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Species IV: The Awakening

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Title: Species IV: The Awakening Rating: 4/5 Genre: Sci-Fi, Horror, Action, Drama Starring: Edy Arellano, Helena Mattsson, Marco Bacuzzi, Marlene Favela Director: Nick Lyon Call it my guilty pleasure if you will, particularly if you consider im rarely one to follow a series past the first couple of films, but I do hold a soft spot for this quadrilogy. The debut cult classic hitting all the right notes; a sexy and seductive alien wanting nothing more than to bed you and procreate the alien species. The sequel then delivers much the same, and quite frankly the less said about the atrocity that was the third the better, but this one seems to have snuck under the radar. Another episode in this gory sci fi flick about beautiful women wanting to sleep around. I mean surely for the premise alone most guys would be sold. But as the films developed, they quickly realised they couldnt just rehash old concepts, and so returning to the tale years later we find ourselves not dealing with a

Birdemic

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Title: Birdemic: Shock and Terror Rating: 0.5/5 Genre: Action, Horror Starring: Alan Bagh, Whitney Moore Director: James Nguyen “We'll need something to protect ourselves, here use these coat hangers” (despite the fact we have assault rifles lying around) There are many people who would call themselves a fan of 'bad films,' and what they usually mean is a fan of films so bad they're amusing. Going into this film on the other hand, you don't need to prepare yourself for some chuckles as much as you do some fairly hefty masochism, as Birdemic tells two different stories. Sure, there's the core story of a budding young romance which turns into a nightmare when acid-pissing eagles begin to explode in their neighbourhood, attacking everyone for no apparent reason, but look beyond that and you'll something more. For in this day and age, anyone with the willpower and a little bit of money can make themselves a film, whether they should or not. I don't