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What was that movie that played during the opening credits?


One of the weirdest things about this movie is that the credits are comprised of scenes from a completely different alien-in-the-foggy-woods-leaves-glowing-thingies-and-victims-behind movie. I'm betting it's made by the same director. Anyone know the title?

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that's not actually what the credits for the movie were intended to be. The US video distributor used the footage from Galaxy Invader and solarized it so that they could avoid copyright infringement. Then they burnt on the titles they want to easily change the Spanish names to more Anglicanized ones, plus change the main title and copyright.

They did the same thing on one version of Umberto Lenzi's THE GREATEST BATTLE - the cut called "Battleforce" out on Public Domain has the same sort of solarized video credits with lots of fake names and mis-spellings. If you get the original GREATEST BATTLE tape, it has all the original credits as they were originally intended.

So don't judge the movie based on its poor US distribution (though it's pretty bad anyway) - it's like criticising AMERICAN COMMANDOS, HIT MEN, or MIAMI HORROR because the US videos have the reels out of order or overlapping.

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Thats crazy, why couldn't they be origional? not that it would make the movie any better.
No offence to anyone who actually liked this movie, but I think the ONLY good thing about this movie is that Mystery Science Theatre made fun of it.

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The Galaxy Invader

They used it without permission, so it wasn't the same director.

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