Invaders from Mars Review

Review of Invaders from Mars (1986) by screenqueeen: 👍 4.5/5

HOOPTOBER 9.0 16/32

Tobe Hooper's weirder space vampire cousin, shot through a technicolor nightmare of dizzying proportions. The paranoia gets to near-nauseous levels of confusion and intensity, where the original was close to the kid but distant enough for "adults" to follow through figures of authority Hooper successfully gets us on the level we should have seen this at. I was a little bummed we didn't get that moment with the queen or whatever but the way this makes everything so un-knowable feels better in some way, like how the original's point is that humans can't control the dangers they've wrought, this one seems to say that we can't even grasp the concept of a true "other" whether it's a threat or not. We're just hopelessly uneducated and unprepared. Anyway this movie's a fucking blast. Rest in peace, Louise Fletcher.