2008 · horror · sci-fi · thriller
Alien Raiders
Directed by Ben Rock1h 25m2008
It's the end of yet another night at Hastings Supermarket, a grocery store in Buck Lake, Arizona. But just before closing, a group of masked and armed to the teeth militants invades the store and take everyone hostage
Our read: Alien Raiders (2008) reads as a heavy, breathless, inventive horror · sci-fi · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme horror / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- intense
- cold
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“You want a lean supermarket siege that keeps guessing who is infected.”
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