'I'll see you in hell first.'
Welcome back to my Dark Corner of this Sick World
'We're all in a state of high hilarity'
We haven't started yet. We're reviewing Roger Corman's It Conquered the world
'The days when people made fun of me are over, girls'
We'll see about tha... I just got a strange sense of deja vu...
'The days when people made fun of me are over.'
'We'll see about that.'
It Conquered The World was remade in 1966
'Anyone know why'
As Zontar-the Thing from Venus, directed by Larry Buchanan
directed by Larry Cohen
Everyone makes mistakes, and Lee Van Cleef's Tom is making a pretty big one
'He drew the satellite to his world, to Venus!'
by helping an alien from Venus come to earth in a hijacked satellite
'The scientific achievement of the century has disappeared. We've got to find it'
I can hear how distressed you are from your blank, disinterested tone
'Ooh, I wouldn't say distressed'
Now the remake is really close
'I've never seen anything like it'
so this has many of the same issues, the way Tom is able to ignore widespread carnage
'And this is good, instead of evil'
the fact that the plot is stolen from The Day the Earth Stood Still but made dumb
'We stopped power at its source that means electricity, steam, water, everything'
How do you stop steam?!
Did that one too huh?'
'Don't ask me, I just know they did it'
Also the alien's method of taking over humans is inefficient to say the least
'It will take you 12 days to produce 8 new devices'
These devices are bird-like creatures which pop out from under the alien
and can be used to control humans
'I seen a funny looking bird'
As stated, the alien can produce 8 every 12 days, and yet,
this creature that has according to the title, 'conquered the world'
doesn't try to control the president of the united states or secretary general of the UN,
but this small town policeman
Despite the inference that machines, and steam, have stopped all over earth,
the alien concentrates 100% on this one town
'I wonder why'
Me too. It really makes you question the word 'world' in the title, as well that reckless use of the past tense.
The alien hasn't conquered anything.
'That's one way of putting it'
The alien doesn't conquer anything. It sits in a cave until six soldiers go in to get it
one of whom mysteriously vanishes in the film's best known continuity error
there they find
'So that's what you look like, you're ugly.'
I'm disappointed too.
Back to the soldiers, anyone who'd like to commit needless suicide, run forward like a jackass now
Now obviously you can pick on plot holes, continuity errors
and an alien that looks like a giant upside down carrot mounted on castors
But I'd rather pick on Peter Graves' heroic Paul Nelson, whose attitude is summed up in this scene
'What's that?'
'Well I'm not going to stop to ask it'
He even doesn't know about the alien at this point!
'Must be some kind of cave bat'
Oh well in that case go ahead, heave a rock at it
‘Why aren't you fighting it?'
His wife is taken over by one of the cave bats
'I have a present for you.'
Now he just has to hope that by killing the alien he can release her from its control
Or just shoot her, without trying anything else.
'Something wrong?'
And as long as you're killing the Mrs, you might as well kill a bunch of other people too
Obviously in time of interplanetary conflict, sacrifices must be made, but he kills as many people than the alien!
'You're a filthy murderer.'
And yet, even though all the problems with the remake are this movie's fault, it's still better Zontar.
Man is finally ready to move into space.'
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It Conquered the world is one of a handful of sequel where both the original and remake is bad.
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