2005 · drama · horror · comedy
Alien Apocalypse
Directed by Josh Becker1h 28m2005
An astronaut doctor Ivan Hood and his fellow astronaut Kelly return from their mission in space to find the world has been taken over by aliens. Now Dr. Ivan Hood and Kelly must lead a revolution to free the human slaves from their alien masters.
Our read: Alien Apocalypse (2005) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive drama · horror · comedy entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, measured drama / horror, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- kinetic
- intense
- inventive
- epic-stakes
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