Description

When the low-budget sci-fi cable news show Weird World hears of a Welsh farm girl kidnapped and impregnated by aliens, they don’t believe a word of it, but nevertheless pack up their oversexed anchor, camera crew, UFO expert and re-creation actors to head to the remote island farmstead for the story. Ratings are horrible, and if they can’t make something sensational of this, then it’s lights out for Weird World. But the crew finds more than expected on arrival. The pregnancy is real and proceeding far faster than humanly possible. The aliens are also real and far from friendly. They are, as the title says, evil aliens, Satanic even, and using human test subjects for breeding experiments. In mere moments, the Weird World crew is forced out of their bemused skepticism and into a fight for their lives.

Every year it seems as though there is a new crop of young filmmakers desperate to be labeled the next Sam Raimi or Peter Jackson, laying on the low-budget splatter and hoping enough sticks that they can claim the next Evil Dead as their very own. Unfortunately, most of these films are painfully bad - unoriginal, uncreative, poorly-shot exercises in tedium. No such problem with Jake West’s Evil Aliens. West himself is a strange animal, equal parts fanboy and technically accomplished filmmaker. His first low-budget feature, Razor Blade Smile, showed so much promise that it remains the lowest-budgeted film to ever secure theatrical release in the U.K., and West earns his day-to-day living running a cult DVD label and shooting behind-the-scenes documentaries and special features for cult-film releases. And so West is in an unusual position, a man with an exhaustive knowledge and deep love of genre film who also has the technical chops to do things up right.

Wildly over the top from start to finish - loaded with probings, dismemberments, lethal farm implements, tri-breasted alien contortionists and literally hundreds of gallons of blood – Evil Aliens is a delirious, blood-drenched, loving ode to the splat-stick tradition. Every bit as hilarious as it is transgressive, Evil Aliens nods to the classics while putting West’s own distinctive spin on things. From the heroic trio of inbred Welsh brothers through to the harvester sequence that stands as one of the all-time great comic splatter set pieces, Evil Aliens is a film that actually deserves comparison to the classics.

—Todd Brown

"Gorily hilarious" — Michael Gingold, FANGORIA

Website

http://www.evilaliensthemovie.co.uk/

Credits

Director: Jake West
Screenplay: Jake West
Cast: Emily Booth, Chris Adamson, Norman Lovett, Sam Butler, Tree Carr, Tim Clark, Glenn Collier, Jennifer Evans
Producers: Tim Dennison
Distributor: Image Entertainment