Alien Predator

Plot synopsis:
In 1973, the space satellite Skylab was launched into orbit. Experiments with a lethal alien microbe were performed by being tested on animals. In 1979, Skylab crash landed onto Earth, and a huge chunk of the satellite crashed outside a small village in Spain called Duarte. Now it is 1984. A cow has been exposed to the virus among the wrecked remains of Skylab and dies. Stray dogs are later seen eating the corpse of the cow and one of the dogs is swallowed whole by an organism within the cow's corpse. The virus then starts to spread. At the same time, three American teenagers, Michael, Damon and Samantha on a pre-college vacation are spending the summer in Europe traveling in a rented camper with a dune buggy in tow. Their camper breaks down and they are forced to go into the village and stay for the night at a nearby trailer park. The next morning, NASA scientist Dr. W. Tracer has flown in from the United States to meet with a colleague, Captain J.J. Wells to discuss the virus and the infection of the local lieutenant. Back at the trailer park, Michael, Damon and Samantha step out of their trailer for air and meet an Indian Family, the Bodhis, who happen to be camping right next to them. They talk to the Bodhis who are friendly but act somewhat weird at the same time. The three teenagers then decide to go to a diner for lunch.At the diner, Damon tells Michael and Samantha that he is going to make a quick errand and go to an auto parts shop to pick up parts for the camper. When he returns, Damon says that the store was closed but he noticed that the owner was unresponsive. Samantha tells Damon that he was more than likely asleep. Before leaving the diner, Michael calls for the bill and insists that Damon pay for their meal, much to Damon's chargin after he says that Michael didn't even like his meal. When the waitress brings the bill, her hair is all messed up and her nose is bleeding as well. Meanwhile, Dr. Tracer and Captain Wells are examining the deformed corpse of the local lieutenant at a hotel. The lieutenant became deformed as a result of the alien virus. Blood from the lieutenant's face splatters on the shirt of Captain Wells. Dr. Tracer and Captain Wells then go to a secret NASA laboratory outside the village to work on a cure. Dr. Tracer intends on using Wells as a guinea pig for the cure. When Wells finds out he is infected due to the lieutenant's blood splattering on his shirt, he tells Dr. Tracer that he is unsure whether to kill the doctor or himself. He then tells Dr. Tracer to find another "guinea pig" and commits suicide by shooting himself in the head. Back at the trailer park, Samantha has had enough of being treated unfairly by Michael and Damon and decides to take the dune buggy and look around the village for the rest of the day. Michael and Damon decide to repair the camper. While in the village, Samantha encounters Dr. Tracer, but ignores the doctor's plea to come with him on behalf of the alien virus. While at a local grocery store, Samantha encounters an infected man wearing a weird mask who then takes her outside to have her smashed by a garbage truck driven by an infected villager. Samantha however, escapes her fate by attacking the masked man and leaves him to get run over by the truck. She is then confronted by Dr. Tracer again who takes her to the local hotel to work on a cure for the alien virus. She then wanders around the hotel hallway and notices that all but one door is locked. She then goes inside the unlocked room and notices, to her horror, the deformed corpse of the lieutenant. An alien then bursts out of the lieutenant's face and nearly attacks Samantha, but she is saved by Dr. Tracer.Later that night, Michael and Damon are still repairing the camper. They realize that Samantha has been gone unusually long, and decide to go into the village to look for her. Michael tells Damon to see Mr. Bodhi for help on getting the camper started back up. Damon knocks on the Bodhis' trailer door, but there is no answer. Damon then wanders in to ask for help, only to see the corpses of Mrs. Bodhi and Baby Bodhi, the Bodhis' daughter, and presumably the face-bursting aliens too. Damon runs out sickened and throws up in a garbage can. Michael thinks that Damon is joking around, but Damon insists that he is not and tells Michael to look in the trailer for himself. He opens the door and notices a spilled bottle of tomato juice as well as Baby's tricycle and doll. Mr. Bodhi's bloody corpse then falls down and shocks Michael, who immediately closes the trailer door. Michael and Damon immediately drive the camper back into the village to look for Samantha. Upon arriving, they go inside the hotel and find Samantha as well as Dr. Tracer, whom they pin down to the floor under the impression he kidnapped Samantha. Dr. Tracer tells Michael and Damon that it isn't what they think and Samantha tells them to let the doctor go, which they do. Dr. Tracer then explains about what is really going on and about the alien virus. He also mentions that if nothing is done about the virus, then all of Europe will get wiped out in 9 weeks. Michael then drives the dune buggy to the NASA lab, after Tracer mentions a canister that could provide a cure. On his way to the lab, Michael is confronted by a Fiat, which he successfully outruns.At the lab, Michael encounters the corpse of Captain Wells, and an alien that has unleashed itself from Wells' face. Michael then steps on the alien to kill it and finds the canister. The lab alarm then goes off into self-destruct mode, but despite losing the card key for the elevator, Michael successfully escapes from the lab with the canister before it explodes. While driving back in the village, Michael is confronted once again by the same Fiat that pursued him earlier. Once again, Michael successfully out-drives the Fiat, causing it to flip over and explode. Arriving back to the camper, Tracer then develops the cure and applies it to the three teenagers. Tracer then uses the camper radio to call for a napalm air strike of the village so that the virus will not spread anywhere else. After that, Tracer reveals that he himself, is infected. Deciding that it is too late for him to inject himself with the cure, he runs out of the camper. Damon tries to convince the doctor that it isn't too late for him to be cured and to come with him, Michael and Samantha so that they can take him to the nearest hospital for help. The doctor tells Damon to escape from the village while he still can and is immediately run over by the garbage truck. Damon runs back into the camper and he, Michael and Samantha escape. The garbage truck is also in pursuit of the three teenagers, but Damon manages to shoot one of the truck's tires, causing it to slow down. The three successfully drive out of the village alive after the air strike hits the village, destroying the garbage truck as well.While driving around on the way to Madrid, the three teenagers decide to stop at a gas station to refuel the camper. At first, everything seems to be okay, until the gas station attendant's nose starts to bleed and opens his jump suit to unleash a horrible alien from his face and chest cavity. Blood starts going everywhere, including a 1950s-esque billboard on top of the gas station and the alien leaps onto the camper window. The three teenagers attempt to escape, without any luck at first, but Damon then turns on the camper windshield to get the alien off the window and the camper eventually starts up. As the alien attempts to bite one of the camper's tires, Damon runs it over and the three move on. While Michael and Samantha are in the back of the camper and as Damon drives the camper into Madrid, Damon scratches his arm and his nose starts bleeding, indicating that he too, is now infected and that Dr. Tracer's supposed cure did not work. As the camper ascends into Madrid, the familiar sounds of an alien munching its way out of Damon's face can be heard. The movie ends there.

Tags: violence

Review:
The townspeople are being infected by the alien microbes, turning into deranged, beer throwing hosts for alien predators.Fun film is a bit slower going than you'd expect, spending time on the characters' love triangle.
We briefly meet a family including a guy who sounds like a Three Stooges reject.
There's also a smartass bearded guy who's awesome and isn't in the film nearly as long as he should be.
The young American tourists in Spain encounter lethal alien lifeforms that were brought to Earth by Apollo 14 then tested on animals aboard SkyLab.But SkyLab has now crashed to Earth and the aliens have survived,infect the locals and messily killing them.The trio of young people pick up a NASA scientist who has to get an antidote to a nearby laboratory."Alien Predator" was one of the very first horror films I have seen as the kid.That's why I can't give it a negative rating,even though the pace is lethargic and the gore is kept to minimum.However the film is suitably dark and atmospheric and offers a few creepy moments.The acting is decent and the characters are likeable.6 out of 10..
But it's far from relaxing, when everyone they encounter in the sleepy village seems to be acting weird and they come across a NASA scientist who claims the town has been infected by aliens, and soon they would follow the same fate.
Writer / Director Deran Sarafian's film "The Falling" AKA "Alien Predator" seems to cop a real shellacking, however I didn't mind it.
However there's no denying how inane and silly this outing eventually turns out to be, especially after some effective build-ups (like the opening to the film).
What's really unconvincing has got to be the rubber beasties (at first you think it might be a virus/parasite) that finally make it in towards the end, but before that lousy letdown the potent gore FX leading up to it comes off really well with its grisly splatter.
Dennis Christopher, Martin Hewitt and the perky Lynn-Holly Johnson were surprisingly enjoyable, if quite overstated with the flimsy characters.
As bad of a movie this is, it can still be viewed as a good (rainy)Saturday afternoon time-waster.
There are far worse(halloween:resurrection)movies out there.
I would recommend this to anyone who likes campy, b-grade, low-budget type films.
The plot is a bit far-fetched, especially finding the three main characters were never infected despite having been in close contact with some many others that were, and badly dated.
In places, the movie could have moved on a little faster, but in others it was worthy of attention.
I watched this movie as my attention was focused on a bit of paperwork, but at times, I was compelled to fix my eyes on the screen.
If you run across it on your TV schedule and find there is nothing else to watch, you might find a bit of enjoyment in watching this film, but if CashCab is playing on the Discovery Channel, you should watch it instead.
However, there is a pretty cool head-explosion scene and a nicely understated ending.
Very nearly the, if not THE worst film I've ever seen.
Most bad movies at least partly redeem themselves, if only by achieving "so bad it's good" status.
I can't tell you what the monster really looks like, because I was only allowed tiny glimpses of it, not even enough to try to guess its species, never mind being afraid of it.Bottom line is, they just shouldn't have bothered.Bernie.
I've seen a lot of bad movies, but this ranks near the bottom of them all.
Sometimes obscure low budget movies can be quite entertaining, such as "Time Walker"  and "Star Crash", but this film is just plain boring.
The alien in the title has about 45 seconds of screen time total, and when it finally does show itself it isn't even very threatening.
The rest of the film is slow and poorly acted, and sometimes just doesn't make much sense.
Three friends go to Spain for a vacation, but their fun is cut short when a deadly group of aliens begin killing off everybody.
This was one of those films I really loved as a kid and it was one of the very first horror films I ever owned, but today as an adult it is pretty boring stuff.
Has a cast of has beens who are actually pretty appealing, especially Dennis Christopher who proved what a great actor he was in Breaking Away.
Sometimes reputed as the sequel to 'The Thing', and most certainly much suggests this after viewing, but as I can't substantiate this, I will say at the very least it's a seminal followup.Things start out well, with three American friends on a road trip to Spain, when some weird goings on starts to take place.
For the first half, the film doesn't take itself too seriously, and there are a lot of very funny moments, thanks to the sharp script, and appealing leads.
However, In stark contrast to this, later the film metamorphoses in tone, and turns somewhat sombrely, with gruesome make-up effects, shock tactics, and so on.I admit, I quite like this flick, and have revisited it several times.
But, in my opinion, the inconsistent tone stops it from being great, as this is genuinely entertaining initially, but when the horror cliché's kick in, your interest wains, and things ultimately get a bit, well, dull.
NO one believed me there was a movie called Alien Preditors.
Kids on vacation in Spain come across some old lab that fell from space that contained a little monster.
If you like monster,80s horror with a slice of science fiction thrown in, you'll love this movie.
Three collage kids go on a road trip to Spain, and run into some pretty ugly stuff.
Well, if you want to know what made me laugh until I exploded, then I'll tell you, Well one of the collage kids is being chased by the Jeepers Creepers truck!!!
Then the camera zooms in on the girl and she says "Don't worry about him, hes Hollywood's best star driver!" And then the movie plays this retarded song that sound like it came out of Legends of the Hidden Temple when the kids are victorious.
Bad Funny Sci-Fi. Bad but funny Sci-Fi movie.Very low budget.Average story and good lead young stars.Does not take itself too seriously so it is to be viewed like a cartoon.Only for fans of B-movie Sci-Fi horror and big fans of the lead actors.......
The plot: Three friends encounter a malevolent alien after driving in an RV and a field of cattle die from some sort of bloody infection.I must say, the cow corpses are pretty nasty for those who do not like to see raw meat.
And the blood and gore in this film in general is pretty decent, definitely something worth checking out if you are into that.I think the one guy does a great Rod Serling impression, and later they run into a Talky Tina doll.
Amazing that actors that had appeared in such huge films wound up in this garbage.I like bad SciFi. This was dull and boring SciFi. Very different, not interesting.Also, Martin is one of the most beautiful men to ever be put in film.Why a film maker would have someone with his physical appeal in a movie and not exploit it, even just a little bit, is so beyond me.Similar problem with Yellowbeard.
But is never shown shirtless.Though some promotional photos did show him shirtless.It makes you wish David Decouteau was in charge of all of these movies.There is a director who knows how to make use of a pretty male..
Awful Film With a Few Laughs Along the Way. The Falling (1985) * (out of 4) Three American teens (Dennis Christopher, Martin Hewitt, Lynn-Holly Johnson) are traveling through Spain in their RV when they cross paths with an evil alien or something meant to be an alien.
Producer Carlos Aured began his career as a director doing a number of Paul Naschy films but he turned to a producer in 1984 with MONSTER DOG and this here turned out to be his second and last job.
This entire film is a pretty big, worthless mess that has very little going for it.
In fact, the only reason this thing doesn't get a BOMB rating is that there are thankfully some really bad moments that are so bad that you can't help but laugh at them.
I'm really not sure what was going on during this scene but it seems like Johnson was trying get show "anger" by doing some sort of karate moves with her hands.
Both Christopher and Hewitt aren't much better as the two of them pretty much sleepwalk through their roles.
The entire film is incredibly boring thanks in large part to a screenplay that simply doesn't have anything going.
The only thing this has going for it outside the unintentional laughs are some mild gore effects but once the creature shows up you'll be asking yourself WTF.
THE FALLING is a bad movie from start to finish and one that most are going to want to skip..
Campy fun, especially the three leads, two young guys and a girl, goofing off on their vacation in Europe.
One who likes to do impressions, the other keeps flirting with her, and she's a little air-headed but all fun to be around.Everyone else takes their characters *so* seriously that it's funny, so tape it on Sci Fi (I'm not sure if it's on video) and watch it for a fun movie that you can MiST/riff along with the leads..
Dennis Christopher, Lynn Holly Johnson, Martin Hewitt.Alien microbes taken from the moon are tampered with on a skylab which suddenly re-enters earth's atmosphere and crash lands in Duarte, Spain spreading an alien virus amongst humans and animals living in the nearby area.
I do however wanted to see more of the aliens and what they were like.
They only appear twice at the end!!!Shot in Spain in 1984.
Also known as THE FALLING, MUTANT 2 (U.K.), COSMOS MORTAL (Spain), ALIEN PREDATORS (U.S. Video Box Art Title).
Why does Dennis Christopher get junk like this?.
BREAKING AWAY and DON'T CRY IT'S ONLY THUNDER showed what a great actor Christopher is.
The only good think about it is that this movie finally broke FVI Films - makers of similarly crappy films..
"Alien Predator" is a pretty terrible movie, but its redeeming points are there.
What it's about is three young people heading through Spain in a RV on vacation.
They come across a town called Duarte and discover that the nearly deserted village is populated by some strange people who get nosebleeds a lot.
What's going on is that, five years before, there was a space station that had been doing some nice, little experiments ("The results on the test animals were horrendous!") and, somehow, all that loveliness came crashing down into a Spanish desert just outside of Duarte.
Now, they have to figure out how they're going to save the world from microbes that are already airborne and cause everybody who comes into close contact with them to go nuts within 48 hours of original contact before exploding in a gory mess as an alien creature emerges from their bodies.
Despite how cheezy the movie is, it generates some fairly well-executed moments of tension and suspense.
Another thing is that most of the cast holds up pretty well, and, furthermore, there are some great moments of humor.
Even with redeeming points, this is one of those movies that's just so bad it's bad.
Sure, the acting was generally good, but the actors were working with what they had been given, and what they had been given was not a whole hell of a lot.
I must say that the characters aren't really people that you'd be wanting to save the world, seeing as how, in their spare time, they are competing for sex, even after the trouble has long begun.
I think the main reason that I don't have a problem with the ending is this: Why should the world be saved?
More like a comedy than a horror.
This came across as exactly what I'd expected, low budget 80s b-movie, one of those ones that seems like they shot over a week's vacation.
Though that's not a good thing for a horror most of the time.
Luckily the reason why I was laughing was because of some of the stuff Dennis Christopher said or did, like running after the RV and when he gets in "We can go now." You'd have to watch to see why that would be funny.
Also it was pretty clear someone had a thing for The Twilight Zone with thing like the Talking Tina doll reference...twice...and it's also mentioned several times.
In the end though it's still worth a watch when you've got nothing better to do or like one or more of the actors in it..
For whatever reason, the enormous box it came in said that this movie is worth it's eighty dollars in Canadian money...
It may say 'Alien Predators', and while the title may be a jab at it's competitors at the same time, it actually does contain a little bit of each.
Three pals on a trip to Spain come to the land to enjoy some partying out and kicking back for some good times (stay tuned for a very spot-on Rod Serling impersonation by the suave main lead), only to realize there's been a hostile takeover...
For reasons I am not able to record because of the shoddy television set I was using to play it, they are contractible little buggers feeding off of the humans in the town.
Quite like 'The Italian Job', though considering the action I was seeing all over the place, it might as well be something like 'Vigilante 8' or 'Twisted Metal'.Unfortunately, after the Russian guy is infected (for reasons I dunno, but considering that he talked at a snail's pace next to Dennis's wisecracking awesomeness, this was for the best), so they must travel on.
The ending is deliciously morbid, and I, for one, loved every minute of it.Please release this again but in a way where I can actually see something not entirely enshrouded in darkness (this goes for you too, Mutant - Jesus, the whole thing is shot in pitch BLUE and BLACK), so I can enjoy this movie once again.Those who said they didn't like this movie were obviously the ones who grew up watching kiddie movies while all the awesome people loved the horror ones..
Here we have yet another crappy B-movie hiding under a number of different titles to try and get unsuspecting horror fans to watch it, I found it under the title of MUTANT II although it bears absolutely no similarity to the first film in any way, shape or form.
Instead what we have is a Spanish-set (because it was cheap to film there, I guess) teen movie which occasionally has a small, pathetic alien monster pop up to kill off minor cast members before disappearing again.I pretty much hated most of this movie, even down to the rip-off title.
You'll often find it sitting in "worst movie" threads and in this case I would be forced to agree, as I found very little indeed to enjoy.
The best thing the film has going for it is Dennis Christopher.
Christopher has made a career starring in junk like this (anyone see THE SILENCERS?
At least he's the only guy to actually try and act and, although his character is irritating in the extreme, you still end up liking him.
Unlike the other two "teenage" stars Martin Hewitt and Lynn-Holly Johnson; unbelievable and wooden are two good words to describe their particular acting style.Hmm I couldn't care less about the plot of this film, not that there really is much of one.
For a start, we see a space pod land on earth and five years later a cow gives birth to an alien monster in a pretty yucky scene.
There's a love triangle thing going on with this trio and it gets boring really quickly.
The alien predator can spread from person to person and also impregnates them (hmm, where have we heard that before?).Unexplainedly the townsfolk (whom we never actually SEE) block the only exit from the town and run around in armoured vehicles killing off various innocent folk.
For a moment I thought I was watching a re-run of DUEL again as characters engage in various night-time car chases while cheesy '80s music plays in the background and credibility goes out of the window.
In the end the film just kind of finishes without any resolution and the "threatening" monster is killed in the lamest way imaginable, being wiped off somebody's windscreen with the windscreen wipers and crushed under the wheel of the car.
I'm not sure if this was a spoof on the old horror convention of having indestructible monsters but it wasn't a very funny one at that.
A shame because the special effects of the briefly-seen slimy arachnid monster are pretty cool, it's just a shame that the creature is so small as to hardly pose any threat whatsoever.Filled with boring scenes of action, bad acting from most of the cast and poorly-produced to boot, I can't really see any reason to recommend this film at all.
All I can say is that some of the special effects are yucky but these are only glimpsed due to the low budget.
As for being scary, well no, but actually some of the weirdo townsfolk are pretty creepy (the guy in the spooky mask and the wild-haired waitress are but two) and more frightening than the actual monster in the film.
My best advice is to avoid this no-budget mess of a film and actually get something substantial instead.