Effortlessly awful but strangely compelling 'Alien Factor 2: The Alien Rampage'is a film directed by the Baltimore auteur Don Dohler about a cyborg on the loose in a small town looking for a gadget looked after by an alien so they could repair their space ship and get off the planet. The cyborg puts a force field around the town and in his search kills some people. Actually a lot of people. In actual fact nearly everybody in town. They might as well close the town by the end of the film.The acting is amateur and the special effects are ropey but there is a charm about the film that is hard to describe. The cast run around acting mainly stupidly but it is easy to warm to them and also to the cyborg which reminded me of Mechagodzilla from Japan. Not exciting at all but it kept me watching until the end, beguiled by its simplicity and gaucherie.

A lethal alien cyborg (Bill Ulrich in a gnarly rubber suit) terrorizes a small town in Maryland. The local police join forces with an FBI agent to stop it.Writer/director Don Dohler keeps the enjoyable story moving long at a snappy pace, maintains an engaging sincere tone throughout, and stages the exciting action with flair. Moreover, Dohler brings a winning sense of positively infectious go-for-it enthusiasm that's impossible to either resist or dislike. Granted, the acting from the uneven cast is decidedly hit or miss, but there are nonetheless admirably game contributions from Donna Sherman as no-nonsense sheriff Allison Smith, George Stover as earnest deputy Mickey Sinclair, Patrick Bussink as secretive fed Frank Love, Jonas Grey as brave munitions expert David Tackett, Anne Frith as old bag lady Aggie, and Shawn Doyle as the concerned Mayor Henry Kidd. The rinky-dink (less than) special effects further add to this film's rough around the edges homemade charm. The robust score hits the rousing spot. A fun little flick.

I'd have to say that, out of all Don Dohler films, this one is the most techno-advanced! It just goes to show that using CGI, good miniatures and some good pyro effects, you can make a quality film on a low-budget.Story-wise, it could have been better, but hey, it's sci-fi fun! THe creature or cyborg, was the weakest part. The suit should have had more skin texture and the mouth should have had drool. Other than that, good low (or no) budget fun for all!I especially liked the shots of the ship fly-bys and the lavish forest set. The ship corridor was really nicely done also!

In my book director Don Dohler will go in the list of history's worst directors. Which includes Burt I. Gordon, Edward Wood Jr. and Jeff Leroy. Don Dohler is that level of bad. Alien Factor was was a steaming pile of bio-waste. Why on God's green Earth did they allow him to make a second movie? It makes me sick. The plot was okay. But again poor production values, creature suit was just okay. The acting was god awful. The fact that the only minority was a minor background character only supports to me that Don Dohler is also a bigot and the Government probably made him have her in the movie. It's crap, the acting is crap, the story is crap, the effects are crap, the creature effects are crap, let's face it. Except for the plot being somewhat interesting it's total crap. I give it... THE NOOSE!