Alien (film) disguise imaginative poverty". In a 1980 episode of "Sneak Previews" discussing science fiction films of the 1950s and 1970s, critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert were critical of "Alien". Ebert called it "basically just an intergalactic haunted house thriller set inside a spaceship" and one of several science fiction pictures that were "real disappointments" compared to "Star Wars", "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", and "", though he did compliment the early scene of the "Nostromo" crew exploring the alien planet as showing "real imagination". However, the film later made it onto Ebert's "Great Movies" list, where he gave it
The Alien Factor one and a half out of four bones, noting that the film had "decent special effects". The film titled "The Alien Factor 2: Alien Rampage" was not actually a sequel. The sequel-sounding title was chosen by Retromedia distributor Fred Olen Ray to market the film on DVD in 2002. The original title for "The Alien Factor 2" was "Alien Rampage". "Alien Rampage" was filmed in 1999 and was Don Dohler's comeback movie after an 11-year hiatus from filmmaking. The Alien Factor The Alien Factor is a 1978 science fiction horror film written, edited, produced, and directed by Don Dohler. The