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Starship Invasions
(AKA Alien Encounter, Project Genocide, War of the Aliens) 1977, Starring Robert Vaughn, Christopher Lee, Daniel Pilon, Helen Shaver, Henry Ramer. Directed by Ed Hunt.
Made in the late 1970s, Starship Invasions was a fairly blatant attempt to capitalize on the resurgence of interest in sci-fi spearheaded by Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. This obviously low-budget attempt may have unconvincing sets and an overly complicated plot, but don't count it out yet. Starship Invasions still has a few tricks up it's tinfoil-wrapped sleeve, not the least of which is two big name actors- Christopher Lee and Napoleon Solo himself, Mr. Robert Vaughn.
Although Starship Invasions' director Ed Hunt is an American, his resume uncannily reads like many of our native schlock filmmakers. Living in the U.S. but filming almost exclusively in the Great White North, Hunt started his career with a couple of softcore features, Diary of a Sinner (1974) and Pleasure Palace (1973), an obscurity notable for starring current CBC personality Vicki Gabereau. His next film, the virtually unseen UFO story Point of No Return steered Hunt into the more commercial territory of horror and science fiction. It was here that Hunt would finish out his career with 1988's fun amalgam of genre clichs, The Brain.
Made just after Point of No Return, Starship Invasions has so far proved to be Hunt's most sought-after film, perhaps because of the sheer ambitiousness of it all. Never again would Hunt work with such talented performers, and the budgets of his other films rarely approached even half of what was spent on this epic. It also helps that Hunt's films are generally enjoyable trash, and despite the fact that Starship Invasions has it's share of problems, it's definitely a film that would benefit from a DVD release.
Perched atop his tractor, a chubby farmer named Rudy calmly watches a UFO land in his field, and remains unfazed as two men in black body leotards emerge and hustle him aboard. Rudy languidly submits to a couple of probes, but starts to get interested in his perdicament when a naked women suddenly appears to seduce him. How's that for grabbing your audience in the first scene? The next day Rudy tells his tale to a smirking police detective, and is laughed off as a moonshine guzzlin' hick. Spurned, Rudy invites true believer and UFO enthusiast Professor Allan Duncan (Vaughn) to visit the landing site. Duncan examines the scorched field, and tells Rudy that aliens have been visiting Earth for years. When they finally reveal themselves, nobody will laugh at him again!
Meanwhile, back aboard the UFO, Captain Rameses (Lee) and his crew from planet Alpha are back to their old kidnapping ways. Rudy the dirt farmer proved to be such an ideal male specimen that they decide to probe an Earth female as well. Rameses reveals that since their sun is about to supernova, the Alphanians are looking for a new planet to colonize. Once they find a suitable place, they will kill all the inhabitants, and signal their other ships currently hiding behind the moon. But there's a problem: unbeknownst to the puny earthlings, their home is protected by a "galactic treaty" established by an intergalactic council called "The League of Races."
If you were the League of Races, where would you hide your Earth headquarters? If you said "Under the ocean in a giant pyramid," give yourself five space points. Landing at the base with anything but honest intentions, Ramses is taken to the head of the League by an android named Durbal. On closer inspection, Durbal seems to be a man in a silver snow suit with a coffee urn strapped to his head. While Ramses distracts the council, the other Alphanians sabotage a League UFO, causing it to be spotted and destroyed by the army on a routine surveillance flight. In the confusion this causes, Rameses and his crew put miniature laser guns on their fingers and take over the pyramid, seriously injuring our beloved Durbal. Moving into the next phase of his plan, Rameses contacts another Alphanian ship which orbits the Earth with a "suicide ray." Turning this ray on our cities, ordinary citizens suddenly go crazy, and after a brief killing spree, take their own life.
But what Rameses hadn't counted on is that one League UFOs manages to slip away. Two dedicated Leauge of Races representatives swing by and pick up Professor Allan Duncan and his best buddy Malcom, a computer expert (and newly converted UFO skeptic). With Malcom's help, they are able to modify the UFO's communications systems to send an S.O.S. to League ships on nearby planets.
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