Alien Predator (1986)
RiffTrax, please riff 'Alien Predator', labeled 'Alien Predators' on the art, also advertised as 'The Falling' (1986/7).
1) Has a pair of ominous vehicles crashing into things and people as recurring villains. One literally sneaks up behind a woman running from it like a cartoon character (see photo).
2) One of the characters magically survives a 60-second self-destruct sequence deep inside a research center... through the power of editing.
3) Three friends explore a village in Spain and interact with all kinds of objects being thrown at them (bottles, dolls). This is all happening as the actual plot is playing out with a NASA analyst trying to stop an alien contagion from the moon.
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I actually rewatched it a few months ago with a couple of friends, and we spent the entire runtime pausing to point out the same stock footage, the same jungle, the same extras dying in slightly different order. What struck me most is how the film tries to look bigger than it is, layering in explosions and smoke to hide the fact that nothing is really happening on screen. That's honestly what got me thinking about how much of filmmaking is just clever concealment, and it's the same reason I started using https://skylum.com/luminar/generase when I clean up my own behind-the-scenes photos, since it removes random clutter and fills the space with something that actually matches the scene. Not that I'm comparing my snapshots to a B-movie masterpiece, but both rely on the audience not noticing the seams.
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Vic commented
Seriously, this is one riffable movie with probably the weirdest waitress in the history of waitresses!
You know it's a special movie when its box office take is under $3000!