Sex Files: Alien Erotica

I saw this film when it first came out late one night on Cinemax. There's a hell of a lot of nudity in it, but it's not really erotic. The nudity seems to be the whole point of the film, as the dialogue is flimsy, the plot nothing out of the ordinary, and the cinematography is a lot like what you might see on TV instead of a motion picture. However, this combination and the earnestness of the acting make the whole film into a comedy. The plot: an alien plant is detected by the crew of a space ship returning home to Earth. The plant is brought on board, and proceeds to give off aphrodiasiacal spores that infect the young women of the crew and make them super horny. In turn, the women then clone themselves, leaving the 'original version' also hot and horny. Then the clones go off to seduce other men and women and the cycle continues. When one woman seduces another, a clone is generated and the clone takes on the identity of the woman seduced, and on and on until the end which I won't reveal. At the centerpiece of this movie are hot chicks that you might see in Penthouse or Hustler--all big titted hardbodied ditzes who act act as though they will use any excuse to shed their clothing rapidly for the camera: Ravanelle Richardson, Blake Pickett, Kira Reed (listed as Kira Lee here), Lauren Hays, Delphine Pacific, and Gabriella Hall. Some of the nudest of the nude scenes feature Gabriella Hall as "Ann Gallo" seducing a security guard, and wildly dominating him and thrusting her big breasts and nice butt all over the place. Then there's ultra hot blonde Blake Pickett as "Officer Kelly O'Conner" who not only seduces another guard, but seduces Ravanelle Richardson in the gas station (not enough shown of this), and pleasures herself in the back seat of the FBI agents' car showing lots of breasts and a nice hard abdomen. Then there's the scene that gets the alien plant fungus in circulation: of Delphine Pacific as "Dr. Claire Danning" who was responsible for bringing the alien plant onto the space ship in the first place. Dr. Danning (who otherwise seems like a boring geek scientist with glasses and hair pile up like a schoolmarm) inhales some of the plant's spores and then literally rips off her glasses, her clothes, pleasures herself, shows off her huge breasts as well as the rest of her hardbody, and then goes off to seduce the space ship's lieutenant. There are a lot of full naked body shots and D-cups galore--including more comic seduction scenes that the viewer will have to take my word for and enjoy himself--but the movie isn't erotic because of this nudity, it's funny because the naked gratuitousness is all the film is about, and the rest of the plot and dialogue act as filler. I'd say it's about an 8 for nudity, a 2 for dialogue, a standard 5 for plot, and 7 for comedy. Designate where your priorities lie.

Also billed as "The Sex Files" - "Alien invasion"...A plant found in space has strange sexual effects. Plenty of wit, with visual and verbal jokes. Someone took enough care to get the look and timing of things right. The women are beautiful, and the plot is pretty decent for this genre. Much better than I hoped for.

Sure it's a shake-and-bake late night cable skin flick. So sue me for liking it. The Alien Files (aka Alien Erotica) pokes fun at its low-budget self while parodying The X Files, Alien and just about any science fiction movie the writer/director had on his mind after what had to have been a night of heavy drinking.

On the way home from a long mission a group of astronauts encounter a form of space fungus floating around so they grab a sample to study. Before long the ship's science officer (Delphine Pacific) is writhing around in heat smearing fungi slime all over her body and seducing the rest of the crew. Only its not really her at all because the fungus is ALIVE and it clones the body its inhabiting -- so instead of one sex craved Delphine Pacific there are really two. Sorta.

And naturally, once on earth, that's how the alien eludes the two Scully and Mulder types assigned to track it down: by changing identities from one well endowed beautiful B-movie actress to the next, rendering them with the wild urge to get nekkid and have sex RIGHT NOW.

Of course the infected bimbo has a psychological link with her alien clone, and in this case a psychosexual link as well. So when the clone is having sex the bimbo starts moaning and ripping her clothes off and rubbing herself all over. The key to catching the alien, then, is to drive around in a van with the infected nympho waiting for her to get even MORE horny while catching glimpses of street signs through the clone's eyes.

Doesn't make a lick of sense but it's a lot of fun because writer/director Rolfe Kanefsky doesn't let this flick take itself seriously, ever. At times it's a witty, clever script loaded with campy dialogue that works. And at other times its just so much gratuitous sex. But even the sex scenes manage a wink here and there making them less contrived than the standard bump and grind this kind of movie usually dishes out.

Veteran B-movie queen Kira Reed is the real star as the Scully character. She's a talented enough actress to pull off the campy feel essential to the role without going completely over the top. She should be instantly recognizable to any b-movie fan with a cable account and I think she deserves a shot at a legit role somewhere. Kira is much more than an ornament in a no-budget-direct-to-cable sex romp, even a good one like The Alien Files.

This movie is actually a better version of Lifeforce (1985)! They actually seem to have spent somewhat of a budget on this one, so there's some interesting F/X shots (like the opening space craft). A couple of steps above your average X-rated "rip off a popular title" movie, there's actually signs of a sense of humor, some decent directorial touches, and decent writing. Much better than you'd expect.

Okay, it's not something that will win an Academy Award. But if you take it for what it is, you'll enjoy it. It's one of those B movies that you have to like because it doesn't take itself seriously, and it's enjoyable. Sure, it's a guilty pleasure, but if you take it for what it's all about, then you'll like it.