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Extended Preview: INVADERS FROM MARS

Added 2021-03-26 17:08:42 +0000 UTC

Mike, Kevin and Bill reach back into the well of bad cinema that is 1950s Alien Invasion Movies for a brand-new riff that we've just released on the site! This time, the subject is Invaders from Mars, which according to IMDb is about

"A young boy [who] learns that space aliens are taking over the minds of earthlings."

But according to RiffTrax.com,

David is a plucky 1950s lad who enjoys watching the skies with his telescope and being able to trust local authority figures. But all that is upended when Martians land in the sandpit in his family’s yard - every yard has a sandpit, right?

The aliens begin replacing everyone in the town with synthetic mutants (pronounced mu-TANTS) starting with David’s very own parents! David heads straight to his town’s surprisingly grand police station, and quickly gets help from a local doctor, an astronomer, and even the U.S. Army. Because, unlike most movies about a kid trying to convince everyone that something weird is going on, all the adults believe him immediately. For a movie about invasion paranoia, there sure is a lot of trust.

It all builds to a climactic confrontation with the Martians in, you guessed it, David’s backyard. Can David save his parents in time? Will they increase his allowance? What’s with the Great Gazoo head in the glass fishbowl? And, again, why does the yard have a sandpit?

Please enjoy the first five minutes of this sci-fi cheese fest. Then get the full riff here, or you can download this preview video for safe-keeping here.