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Bud Brewster Galactic Fleet Admiral (site admin)

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Posted: Tue May 26, 2015 9:52 pm Post subject: Strange Invaders (1983) |
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Director Michael Laughlin made this as a tribute to the sci-fi films of the 1950s like "The Invasion of the Body Snatchers", but it just doesn't have a very polished look, and the film performed poorly at the box office.
Paul La Mante ("American Graffiti") and Nancy Allen ("1941", "Dressed to Kills") confront alien invaders who took over a small town twenty-five years earlier in 1958 and did something bizarre with the inhabitants.
The story is imaginative, but the poor direction defeats the effort. _________________ ____________
Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)
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Here's the trailer for this movie if you still need more convincing to give it a look.
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Bud Brewster Galactic Fleet Admiral (site admin)

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Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2024 7:05 pm Post subject: |
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IMDB has 15 trivia items for this movie. Here’s a few of the ones I found the most interesting, in the blue text.
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~ Second part of an incomplete trilogy, known as the "Strange Trilogy", by writer-director Michael Laughlin. The first part had been Strange Behavior (1981).
Note from me: I looked up Strange Trilogy to see if we should have a thread for it, but it's listed as a horror film, so I guess not.
~ The movie is a homage to the the golden age of science fiction films of the 1950s particularly Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) and I Married a Monster from Outer Space (1958).
Note from me: Knowing this before I watched a rented tape of this movie on a special "movie night" with a group friends in the 1980s, I had high expectations. Unfortunately the movie was a big disappointment. The story was confusing and forgettable, the photography was poor, and the acting was unremarkable.
But I did have a good time that evening, because this movie was part of a triple feature, and with the help of my friend and fellow artist, Jim Peavy — the guy wearing the yellow Georgia Fine Arts Academy T-shirt (click on his name to see Jim's artwork) — we created a cardboard marquee to go over the old steel awning above the front door of the small house I owned in those days!
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Yes, I know . . . I spelled Paramount wrong. The Typo King of All Sci-Fi was alive and well, even back in the 1980s . . .
~ Two stars from the cult classic sci-fi series Lost in Space (1965), Mark Goddard and June Lockhart, appear in this film, which is a homage to cult sci-fi.
Note from me: I appreciate the various elements of this movie which were intended to be an homage to the classic sci-fi of the 1950 and 1960s, but the film itself just doesn't succeed.  _________________ ____________
Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
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