Alien Hunter (2003).

Director: Ron Krauss
Body Count: 10, 1 dog, 1 alien

Get those visions of men in camoflauge hunting down evil aliens out of you mind, because, well thats not what this movie is about (I know, I know – why would they name it that if it wasn’t about killing aliens…beyond me). The movie is about some Antarctic scientists that find a frozen alien and set it free. The twist, its friendly yet it carries a flesh eating virus that tends to kill off the people. The government knows all this (of course) and has plans on nuking the whole place. What I don’t get: apparently this same virus got out at Roswell (yes THE Roswell), and didn’t kill off mankind, so if the virus couldn’t escape the New Mexico Desert how does it plan on getting off Antarctica? AND why are we obsessed with Aliens with organic technology? AND why is the transmission that says not to open the capsule encrypted out the wazoo and in English once decrypted? If you don’t want someone to open something why would you write it in code?

Alien hunting law:

1. How about a little good old fashioned space law: Julian (played by James Spader . . . yeah THE James Spader) used to be involved with SETI . . . until the government pulled the funding.

2. More space law: one character states that “NASA obsessed with selling Congress on Planetary colonization.” Don’t hold your breath on that particular apprpriation.

3. They are going to nuke Antarctica. There is a treaty known as the Antartcic Treaty that states that the Antarctic is for Peaceful Purposes. Seems to me that this might be a bold move for just the American’s and the Russians. There would be a bit of an International law issue and fall out.

4. And as always when those Aliens come out Metalaw comes in. How do we treat a friendly Alien with a nasty virus?

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Bad Taste (1987)

Director: Peter Jackson

It is only when one watches Peter Jackson’s early films that you are awe struck by the fact that a production company would entrust massive amounts of money to him to make the Lord of the Rings trilogy. It is a leap of faith of epic proportions. These early works are generally juvenile and poorly made, but they do have something about them that make them strangely endearing.

In Bad Taste a group of aliens has landed on earth and has harvested an entire town full of people in order to take them back and use them as the new Fast Food on their planet. Luckily there is a government team that is assigned to investigate. It then turns into an all out blood bath between man and alien.

Law in bad taste:

1. As always when there is a government entity that has legal authority over extraterrestrials we get an issue of metalaw. No one in the film really worries about it as they commence to kicking alien butts (which are real saggy).

2. The Government agency is authorized to use violence when there is a threat to the Earth or the Moon. This could be a question of space law. Can the “peaceful purposes” clause in the Outer Space Treaty be breached in order to defend the moon against human eating aliens (maybe that’ll be in part two)?

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Bloody Mallory (2002)

Director: Julien Magnat

So, I’m at home over Christmas and the wife and I decide to watch a scary movie. I like campy; she likes thrillers. We are looking through the On Demand selections and we see French and both think artsy. We ended up with Crappy.

The movie is about a team of paranormal commandos that the French government sends to knock off ghouls and such. The team consists of a Transvestite, a psychic child, and Bloody Mallory who is the ass kicker. The pope is kidnapped, but he’s a demon anyway, and the world gets saved from evil . . .or something. Its really bad . . . but not wholly without any legal matters:

1. This teams shows up and kills goblins, vampires, demons, etc., because they are a government led team this could lead to a question of metalaw and what sorts of rights to non human entities recieve.

2. Mallory has to contact her dead demon husband whom she killed and sent to Limbo. There is an entire code that governs these transactions (and they quote it alot).

3. The pope is giving a speech in Paris in which he condemns Abortion and Same Sex Marriage. He refers to them as the “axis of evil.” The French really do hate us: George W. got compared to a demon Pope.

4. Mallory has “Fuck Evil” tattooed on her hands. Is this a philosophical equation of law with morality? The world may never know (at least lets hope they don’t ever know … a sequel would be a bad idea).

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