ChicRawIdol A brilliant film that helped define a genre

Seraherrera The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

Micah Lloyd Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Jenna Walter The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

DigitalRevenantX7 An alien spacecraft crashes in the Californian wilderness, releasing a giant spider-praying mantis creature which promptly begins killing anyone in its path. As the surviving members of the local town attempt to fight it, a mysterious alien Hunter also appears, trying to kill the creature, but finding plenty of time to hunt some of the local humans as well.The Asylum is a production company based in California which has become infamous amongst the genre community for its 'mockbusters' – ultra-cheap generic rip-offs of major Hollywood blockbusters in a cynical attempt to make some easy money out of fooling videostore customers by using deceptive titles & packaging. They hit their stride in 2007, which was the year that they started making these 'mockbusters'. In the case of AVH: Alien vs. Hunter, the Asylum decided to pre-empt the anticipated success of ALIENS VS. PREDATOR: REQUIEM. But with the source film bombing badly at the box office, the prospects of AVH went to the gurgler fast.There has been some controversy surrounding the making of AVH – it seems that credited director Scott Harper was not actually responsible for making the film. If the numerous rumours circulating around are to be believed, Harper just showed up to shooting & did practically nothing, standing around playing games on his iPhone while the assistant directors (Justin L. Jones & Xavier S. Puslowski) did all the work. If this is true, then Harper doesn't deserve the credit for making the film.With all that going on, it's a surprise that upon watching the film, AVH actually seems more coherent than initially expected. The film will never been seen by anyone as a classic – in fact it is pretty weak, with a paper-thin plot & some bad scripting. The visual effects are a mix of suit-work & cheap CGI that doesn't look terribly convincing. There is also some confusion in the Asylum's in-house effects company over the visual effects needed, with a couple of shots not making sense. The costumes look cheap – the Hunter's outfit looks like a cobbled-together armour suit with a cracked welder's mask & an upside-down wok for a hat. The alien creature looks slightly better.As for acting, the cast give a mixture of reasonable & purely reactive performances. William Katt, Dedee Pfeiffer & Randy Mulkey are the only professionals of the bunch while everybody else either doesn't know what they are doing or giving strictly amateur performances.

keeld002-366-503558 This was so bad I was sick because of bad acting. computer generated imagery was obviously at the bottom of the list for equipment along with scripts, actors, directors and the set and were obviously beaten by the need for Dohnuts or something else a movie doesn't actually need. There is completely no realism in this film even when a giant ship crash lands in front of a cycler he doesn't even notice it. This film needs more of practically everything and every single copy should be destroyed with the original so it can never be shown again even on television. This film is so bad I need to make up a rating that will actually say the terror that I saw on the day. I give this movie a -10.

superal1966 *Contains Spoilers*For the most Alien vs. Hunter is painful to watch. The acting is especially bad even for an Asylum film and the first hour or so is nothing short of boring. A few people are suspected dead and the remaining residents of a town hold a meeting to decide what to do, sadly this is stretched over at least half an hour.The plot is a pretty simple one that is somehow made complicated, or perhaps not complicated but broken in a way that no other plot could ever be. The film assumed the viewer has seen or knows what Alien vs Predator is about; there isn't really any explanation as to what is going on or why and it wasn't until a brief explanation late on in the film telling us the 'Hunter' won't stop until the hunt is complete do we 'learn' that the Tin Man from the Wizard of Oz is hunting the Spider-Alien (who actually more resembled a Predator).The thing I love about SyFy films is that it's so easy to guess who is going to live and who is going to die, and AVH is no different. With characters called Figgus, Freckles, Valentine and Two Fingers you can't expect much, and the acting didn't disappoint. It was truly awful. It really is that bad. Illogical decisions and stupidity seems to be especially prominent in AVH but it wouldn't have made much of a film if they had escaped town as soon as possible.I try not to knock Asylum films for their poor CG either but it has to be touched on here as they are of such a low quality they would have been shocking for 1980.Fear not though as AVH has an ace or two up it's sleeve. The last 20 minutes or so are fantastic and by far the most fun an Asylum film has delivered. It's comedy gold with non-stop awful CG and completely unsynchronized and over exaggerated acting in what is the grand finale. It has to be seen to be appreciated but I haven't laughed so much watching a film for a long while. It makes little sense but that doesn't matter, it entertains.The very end deserves a mention as well. The Tin Man hunter returns to his ship, takes his mask off and like the rest of us after a hard days work, he has a smoke and a can of beer. Top stuff.In summary there is no reason what so ever to watch the first hour or so but the last 20 minutes shouldn't be missed by anybody. I want to give AVH a high score based on these alone but the truth is that even for an Asylum Film it is pretty bad and it can't hide how awful the rest of it really is.

MetalGeek Wow. Just...wow. How do I describe the badness that is "AVH: Alien Vs. Hunter?" I honestly wasn't expecting much from this movie to begin with, as it is an Asylum production (makers of such reviled "mockbusters" as "Transmorphers" and "The Terminators," as well as the infamous "Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus") but in "AVH" they've truly outdone themselves in terms of craptacularity. Lord knows I love me some bad movies and I've even enjoyed some of the Asylum's other films, but "AVH" isn't even the "so-bad-it's-good" type of bad. This is just flat out AWFUL! In case the so-close-it's-possibly-copyright-infringement title and intentionally misleading DVD cover art don't make it immediately obvious, "AVH: Alien Vs. Hunter" is an EXTREMELY low budget bite off of the "Alien Vs. Predator" franchise. The "AvP" flicks have caused their share of fanboy arguments here and across the Net debating the films' relative worth (or lack thereof), but trust me folks, no matter which side of the argument you're on, the "AvP" series is Shakespeare compared to this cheap ass "homage." Our story (such as it is): a spaceship crashes in a remote mountain town, releasing a toothy, spider-like Alien which immediately sets about munching on townspeople, along with a "Hunter" (a heavily armed humanoid in a black armored suit) in hot pursuit. A local newspaper reporter (William Katt, now bearded and wrinkly but still maintaining traces of the white boy Afro he sported on TV's "The Greatest American Hero" decades ago) witnesses several of said munchings and high tails it back to town, where he bands together a group of fellow survivors. There they argue endlessly about how to get down off the mountain and get help. For some odd reason, rather than jumping in a vehicle and driving like hell, they decide to descend on foot through a seemingly endless series of sewer tunnels (?) which of course provides numerous hiding spots for the Alien to pick them off one by one. Eventually the group does an even dumber thing and splits up, so we have one half of the idiot troop stumbling around the woods, the other still in the sewers, all of them seemingly making up their dialogue as they go along. Occasionally the cheap looking creature pops up, and they all scream and run the other way. This scenario is repeated several times till the "Hunter" finally returns to kick some alien ass. The Hunter doesn't seem to care too much about the innocent humans caught in the crossfire, but that was fine by me, because by this point I didn't care about them either. Instead, I was focusing on DeDee (less successful sister of Michelle) Pfeiffer's sweaty cleavage as much as possible and wondering when this steaming pile would finally come to its merciful end.I understand that 20th Century Fox (owners of the "AvP" franchise) threatened to take The Asylum to court over this movie some time ago. I'm not sure how that all turned out but if anyone at Fox bothered to watch this movie, I bet they decided that it wasn't worth the time or trouble. From its shot-on-video look to its nonsensical dialogue to its terrible acting and effects, "AVH: Alien Vs. Hunter" is completely and utterly horrendous, even by the Asylum's low standards. Anyone dumb enough to rent this one under the mistaken impression that it's a legitimate entry in the "AvP" series deserves what they get, while those of you who are "in" on the Asylum joke and are expecting a "so bad it's good" movie to mock MST3K style will unfortunately be disappointed as well.Avoid, avoid, avoid!!