The Alien Factor
| The Alien Factor | |
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Theatrical release poster
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| 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 |
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Cinemagic Visual Effects
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| Distributed by | Cinemagic Visual Effects |
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Release date
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Running time
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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.
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.
Larry Schlechter and John Cosentino starred as the Inferbyce and Zagatile aliens respectively.
The Alien Factor was filmed in 1972 and was shelved for six years before it was finally released theatrically on May 1, 1978.
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.
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".
The film titled The Alien Factor 2: Alien Rampage was not actually a sequel. The sequel-sounding title was chosen by Retromedia distributor Fred Olen Ray 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.
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