Alien Factor [1978]

This was one of those films that would have gotten a good score if the score was only base don the last twenty minutes of the film. It's not overwhelmingly boring, helped by its mercifully short run time of an hour and 17 minutes, but a lot of the film involved people aimlessly walking through the works while the world's most grating synth played ambiguous sounds in the background.

A spaceship lands that just looks like a fallen piece of some kind of factory building and we get three aliens that we called "armor boi," "meat boi," and "fur boi." Armor Boi is the least gross looking but is killed halfway through. What do they want? Who knows? But one of them does manage to make a bunch of people in town look like mummies. At the end we find out one of them (Meat Boi, I think) was actually wearing a human suit the whole film and then he goes back to his planet or something.

The main appeal of this film is the costumes, which are pretty darn fun. There's also a scene where a girl goes randomly into the woods with gasoline to kill the aliens but when one shows up the guy she bumped into just throws the can instead of actually dosing the alien. That was funny. Mostly this movie just made me wonder why so many writer-directors make sci-fi movies with no real script. Adam hypothesized: "It's because they don't know anyone who can do martial arts." Maybe he's right.

Spoon Rating: 2.5