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The Galaxy Invader
USA 1985
produced by Moviecraft Entertainment
directed by Don Dohler
starring Richard Ruxton, Faye Tilles, George Stover, Greg Dohler, Don Leifert, Anne Firth, Richard Dyszel, Kim Dohler, Cliff Lambert, Theresa Harold, Glenn Barnes, Jerry Schuerholz, Paul Wilson, David W. Donoho, Doug Moran, Dan Mayler, Phil Lister, Bob Reichert, Michael Daines, Carol Grumbine, Janet Bethke, Bunky Hart, Dawn Merenda, Kerry Merenda, Tricia Long, Donna Sonneborn, Valerie Andrews, Thomas Regan, Dick Svehla, Hank Stumer, Gayle Stumer, Pat Long, Pam Dohler, Carol D'Amico, Bob Culotta
written by Don Dohler, music by Norman Noplock, special effects by Cracker Factory, meteor effects by Taylor Made Images
review by Mike Haberfelner
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An UFO lands somewhere in backwoods USA, but nobody seems to care too
much about this, except for a student, David (Greg Dohler), and his
professor, Tracy (Richard Dyszel), and an alcoholic and violent patriarch,
Joe (Richard Ruxton) and his sleazy business partner Custer (Don Leifert).
Unfortunately, Joe and Custer get their hands on the alien (Glenn Barnes)
from the UFO first, disarm it, tie it up and want to sell it and
especially its gun to whomever for a profit. David and professor tracy
meanwhile figure they have to free the alien and return its gun, and soon
they are even able to enlist Joe's whole family to help them. Even the
alien joins forces with them once freed, but Joe and Custer - who dies
fighting - are so fanatical about the whole thing that they even resort to
killing both Professor Tracy and teh alien to make their point ... but in
the end it's Joe's own wife (Anne Frith) who kills him to make a few
wrongs right again (?) ... What a piece of bullshit: That this
film was produced on pretty much a shoestring doesn't necessarily have to
be a bad omen, and I also don't mind that the alien costume sucks and the
props, especially the alien's gun, are less than exciting. The bad thing
about this film is its plot though that populates the backwoods with
caricatures without even as much as seeing its underlying irony, instead
taking itself so seriously it's almost hilarious - without ever being
funny though. Add to this bad actors and a rather tired directorial job
and you are left with ... next to nothing, actually.
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