Robot Monster - DVD

This is the original 6-part teleseries that was the follow-up to the earlier teleseries, The Quatermass Experiment (1953). There is something very wrong with a huge chemical factory out in the wilds of rural England. An alien horror is afoot! The scenes in this marvelous teleseries range from thought-provoking to downright terrifying. Wow... A terrific script, is complimented by great, believable performances. British science fiction doesn't get much better than this.

Michael Laughlin directs "Strange Invaders," an affectionate homage to science fiction/alien takeover films of the 1950s that stars Paul Le Mat ("Hanoi Hilton") as a university professor searching for his ex-wife (Diana Scarwid, "Extremeties"), who seems to have disappeared while visiting her hometown of Centerville, Illinois. In fact, the place turns out to be a hotbed of aliens, in place since the Fifties and weirdly unaware of how th

When a young scientist's experiments with a new radioactive isotope cause it to double in size every 12 hours, a nearby town's existence is threatened by the deadly radiation.