Alien Intruder (1993) (V)

User Rating:

3.0/10   

Director:

Ricardo Jacques Gale

Writer:

Nick Stone (writer)

Genre:

Sci-Fi

Plot:

Space traveling convicts become the victims of their own fantasies when virtual reality is made to go wrong. |

Plot Keywords:

Virtual Reality | Alien | Outer Space | Cult Favorite | Psychotronic

Cast

Maxwell Caulfield	...	Nick
Tracy Scoggins	...	Ariel
Billy Dee Williams	...	Commander Skyler
Gary Roberts	...	Lloyd
Richard Cody	...	D.J.
Stephen Davies	...	Peter
Jeff Conaway	...	Borman
Michael Delano	...	Capt. Loring
Shano Palovich	...	Warden O'Neil
Charles Young	...	Frank
Rod Britt	...	Leo
Richard Barnes	...	Capt. Lubert (as Milton James)
Joe Durrenberger	...	Marlon (Android body guard for Commander Skyler)
Gwen Somers	...	Annie
Melinda Armstrong	...	Tammy
Adrienne Sachs	...	Yvonne (as Andrianne Sachs)
Kevin Lowe	...	Crewman
Bill Zuckert	...	Rudy
Robert Dryer	...	Turk
Veronica Hart	...	Turk's Mama (as Jane Hamilton)
Lauren Hays	...	Roni

Directed by
Ricardo Jacques Gale

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Nick Stone		writer

Produced by
Charla Driver	....	co-producer
Stephen Lieb	....	co-producer
Joseph Merhi	....	producer
Richard Pepin	....	producer

Original Music by
Miriam Cutler

Cinematography by
Michael Pinkey

Film Editing by
Ron Cabreros
Lorne Morris
Paul G. Volk		(as Paul Volk)
Peter Volk

Production Design by
Summer Swann

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Mike Snyder	....	first assistant director
Mike Snyder	....	second unit director

Art Department
David Halver	....	art department coordinator
David Halver	....	set designer

Sound Department
Louis Durra	....	sound effects editor
James P. Slingluff	....	boom operator

Special Effects by
Erich Martin Hicks	....	special effects crew
Frank H. Isaacs	....	special effects

Stunts
Mark Alberi	....	stunts
James Ent	....	utility stunts (as Jim Ent)
Red Horton	....	stunts
Joe Murphy	....	assistant stunt coordinator (as 'Broadway' Joe Murphy)
Joe Murphy	....	stunts (as 'Broadway' Joe Murphy)
Rick Nu	....	stunt coordinator
Rick Nu	....	stunts (as 'Rocket' Rick Nu)
Billy Oliver	....	stunts (as Bill Oliver)
Jan Michael Shultz	....	stunts (as Jan Schultz)
Jim Stephen	....	stunts (as Jim Stephens)
Bob Stevens	....	stunts
Bob M. Unzueta	....	stunts (as Bob Unzueta)
William Upton	....	stunts
Joe Witherell	....	stunts (as Joe Witherall)
Dean Raphael Ferrandini	....	stunts (uncredited)
Dale Steinek	....	stunts (uncredited)

Camera and Electrical Department
Ken Blakey	....	director of photography: second unit
Daryl 'Dazz' Reynolds	....	gaffer

Production Companies

• PM Entertainment Group

Distributors

• PM Entertainment Group (1992) (USA) (theatrical)
• Ascot Video
• Flashstar Home Vídeo (199?) (Brazil) (VHS)
• Madacy Entertainment (2003) (USA) (DVD)
• PM Video (video)
• Prism Leisure Corporation (2001) (UK) (DVD)

Runtime:

USA:120 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

UK:15

Company:

PM Entertainment Group

Quotes:

[Ariel, a man-eating alien, seduces another victim]
Ariel: Tell me you don't like nasty.

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Svengoolie: Alien Intruder" (1999)

Like a lost Star Trek:TNG fanscript...

I swear. This movie has got to be a rejected fan script for Star Trek: The Next Generation. Seriously. It's about a ship of fools captained by Lando Calrissian himself, Billy Dee Williams with four prison inmates (brought along to make up the crew) and an android who meander into a "forbidden zone" to "rescue a lost ship." Actually, Billy Dee Calrissian just wants to meet back up with a sexy alien babe and is dragging these clods along as an expendable crew.

Okay, here's where it's all Star Trekky: After five days of work (as in, on the weekends), the four crewmates (the former convicts) all get to relax in wacky Virtual Reality worlds where they get to bang the chick of their choice the whole time. Yeah, like on the Enterprise, but where the intention is to "get some." Instead of a "holodeck," though, these idiots just lay in beds and basically "dream" into their VR worlds. One guy is a 50's biker bad*ss, one guy is in the "ye olde west," one guy is in a 1940's-like Noir deal (in black and white no less) and the last guy spends his "VR weekends" on a beach in a luxury house ignoring his cyber-babe so he can jog or lift weights. One of the inmates on this trip is an explosives expert who was only apparently brought along to be the tough-guy explosives expert. Eventually, the sexy alien chick shows up in everyone's cyber-realities and kills off all their beloved fake babes. Then she gets all lusty and turns all the guys against each other. The android? We get to see him stand silently, walk silently, and die quietly. Other than that, you've got the smart and attractive inmate, the smart nerd inmate, the long-haired inmate, and of course, the big tough explosives loser.

Now, this alien babe doesn't make much sense. She's either real or digital or a magician or something as she just jumps from one place to the next convincing the men to shoot at each other. I think she's just poorly written. Easy as that. The acting is average at best for an underground film of this nature from the early 90's, and the special effects are truly laughable. However, the "fantasy VR worlds" are done in almost top-notch form. What the f*ck? I mean, the freakin' spaceships look dreadful! There's no class, no style, no personality! Their movement in space is more sterile and emotionless than the Enterprise sleeking across the screen in front of another phosphorus red planet in the 1960's Star Trek! All in all, it's actually pretty stupid, but watchable. Kinda like Maximum Overdrive, or The Wraith. Stupid, but entertaining. Some decent nudity.

5/10