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Alien: Portrait of a Serial Head-Snatcher! moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Rae Dawn Chong | ... | Diana Pierce | |
| Don Gordon | ... | Charles Krieger | |
| Tom Towles | ... | Bob Laney | |
| Antonio Fargas | ... | Julius | |
| Neil Giuntoli | ... | Scully | |
| Larry Pennell | ... | Captain Scarcelli | |
| Pam Gordon | ... | Connie | |
| Tony Amendola | ... | Dr. Cheever | |
| Robert Dryer | ... | Borrower / Human | |
| Richard Wharton | ... | Alien Pilot | |
| Bentley Mitchum | ... | Kip | |
| Zoe Trilling | ... | Astrid | |
| Tamara Clatterbuck | ... | Michelle Chodiss | |
| Tom Allard | ... | Ruben Whitefeather | |
| Darryl Shelly | ... | Druggie |
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What a strange career decision of John McNaughton to follow-up his dark masterpiece "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer" with this silly and ultra-cheesy Sci-Fi romp! "Henry" was an intense and harrowing shock-drama, partly based on horrible real-life events, whereas this crazy flick revolves on naughty aliens banished from their planet and killer headaches! "The Borrower" is an endurable and occasionally even fun little flick, but it lacks a proper script and especially that last half hour lingers on enormously. This low-budget B-movie opens with images inside an alien spaceship at it heads for the earth to drop off a banished member of their intergalactic community. The opening is pretty funny, as the alien refers to human beings as the absolute lowest forms of life and getting sent to earth is actually a punishment far worse than execution. Gee thanks, Mr. Alien! We like your planet, too. The rest of the film is reminiscent of "The Hidden"; only the alien's modus operandi to switch hosts is a whole lot messier. Whenever the unfriendly visitor runs out of energy or gets damaged, he simply rips off the head of any poor person (or dog) that stands too close and attaches it to his own body. His first victim is a redneck hunter (the ultra-cool Tom Towles of "House of 1.000 Corpses") and the alien uses his head to go to the big city and run a little amok there. Meanwhile, the ambitious female detective Diana Pierce pursues an escaped psycho-killer and naturally both story lines will neatly come together in the end. The crazy head-transplant aspect results in some excellent splatter-sequences and a fair amount of delightful black humor. Also, and as some other reviewers already mentioned, the film is even mildly effective as a social commentary pointing out all the issues of life in the big city. Too bad about the imbecile and downright crappy ending. It almost seems like McNaughton completely lost interest in finishing the film properly.