1970s spoof of American New Wave films, featuring a criminal couple on the run encountering a UFO cult.1970s spoof of American New Wave films, featuring a criminal couple on the run encountering a UFO cult.1970s spoof of American New Wave films, featuring a criminal couple on the run encountering a UFO cult.
Carla Rueckert
- Ruthie
- (as Ellen Tripp)
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- TriviaAccording to Carla Rueckert, he word "hidan" refers to a "high place" or "holy place". Maukbeiangjow is the name of the holy place in the film, though Hugh Smith remembers Maukbeiangjow being the name of a demon.
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Sam Trowel: [seeing the bra with the homing device left behind] Great gobs of baby owl shit!
- Alternate versionsUnited Home Video/VCI released two different versions, both of which lacked the original title screen. One version opens with syth music by Craig Keller and Russell McFarland over titles that credit them after screens for "Jeffrey C. Hogue presents" and "Invasion of the Girl Snatchers". This version also cuts to a title card for Majestic International Pictures soon after the characters drive off at the end of the film, while the other version continues with the chast of characters, a screen for Copyright 1973 L & L-Atlantis, and "The End".
- ConnectionsFeatured in Dusk to Dawn Drive-in Trash-o-Rama Show Vol. 2 (1996)
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muddled, meandering mess
You know, of all the cheap 70s movies out there, most have something that redeems them from being utterly unworthy of remembrance. Maybe it's erratic editing, crummy dubbing, pretentious or unintentionally stupid dialogue("This is where the fish live," from THE TOUCH OF SATAN springs to mind), cheap special effects, or (especially)overacting. INVASION OF THE GIRL SNATCHERS really has none of these. This low budget exercise in tedium concerns the employees of some government agency trying to run a sting operation to catch some crooks and instead running into some extraterrestrials who want to possess people's minds ala INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS . . . I think. The action takes place in and around a run-down motel and an old house, with a mostly amateur cast. As this film nears its conclusion(mercifully)the head E.T. guy performs some sort of Black Mass/alien induction ceremony, pausing to lift up his ceremonial robe and take a key out of his jeans pocket--one of the few unintentional flubs in the movie I could spot. Oh, there is something to watch in lieu of a coherent plot: a blonde chick the fed guys were going to use as a decoy for the crooks gets possessed by the E.T.s about a third of the way through her time on screen. The outer space being gets curious about the earth body it has inhabited, and for the rest of her time on screen the actress runs around topless! It's almost as if the filmmakers were giving us a consolation prize! Still, I'd take THREE ON A MEATHOOK over this anyday. At least the lengthy exposition in that film keeps you occupied!
- thomandybish
- May 8, 2001
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By what name was The Hidan of Maukbeiangjow (1973) officially released in Canada in English?
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