The Alien Factor

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The Alien Factor
Directed by Don Dohler
Written by Don Dohler
Starring Don Leifert
Tom Griffiths
George Stover
Distributed by Retromedia Entertainment
Release date(s) 1978 (premiere)
Running time 90 min.
Language English
Budget $3,500
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The Alien Factor is a 1976 B-grade science fiction film directed and written by Baltimore low-budget filmmaker Don Dohler. The film begins with a young teenage couple making out in a car when an insect looking monster attacks. Local sheriff must find out what's causing the killings while the mayor is breathing down his neck to keep a lid on the deaths so a multi-million dollar amusement park can be built nearby. Featuring special f/x from Ernest Farino, John Cosentino and Larry Schelecter, this sci-fi thriller had a long run on TV throughout the 80's, including Ted Turner's Superstation.

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The sequel to The Alien Factor, Alien Factor 2: Alien Rampage, was not actually a sequel at all. This was a marketing scheme devised by Retromedia distributor Fred Olen Ray, who distributed The Alien Factor on DVD in 2002. The original title for The Alien Factor 2: Alien Rampage was Alien Rampage. Alien Rampage was filmed in 1999 and was Don Dohler's comeback movie after an 11 year hiatus from filmmaking.

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