Review of Evil Aliens (2006) by Jens R — 17 May 2008
Foxy finds herself in cable TV hell (as her boss tells her, "the mormom shopping channel, gets higher ratings than your show"!). If she doesn't come up with a great story pronto she's gonna loose her job. Fortunately, she has just come across a story about a farmer girl in a remote island in Wales, who got impregnated by an alien.
Her team (a real odd bunch of charismatic, quirky characters; an uber-dork, a drama faggot, a sexy, but stupid slut, and two drug taking urban hipsters) goes to the island, to cover the story and they soon find out that the aliens are real. And they're not friendly. Not friendly at all.......
One of the best films ever made. Jake West takes the very essence of exploitation & manages to cram it all into 90 minutes. This film is a stunning rollercoaster ride of madness, gore, sleaze, a super cool soundtrack (which sounds like a mix between Spaghetti Western soundtracks and death metal) and demented (and also very English) humour.
Emily Booth is fucking fantastic as the sleazy, coke snorting TV presenter Foxy (in the extras we find out that Jake West based Foxy on the real miss Booth).
The film is shot on digital, but it's by far the best use of digital I have ever seen. Plenty of stunning panoramic shots of the eerie, desolate and creepy locations. The colours look so clear and crisp, that it almost feels surreal. Another interesting visual invention is the use of very contrasting, frequently clashing, and often candy bright colours, which makes the sets & locations feel very alien (very appropriate for a film about aliens, no????).
All in all this film is just pure rock and roll, the editing is mind bogglingly fast, non stop action & snappy , quirky jokes. The last half an hour of the film must be one of the most intense things ever shot; it's a cinematic circus of gore, a sexy slut blowing up aliens with a big shotgun, explosions, really heavy music, intoxicatingly fast cuts & great gags thrown at you every other second.
Yep, I really think Jake West has pushed the limits of what it is possible to do with the medium of cinema.
This review of Evil Aliens (2006) was written by Jens R on 17 May 2008.
Evil Aliens has generally received positive reviews.
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