Alien Raiders

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......FB.init("2114c256f6f189c72952eb750d06fdb8");...... From the Fantastic Fest program: "ALIEN RAIDERS is a throwback to what we consider the golden age of creature features, the 1980’s. This one falls somewhere between the seriousness level of THE THING or TREMORS. Nostalgic without being stale, ALIEN RAIDERS draws strong performances from a young ensemble cast composed of mostly working character actors that you’ve seen in a million small parts. You might recognize the monster hunting team: Carlos Bernard from his recurring role as Tony Almeida on "24" and Matthew St. Patrick who played Keith Charles on SIX FEET UNDER. The plot explores what happens when you have one of those MEN IN BLACK jobs that you can’t really explain to people. When you start invading public spaces to blow shit up, the bystanders naturally think that you’re the bad guy, and there’s not a lot you can do to convince them otherwise. So you don’t bother, and you do your job and damn the consequences. But sometimes those bystanders can be pretty tough and wily, and some of them ARE the monsters. But which? For a modern alien creature movie, the filmmakers refreshingly rely on practical effects for the punctuations of gore. The carnage happens in the blink of an eye by a monster that you only see in glimpses. This serves to heighten the tension, as you experience the uncertainty of the hostages, who aren’t quite sure what just happened, but it’s very very bad. You can see them weighing in their minds the present danger of these masked terrorists who are "testing/torturing" them against the mysterious glimpses of a threat that they don’t understand." (Karrie League) ..