Alien 3000 DVD Review:

Typical gore-fest is plagued with bad special effects and worse acting.

For years it seems as though there have been many filmmakers trying very hard to replace Ed Wood as the worst director in the history of film. Alien 3000 may not be a winner in this category, but it certainly is in the running. The tagline for the film is “A new breed of predator”, which is convenient because Predator is the exact film that this movie about invisible aliens in the forest is mimicking. Very unsuccessfully so.

When three college students find gold in a cave they think it is their lucky day, until they have their heads torn off and stomachs opened. After these attacks the government realizes that they have institutionalized a woman unjustly after she claimed to have seen her friends killed in the same way. Thinking that she can help lead them to the area where the gold is held, they release her into the hands of a rogue military unit. Some of them are going along for the hunt, but most want to find the gold.

As soon as they find the gold a few of the greedy members of the team decide to scheme a way to keep it all for themselves. They never get the chance to follow through with their plans because the alien appears and begins killing everyone for them. The murders are quick because the alien is invisible. If only the deaths were invisible, but alas we must witness them in all of their gory glory.

It seems as though a great deal of effort was put into the cover of the DVD in another attempt to make the film look better than it actually is, if only to swindle a few dollars out of any gullible video renters. The film is shown in full screen ratio and has a creature interview under the special features. There is no need to say anything more about this film except that I pity anyone who attempts to sit through it.



Ryan Izay