High Plains Invaders

• film premiere: June 2009

• James Marsters as Sam Danville in High Plains Invaders

Directed by: Kristoffer Tabori

Writer: Richard Beattie

Cinematographer: Pierre Jodoin

Cast:

• James Marsters - Sam Danville
• Cindy Sampson - Abigail Pixley
• Sebastian Knapp - Jules Arning
• Sanny Van Heteren - Rose Hilridge
• Antony Byrne - Gus MacGreevey

Genre: sci-fi

Production Companies: Muse Entertainment Enterprises USA & Media Pro

Country: Canada

Length: 88 minut

In production for: Sci-Fi Chanel (USA) a Super Channel (Canada)

Distributors: RHI Entertainment

Trailers: youtube

Gallery: High Plains Invaders gallery

Official site: Muse Entertainment Enterprises USA

Related sites: IMDB

Locations: Romania

Links:

• rhitv.com
• rhitv.com - High Plains Invaders

Official Synopsis from RHI Entertainment:

A new brand of pioneer, not of this earth, is coming to change the shape of the old frontier – by leveling it in the name of their civilization.

In the small town of Amaranth, honorable fighter Sam (James Marsters, Buffy the Vampire Slayer) is being readied to be hanged. Yet the folks of Amaranth aren't prepared for what's about to stop it – the out-of-the-blue attack of a giant insect-like creatures with blades for legs, a uranium-spiked tail, and a will to destroy. Fleeing from the gallows, Sam retrieves a load of dynamite and blows the creature to hell. But the invasion is just beginning, as eccentric scientist and inventor Jules (Sebastian Knapp, 28 Days Later) tears into Amaranth in a blind panic. A wild bunch of the hungry creatures are in his shadow, nipping at his buggy, and laying waste to the town.

Taking refuge in the church are small band of survivors, including Sam, Jules, Sam's ex-girlfriend, Abigail (Cindy Sampson, The Factory), and bounty hunter Rose (Sanny Van Heteren, The Last Word). Then comes the rumble of hovering craft, countless clusters of breeding pods fall from the sky, and a mass hatching covers the dusty landscape with feeding, yelping creatures. With only a few sticks of dynamite and six guns to defend themselves in quick-draw showdowns, Sam and Jules discover that their only hope for survival lies within the mysteries of uranium. But to see their plan work, they must first escape the church and navigate a living, breathing alien minefield.

With thrilling special effects and a tongue-in-cheek sense of the absurd, this is a monster-movie mash up that really kills.

The hanging of honorable Indian-fighter Sam Phoenix in a small western town is cut short by the unexpected invasion of uranium-based insectoid creatures, forcing Sam and a small band of survivors to take refuge in a church. They’ll need more than a prayer and a pistol to survive, as a Wild West landscape is inundated by a killer force of alien pioneers.

A train robber, his former sweetheart, a lady bounty hunter and an eccentric mine owner try to escape a swarm of monstrous alien bugs that have landed to feed on the uranium deposits found under their Old West town.

Notes:

• Filmed in Romania in December 2008.
• The initial title was Alien Western

Official trailers from World Premiere VOD: