This was Tobe Hooper’s remake of the 1950s horror film, and made for Cannon Films as part of his three picture deal, with three films that all bombed hard: this one, Lifeforce, and Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2.
I had seen Invaders From Mars as a kid, but never knew the name until just a few years ago, I did a Google search of plot points to figure it out. I really liked it a lot as a kid, and it still holds up as a decent movie. The basic plot is that an alien spacecraft has landed in a small town, hiding under sand dunes, and pulling random people in, taking over their bodies with small punctures to the back of their necks, and sending them back out again as placid and compliant people. A little boy and a school nurse (Karen Black) suspect something’s up, and they are fighting to save the town from being controlled. I was weirded out as a kid by the scenes of people sucked in under the sand, and that was my major memory of the film. I included it here as a random B horror movie I had come across as a kid and enjoyed.
I had seen Invaders From Mars as a kid, but never knew the name until just a few years ago, I did a Google search of plot points to figure it out. I really liked it a lot as a kid, and it still holds up as a decent movie. The basic plot is that an alien spacecraft has landed in a small town, hiding under sand dunes, and pulling random people in, taking over their bodies with small punctures to the back of their necks, and sending them back out again as placid and compliant people. A little boy and a school nurse (Karen Black) suspect something’s up, and they are fighting to save the town from being controlled. I was weirded out as a kid by the scenes of people sucked in under the sand, and that was my major memory of the film. I included it here as a random B horror movie I had come across as a kid and enjoyed.
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