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Title: Alien Trespass [Blu-ray] (2009)
Format: Blu-ray
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Starring: Eric McCormack, Jenni Baird, Robert Patrick, Jody Thompson, and Dan Lauria
Director: R.W. Goodwin
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Runtime: 90 minutes
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Review of Alien Trespass [Blu-ray]

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• Posted on 2009-11-15
  Fine to watch repeatedly. A cute little movie.
  
  ALIEN TRESPASS starts with a black and white newsreel called, "News from around the world. Nov. 21, 1957." The voiceover says, "At Cape Canaveral, another probe into space--target the moon. A 52 ton multi-stage rocket combining elements of the Thor ICBM and the Vanguard is ready for firing." The next newsreel continues with the outer space theme by showing Santa Claus in a flying saucer at a Christmas parade in Allentown, PA. We see a little girl crying at the parade. The next part of the newsreel documents the cancellation, by Hollywood moguls, of the release of ALIEN TRESPASS.
  
  FLYING SAUCER LANDS IN THE DESERT. Then the actual movie begins and it is in color. The movie proper starts in the apartment of a young woman, Darlene. She's doing a little painting of a horse while watching, on television, an interview with an astronomer. Then the woman looks up to see a meteor shower outside her window. Then the movie cuts to two teenagers making out in an automobile, and they see the meteor shower too, as well as a flying saucer crash landing nearby. We then see the door of the flying saucer open, and a squid monster comes out and eats a coyote. Next, a silver-garbed alien comes out. He is nine feet tall, just like the Kanamits in TO SERVE MAN, a famed episode from the Twilight Zone. But the silver-garbed alien is good, as his mission throughout the film is to hunt down and capture the dangerous squid monster. (We are never really told why the alien had the squid monster in the first place, or why he allowed it to escape from his flying saucer.)
  
  COMIC RELIEF IN CAFÉ. Comic relief comes from banter between an older policemen (Vernon) and a young, new policeman (Barney) in a café. "PPP is proper police procedure," says Vernon. "PPD is an unknown DUA." Barney replies, "But I though that was a PPK." "No," interrupts Vern," PPK is what you do behind a tree after you see a stiff." More comic relief comes from teenagers in the café. A first teenager wants to go out to the desert to find and view the crashed saucer. But a second teenager prefers to stay in town to see a display of a new model of Ford automobile called an Edsel. The first teenager replies, "Edsels will be around forever, but this won't." (Baby boomers will remember that the Edsel was the least successful automobile model in history, and it became a household word meaning a failed invention.)
  
  THEME OF SALT. Early in the film, the pipe-smoking astronomer goes to the crash site, and enters the saucer. But the alien captures him and occupies his body. The alien then drives into town and befriends the astronomer's lovely new wife and, at a later point in the story, Darlene the waitress. The wife and Darlene kiss the alien, at different points in the story, and the alien observes his sensation as "hormonal polarity." The alien sits at the breakfast table at the astronomer's home and tinkers with a salt shaker. "This will harm the Ghota," exclaims the alien to the lovely wife. This is where the theme of salt makes its first appearance.
  
  REDNECKS IN PICKUP TRUCK. More comic relief comes from two likeable rednecks (Lloyd and Bubba) in a pickup truck, as they drive through the desert. A radio announcement proclaims, "Friends, do you have tired blood?" Lloyd turns the radio down. "Hey Lloyd, leave it on," complains Bubba. "It's all trash," says Lloyd. "I want to hear it, I think I've got tired blood." Lloyd responds, "No, you've got lazy blood, there's a difference." The radio continues, "Do you have that run-down feeling?" Bubba then says, "I think I've got that run down feeling." To this, Lloyd exclaims, "If you so much touch that radio, I'm going to throw you out of the truck and you're going to have that run over feeling." At this point, a Ghota appears, and the Ghota first eats Bubba, and then it eats Lloyd.
  
  FURTHER PLOT DEVELOPMENT. The teenagers get more interested in the flying saucer, and one states that he has a new invention, the Polaroid camera, useful for taking photos of the crashed saucer. Another teenager, his friend, is confused as he'd never heard of Polaroid cameras, so he answered, "a paranoid camera"? Then, there is a domestic scene in a house where a young boy and his older sister get attacked by a Ghota, but escape. The policemen, Vernon and Barney arrive at the scene. But Vernon who investigates inside the house, gets eaten by a Ghota. This domestic scene has all kinds of subtle nuances, and many examples of excellent acting and scriptwriting.
  
  MORE ON THE SALT THEME. We are treated to some local color in the cafe. The cook proclaims, "Darlene, number 5, number 2, hot and sweaty." (I am not sure what "hot and sweaty" means, but it seems to be an interesting tidbit of cook's lingo.) Darlene accidently spills a jar of sugar, so she vacuums it up. But the vacuum cleaner has no bag in it, and sugar gets sprayed all over the customers in the café. This theme is developed later on, when the Ghotas enter a movie theater and attack the patrons. Darlene dumps salt into a vacuum cleaner, and sprays salt at the Ghotas. This would have made an excellent turning point in the movie. Unfortunately, however, the impact of the "salt theme" is ruined or disrupted by the fact that the alien enters the theater, discovers that Darlene and her friends are in trouble, and kills the Ghotas with his ray gun. In my opinion, this is a major flaw in the movie.
  
  (Please note that in THE BLOB, the theme of coldness as a means to immobilize the blob monster develops early. We first learn that the blob does not like the cold in the scene in the meat storage room. Then at the very end of THE BLOB, the townspeople immobilize the blob by shooting carbon dioxide from fire extinguishers at the blob. Thus, in THE BLOB we find a coherent development of this theme.}
  
  CONCLUSION. This is an excellent little movie. In many ways, it parallels that classic sci-fi movie, THE BLOB. As with THE BLOB, every minute of ALIEN TRESPASS sparkles with cleverness and suspense. ALIEN TRESPASS is fine for children aged nine and up. The squid monsters (Ghotas) will likely be scary to younger children. There is not one single bad word in the movie. There are no overt sexual images, language, or themes. The goal of the movie was to replicate the look and feel of a late 1950s science fiction movie. Hence, the film subjects the viewer to a certain amount of "retro trivia," namely, references to Edsels, to the newly invented Polaroid, to the tired blood advertisement, and to the movie THE BLOB. Fortunately, ALIEN TRESPASS refrains from beating this theme to death, and it refrains from subjecting the viewers to well-known pop songs or celebrities from the era. I am glad that the scriptwriter of ALIEN TRESPASS acted with restraint. Louis Febre composed the excellent music for the film.
  
  To repeat, my only criticism is that the scriptwriter messed up by dropping the salt theme, and by failing to allow this theme to develop to its logical conclusion. In other words, the earlier little hints about spilled sugar, and about salt, and about vacuum cleaners, was basically wasted. These plot elements were wasted by the fact that the alien intervened and destroyed the Ghotas with his ray gun.
  
  
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• Posted on 2009-11-13
  The doctor is has gone to Barstow
  
  While Dick (Andrew Dunbar) and Penny (Sarah Smyth) contemplating making out at The Point, they are interrupted by a defective space object. Meanwhile back at the ranch Ted Lewis (Eric McCormack) astronomer and his voluptuous wife Lana (Jody Thompson) are firering up a few steaks and maybe something else. From there the movie only heats up.
  
  New movie built as a sort of montage of our favorite 50's sci-fi movies. This is much better blended than most attempted spoofs that are usually a collection of clichés or cheap shots. While I was cheering for the good people, I am sure some will cheer the monster on as some of the characters deserved to be consumed. The only gory part is that the monster leaves ugly stain causing puddles.
  
  I only say the Blu-ray version so I cannot compare. However, the females looked a little too fresh for a 50's sci-fi; Lana looks like she would taste good with a little salt. Moreover, the others would not make you Urp. For persons that like the extras on DVD's you will be disappointed in the sparse choices.
  
  Teenagers From Outer Space (1959) ~ David Love
  
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• Posted on 2009-10-17
  Three thumbs up for Alien Trespass
  
  Alien Trespass is a fine spoof of those grand ol' B sci-fi flicks of yore. Great cast, well written and acted and full of witty references to those marvelous movies of yesteryear that are sure to warm your redundant hearts. get it and put in on the shelf next to Monster Man from Mars and Monarch of the Moon.
  
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• Posted on 2009-10-16
  Should Have Been Better
  
  Though mildly diverting, this homage to 50s sci-fi films misses the mark by quite a bit. The premise is straight forward enough. A flying sauces crash lands in the American southwest and the pilot needs to inhabit a human form so he can hunt down his escaped prisoner who, if left unchecked, will multiply and devour our precious earth.
  
  Being set in a small desert community, the movie focuses on a small group of people who are just a bit too cliche' to raise the movie above being...well.....cliche. You have the teens who no one believes when they try to tell them about the crashed saucer. You have a "Mutt and Jeff" duo who fulfill the comic relief quotient for the script. A womanizing sheriff's deputy, a scientist who smokes a pipe and a few others.
  
  The plot develops into scenes where the characters get gobbled up and liquifyed by the monsters as the focus characters slowly come to realize the local teens weren't lying. None of these scenes were really very clever and the monsters looked a bit too goofy. Yes, 50s sci-fi monsters weren't known for their high quality but these were just too............too. Other than half the cast being wiped out, all is well in the end.
  
  Some odd notes are: Being shot in a desert which had to provide a desirable lid to the budget, it appears some scenes were shot against a screen. Why? Also, if it is shot in the American southwest why was there both an American and Canadian casting director? Do Canadian's work cheaper? Go figure.
  
  There are worse movies to spend 98 minutes on but this could have, should have been better.
  
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• Posted on 2009-09-30
  Alien Trespass
  
  A nostalgic and fun flash back to those 'monster sci fi flix' of my childhood. I just loved it...I was not scared just totally entertained and gleefully amused.
  
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