THE ALIEN FILES (aka ALIEN ENCOUNTERS:THE SEX FILES, aka ALIEN EROTICA)
PLOT-Two detectives are hot on the trail of an evil alien force that jumps from woman to woman, duplicating their bodies and using them to kill people.
VIOLENCE-No real gore, although several people are dispatched by the alien force. It uses up their energy, then moves on to the next woman.
SEX/NUDITY-A veritable truckload, my friends. After all, this is made-for-cable nudiefest stuff. However, I found it to have quite an excessive amount even for that type of movie. Since the alien force makes all women it comes in contact with into raging nymphos, the female characters are constantly stripping off their clothes, moaning, masturbating, or having sex with a stranger. In several cases, all of the above. Just about every actress in the movie does this at some point, even the female detective.
WHY I LIKED IT-Let's face it, we see a lot of crap on cable late at night. Most of them are these mysoginistic "erotic thrillers" that have women being killed left and right. Either that or they're trying to be so tasteful that you have to wait an hour just to see one butt cheek. THE ALIEN FILES goes all-out, and manages to have a good plot, comedy, and interesting characters as well. It isn't bashful, tame, or hesitant. In most cases, so-called "soft porn" is garbage (what's the point? Just go rent porn), but here you actually see the advantages of not having to stick within the confines of hardcore. Plus, all the women can really act. This movie's brilliance lies in the versatile, crazed performances of actors Gabriella Hall and Kira Reed, among others.
DOWNSIDE-It's definitely a rip-off of THE X-FILES, which is disappointing given how cool the movie is. It cheapens the whole project.
MEMORABLE SCENES-The detectives can maintain a link to the alien through the woman it is currently duplicating. Every time the alien duplicate has sex, the original woman shares the ecstacy, kind of like siamese twins. At one point, the detectives are driving around using a woman as a tracking device to find the alien. The woman, in the middle of conversations, repeatedly takes off her clothes and goes crazy in the car seat because the duplicate is making it with somebody.
NOTES-This is also available on tape for rental, so it may or may not have more than what I saw on cable.