The Science!? 10: Alien Species (1996)

Bad computer animations UFOs attack! Some people in an unconvincing lab are concerned! The Professor has to know! But they can't reach him on his car phone! There is a prisoner transport with two Jerky Deputies! The Sheriff stays in town! The men in really bad rubber suits aliens abduct people! Then they suddenly start to destroy houses with their green 'splodey rays! The people in the lab are still worried! The Professor had an accident! Luckily, the transport finds him and his two female companions! The transporter is attacked with green 'splodey rays! The annoying people inside our heroes escape into a cave! Back to the lab! The aliens are now 'sploding a city! The people from the lab flee! Guy With Stupid Glasses from the lab has to find The Professor! Back to the cave! Oh noes! The cave is an alien nest! Psychological drama! Shooting! Much screaming and whining! More rubber suits! Green energy shields! An alien energy shield remote control! The Prisoner With The Heart Of Gold and the terrible action hero one-liners and surviving chicks escape! They make the cave 'splode! The aliens are angry! They try to kill our heroes! What luck! Guy With Stupid Glasses finds them! They flee! Then Guy With Stupid Glasses and his laptop and Prisoner With Heart Of Gold shut down the alien ship's shield! Prisoner With Heart Of Gold shoots ship down with the bazooka Guy With Stupid Glasses found somewhere! The alien invasion fleet retreats, having lost one of their hundreds of ships! The End!
Welcome to the very special hell of shot on video (or is it digital already? It looks terrible anyway) backyard productions! Alien Species is an especially annoying specimen of its kind, because it has the ambition to tell a story of apocalyptic proportions on a budget that isn't even big enough to tell the story of some people screaming a lot and running away from rubber monsters. It's really hard to picture the shabbiness of the proceedings or the ugliness of the production if you haven't experienced it for yourself. Let's just say it makes Robot Monster look like a hundred million dollar film. And in total contrast to that beloved classic, Alien Species isn't even the slightest but entertaining.
If the production design, lighting and camera work aren't enough to make your eyes bleed, there's always more to punish you to find, starting with a cast whose only professional actors (of course in cameo roles) are Charles Napier and a very drunk Hoke Howell (The Professor, whom the titles identify as a "Dr. Chambers"). The rest is one of the most talentless bunches of people that has ever come together in a single room. Bad emoting, bad line delivery, there's nothing these people can't do very very badly.
I think my plot synopsis says enough about the quality of the script, I'll just add that I'll never want to be reminded of the dialogue.
Now, after the viewer's eyes, brain and taste buds are destroyed, Alien Species offers another treat in probably the most annoying bad synthesizer soundtrack I have ever heard (and think about the movies I watch day in, day out). Thankfully this seems to be "composer" Dan Kehler's only movie work. The only other credits IMDb gives him are for the scores of a few late Sierra adventure games. Which weren't all that bad. He still deserves not insignificant amounts of physical violence.