It's Kids vs. Aliens vs. a critic who's tired of the filmmaker's intentional-junk aesthetic! agracru's review of a sloppy sci-fi trifle:
. But Eisener has been making the same kind of movie since his first in 2005, with little to distinguishHobo with a Shotgun
. Grain pockmarks the images. The camerawork is messy. The production design looks cheap. This is, if not the point, then the means by which Eisener movies happen, and the sensibility he funnels those means into: Fuzzed-out, topsy-turvy, low-fi B-movie simulacra., “Slumber Party Alien Abduction,” an especially unpleasant quickie where a group of teenagers are kidnapped by howling gray extraterrestrials and a terrier dies for its troubles as the segment’s camera pup.
As expected, Samantha springs into action to save Gary and the gang, who get nicked, as do Billy and his band of goons. Less expected is the slog to the movie’s main attraction, where Samantha lives out that 1980s wrestling fantasy by chopping down aliens with a sword. That’s the tone a movie like this should strike far sooner than halfway ‘til the end credits, and Eisener drags his feet getting there, without maintaining a consistent tone, either, undecided between primal fear andriffing.
In fairness, Eisener does deliver his movie’s essential promise, with Gary, Samantha, Miles, and Jack kicking gray-man ass amidst gross-out effects. Eisener himself is an important figure in contemporary horror, too: His entire filmography, mixed as it may be, is a living, breathing reminder that horror’s essential ingredients are the drive to make it and a group of likeminded friends to make it with. Horror needs that kind of spirit.
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