Laikals
The greatest movie ever made..!
Micah Lloyd
Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.
Yash Wade
Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.
Shite Night
Joe, our protagonist is an abusive drunken dad with many holes in his shirt. After a galaxy invader crash lands he looks to somehow make money from the invader by striking a "business proposal" with a cigar smoking man and his sleazy wife. This movie has mind bogglingly bad "special effects" with an emphasis on the word special. I'm not quite sure what this galaxy invader's motives are as they seem to change all the time. At first it looks like he's out for blood when he attacks a couple in their basement, but later on he seems to be just trying to get his gun and glowing orb back. If you like bad movies this one is a must see, so invite some friends over, grab a flat of beers, and make some time for this masterpiece. To see a video review of Galaxy Invader check out the link below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9orqOLYocA
Nullness
Any superficial enjoyment the usual snarky MST3K crowd of Hollywood- pandering mall-snobs could find in an independent movie like Galaxy Invader should be abated a bit by how downright depressing it is. The alien is really only a plot device, a MacGuffin to propel the story into one dealing with human ignorance and greed, and an examination of the little tyrant of a dysfunctional family. This is one of the most bleak and depressing depictions of a family I have ever seen, with an enabler of a mother, a cowering, toady son, and two daughters that hate their father, who rules over all in a torn shirt that symbolizes his own ethical laziness and moral bankruptcy. There are some fine, funny scenes in Galaxy Invader, such as when a dummy spirals off a cliff at stunning velocity, but all the funny scenes are soured by what came before them, be it the senseless depravity carried out on an alien life form or the spectacle of a sweaty, enraged father wrestling to the death with his own son.The overall ambiance of Galaxy Invader is one of hopelessness and desperation. Where meeting an alien being should elicit a scene of joy and wonder, or in a Hollywood movie some schmaltzy E.T. crap, here in an independent feature we are given a vision of a close encounter that seems startlingly disturbing and ugly and born of dull dark reality, the beer-soaked jungles of gristly redneck life. The invader at the center of Galaxy Invader doesn't come from another planet: it comes from the galaxy of our own bitter, corrupt hearts.
MartianOctocretr5
ET crash lands, but he's not in Roswell any more. It's Hicksville, USA, and the locals are, well; try to imagine a bunch of King of the Hill characters who hang out at a abandoned gas station in the backwoods: talking in phony forced hillbilly accents, forever slurping beer, all with village-idiot personalities. The lead freak chases his daughter with a shot-gun, and commits other random weird acts. About the only thing he doesn't do in this film is change his T-shirt, a ripped up rag that hangs off his belly in about five places. Capture the alien and sell it to the circus, or take delight in blasting it full of buck-shot, this nut doesn't care.Enter ET the misunderstood alien, except this nice visitor (who accidentally croaks the fist two people he meets) doesn't have a long neck, big eyes, and mumble "Home!" to himself. This one's green, rubber suited, has a mean looking face, and growls. He's also equipped with a toy laser that sets off firecrackers, and a Nerf bowling ball that glows occasionally.Further analysis is unnecessary; just kick back with popcorn and watch General Tornshirt Beerguzzler, Lieutenant Smokes-an-unlit Cigar, and their gang of stooges occasionally fight the creature while they laugh a lot in the process. The movie obviously puts on no pretenses; it's all-out silly chaos and knows it. Except for an offbeat "Who's the real monster?" premise, most of this is just an infomercial for Hick Beer Co., and people running around in a forest. Riotous fun that probably showed as a second feature at drive-in's.
bkoganbing
The Galaxy Invader who is a fellow in a Creature From The Black Lagoon costume crash lands in America. With a little luck he might have crash landed at Silicon Valley, or MIT, or Bill Gates's place in Seattle where he might have been studied and communicated with and good interplanetary relations established.Instead the luckless Invader lands in the piney woods and some folks right out of Deliverance think they can capture him and maybe sell him to a carnival to exhibit. That's the plan these peckerwoods develop taking their NRA protected weapons out for a little alien hunting. Despite the efforts of one scientist who gets alerted by one of his students, one of the kids actually completed high school and is in university if you can believe.This film is the creation of low budget independent film maker Don Dohler who used some of his kids in roles. They look good, but my cat could have done the dialog better. In fairness they're no worse than any of the other cast members not named Dohler.The spirit of Ed Wood is alive and well.
