BlazeLime Strong and Moving!

Konterr Brilliant and touching

Catangro After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

Roy Hart If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

BA_Harrison Mash together the titles of two of the biggest sci-fi blockbusters of the '80s - Aliens and The Terminator - and what you get is Alienator, a dumb name (although possibly marginally better than the alternative, The Terminalien) for a very dumb film.Directed by Fred Olen Ray, this cheap-as-chips sci-fi clunker opens in the basement of an industrial building (posing unconvincingly as a high-security space prison) where rebel Kol (Ross Hagen) is awaiting execution for leading an ambush against the armies of the great tyrant Baal. But before Kol can be put to death, he manages to escape in a spacecraft and flies to Earth, where he encounters a group of college kids who take his story with a pinch of salt - at least until they find themselves under attack from an unstoppable gynoid (a female robot) sent to kill the fugitive.The acting, direction, sets and special effects are extremely dire, but the film's bonkers cyborg is a real hoot: played by female bodybuilder Teagan Clive, who looks like she has been overdoing the testosterone and steroids, the Alienator is what you might get if you crossed Tina Turner with Bret Michaels (from rock band Poison) and Arnold Schwarzenegger. If you saw that chasing you, you might just die laughing.There's plenty of other trashy nonsense for fans of z-grade sci-fi to revel in - stupidly shaped sliding doors in the space prison, prison worker Tara (P.J. Soles) wearing a strangely revealing outfit, flesh burrowing space bugs, a full body-burn stunt, a crossbow bolt in the Alienator's head, a cyborg trap made from chicken wire, Kol's lightsaber-wielding old man- but there's also an awful lot of really dull, poorly directed tosh to sit through. Day of the Dead's Joseph Pilato (as Tech #2) looks bored, and I can't really blame him.3.5 out of 10, rounded up to 4 for IMDb.

udar55 Alien criminal Kol (Ross Hagen) escapes from an intergalactic prison and crash lands on Earth. The prison commander (Jan-Michael Vincent, clearly inebriated) sends the space hunter half cyborg Alienator (Teagan Clive) to terminate him. Kol ends up being hit by some kids in an RV and they take him to Ward Armstrong (John Phillip Law), the local game warden, and everyone soon finds themselves in a battle for their lives. This is another Fred Olen Ray cheapie that is an entertaining time passer if you are in the right mood. Teagan Clive, a female body builder, is certainly an odd choice for the hunter and her costume (including an awful fright wig) certainly does the character no favors. However, the film moves briskly and there is some intentionally funny dialog here and there. Best of all, Ray populates the supporting roles with some great old timers including Leo Gordon (as a war hungry Colonel who helps out), Robert Quarry (as a drunk doctor), and Hoke Howell (as a redneck brother alongside Fox Harris, who the picture is dedicated to). The space prison (actually a big factory) sequences also feature Jay Richardson, Joe Pilato, and P.J. Soles.

Michael O'Keefe Throw this lame dog a bone. Sooo bad...you may watch anyway. Kol(Ross Hagen)is an intergalactic bad guy that escapes being vaporised by an over zealous spaceship commander(Jan-Michael Vincent). Kol manages to steal a shuttle that crash lands on Earth. An unstoppable android killer is sent to bring back the villain dead or alive. John Phillip Law plays a forest/park ranger that urges caution in dealing with these two visitors from far, far away. Costumes are outrageous and the script is lacking intelligence. Vincent surely took the money and ran. Law shows the only sign of effort.So bad it is almost comical. Also in the cast: Dyana Ortelli, P.J. Soles and Dawn Wildsmith.

gridoon Passable low-budget sci-fi. If you're in the least familiar with the name "Fred Olen Ray", you'll have no great expectations before viewing "Alienator" - and you won't be disappointed afterwards. Logic is faulty and inconsistent, but the effects are engagingly cheap and as the title "character", the buff-looking Teagan cuts a striking figure in her "futuristic"/punk rock gear and hairdo. (**)