Subject: INVADERS FROM MARS (Re: TP - 1/19/91)
From: boyajian@ruby.dec.com (Cisco's Buddy)
Date: 1991-01-22, 02:11
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <728@ministry.cambridge.apple.com>, mark@cambridge.apple.com (Mark Preece) writes...

} I have a vague memory of an old science fiction movie in which alien space-
} ships come to earth and burrow into the ground. When they catch people, they
} alter them to do their (the aliens') will, leaving them with a mark just
} behind the ear

Actually, it was the base of the skull.

} I saw this in my impressionable childhood, and it lives on only as a memory 
} of early terror. I don't remember much else about it, except that part of
} the plot revolved around a little kid finding the entrance to the ship 
} while he was out playing (whether this was crucial to the plot or just 
} important to me because I was a little kid at the time, I do not know).
} Anyhow, the most recent TP reminded me of this long-buried memory - anybody
} else remember this?

It's the original version of INVADERS FROM MARS, made in 1953 by William
Cameron Menzies. If you want to see some bizarre expressionist set designs,
definitely check this film out. It's available on home video (hell, I've
got a pre-recorded copy in *Beta* format!).

Avoid Tobe Hooper's 1986 remake, though, unless you're having a Saturday
Night Psychotronic Film Festival.

-- "My public will kill me for dying at a time like this." --- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, "The Mill", Maynard, MA) UUCP: ...!decwrl!ruby.enet.dec.com!boyajian ARPA: boyajian%ruby.DEC@DECWRL.DEC.COM