• Straight to Video
• Director: Jeff Leroy
• Written by: Garrett Clancy
• Running Time: 81 minutes
• Language: English
• MPAA Rating: R - Restricted
• Cast: Lorenzo Lamas, Priscilla Barnes, Corbin Timbrook, Megan Molloy, Scott Schwartz, Christopher Irwin, Shilo May, Phoebe Dollar, David Kalamus, Matt Emery, John Fava, Vic Robey, Steven Worley, Garrett Clancy, Elizabeth Hayden Smith, Jesse Janzen, Matt Nespoli, Bradden Tenney, Josh Bartolotta, Pamela Kawada, Nicol Reece, Mitch Toles

Jeff Leroy showed real genius with his "The Screaming", a subversive film that brought together elements of vampirism and scientology into a unique and thoughtful script. With "Alien 3000", however, Leroy clearly seems to have lost his way. This is a train wreck of a movie and Leroy had better step back and re-adjust his filmmaking priorities before he decides to make anymore. Working as the sequel to Jay Woelfel’s "Unseen Evil", this film picks up with the only survivor from the first film, Kate, played by the very attractive Megan Molloy (although not the same actress who played Kate in the original film), now confined to a mental institution, being asked to assist some government agents in a search for the unseen evil creature of the first film. For the record, the government officially denies the existence of the creature, hence Kate’s confinement in a mental ward.

After three hikers go missing in the general vicinity of where Kate and her friends had their supposed encounter with the alien monster, the government decides that it’s in the interest of National Security to investigate. Since Kate is the only one with any kind of experience in these matters, she is recruited to locate the monster for them. A rougish commando unit, comprised mainly of b-movie actors, is brought along to help with the search. Former mainstream actor’s Lorenzo Lamas (1978's "Grease") and Priscilla Barnes (1995's "Mallrats"), as the lead commando and the scientist, respectively, are brought in to supply some b-movie backup as the group (of which they aren’t apart of) trek into the woods in their quest for the monster’s dwelling.

Much of the film involves the commandos arguing, having sex and shooting their guns aimlessly into the woods. Did I mention that they shoot their guns aimlessly into the woods? They also take time out to get picked off one by one by the translucent alien creature which happens to be hiding out in the forest observing them. See, the monster has no trouble keeping tabs on these folks as they continue to shoot their guns aimlessly into the woods. Unbelievable, but true. The film’s final moment, which call forth memories of 1990's "Predator 2", is really the only aspect of the film worth watching. It is actually quite exciting as the aliens eventually reveal themselves… en masse. Sadly, it’s too little too late because, at this point, nothing can save this mess.

So much is wrong with this film that I don’t really know where to start. Poorly conceived one-dimensional characters, lousy special effects, shoddy dialogue and even some dreadful props, round out this miserable film. First, the dialogue by Garrett Clancy of "Zombie Chronicles" and "Detonator" fame, is atrocious and beneath him. The various commandos are the biggest offenders as their dialogue (and delivery of said dalogue) is so laughably strained, and curse-word laden, that it’s hard for me to believe that they were actually working off a script. Never for one second did I believe that these were professionally trained soldiers. Phoebe Dollar, an actress I’ve seen in some much better movies including 2002's "Ted Bundy" and 2003's "The Hazing", really has little to do here except swear a lot and act tough as one of the commandos. In 2003's "Blood Sisters", where she played a lusty vampiress, she was positively chilling in her performance, but here she comes off as simply silly and not the least bit frightening. Not even the semi-talented Lorenzo Lamas can save this film even when he seems to be trying his best to make something out of nothing. Lorenzo does have a real presence on screen, and his death scene is noteworthy, and one of the few times I actually felt something when a character died, but sadly, he’s treading water and going nowhere. It’s the same with former "Three’s Company" alumni, Priscilla Barnes, who is just too good an actress to be appearing in something this bad.

The special effects aren’t horrible… at first, but they grow increasingly worse as the film moves along. I can forgive just about anything in this area, but after awhile, it seemed like Leroy lost interest in producing anything remotely realistic. Even the big sword fight scene between Lamas and the creature is badly choreographed. Lastly, what’s with the shotguns? Why are special unit commandos walking around with shotguns and not automatic rifles? This is unacceptable, even by b-movie standards. Are machine gun props hard to come by now?

According to the imdb.com, this film is listed as "Unseen Evil 2". Interestingly, Lion’s Gate Films were looking to cash in on the "Alien" franchise, and not only re-titled it as "Alien 3000", but included boxcover art of an alien creature that looked curiously similar to the alien in the Sigourney Weaver hit, even though the aliens in the Jeff Leroy film look nothing like it. Any way you cut it, this is substandard filmmaking at best (or worst) and Jeff Leroy knows that he’s capable of much better. C'mon Jeff!

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