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All Mike (David Gries) wants is a quiet job where he can work for his
medical exam, so when he gets a position as a nurse of an agoraphobic
eccentric living somewhere very remote, he couldn't be happier. Now the
guy he takes care of, Stanton Pitborough (Joseph Scott Anthony), is of
course more than a bit of an eccentric, he's a rude, noisy paranoid who
isn't even supposed to know Mike's here - which Mike figures is quite ok
since he only wants to study. And the other nurse, Robin (Lisa Mueller),
the one Stanton has contact with, is a quite alright person. Of course,
the whole estate seems to be swarming with black-cloaked people, but Mike
never gets a good look at them, and Robin assures him they are just
shadows he will get used to - after all, she has been working here for
five years, and never ... but the better she and Mike get to know each
other, the more she opens up, and tells about the troubled story of the
house and of Stanton, both the wife and son of whom are said to have
disappeared, and there are rumours he has killed them. Oh, and the
"shadows" - they might be gouvernment agents or something, after
all, he was somehow connected to Roswell 1947 ... and eventually, Robin is
gone, just like that, so Mike decides to face Stanton on his own - and
finds him to be not an eccentric but a raving maniac, who actually keeps
the mummified corpse of his wife in a trunk, along with a creature in
formaldehyde. Now that's mighty worrying, but nothing compared to the
fact that the "shadows" outside are actually aliens who want to
get their hands on Stanton, that the only gun in the house is in the
basement together with a creature of sorts, and that along the process,
Stanton loses it more than more and might be more dangerous than all the
aliens and creatures combined ... All the Devils Aliens
is a mighty interesting film, basically because it continues to surprise
from beginning to end, and plays with audience expectations to such an
extent that it constantly crosses genre borders (psycho thriller,
conspiracy thriller, alien invasion story, monster movie and whatnot), but
without ever losing its plot in the process or coming across as heavy
handed. Basically that's thanks to an atmospheric directorial effort that
still gives actors enough space to come into their own, well set shocks
and well drawn-out suspense scenes, and moody if limited sets. And very
decent performances and to-the-point dialogue really carry the film over
the finish line. And while the film was obviously made on a rather limited
budget, it gets more than enough out of it. Recommended.
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