Alien Outlaw is a low budget science fiction / western set in the Appalachian hills of North Carolina. The movie follows a group of redneck alien poachers who hunt the local townsfolk. The only person who can stop them is Jesse Jamison, a hot shot trick-shooter on a trip to visit her mentor and friend (western b-movie legend, Lash LaRue) on his countryside property.

This is regional daylight horror at its finest; a menagerie of six-shooter alien mayhem and circular…

Got to see this at the Carnegie Museum of Art with local filmmaker and Braddock native, Tony Buba in attendance.

I feel confident saying Romero was not a great director. That is not to say his best movies aren’t fun or important— quite the contrary. Romero at his best made brilliantly disguised social satire in the form of pop culture horror— even if it was completely circumstantial, the end result is no less impactful.

That said, Martin stands as Romero’s…