This week Gary and Iain review and discuss, Invaders from Mars (1986) by Director, Tobe Hooper. Starring, Hunter Carson, Karen Black and James Karen.
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Awesome shirt Iain!!! ;D
One thing I love about the original is a line towards the end, “You gotta hit em right in the puss with the grenades, Major! Nothin works but blowin em apart!” Sampled that one for tunes a while back, and I wish that line was in the remake.
This is one of the weakest 80’s remakes in my opinion but still very entertaining, and the alien & ship effects are pretty memorable and ambitious for the budget they were working with.
shelf life! 🎉
My favourite part of the review was when Gary and/or Iain says Bud Cort.
Four remakes were big in the eighties. The blobs the thing the fly and invaders from mars.
Great review, fellas. What happened to Iains hat, btw?
Dan O'Banion and Toby Hooper?" Interesting, but alas I have only seen the 1953 version, never have been big on remakes.
I love this one as an 80's kid. Y'all should do Terrorvission sometime!
I actually thought the teacher was scarier before she was turned 😂🤘🏻
The original movie scared the crap out of me whe I was a kid the remake did the same thing love this movie.
I love the feeling of paranoia you get as the townspeople get taken over
So much fun! I never knew about this film! Thanks, guys!
I love James Karen as the cigar-chomping general. "Marines have no qualms about killing Martians!"
I love that movie. Well done guys.Well done.
Tone Hooper’s Canon Films experiment is more appropriated now than in the mid 80’s.
This movie near traumatized me as kid. Since they showed it during the middle of the day.
Stan Winston, Rick Baker, etc., true imaginary practical effects geniuses. I love movies back then (especially the creature feature movies I grew up with). You might laugh at some of these effects today: the puppets, getting an actress to swallow a frog, a pit of sand that swallows people, but when you consider effects teams coming up with these ideas to make these things look real you can’t help but be amazed at the creativity. I miss these kind of films. ☺️☺️☺️
Was this a movie? Thank you guys! Nice to see Iain with some grey hair in his beard! Gettin' older guys! But, nice review!! Thank you! 👍
Been following you guys for a few years now and consider you my film guru friends. So happy with the continued work you produce! Have you ever thought of releasing dvd collection of these? I know the format is nearly out of date, but something! Your videos should be collected:)
It's OTSR time! Yes! Have a good one, Shelfers! 👊👊👊
Recently started my 9 year old daughter on her horror journey. we've watched jaws, alien, the night of the living dead remake, the monster squad & invaders from mars. fun times were had.
👾👾👾This was a good remake of a good original from the "Atomic Age" of sci fi / horror era of the 1950s. Rather underrated then & now. It fell through the cracks of the summer of 1986 with "Aliens", "The Fly", "Friday The 13th Part 6: Jason Lives", "Poltergeist II: The Other Side", "Psycho III" among others also released. James Karen was a terrific character actor in everything he was in. 👽👽👽
If im not mistaken, the Spider Mastermind in Doom was based off the Supreme Being in this
This movie always scared the heck out of me back in the VHS days.
guys, never change <3
Tobe Hooper was behind this!? AWESOME! His love of horror never disappoints! I've never seen this one before, but knowing Tobe Hoopers style of directing, I'm sure I'm going to enjoy this one!!! RIP to one of the greatest directors of all time! Thanks for reviewing this one guys! In honor of Tobe Hooper, I'm definitely checking this one out! Thanks!
I always forget about this movie, it's really fun to watch like an entirely straight material draft of the STUFF
Great review guys 👊👊
Saw this in the theater at 7 years old. Fucked me up, really genuinely gave me a trapped sense of dread. Good monster quality! for a 7 year old, anyways
Even though nightmare on elm Street was my first horror movie (at 5 years old)Invaders from mars and the gate hold a special place for me, they was the friendly to go to kid horror movies
Good fun movie
The original invaders from Mars was a color movie, why do they keep saying it was a black and white movie? Did they even really watched it, or or they parroting what they heard about it.?
Me and my friend saw the trailer for this movie in the 80s. And we wanted to see it so freaking bad. But it wasn't till about the early 90s that I finally came across it and realized it was a movie trailer we saw and wanted to see. I love this movie and still watch it at least 1 or 2 times a year.
Kai winn from DS9!!!
I just watched it before watching this review, there’s just something about movies from the 80s, they have such a feel good vibe to them, always fun 🤩
Hey will you guys be reviewing the Barbie movie?
I loved this movie. Saw it in the theater.
Always liked this one when I was younger. Played fairly regular on the cable channels back in the day.
The Sargent Major was Eric Peirpont from the AlienNation tv series.
The drone ate Louise just like she ate the frog.