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Invaders From Mars

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Invaders From Mars

PG

Released Jun 6, 1986

1h 38m

Sci-Fi

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A boy (Hunter Carson) sees his parents and neighbors act like zombies after a flying saucer lands in his back yard.

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Noel Murray

The Dissolve

But while it's first and foremost a terrific showcase for some imaginative designers, Invaders From Mars also holds together fairly well as a movie.

Rated: 3.5/5

Apr 13, 2015

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Eddie Harrison

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...the first half of Invaders From Mars is easily the best, with a strange off-kilter feel that comes from slavishly updating a 50's storyline...

Rated: 3/5

Mar 28, 2021

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Richard Freedman

Newhouse News Service

None of this will exactly make you faint -- either from terror or pleasure.

Nov 15, 2019

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Matt Brunson

Film Frenzy

[UPDATED 2024 BLU-RAY REVIEW] A hapless remake from the jokers who also gave the world Bolero, Firewalker, and Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo.

Rated: 1.5/4

Apr 8, 2015

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Dustin Putman

TheBluFile.com

Creepy and charming.

Rated: 2.5/4

Apr 8, 2015

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Emanuel Levy

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Rated: 2/5

Jun 30, 2005

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Cees T

Interesting collage of '80s shows like Under the Mountain, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and Critters, but I fell asleep before it got to the Dune / Starship Troopers / Duke Nukem part. 3/10 - No good.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

05/25/25

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Bradley C

If you remake a classic you better do a good job or people will say you made a cheap ripoff. This is the cheapest, shoddiest ripoff in the history of movie making. The cast must have been desperate for a paycheck to be in this mess. Watch the original.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

04/21/25

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Audience Member

A somewhat fun movie that suffers from some bad acting. I enjoyed the military part of the movie, but that's about it. It was very predictable and the directing didn't seem very good. The ending sucked too. I'd say it's a bad movie that is a tiny bit fun.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

10/13/24

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Unimaginative, poorly paced rip off of similar science fiction films - "E.T," "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," etc - failing to replicate the tension or the sense of wonder of either of those films. It's cheesy. The sets, the plotting, the acting, the sound mixing/editing. There's a couple decent pieces of cinematography and direction but other than that. Just doesn't add up to a quality picture. Then for it all to have been a dream in the end? HA. There is potential here - a story of a child having to save his town from body snatchers - but the director Tobe Hooper and the screenwriters are just not up to the challenge.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

09/04/24

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This Old G

Watchable but has none of the surreal dream like, I should say nightmarish quality of the original. Sure it has better production values but that doesn't automatically make it a better film

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

07/03/24

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Alec B

Way too long (something it shares with its predecessor) and the creature designs don't really work but Hooper does effectively get into the same children's head space as the original.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/28/24

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Synopsis

A boy (Hunter Carson) sees his parents and neighbors act like zombies after a flying saucer lands in his back yard.

Director: Tobe Hooper
Producer: Yoram Globus, Menahem Golan
Screenwriter: Richard Blake, Don Jakoby, Dan O'Bannon
Distributor: Anchor Bay Entertainment, Paramount Pictures, Image Entertainment Inc., MGM/UA Home Entertainment Inc.
Production Co: Paramount
Rating: PG
Genre: Sci-Fi
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jun 6, 1986, Original
Release Date (Streaming): May 4, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA): $4.8M
Runtime: 1h 38m
Sound Mix: Surround

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