The Alien Factor
| The Alien Factor | |
|---|---|
 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Don Dohler |
| Produced by | Don Dohler |
| Written by | Don Dohler |
| Starring |
Don Leifert Tom Griffith Richard Dyszel Mary Mertens Richard Geiwitz George Stover Eleanor Herman Anne Frith |
| Music by | Kenneth Walker |
| Cinematography | Britt McDonough |
| Edited by |
Don Dohler Dave Ellis |
Production company |
Cinemagic Visual Effects |
| Distributed by | Cinemagic Visual Effects |
Release dates |
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Running time | 80 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $3,500 |
The Alien Factor is a 1978 science fiction horror film written, edited, produced, and directed by Don Dohler. The film centers on a small town that is besieged by three aliens that have crash landed in the nearby forest.
Plot
A spaceship crashes in a sparsely populated area of Earth, and three horrific aliens survive the accident. The grotesque extraterrestrials soon begin to terrorize the local residents, until one intrepid soul chooses to fight back.
Cast
- Don Leifert as Ben Zachary
- Tom Griffith as Sheriff Cinder
- Richard Dyszel as Mayor Wicker
- Mary Mertens as Edie Martin
- Richard Geiwitz as Pete
- George Stover as Steven
- Eleanor Herman as Mary Jane Carter
- Anne Frith as Dr. Ruth Sherman
Larry Schlechter and John Cosentino starred as the Inferbyce and Zagatile aliens respectively.
Production
The Alien Factor was filmed in 1972 and was shelved for six years before it was finally released theatrically on May 1, 1978.[1][2]
Release
Home Media
The film was released on DVD by Retromedia Entertainment on February 26, 2002. Image Entertainment released the film on November 15, 2005 as a part of its Don Dohler Collection. It was last released by Mill Creek Entertainment on July 19, 2011.[3]
Reception
TV Guide awarded the film a negative 2 out of 5 stars calling it "silly", also writing, "Only the undiscriminating will be able to sit through this one".[2]
Sequels
The film titled The Alien Factor, Alien Factor 2: Alien Rampage, was not actually a sequel. The sequel-sounding title was chosen by Retromedia distributor Fred Olen to market the film on DVD in 2002. The original title for The Alien Factor 2... was Alien Rampage. Alien Rampage was filmed in 1999 and was Don Dohler's comeback movie after an 11-year hiatus from filmmaking.
References
- ↑ "The Alien Factor (1978) - Rotten Tomatoes". Rotten Tomatoes.com. Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 28 April 2016.
- 1 2 "The Alien Factor - Movie Reviews and Movie Ratings". TV Guide.com. TV Guide. Retrieved 28 April 2016.
- ↑ "The Alien Factor (1978) - Donald M. Dohler". AllMovie.com. AllMovie. Retrieved 28 April 2016.
External links
- TheAlienFactor.com – Official site
- The Alien Factor at the Internet Movie Database
- The Alien Factor at Rotten Tomatoes
- The Alien factor at AllMovie
- The Alien Factor at the TCM Movie Database