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| Year: | 1986 |
| Country of origin: | USA |
| Director: | Tobe Hooper |
| Genre: | Sci-fi comedy horror mayhem |
| Starring: | Karen Black, Hunter Carson, Timothy Bottoms, Louise Fletcher |
| Rating: | 3/5 |
| IMDB link: | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091276/ |
| Tagline: | There's no place on Earth to hide! |
| Favourite line: | …you bring them both to me, or I'll have your heart and liver out David Gardner |
Tobe Hooper's crackpot reimagining of the paranoid 50's classic, with none other than Dan 'Alien' O'Bannon involved on the writing side of things.
A small town in the US is slowly being overtaken by THINGS FROM ANOTHER PLANET, and people are changing.
One young boy, David Garnder, notices that his Dad seems different, as does his teacher at school, but no-one will believe him that something is wrong. He also realises that the way to identify those that have been compromised is by a small mark on the back of the neck.
Can he save the good townsfolk from the Martian Invaders?
Ridiculous from start to finish, this is played deliberately for laughs and at no point are you meant to take anything remotely seriously.
The creature design is simply the most ludicrous I have ever seen in a movie, and the narrative clunky to say the least.
And yet.
And yet.....
I enjoyed this quite a bit.
Some nice atmospherics when we finally get into the Martians base, as well as some reasonably satisfying slime moments.
Intentionally unthreatening, this goes for plain daft over frightening, and works rather well all told.
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