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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|2003 American-Bulgarian film}}<br />
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{{Infobox film<br />
| name = Alien Hunter<br />
| image = Alien Hunter DVD cover.jpg<br />
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| caption = Australian DVD cover<br />
| director = [[Ronald Krauss (filmmaker)|Ronald Krauss]]<br />
| producer = [[Boaz Davidson]]<br/> [[David Yost]]<br />
| writer = [[Boaz Davidson]]<br/>[[J.S. Cardone]]<br />
| narrator = <br />
| starring = [[James Spader]]<br/>Janine Eser<br/>[[John Lynch (actor)|John Lynch]]<br/>[[Leslie Stefanson]]<br/>[[Carl Lewis]]<br/>[[Anthony Crivello]]<br/>[[Roy Dotrice]]<br/>[[Keir Dullea]]<br />
| music = [[Tim Jones (film composer)|Tim Jones]]<br />
| cinematography = Darko Suvak<br />
| editing = Amanda I. Kirpaul<br />
| studio = Millennium Films<br/>Sandstorm Films<br/>[[Nu Image]]<br />
| distributor = [[Columbia TriStar Home Video]] <br />
| released = {{Film date|2003|07|19}}<br />
| runtime = 92 minutes<br />
| country = United States<br />Bulgaria<br />
| language = English<br />Russian<br />
| budget = <br />
}}<br />
'''''Alien Hunter''''' is a 2003 American-Bulgarian [[Science fiction film|science-fiction]]-[[thriller film]] directed by [[Ronald Krauss (filmmaker)|Ronald Krauss]] and starring [[James Spader]], [[Carl Lewis]] and [[Leslie Stefanson]].<br />
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==Plot==<br />
In 1947 New Mexico, a radio operator receives a bizarre signal coming from [[Roswell, New Mexico]]. He decides to investigate its origin and disappears tracking it.<br />
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In the present day, the same signal is received from the [[South Pole]] and then retransmitted from the [[Falkland Islands]] to the United States. A satellite image captures an unknown object sitting on the Antarctic snow. [[Cryptologist]] Julian Rome, a teacher at the [[University of California, Berkeley]], is invited to investigate the mystery. He is sent to an Antarctic research base, which includes a large greenhouse of genetically modified plants being studied by scientists. They discover what appears to be an alien vehicle frozen in a large block of ice. The object is shaped like a shell or pod and is emitting the mysterious [[encrypted]] signal. Once it is released from the ice, Julian discovers that it has a powerful static electric charge on its surface and painfully shocks anyone who touches it.<br />
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Julian tries to [[decrypt]] the signal (which soon proves to be: "Do not open!"), while another team works to open the alien shell. They succeed in cutting off the lid, which allows a viscous liquid to pour out. An alien also escapes, while at the same time an airborne virus sealed in the shell kills four scientists by melting them from within. The virus also kills all the plants, making them wilt and turn brown. The virus has an unusually high speed of transmission and extreme [[virulence]]. It kills anyone within a few minutes of exposure.<br />
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The government is aware of the alien virus and the global risk that it poses. They ask a Russian nuclear submarine to fire a nuclear missile at the base before the threat can spread. As the submarine nears its firing position, Julian manages to communicate with the alien, before it is killed by one of the survivors. Julian realizes that if any of the survivors leave the base alive, the lethal alien virus will cause a [[pandemic]] destroying all life on Earth. Just a few seconds before the missile hits, he and three others, Shelly, Kate, and Dr. Gierach, are rescued from the base by an alien spacecraft (which had homed in on the same signal Julian was studying).<br />
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In the aftermath, the government mounts a [[cover-up]] campaign by claiming that an experimental [[nuclear reactor]] at the base went into meltdown, destroying all of the facilities and killing everyone. The film ends with the alien spacecraft, still carrying the human survivors, leaving the [[Solar System]].<br />
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==Cast==<br />
* [[James Spader]] as Julian Rome<br />
* Janine Eser as Kate Brecher<br />
* [[John Lynch (actor)|John Lynch]] as Dr. Michael Straub<br />
* [[Nikolay Binev]] as Dr. Alexi Gierach<br />
* [[Leslie Stefanson]] as Nyla Olson<br />
* Aimee Graham as Shelly Klein<br />
* [[Stuart Charno]] as Abell<br />
* [[Carl Lewis]] as Grisham<br />
* Svetla Vasileva as Dacia Petrova<br />
* [[Anthony Crivello]] as Pilot<br />
* Kaloian Vodenicharov as Co-Pilot<br />
* George Stanchev as Airman<br />
* Rufus Dorsey as Navigator<br />
* [[Roy Dotrice]] as Dr. John Bachman<br />
* Woody Schultz as Sam<br />
* Ron Krauss as First Man<br />
* William Ladd Skinner as Second Man<br />
* Franklin A. Vallente as Third Man<br />
* Hristo Aleksandrov as Fourth Man<br />
* Ross W. Clarkson as Falkland Man # 1<br />
* Willie Botha as Falkland Man # 2<br />
* Tyrone Pinkham as Kitt Peak Man #1<br />
* Atanas Srebrev as Kitt Peak Man #2<br />
* [[Joel Polis]] as Copeland<br />
* [[Keir Dullea]] as Secretary Bayer<br />
* Bert Emmett as Gordon Osler<br />
* Marianne Stanicheva as Reporter<br />
* Dobrin Dosev as Captain Sokolov<br />
* Atanas Atanasov as Executive Officer Volkov<br />
* [[Hristo Shopov]] as Navigator Petrenko<br />
* Harry Anichkin as Army General<br />
* Velimir Velev as Alien<br />
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==See also==<br />
* ''[[The Thing (1982 film)|The Thing]]'' <!-- it actually uses footage from this, although I believe it originally comes from TFAW but can't check at the moment. --><br />
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==References==<br />
{{Reflist}}<br />
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== External links ==<br />
* {{IMDb title|0327409}}<br />
* {{TCMDb title|id=534257}}<br />
* {{YouTube|B5x9XnRP2FE|''Alien Hunter'' film}} at [[Crackle (company)|Crackle]]<br />
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