Invasion from Inner Earth

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Invasion from Inner Earth

A couple of people are trapped in a log cabin during an alien invasion of the Earth. They communicate with the unseen aliens and gradually make it back to civilization after much discussion. Every cliche in the book is used, and the low budget assures terrible special effects. Bad all around. Made in someone's back yard in Wisconsin.

Also known as Hell Fire and They - the title Mill Creek used for the box set - this Bill Rebane film was written by his wife Barbara and reminds me of another of his movies, The Alpha Incident, as while it's supposedly about an alien invasion, most of it takes place in one room. An epidemic is striking the biggest cities in the world, a fact that Nick and his sister Sarah have no clue about. They're too busy hosting some scientists on a hunt. Along with Eric, Andy and Stan - the scientists - they live off the land and communicate with an alien voice who is trying to find them while trying to stop them from making it to the destroyed cities. I kind of adore that Rebane made movies like this, trapped in their Wisconsin settings, and ones that have total hippy space endings because, well, why not? I'm sure that there had to be people who were confronted by this movie and were pretty upset that it has nothing to do with the poster whatsoever.

This is a "sci fi" film light on special effects. Jake (Nick Holt) and his sister Sarah (Debbi Pick) live in a remote northern cabin 205 miles north of Manitoba. They have a few scientist guests when the earth is invaded by aliens we never see, but they attack us with red lights and red and blue smoke bombs. People get ill and die as our group stay in the cabin listening to the short wave radio, trying to figure out what is going on in the world. Yup, that is pretty much it. The transfer to DVD wasn't the quality I hoped for on my Mill Creek edition. The dialogue concentrated on bad humorous stories, which actually made the film. . . yes aliens from Uranus. The sound track seemed to be added at random and didn't necessarily reflect what was on the screen. Was that a harpsichord? Really? The acting was sad also. Lovers of bad films can find moments of enjoyment. The original title of this film was "Invasion from Inner Earth." Kid safe.

Invasion from Inner Earth - I know it's slow moving but it does have a certain charm I attribute it to ITO's eerie synthesizer score. early seventies style, bad acting, desolate location make it worth checking out on a snowy winters night.College students on some sort of field trip are trapped in their guides cabin try and figure out why they can'receive any outside communication,after much speculation they figure it must be an alien invasion.after two attempts to get help (one gets blown up in a plane the other just disappears on his snowmobile ) the rest brave the elements and try and make it to safety.In a confusing ending the remaining two make it to a town see a flying saucer and turn back into children . Beware of the red light!

INVASION FROM INNER EARTH is a low budget US science fiction flick with a great title and premise: a group of folks are trapped in a mountain cabin by aliens and wait for the impending end of the world. Sadly, it was made as an indie with no money, non-actors and no kind of incident at all, so the end result is testing to say the least. Other than an occasional flashing light, the aliens are kept off screen, with the actors reduced to reciting exposition and reacting to stuff off-screen. As you can imagine, this becomes tiresome very quickly, and with a flagging pace and generally cheap feel, it's really not worth your time.

in that the ending makes no sense whatsoever. This film is parsecs away better than, say, Highlander 2 or UFO: Target Earth, but it doesn't have the naive charm of Rebane's Monster A Go-Go. It was just a mediocre SF film until the ending ... very seventies in characterization ... but with no real hints as to the real motivations of the "invaders", the ending makes no sense. If an invading force is killing everyone, why create (and I assume the invaders created them) a new Adam & Eve from the last two survivors from the lodge? I liked the claustrophobic feel of the lodge, and the presentation of the story came close to having the same feel of something like Night of the Living Dead or Invisible Invaders. But on the theme and story as a whole, it really wasn't pulled off right ... we the audience just didn't get the information we needed to figure things out either before or with the characters.

How can one write a script and produce a movie without one entertaining moment. Film is supposed to be visual in nature and this has people sitting around talking the whole time. And it's no "My Dinner with Andre." Something is killing the people of earth. It's spreading. Some people, trapped in some pretty cold environs (Canada?) are left to try to figure it out. That's all they ever do. Try to figure it out. They have no plan. They have no vitality. The aliens never confront them, to speak of, and so we don't even know what's going on. The outdoorsy scientist has a theory, but it could just be a bunch of hooey. The conclusion is about as stupid as anything I've seen in years. How could someone get the money to put together such a snoozer. If you can't compete with the big boys, at least tell a decent story. As with so many of these, there are long treks through the snow and a snowmobile trip that goes for about ten minutes with nothing happening.