Invasion (2005)
If you have some experience with B-movies, chances are you’ve run into something by Albert Pyun. If I told you this Pyun sci-fi film had a shop-worn plot, minimal special effects, repetitious dialog and a ridiculously inflated running time, you’d probably think you knew what to expect. You’d also probably figure I didn’t like the movie very much.
You’d be wrong on both counts.
I have to admit, though… Pyun’s $35,000 movie had me asking a question I normally only ask while I’m watching a multi-million dollar Hollywood production: Where did all that money go?
Will Laughlin is the Braineater.
#1 by lyzard on September 1, 2016 - 3:31 am
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Nice, Will! Very interesting too; but yeah, where did the money go??
That earlier series of reviews was completely brilliant—thank you for putting me in mind of them, I must go and read them again…
#2 by Alaric on September 1, 2016 - 10:21 pm
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“a strange, oddly-compelling alien landscape: the 1980’s. I came of age during that era, and even I can hardly believe it ever really existed.”
That’s kind of how I think of the ’70s. Of course, the reasons are a bit different.
#3 by Jason Farrell on September 2, 2016 - 4:09 pm
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Ah, the great Pyun Reclamation Project begins, and I could not be happier.
#4 by supersonic man on September 4, 2016 - 7:56 am
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That does sound kind of interesting.
As for where the money went, well, Pyun apparently has a lot of experience in padding his on-paper budget for laundering purposes.
#5 by Blake Matthews on September 5, 2016 - 5:59 pm
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Careful, SS, Albert Pyun has been known to visit and even comment on the reviews of his movies posted here. Wouldn’t want him to stop by and read about himself being accused of (apparent) laundering now, would we? π
#6 by David Lee Ingersoll on September 5, 2016 - 11:48 am
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I will say all kinds of horrible things about movies with multimillion dollar budgets. I figure if you’ve got that kind of a budget and you make a lousy movie then you deserve all the scorn that gets sent your way.
For low budget movies I have a perverse sort of admiration that the darned thing even got made. Making a movie is work. It’s the sort of work that I’m never going to do. That Mr. Pyun keeps making movies – with lower and lower budgets – I doff my hat to that sort of perseverance no matter the results.