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''Evil Aliens'' is a 2005 British slapstick
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film directed by
Jake West Jake West (born 1972) is a British film director, known mostly for his horror films and for a series of documentaries looking at film censorship and interviewing well-known directors, actors and industry figures. Biography West's first feature ...
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/ref> It was the first full-length British horror film to be filmed using Sony HD (High Definition) cameras.


Plot

The film begins with the
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on Scalleum, a remote island off the coast of
Wales Wales ( ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by the Irish Sea to the north and west, England to the England–Wales border, east, the Bristol Channel to the south, and the Celtic ...
, of Cat Williams and her boyfriend. Cat's boyfriend is gorily killed through brutal
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, and Cat is (also gorily) implanted with an alien fetus. Cat's story attracts the attention of Michelle "Foxy" Fox, the bosomy host of the cable TV show ''Weird Worlde'', who brings a film crew to the island — her cameraman boyfriend Ricky; Jack the sound man; nerdy UFO expert Gavin Gorman; and actors Bruce Barton and Candy Vixen (the latter, Foxy's producer assures her, "because she's good, not because she's my girlfriend"). The island is accessible via a narrow
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only at low tide. The ''Weird Worlde'' crew sets out in their van, but it is dark by the time they reach the Williams family's creepy farmhouse, where they meet Cat and her three hulking and sadistic brothers (who speak only Welsh with English subtitles). The crew (with the exception of Gavin Gorman) initially assume that Cat's story is a hoax, and even go so far as to make a
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in a nearby field so they can film it for the show, to Gorman's great disgust. However, it soon turns out that the aliens are all too real and rather malevolent. The film crew teams up with the Welsh Williams brothers to fight off the aliens, with a great deal of blood and gore. One highlight features Ricky running down some aliens in a
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, to the tune of " Combine Harvester (Brand New Key)" by
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. Eventually, the alien child inside Cat claws its way out; on board the alien ship, Foxy is impregnated with another alien fetus while Gavin loses his virginity to a shapely female alien; Bruce, Candy, and the Welsh brothers meet various horrible demises; Ricky blows up himself and four alien pursuers in a tank of liquid manure; back at the house, the female alien rips Foxy in half; and finally Gavin manages to use his laptop (in a sequence reminiscent of ''
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'') to overload the
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s of the nearby
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. As Cat's alien child rips his arms off, Gavin manages to press the
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with his nose, sending the stones shooting into the underside of the alien craft, which crashes into a convenient mountain. Jack the sound man, meanwhile, having been blinded by alien ichor early in the film, swims across the channel to the mainland, only to discover that he's lost the videotape that was the only proof of their extraterrestrial encounter. The film ends with a clip from an alien
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reminiscent of ''
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'' (and subtitled in English), on which Gavin's female alien is trying to explain how her entire crew was killed by humans and she herself carries the love child of one of those humans. The audience roars with laughter, and the host cuts her mike.


Cast

The film features an
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including
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Emily Booth Emily Katherine Booth (born 26 April 1976), also known by her stage name Emily "Bouff" Bouffante, is an English actress and television presenter. Early life While she was a student, Booth earned money busking playing the violin and sang on '' ...
, Jamie Honeybourne,
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,
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, Scott Joseph,
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Jodie Shaw, and Jennifer Evans. *
Emily Booth Emily Katherine Booth (born 26 April 1976), also known by her stage name Emily "Bouff" Bouffante, is an English actress and television presenter. Early life While she was a student, Booth earned money busking playing the violin and sang on '' ...
– Michelle Fox *Jamie Honeybourne – Gavin Gorman *Sam Butler – Ricky Anderson *Jodie Shaw – Candy Vixen *Peter McNeil O'Connor – Jack Campbell *Nick Smithers – Bruce Barton *
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– Howard Marsden *
Christopher Adamson Christopher Adamson is a British actor. He often portrays villains, such as Mean Machine Angel in ''Judge Dredd'' and Jimmy Legs in '' Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest'' and '' Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End''. He attended ...
– Llyr Williams/Surgeon Alien * Jennifer Evans – Cat Williams *Mark Richard Hayes – Dai Williams *Chris Thomas – Thomas Williams *Scott Joseph – Lead Alien *Mildred von Heildegard – Female Alien *Tim Clark, Mark Holloway, Glenn Collier – Aliens * Tree Carr – Dream Alien *Dan Palmer – Onkey (UFO Witness 1) *James Heathcote – Merv (UFO Witness 2)


Production

''Evil Aliens'' is the second film from director
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''). The film was produced by Tim Dennison (''Lighthouse'', '' Revenge of Billy the Kid'', ''
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''); the executive producer was Quentin Reynolds.


Filming

Although the film is set in
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, most of it was actually filmed on a farm in
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, including the combine harvester sequence and the UFO crash. The harvester was provided by a local agricultural contracting firm, and driven by one of their staff (whose hand is visible controlling the harvester during much of the sequence).


Soundtrack

*"Combine Harvester (Brand New Key)" by
The Wurzels The Wurzels are an English Scrumpy and Western band from Somerset, best known for their number one hit " The Combine Harvester" and number three hit " I Am a Cider Drinker" in 1976. Name The name of the band was dreamt up by founder Adge C ...


Release

After showings at various film festivals in 2005, ''Evil Aliens'' was released in the UK on March 10, 2006, by ContentFilm International, who also act as international sales agents. Image Entertainment released the film in U.S. cinemas on September 6, 2006. It was released on DVD (with extras) in the UK on 26 September 2006. American DVD release was scheduled for October 2007.


Further reading

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References


External links

* {{IMDb title, 0383353, Evil Aliens
Jake West Interview
2005 comedy horror films 2005 films 2000s British films 2000s English-language films British comedy horror films British slapstick comedy films British splatter films Films directed by Jake West Films set in Wales Films set on islands English-language comedy horror films