There are 2 kinds of awful: so awful it's good then there is the so awful it's just awful and this film is just awful awful. I personally cannot understand how this film is getting 4/10 IMDb stars... maybe 2/10 but 4/10?! Wow! What am I missing here? For me this is not a good zero budget film - some of them I really like but this one does not do it for me.I have not a problem with the idea of an alien craft carrying it's zoo animals and it crashes on planet Earth - that's fine. I don't have a problem with some bad acting (this film has some bad acting but the actors are not all that bad). It's the aliens themselves that are putting me off this film for some reason - they did not do it for me, intrigue me that is. Looked like very burnt hot dogs or trash bags to me and I wasn't able to laugh about it so I was put off by them.If you like really, really bad films (as I do) and you like the zero budget sci-fi films (as I do) plus have a tolerance for silly aliens that are suppose to be taken seriously (and I do not) then you might like this film. Otherwise just pass it by... not much to see here.1/10

A spaceship crash lands in Baltimore, and it's cargo—three zoological specimens from the farthest reaches of the universe—escapes to feed on unfortunate locals.Don Dohler, special effects enthusiast and creator of Cinemagic magazine, showcases his own work and that of friends in horror sci-fi The Alien Factor, effectively illustrating the yawning chasm that lies between keen amateur and talented professional. The film's aliens—an insectoid 'Inferbyce', a hairy, long legged 'Zagatile', and reptilian 'Leemoid'—are laughably bad creations, their naff appearance not exactly helped by Dohler's dreadful direction, which does nothing to hide their cheesy homemade nature.Dohler also commands pathetic performances from his wooden cast, achieves an astonishingly leaden pace, and even has the audacity to attempt an ironic twist ending—which is handled about as well as one might imagine (ie. badly). Making the film even more unbearable are the terrible editing and completely tuneless electronic score (someone got a new synth for Christmas but never read the manual).Some reviewers have commented rather favourably about the last alien, the Leemoid, but all I could see was a poorly designed and jerkily animated stop-motion monster badly composited onto the live footage. As far as I am concerned, the most entertaining things about the whole film were the hairstyles, which are far more horrific than the man-eating monsters from outer space, and the pointless musical interlude from a rock band whose two minging groupies seem to be having a whale of a time.

I once saw The Fiend or also know as Fiend, what a turkey that was but this one is even worser. The copper looks like a McCloud rip off, acting is terrible and let us please be quiet about the aliens. No special effects, only a man dressed as an alien. And it goes on and on, even your toddlers could watch this one and may think, hey there's a teletubbie on the run. And then there's one special effect, you will see, it's an effect used in the silent movies. This is one of your worst nightmares to watch, extreme slow, extreme stupid, extreme boring. Just have a look at the alien again, it's a stilted man. I can go one for ages about Alien Factor. Luckely it was on DVD together with Fiend, two turkeys for the price of one...

This is a movie I caught on WBIR's late night horror show 'The Unknown Zone'. They showed movies at 11:30 on Friday nights in Tennessee. I've only seen this once and enjoyed it for what it was: a very cheesy movie! Haven't seen it since.Some of these reviews are rather odd. It's almost as though a pitchman is working hard to sell a DVD of this movie. I don't know if that's the case but some of the stranger reviews are from guys who posted once on this entire website and that was it. I remember the stop motion monster and I always thought he was suppose to have been transparent since he was invisible. But it could have been a goof. I can't really rate this film since I haven't seen it in twenty years.