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2.7/10   90 votes
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Writers:
Roger Branit (writer)
John Chadwell (writer)
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Release Date:
May 1988 (USA) more
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A Martian begins to attack the patrons and staff of a movie theater during the 1950's as a low budget science fiction film plays on the screen. full summary | add synopsis
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One of the worst SF movies ever more (11 total)

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Also Known As:
Attack from Mars (USA) (video title)
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85 min
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Filmed in 1984, not released until 1988. more
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Miscellaneous: Although the movie on-screen flashes that it's a Republic serial in color, Republic never made a color serial. more
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Fat nerd: [excitedly] Over there! It's the Sweater Girl from Mars! There she is! I'll bet she's got nipples as big as flapjacks! more
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References Rebel Without a Cause (1955) more

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5 out of 7 people found the following review useful.
One of the worst SF movies ever, 30 July 2006
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Author: movies-259 from Columbia, MD, United States

This is an extremely pitiful example of a modern attempt to spoof the B-movies of the Fifties, but it only succeeds in demonstrating very poor taste of everyone involved. Both the plot and its resolution are unsatisfying. The main setting is a small town movie theater showing B-movie and serial sci-fi (how ironic -- not) with an audience consisting of unsympathetic characters that you don't care about. The plot, if you can call it that, concerns some Really Ugly Martian invaders who apparently like to butter their popcorn with human blood and body parts. Then there are the 3 Space Patrol types. Are they time travelers from Earth's future? Are they heroes? I'm not really sure -- I was too bored to pay close attention.

Three-quarters of the way through, I switched to watching a TV show. The next day, I forced myself to watch the remainder -- what a waste of time! This movie is gross and has virtually no redeeming qualities whatsoever except perhaps for the lovely, futuristic Margi Robbins (only movie). Poor Ann Robinson (War of the Worlds) reached a low point of her career when she appeared in this 1988 yawner. If you like B-movies spoofs, a far better example is "The Lost Skeleton Of Cadavra".

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