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61 out of 87 people found the following review useful:
You will never see a film like this again, 19 May 2005

Author: jo-171

About thirty seconds into the film you'll find yourself with your jaw dropped somewhere down to around about your knees as it opens with a sequence so hideously disgusting you can't quite believe you are really seeing what you are seeing. Comparisons will doubtless be made between this film and Shaun of the Dead and also Peter Jackson's Brain Dead / Bad Taste neither really took things to such a painfully funny - quite beyond belief - level that this film does. Whilst the film will always be remembered (rightfully so) for the combine harvester scene - which is truly hilarious - it is so much more than an individual collection of gross out sketches - it is a wonderfully silly but engrossing yarn that doesn't let you go from the very first moment to the last, with visual effects - both prosthetic and CGI that quite literally first rate. Watch it – be amazed – be offended – be thankful that the British film industry has some balls in it yet…

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39 out of 56 people found the following review useful:
Super-multi-reference alien horror spectacular, 7 June 2005

Author: poikkeus from San Francisco

Jake West (Razor Blade Smile) certainly knows his horror films, and EVIL ALIENS is a hilarious blender-mix of all your favorite science fiction and horror film motifs -- which easily stands on its own.

Without ruining the surprise, EVIL ALIENS tells the story of a group of disreputable news unit who sets out to cover a bizarre story of alien abduction on an isolated island off the coast of Wales. When they get there, the wild action really begins in earnest; there ARE aliens, and they're not the "space brothers" their on-board UFOlogist would want to believe. Let's just say that this film gives a new dimension to the anal probe, and moves from there.

Horror and science film junkies will have their hands full trying to keep track of all the clever film references, which include ALIENS, EVIL DEAD, THE WATCHMAN, PREDATOR, PHANTASM, JAWS, and uncountable other flicks you've wasted your youth watching. Not unlike REANIMATOR, EVIL ALIENS' great strength is its willingness to take all its ideas to their absolute extreme. And of course, it's a monstrously fun audience movie -- which won a standing ovation at its sold-out San Francisco premiere.

EVIL ALIENS is bloody good fun.

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30 out of 44 people found the following review useful:
Funny as £@(&!, 1 March 2006

Author: druquzdog from United States

Go into this expecting a low-budget hammy stomp through the horror/sci-fi field and you won't be disappointed. Some have raised objection to the comparisons with Jacksons early work, but I can't think of anything closer in spirit with which to compare. Stylisticaly different, but with the same sense of adventure and desire to make a damn fine piece of entertainment. Evil Aliens has also been compared unfavourably to Shaun of the Dead. In this case, they are very different films. Given a choice of which to watch again, I'd have to choose Evil Aliens. I laughed more, it takes itself less seriously and it's more unique. Not that the material is original, but the execution is done with such vision and belief that the directors enthusiasm becomes contagious. Some won't like it, because at points it comes off as totally b-movie cheap. Others will see this as a plus-point. I've not seen a better horror comedy in many years! Thought there is a lot of blood thrown around and some fine effects at times, it's really not about the gore. It's the humour of the script, not the production values that shine through. That aside, there's some damn fine direction in evidence that shines mainly by being inventive but unobtrusive. Not for movie snobs, but for people who know the beauty of energetic clever trash cinema.

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16 out of 21 people found the following review useful:
Hilarious genre masterpiece!, 27 August 2006

Author: PhrankC from United Kingdom

The title gives it all away, really. They're aliens. They're evil. With this in mind, should you really expect high art? Go into this with the right frame of mind and you'll thoroughly enjoy it. If you've seen Jake West's previous feature Razor Blade Smile, you'll enjoy this, although Evil Aliens is miles ahead in production value and acting.

I'm not going to discuss the plot beyond this: Aliens are abducting Welsh sheep farmers and performing exactly the sort of experiments you'd expect. Enter the gorgeous Emily Booth as the presenter of a dodgy satellite TV show on alien abductions. Add some inbred farmers, fantastically sadistic aliens, surprisingly good gore effects and a lot of laughs and you have Evil Aliens. A perfect after the pub movie, and a shot in the arm if you're sick of the oh-so-serious po-faced horror movies of today.

In a nutshell - Peter Jackson's successor is here - Evil Aliens has everything which made Braindead (DeadAlive) fantastic and more.

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24 out of 39 people found the following review useful:
This will be ranked among the best of the genre, 6 June 2005

Author: ogytork from San Francisco

*** This review may contain spoilers ***

I just saw this at a film festival in San Francisco.

I met the director Jake West shortly before his film screened and he was quite humble about it. He said, "If you don't look me in the eye when you come out of the theater I'll know you didn't like it." Suffice it to say the movie got a standing ovation and I ran down the aisle and give him a big bear hug.

This movie is a masterpiece of the genre. I haven't enjoyed a movie like this one since I first stumbled upon Peter Jackson's Bad Taste. Personally I think it's better than all of Jackson's early gore/comedy films. I'd even put it on par with Evil Dead 2. Evil Aliens is basically a love letter to these movies. Littered throughout the movie are cinematic references to many of our favorite gags and quotes. This is a real gutsy move because in most other people's hands all of these homage's would come across as derivative ripoffs of other people's work, but it works in this film. I think this is mostly because there are plenty of original gags and quotes in this film that hold up to direct comparison with the work of others is sincerely celebrating. The bottom line is that Jake West is a good writer. The dialog is fun and keeps the movie running at a good pace. The characters are introduced as stereotypes, but when things go bad they evolve into better, more interesting people. You get to know them by their actions, not their heritage.

O.K. Enough highbrow talk.

This is a gory comedy about welsh farmers, a camera crew, and a UFO Geek going head to head with a bunch of Predator-looking aliens. These aliens are hell bent on doing what aliens do best. Impregnating the women, anally probing the men, and mutilating the cattle. Our place is not to question why they do these things but to appreciate their reckless enthusiasm. Once the action starts it rarely lets up. The humans all do a pretty good job of standing their ground with shotguns, cricket bats, chainsaws, rotor-tillers, and a tractor combine. Come to think of it, that's probably all I needed to tell you for you to know it's a great film. One Tractor Combine + 20 Aliens running away across a wheat field = Everything you need to know before deciding whether you want to see this movie.

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10 out of 12 people found the following review useful:
Gore Mongral Movie Review: Evil Aliens, 28 August 2006

Author: ChiefGoreMongral from Knoxville Cannibal Pygmy Reservation

*** This review may contain spoilers ***

This is it the movie that a lot of people have been hyping as the second coming of the splatter comedy genre and Id have to say that for the most part they are right!! Evil Aliens is a Splatterfest of a good time for those that are down with movies like "Bad Taste" and "Dead Alive". I feel that of all the splatter horror movies "Bad Taste" best describes what this movie is close to. So if you liked that you kind of know what you are getting into.

Anyway back to the review. Aliens have come down and "apparently" made a back hills girl pregnant. A Weekly World News style TV series has gotten wind of this and with its host (played by the delicious Emily Booth) and some other film crew and paranormal types as well as a few ham actors to spice up there performance, set out to film the girl and reenact the incident. What they do not plan on however is the Aliens returning back to cause more havoc.

Other than the intro (which gives us a truly interesting take on an anal probing) the movie may not appear to get more gory than its first sequences after the first 30 to 40 minutes in. However once it gets past its lull this movie kicks out the gore in buckets. The effects are handled very well and, for the most part, the eyesore of the movie industry,CGI, has been handled a lot better than in most major movie release..sad really as this was made with a fraction of what they have to work with!! The only parts that really didn't work well for me was the flying alien probe machines that were CGI..they just looked to computerized and didn't look right in the truck chasing sequence in the film but at least it was tolerable.

On the gore scale this movie is up there and it does take it's shots at famous horror and sci-fi movie quotes pretty deliberately and the humor is not as forced as my previous review "Cemetery Gates" however saying that, some of the humor went over my head as apparently unless your from England you may not get it. Did it detract from the movie, slightly, as I felt like the guy who just didn't get the punchline on several occasions and some of the humor in certain scenes were just not funny (one part in particular involved a UFO fanatic and his own homemade crop circle sign) However when I got it, and the humor made since, there were some funny parts and lets not forget the universal language of laughs "Splatstick" which had me laughing my sick little head at the screen on more than one occasion.

In conclusion will this movie make you forget about Jackson's Unholy Trinity of Bad Taste, Dead Alive and Meet the Feebles, No, but what it is is an example of one of the better Splatstick films you can get your hands on. There is only a few that I would rate as worthy splatter flick and this is one of them. So for my final score I give Evil Aliens a: 7/10: Good film only other Splatstick films that worked better for me are the Jackson movies and Evil Dead 2, and its dead on with Permutos. I have been hoping to have another movie added to this elite bunching and I can honestly say this will be one of them. Though some of the humor is hit and miss when it gets to the gruel it lets it fly and has a fun time doing it...Enjoy!!! Some may be waiting for the Image release of this film which is slated for a January 2007 release. If you own a Region free and Format free player, port this sucker. It has no extras save for some crappy trailers for some gay films. Also though the DVD has a widescreen version it is unfortunately not anamorphic. The movie alone however is still worth the pick up.

I bought mine from devotedvd.com however X-ploited Cinema now has this up for sale on their site, its under $20 as well. Splatter fans may do well to get this ASAP!!! Jake West I salute you!!! Until next time Pygmies remember if you fighting Aliens never turn your back as you may get a suppository the size of a tree rammed up your keaster...Close Encounter of the Third Kind Style!!! I'm Out!!!

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20 out of 32 people found the following review useful:
Excellent film !, 17 February 2006

Author: jay_graham2001 from Canada

I gave this film a high rating because not only did I win some free stuff at the viewing, I laughed my head off all the way through. This film is excellent ! It had everything I wanted to see in the sci-fi / horror / comedy genres. It was well written, well Directed, the Cast performed their jobs well. I was aware of a couple of the cast members, Emily Booth ( A.K.A "Bouff" from a British television video game review show) and Her Boss at the beginning, played the the part of Holly the computer in the great British TV show Red Dwarf.

The film is largely a homage, if you will, to many classic sci-fi and horror films. Making reference to such films as Dead Alive(Braindead, Bad Taste, Alien, Predator, American Werewolf in London, I also got a feeling of Revenge Of Billy the Kid in there too. Probably the farmers hating the mainlanders.

The special make up FX were excellent. I liked the production design, I liked the copious splatters of gore. It did the job for me ! I'll be buying this DVD for my collection as soon as it's released.

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15 out of 23 people found the following review useful:
A spectacular story of human survival in face of alien adversity, 6 May 2006

Author: siderite from Romania

NOT! :) This is an English black comedy/parody movie that most resembles a combination of Signs, Alien vs Predator and Bad Taste set up in the Welsh country side. It's funny, gory and has a lot of references to other sci-fi horror movies including Evil Dead, StarGate, Night of the Living Dead and many others, but without being pushy about it. I mean, you will never see a Scary Movie type of scene when they recreate a portion of another movie in a stupid way and laugh about it.

Anyway, if you are a fan of "bad" horror movies and funny gory films like Bad Taste or Evil Dead, you will love this one. There are no known actors, they don't even have IMDb pictures, except one, Scott Joseph, who ironically wears an alien mask the whole movie :)

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16 out of 25 people found the following review useful:
The art of entertaining., 19 August 2006

Author: (Kastlclan) from Munich

When I first saw this movie I didn't expect it to be that good, only because of the look of it. But after a couple of minutes I got accustomed to the humor and the stereotype characters, and I must say I enjoyed every further minute of the movie. You really cannot expect a blockbuster movie (since it's low budget) but it much better than about 80% of the crap that is out there, produced with millions of dollars. Anyone who doesn't approve of this movies somehow didn't get the point. All the allusions to other great horror and gore movies (sometimes a bit too obvious)were really keeping me up all night. So if you're looking for a movie that makes you laugh and that includes loads of blood and guts,feel free to see that movie. Otherwise, step off!

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9 out of 12 people found the following review useful:
A good Little Horror, 7 March 2006

Author: Simon Davies from United Kingdom

*** This review may contain spoilers ***

This was laugh out loud funny, slow to start but once it hit its stride it was a steam train of gore/alien killing and more gore.

Good to see that there is some balls left in the British Film Industry and its not all romantic comedies and S**t yank films hitting the cinemas.

This keeps getting compared with Shaun of the Dead, which is unfair, that was a really good film but it had a huge budget.

You get what you pay for. Big up to all involved cant wait for the DVD and the extras.

This keeps getting compared with Shaun of the Dead, which is unfair, that was a really good film but it had a huge budget.

You get what you pay for.

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