Friday 3 June 2011

Evil Aliens (Jake West, 2005)

The fact that the title cheerfully holds out a Ronsealesque promise should not suck you in to this pound store-budgeted homegrown comedy horror. By setting its sights on media manipulation of the Sunday Sport variety and pastiching slasher flicks, with an unlikable band of exploitation documentary makers setting off to report on mysterious UFO-related disappearances on a remote isle, it hardly picks the hardest of targets. That it misses most of the time and manages a hat-trick of being inept, unfunny and pointlessly repugnant along the way is quite an achievement. It will satisfy no-one, not even splatter fetishists: there isn't an iota of invention on display, even in the violence.

2/10

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