| Alien Hunter | |
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Alien Hunter Australian DVD cover |
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| Directed by | Ron Krauss |
| Produced by | David Yost |
| Written by | Boaz Davidson J.S. Cardone |
| Narrated by | SciFi Channel |
| Starring | James Spader Leslie Stefanson Carl Lewis |
| Music by | Tim Jones |
| Cinematography | Darko Suvak |
| Editing by | Amanda I. Kirpaul |
| Studio | Millennium Films Sandstorm Films Nu Image |
| Distributed by | Columbia TriStar Home Video |
| Release date(s) | July 19, 2003 |
| Running time | 92 minutes |
| Country | United States Bulgaria |
| Language | English Russian |
Alien Hunter is a 2003 science-fiction-thriller film, directed by Ron Krauss and stars James Spader, Carl Lewis and Leslie Stefanson.
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.