Invasion Cinema

Killers from Space (1954)

2007-04-29T12:16:00.000-04:00

Attack by monsters from another planet!

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Atomic scientist/pilot Doug Martin is missing after his plane crashes on an reconnaissance mission after a nuclear test. Miraculously appearing unhurt at the base later, he is given sodium amethol, but authorities are skeptical of his story that he was captured by aliens determined to conquer the Earth with giant monsters and insects. Martin vows to use existing technology to destroy them.

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Destroy All Planets (1968)

2006-06-26T11:39:00.000-04:00

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)

2006-06-04T16:07:00.000-04:00

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)

2006-06-04T09:45:00.000-04:00

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

2006-06-01T23:13:00.000-04:00

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

2006-06-01T23:07:00.000-04:00

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.

Syndication Links

2006-05-29T09:29:00.000-04:00

I've added syndication links for all of the films currently available on Invasion Cinema. If you have your own web page, and for some strange reason think that putting a full-length cheesy science fiction film on it would be a good idea, this is your lucky day.

Simply follow one of the syndication links below, and sign up for a Brightcove account. You will then get access to a small snippet of code, which can simply be pasted into your webpage, blog, etc. There is no bandwidth usage associated with this syndication process, everything is handled by Brightcove and Invasion Cinema.

Syndication Links:
The Giant Gila Monster
Assignment: Outer Space
The Crawling Eye

If you have any questions or special requests related to syndication partnerships, drop an email to syndication@invasioncinema.com.

The Giant Gila Monster (1959)

2006-05-27T08:46:00.000-04:00

Only Hell could breed such an enormous beast. Only God could destroy it!

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A small town in Texas finds itself under attack from a hungry, fifty-foot-long gila monster. No longer content to forage in the desert, the giant lizard begins chopming on motorists and train passengers before descending upon the town itself. Only Chase Winstead, a quick-thinking mechanic, can save the town from being wiped out.

This is one of my all-time favorite films from the Invasion Cinema genre, ever since I saw it at a tender age on one of the earliest Myster Science Theater episodes with a grade school buddy who was fortunate enough to have cable television AND Comedy Central.

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Assignment: Outer Space (1960)

2006-05-27T08:19:00.000-04:00

1000 Headlines into the future!

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In the 21st century Ray Peterson, reporter for the Interplanetary News, is assigned to write a story aboard a space station. Tension mounts between Peterson and the station commander, who believes he is in the way, but has orders to leave him alone. Errant spaceship Alpha Two enters the solar system and its photon generators are radiating enough heat to destroy Earth as it approaches. It falls to Peterson to try to figure out a way to enter the spaceship, disarm the generators, and escape before suffocating."

We hope you enjoy this wonderfully campy galactic adventure.

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Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1927)

2006-05-20T18:02:00.000-04:00

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Invasion Cinema is extremely pleased to present a preview of our upcoming second major film release, Fritz Lang's monumental silent film Metropolis. Please enjoy the first seven chapters of this wonderful film while we prepare to release it in its entirety.

The Crawling Eye (1958)

2006-05-09T17:42:00.000-04:00

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Invasion Cinema is proud to present its first feature film release: The Crawling Eye (IMDBlink). Originally titled The Trollenberg Disaster, this cult science fiction classic is pinnacle of 1950's science fiction camp. We hope you enjoy the film.