‘Join the hunt’
Alien Predator is a 2018 American science-fiction horror-action feature film directed by prolific Jared Cohn (Halloween Pussy Trap Kill! Kill!; Devil’s Domain; Hold Your Breath; 12/12/12; et al) from a screenplay written by Bill Hanstock (3-Headed Shark Attack; Age of Tomorrow). The mockbuster take on The Predator (2018) was released three days before the big-budget movie.
The Asylum production stars Xavi Israel, Alex West, Philip Nathaniel, Amanda Rivas, Sebastien Charmant and Kris Black.
Plot:
A black-ops reconnaissance team is sent to investigate the crash of an unidentified aircraft. When they arrive, they find strange markings and residue visible only in infrared. As the team gets deeper in and tries to figure out the source of the markings, they discover that they are being hunted by an alien expedition to Earth…
Reviews:
“There’s just too much time devoted to the squad just dicking around and trying to sound tough, and what little time we get with the alien directly (he shows up just shy of the hour mark in a film 87 minutes long) is just boring and poorly-done.” Allusions of Grandeur
“Luckily, despite the aliens being off-screen for most of the movie, this movie does actually have enough other interesting stuff going on during it that helped keep my attention. Various situations that the soldiers find themselves in, alien tech that they come across, mutilated bodies strung up, that kind of stuff…” The B-Movie Shelf
” …because of budgetary constraints, they can only show one Alien Predator at a time, which is fine if the story was about one single creature, but no, the director, for God knows what reason, wants us to believe that there are multiple creatures on the ship, leading to several bizarre scenes…” Final Guys
“It takes nearly an hour before you get to see an actual alien and when you do it resembles a poor excuse for Robocop wearing a welding mask. Though when the mask comes off it does reveal the alien and it is a very well made prosthetic […] It is obviously a lower budget film but the jungle scenes do add some expensive-looking location shots.” Horror Screams Video Vault
“Some of the locations are underlit and hard to see the actions on-screen, explosions are consistent with the film’s cheap look, and the production design offers little in designing an environment. However, there are a few moments of excitement in the film’s main set-piece. But this interesting element is offset by dull characters and a laughable alien presence.” Movie Mavericks
Cast and characters:
Xavi Israel … Adrian
Dutch Hofstetter … Brooks
Alex West … Plante
Amanda Rivas … Alvarez
Brandon Brown … Carter
Katy Bentz … Faulk
Sébastien Charmant … Mulloy
Jude B. Lanston … Skarloff
Jon Young … Buckner
E.R. Ruiz … Seal Leader
Devin Reeve … Alien Soldier
Philip Johnson … Lieutenant
Deja Soufka … Enemy Soldier
Sholom Gelt … Alien Solider (as S.F. Gelt)
Shane Naute … Jacob Splinter (as Juan DeNorte)
Technical details:
87 minutes
Aspect ratio: 1.78: 1
Audio: Dolby Digital
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