Review of Alien Trespass (2009) by William T — 13 Sep 2009

I'm not sure what exactly the filmmakers were going for here, but unlike Mars Attacks or Men in Black this has very little camp and no irony or parody whatsoever (or even the inherent melodramaticism of the genre) and so we end up with a mostly rigid re-creation of 50's B sci-fi.

Nostalgia alone isn't enough to sustain any retro film and in the end this has less value than its predecessors since there's nothing to laugh at. This film takes itself far too casually, excluding themselves (and us) from the joke but not joining in on it either.

There has to be a calculated reason for going back and revisiting a genre like this, and Alien Trespass gives none. Boring is just boring regardless of what decade you put it in.