Kevin Bakken has played two classic horror film roles. The first is the unfortunate camper in the old version of Friday 13 (1980). The second is Valentine McKee in Alien Monster (1990).
The story idea of "Alien Monster" is simple, but it has become a beloved classic and is still widely loved by audiences today. The film actually originated from an absurd idea developed from the monster film , the land shark , and after years of pre-production, it was finally recognized by the audience. During filming, the title of the film changed from "Land Sharks" to "Beneath Perfection", and finally "Tremors", the Taiwanese translation of "Out of the Center of the Earth", and the Hong Kong translation of "Abyss Alien").
After the first version of the film was completed, it was rated R due to a large number of profanity. After reworking and re-dubbing, it eventually received a PG-13 rating, expanding the audience. It is very popular and widely acclaimed.
The film is both a horror, an action, or a comedy, and most importantly, suitable for the whole family to watch together. Not only are the characters likable, but the monsters that emerge from the ground like great white sharks in the desert are also very interesting.
Although Alien Monster subsequently successfully launched a series of sequels, the first one of 1990 was still the best, just right in every way, and arguably a wonderful movie for everyone. Linked to the reality of the current outbreak of global isolation, the film seems to explain why the American people are hoarding guns to prevent the epidemic.
Alien is hilariously entertaining, with most of the characters comical: the most memorable of these is mitchell Gross," a gun-savvy survivalist, Bert Goumer, who still played a key role in the five sequels that followed and in the 2003 2003 underrepresentation of the series.
Burt Gummer is clearly a staunch defender of the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and a lunatic in the eyes of the left, but in the film he finally proves that Americans really need guns. After he and his fellow gunnery wife (played by Christian country singer Reba McKentel) kill a monster in an underground fortress full of guns, Earl Bassett, played by Fred Ward, concludes: "It seems that we can no longer make fun of Bert's lifestyle." ”
The gun hoarders turn the tide, and the film's only educated protagonist, a graduate student of seismology played by Finn Carter, lacks a presence. Although, like most disaster movies, she sensed something was wrong long before the local countrymen noticed something was wrong, when attacked by monsters and asked what she thought, she blurted out, "Why do you keep asking me?" ”
Of course, she is not without highlights, in the movie she did come up with a good idea to jump to avoid underground monsters, but the point is that she has been reduced to a trapped weak woman more than once, and even under the choreography of the screenwriter, she once took off her pants in order to avoid being devoured by monsters. Eventually, the character went from ugly duckling to a sexy vassal of the male protagonist played by Kevin Bakken.
But it doesn't make sense to criticize Alien because of the common routines and common sickness of these '80s action disaster movies. Alien Monster is actually a cobbled together but self-contained copycat movie. The characters in the film are varied, and the storyline unfolds comedically, accompanied by a deliberate horror soundtrack.
There are also some very interesting lines in the film, a considerable part of which are from the mouth of Bert Gummo. For example, after making some powerful homemade explosives, someone asked him, "What the hell are these things?" He replied crisply, "Some household chemicals mixed in proportion."
The problem, though, is that most of the time the lines in the film tend to be less interesting, and what's really impressive is the monsters in it, which are able to sense the vibrations and then pop out of the ground and entangle and swallow people.
Screenwriters Brent Maddock and S.S. Wilson (both of whose screenwriting also includes Thunderbolt Five, Lepers, and The Stormtrooper) were instrumental, and some of the film's ideas were later applied to Spielberg's Jurassic Park.
The ways the monsters in Alien Monsters think and hunt are very similar to the velociraptors in Jurassic Park, and the underground monsters are also like Tyrannosaurus rexes, making a low rumbling sound when moving, ensuring that people feel their arrival before they are seen. In addition, if you don't move, they won't notice you like a T-Rex.
Alien Is three years before Jurassic Park and almost a full year before Michael Clayton's original novel, and perhaps these similarities are just coincidences, but in any case, it was Alien That First Presented These Ideas on the Big Screen. In contrast, the plagiarism of Alien Monsters by Galaxy Squad and the game Half-Life 2 is even more blatant.
Although director Ron Underwood subsequently directed the much-criticized Eddie Murphy's "Star Trek King", in this film he creatively finds an interesting way to hint at the existence of these underground creatures, and Fred Ward and Kevin Bakken are both likable and the brotherhood between them feels sincere. The two actors are so tacit that Alien Doesn't even need to introduce us to who these people are and why they're inseparable.