Alien Outlaw (1985)

Director:

Phil Smoot

Writer:

Phil Smoot (writer)

Genre:

Sci-Fi | Western

Plot Keywords:

Independent Film

Cast

Stephen Winegard	...	Wes
Kimberly Mauldin	...	Girlfriend
Stuart Watson	...	Leader Alien
Sunset Carson	...	Sunset
Kari Anderson	...	Jesse Jamison
Eric Berg	...	Frank / 3rd Alien
Susan E. Greene	...	Frank's Date
Beth Ann McBride	...	Operator
Bill Cody	...	Man on Bench (as Wild Bill Cody)
Jack	...	Man's Dog
Judith B. Ardis	...	Motel Manager
Alan Marx	...	Motel Porter
Jerry Montgomery	...	Wrangler
Dan Preston	...	2nd Alien
Lash La Rue	...	Alex Thompson

Runtime:

USA:90 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

USA:Not Rated

Filming Locations:

Alleghany County, North Carolina, USA

A is for Aliens, B is for Boring...

Alien Outlaw, described as sci-fi/western, and unlike a regular B-movies, which usually get ratings below 4,5 this one has 6 something... Worth watching I thought. I was wrong. For 20 minutes I tried really hard to like this film. But I just couldn't force myself to see the rest of this uber boring crap without skipping and fast forward. I love B-movies but this is just boring 90 minutes. Dull uninteresting dialogs linking scene after scene after scene where just NOTHING happens, cause they are NOT showing the Alien Outlaw, which is just a guy with black gloves, some jacket with stuff attached to it to make it look "alien" and a bad mask on his head. OK, since you have already made this suit and it won't cost you more if you show it more, right?! So why do I have to wait for half an hour to get a peak on this so called Alien Outlaw?! No distant planets, no outer space, no laser blasters, no nothing. Just a very very bad UFO shot at the beginning of the movie, and then another shot where the UFO just GOES DOWN behind some trees and you hear a crash... Just like that. Why the hell the stupid flying saucer broke down and crashed you will never know. That's about the sci-fi, now about the western part. By western they mean that they have some horse scenes and some 6-guns. Some bullets shot but there is nothing that is even remotely close to a decent gunfight let alone a classic wild west showdown. NO WILD WEST here guys! They have some old cowboy stars, so I guess the movie is interesting for their fans, but I've never even heard their names since the credits of "Alien Outlaw". I guess they were popular in USA during the 40s and I'm sure they still have fans, so maybe for them this movie will be a curious one, but I'm quite sure they will be disappointed too, if not ashamed to see their childhood heroes in such a bad excuse for a movie.