Mandatory spoiler alert!!! This is a great example of one of those low-budget SciFi flicks that is so bad it's fun to watch. How did the MSTies miss it? It's an object lesson in low budget film-making. Only 70 minutes - about half of that walking, walking, walking and smoking, driving, more walking, etc. Borrow a big estate for a day and shoot people walking all over it. Write a script that needs only 5 actors (not counting the cab driver and the cop). Say the characters are staying in the guest house so you don't have to build elaborate interior sets. Borrow music from other films. Make the Martians invisible. Hire a pair of twins to play the teenage daughter, and cheat the other doppelganger scenes. I think there were just a couple actual FX shots, and not very expensive ones at that. Most expensive prop was the clapped out MG they had to turn on its side.
All in all, I found it vastly entertaining from the POV of the film-making process. And when all is said and done, the story itself is not awful.
All in all, I found it vastly entertaining from the POV of the film-making process. And when all is said and done, the story itself is not awful.