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July 11, 2025, 10:02:09 AM| The Day Mars Invaded Earth (024543-104995) |
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| United States 1963 | Released 2015-03-17 on DVD from 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment |
| 70 minutes | Aspect ratio Anamorphic 2.20:1 | Audio: English Dolby Digital Mono |
| Directed by Maury Dexter and starring Kent Taylor, Marie Windsor, William Mims, Betty Beall, Lowell Brown |
| Martian invaders are in the process of making exact doubles of an entire town and then killing the original models. The terrifying facts are discovered by a scientist working at Cape Canaveral who is trying to figure out why a recent Martian probe simply exploded after landing on the Red Planet. He has been in Florida working on the project for so long that his wife in California is about to divorce him. Wanting to save his marriage and see his family, he goes home and suddenly ends up fighting for not only his own life, but for all humanity. |
| My thoughts about The Day Mars Invaded Earth: |
| I am a big fan of fifties and sixties science fiction and horror movies, so I was very surprised to find one that had gone totally below my radar. It's Invasion of the Body Snatchers without any pods, or Invaders from Mars without any martians. In fact, no real monster at all. It's a really low budget movie , so it's a bit surprising that it was filmed in CinemaScope. The movie is slow but creepy, and it has a twist ending that I did not see coming. The thing that bothered me most about the script is that the characters seem to accept a totally unbelievable situation without any questioning whatever. That's more unbelievable than the the unbelievable situation itself. The contrived story and the slow pacing drags the movie down, but the surprise ending makes up for it to some extent. |
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(From Reviews and ramblings by Gunnar on June 3rd, 2015)
Member's Reviews
MegaFault, a review by addicted2dvd
 | Megafault (2009/United States) IMDb |Wikipedia |Trailer |
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Stars:
Brittany Murphy as Dr. Amy Lane
Eriq La Salle as Charlie "Boomer" Baxter
Bruce Davison as Rhodes
Justin Hartley as Dan
Paul Logan as Boyd
Plot:
Solid ground gives way, skyscrapers crumble and cities are buried in this thrill-a-minute, action-packed movie event! A deep seismic fault has been triggered in America's heartland. Now, it threatens to slice North America in half. Amidst unpredictable aftershocks, chaos and destruction, seismologist Amy Lane (Brittany Murphy, Deadline, Sin City) and Charley "Boomer" Baxter (Eriq La Salle, TV's ER) must race to predict the fault's direction and warn the millions in its engulfing path.
Extras:
- Scene Access
My Thoughts:
While it is not the best film I seen of it's kind... I definitely enjoyed this one for what it is...a leave your brain at the door disaster film. And the fact that it has a handful of people I know and like in it helps as well. I would say this one is worth the time put in to watch it... but don't go in expecting too much.
Rating:
(From Mini-Marathon: Elemental Disasters on August 23rd, 2017)
Member's TV Reviews
"Due South" marathon, a review by Tom
3.03 I Could'a Been a Defendant (1997-09-28)
Writer: Paul Haggis (Created By), Jeff King (Writer)
Director: Jimmy Kaufman
Cast: Paul Gross (Constable Benton Fraser), Callum Keith Rennie (Stanley "Ray" Kowalski), Beau Starr (Lt. Harding Welsh), Camilla Scott (Inspector Margaret Thatcher), Tony Craig (Detective Jack Huey), Tom Melissis (Detective Dewey), Catherine Bruhier (Elaine), Gordon Pinsent (Fraser Sr.), Brent Carver (Bruce Spender), Ron White (Kevin Spender), David Gardner (Police Commandant), Ramona Milano (Francesca Vecchio), Satori Shakoor (Reporter), Frank Pavolic (Elliot Wells), Paul Wildbaum (Dustin Mahoney), Jason Jazrawy (Michael Johnson)
A good episode. The dynamics between Fraser and new Ray are similar to season 1 Fraser and old Ray.
Starting with this episode Francesca will get a bigger role. She is taking over for Elaine at the police station.
Rating:
(From "Due South" marathon on December 19th, 2009)