Other Titles • Invaders from Mars • Invasion vom Mars (1986)
Synopses for Invaders from Mars (1986)
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Having scored a cult hit with The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, horror director Tobe Hooper was recruited by Steven Spielberg to direct Poltergeist, and the success of that fright flick allowed Hooper to pursue some big-budgets projects of his own, including the expensive vampire flop Lifeforce and this 1986 remake of the 1953 horror/science fiction classic Invaders from Mars. Like the original, the remake is told almost entirely from the point of view of a young boy (Hunter Carson, from Paris, Texas) who witnesses an alien invasion in his hometown. Even his parents fall prey to the Martian invaders (affected humans have telltale probe wounds on their necks!), and the boy eventually comes face to ugly face with the not-so-friendly E.T.s. Critically panned at the time of its release, this remake has since gained a loyal following of its own. Part camp, part frightening fantasy, it's the kind of creepy sci-fi that's great for a rainy weekend with the kids. --Jeff Shannon
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Remake of the 1953 William Cameron Menzies film of the same name. A young boy watches in horror as an alien spaceship lands near his home late one evening. But everyone who goes out to investigate the UFO returns devoid of all emotion. As the other townspeople succumb one by one to alien control, the boy realizes that he alone must rid the earth of the intruders.
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"A slick, state-of-the-art remake" of the 1953 thriller classic (Film Journal), this space-age creature feature is crawling with horrifying hordes of Martians hell-bent on stealing your soul - as well as your planet! Starring Karen Black, and packed with "hair-raising terror" (Chicago Tribune) and "magnificent" (Time Out) special effects, Invaders from Mars is a nail-biting voyage of "knuckle-whitening fear [that] builds to a screaming pitch" (The New York Times)!
Little David Garner's starry-eyed dreams turn into an out-of-this-world nightmare when invaders from the red planet land in his backyard and unleash their hostilities on unsuspecting earthlings! Paralyzed with fear as the aliens take over the minds of his mom, dad and even his schoolmates, David must somehow find a way to stop them - before they turn the whole human race into brain-dead zombies of space!
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