Alien Avengers

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Alien Avengers
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Genre
  • Comedy
  • Sci-Fi
Written by
Directed by Lev L. Spiro
Starring George Wendt
Music by Tyler Bates
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
Production
Executive producer Roger Corman
Producers
Cinematography Christopher Baffa
Editor Daniel H. Holland
Running time81 min.
Production companies
Original release
ReleaseAugust 3, 1996 (1996-08-03)

Alien Avengers is a 1996 American television film directed by Lev L. Spiro and starring George Wendt. It was part of the Roger Corman Presents series. [1] It was also known as Welcome to Planet Earth. The film led to a sequel, Alien Avengers II, the following year.

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Plot

Joseph Collins, an ex-con, (Christopher Brown) inherits an abandoned and dilapidated boarding house from his deceased mother, and before he even gets a chance to clean the place, Charlie (Wendt), Rhonda (Reed) and their teenage daughter, Daphne (Sakelaris), who are really aliens hiding their true identities, arrive for a vacation. Charlie forks over a bundle of cash, and the alien family settles in. The family's idea of a good time is going out on the town and killing criminals and thugs they encounter on the streets, and bringing the body parts back to the boarding house to snack on.

Cast

Reception

Tony Scott wrote in Variety Magazine that the film "depends too much on pre-adolescent gags, and the humor's obvious, the lingo crude, the situations mostly lame, the script bogs down among the excesses, and the windups a letdown." [2]

Alien Avengers II

Alien Avengers
Genre
  • Comedy
  • Sci-Fi
Written by Michael McDonald (as Michael James McDonald)
Directed byDavid Payne
Starring
Music by Tyler Bates
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
Production
Executive producer Roger Corman
Producers
Production locations
CinematographyMike Mickens
Editor JJ Jackson
Running time89 min.
Production companies
Original release
ReleaseOctober 25, 1997 (1997-10-25)

Plot

Aliens become sheriffs of a small town.

References

  1. Gray, Tim (May 5, 2015). "My First Time In Variety, August 15, 1996, Alien Avengers". Variety Magazine . Vol. 327, no. 14. p. 90. ISSN   0042-2738.
  2. Scott, Tony (August 15, 1996). "Roger Corman Presents Alien Avengers". Variety Magazine .