Astronauts, including Ivan Hood (Bruce Campbell) and Kelly (Renee O’Connor), return from a forty-year mission and find alien insectoids have taken over. Humans are used as slave labor and it is up Ivan to lead a revolt. Written, directed, produced, and acted by ex-Xena people, Alien Apocalypse has the feel of those New Zealand TV
Ex-SETI cryptologist Julian Rome (James Spader) travels to Antarctica when Grisham (Carl Lewis), the communications officer at a research facility, discovers an object of likely extraterrestrial origin putting out a strong radio signal. Stationed at the lab is Julian’s ex-lover (Janine Eser), and the obnoxious Michael Straub (John Lynch). Now here is one of those odd
In a secret, underground, government laboratory, a mad scientist (John Savage) uses an alien rock to combine 100 different strands of predator DNA to make a monster that then gets loose and kills most of the lab personnel. A military team lead by the assassin Talon (Michelle Goh), is sent in by a high ranking
Three years after the landing of an alien spacecraft, the “Newcomers” have begun to integrate into American society, much like immigrants before them. After his partner is killed during a shootout with Newcomers in “Slag Town,” an alien ghetto, Detective Sykes (James Caan) requests Sam Francisco (Mandy Patinkin), the first alien to be made a
The alien Kulku demand eight million humans or they will destroy the planet. The world governments cave in and the U.S. has a lottery to decide who will be sacrificed. Stephen Chase (Brad Johnson) sets out to save his daughter, who has been selected. Quick Review: The scene of the destruction of a town looks good and
Zane Zaminski (Charlie Sheen), an obsessive astronomer who doesn’t pay enough attention to his girlfriend, detects a transmission that he’s sure comes from an alien intelligence. He’s quickly fired, but he won’t give up searching and is soon on to a secret that could mean his life. Quick Review: Directed by David Twohy (Pitch Black,
Industrialist Charles Bishop Weyland (Lance Henriksen) brings a mixed team of scientists and guards, led by Lex Woods (Sanaa Lathan), to investigate an ancient pyramid buried under the ice of Antarctica. The pyramid is a combat ring where young predators come to prove themselves against aliens, and the humans are showing up when a new
The vicious, corporately-governed Pychlos rule Earth and are stripping it of its resources. The few remaining humans are either slaves or live in primitive tribal groups. Security Chief Terl (John Travolta) concocts a plan to use the “man-animals” for secret mining to enrich himself, but he is not prepared for Jonnie Goodboy Tyler (Barry Pepper), who will
A meteorite hits in a wooded area near a “typical” 1950s town. It carried a small amorphous blob that attacks an old man’s hand and begins to dissolve it. Teenagers Steve Andrews (Steve McQueen) and Jane Martin (Aneta Corsaut) find the man and take him to the local doctor. The blob grows, devouring the old man, the
A homeless man, investigating a meteorite, is attacked by a small, amoeba-like blob that begins to dissolve his hand. High school football star Paul Taylor (Donovan Leitch) and cheerleader Meg Penny (Shawnee Smith), along with teen bad-boy Brian Flagg (Kevin Dillon) take him to the hospital. When he dies, along with others, Flagg is blamed,
Teenager Marti Malone (Gabrielle Anwar), her stepmother Carol (Meg Tilly), and stepbrother Andy (Reilly Murphy) travel with her EPA inspector father (Terry Kinney) while he tours military bases. There’s something wrong at the latest one. The soldiers are too emotionless, and Andy begins to fear his preschool class where all the children draw the same
IQ tests show six fatherless children, all the same age but of different races and countries, have intellects far greater than other humans. The interest of two scientists, a psychologist (Ian Hendry) and a geneticist (Alan Badel), makes the various governments aware of their super-children. Before each country can use its child to gain an