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• Actors: Richard Ruxton, Faye Tilles, George Stover, Greg Dohler, Anne Frith
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Studio: Tapeworm
• VHS Release Date: December 10, 1998
• Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00000I1NC
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #457,779 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best bad movie out there!, June 30, 1999

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This review is from: Galaxy Invader [VHS] (VHS Tape)

In my humble opinion, this is the worst movie I have ever seen, as far as special effects, acting, directing, and dialog. But....for some odd reason, I Love It! It's not bad in a Beautician and The Beast or Monkey Trouble sort of way, it's actually so bad, it's hilarious. There are so many classically bad sections of this movie, it's a waste to try and describe them here. If you can respect ludicrous movies such as "Redneck Zombies" and "The Man in the Iron Mask", you'll love this little gem. Do yourself a favor and rent it at a video store or spend the 13 bucks and buy it here, you won't be sorry.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Drunk Hillbillies From Harleyville Hunt Sleestak, May 5, 2006

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Robert I. Hedges - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Galaxy Invader [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Warning: Unfit for human consumption!

This movie should never be watched by anyone, ever. It has long been available on VHS, but until now most people were safe, but no longer: I am afraid to report that "The Galaxy Invader" is now available on two different compilation DVD sets, and my advice to you is this: run away as fast as you can. I am a very devoted fan of extremely bad films, but this film treads in an area rarely seen: the movie so bad that it is excruciating.

I have no idea who thought this was a good idea, and I have even less of an idea about who thought these people could act. The film starts with the typical 1980s synthesizer-laden credit sequence reminiscent of "Space Mutiny" though with less craft and panache. The plot is vaguely like "Pod People" only not as intelligent or coherent. The premise is that a spaceship lands on earth near Harleyville (really) and a lone green occupant wanders around the countryside for a while alternately getting captured by and escaping from the stupidest rednecks in history. In the entire cast there is not a single person who can act, but at least the characters make up for their thespian ineptitude by being thoroughly disagreeable and wholly detestable.

The alien (or as the idiots term him "the green man") has a glowing ball device that somehow powers a hairdryer-like taser weapon that the rednecks want. During all this there is back story about a drunken father and his relationship with his family as well as a geeky student and a professor ("Dr. Tracy") who not only has the ugliest clothes you have ever seen, and not only drives the most ridiculous car you have ever seen, but is without any question the very worst actor you have ever seen.

Please pay particular attention to the sophisticated plan for capturing the green man put forth by the redneck posse. (Hint: it involves a lasso made of clothesline cord.) After they catch the green guy, they put him in a garage. An actual garage. What I'm saying here is that much of this movie was actually made in someone's garage. Eventually Dr. Tracy and his young cohort free the green man in one of the least ingenious plans ever and a chase ensues. The tide turns when a girl with Leif Garrett hair brings the ball and hairdryer to the alien and there is gunplay in the woods. Please also note the hand-to-hand tussle in the woods, which features the very worst fight choreography ever. The conclusion is not to be missed, as the alien guy sustains some heavy injuries (we think he's dead but can't be sure as this has happened about four or five other times), while the chief redneck gets done in by a cunning plan involving his skull, a rifle stock, and a mountain. This action culminates in the most fake looking dummy in history being tossed over a cliff during the "redneck plunge of death" sequence.

This movie is relentless. It is not only painful, but boring. It really and truly is in a class of films that are reserved exclusively for battle-hardened veterans of other truly pathetic films. Any movie that makes "Chickboxer" look good has got to be bad, and I would rather watch "Chickboxer" one hundred times followed by the entire Coleman Francis catalog than ever sit through "The Galaxy Invader" again. It's that bad.

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1.0 out of 5 stars War of the Red-Necks, February 23, 2006

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Lonnie E. Holder "The Review's the Thing" (Columbus, Indiana, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Galaxy Invader [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This movie is just plain awful. The acting is horrible, the plot is dumb, and the special effects are beyond cheesy. In the pantheon of bad movies, this one has little in the way of redeeming characteristics and much in the way of groans.

An alien lands on earth for reasons that the movie never discusses. The alien looks something like the "Creature from the Black Lagoon," except he has a skimpy costume, which I am sure is highly attractive to other similar aliens, and his skin is bumpier, which I attribute to too much time in tanning salons. Unfortunately for this alien, he has landed in the middle of red-neck hell, the capital of which seems to be Harleyville, Maryland.

Given that the people in Harleyville seem to have little to do, someone spotted the alien's spaceship landing. The next thing you know, the local rednecks try to play ball with the alien. Then the locals try playing hide and seek at night with the alien. When the alien appears to be winning, the locals try to shoot the alien. Unfortunately, the alien's weapon is much more powerful and accurate than those of the locals, and shoots powerful fireworks that zoom all over the place and yet seem to be lethal, like old guy farts.

We get several subplots in this movie. There is the relationship between Carol Montague (Faye Tilles) and Michael Smith (Cliff Lambert), which red-neck father Joe Montague (Richard Ruxton) disapproves. We frequently see Carol and David running about trying to help the alien. Then there is Dr. Tracy (Richard Dyszel, who has also played Bozo the Clown in some local markets) and his former student David Harmon (Greg Dohler), who first spotted the alien ship landing. Dr. Tracy and David Harmon are interested in the scientific aspects of what they initially think is a meteor. How can you tell Dr. Tracy is a scientist? Well, he uttered the classic line, "My sources in the scientific community," when he referred to the nature of the meteor. Real scientists talk like that. Really. I am not kidding. Really. Never mind.

Then there is Joe Montague and Frank Custor (Don Leifert), who initially want the alien's ball, and then later want the alien because they see a great opportunity to make a bundle from selling the alien to Asians who want to make the alien into an aphrodisiac. Okay, I made that last part up, but they did want to sell the alien, and it could have been to Asians. Frank Custor also has a really hot girlfriend, Vicky Johnson (Theresa Harold), who is in a three-way competition with Frank and Joe to see which has intelligence closest to a box of rocks.

There are a few moments in the movie where there are almost moments of tension, but I was groaning so much that I failed to be tense. Scenes of the alien skulking in someone's basement I found puzzling. The fight scenes where everyone was moving slowly enough to make sure they really did not hit each other was like something from an awful Kung Fu movie. The stupidity of the majority of the actors in combination with the terrible acting turned this whole movie into a joke.

The best part of this 1985 movie is the music, which is full of synthesizers and rock music that seems to struggle to be 70s or 80s music; the music never really decides which. I occasionally wondered whether the music was trying to escape this movie.

There is a class of movies that are mediocre, but worth watching. Then there is a class of movies that are so bad that they become a kind of classic, such as Ed Wood's "Plan 9 from Outer Space." Between these two classes of movies is a class of just plain awful movies that should be allowed to disintegrate into fertilizer; this movie fits into this category.