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Your blood may run cold, but you now find yourself pinioned to the story.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

An alien spacecraft crashes in the Californian wilderness, releasing a giant spider-praying mantis creature which promptly begins killing anyone in its path. As the surviving members of the local town attempt to fight it, a mysterious alien Hunter also appears, trying to kill the creature, but finding plenty of time to hunt some of the local humans as well.The Asylum is a production company based in California which has become infamous amongst the genre community for its 'mockbusters' – ultra-cheap generic rip-offs of major Hollywood blockbusters in a cynical attempt to make some easy money out of fooling videostore customers by using deceptive titles & packaging. They hit their stride in 2007, which was the year that they started making these 'mockbusters'. In the case of AVH: Alien vs. Hunter, the Asylum decided to pre-empt the anticipated success of ALIENS VS. PREDATOR: REQUIEM. But with the source film bombing badly at the box office, the prospects of AVH went to the gurgler fast.There has been some controversy surrounding the making of AVH – it seems that credited director Scott Harper was not actually responsible for making the film. If the numerous rumours circulating around are to be believed, Harper just showed up to shooting & did practically nothing, standing around playing games on his iPhone while the assistant directors (Justin L. Jones & Xavier S. Puslowski) did all the work. If this is true, then Harper doesn't deserve the credit for making the film.With all that going on, it's a surprise that upon watching the film, AVH actually seems more coherent than initially expected. The film will never been seen by anyone as a classic – in fact it is pretty weak, with a paper-thin plot & some bad scripting. The visual effects are a mix of suit-work & cheap CGI that doesn't look terribly convincing. There is also some confusion in the Asylum's in-house effects company over the visual effects needed, with a couple of shots not making sense. The costumes look cheap – the Hunter's outfit looks like a cobbled-together armour suit with a cracked welder's mask & an upside-down wok for a hat. The alien creature looks slightly better.As for acting, the cast give a mixture of reasonable & purely reactive performances. William Katt, Dedee Pfeiffer & Randy Mulkey are the only professionals of the bunch while everybody else either doesn't know what they are doing or giving strictly amateur performances.

Ah, thank goodness I did not pay to rent this movie! I was however, unfortunate enough to catch in on SyFy.This movie is the BOMB! Not in the good way! It was the BOMB in the way that someone with a bout of explosive diarrhea destroys a toilet! Acting = Horrible. Plot = Nonexistent. Scary creatures = A pretty little butterfly will instill more fear into a person. Dialogue = Will make you want to scratch your eyes out. Level of Stupidity = Off the CHARTS!I hate this movie so much! Is there a way to "unsee" it? God, help me! :(

*Contains Spoilers*For the most Alien vs. Hunter is painful to watch. The acting is especially bad even for an Asylum film and the first hour or so is nothing short of boring. A few people are suspected dead and the remaining residents of a town hold a meeting to decide what to do, sadly this is stretched over at least half an hour.The plot is a pretty simple one that is somehow made complicated, or perhaps not complicated but broken in a way that no other plot could ever be. The film assumed the viewer has seen or knows what Alien vs Predator is about; there isn't really any explanation as to what is going on or why and it wasn't until a brief explanation late on in the film telling us the 'Hunter' won't stop until the hunt is complete do we 'learn' that the Tin Man from the Wizard of Oz is hunting the Spider-Alien (who actually more resembled a Predator).The thing I love about SyFy films is that it's so easy to guess who is going to live and who is going to die, and AVH is no different. With characters called Figgus, Freckles, Valentine and Two Fingers you can't expect much, and the acting didn't disappoint. It was truly awful. It really is that bad. Illogical decisions and stupidity seems to be especially prominent in AVH but it wouldn't have made much of a film if they had escaped town as soon as possible.I try not to knock Asylum films for their poor CG either but it has to be touched on here as they are of such a low quality they would have been shocking for 1980.Fear not though as AVH has an ace or two up it's sleeve. The last 20 minutes or so are fantastic and by far the most fun an Asylum film has delivered. It's comedy gold with non-stop awful CG and completely unsynchronized and over exaggerated acting in what is the grand finale. It has to be seen to be appreciated but I haven't laughed so much watching a film for a long while. It makes little sense but that doesn't matter, it entertains.The very end deserves a mention as well. The Tin Man hunter returns to his ship, takes his mask off and like the rest of us after a hard days work, he has a smoke and a can of beer. Top stuff.In summary there is no reason what so ever to watch the first hour or so but the last 20 minutes shouldn't be missed by anybody. I want to give AVH a high score based on these alone but the truth is that even for an Asylum Film it is pretty bad and it can't hide how awful the rest of it really is.

what the heck is this? how dare them copy such a great franchise! where is the infringement law here? folks what the heck? don't let them fool us here! we sci-fi fiends are better than this. i just watched "avp-requiem". wow great stuff! this stuff, well forget about it! YUK! let's hope we see another alien versus predator film. this time a different setting. maybe this time on earth in the future where we have a slightly better chance of fighting back! i am a science fiction guru and i can't wait to see what they come up with next for these two monster greats! anyways avoid this at all costs it may have you running towards the bathroom!