Alien Beasts (1991 Video)
3/10
Possibly the most incompetent piece of work I've ever witnessed
25 October 2017
The plot of this little-known SOV travesty (from what I could gather) involves some unknown government corporation fighting against some other random unknown government corporation for control of some briefcase or something. Somebody opens up an inter-dimensional portal and then an alien appears. He wreaks a tiny bit of havoc but mostly just chills under a bridge and occasionally trudges around like he's got a 10-foot pole shoved where the sun doesn't shine.

There actually is a pretty detailed plot description on the film's Letterboxd page, and maybe you could make sense of this mess without reading it if you payed extra close attention. But it's d*mn near impossible to care while watching the movie. You'd either have to make an effort to dig your way through terrible sound and video quality, or try not to bust out laughing at the narrator who sounds like a mentally- challenged (and possibly asthmatic) man reading off of poorly- written cue cards.

Muddled plot progression is only the beginning however. The editing is god-awful and completely random. People repeat themselves constantly for no reason whatsoever. Shots go on for WAAAY longer than they need to. There's a five-minute scene of a woman searching through a closet, undressing and then redressing, only to be undressed again by a crazy government agent (alien?). There's an entertaining claymation freak- out during the climax that breaks up the monotony, but at this point it's too-little-too-late.

Incompetent, dragged-out and completely amateurish, but I got a few good laughs out of it.
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