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Zarkorr! The Invader

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...for what it is, and what Zarkorr! The Invader is is 70 or so minutes of old school man in suit monster mayhem with a semi-decent story padding it out (at least they tried to draft an actual story of sorts). The movie begins with the titular beastie popping out of a mountain. After shaking the dust off its scaly shoulders, Zarkorr commences to do what he was sent to Earth for. Ridding it of Earthling civilization. Meanwhile a Newark, New Jersey postal worker gets a visit from a tiny Mallrat, and I do mean tiny! She could fit inside of a spoon. When fans consider that Zarkorr! The Invader is a Charles Band production, it comes as no surprise that something small had to show up at some point. The miniscule Mallrat Alien then informs our hero that he has been specifically chosen to fight Zarkorr. If he fails, then all the world will be destroyed. Not happy with this, but having no choice in the matter, our hero tries to get help from a lovely cryptozoologist, who is not interested in helping someone who appears to be completely crazed. Most of the human action is kept separate from the monster stuff because the effects were completed before they had even decided with kind of movie to put it in. Screenwriter Benjamin Carr has done his best - his story, while obviously padded (and this is 70 minute movie), is a hodge podge of familiar elements that don't quite fit together, yet work in their own scatterbrained way. Forgiving Full Moon fans might enjoy this, I did.

I saw this at a local Suncoast and, being a fan of giant monster films, I decided to pick this one up. I wasn't expecting much from this film knowing it was made by a production facility that ended up going bankrupt several years after this film and also knowing it had a shoestring budget (smaller than most of the earlier Godzilla films).
The beginning of the film didn't sit too well with me because the acting seemed so bad and the story is nothing new to this type of genre.
There are a couple of women that look gorgeous in the film but it does not really make up for the sub-par acting. But as the movie progresses, everything seems to get a little bit better.
Aside from the sub-par acting and re-used plot, my major gripe is that Zarkorr, the monster, hardly shows up at all during the film. A sign that the budget was so thin they didn't want to shoot too many scenes of him destroying a miniature city. Even when Zarkorr is shown, it's only for a few seconds and nothing more. It made me upset but it is understandable why there weren't many shots of him. Also, the ending is a little goofy. Considering I thought I had seen it all with my extensive collection of giant monster films, the ending was something new to me and it made me raise an eye-brow. You'll have to see it to understand what I am saying; don't want to give out too much info.
Overall, Zarkorr is a cheap film but it really isn't all that bad. For those who are looking for some good monster sequences, this is not for you, but if you are a casual monster movie fan, you should find some quality to the film.

Zarkor the Invader is about a monster that some how ends up in earth. Is sent to destroy the planet. Is part of some test. Zarkor is big and strong practicullary indesctructables. He does not have a heat beam.

He does have lightning bolts that he suit from his eyes that are just destructive. It'sd up to Tonny a local mail men to defeat Zarkor.

The characters are funny. My favorite is author the nerd computer hacker who is a minor cator in the movie. I am a big Godzilla fan. Own all but 4 of. I you like this I recomend Kraa the Sea Monster.

Who the heck can honestly say they bought this movie for the wonderful acting, or the completly drawn out plot. BAHAHA! Noone can. Admit you just want to see a giant dragon like dino stomp around and look cool against back drops of fire. THe movie is worth the 10 dollars. Thats all. And Zarkorr diffently was a good effort to make a giant monster movie that we see on Scifi every flipping week. I rather take the old detailed suit than the crappy cgi any day of the week.

Zarkorr is a modern classic. Zarkorr is such an amazing creature, to say the least. His eye lasers are killers. I liked this movie because the characters have to use their heads to figure out a way to stop the giant space alien. Sure, the special effects are nothing to jump up and down about, but it's the story that counts when you get right down to it. Zarkorr the Invader had some surprisingly good acting considering it was a B movie. I like taking breaks from the big budget movies to sit down and watch fun movies like this one. The story is simple. A giant monster comes out of a mountain, and goes on a rampage while searching for the one man who can stop him. This man is Tommy Ward, a Newark postal employee. He is helped by cripto Zoologist Stephanie Marton, and Police Officer George Ray. Together they must find a way to stop the Gargantuan beast before it destroys all human civilization. So check it out.

this movie sucks
bad effects, Ute Arizona has no sky scrapers!
Too silly
some good one-liners

Charles Band produced Zarkorr and Kraa in the following manner. He hired a LA special effects house to film two brief shorts compiled of nothing but giant monster footage (smashing things, roaring, stomping around, etc.).
He then hired a writer to create a story around (and limited to) this completed footage. The result was first Zarkorr! The Invader. It basically works but the monster, who looks cool and has a creepy scream, is on camera far too briefly. The second feature Kraa! The Sea Monster is a little bumpier in its production. The monster footage is clearly of a "sea monster" and that is the title of the movie. But the newer footage indicates that it is a space monster. So there is a bit of convolution here. Secondly, Band decided to do some late production re shooting and added some Power Ranger/Star Trek type characters and a space villain. (The original edit of Kraa! was almost identical to Zarkorr in plot. The new footage remedies this but sticks out like a sore thumb as being new and different looking from the rest of the movie. Kraa has the benefit of being made second and utilizes a lot of stock footage from Zarkorr!. Actually, I wonder why Band didnt pad the film with more stock footage from his own earlier sci fi films (ex. Day Time Ended) or public domain military footage to make these flms feel more like classic monster movies. Basically these films are OK but were shot on Video, but given a film look digitally, or electronically. Zarkorr has a "shrunken" character that allows the reuse of oversized props from Dollman. Kraa has a creepy puppet character that looks almost the same as the
flesh eating crab monster from Hammer's Lost Continent. (It also appears to be rotting/falling apart right before your eyes. hich gives me the feeling that it too was a reused prop from an earlier production.
The alien villain Lord Doom is also a puppet and loks similar the the cheracter Sutek from Puppetmaster 4/5.

this movie has got to be the funniest movie i have ever seen. I highly recomend this movie to you if you want a good laugh. the movie is about a monster that comes to earth and tries to destroy it. A postal employee has to stop him. my favoratie charater is the security gaurd.

With a name like Zarkorr what were you people expecting. Actually it seems as though the actors are having a blast, and there are alot of funny lines in this movie (ala "what are you some kinda...question asker?") It is really poorly made but if you have a since of humor you can enjoy this pretty pathetic movie.

This movie may not be the most glamoris special effects movie, but it is still a good movie. Special effects doesn't make a movie people. It could have been better, and if you like monster flicks check this one out. If you buy it, get a used.