The Aliens are Coming

USA 1980
produced by
Philip Saltzman, Quinn Martin (executive) for Quinn Martin Productions/NBC
directed by Harvey Hart
starring Tom Mason, Eric Braeden, Max Gail, Melinda O.Fee, Fawne Harriman, Caroline McWilliams, Matthew Laborteaux, John Milford, Hank Brandt, Curtis Credel, John Gilgreen, Laurence Haddon, Ed Harris, William Kerwin, Richard Lockmiller, Ron Masak, Gerald McRaney, Laurie Beach, Sean G.Griffn, Tom Lowell, Chris O'Brien, Dirk Olthof, Tom Pittman, Nancy Priddy, Peter Schuck, Lorna Thayer
written by Robert W.Lenski, music by William Goldstein

review by
Mike Haberfelner

Some secret (gouvernment?) organisation has witnessed the landing of an UFO, so they send one of their men, Scott (Tom Mason), out to investigate. With his eccentric and unorthodox methods coupled with an ingenious mind, Scott soon figures the aliens are apparently hell-bent to take over the Hoover Dam near Las Vegas and are beings of almost pure energy who can take over humans at will, humans like Russ (Max Gail), one of the dam's engineers who has been acting weird lately. But while Scott tries to track down Russ, the aliens are also starting to track down him, and make a couple attempts on his life and try to take him over just like Russ - all of which fails of course.

It all culminates in an extended chase through the interiors of the Hoover Dam during which Scott destroys the machine that feeds Russ's alien parasite while inside the human body, but he saves Russ's life when he's about to fall down some scaffolding.

Later, Russ wakes up in hospital with no memory of what has happened to him, while Scott, his superior (Eric Braeden) and his colleague (Melinda O.Fee) know they'll never be able to tell their story to anybody and have to take care of the aliens that might still be around ...

A pilot for a proposed television series that was fortunately never made - fortunately because the basic formula of the pilot allows to few variations to make this into something interesting. Taken as a film by itself though, The Aliens are Coming is not too bad, just an enjoyably silly piece of trashy, low budget science fiction with some of the most ridiculous plastic aliens around (though their scenes are all too few and far between), and a plot that takes itself too seriously for its own good but to hilarious results. That said, it might not be a laugh-a-ton like some other trashfilms around, but it's still worth a few chuckles and is probably best watched with a couple of beers.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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