The Alien Factor Full Movie

[Dominik Ransom]

TheAlien Factor is a 1978 science fiction horror film written, edited, produced, and directed by Don Dohler. The film centers on a small town that is besieged by three aliens that have crash-landed in the nearby forest.

A spaceship crashes in a sparsely populated area of Earth and three horrific aliens survive the accident. The grotesque extraterrestrials soon begin to terrorize the local residents, until one intrepid soul chooses to fight back.

The Alien Factor became the directorial debut of Don Dohler who after working as a payroll manager for a restaurant chain for 12 years moved into film-making after being laid off from his position.[1] The initial script was initially written as a comedy titled Lance Sterling, Monster Killer which would've called for 15 different monsters to be created, before Dohler and his crew decided it would be more prudent to do a straight horror film with only three monsters.[1] The creature suits for the Inferbyce and Zagtile were built and designed by Larry Schlechter and John Cosentino respectively, while the Leemoid was created through stop motion animation which Ernest D. Farino was responsible for along with the design of the creature using earlier designs by Britt McDonough and Tim Hammell.[1] Filming was done sporadically from October 1976 through April 1977 in and around the Baltimore, Maryland area.[1]

The film was released on DVD by Retromedia Entertainment on February 26, 2002. Image Entertainment released the film on November 15, 2005 as a part of its Don Dohler Collection. It was last released by Mill Creek Entertainment on July 19, 2011.[2]

The film titled The Alien Factor 2: Alien Rampage was not actually a sequel. The sequel-sounding title was chosen by Retromedia distributor Fred Olen Ray to market the film on DVD in 2002. The original title for The Alien Factor 2 was Alien Rampage. Alien Rampage was filmed in 1999 and was Don Dohler's comeback movie after an 11-year hiatus from filmmaking.

An alien from outer space bites a bio-researcher on the hand and turns him into a monster. Its first victim is the guard at the laboratory he's working in. The guard's daughters are getting worried that their father hasn't called them and they go to the lab, where they meet their worst nightmare.

Following on the moderate success of 1983's The Deadly Spawn, Ted A. Bohus and partner Dr. Ron Giannotto chose to surpass this success with a sequel, but the storyline evolved into something different. Having a slightly larger budget than for 'Spawn', Metamorphosis: The Alien Factor began production in an abandoned Jersey City warehouse with exterior and some interior shots in a Hackensack office building using childhood friends and New Jersey and New York City locals.[3]

The producers attempted to secure a theatrical release, but the film was ultimately released straight to video by Vidmark Entertainment on December 15, 1993 after playing at festivals and film markets beginning in 1990.[4][1] Lionsgate re-released the film on October 13, 2003.[5]

TV Guide awarded the film 3/5 stars, writing, "The title may sound generic, but Metamorphosis: The Alien Factor is an unusually vivid and accomplished low-budget horror film, a science fiction chiller that stretches its budget well and whips up some solid frights."[6] The Video Graveyard gave the film a negative review, calling it "Effects-laden trash", criticizing the special effects, script, and dialogue.[7]

Making his very first ultra-low budget film, writer/director Don Dohler (Nightbeast, Galaxy Invader, The Alien Factor 2) has produced something that is equal parts boring and amusingly hokey. In this clunky 77-minute flick, a spaceship transporting alien creatures from distant galaxies crashes on Earth. After the creatures escape and wreak havoc on the locals, a mysterious pseudo-scientist shows up to help.

The mutated creature is a hybrid between a Human and the same alien species as Spot the Wonder Blob. It stands at seven feet in height. Its skin is red, and parts of the skin don't completely cover the body, showing exposed muscle, organs, and bones at the frontal chest cavity.

It has two large legs to drag its bulk around, and a very prominent neck with a reptilian-like head at the end with large, knife-like teeth. Its teeth are so large it can't close its mouth completely. Through the open chest cavity can emerge a tentacle-like proboscis to attack and kill victims.

While studying Spot the Wonder Blob, TALOS scientist Dr. Michael Foster is bitten by the lifeform. Overtime, he is then mutated into a hybrid lifeform of Human and Alien DNA. In this state, no visible memories or recognition of the scientist could be noted.

Once fully transformed, the mutant goes on a rampage throughout the facility, killing numerous personnel until it is brought into one of the chambers, where it was pinned down and got its head completely decimated, killing it instantly.

Don Leifert Tom Griffith Richard Dyszel Mary Mertens Richard Geiwitz George Stover Eleanor Herman Anne Frith Christopher Gummer Don Dohler Dave Ellis Dave Geatty Margie Van Tassell Tony Malanowski Johnny Walker

As far as I can tell, this movie is about melancholy cardinals feasting on seed as the snow comes down, alert to the afternoon winter sunlight strafing through the trees as the sun blots orangery. The cardinals are disappointed in the humans who spend most of this movie drinking and driving and although heavily armed being clawed to death by aliens with carapaces and very tall aliens but the cardinals like very much if you are a Nuggets Era Garage Band Which Still Dresses Like 1966 in 1977 (at least the dude in the way frilly blouse! the cardinals say right on) and dig the telepathic crystalline nodules sketching and twinkling and vrmmmmmmmmm the cardinals also have claws but not full of poison they use them to hold onto the edges of the bird feeder

Foggy brain melt Sunday continues with the Alien Factor! A regional low budget sci fi film from Don Dohler. Hilariously bad acting, cheap looking alien designs, brooding drones and all the glowing lazery FX you could ask for! I usually ask for a lot of them so the more the better!

I mean perhaps it doesn't deserve to be a classic considering this was going to be for 70s patreon and then I realized I had totally watched the whole thing before and entirely forgot it existed which ...

This was a pretty interesting movie for it's time. The creature effects were pretty good for it's time. The acting wasn't that bad, but not as good. The ending was abrupt i didn't expect it to end like that, but there is a sequel that i need to find and watch.

Walking through the snowy woods outside of Baltimore with the characters of this movie as they search for alien zoological specimens that escaped from a crashed space ship is pretty alright. Even better is a short stop in a bar where a prototype hair band does a pretty cool song with a couple of groupies moving along with the beat. Plus this features Don Leifert who was in Fiend with the mustache and that innate acting ability to project an air of superiority over the other characters, a sheriff, the sleazy mayor, and a woman who's a reporter, plus another woman who's doing the autopsies on the victims, who says they could have been attacked by a large animal but then again maybe they weren't.

Don Dohler alien invasion weirdness dripping in awesome hair, groovy bar rock, and a late night psychotronic drive-in aesthetic. Golden age sci-fi storytelling similar in nature to that of Clifford Simak. This film crawled so that Nightbeast could soar. Inventive, endearing, and as far as low budget cinema goes, extremely well structured and put together. If anybody deserves a box set, it's this guy.

The Alien Factor is a 1978 Sci-Fi/Horror B movie directed by Don Dohler that takes place in rural Maryland where several townspeople are killed off in manners that match nothing the local wild animal population could possibly inflict. After several of these killings, a local astronomer named Benjamin Zachary from a nearby observatory investigates what he believed to be a meteor crash that turns out to be the remains of an alien space ship.

Tom Swift has caught a falling star---a visitor from outer space who is as beautiful as she is strange. But his secret encounter has set off alarms at the highest levels of government. A top-secret intelligence agency believes he's involved in an espionage and smuggling ring. To check Tom out, the Network sends two of its top operatives: Frank and Joe Hardy.

But when the alien is kidnapped by a sinister industrialist, Frank and Joe and Tom realize that they have to work together. They're dealing with a conspiracy that stretches from the farthest reaches of space into the deepest recesses of their own government. The fate of the country and the planet could rest on uncovering the shocking truth about the girl from another world!

A spaceship crashes in a sparsely populated area of Earth and three horrific aliens survive the accident. These grotesque extraterrestrials soon begin to terrorize and kill the local residents, until one intrepid soul chooses to fight back.

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While it borrows and homages heavily from the archetypes and ideas of the alien/monster invasion movies of the 40s and 50s - the small town, the country sheriff, the greedy mayor wishing to hush it all up, determined a big building project continues, the weird stranger who knows more than he's saying and so on - what sets this apart for me is not just the incredible heart, passion and local talent on display in the costumes, acting, special effects and monster suits but Don's writing. Not content to just have your typical alien invasion movie, Don comes up with some really cool creatures, all of whom have their own reasons for being here and, not all of them, are hostile. It's a story which we can all relate to, no matter what corner of the galaxy we come from.

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