Formerly known as ‘Canaries’ but released under the title Alien Party Crashers on VOD and DVD the film has a promising start reminiscent of Close Encounters of the Third Kind in that it follows reports of alien sightings from multiple locations and the promise of imminent contact. This film obviously lacks the budget of CE3K or indeed the average home movie by the overall look of the production, but I am not holding that against it as there’s so much more that I can. It may well start with locations in America and Thailand but it soon transfers to a small village in Wales with an equally small bunch of locals about to host a miniscule New Year’s party. What they don’t know is that aliens have planned to make their presence known to the authorities with a test-invasion and have chosen Lower Cwmtwrch to do it by dropping a dead Maasai Warrior on the house where the party is being held and generally making a nuisance of themselves. Killer aliens and brief mentions of time travel can’t prevent this film from lacking any real atmosphere, humour or excitement that could elevate this above being tedious. When the shit eventually hits the fan the film offers up some of the worst bargain-basement excuses for aliens I’ve ever seen, I kid you not, I’ve seen ordinary regular people’s Hallowe’en costumes with more going for them, I’m not talking the cool cosplay sort either, hell I’ve seen little kids in home-made monster outfits which were better thought out and scarier. Even though classed as a comedy this wasn’t entirely played for laughs but should have been, or should have been played entirely straight, it might just have pulled through if it had and would then have been in the 1970s Dr Who level of scariness, but this mixed up attempt at an alien invasion comedy is sloppy and all somewhat pointless. On the Gingernutometer I’m giving this a resounding one Gingernut, but only because we don’t have half Gingernuts and giving it zero would be a bit mean. 
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