I saw this film back when I was in high school and it's entirely possible that it single-handedly (pun VERY intended) showed me the end of puberty. It's a hilarious and rough and sexy piece of forbidden pleasure about aliens that are transmitted from one oversexed Earthling to another during the throes of sex. The aliens aren't picky about whether their human objective is willing or not and there are several very good "rough" scenes including a GREAT scene where a female agent is forcefully "droned" by a weightlifter type as she's held down by multiple drones. If you like non-bloody, campy rough porn, FIND THIS FILM. You'll love it.
4 Reviews
Close encounters of the carnal kind
Woodyanders9 May 2018
Warning: Spoilers
New Yorker George (the always likeable Eric Edwards) gets abducted by a spaceship. The libidinous aliens inside said spaceship turn George into a love drone and send him back to Earth to create more love drones, which is done by having sex with other people.
Director/cowriter Jerome Hamlin wisely plays the enjoyably silly premise for goofy laughs which includes dopey dialogue full of crude puns, an amiable tongue-in-cheek tone, and often ridiculous sex scenes that manage to be both pretty funny and fairly hot. The enthusiastic cast has a ball with the wacky material: Fetching brunette Viveca Ash makes a favorable impression as the concerned Dr. Femme, brawny Alex Mann pops up in no less than two roles, Levi Richards contributes an amusing turn as the bumbling Agent Frank, bald black beauty Yolanda Savalas makes a memorable last reel appearance as the exotic Queen Drone, Jennifer Jordan registers well as the sultry Agent Rona, slinky minx Alexandria performs a sizzling solo masturbation routine, and Jamie Gillis encourages a bunch of drones to participate in a mass orgy. The tacky (not so) special effects possess a certain endearingly chintzy charm. The funky-throbbing score hits the get-down groovy spot. An absolute dippy hoot.
Director/cowriter Jerome Hamlin wisely plays the enjoyably silly premise for goofy laughs which includes dopey dialogue full of crude puns, an amiable tongue-in-cheek tone, and often ridiculous sex scenes that manage to be both pretty funny and fairly hot. The enthusiastic cast has a ball with the wacky material: Fetching brunette Viveca Ash makes a favorable impression as the concerned Dr. Femme, brawny Alex Mann pops up in no less than two roles, Levi Richards contributes an amusing turn as the bumbling Agent Frank, bald black beauty Yolanda Savalas makes a memorable last reel appearance as the exotic Queen Drone, Jennifer Jordan registers well as the sultry Agent Rona, slinky minx Alexandria performs a sizzling solo masturbation routine, and Jamie Gillis encourages a bunch of drones to participate in a mass orgy. The tacky (not so) special effects possess a certain endearingly chintzy charm. The funky-throbbing score hits the get-down groovy spot. An absolute dippy hoot.
Funny In Its Own Way
Michael_Elliott5 March 2018
Invasion of the Love Drones (1977)
** (out of 4)
A New Yorker named George is going about his normal day when a spaceship sucks him up. Pretty soon the aliens are turning him into a "love drone" which means he will be a sexual stud and be able to do amazing things
This here wasn't the first sex film to take place in outer space or to take a sci-fi spin but at the same time it was an early one and deserves some credit for at least trying to be creative. INVASION OF THE LOVE DRONES is available in a hardcore version as well as a shorter version with the hardcore sex cut out. I'm reviewing the softcore version but it appears that both versions run about the same time and some of the familiar porn faces like Jamie Gillis didn't even have any real sex scenes.
With all of that said, there's certainly nothing ground-breaking about this 58-minute movie but at the same time it remained entertaining thanks to having some very pretty ladies doing their thing but there was also a funny way of showing the people climax. This includes the real "alien" or "love drone" being shown as the other person is getting off. The look of this effect was quite funny for what it was worth.
** (out of 4)
A New Yorker named George is going about his normal day when a spaceship sucks him up. Pretty soon the aliens are turning him into a "love drone" which means he will be a sexual stud and be able to do amazing things
This here wasn't the first sex film to take place in outer space or to take a sci-fi spin but at the same time it was an early one and deserves some credit for at least trying to be creative. INVASION OF THE LOVE DRONES is available in a hardcore version as well as a shorter version with the hardcore sex cut out. I'm reviewing the softcore version but it appears that both versions run about the same time and some of the familiar porn faces like Jamie Gillis didn't even have any real sex scenes.
With all of that said, there's certainly nothing ground-breaking about this 58-minute movie but at the same time it remained entertaining thanks to having some very pretty ladies doing their thing but there was also a funny way of showing the people climax. This includes the real "alien" or "love drone" being shown as the other person is getting off. The look of this effect was quite funny for what it was worth.
Mindless sci-fi porn
lor_7 July 2011
Warning: Spoilers
Post-FLESH GORDON, other attempts were made at mixing sci-fi and porn, idiotic (Al Adamson's Cinderella 2000) or over-reaching (big-budget XXX-er BLONDE GODDESS). INVASION OF THE LOVE DRONES is a failure.
Scientists ask: "Is there intelligent life in the Universe apart apart from that on Earth?". After watching this film one wonders "Is there any intelligence in the Universe of pornographers?".
Stymied by a too-low budget, poor SPFX and idiotic script, DRONES posits an Earth invasion by an alien race whose social structure is similar to bees or ants, with the Queen in charge. Imitation Rod Serling narration tells of an "excursion to the outer limits of the erogenous zone", implicating the Control Voice of TV's other legendary SF series.
With comical inter-titles (styled like the "2001" stencil look space ship markings) equating "DOCKING" and other routines with sex, Eric Edwards is chosen as the first victim of the Queen's nefarious scheme. He's transported from his bathroom to the UFO (cheap, under-dressed set that fails to set a SF mood), where two "Pornovisions" (sexy actresses) service him to convert him into a love drone. There's a comical 10-9-...1 countdown, "GO FOR COME" inter-title, and the ejaculation-on-face climax, summed up as "One small cum for man, one giant bang for mankind".
Sent back home, Edwards talks funny (robot-like voice) and turns his wife, the unfortunately monikered "Joann Dudd" into another drone. She's a buxom beauty, but evidently a 1-shot actress. We get the picture -soon Earth will be littered with drones.
Edwards is sent to a sex clinic where scientists Dr. Femme (attractive "Viveca Ash") and her bombshell blonde assistant Andrea (played by "Babe Blonde", as pseudonyms run wild in this picture) are working with a dangerous culture of venereal virus, which will pay off in plot dividends for the final reel.
Meanwhile wifey visits the studio of nudie photographer Alex Mann, seducing him to create yet another drone.
The lady scientists are aghast when they see Edwards turn his lab partner into a drone. Unfortunately for the viewer, a combination of cheap white-out SPFX and very poor "overloaded" video transfer (DVD looks like it was created from a VHS source) renders the alien look visuals invisible. Dumb filmmakers have Andrea expressing her shock by constantly burping.
Dr. Femme calls in the FBI, in the person of Frank Harris (Gotham porn regular Levi Richards). He has a friend Molly ("Dusty Evsky"), coincidentally living in Edwards' building, who gives Frank a lecture about the sea anemone (!), but her funny vocal pattern alerts us that she's another drone creating other drones, starting with him.
Another FBI agent Mona Savant (porn superstar Jennifer Jordan) drives her Mercedes convertible to Club de Vie, a New Age retreat run by Alex Mann. The lousy script doesn't make it clear whether he's a new character or merely the photographer-turned-drone of the previous reel.
In a poorly done sequence, over-touted by the "roughie" fan who posted a previous IMDb review, Mann rapes Jordan (softcore style) as other drones hold her down, shot pretentiously from underneath as staged on a transparent glass outdoor table, and now she's a drone, too.
Most of the sex scenes are filmed in softcore angles, and it is easy to imagine a soft X (a la FLESH GORDON) cut of DRONES for drive-in and Midnight Movie exhibition. However, this hybrid project never came close to achieving crossover or cult status.
SPOILERS ALERT:
With FBI agents dropping like flies, including Mona's boss Willard, Dr. Femme becomes desperate and concocts a plot to use her venereal virus to stop them. She reasons that their gestalt (my word, not the script's) nature means that infecting one at the point of transformation (orgasm) into drone-hood will infect the entire race, and wipe 'em out. That's the level of "science" in this asinine script.
She seduces a chubby guy thinking he's a drone, and while we get to see Viveca's fabulous breasts the creep turns out to be just a goofy guy, not a drone.
Edwards and the other drones are dispatched by plane around the world to spread the invasion, and film presents "Jerry Jerome" in quick succession affecting several accents to present newscasts of the danger in various languages. This is also meant to be funny, but is merely cheap.
A nuclear-tipped Saturn B rocket at Cape Kennedy is launched to intercept the alien craft in Earth orbit, but a sex ray is deployed by the Queen to destroy the missile.
To generate the power needed to fire up the sex ray, a girl on the spaceship dances around with a pair of vacuum cleaner hoses, used like vibrators, but the film's chintzy sci-fi content is almost as crummy as that of Hal Hartley's disastrous video "The Girl from Monday".
Jamie Gillis guests as the leader of a clone group, declaring "Let us commune", precipitating a mass orgy. Meanwhile, Dr. Femme has been converted into a drone and goes to her lab where she attempts to convert Andrea with some rough lesbian sex. Andrea, no longer burping, instead launches nuttily into Hamlet's "To be or not to be" soliloquy, and selflessly injects herself with the venereal virus just before Dr. Femme can convert her.
Edwards returns to the space ship where "QUEEN AROUSAL" lights up on a control board and a bald, Black actress (Yolanda Savalas, billed comically as "Eve Fellatio") portrays the Queen, dancing around and giving Eric a blow job. Gimmick is she's painted white, like a poor man's Shirley Eaton in GOLDFINGER.
As she rides Eric, and "planetary orgasm" approaches, Dr. Femme is humping Andrea back on Earth. Eric's cum shot on the Queen's belly coincides with Andrea infecting Dr. Femme venereally, and all the drones become deactivated. With the invasion a failure, "ABANDON PLANET" is flashed on screen, and the Serling-style narrator warns us of future alien seductions of planet Earth. Yeah, right.
Scientists ask: "Is there intelligent life in the Universe apart apart from that on Earth?". After watching this film one wonders "Is there any intelligence in the Universe of pornographers?".
Stymied by a too-low budget, poor SPFX and idiotic script, DRONES posits an Earth invasion by an alien race whose social structure is similar to bees or ants, with the Queen in charge. Imitation Rod Serling narration tells of an "excursion to the outer limits of the erogenous zone", implicating the Control Voice of TV's other legendary SF series.
With comical inter-titles (styled like the "2001" stencil look space ship markings) equating "DOCKING" and other routines with sex, Eric Edwards is chosen as the first victim of the Queen's nefarious scheme. He's transported from his bathroom to the UFO (cheap, under-dressed set that fails to set a SF mood), where two "Pornovisions" (sexy actresses) service him to convert him into a love drone. There's a comical 10-9-...1 countdown, "GO FOR COME" inter-title, and the ejaculation-on-face climax, summed up as "One small cum for man, one giant bang for mankind".
Sent back home, Edwards talks funny (robot-like voice) and turns his wife, the unfortunately monikered "Joann Dudd" into another drone. She's a buxom beauty, but evidently a 1-shot actress. We get the picture -soon Earth will be littered with drones.
Edwards is sent to a sex clinic where scientists Dr. Femme (attractive "Viveca Ash") and her bombshell blonde assistant Andrea (played by "Babe Blonde", as pseudonyms run wild in this picture) are working with a dangerous culture of venereal virus, which will pay off in plot dividends for the final reel.
Meanwhile wifey visits the studio of nudie photographer Alex Mann, seducing him to create yet another drone.
The lady scientists are aghast when they see Edwards turn his lab partner into a drone. Unfortunately for the viewer, a combination of cheap white-out SPFX and very poor "overloaded" video transfer (DVD looks like it was created from a VHS source) renders the alien look visuals invisible. Dumb filmmakers have Andrea expressing her shock by constantly burping.
Dr. Femme calls in the FBI, in the person of Frank Harris (Gotham porn regular Levi Richards). He has a friend Molly ("Dusty Evsky"), coincidentally living in Edwards' building, who gives Frank a lecture about the sea anemone (!), but her funny vocal pattern alerts us that she's another drone creating other drones, starting with him.
Another FBI agent Mona Savant (porn superstar Jennifer Jordan) drives her Mercedes convertible to Club de Vie, a New Age retreat run by Alex Mann. The lousy script doesn't make it clear whether he's a new character or merely the photographer-turned-drone of the previous reel.
In a poorly done sequence, over-touted by the "roughie" fan who posted a previous IMDb review, Mann rapes Jordan (softcore style) as other drones hold her down, shot pretentiously from underneath as staged on a transparent glass outdoor table, and now she's a drone, too.
Most of the sex scenes are filmed in softcore angles, and it is easy to imagine a soft X (a la FLESH GORDON) cut of DRONES for drive-in and Midnight Movie exhibition. However, this hybrid project never came close to achieving crossover or cult status.
SPOILERS ALERT:
With FBI agents dropping like flies, including Mona's boss Willard, Dr. Femme becomes desperate and concocts a plot to use her venereal virus to stop them. She reasons that their gestalt (my word, not the script's) nature means that infecting one at the point of transformation (orgasm) into drone-hood will infect the entire race, and wipe 'em out. That's the level of "science" in this asinine script.
She seduces a chubby guy thinking he's a drone, and while we get to see Viveca's fabulous breasts the creep turns out to be just a goofy guy, not a drone.
Edwards and the other drones are dispatched by plane around the world to spread the invasion, and film presents "Jerry Jerome" in quick succession affecting several accents to present newscasts of the danger in various languages. This is also meant to be funny, but is merely cheap.
A nuclear-tipped Saturn B rocket at Cape Kennedy is launched to intercept the alien craft in Earth orbit, but a sex ray is deployed by the Queen to destroy the missile.
To generate the power needed to fire up the sex ray, a girl on the spaceship dances around with a pair of vacuum cleaner hoses, used like vibrators, but the film's chintzy sci-fi content is almost as crummy as that of Hal Hartley's disastrous video "The Girl from Monday".
Jamie Gillis guests as the leader of a clone group, declaring "Let us commune", precipitating a mass orgy. Meanwhile, Dr. Femme has been converted into a drone and goes to her lab where she attempts to convert Andrea with some rough lesbian sex. Andrea, no longer burping, instead launches nuttily into Hamlet's "To be or not to be" soliloquy, and selflessly injects herself with the venereal virus just before Dr. Femme can convert her.
Edwards returns to the space ship where "QUEEN AROUSAL" lights up on a control board and a bald, Black actress (Yolanda Savalas, billed comically as "Eve Fellatio") portrays the Queen, dancing around and giving Eric a blow job. Gimmick is she's painted white, like a poor man's Shirley Eaton in GOLDFINGER.
As she rides Eric, and "planetary orgasm" approaches, Dr. Femme is humping Andrea back on Earth. Eric's cum shot on the Queen's belly coincides with Andrea infecting Dr. Femme venereally, and all the drones become deactivated. With the invasion a failure, "ABANDON PLANET" is flashed on screen, and the Serling-style narrator warns us of future alien seductions of planet Earth. Yeah, right.
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