Recently the folks at RedLetterMedia picked an example of what Mike calls "Tubi trash", semi at random and encouraged viewers to rent it so as to really mess with the movies metrics and have an obscure, low budget, throw away Sci-fi action flick jump unexpectedly towards the top of the rental charts. So I did my part, rented and even watched this film that Mike and Jay have made clear they have no intention to watch themselves.
"Trash" is a good descriptor for 'Alien Hunt' because it's such a disposable kind of film. Shot and set principally in "Cottenwood, Tennessee", three siblings and a friend go on a deer hunting trip to a cabin they haven't been to "since dad died". In that interim some renegade National Guard had set up a lab in a cave where they work to create hybrid human/alien solders from DNA they get out of ancient eggs.
The film makers demonstrate that they've seen movies before and can do a reasonably proximity of one. There is some base level competence in the structure and writting of the thing, with better actors and a bigger budget this could approach real mediocrity. Derivative and as safe and cheap as they could make it. I honestly can't tell how tounge in check this was meant to be, were they failing to reach what they were striving for, or was the unexceptionalness kind of the point. It is at least watchable, which is something of an accomplishment for a movie like this. *1/2
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