Sh(C)ould Be MSTied: "Invasion From Inner Earth"

1974, Color, USA

Movie Description: Two words: Bill Rebane.

As in "Giant Spider Invasion" Bill Rebane. As in "Monster A-Go-Go" Bill Rebane.

Bill Rebane = Wisconsin's Ed Wood.

Anywho, as for the actual movie itself, it revolves around three scientists who are doing scientist like things in some remote cabin in the Canadian woods, and their hosts, a brother and sister who run an airline or hunting lodge or some such thing.

Meanwhile, in the outside world, all hell is breaking loose (exemplified by shots of people running around streets with lots of red smoke) as a plague is killing everybody and aliens are showing up an abducting people and communications are breaking down. Or not. Its really hard to tell because nothing makes a lick of sense when the leaves the main characters in the cabin, as the scenes remind me of one of those mid-seventies sketch movies only not funny.



Back at the cabin, they loose all communications, try to fly home but can't land at one airport because everybody is sick, land at another where everybody's dead (?) see a red light, a plane crash, find a snow mobile, talk to a guy who sounds like a kid doing a 'robot' voice, and several other unexplained things. The only explanations come from shaggy bearded Max (Paul Bentzen, the creepy cousin in "Giant Spider Invasion") who rambles on about giant roses, and martians from inside the earth.

This makes the movie sound far, far too exciting. It's mostly shots of people wandering through the snowy woods while 30 second music samples play at random, and people then talking, talking, and more talking inside various cabins. It's all quite dull. In the end, out of food, our heroes that are left stumble around in the frozen woods for ten minutes until the last two of them (bearded Stan and the token girl) meet in an empty town, hold hands, and turn into naked children in an Adam and Eve lite deal. The end.

3/10



Is it MST3K Materiel? Yes.
More of a Mike or more of a Joel? Mike.

Why?: Although most of the movie is rather, tepid, and just features long scenes of people walking, the weird interludes of fake radio and TV shows break up the monotany just enough. Add to that the ever shifting music during the long walking scenes and I think this could of made an adequate, if not great, movie for the Mike and the bots.