And the B-movie marathon continues with… Decoys!
I had very low expectations. The movie is about aliens who come to earth posing as sexy college girls… I expected a juvenile movie with lots of crude humor, gore, and boobs.
The movie starts at Halloween, with a young man carrying flowers going to a house where nobody seems to be home. He enters… there's a flash of a woman moving swiftly… he finds a room full of frozen dead bodies…
Flash forward to winter at St. Johns College in northern Canada. College freshman Luke (Corey Sevier) and his never-been-laid roommate Roger (Elias Toufexis) are doing laundry when in walk two gorgeous transfer students – Lilly (Stefanie von Pfetten) and Constance (Kim Poirier). It's no surprise that these seductive young women are actually aliens…
Other characters include Alex (Meghan Ory), the girl who is "one of the boys" and in love with Luke; Nathan/Gibby (Ennis Esmer), the "funny" buddy; Vikki (Krista Morin), the sorority president; Detective Kirk (Richard Burgi) who suspects Luke of being a murdered; and Detective Amanda (Nicole Eggert from Baywatch), who is Luke's friend.
If you watch the trailer, you would think this is a sci-fi horror movie. Some reviews say it is "campy" – I don't think so (well, a little). It's mostly a romantic comedy! And it is surprisingly good.
Is there a lot of gratuitous sex? Early in the movie, one actress takes her bra off, and another is seen naked from the back. After that, it is just "sexual situations" where the girl is about to… well, that's the horror part of the movie. It's way more comedy than sex.
Is there a lot of gore? No. We get a mix of CGI and actress-in-an-alien-suit, frozen bodies, and bodies that disintegrate for various reasons. And a grief shot of a gross body in the morgue.
Until I looked her up, I had forgotten about Stefanie von Pfetten. She was hilarious in Christmas Caper, a movie I watched a while ago. Here, she's young and sexy and funny and really makes the movie! (And she was 31 when the movie came out, but she looks good as a college student!)
Kim Poirier is the other alien girl, and does a wonderful job of going from cold-hearted to adorable…
Elias Toufexis similarly goes from being annoying to endearing, and Corey Sevier does well in the lead role. Meghan Ory is great in the role of girl who nobody notices how beautiful she is. Krista Morin is hilarious.
Nicole Eggert is apparently in here to attract viewers due to her Baywatch connection. Her role is small but serious, and she handles it well.
Richard Burgi is adequate as the detective (the script doesn't give him a lot to do). Ennis Esmer is annoying as Gibby, but that's the role – the script didn't really tie him in to the other characters.
Maybe a little tasteless to have someone attacked by an alien while Silent Night is playing, though…
Can you game it?
The general idea of aliens against humans would be a fun campaign game. The aliens would be trying to capture humans and neutralize threats, while the humans would try to expose the aliens and force them to move elsewhere or leave the planet…
, a big step for his Grey Knights.
