jones1899 said:

Meanwhile, the climax is KILLING ME! All I can think is to hire someone to digitally cut the full bodied alien from the scenes of Spalko dying. Like I said, as it is, the only scenes of her dying WITHOUT aliens in the shot are too few to create a meaningful climax. Like its over too quickly.

I just had an idea for Spalkos death that you might use

instead of having the crystal skeltons turn to the one alien you could have the skeltons start to spin faster and faster and the force of the spining creates spalko catching alight. You could use the shot of the skeltons spining just before they morph and by finding the right frames you can make a longer spin. It is possible ive try it of windows movie maker i can send you the edit if you like