strange invaders

Director: michael laughlin

Actor: paul le mat,nancy allen,diana scarwid,michael lerner

Data Published: Fri Sep 16 1983

Genres: Horror,Mystery,Sci-Fi

Key Words: alien,tabloid,professor,invasion,conspiracy

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086374/

WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Invaders

Description: Strange Invaders is a movie starring Paul Le Mat, Nancy Allen, and Diana Scarwid. Charlie's ex-wife disappears, and he travels to where she grew up--a rural town in the Midwest--to look for her. But, surprisingly, nobody knows about...

Plot: In 1958, the fictitious town of Centerville, Illinois, (actually filmed in Centreville, Illinois) was invaded by a race of aliens. The invaders could fire lasers from their eyes and hands and reduce humans to "crystallized" glowing blue orbs. They took over the form of the humans who were either captured or killed. Twenty-five years later, university lecturer Charles Bigelow (Paul Le Mat) learns that his ex-wife, Margaret Newman (Diana Scarwid), has disappeared while attending her mother's funeral in Centerville, and travels there to find her. The disguised aliens all appear human and the town of Centerville appears to have not progressed beyond 1958. The aliens try to capture Bigelow as he escapes, but only capture his dog, Louie. Seeing a photo of an alien in a tabloid magazine, Bigelow soon finds Margaret, who is now revealed to be one of the aliens. She warns Bigelow to escape with Elizabeth (Lulu Sylbert), their human/alien hybrid daughter, to protect her from the aliens, who want to take her to their home-world. Bigelow and Elizabeth escape from the departing alien ship and the townsfolk's blue orbs are transformed back to their original human forms.