Destroy All Planets (1968)

Gamera vs. Outer Space Monster Viras !



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All you need to know about this movie is that a rocket powered turtle is fighting to keep earth safe from squid people riding in a bumble bee striped space ship. This is probably the best film to hit Invasion Cinema, a true epic.

A group of aliens from another planet head for Earth with the intentions of conquering it. Their first ship is destroyed in transit by the giant flying turtle Gamera. A second ship makes it to Earth and captures two Boy Scouts and holds them captive so that Gamera will not attack them. The aliens then implant a remote control device into the monster's neck and use the great turtle to attack Tokyo. The boys then come up with a plan to foul up the remote control device to the point where Gamera does the opposite of what he is ordered to. As a result Gamera destroys the aliens ship, but then has to contend with their giant squid like leader Viras.

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Attack of the Giant Leeches (1959)

Massive Blood Sucking Monsters!



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After local-moonshine swilling trapper Lem Sawyer (George Cisar) sees a giant creature, people start disappearing. While searching for illegal traps Steve Benton (Ken Clark) and Nan Greyson, his girl-friend (Jan Shepard) find Lem dying with giant sucker wounds on his body. One couple Liz Walker (Yvette Vickers) and Cal Moulton (Michael Emmett), forced into the water by her enraged husband Dave Walker (Bruno Ve Sota), gets taken by the leeches. When police refuse to believe Dave's story, he hangs himself. Soon after this, 2 more trappers disappear, the local Game Warden Steve Benton gets involved. He and Nan's father Dr Greyson (Tyler McVey) realize that the people were taken by the leeches and the leeches live in caves under the swamp. Using dynamite, the 4 missing bodies are discovered and the leeches are destroyed.

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The Wasp Woman (1960)

A beautiful woman by day - a lusting queen wasp by night!



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The founder and owner of a cosmetic factory, Janice Starlin (Susan Cabot), is concerned with the dropping sale results of her company. The scientist Eric Zinthrop (Michael Mark) offers to her his research with wasp enzymes that makes animals younger, and she immediately accepts to hire him, provided she becomes his human subject. She decides by her own to accelerate the treatment injecting additional serum trying to see earlier results, becoming the lethal "Wasp Woman".

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Upcoming Releases

Also a quick note on upcoming film releases here at Invasion Cinema, we're looking at The Wasp Woman (1960), and Attack of the Giant Leeches (1959) for sometime over this coming weekend.

Also, we're working on doing a re-encode of Metropolis that will have less chapter divisions, which should mean less buffering when jumping between chapters and a smoother viewing experience overall.

Site Updates

So we took another big step towards having a real website here. Most importantly, I added some information about syndication, and a links page. Would love to exchange links to any other websites dealing with science fiction or old cheesy movies in general. Feel free to drop a line to syndication@brightcove.com.