What do you get when TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE director, Tobe Hooper, joins forces with ALIEN screenwriter, Dan O’Bannon to remake a classic 50s sci-fi horror film? Why, you get a kids wish-fulfillment adventure fantasy about a 12-year-old boy saving the world from intergalactic intruders, of course! But how does it compare to other 80s remakes of 50s science fiction films? Does this film hold up if you watch it for the first time as an adult? Is the ending a cheap cop out designed to deflect any narrative shortcomings, or is it a brilliant way to recontextualize everything leading up to it? Nathan, Eric, and Dan are tunneling in deep to answer these questions and so much more! So grab a bandaid for the back of your neck, swallow the frog in your throat, and bow down to Supreme Intelligence because the Video Monsters are going over the hill to grapple with INVADERS FROM MARS (1986)!
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music for Video Monsters by Evan Simmons
