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Alien Country
USA 2024
produced by Renny Grames, Danny Simeone, Gordon Morton (executive), Charan Prabhakar (executive), Jordan Rosner (executive), Gato Scatena (executive), Rachele Brooke Smith (executive), Trey Warner (executive) for Story Mode I
directed by Boston McConnaughey
starring K.C. Clyde, Renny Grames, Charan Prabhakar, Corbin Allred, Rachele Brooke Smith, Payton Myler, Barta Heiner, Trey Warner, Sila Agavale, Austin Archer, Joseph Reidhead, Charla Bocchicchio, Dominique Noelle, Dalton Baker, Jasen Wade, Rusty Grames
written by Renny Grames, Boston McConnaughey, Michael Lee Bishop], special effects coordinator: Logan Long], special , special effects coordinator: Logan Long, special makeup effects by Kelly Donahue
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Everly (Renny Grames) feels so frustrated living in a two horse town in
Nowhere, USA, that she decides to just run and try for a career as a
singer - but then her car breaks down, and the only one she knows to call
is her boyfriend Jimmy (K.C. Clyde), and when he comes to pick her up, she
can't but reveal to him that he has impregnated her. The news of his
unborn baby along with the fact that Everly tried to skip town stresses
Jimmy to the point where he needs to prove her his worth - in a stock car
race ... which he doesn't even win. But in the car he (legally) borrowed
for the race, he finds a briefcase that holds ... a device that can open a
gateway to another dimension. And not knowing what this device even is,
Jimmy opens the gate and lets a few aliens in - evil aliens I might add,
the kind that eats people to secure world domination to a superior alien
race that keeps these aliens as footsoldiers. Luckily, they find a benign
alien, Ben (Charan Praghakar), who tells them how to fight the evil aliens
(even if he himself isn't too good at it), but unfortunately, they also
have two rather supid recnecks (Austin Archer, Joseph Reidhead) on their
trail who act as helpers for an evil alien queen (Carla Bocchiocchio) -
incidently Ben's mother -, and the local police (Trey Warner, Sila
Agavaile) are still undecided which side they're actually on. And
apparently Jimmy's a conduit to send the aliens back to their dimension -
but unfortunately he hasn't got the foggiest what that even means ...
Now one thing, Alien Country might employ every alien
invasion trope in the book - but it's not a movie that desires to be taken
seriously. In fact, while it works perfectly well along sci-fi thriller
lines, it also features more than a few parodistic elements, not only in
terms of genre tropes but also of Americana as such ... and thus the
finale actually features stock cars doing what they do best. And the thing
works, too, because the script is genuinely funny without leaning too much
into mere parody, it moves at a brisk space and is directed in a genre
savvy way, the main characters are well fleshed out and relatable, and the
special effects are actually pretty awesome for a modest budget feature.
So it's definitely a cool genre ride, and not only for genre fans.
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