I was thrilled to find this turkey on DVD a couple of years ago. It’s one of my favorite “bad” films because of its sheer incompetence.
Also known as “Mars Attacks Puerto Rico”, FMTSM used to play on local St. Louis television stations as part of either “Creature Feature” or “Chiller Theater”. This is how I first became familiar and fell in love with it.
Also known as “Mars Attacks Puerto Rico”, FMTSM used to play on local St. Louis television stations as part of either “Creature Feature” or “Chiller Theater”. This is how I first became familiar and fell in love with it.
There’s really not much of a story here. Colonel Frank Saunders, a humanoid, is shot into space and then shot right back down by space people. Frank is damaged in a fire and goes on a killing spree. Meanwhile, the aliens land and kidnap some of our women as breeding stock. Frank arrives on the scene, fights the monster and the aliens hightail it out of here. That, in a nutshell, is it. It’s cheap schlock, but it’s ENTERTAINING cheap schlock.
Crispin Glover’s dad, Bruce, plays both the Space Monster and a bald, pointy-eared alien in this movie.
When trying to learn more about Robert Reilly, our movie’s Frankenstein, Wikipedia points to a New York Government website page for a man with this same name. There is no indication, one way or the other, that this is the same man. But then, if YOU were in this movie, wouldn’t you want deniability as well?
Crispin Glover’s dad, Bruce, plays both the Space Monster and a bald, pointy-eared alien in this movie.
When trying to learn more about Robert Reilly, our movie’s Frankenstein, Wikipedia points to a New York Government website page for a man with this same name. There is no indication, one way or the other, that this is the same man. But then, if YOU were in this movie, wouldn’t you want deniability as well?
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