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Invasion: UFO

Invasion: UFO (1980)

Scifi | 97 minutes
2,54 12 votes
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Genre: Scifi

Duration: 97 minuten

Country: United Kingdom

Directed by: Gerry Anderson

Stars: Ed Bishop, Michael Billington and Wanda Ventham

IMDb score: 5,7 (536)

Releasedate: 19 December 1980

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Invasion: UFO plot

"An organization called SHADO fights off aliens who are infiltrating Earth by disguising themselves as humans."

In the 20th century, the Earth is threatened by an alien race that kidnaps and kills people and even animals to use them for their body parts. In the year 1980, the top secret military organization SHADO (Supreme Headquarters Alien Defense Organisation) was founded in the hope of defending the Earth against this alien threat. This organization operates from a secret location under the Henderson-Straker film studio in London.

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Ed Bishop Ed Bishop

Cmdr. Ed Straker

Michael Billington Michael Billington

Col. Paul Foster

Wanda Ventham Wanda Ventham

Col. Virginia Lake

Vladek Sheybal Vladek Sheybal

Dr. Doug Jackson

David Warbeck David Warbeck

Skydive Commander

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22 May 2025 at 20:03

Terrible. I suspected it wouldn't amount to much. Toy weapons, aliens in silver foil, playmobil vehicles... For a film from 1980, this looks very sixties. Add to that boring procedural dialogues and as a film this is simply nothing. The "underwater shots" seem to have been shot in a regular aquarium after removing the goldfish.

SHADO is a secret government agency that has to prevent aliens from entering our atmosphere and landing on Earth. The system that has been set up does not always work and sometimes one does get through. Towards the end, a whole invasion is about to happen. The plot actually sounds a bit like Men in Black and in terms of style, this is the kind of film that Mars Attacks! refers to.

I was curious about this but curiosity doesn't always pay off.

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