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Alien Blood

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At one point I actually forgot this was a Troma film! Actually, this was an English import by Troma, which sort of proves somebody at that studio has decent taste in films! The story is about a bunch of white-masked assassins who relentless pursue a mother and daughter across rural England! To make things even more interesting, Helene (Francesca Manning) is pregnant and plagued by terrifying visions!...This one has science-fiction, vampires and a whole lot of violence in this 1999 film from director Jon Sorensen! "Alien Blood" gets a bit arty at times, but you have to admire the way Sorensen blends so many disparate elements! An above average alien/vampire/splatter flick!

I am not usually a 'splatter/horror movie' fan, but I found this film unusual and totally engrossing. Shot with great elan and some gorgeous camerawork in the beautiful English Lake District, ALIEN BLOOD combines elements of sci-fi, horror, action movie and thriller to make an intriguing and VERY fast-moving story. In fact it is so fast you have to keep your wits about you, which is perhaps the reason why the viewer who found the film 'confusing' was confused! Director JON SORENSON gets five stars from me for this bold venture: more power to his elbow and I look forward to his next movie. Let's hope it comes soon.

This gore fest from Jon Sorrensson (I think he did the special effects for the "Alien" series of films) is a low budget classic.
It is set in the lovely Lake District and shows british film making in a very good light. MORE OF THE SAME PLEASE.

This is a film that requires some patience, and for that reason may not be compatible with the regular Multiplex-movie-goer. But for those who watch movies for their content instead of only for fast moving ridiculousness, this is a very interesting one, because it is a little of a lot of things and a lot of never seen before. Apparently the producer/writer/director Jon Sorensen (responsible for the special effects of Alien, The Dark Crystal, Moonraker and Terry Gilliam's Time Bandits, to name a few) had trouble finding funds to finance the film, because in Britain it was the first independent film with a science fiction theme in at least ten years. Producing it himself he eventually managed to go on with the project, and that is a very good thing, because he made certainly the first British independent film of any kind that is remotely like ALIEN BLOOD. The film evolves around a hunted mother and her child, which is the target of the incredibly unrelenting mostly masked persons, the leader of which mentions to be responsible for "this project". A family having a dress-party for the millennium gets involved and without us learning the exact truth about the mother and the child, the film is keeping the viewer constantly involved with them, concerned for them. Without much plot this is a very poetic film, of which each and every frame could be framed and hanged on the wall for it's sheer beauty. The atmosphere reminds a little of some of the best Jean Rollin pictures, especially Requiem For A Vampire, as it shares a very long beginning without any dialogue, and a sneaked in vampire theme combined with some implied lesbianism plus the fact that people who come "from another world" speak French lead to believe that the director indeed wanted to include some nods to the French auteur filmmaker. With it's visual poetry, stunningly thrilling atmosphere, wonderfully worked out story and questions that still remain after the closing titles have ended, this is a very special film. Some people complain about the acting in many films that are made with a comparatively small budget, but even the most cynical of those could complain here. The acting has to be done without a lot of lines, so facial expressions are very important, and the cast deliver a great performance. The DVD has an interesting monologue by Sorensen, in which he shares a good deal of information about the production of the film and beautiful shots of the location (just as beautiful) where Alien Blood was shot.

Genius, what more can be said. A budget equivelant to the pocket money I recived as a child yet spent with more panache! Acting that is camp, scary and engrossing. The lead vampire will be seen again, of that I have no doubt.

I read a viewer review of this who says it's not like other Troma films - because it's made in England. Well it is like other Troma films - it's bad!

This film is strange. A group of men trying to kill a group of alien women who all seem to be converging on a house in England that just happens to have several vampires staying there; one of them happens to be Dracula !?!

All the alien women are blonde, one speaks only French, & all of them do martial arts - and all have to be at some certain location before the clock strikes mid-night on 12th December 1999!?!

There is very little vampirism, so vampire buffs can give this film a miss. (These vampires are killed just as easily as any mortal.)

Give this film a miss.

What a gem! A movie that has a plot as thin as paper. The movie starts with 10 minutes of a black background and credits. If you haven't fallen alseep yet, prepare to reap the awards of 15 minutes of practically zero diaolgue and ambient soundscaping music and video footage of the most random things you can imagine. It gets worse, during those fifteen minutes your treated with a 10 second clip of a windows 95 screensaver alien you see on the cover making the most ridiculous noise you can imagine. This movie is the equavilent to being hit in the groin with a metal bat.

This movie is so random! After the most painful intro in movie history we are treated to a hugely buff blonde women going into a random person's yard to see horses. On her way there the guy who owns the property grabs her butt. This is followed by a tremoundously fake looking hit to the groin. Then for no reason at all she steals the horse with her kid...that's were the movie should have ended.

If you want to watch the worst combat in the world, look no further. You can watch a 3-foot 6yr-child roundhouse kick a guy in the head. Or guys with guns running towards the woman to melee instead of shooting. The only saving grace in this scene is when the 6yr kid gets blasted wiht hundreds of bullets for like 10 seconds before hitting the ground. I couldn't help but laugh here, and I don't think the director intended for me to.

Add in 10 more minutes of zero dialogue and ambiet music and kids petting a pregnant belly for couple minutes, a scene that almost sent me to psychologist.

Enter UGLY lesbian vampires and fat faced dracula. Evil Dracula locks his wife in the basement cause he wants to have an affair. Yeah...what a cool move. The next scene features the ugliest lesbian sex scene I've ever seen...you know its bad when they are slowly GETTING dressed instead of the other way around. The boobs thrown in this movie are like sprinkles to a big steaming pile of feces. In another sex scene, you have to watch a couple try to have sex...except they can't because they guy isn't able to get an erection. Why didn't the director give the guy some viagra...oh I know why, because hewants to cause us brain damage.

For whatever reason after these horrible sex scenes, Dracula goes absolutely mad while all these other ugly vampires try to hold him down. Enter the big muscly blonde woman who chooses to break into their home and shoot him down for no apparent reason and no one seems to care! Next thing we know, Dracula's wife and friends are now helping to defend her from evil govt. soldiers who are hunting her down...because she is an alien. Wow Dracula, you are suppose to be one of the charsimatic bad guys of all time and now you are raging-fat-twinkie-eating-fangless-buffalo wing.

Now it all makes sense doesn't it! The last twenty minutes are the most painful. The gunfight consists of the good guys standing out in the open with automatic weapons with zero tactics killing the same 5 govt. soldiers over and over again with ease.

During the fight, a giant digital hot air balloon comes (Muscly girl's alien friends) and shoots down the govt soldiers. This could have been cool if this movie had budget...instead we get Atari graphics. If you don't have the budget don't make the film you jerk!

The alien's laser beam cannon looked like he took stills of the film and crayoned the beams at enemies. The laser sounded like if you stepped on a cats tail except higher pitched. It was like Star wars without the stars or...the war. All your left with is "s" and it sucks...anyways, I'm rambling. So they loop the same 4 scenes over and over again...and again...and again. After 5 minutes of that you are treated with a scene where the aliens beam the woman and girl...thank God.

I want to know what drugs the director was doing. This movie feels like it was made by a man who lives in a mental hospital and paid other patients lint to act in it. If I didn't go online to read the synsposis I wouldn't know anything about this film.

On the other hand though, if you decided to drink or get hyped up on caffenine with some friends and watch this it might be more entertaining. My friends and I shredded this movie to pieces. This movie is up there with Lethal Ninja. Another gem.

This film starts like a Ken Russell film, lots of open space and idyllic shots, lulling you into a soft mood, then "boom!" Off we go! The people at the party admit it's a dress-up affair, they ain't the undead. The violence is gritty and realistic, the gunplay frantic and bloody. If you have a problem with Aliens doing Martial Arts, what about Worf from Star Trek? You wouldn't have bought the "two hearts" thing if they just biffed people on the nose either, so the goodly crunch of a fast spin kick sells the strength of the aliens. If you didn't see aliens, you were off making a cuppa. The SFX were really spectacular, I was entertained.

'Alien blood' was a bitter disappointment for me. This movie is just bad, bad, bad. Now I generally like B horror movies but not this one.
As soon as I saw it was filmed in England my heart sunk.
It's starts off with some nice vistas of the English countryside and I'm thinking ok this might be cool. Then the pain begins.
The characters in the first 15 minutes of the movie don't talk. I guess we are to assume they communicate by telepathy but it comes off really awkward.
Next thing you know the scene changes to a house full of vampires.What? Lesbian vampires at that. Don't get excited.
English women are not pretty. Not in this movie anyway.
I can't even begin to explain the rest since I fast forwarded through it. This enabled me to quickly assertain there was nothing more to look forward to.
The gore was extremely weak and cheesey beyond words.
Worst of all there was no humor. If there was, I didn't get it.
I would have gotten more pleasure from that 10 American dollars I spent on this movie if I would have rolled the bill up and shoved it in my eye.
THERE ARE NO ALIENS IN THIS MOVIE!!!
If you have the urge to dispell my criticism and buy this movie please send me the 10 dollars instead and I will send you my VHS copy of 'Crossroads'with Britney Spears.
That way we both come out ahead.