"Aliens vs. Predator" Back In Deadly Sequel Starring Kristen Hager

Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (also known as AVP: R or AVP: 2), and in development called Aliens vs. Predator: Survival of the Fittest, is the sequel to 2004's Alien vs. Predator film. Filming began on September 25, 2006 in Vancouver with Tom Woodruff, Jr. and Alec Gillis from Amalgamated Dynamics handling the special effects and Daniel Pearl as director of photography. The Brothers Strause (Colin and Greg Strause) have directed the movie from a script by Shane Salerno.Actors Steven Pasquale and Reiko Aylesworth will play leading roles in the film.Kristen Hager also stars in the movie.

The first "AVP" pairing in 2004 at least played the monster mash for camp humor. Yet this new film, which opened as counter-programming on Christmas Day, sends the space creatures and their human victims through an antediluvian small-town-under-siege plot that was so nicely satirized this year in Robert Rodriguez's "Planet Terror" portion of "Grindhouse."AVP" grossed $80 million domestically but "Requiem" is unlikely to stir that kind of interest. The old A and P monsters just aren't what they used to be. Familiarity has done them in.

In the new sequel Aliens cause a Predator spacecraft to crash near the small Colorado mountain town of Gunnison, killing the Predator pilot. Another Predator follows his pal, discovers him dead, gets all emotional, then goes on an Alien hunting trip. He certainly has many targets.

The town's sheriff (John Ortiz) is overwhelmed. In fact, he is so nuts he keeps bringing along an ex-con (Steven Pasquale), just out of prison, on all his investigations. The ex-con's younger brother (Johnny Lewis) is fighting off the town bully over a girl (Kristen Hager) but all is swiftly forgotten as the teens get dispatched one by one.

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