soulexpress The Swamp Thing wannabe of the title does not invade a galaxy; it crash-lands in a small town of gun-toting hillbillies. These one- dimensional characters decide to go hunting for the space alien in the hope that capturing it will make them rich and famous. (Remember, this was years before Reality TV made celebrities out of idiots.) When one redneck asks what the creature looks like, another answers, "Who cares? It don't look like us, and that's all that matters."Imagine a film in which every character is loathsome--even the children. Imagine a cast for whom playing a bigoted lowlife was not exactly a stretch. (And yet, they still turn in rotten performances.) Imagine flubbed lines without retakes. Imagine dialogue so mindless, it's hard to believe it was scripted and not ad-libbed. Imagine several murders occurring in a 24-hour period, but no police turning up to investigate them. Imagine an alien so unconvincing, you can see his human eyes through the holes in his cowl. Imagine a fistfight so obviously staged, it looks like two buddies good-naturedly wrestling. Finally, imagine a riotous ending in which a gully suddenly becomes a cliff, and the man falling off it transforms into a life-sized rag doll.That's THE GALAXY INVADER, as incompetently made a piece of trash as any the 1980s puked out. I wish this film were a man so I could kick it in the balls.

gpeltz OK so you read most of the others reviews for Galaxy Invader. I took a chance and pulled out one of ten disks on a Sci fi anthology set (with such sci fi titles as Hercules Unchained...?OK, the first question that needs to be asked is, what does Galaxy Invader contribute to the alien invasion genera? in truth, not much. The landing of the spacecraft at the opening of the film. (meteor effect) was a bit more elaborate than some other low budget films, the ball of light actually does a bit of twisting and turning double played before disappearing behind the tree line, and in fact adds up to the most impressive effect that will be seen in this film. The young teen witness to the landing calls his college professor, who even though he lives six hours away, jumps out of bed to investigate. The first indications of this alien, are wisely done as POV shots, walking around in the dense Maryland underbrush. The director however plays his hand early on, and reveals the Rubber suited alien. The mask is about par with some Outer limit shows, the body suit is usable, if not overshot. Unfortunaltely in this production it is on screen way too long. They say it is green, but my monitor never picked that detail up. Corman knew how to make a monster suit frightening, as in "The Day the World Ended" you keep the creature in shadows, using musical cues, and partial body shots,only revealing the full creature at the last moments. Here the director shows everything in the first minutes, and after wards, has nowhere to go. The most interesting part of this movie is the bad guy, the drunk father named Joe, He and his grown son JJ, and his slutty daughter and long suffering wife, live in the backwoods. Joe is suppose to be painted as a stereotypical backwoods bumpkin, we are told in the beginning that he is a liar, a cheat, a drunkard, and one who goes after his sassing daughter with a rifle. My problem is that the writers could not convey the villainy with the lame script, and for reasons of either "good" bad acting, or just inability to capture the fathers wicked nature, Joe played by Richard Ruxton, comes off as mildly offsetting at best.A secondary character Frank Custor, a friend of Joe's also comes off as a small town, shady con man with connections! it is his idea to capture the space creature and sell it for a profit to the highest bidder. Custors part is overacted, and is enjoyable to watch, played by Don Liefert. JJ the oldest son played by George Stover, comes across as a young Lon Chaney Jr. not much acting to be done, but a interesting presence. Logic has no part of this story, The alien is neither malevolent nor intelligent, its main job is to lumber around, loosing and finding and then re-losing its space blaster. The night shots call for evocative lighting, that never happens. The musical score is a one song all purpose musical phrase. The sound effects that warn of the creature are sometimes effective, but the lack of suspense has long ago dulled any anticipation. I think the fact that this was done in earnest, gives the production any meager merit it has, and that raises it above it's cheap and amateurish script and production values.

Skot Pare If your smart you watch a film like this with minimal expectations. It is tragic when even that threshold isn't achieved. This is across the board the worst acting through which one should ever have the opportunity to sit. The alien is in a rubber suit that makes the Creature From the Black Lagoon's outfit look like high art. The drunken despicable father gives 'rednecks' and 'white trash' a bad name.The one high point is the musical score which is a campy seventies synthesizer soundtrack which doesn't do a thing to enhance the movie but is aural treat.This is the perfect movie for a SciFi marathon where expectations are the absolute lowest and the brain is intensely sleep deprived.

Cristi_Ciopron With a story by Don Dohler, scored by Norman Noplock, THE GALAXY INVADER is an auteur movie by Don Dohler (--and many from the Dohler family seem to have contributed--); a Z movie doubtlessly, but an auteur movie nonetheless, as the Z cinema, the Z footage has its _auteurs, hacks intrepid enough to assume the whole steps of the movie-making.The costume of that asthmatic monster was beyond imagination. You see, movies like this one should compete for that 'worst ...' category.It deserves its disrepute.