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Love cheesy bad movies! Laughing

Well, you're in luck, 'cause we're loaded with stinky Limburger cheese today!

~ An invasion movie that starts out bad and goes downhill from there.

~ Another invasion movie with aliens that can’t be seen.

~ And finally, there’s the strange tale of a farmer who keeps a pet monster and feeds it the folks who pass through town.

Hold your nose, guys, and dive right into Cheddar Heaven!

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Invasion (1966 England)

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A movie that starts out promising, but slowly dissolves into confusion. Here's the story, but be advised that it sounds a lot better than it is.

Two humanoid women — Yoko Tani ("First Spaceship on Venus") and Cali Raia — and an alien man (Eric Young) show up at different locations near a small English country hospital. The man's first appearance occurs when a middle-aged couple hit him with their car on a lonely road and take the unconscious young man to the little hospital.

Edward Judd ("First Men in the Moon", "The Day the Earth Caught Fire") is the doctor who figures out that the man isn't human after taking a blood sample and then acting surprised by how it looks like through a microscope.

We don't get any details, just a lot of large leaps on logic from evidence that isn't explained very well.

The alien's injuries turn out to be . . . well, we never see any injuries, and he wakes up soon, feeling just fine and talking to the doctors and nurses about how he was wrongfully convicted of murder in his female-dominated alien society.

The two alien women (seen only briefly at this point, miles away) are police officers, and the man is their prisoner. He got away from them in an escape pod while they were repairing their ship out in space. Sadly we never see any of this. Just lots of dialog.

At about the halfway point in the movie the story stops making sense altogether. The two alien women make a few brief appearances, lurking around in the night while they try to find their escaped prisoner. But one of them just drops out of the story without explanation, never to be seen again, and the other one (Yoko Tani) shows up at the hospital and pulls a Jedi mind trick on a nurse, telling her to go sleep, after which we never see the nurse again either.

We do see the alien woman a few more times, walking around the hospital in a nurse's uniform, but she never gets near the prisoner, who is still in his hospital bed, unaware that the long arm of the law is lurking around the premises for reasons never explained.

If that isn't puzzling enough, there's also a lot of talk about a force field surrounding the hospital, preventing anyone from leaving. The force field somehow raises the air temperature until the whole cast glistens with sweat, but we never see any real evidence of this alleged force field — except when a man crashes a car into it and sails right through the windshield, dead by the time he lands on the hood. No kidding.

The movie is actually directed by Alan Bridge with surprising style. And before things get so crazy, you think you're in for a real treat — a lost sci-fi movie you've missed for the last fifty years.

Oh, boy! Very Happy

Alas, you don't get the treat, you get the trick — a movie that dangles the carrot for 41 minutes and then babbles nonsense for 41 more.

The screenplay is by Roger Marshall, based on a story by Robert Holmes, but somehow these writers lost their way in the English fog and gave us a murky tale that wanders around aimlessly for 82 total minutes before ending in complete confusion.

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Invisible Invaders (1959)

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Naturally, everything depicted in the poster above can be seen on the movie screen. It just doesn't happen in this movie . . .

"Invisible Invaders" is more like "Night of the Living Dead", but without the gore. Invisible aliens arrive from the Moon in an invisible spaceship (thereby saving a fortune on makeup and special effects).

The invisible aliens can reanimate the bodies of dead men, which they use to form an army of marching corpses, white-faced zombies with black circles around their eyes, all wearing the stylish business suits in which they were buried -- the best-dressed zombie army in film history!

John Carradine portrays one of the walking dead (but we don't see much of him). John Agar is the tough military man who takes two scientists and a young woman to an underground military base where they'll be safe while trying to find a way to kill an army that's already dead. High-frequency sound is the weapon they eventually come up with.

That makes perfect sense, because everybody knows dead people can't stand high-pitched noises.

This one is neither well done nor fondly remembered; the low budget was so low that the underground base is conspicuously devoid of personnel.

Directed by Edward L. Cahn. The "Chief Technician" listed in the credits is Buzz Gibson -- the assistant animator on "King Kong"! Also starring Jean Byron, Philip Tonge, Hal Torey, and Robert Hutton ("The Colossus of New York"). In 1967 Hutton again battled body-stealing invaders in "They Came from Beyond Space".

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It's Alive! (1969 TV movie)

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Not to be confused with the 1974 movie about a monster baby — this monstrosity was spawned by Larry Buchanan, who produced, directed, and wrote the screenplay from a story by Richard Matheson (author of the novel and the script for "The Incredible Shrinking Man") about a dinosaur called a masasaurus.

In Buchanan's version the "dinosaur" is a man in a ridiculous monster suit.

It lives in a cave, and when a local rancher with a fondness for pet reptiles finds the monster he decides to add it to his collection, feeding it any unfortunate person who falls into his clutches.

By sheer good luck a paleontologist happens by. Even more good luck, the paleontologist is Tommy Kirk ("Village of the Giants"). As a scientist, Kirk can at least appreciate the fact that he's being eaten by an extinct creature. Co-star Shirley Bonne looks nice — but other than that, the film has little to recommend.

If you're curious you can endure it — I mean, enjoy it — right here on Youtube.


_______________________ It's Alive (1969)


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