directorial style. This was Sunset Carson's, Wild Bill Cody's and Lash LaRue's last film before their deaths. They may or may not have been proud of that fact, but at least it gave another generation a bit of insight into the black-and-white "B" Western genre. A bit of trivia, this movie was filmed in and around the Glade Valley School in Sparta, NC. Sparta is the county seat of Alleghany County, the home of more Christmas tree farms than any other county in the country.
Guns don't kill people - badly dressed aliens do.
JoeB13128 February 2009
I'm really surprised this film still exists. I'm guessing someone bought the rights a garage sale and put it on DVD.
The plot is that a trio of aliens land their spaceships somewhere in North Carolina, and for some inexplicable reason, go on a killing and rape rampage after finding a trailer load of guns belonging to carnival gunslinging gal. Amazingly, the aliens are not only able to easily master human weapons, but riding horses as well, because apparently there are equestrian events on Zeta Reticuli B.
Well, the gunslinging gal wears a dress with a hemline that barely covers her buttocks, no doubt to detract from the fact she was flat-chested and had misaligned teeth. (A professional actress- NOT!) After an encounter with the aliens where she barely avoids being sexually assaulted, there is a big showdown at the end where she kills all three aliens, who apparently went hunting on Earth with exploding backpacks.
E.T. this ain't, but you suspect that the reason they got backers is that you could get backers for anything with the word alien in the title. In some ways, the plot is like Predator. Except now Predator takes on a new luster compared to this.
Another note- There is a bit of nudity in this film, making it a drive-in classic. (You never see much nudity in today's films, thanks to the prudes at the MPAA.) I think it shows we've gotten more reserved on that since the 1980's, not less.
The plot is that a trio of aliens land their spaceships somewhere in North Carolina, and for some inexplicable reason, go on a killing and rape rampage after finding a trailer load of guns belonging to carnival gunslinging gal. Amazingly, the aliens are not only able to easily master human weapons, but riding horses as well, because apparently there are equestrian events on Zeta Reticuli B.
Well, the gunslinging gal wears a dress with a hemline that barely covers her buttocks, no doubt to detract from the fact she was flat-chested and had misaligned teeth. (A professional actress- NOT!) After an encounter with the aliens where she barely avoids being sexually assaulted, there is a big showdown at the end where she kills all three aliens, who apparently went hunting on Earth with exploding backpacks.
E.T. this ain't, but you suspect that the reason they got backers is that you could get backers for anything with the word alien in the title. In some ways, the plot is like Predator. Except now Predator takes on a new luster compared to this.
Another note- There is a bit of nudity in this film, making it a drive-in classic. (You never see much nudity in today's films, thanks to the prudes at the MPAA.) I think it shows we've gotten more reserved on that since the 1980's, not less.
a perfect case movie.
jimvandemoter-502367 September 2019
I call this a perfect case movie because that's how much you'd have to drink to make it bearable. That being said, if you're drunk enough this might be watchable, it really is that bad. Plan 9 From Outer Space is a masterpiece compared to this disaster. Hey, toss me another beer.
Just when you think you'd seen every bad movie ever made....
ksdilauri12 February 2019
--along comes this one. Some may feel that it was supposed to be funny, but that's majorly debatable. However, check out two interesting reviews here, written by people who were involved in the making of 'Alien Outlaw'--- they give some unique perspective on it. Bottom line, in spite of any fond memories they have of the filming (the crews do work hard, even on films that have idiotic scripts, plots, dialogue, and acting) it's truly one of the most awful movies ever released. It sadly deserves every riff.
A is for Aliens, B is for Boring...
beastwarsfan10 May 2007
Alien Outlaw, described as sci-fi/western, and unlike a regular B-movies, which usually get ratings below 4,5 this one has 6 something... Worth watching I thought. I was wrong. For 20 minutes I tried really hard to like this film. But I just couldn't force myself to see the rest of this uber boring crap without skipping and fast forward. I love B-movies but this is just boring 90 minutes. Dull uninteresting dialogs linking scene after scene after scene where just NOTHING happens, cause they are NOT showing the Alien Outlaw, which is just a guy with black gloves, some jacket with stuff attached to it to make it look "alien" and a bad mask on his head. OK, since you have already made this suit and it won't cost you more if you show it more, right?! So why do I have to wait for half an hour to get a peak on this so called Alien Outlaw?! No distant planets, no outer space, no laser blasters, no nothing. Just a very very bad UFO shot at the beginning of the movie, and then another shot where the UFO just GOES DOWN behind some trees and you hear a crash... Just like that. Why the hell the stupid flying saucer broke down and crashed you will never know. That's about the sci-fi, now about the western part. By western they mean that they have some horse scenes and some 6-guns. Some bullets shot but there is nothing that is even remotely close to a decent gunfight let alone a classic wild west showdown. NO WILD WEST here guys! They have some old cowboy stars, so I guess the movie is interesting for their fans, but I've never even heard their names since the credits of "Alien Outlaw". I guess they were popular in USA during the 40s and I'm sure they still have fans, so maybe for them this movie will be a curious one, but I'm quite sure they will be disappointed too, if not ashamed to see their childhood heroes in such a bad excuse for a movie.
If anyone can figure out why these outlaw "aliens" are on Earth in the first place...
robertstjames25 September 2015
Warning: Spoilers
This one is beyond awful. The aliens look like guys dressed in frog suits with cheap Halloween masks and seem to have no purpose on earth but to twirl six guns (for real, that old fashioned swing the gun by its trigger guard thing), bust out windshields on cars (interstellar vandalism...huh?) and from time to time, shoot people for no particular reason (do these guys not have laser guns or any weapons other than what they find laying around?)
Not to worry, tho...awful acting and cornball plot fill in the very large blank spaces between action scenes. You'll be so desperate for something to happen that you'll find yourself cheering the car destroying scene. And then turning the movie off because not even Rifftrax makes this steaming pile worth finishing.
Not to worry, tho...awful acting and cornball plot fill in the very large blank spaces between action scenes. You'll be so desperate for something to happen that you'll find yourself cheering the car destroying scene. And then turning the movie off because not even Rifftrax makes this steaming pile worth finishing.
Seems like this film should of been more fun than the end product.
Aaron137513 May 2020
I do not know what happened with this film as the premise sounds like it should of made a fun film; however, that is not the case as instead we get a film where scenes about virtually nothing go on and on and on! This film even features Lash La Rue and he does not even whip anything or have a whip in this film. Didn't the filmmakers know that was his trademark? Instead we get this supposed super shooter girl who can handle guns, but does not seem to keep track of when to reload. We get three aliens who go on the rampage with absolutely no reasoning behind their killing spree and their use of our weapons instead of something of their own.
The story, a ship crashes and after a long scene of a guy convincing a girl he has to go he becomes the first victim, allowing himself to have a gun taken from him and then being shot. A woman who is a supposed big deal is irked at her agent and goes to this place that keeps stressing how they are a great company to promote stuff to get new management. What does this have to do with the aliens? Soon the aliens ram into a girl and then we watch two guys at a river where one of them thinks vacationing means stripping down to your boxers and shooting things and the other one has the handy skill of being deadly accurate with a fishing pole. We find out that the dude who was killed at the beginning was related to Lash's character, but little tears are shed when they find out he has been killed. There is also a scene where a couple argues about a map at a gas station with almost the same ferocity as the characters in Blair Witch and then they speed off without their dog and did I mention there are aliens in this, because you can almost forget about them at times!
This film fails on so many levels to the point it is boring rather than so bad it's good. Too many scenes keep going without any payoff as they feel the need to show us the shooter interviewing for crying out loud. As I said, Lash gets top billing, but does not get to use a whip when there are three aliens because we have to show what an awesome shooter the girl is and they have to have her shoot with no pants on, which I understand as her ass is more attractive than her face.
So, not a good movie and not as fun as the premise should of made this movie be. The aliens are a bore and there is way too many scenes that add little to the film other than extending its run time. I think the same people that did this one also did a film called the Dark Power which also featured Lash, but he got to whip stuff in it and it was a bit more fun than this film which at times is very tedious to watch.
The story, a ship crashes and after a long scene of a guy convincing a girl he has to go he becomes the first victim, allowing himself to have a gun taken from him and then being shot. A woman who is a supposed big deal is irked at her agent and goes to this place that keeps stressing how they are a great company to promote stuff to get new management. What does this have to do with the aliens? Soon the aliens ram into a girl and then we watch two guys at a river where one of them thinks vacationing means stripping down to your boxers and shooting things and the other one has the handy skill of being deadly accurate with a fishing pole. We find out that the dude who was killed at the beginning was related to Lash's character, but little tears are shed when they find out he has been killed. There is also a scene where a couple argues about a map at a gas station with almost the same ferocity as the characters in Blair Witch and then they speed off without their dog and did I mention there are aliens in this, because you can almost forget about them at times!
This film fails on so many levels to the point it is boring rather than so bad it's good. Too many scenes keep going without any payoff as they feel the need to show us the shooter interviewing for crying out loud. As I said, Lash gets top billing, but does not get to use a whip when there are three aliens because we have to show what an awesome shooter the girl is and they have to have her shoot with no pants on, which I understand as her ass is more attractive than her face.
So, not a good movie and not as fun as the premise should of made this movie be. The aliens are a bore and there is way too many scenes that add little to the film other than extending its run time. I think the same people that did this one also did a film called the Dark Power which also featured Lash, but he got to whip stuff in it and it was a bit more fun than this film which at times is very tedious to watch.
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dawsondarling22 March 2019
Harmless Drive-in Fair
societialreform21 March 2022
I watched the Rifftrax version of this film and it is harmless drive-in fair. The acting is not bad, if you accept going in that it is the type of film you used to see on the second bill at a drive-in. Andrew and Peter fishing is a highlight, and Lash LaRue has less to do than he did in The Dark Power. Reliable humor is provided by Luger. Watch the Rifftrax version and their added comedy lifts the film.
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