Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Invasion of the Animal People (1959)

aka Terror in the Midnight Sun, aka Space Invasion from Lapland, aka Space Invasion of lapland, aka Horror in the Midnight Sun

How bad is it? It's mostly stock footage.
Should you see it? Yes, but you have to be in the right mood for it.

I don't recall there being such a good shot of the beast.
Jerry Warren once again takes a bad foreign film and adds new and worse footage to re-release it; this time it's not even as good as "Horror of the Blood Monsters." In the 80 minutes of this film, there must be 50 minutes of people skiing in stock footage before the monster finally makes a brief appearance. At one point, a guy skiing downhill turns around and continues skiing downhill (neat trick)! A meteor makes a crash landing in Scandinavia and a monster is released. Scientists from a lab so cheap the signage is in hand-printed paper investigate. John Carradine narrates footage shot earlier. Swedish actors pronounce their lines phonetically (and incorrectly at times).

As I'm going roughly alphabetically, this is a good time to point out that director Jerry Warren also made The Incredible Petrified World, also with John Carradine, in 1958 and that film, almost entirely contained within a diving bell, is the worst film he made - so bad it's not enjoyable enough to make the list of so-bad-it's-good.

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