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Cheap but irrepressibly cheerful, Evil Aliens is a splatter comedy strictly for geeks and gorehounds. It starts as it means to go on with a copulating couple violated from top to (literally) bottom aboard an unfriendly UFO. The carnage continues on the Welsh coast, as tabloid TV ratings-chaser Michelle (Emily Booth) and her crew battle it out with the invaders. More Undead than Evil Dead, Jake West's gore-and-gag-fest is nonetheless a cut above his vampire debut, Razor Blade Smile.

With her cable show Weird Worlde facing the axe, Michelle seizes on the story of a farm girl (Jennifer Evans) who insists she was kidnapped and knocked up by E.T.s. But Michelle isn't convinced that these alien sex fiends are genuine - and frankly, neither will you be when you clap your eyes on the movie's bargain basement baddies. Think Predator on a shoestring. While you're at it, think Texas Chain Saw Massacre, early Sam Raimi and Peter Jackson's Braindead too - writer/helmer West has a magpie mentality to rival Quentin Tarantino.

"SHAMELESSLY SILLY"

Alas, he doesn't have the ear for dialogue - and eye for performance - to go with it. But after a lacklustre start, Evil Aliens builds up a crazed momentum. The grisly gags come thick and thicker, involving flying eyeballs, endless impalements and someone actually slipping on a banana skin. It's hit-and-miss, best-viewed-through-beer-goggles stuff, but unlike Undead, it has the courage of its comic convictions, staying shamelessly silly β€˜till the last. And if you can't raise a smile at aliens being crushed by a combine harvester to the sound of The Wurzels, then you must be from another planet.