jimmy barton I hardly review films on IDMb. However after watching this film it just deserved a positive review. What a brilliant film. I have watched many shockingly bad Independent horrors. Some were just plain terrible. Others such as Pontypool, and Splinter are excellent. Alien Raiders. The title suggests this could be a low budget Sci Fi film. Which normally I would put in the terrible category. However this film is brilliant. I could not recommend enough. It's a horror that isn't exactly gory. It just builds up the suspense and then hits you with a brilliant ending. I cannot see why this film has such a low rating. It is miles better than any horror offering from Hollywood. It is films like this which gives me hope that the Horror genre is still alive. This film is up there with Pontypool and Splinter as the best independent horrors over the last decade.

quinnox-1 I think another reviewer got it right when he said a lot of these positive reviews sound like they were written by cast and crew. Many of these enthusiastic reviews sounded like the boilerplate you would read on the back of the DVD box when checking out the movie at the local video store.Anyway, the movie seems promising at first and has good suspense and mystery to begin with. I agree with previous reviewers that the beginning and set up of the plot is the best thing this movie has to offer. Once the movie gets completely underway, it loses a lot of appeal and slowly becomes more and more mediocre. Eventually the movie becomes a total bore and then is ruined by an ending that is super unoriginal and dumb. The ending also makes you wonder why you watched this movie in the first place, yes, its that bad.I'll be generous like the previous reviewer and give it a middling 5 score, and only because the first part is pretty good.

BA_Harrison A title like 'Alien Raiders' conjures up images in my mind of a cheesy Charles Band production from the mid-80s—you know... the kind with rubber aliens, badly matted spaceships, and laser weapons; it might come as a bit of a surprise then, to discover that the film is not a gloriously daft B-movie set in the far-flung future, but rather a hard-edged sci-fi thriller that starts off promisingly enough, but which ultimately proves to be nothing more than a shameless rip-off of John Carpenter's classic 'The Thing', minus the impressive gloopy effects.Set in the small-town of Buck Lake, AZ, the film opens with a group of gun-toting scientists storming a grocery store, where they emotionlessly shoot a few people before taking the rest of staff and customers hostage. This part of the film is handled very well by director Ben Rock: it's brutal and exciting, and keeps the viewer intrigued by having them kept as much in the dark as the terrified hostages. However, once the reason behind the sudden violence is revealed—the scientists are trying to contain a nasty organism that uses humans as its host—the blatant cribs from Carpenter's film become glaringly obvious, and the film immediately loses much of its appeal.One scene in particular copies 'The Thing' far too closely for comfort: in order to find out who is host to the creature, the scientists conduct a test that involves cutting off a finger of each hostage. When they finally hack off the digit of a carrier, the creature reacts in a nasty manner, attacking those in the room. It was at this point, I lost all respect for the film and its makers, especially seeing as they didn't even have the decency to throw in any nifty prosthetics or gore, instead opting to have the camera shake around as though its operator was suffering from an epileptic seizure (a trick they use several times to save on proper effects).By the time this film had finished, I actually wished it had been a cheesy Charles Band movie from the mid 80s: at least I wouldn't have felt quite so let down.I rate Alien Raiders 7/10 for the first half and 2/10 for the second half; that averages out as 4.5/10 for the whole thing (which I'll generously round up for IMDb).

leeuniverse Very good movie for your first..... Keep whoever you had on the project for future projects. Almost all good actors picked, good camera work, etc.You did so well that it didn't look like a low budget "B" movie. I hate "B" movies and can pick them out easy and this was like a decent mid level movie. If I wasn't told I wouldn't have known it was low budget and your first movie. It looked entirely professional.Surprisingly good. I was set to poo-poo this supposed travesty, but, its actually good. (yes, i said poo-poo) lol :PFine work....