Sure it's a shake-and-bake late night cable skin flick. So sue me for liking it. The Alien Files (aka Alien Erotica) pokes fun at its low-budget self while parodying The X Files, Alien and just about any science fiction movie the writer/director had on his mind after what had to have been a night of heavy drinking.
On the way home from a long mission a group of astronauts encounter a form of space fungus floating around so they grab a sample to study. Before long the ship's science officer (Delphine Pacific) is writhing around in heat smearing fungi slime all over her body and seducing the rest of the crew. Only its not really her at all because the fungus is ALIVE and it clones the body its inhabiting -- so instead of one sex craved Delphine Pacific there are really two. Sorta.
And naturally, once on earth, that's how the alien eludes the two Scully and Mulder types assigned to track it down: by changing identities from one well endowed beautiful B-movie actress to the next, rendering them with the wild urge to get nekkid and have sex RIGHT NOW.
Of course the infected bimbo has a psychological link with her alien clone, and in this case a psychosexual link as well. So when the clone is having sex the bimbo starts moaning and ripping her clothes off and rubbing herself all over. The key to catching the alien, then, is to drive around in a van with the infected nympho waiting for her to get even MORE horny while catching glimpses of street signs through the clone's eyes.
Doesn't make a lick of sense but it's a lot of fun because writer/director Rolfe Kanefsky doesn't let this flick take itself seriously, ever. At times it's a witty, clever script loaded with campy dialogue that works. And at other times its just so much gratuitous sex. But even the sex scenes manage a wink here and there making them less contrived than the standard bump and grind this kind of movie usually dishes out.
Veteran B-movie queen Kira Reed is the real star as the Scully character. She's a talented enough actress to pull off the campy feel essential to the role without going completely over the top. She should be instantly recognizable to any b-movie fan with a cable account and I think she deserves a shot at a legit role somewhere. Kira is much more than an ornament in a no-budget-direct-to-cable sex romp, even a good one like The Alien Files.
