The Alien Factor (1977)

Better Than Homemade...
Don Dohler's opus, THE ALIEN FACTOR features monsters that remind me of the "glory" days of Roger Corman. Though obviously cheaply made, these critters ain't bad at all! The amount of slaughter was actually surprising, and the story was pretty good. I like it when directors w/ no money still manage to (somehow) make enjoyable films. In spite of it's lack of a budget, I did find ALIEN FACTOR to be a lot of fun...

AMAZING, no kidding.
Alien Factor has this amazing story about aliens crashing on earth, terrorizing people, getting people to act stupid about handling the problem, and the ending is a huge unexpected twist that got me giggling for days. There were awesome primitive lazer beam effects and a silly yet amusing explanation for many of the bizzare happenings. The best part about the movie was this freakishly tall alien walking on carpet covered stilts. It looked like he was going to tip over any second too. He also had this weird thing with swinging his right hand in a rhythm. Watch as people run in fear at this thing they probably had to help up after filming the scene.

Fiend was awesome too. A simple story about this neighborhood jerk that chokes people to death in order to gain energy to live longer. Nobody suspects him though (even if his murders are done in broad daylight) The one man to stop him is his next door neighbor that hates his loud music. Plenty of trademark Don Dohler cheesy lazer/light effects.

Don Dohler is a genius filmmaker, Nightbeast was rad too and even had some gore. Get familiar with his work, he has his own style (which I can't say about all these replaceable hacks these days) and most of his movies have the same lovable dork actors that use the same names from their previous movies even!

"Lawrence of Arabia" it isn't. But it's good film
I originally saw Alien Factor on late night movie and cut off the final monster. Then I was lucky that my local video store had a copy on VHS. It's a low budget picture, the acting rates from really bad to passbale. The specail effects are passable considering the budget. The movie has a lot of energy that makes up for bad effects. This DVD has extra lost ending of Alien Factor Bloopers and a commentary which is interesting.
The second film is just okay, the Alien Factor is the main meal and Fiend is just dessert. It is just okay