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Alien Nation: Dark Horizon

1994 · 90 min

A thoughtful, low-key sci-fi drama that balances social allegory with personal stakes, feeling like a TV episode expanded to feature length.

Directed by
Kenneth Johnson
Genres
Tv movie, Science fiction, Drama
Overview
Followup movie to the TV series about 250,000 aliens, or "newcomers" as they are known, who have by now settled alongside the humans in California. Most of the newcomers were slaves, and the slave masters are now looking for them. They send Aponso to earth to locate the slaves ready for the aliens to pick them up.

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Directed by
Kenneth Johnson
Genres
Tv movie, Science fiction, Drama
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Tone
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 1 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • science
Places
  • big city
  • suburbs
Era
near-future
Audience
teen
Form
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
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ScaleValue0 to 10
Action4
Horror3
Humour3
Realism5
Romance2
Tension6
Darkness5
Complexity5
Emotional weight6

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Alien Nation Collection

  1. Alien Nation: Dark HorizonMovie · 1994 This title
  2. Alien Nation: Body and SoulMovie · 1995
  3. Alien Nation: The Enemy WithinMovie · 1996

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Genres
tv movie, science fiction, drama
Directed by
Kenneth Johnson
Written by
Andrew Schneider, Diane Frolov
Starring
Gary Graham, Jenny Gago, Eric Pierpoint, Michele Scarabelli, Sean Six, Lauren Woodland, Dana Andersen, Susan Appling
Music
David Kurtz
Cinematography
Lloyd Ahern II
Runtime
90 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
English

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