Alien Hunter
Encyclopedia
Alien Hunter is a 2003 science-fiction
-thriller film, directed by Ron Krauss and stars James Spader
, Carl Lewis
and Leslie Stefanson
.
While the U.S. government is asking a Russian submarine to go near the Antarctic location in order to shoot a nuclear missile on the base where the alien menace is, Julien manages to communicate with the alien before it is unfortunately killed by one of the survivors. Julien knows that if one of the survivors leaves the base alive, the virus could wipe off all trace of life on earth.
Science fiction film
Science fiction film is a film genre that uses science fiction: speculative, science-based depictions of phenomena that are not necessarily accepted by mainstream science, such as extraterrestrial life forms, alien worlds, extrasensory perception, and time travel, often along with futuristic...
-thriller film, directed by Ron Krauss and stars James Spader
James Spader
James Todd Spader is an American actor best known for his eccentric roles in movies such as Pretty in Pink, Less Than Zero, Sex, Lies, and Videotape, Crash, Stargate, and Secretary...
, Carl Lewis
Carl Lewis
Frederick Carlton "Carl" Lewis is an American former track and field athlete, who won 10 Olympic medals including 9 gold, and 10 World Championships medals, of which 8 were gold. His career spanned from 1979 when he first achieved a world ranking to 1996 when he last won an Olympic title and...
and Leslie Stefanson
Leslie Stefanson
Leslie Ann Stefanson is an American actress. She is most known for playing the title role as Capt. Elisabeth Campbell in the film The General's Daughter....
.
Plot
In 1947, in New Mexico, a radio operator received a weird signal, coming from Roswell. He decided to follow the pattern of the signal and while investigating the occurrence, he vanished in the void. In the present day, the same signal is received and then transmitted from a base on the Falkland Islands to the United States, and hence a satellite captures images of an unknown object in an Antarctic location. The cryptologist Julien Rome (James Spader), a teacher at Berkeley University, is invited to investigate the mystery at the South Pole, and he is sent to the Antarctic base of research (the underground base has, moreover, a huge greenhouse of hybrid plants genetically modified by the scientists), where an alien vehicle (probably coming from outer space) has been found wedged in a melting ice block. The unknown object is a weird shell, at first enclosed in the ice block, that emits the mysterious signal, that seems to be in a cryptographic form; Julien discovers that the weird alien object has static electricity on its surface and it is impossible to touch. While Julien is trying to decode the signal in an understandable form, a team of workers tries to open the weird shell. They defuse it and an alien oozing, grim and viscous liquid spills out. An alien escapes from the vehicle at the same time that an airborne virus kills four of the members of the scientific team.While the U.S. government is asking a Russian submarine to go near the Antarctic location in order to shoot a nuclear missile on the base where the alien menace is, Julien manages to communicate with the alien before it is unfortunately killed by one of the survivors. Julien knows that if one of the survivors leaves the base alive, the virus could wipe off all trace of life on earth.
Cast
- James SpaderJames SpaderJames Todd Spader is an American actor best known for his eccentric roles in movies such as Pretty in Pink, Less Than Zero, Sex, Lies, and Videotape, Crash, Stargate, and Secretary...
as Julian Rome - Janine Eser as Dr. Kate Brecher
- John LynchJohn Lynch (actor)John Lynch is an Irish actor from Northern Ireland.-Biography:John Lynch was born in the United Kingdom and moved to his father's native home in Corrinshego, County Armagh, near Newry, County Down in Northern Ireland as a child. He attended St Colman's College, Newry, a Catholic school...
as Dr. Michael Straub - Nikolay BinevNikolay BinevNikolay Binev was a Bulgarian theater and film actor. During most of his career he was the soul and history of the Mladezhki Theater, Sofia and remained devoted to it until the end of his life.In 2006, in his honor, the theater was named after him....
as Dr. Alexi Gierach - Leslie StefansonLeslie StefansonLeslie Ann Stefanson is an American actress. She is most known for playing the title role as Capt. Elisabeth Campbell in the film The General's Daughter....
as Nyla Olson - Aimee GrahamAimee GrahamAimee Lynn Graham is an American actress, and the younger sister of actress Heather Graham.Graham was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the daughter of Joan, a schoolteacher and noted author of children's books, and James Graham, a retired FBI agent...
as Shelly Klein - Stuart CharnoStuart CharnoStuart Charno is an American actor. He has been a stand-up comic and has starred in film and on television. His first role was in the 1981 horror film Friday the 13th Part 2...
as Abell - Carl LewisCarl LewisFrederick Carlton "Carl" Lewis is an American former track and field athlete, who won 10 Olympic medals including 9 gold, and 10 World Championships medals, of which 8 were gold. His career spanned from 1979 when he first achieved a world ranking to 1996 when he last won an Olympic title and...
as Grisham - Svetla Vasileva as Dacia
- Anthony CrivelloAnthony CrivelloAnthony Crivello is an American actor and singer, mostly in musicals on Broadway. He has written several scripts and more than twenty songs.-Personal life:...
as Pilot - Kaloian Vodenicharov as Co-Pilot
- George Stanchev as Airman
- Rufus Dorsey as Navigator
- Roy DotriceRoy DotriceRoy Dotrice, OBE is a British actor known for his Tony Award-winning Broadway performance in the revival of A Moon for the Misbegotten.-Life and career:...
as Dr. John Bachman - Woody Schultz as Sam