Alien Blood (1999)

User Rating:

3.0/10   

Director:

Jon Sorensen

Writers:

Jon Sorensen (screenplay)
Jon Sorensen (story)

Tagline:

The Truth is Out There...Way Out There!

Plot:

How far would a Mother go, to get her child safely home, if home...were another planet? On the last day of the 20th Century, a story of motherly love and extreme violence. |

Cast

Rob Campbell	...	Farmer / Agent
Shirley Clarke	...	2nd Alien Mother
Penelope Dudley
Tony Hunt
Robert Jackson	...	Alien Boy
Francesca Manning
Vanessa Stevens
Rebecca Stirling
Catherine Whitaker
Glyn Whiteside

Runtime:

80 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Metrocolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

UK:18

Filming Locations:

Hay Bridge Nature Reserve, Cumbria, England, UK

Company:

West Coast Films

Trivia:

Shot in 15 days.

Strange little Brit-flick

This is a Troma Team release, a pick-up, not an original, so therefore it's not typical Troma. Which sometimes is good, and in this case, yes, this is good. Weird, definitely. This begins something like a melding of Man Who Fell To Earth with Land of the Lost and perhaps a dash of Laserblast thrown in for good measure. A blond woman and her daughter are wandering through the English countryside and they're obviously "not from around there" because there's people hunting them. The hunters look like an army of Invisible Men, because their heads are wrapped in white bandages (?) and they're sporting shades. Anyway, this woman happens across this house in the country that's the sight of a fancy dress party, for New Years, I guess, and either some of the people in this house are vampires or it's just part of their costumes, that's never really explained and when these folks are under fire and defending themselves they don't take out their fake vampire teeth, unless they're actually MEANT to be vampires. Who the heck knows. Anyway this blond woman and her daughter take refuge at this house and the bad guys are systematically dealt with via gunfire and even scanner-type activity from the little girl. I'm not doing so well at describing this because it really is a fairly decent movie, with beautiful cinematography and a very different atmosphere to it. There are a lot of inexplicable things in this though, like what are those sounds one hears while the camera is roaming around the house? They almost sound like a needle being dragged across a record or perhaps maybe farting noises? Anyway, that's mostly inconsequential, this is one oddball and fascinating flick to watch and pretty damn good for some little independent film. 8 out of 10 and check it out, you may be surprised how good it is. Or not.