Alien Raiders (2008)

What a beautiful movie!

People are voting emotionally.

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

Judging by the title, the DVD-cover and the year of release, I would normally never even bother to watch this "Alien Raiders"… I'm a huge fan of old alien invasion movies, more particularly from the fifties and the eighties, because they feature crazy chaotic plots, outrageously cheesy special effects and a cast full of washed up B- movie stars. I don't like "new" alien invasion movies because they usually feature imbecilic plots and lousy computer-engineered effects. But a friend advised me to nevertheless check out "Alien Raiders", and I can understand why, because this is definitely one of the more inspired and entertaining low-budget Sci-Fi movies of the past two decades. The film is arguably derivative of the previous year's hit film "The Mist", as it copies the setting as well as a handful of other ideas, but there are plenty of aspects to guarantee an hour and a half of good old-fashioned and action packed Sci-Fi/horror fun. Two days before Christmas, in the sleepy little time of Buck Lake – Arizona, a troop of heavily armed militants invade the cozy Hasting Supermarket shortly before closing time. Everyone assumes they are robbers or terrorists, but in fact they are some kind of violent scientists in search for extraterrestrial parasites that are allegedly present here. The group's well-planned routing goes awry when their paranormal medium (a big-eyed freak that scans people's brains) gets shot and they have to conduct their alien identification tests via old-fashioned and unorthodox methods. Meanwhile, police forces and hostage negotiators gather outside the supermarket. What I like most about "Alien Raiders" is that it's 100% unpretentious and straightforward. It's clear that director Ben Rock and his crew don't aim to win any originality prices or cinematography Oscars, but at least everyone who was involved in this production does their job professionally. The acting performances are more than decent, without any big names in the cast list, and there are a couple of nicely gooey make-up effects and nasty slaughters. The last 10-15 minutes are rather dull, predictable and disappointing

Please change the title! The title is a spoiler. If the movie had a different title, the viewer would have been wandering for 35 minutes "what the h*** is going on!" The audience sees a group of thieves? Terrorists? One of them touches their heads. One of the hostages is killed, the other not. Why?With that title, I was just waiting for the monster to get out from someone's body. And that's what happens.The movie is not that bad. Acting is pretty good and cinematography too. The script sometimes repeats itself.My favorite line is Cop: You were infected?Charlotte: - Yeah. Didn't take. Too much "better living through chemistry" screws them up real good. The only problem is you gotta keep using to keep them from taking over.Cop : That's the best druggie excuse I've heard.

I bought this DVD prior to watching given the fact that it is difficult to find and all of the Blockbuster locations are closing. I read many reviews prior to buying the film.This was a very good movie considering the budget the director had to work with. I was impressed with the action sequences and creature effects. The title does not really described this movie and neither does the front cover of the DVD. Most of the characters are played by relatively unknown actors ( aside from the African American cop from Six Feet Under series) but they all do a decent job.Definitely worth checking out or buying on Amazon.

Very good movie for your first..... Keep whoever you had on the project for future projects. Almost all good actors picked, good camera work, etc.You did so well that it didn't look like a low budget "B" movie. I hate "B" movies and can pick them out easy and this was like a decent mid level movie. If I wasn't told I wouldn't have known it was low budget and your first movie. It looked entirely professional.Surprisingly good. I was set to poo-poo this supposed travesty, but, its actually good. (yes, i said poo-poo) lol :PFine work....