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Alien Raiders is a 2008 American science fiction horror film, starring Carlos Bernard, Rockmond Dunbar and Mathew St. Patrick. The film is Ben Rock's first feature film as a director. The film was produced by Daniel Myrick, John Shiban, and Tony Krantz.
Just as the local grocery store is about to close, a group of six armed, masked people enter the building. They take the staff and remaining customers hostage and immediately shoot down one of the employees. One of the masked men named Spooky is then told to check whether "he" is among the hostages. When he identifies a woman as one of "them", she tries to escape but is shot down. Meanwhile, a police officer, who was also inside the store, manages to kill one of the masked men. He then calls for back-up and shoots Spooky, who hasn't managed to check all hostages yet. The cop is then killed too.
As the police arrive, the group argues whether or not to leave, but their leader, a man named Ritter, tells them that they need to finish their job. They release the hostages Spooky already managed to clear and move the rest to the back of the store. As they inspect one of the corpses, it becomes clear that the person was infected with an organism that breeds inside the person. With Spooky dead, the group resorts to a different method for checking whether the rest of the people are infected or not. One by one, the hostages are taken to another room and have one of their fingers cut off, which Sterling, the doctor of the group, uses to verify if they are infected or not.
Outside the store a policeman named Seth, whose stepdaughter Whitney works as a cashier at the store, takes charge of the police operation. They discover that Ritter used to work as a rocket scientist and that the group hunts people that are infected with an alien parasite that came to Earth inside a meteorite, which the cops don't believe. Trying to negotiate with Ritter, they come to the agreement that Ritter will release one of the hostages if the police bring them a woman named Charlotte, who used to be part of the group and possesses the same ability as Spooky did.
The group inside discovers another woman is infected and kill her. They are then attacked by the revived body of the cop, who manages to kill two of the captors and three of the hostages. Ritter then explains to the remaining hostages what they were after: The parasites are divided in two groups, several females and one king. Without the king, the parasites would eventually go extinct. They knew that one of the persons inside the store was the host of the king, which is why they took the whole store hostage.
Seth and Charlotte then come inside. With Charlotte's help, the group lures the infected cop into a trap, while Seth leads his stepdaughter and the store clerk named Benny, who volunteered to have his finger cut off to spare Whitney the ordeal, outside. Ritter manages to cut the living parasite out of the cop, but is subsequently gunned down by the police who try to kill it.Just as Sterling is arrested by Seth, Charlotte realizes that the killed parasite was not the king. Inside a police car, Benny overhears Seth calling the other cops, telling them that Benny must be the king. Benny realizes that it must actually be Whitney, since she was the only one who is still alive and wasn't checked by the captors. As he aims a gun at her, her eyes and veins change to a darker color and the screen fades to black, while Benny is heard screaming.
The film holds a 100% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on six reviews with an average score of 7.21/10.[2] Critics highlighted the unexpectedly high quality effects and acting, which exceeded expectations of a low-budget horror film. The bulk of criticism was aimed at the film's title, which Steve Barton of Dread Central dubbed "ridiculous" while praising the film itself as worthy of a theatrical release.[3]
The direction that the story takes once the aliens are introduced is more interesting than the standard ordinary people stumbling across an alien invasion plot. I really liked the claustrophobic feel of the film with almost all of the action going on in one small supermarket and most of it in only a couple of small rooms.
It was actually an idea of Dan Myrick's. His idea was to set something fantastic and grandiose like an alien invasion film in the most mundane place of all - a supermarket. The title at the time was actually "Supermarket".
Raw Feed is a partnership between Dan, Tony Krantz, and John Shiban and together they produced three films a few years back ("Believers", "Rest Stop", and "Sublime"), and Warner Brothers wanted a second round. Dan had pitched a few ideas to WB, and this was the one they wanted to go with. When I was brought on, Dan was up to his eyeballs in "The Objective", and there was a script but they needed a director to help guide the development of it. At that point I was primarily working with cowriter Julia Fair, and most of all we needed to simplify the script that existed - it was too huge to be filmed as-is - and we needed to clearly define the aliens themselves. We also had to do this quickly, as the WGA strike was about to begin.
Well, in part it was through the help of one of the Raw Feed execs, Tony Krantz, who was one of the original producers of 24. Also, by the time we met with Carlos, the WGA strike was in full swing, and he would be able to hop directly from the TV series to our film without a day off. We were actually able to get a lot of great people because we were shooting during the strike. As a result, we were able to also bring Mathew St. Patrick and Rockmond Dunbar onboard, as well as our DP, Walt Lloyd and a bunch of the camera crew from Lost. The strike really helped us out!
As for Carlos, he was truly one of my top choices for the role when I was brought on. The character had to be smart, believable as a scientist, kind of tortured, and although he had to look natural holding a gun we had to know he was miserable doing these things. Carlos brings that intensity, sadness, and immediacy to his roles and I thought he was perfect. When I met with him, it became clear that we were on the same page as far as the tone of the movie, which is important with a leading actor who sets the tone in almost every scene.
When we were shooting, it was "Supermarket," which I personally didn't care for. When we finished shooting, the title was changed to "inHuman," which I liked quite a bit, but "Alien Raiders" was the title WB wanted, and I made my feelings known to them at the time. I felt that tonally it wasn't a good fit, but WB was adamant about it.
Frankly, they had been so amazing to work with throughout the film, I didn't think it was much for them to ask. They'd really let me do my thing in terms of rewriting the script, casting, shooting, and editing. They hadn't really forced my hand at anything at all until the title, so I feel like it's a fair thing to ask even if I don't agree with it. All I could do was make my case, and after that the movie was in their hands. I think "inHuman," which was also their idea, will always be my first choice, though - I like the double meaning.
After seeing the film, it appears like you started out with a very detailed alien invasion story, but a lot of those details ended up being left out of the final project in favor of a leaner story. Was it hard to whittle the story down to just those essential elements?
Although the movie did start out bigger than what we made, it never went into much more detail about the invasion story as such. I admire movies like "Night of the Living Dead" or "The Signal" that just throw you into a world without explanation and you're giving exposition gradually and in small pieces. Julia and I made sure we had our backstory straight, so there was a consistency in all the information that's dropped throughout the film.
At our budget, an all-CGI monster would have been rather impractical or downright cheesy. We chose early to use CGI sparingly -- the finger growing back, some particle system stuff, veins growing under the skin, adding starfields in the sky, wire removal, stuff like that. And we chose to keep it all subtle. As a former SFX makeup artist, I wanted to figure out the best way to do this film with makeup effects, and our makeup crew worked very hard to make the gags work.
WB graciously allowed me to mount a festival campaign with the movie, and we played about 18 film festivals between September and February. I went to as many of them as I could, so I got to see the movie with a bunch of different audiences and the reaction was really positive. A lot of the festivals we attended were genre festivals like Fantastic Fest in Austin, the International Horror and Sci Fi Film Festival in Phoenix, Shriekfest in LA, The Terror Film Festival in Philly, the Freakshow Horror Film Festival in Orlando, the New York City Horror Film Festival and the Boston Sci-Fi Marathon. Not only did we get a lot of great audiences, but we won some awards (Shriekfest, Shockerfest, HP Lovecraft Film Festival, Freak Show Horror Film Festival, Terror Film Festival, B-Movie Film Festival, International Horror and Sci-Fi Film Festival) and we got some press kicked up for the movie as well. The reviews, for the most part, have been very positive both from the genre world (Fangoria, Fearnet, Dread Central, etc.) and the non-genre world (The Onion, Empire Magazine, The Tampa Tribune). And that's all good, but as a huge, nerdy horror fan myself, nothing compared to watching it in a theater full of horror and Sci-Fi fans.
I do have some projects potentially in the works, but none of them are happening just yet. I don't like to talk about stuff until it's actually happening, lest I look like an ass if it doesn't happen.
You went to school with Eduardo Sanchez and Daniel Myrick, and did a lot of work on The Blair Witch Project and its spinoffs. Do you have any thoughts on "Book of Shadows"? It's a film I'm actually a fan of but I know there was a lot of bad blood involved for you guys.
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