Alien Dawn
Starring Rachelle Dimaria, Alex Bell, Michael Abruscato, Tiffany Adams
Directed by Neil Johnson
For some unknown reason, aliens from Mars decide to attack Earth. As their alien spaceships enter our atmosphere, they release pods that unleash giant tripod robots that go about destroying all the major cities in the world.
Survivors Marissa (Rachelle Dimaria), and half-brothers Anders (Alex Bell) and Roger (Michael Abruscato) hide out in a storage unit-type area and pretty much spend most of the time bicker and arguing over what to do, as the aliens continue to dominate and slowly take over the world. They finally decide to fight back with some ragtag bombs and guns, but will it be enough to destroy the invading aliens?
"Alien Dawn" is a throwback to the classic cheesy alien invasion movies of the 50s, even going so far as to include the lame laser sounds taken from the original "War of the Worlds." While there's several connections to the WotW (including the most obvious one - the tripod robots), this film also seems to take allowance from the war film "Red Dawn," not just in the similar shape of the title, but also having a small band of survivors come together with minimal weapons and experience and take on the invading force, just as it happened in the original (and the remake) of "Red Dawn."
There isn't much to say in the ways of effects, most of it was done in a very poor manner, but it adds to the overall campiness to the film. The acting was quite horrible, whenever they weren't fighting aliens they were arguing with each other the whole time, and it seemed there wasn't much of a script, because they kept repeating phrases throughout the film (if you were playing the drinking game everytime someone said they needed water, you'd be wasted in the first ten minutes).
So it's not a blockbuster by any stretch of the imagination, but I've seen worse. It's a good film to see if you want to waste some time and experience a throwback of older campy 50's alien invasion films, give it a shot.
Rating: D+
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