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Invasion of the Pod People

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1 star:		(9)

 

 

Quite uniquely bad. Ludicrous dialogue, Junior High School-level acting, bizarre directing, nonsequitur transitions, gratuitious sex scenes that aren't even good, musical score that plays continuously over dialogue ... there's no end to the marvel of "Invasion of the Pod People."

Certain scenes have to be seen to be believed: An intruder holds the heroine at gunpoint, and the heroine's reaction seems to be from the script of a different movie. Characters are shot and die without apparent wounds. Unexplained shots of thunderstorms appear between scenes in bizarre transitions.

The entire movie seems to be an excuse for gratuitious sex scenes, but the sex is boring and brief, often lacking nudity. The pods themselves are literally presented as tiny potted ginger root plants, signalling that the film is intended as tongue-in-cheek, yet there's very little other camp humor or snark at all.

It truly seems as though Ed Wood has risen from the dead and is working for Asylum Films.

Body Snatchers from another world invade Earth disguised as ginger root, and the women who have been body snatched become lesbians. A couple of men who apparently come in contact with the dreaded ginger root when their bodies are snatched the lesbians shoot them. Oh and the heroine who really isn't a heroine betrays her BFF. The End.

Everyone is right - there is almost nothing redeeming in this movie. Acting, plotline, props etc. are just bad. And who knew Ginger plants could metamorphise into an exact duplicate of a human? I just thought they were good with sushi.

But I found myself following this movie. Wondering when the next person would be taken over. There is gratious sex and not excessive but I still thought it was as expected in a grade C movie. There were some points that made me actual worry about a character - hard to ever say you were scared - and I did want the main heroine to escape if for no other reasons than to take more acting lessons.

I also agree with the person who referred to them as ugly models. Considering the reputation some of these women were supposed to have - the looked like second-runs from some old porn movie.

A new twist on the Bodysnatcher films. This time the switched personality is a polar opposite of the original. The action centers around a confused modeling agency. Strange plants that look like ginger root are the catalyst for the invasion. Some of the models figure out what is going on and do their best to avoid the pod people and being replaced by one.
This one becomes funny due to the budget. Using the ginger root is one way. Another is that the top model in the business is rather ugly. The agency seems to have a man in charge as he keeps calling meeting and looking like the boss but another woman, who is subordinate to him in the meetings, seems to be the boss. We really don't see any pod transformations. Random sex scenes eat up time. The agency offices make no sense with the downstairs obviously being right under the roof and the upstairs looking like a livingroom. The main offices are very industrial looking as if filmed in a boiler room. All in all an entertaining film even if the humor aspects seem unintentional. Better than Full Moon's Pod People. Nothing too serious her but a bit of fun. Check it out.

The asylum is back at it with another dreadful rip off. For those who don't know The Asylum is a B-Movie production studio which is making a low budget imitation of many theatrical big budget movies. Such movies include The Omen, Transformers, King Kong, The DaVinci Code, Snakes on a Plane and this one which is a rip off The Invasion (the one starring Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig). Some of the rips off are viewable but this one is horrendously bad. Not even the credits are good that's how bad the movie is.

The plot is sort of similar to that of The Invasion, alien life form arrives and begins to find a host in order to live. Only difference here is that instead of falling a sleep and becoming one of them, the host becomes a clone of the real person. As soon as they are in full form they kill the original. Funny thing is that all the hosts are female and they all turn into lesbians for some unexplained reason. Trust me the cover may seem scary and creepy but the movie is the complete opposite. Interestingly they try to add a plot twist which is quite laughable. If you're a freak and enjoy watching naked aliens turning into lesbians with a movie that has no real plot go ahead and nock yourself out and buy it. But if you're like me and want to watch something credible look elsewhere this is not for you this is garbage.

MY PERSONAL RATING: 0 OUT OF 5

I bet guestar57 will soon write a positive review here, I guess the Invasion of the Body Snatchers remake (Invasion) must be set to come to theaters soon. Dont be fooled by this garbage.

This is another 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers' film, only done with poor acting and a muddled plot - with some topless nudity thrown in to keep some interest.

Melissa (Erica Roby) works with a supervisor who is mean to her. When her supervisor Casey (Amanda Ward) starts coming on to her Melissa suspects something has changed.

It's not then highly convincing that she would go to bed with her boss.

Women who have 'changed' offer a small plant as a gift to other women. The plant replicates the women. They don't seem to emerge from any pod - despite the cover-art. At best they might be in some kind of membrane.

What's then silly is that they have to kill the original in a rather haphazard way - the only time this is shown the replicant beats the original up.

It's not explained why they offer the plant particularly to women (rather than to men, especially as one is given the plant at the end of the film).

Picked this up in a 10-movie pack for five bucks at K-Mart.

Is it classic sci-fi? No. Is it a very good movie? Hardly.

But I look at it this way: 50 cents for a flick about an alien ginger plant that turns mean girls into sex-starved, naked lesbians? Oh, yeah, K-Mart, here's my four bits. Can't buy me a Hershey bar for that anymore.

Gotta admit, I find a certain charm to The Asylum's "mockbuster" movies. They remind me of my childhood, when I'd read "Cinemagic" magazine and make my own "Star Wars" films on Super-8. Terrible, to be sure, but made with a modicum of love and reverence for the source material.

In rare cases, Asylum's movies are actually better than those they're aping. I'll take "Allan Quartermain and the Temple of Skulls" any day over the incomprehensible "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull." And while the first "Aliens Vs. Predator" was good in a comic book sort of way, "AVP: Requiem" didn't make a lick of sense. Asylum's "AVH: Alien Vs. Hunter," starring aged stoner William Katt, was far more enjoyable. And who'da thunk Asylum's martial arts version of "I Am Legend" -- titled "I Am Omega" and starring that dude from "Iron Chef" -- would be as charming as it is? Not me, brother. But it's now my second favorite version of the story, next to Vincent Price's classic "The Last Man on Earth."

For the record, I'm not some Asylum company suit posting fake positive reviews, and I acknowledge the vast majority of Asylum's output is crapola. I'm just some guy who appreciates bad movies, and The Asylum tends to make more of those than anyone else. And as long as K-Mart keeps selling them for 50 cents, I'm gonna keep buying them.

Wow, this is one amazingly bad movie. For starters, the whole movie has a yellowish or greenish tint. The music is limited to not much more than a few drones, ambient noise, and sound effects. The characters are mean, cruel, and shallow witches. The sex is gratuitous and not worth watching. The script may have looked good on paper, or maybe not. It definitely does not look good on screen.

The lesbian aspect could have been explored more effectively and convincingly. Why are the pod-people in human form become only lesbian? Why bother with sex if pod-people reproduce with, ummmm, pods? Also, the males may be unnecessary in the pod-person world, but why are the human males affected? Gratuitous nudity and sex is the only thing that makes sense.

The footage all looks like a bad 1970s Hong Kong movie. Boring framing and composition, predictable and static transitions, etc. Boring, boring, boring.

I saw this movie advertised in SFBC for $9.99. I have always been a fan of the body snatcher movies, so I decided to try it out. It's not worth the $9.99 price let alone the higher price advertised here. I almost turned it off after 5 minutes into the movie. It was a long 80 minutes that I could have done something else. The new pod people seemed to become lesbians after the transformation, if they were women, but even these scenes were horrible. I wished I had read the reviews here beforehand.