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When a spaceship crash lands in a rural community, the locals flock to the scene. Well one local really, a kid who calls his former professor, who fields the call from his bed without a shirt on. Once he confirms that a UFO has actually been sighted on Earth, he springs into action, instructing his former student to sit by the side of the road for six hours, since it will take him a while to get there and he has some phone calls to make first. That's when The Galaxy Invader really turns the thrills up to eleven!
The brainchild of visionary* director Don Dohler, The Galaxy Invader chronicles the struggle faced by the alien when he lands in a new world and discovers that the inhabitants are hostile and fearful of those who are different. Mainly because he kills the first two people he meets and shows no remorse as he repeatedly kills again. Fortunately he's landed in a hideous backwoods town full of rednecks where hygiene has been outlawed and the mayor has recently been impeached and a can of Skoal elected in his stead, so the deaths are chalked up to the ill effects of that durn book learnin'.
Our hero is Joe Montague, a mean, unemployed drunk who threatens his family at gunpoint, slaps his children and enjoys compiling a list of differences between various translations of Dostoyevsky novels (one of those three things isn't true.) Throughout the entire movie he also sports a costume sure to be the hottest Halloween costume this year: a filthy t-shirt with an enormous hole in the center of it. Our team of experts have yet to determine whether or not the actor portraying Joe even knew he was in a movie.
It's intergalactic cheese at its very ripest and Mike, Kevin and Bill are here to ensure that no moment of the invasion goes unriffed. Join them for: The Galaxy Invader! (In about six hours, they have some phone calls to make.)
*possessing the capability to breathe
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Ok so most of the cost of Alien Factor comes back to work with the same director in this Maryland based science fiction extravaganza. Do you like your movies to have wardrobe from the Goodwill trash bins? Do you like endless drinking in your movie? Then this is the movie for you.
Dragging in places you didn't know existed. Special effects fresh from that local fireworks shop. Hot women that aren't so hot. An alien that's not very scary. This is ripe material for Rifftrax included a surprise during the credits
I also love how all the actors sound like cheesy dinner theater actors.
Awesome. I very much like the renaissance of terrible and obscure movies being packaged with the video here at Rifftrax. I'm sure TeamRAD is psyched too, because I think he was the one who turned me on (stop doing that!) to this "gem" in the first place.
There is also an iriff for this movie that is pretty good too. Just sayin'
And while the director has made some pretty bad riff fodder (the CT crew did one of his movies), I do admire him for banding together with his acting buds (like a midwest Scorecese!) and actually make movies.
I am VERY anxious to watch this tonight.
Quote from: fodder650 on August 05, 2011, 01:50:49 PM
Ok so most of the cost of Alien Factor comes back to work with the same director in this Maryland based science fiction extravaganza. Do you like your movies to have wardrobe from the Goodwill trash bins? Do you like endless drinking in your movie? Then this is the movie for you.
I kept thinking that this reminded me of Alien Factor, but I didn't realize why.
I liked how they managed to effectively work in an intro, even though this is a VOD release. Granted, it's not at the VERY beginning but it's close enough and has a similar feel to it.
My big question about the movie: (plot spoilers ahead)
Why is the old drunken moron so hard to take down? For Christ's sake, the "dangerous" alien get's himself disarmed, captured, shot, recovers from being shot only to be shot again, then shot with his own gun. Yet this guy... three young men can't take him down, and it takes the mother to figure out what I was thinking at the very beginning of the movie. Just take the damn shotgun! Why do you keep letting him have it! At least hide it from him or something. I guess he has to threaten his own daughter five times with it before that's truly warranted.
Oh, and by the way, once you actually get a hold of the shotgun, the appropriate thing to do is shoot him. Though I have to admit, that was an impressive swing.
Well I think we're all in agreement when we say Galaxy invader, galaxy invader, what would
we do without galaxy blue... I mean invader?
I just have to ask, is this the movie they stole scenes from for the opening credits of The Pod People?
Quote from: Cosmic Muse on August 06, 2011, 04:17:58 AM
I just have to ask, is this the movie they stole scenes from for the opening credits of The Pod People?
yes indeed it is..
Quote from: Cosmic Muse on August 06, 2011, 04:17:58 AM
I just have to ask, is this the movie they stole scenes from for the opening credits of The Pod People?
Brad Jones mentioned Galaxy Invader in one of his reviews. But I can't for the life of me remember
which one it is.
Quote from: Rattrap007 on August 06, 2011, 04:21:04 AM
Quote from: Cosmic Muse on August 06, 2011, 04:17:58 AM
I just have to ask, is this the movie they stole scenes from for the opening credits of The Pod People?
yes indeed it is..
Well ain't that a fine boy-howdy.. 8)
Hmmm..I just have to ask which movie's Alien Invasion was the more incompetent?
Quote from: Cosmic Muse on August 06, 2011, 09:20:01 AM
Hmmm..I just have to ask which movie's Alien Invasion was the more incompetent?
What do I think about the Alien Invasion?
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IT STINKS
Quote from: mrbasehart on August 05, 2011, 02:26:04 PM
I'm sure TeamRAD is psyched too, because I think he was the one who turned me on (stop doing that!) to this "gem" in the first place.
*thumbs-up*
The wonder that's Joe!
:)
This occurred to me when it came out but never made a mention of it..
aren't a couple of the (loosely described) actors also in CT's 'The Alien Factor??
The professor as the mayor in TAF
The goofy son as the dummy doctor in TAF
Quote from: RVR II on August 18, 2011, 04:51:07 AM
This occurred to me when it came out but never made a mention of it..
aren't a couple of the (loosely described) actors also in CT's 'The Alien Factor??
The professor as the mayor in TAF
The goofy son as the dummy doctor in TAF
Well, Martin Scorcese has his stable of actors and so does this guy!
Quote from: RVR II on August 18, 2011, 04:51:07 AM
This occurred to me when it came out but never made a mention of it..
aren't a couple of the (loosely described) actors also in CT's 'The Alien Factor??
Yep, it's Dohler's staple of thespians.
Quote from: Rattrap007 on August 06, 2011, 04:21:04 AM
Quote from: Cosmic Muse on August 06, 2011, 04:17:58 AM
I just have to ask, is this the movie they stole scenes from for the opening credits of The Pod People?
yes indeed it is..
I just noticed this re-watching
Pod People, and was thinking, gee whiz, there's not a bit of connection between the two of them. Except that the aliens in
Galaxy Invader had "pods" to operate their guns. Did some mighty stupid producer(s) mistake one for the other and give each the wrong title?
The aliens in the two movies don't look a bit alike.