The Galaxy Invader
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The Galaxy Invader is a 1985 direct-to-video
sci-fi
film directed and co-written by Baltimore filmmaker Don Dohler
. The monster in the film bears a resemblance to the titular entity from Creature from the Black Lagoon
. The film was shot entirely in Maryland
.
In the introduction which is orchestrated with a background synthesizer
soundtrack
, a glowing object which seems to be a meteor
careens toward the Earth. A young student who sees it is narrowly missed as it falls into the forest ahead of him. A couple hours later, a young couple hears a noise in the basement and goes down to see what it is. They are terrified and wrestled to the ground by the green monster known as the 'Galaxy Invader'. The alien is hunted by a gang of locals intent on cashing in on the creature.
The film's cast includes Donald Leifert
(Frank Custer) and George Stover (J.J. Montague), both featured in Don Dohler's earlier films The Alien Factor
, Fiend and Nightbeast
. Another of the film's stars, Richard Ruxton (Joe Montague), would go on to star in Dohler's next film, Blood Massacre.
Footage from this film was used without permission in the introductory and ending credits for the Film Ventures release of the Spanish
film Pod People
, which in turn was featured as an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000
.
In the summer of 2011 the RiffTrax crew, consisting of MST3K alumni Michael J Nelson, Bill Corbett
and Kevin Murphy
took on The Galaxy Invader
Direct-to-video
Direct-to-video is a term used to describe a film that has been released to the public on home video formats without being released in film theaters or broadcast on television...
sci-fi
Science fiction
Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...
film directed and co-written by Baltimore filmmaker Don Dohler
Don Dohler
Donald Michael Dohler was an American film director known for making low-budget science fiction and horror films as well as work in underground comix and publishing.-Early life:...
. The monster in the film bears a resemblance to the titular entity from Creature from the Black Lagoon
Creature from the Black Lagoon
Creature from the Black Lagoon is a 1954 monster horror film directed by Jack Arnold, and starring Richard Carlson, Julia Adams, Richard Denning, Antonio Moreno, and Whit Bissell. The eponymous creature was played by Ben Chapman on land and Ricou Browning in underwater scenes...
. The film was shot entirely in Maryland
Maryland
Maryland is a U.S. state located in the Mid Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east...
.
In the introduction which is orchestrated with a background synthesizer
Synthesizer
A synthesizer is an electronic instrument capable of producing sounds by generating electrical signals of different frequencies. These electrical signals are played through a loudspeaker or set of headphones...
soundtrack
Soundtrack
A soundtrack can be recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, book, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film or TV show; or the physical area of a film that contains the...
, a glowing object which seems to be a meteor
METEOR
METEOR is a metric for the evaluation of machine translation output. The metric is based on the harmonic mean of unigram precision and recall, with recall weighted higher than precision...
careens toward the Earth. A young student who sees it is narrowly missed as it falls into the forest ahead of him. A couple hours later, a young couple hears a noise in the basement and goes down to see what it is. They are terrified and wrestled to the ground by the green monster known as the 'Galaxy Invader'. The alien is hunted by a gang of locals intent on cashing in on the creature.
The film's cast includes Donald Leifert
Donald Leifert
Donald L. Leifert Jr. was an American actor, author, and film historian. Leifert worked with cult director Don Dohler on science fiction/horror films including The Galaxy Invader, Nightbeast, and The Alien Factor...
(Frank Custer) and George Stover (J.J. Montague), both featured in Don Dohler's earlier films The Alien Factor
The Alien Factor
The Alien Factor is a 1976 B-grade science fiction film directed and written by Baltimore low-budget filmmaker Don Dohler. The film begins with a young teenage couple making out in a car when an insect looking monster attacks. The local sheriff must find out what's causing the killings. Meanwhile,...
, Fiend and Nightbeast
Nightbeast
Nightbeast is a 1982 science fiction/horror film directed by cult director Don Dohler. It is a remake/sequel of sorts to Dohler's first film The Alien Factor. The story concerns a small town sheriff who must stop a rampaging alien from killing the residents of Perry Hall. Most of the cast of The...
. Another of the film's stars, Richard Ruxton (Joe Montague), would go on to star in Dohler's next film, Blood Massacre.
Footage from this film was used without permission in the introductory and ending credits for the Film Ventures release of the Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
film Pod People
Pod People
The Pod People is a 1983 Spanish science fiction film directed by Juan Piquer Simón. A young boy discovers a lovable alien creature, but the alien's mother is on the prowl...
, which in turn was featured as an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000
Mystery Science Theater 3000
Mystery Science Theater 3000 is an American cult television comedy series created by Joel Hodgson and produced by Best Brains, Inc., that ran from 1988 to 1999....
.
In the summer of 2011 the RiffTrax crew, consisting of MST3K alumni Michael J Nelson, Bill Corbett
Bill Corbett
Bill Corbett is an American writer and performer for television, film and theatre. He was a writer and performer on the cult television show Mystery Science Theater 3000 , for which he voiced the robot Crow T. Robot during the show's later seasons on the Sci Fi Channel and played the character...
and Kevin Murphy
Kevin Murphy (actor)
Kevin Wagner Murphy is an American actor and writer best known as the voice and puppeteer of Tom Servo on the Peabody Award-winning comedy series Mystery Science Theater 3000.- Early career :...
took on The Galaxy Invader