Alien Hunter
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| Directed by | Ronald Krauss |
| Written by | Boaz Davidson J.S. Cardone |
| Produced by | Boaz Davidson David Yost |
| Starring | James Spader Janine Eser John Lynch Leslie Stefanson Carl Lewis Anthony Crivello Roy Dotrice Keir Dullea |
| Cinematography | Darko Suvak |
| Edited by | Amanda I. Kirpaul |
| Music by | Tim Jones |
Production companies | |
| Distributed by | Columbia TriStar Home Video |
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Running time | 92 minutes |
| Countries | United States Bulgaria |
| Languages | English Russian |
Alien Hunter is a 2003 American-Bulgarian science-fiction-thriller film directed by Ronald Krauss and starring James Spader, Carl Lewis and Leslie Stefanson.
Plot
[edit]In 1947 New Mexico, a radio operator receives a bizarre signal, coming from Roswell, New Mexico. He decides to investigate the signal's origin and goes out to follow it, never to be seen again.
Present day and the same signal is received from the South Pole and then retransmitted from the Falkland Islands to the United States. A satellite image captures an unknown object sitting on the Antarctic snow. Cryptologist Julian Rome (James Spader), a teacher at the University of California, Berkeley, is invited to investigate the mystery. He is sent to an Antarctic research base, which includes a huge greenhouse of genetically modified plants being studied by the scientists. They find what appears to be an alien vehicle frozen in a huge block of ice. The unknown object is shaped like a shell or pod and is emitting the mysterious encrypted signal. Once it is freed of the ice, Julian discovers that it has a powerful static electric charge on its surface and painfully shocks anyone who touches it.
Julian tries to decrypt the signal (which soon proves to be: "Do not open!"), while another team works to open the alien shell. They succeed in cutting off the lid, which allows a viscous alien liquid to pour out. An alien also escapes and at the same time an airborne virus sealed in the shell kills four members of the scientific team by melting them from within. The virus also kills all the plants, making them wilt and turn brown. The virus has an unusually high speed of transmission and extreme virulence. It kills anyone within a few minutes of exposure.
The government is aware of the alien virus and the global risk that it poses. They ask a Russian nuclear submarine to fire a nuclear missile at the base before the threat can spread. As the submarine nears its firing position, Julian manages to communicate with the alien, before it is unfortunately killed by one of the survivors. Julian realizes that if any of the survivors leave the base alive, the lethal alien virus will cause a pandemic destroying all life on earth. Just a few seconds before the missile hits, he and three others, Shelly, Kate, and Dr. Gierach, are rescued from the base by an alien spacecraft (which had homed in on the same signal Julian was studying).
In the aftermath, the government mounts a cover-up campaign by claiming that an experimental nuclear reactor at the base went into melt-down, destroying all of the facilities and killing everyone. The film ends with the alien spacecraft, still carrying the human survivors, leaving the solar system.
Cast
[edit]- James Spader as Julian Rome
- Janine Eser as Dr. Kate Brecher
- John Lynch as Dr. Michael Straub
- Nikolay Binev as Dr. Alexi Gierach
- Leslie Stefanson as Nyla Olson
- Aimee Graham as Shelly Klein
- Stuart Charno as Abell
- Carl Lewis as Grisham
- Svetla Vasileva as Dacia Petrov
- Anthony Crivello as Pilot
- Kaloian Vodenicharov as Co-Pilot
- George Stanchev as Airman
- Rufus Dorsey as Navigator
- Roy Dotrice as Dr. John Bachman
- Woody Schultz as Sam
- Ron Krauss as First Man
- William Ladd Skinner as Second Man
- Franklin A. Vallente as Third Man
- Hristo Aleksandrov as Fourth Man
- Ross W. Clarkson as Falkland Man # 1
- Willie Botha as Falkland Man # 2
- Tyrone Pinkham as Kitt Peak Man #1
- Atanas Srebrev as Kitt Peak Man #2
- Joel Polis as Copeland
- Keir Dullea as Secretary Bayer
- Bert Emmett as Gordon Osler
- Marianne Stanicheva as Reporter
- Dobrin Dosev as Captain Sokolov
- Atanas Atanasov as Executive Officer Volkov
- Hristo Shopov as Navigator Petrenko
- Harry Anichkin as Army General
- Velimir Velev as Alien
See also
[edit]References
[edit]External links
[edit]- Alien Hunter at IMDb
- Alien Hunter at AllMovie
- Alien Hunter at the TCM Movie Database
- Alien Hunter film on YouTube at Crackle
- 2003 films
- 2003 science fiction action films
- 2000s American films
- 2000s English-language films
- Films about alien visitations
- American science fiction action films
- American science fiction thriller films
- Bulgarian action films
- Bulgarian science fiction films
- Bulgarian thriller films
- English-language Bulgarian films
- Films about viral outbreaks
- Films produced by Boaz Davidson
- Films set in 1947
- Films set in Antarctica
- Films set in California
- Films set in New Mexico
- Films shot in Bulgaria
- Films with screenplays by J. S. Cardone
- Films with screenplays by Boaz Davidson
- Nu Image films
- Films scored by Tim Jones
- English-language science fiction action films