Director Don Dohler is somewhere down around the Ed Wood-level of film-making and like Mr. Ed I find his films just as charmingly watchable in all their ineptness. This is his very first film and it's pretty ambitious because instead of just one monster on the loose we get 3! You see there's this alien who's transporting his collection of intergalactic zoo animals across the universe and then just happens to crash in the suburbs of Baltimore letting them all loose to roam the countryside and murder civilians. I know it's Baltimore just by all the delightful accents on display. The mayor of the town is played by Rich Dyszel, whose work I've enjoyed over the years in his Count Gor De Vol horror-movie host guise, and he just wants to make sure everything is safe for the new amusement park opening in town. So there's some obvious JAWS influence for ya.
Now the 3 monsters we get are 2 guys in rubber suits(one slimy and one hairy) and a stop-motion dinosaur-type creature, oh and there's also the alien fellow who's the main beady-eyed creep in the poster. This all shows me these guys weren't screwing around when it came to FX-work even if the acting is not exactly stellar. You can tell Dohler was a true monster kid and if you were ever one you'll probably get some kicks from this one.
Dohler did make a sequel, ALIEN FACTOR 2: THE ALIEN RAMPAGE, in 2002 which might be amusing if they didn't go overboard with the c.g.i. nonsense.
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