Tuesday, February 4, 2020

The Alien Factor (1978)




The Alien Factor is the kind of movie starring actors, on IMDB, known for their performances in The Alien Factor. Some lackadaisical cowboys are on a mission to hunt down what could only be a wild animal terrorizing youths, but we know it was The Alien Factor.

It's a great Alien Factor indeed. It could be a zombie insect humanoid, but more likely just a guy covered with black duct tape and raisins. Guns don't hurt it so it seems likely everyone in the little mountain town is screwed. With cinemagic in full effect, it's like the monster's magic powers elicit memories of Bed Nobs and Broom Sticks. There's lots of colored misty stuff and things, all somewhat psychedelic. The theremin heavy music adds to the effect.

Another of the aliens, a static robot? And one has claws? It's honestly hard to tell if it's multiple aliens or just such crap lighting and all the same one. I dunno.

Thankfully a meteor specialist slash crackpot UFO nerd shows up. He's just the untrained kind of person to run around in the woods and not help out with a wild goose chase.

The spaceship they find in the snow is pretty cool, actually its one helluva sight.

Then loser mayor and UFO specialist find tracksuit alien who only speaks through psychic purple glitter energy. It's near dead, but thankfully they talk to it in time to learn that the crashed spaceship is actually a bomb about to explode.

Okay, confirmed... the tracksuit alien was transporting zoo specimens. There's at least 3 different ones. At least one is a crafty energy being. And they're murderous.

Thankfully the UFO guy figured out that using a high frequency "sound field" via an old PA speaker was all that was needed to kill bug alien. That was fortuitous.

How did the bad aliens get defeated? Big reveal time. Thankfully the UFO nerd was a good person alien in disguise, there to save the human race. Too bad it was the only alien in the movie susceptible to bullets. The trigger happy country boys finally get their day. Dead good guy alien. Sad ending. Boooo. The humans still couldn't get past the idea that just because an alien looks like an ewok on meth, it isn't such a bad dude. The end.




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