Kids vs. Aliens

Kids vs. Aliens

Credits
Title:	Kids vs. Aliens
Director:	Jason Eisener
Writers:	John Davies; Jason Eisener
Producers:	Adam Boorstin; Michael Schreiber; Sam Zimmerman; Emily Gotto; Rob Cotterill; Josh Goldbloom; Jason Levangie; Brad Miska; Mark Ward; Zak Zeman
Composer:	Andrew Gordon Macpherson
Cinematography:	Mat Barkley
Editors:	Jason Eisener
Production
Production company:	Yer Dead Studio71 Bloody Disgusting Shut Up & Colour Pictures Cinepocalypse Productions
Distributed by:	RLJE Films
Released:	September 23rd, 2022
Rating:	Unrated
Running time:	75 min.
Country:	Canada
Language:	English
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Kids vs. Aliens is a Canadian independent feature film of the science fiction, action, and horror genres. It was directed by Jason Eisener with a script written by Eisener and John Davies. It was produced by Bloody Disgusting, Cinepocalypse Productions, Shut Up & Colour Pictures and Yer Dead. It premiered at Fantastic Fest on September 23rd, 2022. It was released to streaming services and video-on-demand in the United States and Canada on January 20th, 2023. It also received limited theatrical release in the United States on that same day.

Plot[]

Gary and his friends are trying to make their own home movie involving space warriors against dinosaurs. Gary's older sister Sam, who is babysitting him, is a kid at heart and as much of a nerd as the rest of them. While filming a scene in the family's playhouse, a group of older teenagers led by Billy barge in and make fun of them. Despite being ridiculed, Sam makes goo-goo eyes at Billy, who sees her as an easy mark, and plants the seed in her head that she should abandon childhood things in favor of more adult fare.

Billy comes to their house later and seduces Sam. He convinces her to use her house to throw a massive party. She is uncomfortable with the idea, but relents. Billy and his friends turn out to be uncontrollable merciless a-holes, who utterly destroy Sam and Gary's home.

As Gary and friends Jack and Miles expose Billy for the prick that he is, an alien invasion suddenly occurs. The partiers scatter and the aliens nab Bill's actual girlfriend, Trish. Everyone ends up in the aliens' lair, which is a cavern that runs beneath a deep lake.

The kids try to hide as they observe the aliens using goo to disintegrate bodies. One of them theorizes that they are using human flesh to power their ships. Billy's friend Dallas is grabbed and turned into a mutant monster who comes after everyone. Sam takes up a sword and manages to hero her way through the carnage, slicing and dicing aliens as she goes.

Sam manages to get the kids back to the house, only to discover that Billy has likewise escaped, and has now barricaded himself inside of Sam and Gary's home. As the kids scramble to find another sanctuary, mutant Dallas monkey-charges through the plate glass window and chases after Billy. He eventually catches up with him, and rips out his throat.

Meanwhile, the kids retreat to their ad hoc movie set. Little Jack gets impaled and died, but before he goes, he reminds Miles about their film's "grand finale", which is a wheelbarrow filled with fireworks. Gary and Miles push the fireworks into the tractor beam path of the alien spaceship and ignite it. As the assembly is sucked up into the belly of the vessel it explodes, destroying the ship.

Sam, Gary and Miles continue to hack their way through aliens on the ground, but just as it looks like they are being overwhelmed, government agents arrive in a large truck and shoot down the remaining extraterrestrial bastards. Rather than being the saviors of the underage survivors however, they take them prisoner and bring them to some secret black ops site where they are placed in suspended animation.

Cast[]

Actor	Role
Dominic Mariche	Gary
Phoebe Rex	Samantha
Calem MacDonald	Billy
Asher Grayson Percival	Jack
Ben Tector	Miles
Emma Vickers	Trish
Isaiah Fortune	Dallas
Jonathan Torrens	Gary and Sam's dad
Jessica Marie Brown	Gary and Sam's mom
Monte Murray	Bruce
Lee J. Campbell	Captain
Ali Akbar Akbar Kabal	Jimmy
Alex MacLean	Teenage girl
Jordan Poole	Drunken teenager
Baheran Zewde	Smoking friend
Stephen Lawrence	Soldier
Pasha Ebrahimi	Television reporter
Ben DeViller	Alien
Tyler Williams	Alien
Caleb Allred	Alien
Louai Abdul	Alien
Jonni Shreve	The beast alien

Notes & Trivia[]

The tagline to this film is "F*ck space". This is also a line of dialogue spoken by one of the kids.
This movie was filmed in Dartmouth in Nova Scotia, Canada. Dartmouth is the hometown of writer and director Jason Eisener and screenwriter John Davies.
This movie is a fully realized adaptation of the "Slumber Party Alien Abduction" film short featured in the anthology film V/H/S/2 in 2013. Unlike the film short, this is not a found footage film, though there are some elements of it that are shot through the viewfinder of an in-movie camera used by the kids.
Actor Asher Grayson, who plays Jack, is credited as Asher Grayson Percival in this film.
Actress Alexandra MacLean, who plays a teenage girl, is credited as Alex MacLean in this film.
On the Internet Movie Database, Kids vs. Aliens has a Starmeter score of 5.1 out of 10 based on 1,500 user votes. The unweighted average mean 5.1. It's highest ranking is 5 out 10 based on 288 votes, which makes up 19.4% of the total voting pool. 76 people ranked the film as a 10 with 129 people ranking the film as a 1.
On Rotten Tomatoes, Kids vs. Aliens has a Tomatometer score of 58% based on 40 approved critic reviews. It has 23 positive reviews and 17 negative reviews, averaging 5.40 out of 10. The film has an audience score of 42% based on less than fifty verified user ratings, averaging 2.8 out of 5. There is a 16% variance between the Tomatometer score and the audience score.
On Letterboxd, Kids vs. Aliens has a weighted score of 2.75 out of 5 based on 5,157 user ratings.

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