World Famous Comics: Jessica Bork Invasion of the Pod People
Jessica Bork Invasion of the Pod People
Starring: Sarah Lieving, Shaley Scott, Jessica Bork, Danae Nason Directed By: Justin Jones Average Rating: Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: Unrated Binding: DVD Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC Label: The Asylum Home Entertainment Number of Items: 1 Release Date: July 24, 2007 Running Time: 85 minutes Theatrical Release Date: 2007
It's bad but I liked it Everyone is right - there is almost nothing redeeming in this movie. Acting, plotline, props etc. are just bad. And who knew Ginger plants could metamorphise into an exact duplicate of a human? I just thought they were good with sushi.
But I found myself following this movie. Wondering when the next person would be taken over. There is gratious sex and not excessive but I still thought it was as expected in a grade C movie. There were some points that made me actual worry about a character - hard to ever say you were scared - and I did want the main heroine to escape if for no other reasons than to take more acting lessons.
I also agree with the person who referred to them as ugly models. Considering the reputation some of these women were supposed to have - the looked like second-runs from some old porn movie.
Ugly Models Take Over A new twist on the Bodysnatcher films. This time the switched personality is a polar opposite of the original. The action centers around a confused modeling agency. Strange plants that look like ginger root are the catalyst for the invasion. Some of the models figure out what is going on and do their best to avoid the pod people and being replaced by one. This one becomes funny due to the budget. Using the ginger root is one way. Another is that the top model in the business is rather ugly. The agency seems to have a man in charge as he keeps calling meeting and looking like the boss but another woman, who is subordinate to him in the meetings, seems to be the boss. We really don't see any pod transformations. Random sex scenes eat up time. The agency offices make no sense with the downstairs obviously being right under the roof and the upstairs looking like a livingroom. The main offices are very industrial looking as if filmed in a boiler room. All in all an entertaining film even if the humor aspects seem unintentional. Better than Full Moon's Pod People. Nothing too serious her but a bit of fun. Check it out.
The Asylum Is At It Again The asylum is back at it with another dreadful rip off. For those who don't know The Asylum is a B-Movie production studio which is making a low budget imitation of many theatrical big budget movies. Such movies include The Omen, Transformers, King Kong, The DaVinci Code, Snakes on a Plane and this one which is a rip off The Invasion (the one starring Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig). Some of the rips off are viewable but this one is horrendously bad. Not even the credits are good that's how bad the movie is.
The plot is sort of similar to that of The Invasion, alien life form arrives and begins to find a host in order to live. Only difference here is that instead of falling a sleep and becoming one of them, the host becomes a clone of the real person. As soon as they are in full form they kill the original. Funny thing is that all the hosts are female and they all turn into lesbians for some unexplained reason. Trust me the cover may seem scary and creepy but the movie is the complete opposite. Interestingly they try to add a plot twist which is quite laughable. If you're a freak and enjoy watching naked aliens turning into lesbians with a movie that has no real plot go ahead and nock yourself out and buy it. But if you're like me and want to watch something credible look elsewhere this is not for you this is garbage.
MY PERSONAL RATING: 0 OUT OF 5
Ed Wood's "Invasion of the Lesbian Ginger Root" Quite uniquely bad. Ludicrous dialogue, Junior High School-level acting, bizarre directing, nonsequitur transitions, gratuitious sex scenes that aren't even good, musical score that plays continuously over dialogue ... there's no end to the marvel of "Invasion of the Pod People."
Certain scenes have to be seen to be believed: An intruder holds the heroine at gunpoint, and the heroine's reaction seems to be from the script of a different movie. Characters are shot and die without apparent wounds. Unexplained shots of thunderstorms appear between scenes in bizarre transitions.
The entire movie seems to be an excuse for gratuitious sex scenes, but the sex is boring and brief, often lacking nudity. The pods themselves are literally presented as tiny potted ginger root plants, signalling that the film is intended as tongue-in-cheek, yet there's very little other camp humor or snark at all.
It truly seems as though Ed Wood has risen from the dead and is working for Asylum Films.
GINGER AND LESBIANS Body Snatchers from another world invade Earth disguised as ginger root, and the women who have been body snatched become lesbians. A couple of men who apparently come in contact with the dreaded ginger root when their bodies are snatched the lesbians shoot them. Oh and the heroine who really isn't a heroine betrays her BFF. The End.
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