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The Xenophobes
USA 2026
produced by
Hal Dace for Epistrophy Pictures
directed by Hal Dace, Penny Cullers
starring Svetlana Tulasi, Andrew Smith, Helena Sullivan, Jazmin Ramirez, Naimah Cruz, Ali Stolar, Charles Sutterlin, Jess Weaver, Mor Ben Haim, Penny Cullers, Eric Danielson, Edward L. Milon, Bob Fleener, Joseph Disberger, Wesley Danielson, Chris Butler, Sterling Matthew Oliver, Tim Sidorfsky, Zachary Smalley, Frank Siegle, Mary Elizabeth Atwood, Thomas Smith, Hal Dace, Tara Godard, Robert Deemie, Ashley Oldham, Alan Honey
written by Hal Dace, Lancer Kind, music by Scott Freeby
review by
Mike Haberfelner
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Captain Ballah (Svetlana Tulasi) heads a space mission to one of the rare
planets that actually house intelligent life. She and her crew try to make
contact, only to realize the locals are entirely hostile to out-of-world
species - which is kind of a bummer snce they've travelled for 6 years to
reach the planet, But yet, Captain Ballah makes the very wise decision to
not answer hostility with violence and rather return to earth
empty-handed, something her superiors would eventually commend her for.
It's not all happy faces though, since earth has changed significantly in
the 12 years they've been away (translating into 60 earth years), so much
so that earth has declared itself violence-free - but uses the heavily
armed National Guard to keep up tjos claim. Not everybody's happy with
this, including Ballah's daughter Morag (played at various ages by Jazmin
Ramirez, Naimah Cruz, Helena Sullivan and Ali Stolar), who eventually
sneaks out of the astronauts' mandatory quarantine to commit an act of
sabotage ...
Now ok, while watching this movie it's almost impossible to not be
reminded os
Star Trek,
all the earmarks are there, down to the first contact situation. But while
that series is more adventure with a philosophical touch, The
Xenophobes tries to root itself much more in reality (as much as
that's possible seeing the film is set 200 years or so in the future), and
for that is mostly character-based - which really does the movie a lot of
good, turning it into one unusual but entirely worthwhile science fiction
ride.
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