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Let's face it: a movie in which Louise Fletcher eats a bullfrog can't be all that bad. Indeed, Tobe Hooper's remake of the 1953 classic Invaders from Mars is a total hoot, remaining loyal to the original while serving up a kaleidoscopic orgy of fang-toothed beasties, dazzling pyrotechnics, and enough wretched dialogue to choke its enthusiastic cast. If anything, Hooper's too enamored of the original, and with amateur actor Hunter Carson (Paris, Texas) as the boy-who-cried-Martian, he can't sustain the original's eerily paranoid atmosphere. This big-budget Invaders compensates with campy humor (especially from evil schoolmarm Fletcher) and cool special effects by Star Wars innovator John Dykstra. Carson's real-life mom (Karen Black) plays the school nurse who believes the boy's warning of invasion, and Jimmy Hunt--who played the kid in the original--brings everything full circle as a Martian-possessed policeman. Watch the original, then enjoy this less effective but equally entertaining remake. --Jeff Shannon

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Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 2.35:1
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches; 4 Ounces
Director ‏ : ‎ Tobe Hooper
Media Format ‏ : ‎ Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 40 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ August 28, 2001
Actors ‏ : ‎ Karen Black, Hunter Carson, Timothy Bottoms, Laraine Newman, James Karen
Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ Spanish, French
Language ‏ : ‎ English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo), Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
Studio ‏ : ‎ MGM (Video & DVD)
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00005K3OA
Writers ‏ : ‎ Dan O'Bannon, Don Jakoby, Richard Blake
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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Ron Baker

It came from the 80's!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 25, 2018

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Love 80's creature features because they use practical effects, much more fun than computer generated graphics. The aliens in this are properly bizarre and, well, alien. This is a simple, but well made, alien invasion film told from the perspective of a 13 year old boy and is an homage to the drive-in films of the 50's. Recommended.

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Michael Kennedy

A remake

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 21, 2023

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If you want the REAL deal, watch the original from the 1950's. This ain't it.

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J. G. Lewis

Serio-comic, Semi-successful follow up to "Lifeforce" and the Great Age of Horror U.S. Cinema

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 21, 2015

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As the great age of horror in American films (1970 - 1985) was drawing to a close, Tobe Hooper directed this Horror-cum-Comedy in 1986 that was only partially successful. The problem here was one of concept, of attempting to integrate horror with comedy - something I believe is impossible because the comedic elements will be to degrees ruinous of the seriosity needed for true horror. Hooper was nonetheless in step with the times, as 1984 witnessed the release of "Re-Animator". The latter was a film more droll than funny, however.

Regarding "Invaders ..", the issue therefore is the mixing of an intriguing premise, Hooper's immense talents for knowing and depicting evil, with comedic elements involving ridiculous or wildly improbable situations. The amalgam did not work. The film was never really funny, or even genuinely scary though it very well could have been considering Hooper's brilliance.

Perhaps the film could have transitioned into a mild lampoon or farce, such as the later "The People Under the Stairs" of Wes Craven, J. Carpenter's conterminal "They Live" (1987), or D. A. Coscarelli's wildly adult "Bubba-Hotep" (2003), however, the script, characters and the earnestness of "Invaders... " prevents this. Further though, these films were not horror. My conclusion here is that Horror-Farce is in a manner conceivable, yet Horror-Comedy is not. The intellectual air and dryness of Satire melds much better with Horror as compared with straightforward humor.

The great horror films of Hooper's, besides "Texas Chainsaw...", are, in time, "Salem's Lot", "Poltergeist", and "Lifeforce". All tend to be graphic, adult works, bordering on X, and even "Invaders.." is no exception. "Texas Chainsaw...", btw, is another successful integration of horror and farce: a film that pokes fun at horror films while it being itself a horror film. A difficult integration, but occasionally achieved, yet not here in "Invaders..."

A Horror-cum-Farce will not be anywhere near as frightening as straightforward horror, nonetheless, a few jolts will be duly possible. I recommend this film though, especially if you are a fan of the genre, or of Mr. Hooper.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 6, 2007

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I love this movie! It is a classic sci-fy. It is a re-make of the movie from the 50's and is really well done. The extra footage is interesting and they show how everything was created for the film. The only disappointment is that they changed some scenes from the VHS version when they digitally remastered it. They also left some really good scenes out. But the digital quality is amazing. I think it would be best to have this movie in both VHS and DVD.

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A great classic

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 8, 2020

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The plot is a great classic, but in the version that I saw, the video quality was so poor that a "5" was impossible.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 9, 2018

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Awesome 80's movie! They just don't make them like they used to when I was a kid! Good corny syfy but the aliens were surprisingly cool, unique and so was the ship.

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scm1893

Watch the Original Instead

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 13, 2018

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Invaders From Mars - 1 Star - Nah

The Players: A kid and a school nurse vs. a huge brain on the end of a tongue-like appendage and a small group of T-Rex caricatures. [you know, where they draw your head extra big and your body tiny] They look like a T-Rex head on an ape's body. There's your good vs evil. Kid and his nurse against brain and T-Rex bobbleheads.

The Story: It wasn't so much an invasion as it was a terrorist act. They apparently came to stop our exploration of Mars, their home planet. The scheme was to infiltrate the community and blow up the rocket scheduled for launch. They chose the landing site because there's some connection to their power source and copper.
The Martians wanted to avoid knowledge of their existence. Why isn't clear. So their plan was to sneak in, destroy our space program and sneak out; leaving us wondering what happened. But some kid screws it up.

I had too much disbelief to enjoy this. An enormous spacecraft somehow burrows into the ground. From this craft numerous tunnels go out like an ant colony. Where did all the dirt go? Was it vaporized? What were the tunnels for? Were they mining copper? One terminated at the grade school. Why? Convenient to the plot, no other reason.

There was an area over the spacecraft that was used to trap humans. These individuals had a hat pin inserted into the base of their neck, [rather than the base of the brain] which gave the big brain control over them. It isn't clear if the T-Rex things ran any equipment or if it was all done by the brain. The device used to insert the hatpins could not be loaded by a Martian. Why does it start so far from the insertion point and take sooo long to get there? Are they all Martians or is the big brain the Martian and the others just creatures, like dogs, from the planet? With a T-Rex head, I would assume they are carnivors; as is evidenced by one of them eating Nurse Ratched. They are extremely slow and clumsy. Nurse Ratched had to fall into its open mouth to be eaten. What do they eat back on Mars? What are they eating now? Are there stores of canned hams like Leela feeds Nibbler?

The first ending is cheesy. The second is worse.

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Shaine-mikal white

Tobe Hooper, director of poltergeist and lifeforce, brings ...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 25, 2017

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Tobe Hooper, director of poltergeist and lifeforce, brings us this sci fi horror remake of the 1953 film where a young boy tries to warn the world of an alien invasion that's about to happen.

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"..ABSOLUTE CLASSIC, QUALITY BLU-RAY.."

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 23, 2015

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This is a another fantastic Tobe Hooper movie from the 80's, a cult classic sci-fi indeed, a wonderful story about a boy who see's a UFO crash outside of his house one night, one by one people go to investigate but something happens and they come back very different, can the boy convince somebody the towns being invaded before its too late! The movie first off has amazing looking practical effects created by the master Stan Winston and his team, some classic looking Martians and their amazing brain like leader, the sets are all great looking too, right from the cool open scrolling credits the film has great style and the story builds really well, the cast is fantastic, a young Karen Black looks stunning, the music score is great throughout too, the ending of the movie is a little weak but overall its a solid sci-fi cult classic and this Blu-ray is worth its weight in gold just for the fantastic special features, if your a fan its a must!

Blu-ray picture looks great for an old 80's classic (Final cut entertainment) 1080p HD
Features include many featurettes including A Career in Cannon 22-mins long, Mission to Mars, the special effects of the movie 28-mins long, Red planet recollection, remembering the movie 11-mins long, Creative concepts interviews 24-mins long, and Concept art for the movie 16-mins long.
Region B only, 95-mins (longer with credits) 1986.
Look out for the classic 80's cannon films title at the beginning!!!

Tobe Hooper's 80's version is a remake of the 1953 original.

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megalon

Highly underrated.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 5, 2018

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A highly underrated 80's remake of a classic 50's movie.
Fun movie with great practical special effects, what's not to love?

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Ben30

80'S REMAKE OF THE 1950'S MOVIE INVADERS FROM MARS, NEW HD TRANSFER & NEW EXTRAS

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on June 12, 2015

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Tobe Hoopers remake of the 1950's movie Invaders from Mars
an excellent remake aswell, incredible special make up & creature effects done by Stan winston's team
the Alien creatures look incredible, very realistic and scary

Shout/scream factory have given this 80's classic all new HD transfer in 2:35:1 widescreen
which looks excellent very nice sharp & clear picture quality
plus the Audio quality has been boosted to a new 5.1 master mix plus a stereo mix aswell
new special features aswell
a new retrospective featurette about this film THE MARTIANS ARE COMING-45mins
interviews with Tobe Hooper, Hunter carson
also interviews with special creature effects man Alec Gillis & Gino Crognale
who both talk about working on the film with stan winston and music composer Christopher young
Actress Karen black from the film passed away years ago otherwise she may have been interviewed
the CANON film producers Menahem & Golan have also passed few years ago now
there's also new Audio commentary with Director Tobe Hooper
aswell as Tv spots, Theatrical trailer etc
Definitely time to upgrade get this new blu-ray from scream factory
5 stars for this new blu-ray

K. D.

This 1986 classic remake gets a bluray treatment.

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on May 3, 2015

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This new collectors edition bluray from shout factory comes with a new 40 minute featurette of the making of Invaders from Mars, trailers, storyboards, still galleries, audio commentary with director Tobe Hooper.
Classic story of a young boy who witnesses an alien craft landing behind his house and burrowing into the ground. The townsfolk begins to be taken over. He tries to warn people But no one believes him.

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devon

Garbage ..doesn't even work . What the hell

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on August 7, 2019

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I'm just wondering why the dvd doesn't work. It wont get past the selection screen and wont play. I'd like one that works and dont think I should have to return the blu ray if you sent me a garbage one . I'd like my money back please . I will order one that actually works . Send me refund please . So pissed right now . A pushed customer . Will be leaving negative feedback if money not refunded or I dont recieve a item that works .

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Format	Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Contributor	Karen Black, Richard Blake, Eric Pierpoint, Donald Hotton, Don Jakoby, Dan O'Bannon, Timothy Bottoms, Christopher Allport, Louise Fletcher, Charlie Dell, Bud Cort, James Karen, Tobe Hooper, Laraine Newman, Hunter Carson, Kenneth Kimmins See more
Language	English, Spanish
Runtime	1 hour and 40 minutes