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A meteorite, presumably made up of Atmospherium, has landed on
earth, which is good news for scientist Paul (Larry Blamire), who stays
with his wife Betty (Fay Masterson) at a nearby cabin, and who brings in
the meteorite in no time. At the same time, an alien spaceship has landed
nearby, and not only have the aliens - Kro-Bar (Andrew Parks) and Lattis (Susan
McConnell) - lost their murdering mutant (Darren Reed), they
have also run ot of Atmospherium, which they need to fuel their rocketship
... so they use their Transmutatron gun to make them look like ordinary
humans and pay Paul and Betty a social visit - to steal the meteorite of
course. Also at the same time, Dr Roger Fleming (Brian Howe) has found the
Lost Skeleton of Cadavra, which he wants to bring back to life to
conquer the world (just how he plans to do that I don't know), but of
course, to revive the skeleton, he needs - you guessed it - Atmospherium.
Good thing then that he listens in on the aliens and learns where the
Atmospherium is. So he plans to pay Paul and Betty a social visit as well,
but to not arouse suspicion (?) he decides the needs a female companion,
so he picks up the Transmutatron gun the aliens have left behind and
creates himself a female, Animala (Jennifer Blaire) out of four squirrels.
With two competing fractions after the Atmospherium, neither succeeds
in the course of the evening - until they decide to work together and
share the Atmospherium, and ultimately, Paul is mesmerized into giving up
the Atmospherium by a seductive dance by Animala. But once the Atmopherium
is in their hands, Doc Fleming shows his true colours and takes off with
the Atmospherium, leaving Kro-Bar and Lattis with the realisation that
they have been duped by an primitive earthman. Paul and Betty
however soon realize that the aliens actually mean no harm and just need
the Atmospherium to get home, so soon they befriend Kro-Bar and Lattis and
help them in their hunt for the mutant, who has since been horribly
mutilating some humans but who seems to have a soft spot for Betty ...
Soon enough though, Kro-Bar and Lattis are captured by Doc Fleming,
Animala and the skeleton which has since come back to life, and the
skeleton plans to marry Lattis (!) ... when Paul and Betty and the mutant
interfere, and in the end, Fleming ends up killed by the skeleton, the
skeleton ends up shattered, the mutant is recaptured, Animala is turned
back into four squirrels, the aliens and earthpeople split the
Atmospherium, and everyone lived happily ever after ...
A hommage to cheap 1950's drive-in science fiction, made in glorious
black and white and made up of a increasingly silly storyline, inane
dialogue and of course schlocky special effects.
Now in my view, to make an intentionally bad hommage to bad films
usually spells disaster ... but rather surprisingly not in this case. The
inane dialogue has a quality only rarely encountered this side of Ed Wood,
with characters endlessly rambling on about the same thing and such
highlights as "Even when I was a child I was hated by skeletons"
and "We take horrible mutilations serious in these parts", the
characters are convincingly wooden not because they try to be funny it
seems but because it comes natural to them (which makes their delivery of
dialogue all the funnier) and the story is just so silly - it's actually
funny again. The only point of critique is that it runs a tad too long, 20
minutes less running time would even have improved the film. Still,
recommended to all bad movie afficionados.
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