One of the worst movies ever made. Crap acting, plot, costumes, set designs, dialogue, character motivation, music, you name it, it sucks.Christopher Lee is the worst. If you're looking for a movie to hate, this is it. A true pile of crap. FX sucks. The scientists wife and daughter sucks, the alien costume with the dragon on it with the silly helmet sucks. Very slow and stupid plot. Who are the people who made this movie? Did they know what they were creating? Maybe they liked it. Or knew it was crap but had to finish the job. In any case. It has to be one of the worst movies ever made. It had a budget. But it was blown on untalented losers. Home movies are better.

Some trivia: Parts of Starship Invasions was filmed on the campus of the University of Toronto, in particular some of the UFO scenes were shot on the grounds of the then-new Robarts Library, facing the also very new Innis College (where Marshall McLuhan was teaching) In this film, Robert Vaughn basically plays the part of Dr. Ernie Seaquist, dean of Astrophysics at the U of T, and who, at that time, had pinned to the cork board outside his office a double page spread from the National Enquirer with an article quoting Prof. Seaquist and sporting the banner title with something like, "U of T Professor says there IS life in outer space" -- he said a journalist had called one day, asked him that question, so he explained the Drake Equation and how space was so unimaginably large, he'd be very surprised if we were alone.Sure enough, his quote does appear in the two-page article. As the last line. We were told in the Astrophysics dept that our projects could be on any subject, "Except astrology and UFOs."

I remember going to this at an Air Force Base theater in Oklahoma (Vance AFB, BTW). I was in third grade? My dad must have thought this was a kid movie, because me and my sister went alone. Now don't think my Dad was a bad parent. We didn't do trick or treating due to the occult influence it was based upon. I don't think he knew what we were going to see in the way of content. The excessive blood, and implied sex and nudity, was way more than I was prepared for. I didn't even know what sex was back then... hey, it was only the 70's... we wuz simple folk way back then. Not "sophisticatd" like today's kids are supposed to be. I remember going home and telling my dad, "I don't think I should have gone to that one".Anyway... The aliens come to take our planet, need our "seed" to do it, and use a transmitting device that turns humans into wanton killing machines. People start killing "for no reason". The hero tries to fly a saucer, and disable the device before we wipe ourselves out, thereby doing the aliens job for them.The movie was way over the top for a kid's mind. There was little action... and yes, I think this movie suffered from the "improvisation" move of the 70's movies... just say whatever comes to your mind, never mind a script. This is why Star Wars and Close Encounters did so well... they actually had a script and assigned dialog.Avoid this one. I don't know why this came to my mind this week, but I am glad I found this IMDb entry... so I could warn others. Don't expect this to come to DVD anytime soon. Hopefully, someone will have the better taste to file 13 this one.

I saw this film once on afternoon television in the late 70's . I've never seen it screened, rented or sold since. It seems to have sank into obscurity. I remember being disturbed in parts, so as bad as it may be, it could be provocative for ten year old latch key children, home alone in the late 70's. One interesting thing to note, reading the plot summary offered at IMDb, I've seen some of the same elements in UFO abduction lore & accounts. There are some who believe that there has been an extraterrestrial culture occupying the bowels of the Earth for some time, a federation of races I believe, that use this symbol of the winged serpent as their identifying mark. Some believe that this federation ultimately does want control of the Earth and humanity, and will reveal themselves following some type of cosmic or nuclear calamity on the Earth. Also, the ability to exert remote and irresistible control of the human brain through superior technology is a theme I've read frequently in reports, as well as this film's attention to the commonly reported telepathic ability of the ET's. I mention this because it seems like most cinema avoids some of the more fantastic elements of abduction accounts, and concentrates on other elements to the point of cliché. X-files hit on a lot of themes one can find in the reports, to be sure. I'd like to see this movie again, for nostalgia's sake. Sadly this isn't the UFO lore Epic I want. I'd like to see some talented writer/director do for modern abduction accounts what Spielberg did in Close Encounters with Project Bluebook reports. Some of the stuff they predict/report is genuinely terrifying, like, the apocalypse of mankind. The stakes don't get any higher. Perfect for Hollywood. A rich vein for creative exploration and sadly this little low budget film is about as close as it gets at the moment.