Alien Factor 2: The Alien Rampage (2001)

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The first must-see film of the year.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

A lethal alien cyborg (Bill Ulrich in a gnarly rubber suit) terrorizes a small town in Maryland. The local police join forces with an FBI agent to stop it.Writer/director Don Dohler keeps the enjoyable story moving long at a snappy pace, maintains an engaging sincere tone throughout, and stages the exciting action with flair. Moreover, Dohler brings a winning sense of positively infectious go-for-it enthusiasm that's impossible to either resist or dislike. Granted, the acting from the uneven cast is decidedly hit or miss, but there are nonetheless admirably game contributions from Donna Sherman as no-nonsense sheriff Allison Smith, George Stover as earnest deputy Mickey Sinclair, Patrick Bussink as secretive fed Frank Love, Jonas Grey as brave munitions expert David Tackett, Anne Frith as old bag lady Aggie, and Shawn Doyle as the concerned Mayor Henry Kidd. The rinky-dink (less than) special effects further add to this film's rough around the edges homemade charm. The robust score hits the rousing spot. A fun little flick.

This unrelated sequel to Don Dohler's sci-fi/horror schlock "The Alien Factor" features an alien invader,who traps an entire town within it's time-warping forcefield.The local police and FBI agents try to stop the killing spree."Alien Factor 2:The Alien Rampage" is an ultra low-budget horror movie with pretty high bodycount and a little bit of blood.The action is fast paced,the special effects are solid and the rubber suit of an alien looks great.The cast is made up of some old friends of sadly deceased Baltimore film-maker Don Dohler including George Stover and Anne Frith.If you are a fan of "The Nightbeast" or "The Galaxy Invader" you can't go wrong with this vastly entertaining cheapie.7 out of 10.

In my book director Don Dohler will go in the list of history's worst directors. Which includes Burt I. Gordon, Edward Wood Jr. and Jeff Leroy. Don Dohler is that level of bad. Alien Factor was was a steaming pile of bio-waste. Why on God's green Earth did they allow him to make a second movie? It makes me sick. The plot was okay. But again poor production values, creature suit was just okay. The acting was god awful. The fact that the only minority was a minor background character only supports to me that Don Dohler is also a bigot and the Government probably made him have her in the movie. It's crap, the acting is crap, the story is crap, the effects are crap, the creature effects are crap, let's face it. Except for the plot being somewhat interesting it's total crap. I give it... THE NOOSE!

Baltimore's own Don Dohler has been crankin' em out since the late seventies beginning with THE ALIEN FACTOR. In 2001, Dohler finally answered his legion of fans (all 10 of 'em)and filmed ALIEN FACTOR 2:ALIEN RAMPAGE. And while I must admit that Dohler has improved a little in his film-making technique, he is still hampered by micro budgets which especially show during the special-effects scenes.As usual,the acting in this film ranges from decent to strictly amateur. A special nod goes to actress Ann Firths way over the top performance as an elderly bag lady;it borders on caricature.But throw in a neat monster,cheesy special-effects plus a- let's make a movie, gang!-atmosphere and you have a new millennium spin on the old Mickey Rooney-Judy Garland films of the 1940's where a group of friends put on a show in the barn for the local townsfolk.Amateurish,yes. Good? Not hardly. In fact, I wouldn't want to watch ALIEN FACTOR 2 again anytime soon. But in it's own homemade, shot in the backyard way, it's rather cute and endearing. A cinematic version of The Little Engine That Could.