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Sep 16, 1983 · Strange Invaders: Directed by Michael Laughlin. With Paul Le Mat, Nancy Allen, Diana Scarwid, Michael Lerner. Alien beings, who settle in a small midwestern town, are disturbed by a young professor determined to rescue his daughter from their clutches.
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- Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
- Michael Laughlin
- 1983-09-16
Strange Invaders is a 1983 American science fiction film directed and co-written by Michael Laughlin, and stars Paul Le Mat, Nancy Allen and Diana Scarwid.. Produced as a tribute to the sci-fi films of the 1950s, notably The Invasion of the Body Snatchers, it was intended to be the second installment of the aborted Strange Trilogy with Strange Behavior (1981), another 1950s spoof by Laughlin ...
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In 1958 alien invaders abduct the residents of Centerville, Ill., usurping the townspeople's bodies as their earthbound manifestations. Decades later, on a family visit to Centerville, New Yorker ...
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- Michael Laughlin
- PG
- Paul Le Mat
Michael Laughlin directs "Strange Invaders," an affectionate homage to science fiction/alien takeover films of the 1950s that stars Paul Le Mat ("Hanoi Hilton") as a university professor searching for his ex-wife (Diana Scarwid, "Extremeties"), who seems to have disappeared while visiting her hometown of Centerville, Illinois. In fact, the place turns out to be a hotbed of aliens, in place ...
- Michael Laughlin
- 94 min
- Nancy Allen
Strange Invaders is a really wonderful, science -fiction film.It has a Superb fifties feel to it as well as a great supporting cast of character actors such as Kenneth Tobey,June Lockhart,Wallace Shawn,Fiona Lewis,Mark Goddard and veteran character actor Charles Lane as Professor Hollister(a trusted colleague of Paul Le Mat's character).
He meets aliens; but when he contacts the FBI, they don't believe him. He tells his story to a tabloid; and suddenly, he is chased by the aliens. Charlie's ex-wife disappears, and he goes to where she grew up--a rural town in the midwest--to look for her. But, surprisingly, nobody knows about her or any of her many relatives, the Newmans.
