Man, sometimes you forget how shoddy a film can be until you stumble across bottom-of-the-barrel junk like Galaxy Invader. This movie is the sort of thing that would eventually become the digital video micro-budget film, but here they got to shoot on grainy film stock. The story is about a space alien who crash land son earth and finds himself pursued by drunken rednecks who want to sell him to a sideshow or the government or something. We don't really know much about the alien -- he could be here to kill us all -- but compared to the fat guy who drinks the same beer through the whole movie, and the guy who wears the same t-shirt with a scissors cut in the middle of it for the whole movie, I guess the monster is the hero.

I try to stay away from "so bad it's good" judgments, but man alive, this movie is so bad it's good. The acting is horrible, the monster suit is awful, and the special effects are, well, take a wild guess. Most of the movie revolves around a drunk guy yelling at his family, then shifts to be about several drunk guys stalking through the woods at night in an attempt to catch the alien. Then an old woman whacks the drunk guy in the head with a shotgun, which is filmed in slow motion and from multiple angles and in a way that makes it obvious the woman is actually lightly placing the butt of the shotgun against the actor's forehead. That obvious fact doesn't stop a flopping dummy from shooting like forty feet out over a canyon that wasn't there a second ago.

Labels: Set: Sci-Fi Classics