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Strange Invaders is a 1983 American science fiction film directed and co-written by Michael Laughlin, and stars Paul Le Mat, Nancy Allen and Diana Scarwid.. Produced as a tribute to the sci-fi films of the 1950s, notably The Invasion of the Body Snatchers, it was intended to be the second installment of the aborted Strange Trilogy with Strange Behavior (1981), another 1950s spoof by Laughlin ...
His first film role was in Strange Invaders, released in 1983. [4] In the 1980s, he worked primarily on television, appearing in Hill Street Blues, Cagney & Lacey and St. Elsewhere. [4] In the 1990s, he had roles in several action films, including The Last Boy Scout, Wyatt Earp and Waterworld.
Strange Invaders: Michael Laughlin: Paul Le Mat, Nancy Allen, Diana Scarwid: Canada United States: Superman III: Richard Lester: Christopher Reeve, Richard Pryor, Robert Vaughn, Annette O'Toole: United States: Superhero film Urusei Yatsura: Only You: Mamoru Oshii: Fumi Hirano (voice), Toshio Furukawa (voice), Saeko Shimazu (voice) Japan
Release date Title Notes Budget Gross April 27, 1979: A Little Romance [note 1]: $3 million: May 1, 1979: Over the Edge [note 1]: July 4, 1979: The Wanderers [note 2]: North American distribution only; produced by Film Finance Group
She appeared in the science fiction films Strange Invaders (1983) and The Philadelphia Experiment (1984), and Abel Ferrara's television film The Gladiator (1986). Allen garnered mainstream fame playing Anne Lewis in Paul Verhoeven's RoboCop (1987), a role she reprised for the two sequels.
Ken Brooke – Strange Invaders; Richard Edlund, Dennis Muren, and Ken Ralston – Return of the Jedi (Entertainment Effects Group) – Brainstorm; Ian Wingrove – Never Say Never Again; Lee Dyer – Something Wicked This Way Comes; Chuck Comisky, Kenneth Jones, Lawrence E. Benson (Private Stock Effects Inc.) – Strange Invaders
Strange Invaders was a satire of 1950's drive-in movies similar in retro vain to V and has many of the same plot elements. The character names (and story) are too similar to be a coincidence. IMDB lists Strange Invaders as being released in September of 1983 whereas V first appeared in May of that year.
In 2012, Two-Lane Blacktop was chosen as one of only 20 films to be housed in the National Film Registry at the Library of Congress.Hailed as a minimalist classic, it was chosen as a fine example of the short-lived period of youth-oriented films following Bonnie and Clyde, The Graduate and Easy Rider in the late 1960s.