The jazzy title sequence starts things rolling nicely. The green-hued sickly neon of a supermarket in Bumf**k Nowhere is the setting.Camera-wielding and gun-toting alien hunters pile out of a van and into the supermarket. Hostages are taken. A weird bug-eyed geek stares into customers eyes, looking for "something". An undercover cop produces a gun, shoots the spotter and we are off to the races. Which of the remaining customers is infected with an alien parasite? This is one of the best indie flicks to hit screens in a long time.The cast of relative unknowns give it their all. The special effects serve the story instead of the other way around. Plotting is tight. No one does anything glaringly stupid or obvious.Along with the recent Splinter and Altered, this is a superior example of clever low-budget film making that puts the bloated floaters plopped by Hollywood into their proper place: the toilet.
Review of Alien Raiders
