The Alien Factor (1978)

User Rating:

4.0/10   

Director:

Don Dohler

Writer:

Don Dohler (writer)

Release Date:

May 1978 (USA)

Genre:

Horror | Sci-Fi

Plot:

A spaceship containing specimens for an intergalactic zoo crashes on Earth near a small back woods town...

Plot Keywords:

Alien | Spacecraft | Stranded | Alien Invasion | Terror

Cast

Don Leifert	...	Ben Zachary
Tom Griffith	...	Sheriff Cinder
Richard Dyszel	...	Mayor Wicker
Mary Mertens	...	Edie Martin
Richard Geiwitz	...	Pete
George Stover	...	Steven Price
Eleanor Herman	...	Mary Jane Carter
Anne Frith	...	Dr. Ruth Sherman
Christopher Gummer	...	Clay
Johnny Walker	...	Rex
Don Dohler	...	Ernie
Dave Ellis	...	Richie
Dave Geatty	...	Man in Bar
Marie Van Tassell	...	Susan
Tony Malanowski	...	Ed Miller

Runtime:

80 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

USA:Approved (certificate #24922) | Norway:15 (video premiere) | Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) | Canada:G (Quebec)

Filming Locations:

Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Company:

Cinemagic

Trivia:

This film was the third featured movie in the 2009 live show tour of "Cinematic Titanic", featuring "riffing" by alumni of "Mystery Science Theater 3000" (1988).

Movie Connections:

Followed by Alien Factor 2: The Alien Rampage (2001)

I helped make it !!

I'm the "Dan White" in the credits as "Vance". It was a walk-on, one-line, bit part. Me and "Ted" found one of the bodies and drove it up to "Doc Ruth's" place. The two-tone blue car was mine. Doc Ruth's place was the farmhouse on a horse farm where my sister then boarded her horses. It was a blast to help make the film. I wish it had not turned out as campy as it did. It was not meant to. But it did make it onto Movie Macabre (Elvira's show) and I did get a big smile from her when I met her at an Auto Show in DC and asked if she remembered the film. She said that she did.