The Hidan of Maukbeiangjow (1973)

User Rating:

5.3/10   

Director:

Lee Jones

Writers:

Don Elkins (writer)
Carla Rueckert (writer)

Genre:

Comedy | Crime | Horror | Drama | Romance | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

If you can't say it, go see it!

Plot:

1970s spoof of American New Wave films, featuring a criminal couple on the run encountering a UFO cult.

Plot Keywords:

Alien | Apprentice | Spoof | Cult | Explosion

Cast

Elizabeth Rush	...	Prudence
Ele Grigsby	...	Kaspar
David Roster	...	Frederick 'Freddie Fingers' Fenzer, Jr.
Paul Lenzi	...	Frederick 'Junior' Fenzer, Jr.
Charles Rubin	...	Aph
Hugh Smith	...	Sam Trowel / Utaya II
Harlo Cayse	...	Noname
Carla Rueckert	...	Ruthie (as Ellen Tripp)
Ruth Horn	...	Bunny / Rosebush
Pepper Thurston	...	Big Girl
Dodd Harris III	...	Henchman
James Rueckert	...	Zombie
Harold Thom	...	Bicycle Bob
McCain Jeeves	...	Utaya I
Barbara Jones	...	Motel maid

Also Known As:

Invasion of the Girl Snatchers (USA) (reissue title)
Kaspar and Prudence Laugh Till It Hurts at the Killers of the Zombie Plot: A Musical (USA) (trailer title)

Runtime:

93 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Filming Locations:

Arkansas, USA

Company:

Atlantis Films

Trivia:

"Phineas T. Pinkham" is, in fact, a nickname Don Elkins used in life, rather than an attempt to take his name off the picture.

Movie Connections:

Featured in Dusk to Dawn Drive-In Trash-o-Rama Show Vol. 2 (1996) (V)

muddled, meandering mess

You know, of all the cheap 70s movies out there, most have something that redeems them from being utterly unworthy of remembrance. Maybe it's erratic editing, crummy dubbing, pretentious or unintentionally stupid dialogue("This is where the fish live," from THE TOUCH OF SATAN springs to mind), cheap special effects, or (especially)overacting. INVASION OF THE GIRL SNATCHERS really has none of these. This low budget exercise in tedium concerns the employees of some government agency trying to run a sting operation to catch some crooks and instead running into some extraterrestrials who want to possess people's minds ala INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS . . . I think. The action takes place in and around a run-down motel and an old house, with a mostly amateur cast. As this film nears its conclusion(mercifully)the head E.T. guy performs some sort of Black Mass/alien induction ceremony, pausing to lift up his ceremonial robe and take a key out of his jeans pocket--one of the few unintentional flubs in the movie I could spot. Oh, there is something to watch in lieu of a coherent plot: a blonde chick the fed guys were going to use as a decoy for the crooks gets possessed by the E.T.s about a third of the way through her time on screen. The outer space being gets curious about the earth body it has inhabited, and for the rest of her time on screen the actress runs around topless! It's almost as if the filmmakers were giving us a consolation prize! Still, I'd take THREE ON A MEATHOOK over this anyday. At least the lengthy exposition in that film keeps you occupied!