So, Jake Wests ‘Evil Aliens’. Just so it is known, this film is almost the definition of a guilty pleasure. Starring British horror pin-up icon Emily Booth, and featuring an almost gratuitous amount of gore, this film is perfect Friday night after the pub fodder.
Synopsis:
A young welsh girl and her lover are abducted by aliens at a mysterious stone circle on a remote Welsh island. A TV crew from the mainland, headed up by Emily Booth, are sent to investigate in the hopes of reviving the audience figures for their paranormal show ‘Weird Worlde’. Dragging along a couple of actors to create some ‘reconstructions’, they arrive and are immediately cut off from the mainland by the rising tide. At the farmhouse home of the young girl, who by now has been returned pregnant, they meet her 3 non English speaking farmer brothers, all of whom seem a bit, well, odd. Then the aliens arrive….
And that’s all you need to know. From this point onwards, the film becomes a wall to wall explosion of cheap gore, bad welsh jokes, and some mildly arousing semi nudity (not much from miss Booth though). As I said, the gore is cheap, but plentiful, only let down by the bargain basement CGI work, which frankly would have been better if it had been done as practical effects.
Opinion:
The influence of Peter Jacksons ‘Bad Taste’ is all over this film, from the geeky alien obsessed nerd, to the extreme gore, and silly humour (one scene involves an army of aliens being mowed down by a combine harvester whilst the Wurzels 1970s hit record ‘Combine Harvester’ plays on the soundtrack). This of course is no bad thing, as horror and comedy can often make good bedfellows. And they do here.
4/5 Fiends (maybe 5 if you are pissed)
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