Alien from L.A.

1988 "The people at the center of the earth are about to get a visitor."
Alien from L.A.
3.2| 1h27m| PG| en| More Info
Released: 26 February 1988 Released
Producted By: The Cannon Group
Country: United States of America
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When her archaeologist father disappears on an expedition, Wanda sets out to look for him. What she finds is a secret underground world, where no one believes in life on the surface and where she and her father are taken for spies.

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Eric Stevenson This movie has one of the most misleading titles I've ever heard. We don't get to see a single alien in this entire movie! What the title means is that it features these people who live underground. They believe that the people on the surface are aliens. I mean, I guess you could argue they mean an alien in the sense that it's someone from another country. Come on, this is a sci-fi film! Nobody ever uses the term "alien" like that here! Anyway, the main character's voice in this movie is very annoying. They do point it out, but the rest of the film is so bad it doesn't matter.This also featured very little of LA at all. What's amazing is how boring this film was. There were some fight scenes, but they were all done horribly. The makeup in this film was just laughable. I don't know why these characters look so ridiculous. It just ends with one of the villains becoming good for absolutely no reason. I have never heard of Kathy Ireland before, but I didn't get a good first impression of her here. *
Aaron1375 I am going to be the first to admit this, but I am giving this film like two more stars than it really deserves only because I find Kathy Ireland super hot; she is especially so in this particular film. This film is also special in another way...it basically introduced me to what is now my favorite show, MST3K. It is also a bizarre film that combines elements from Journey to the Center of the Earth, Alice In Wonderland and The Road Warrior and Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome. That being said, it does not blend them correctly and it does not blend them well. It is also way to lighthearted of a film, trying to rely on humor that mostly falls flat, rather than say some extreme action, gore and perhaps a bit of skin. The film ends up being just to weak in every aspect and the only thing you have to see is a very attractive Kathy Ireland, which is nice, but not enough to support the weight of the film.The story has a girl that has a very annoying squeaky voice getting dumped by her boyfriend because she is not adventurous enough for him. Why they felt the need for Kathy to speak like this is beyond me, her voice is a bit like the one used by her character in the film, but has a more sexy quality to it as it is lower. It kind of sounds like Kathy was sucking helium before each line. Anyway, apparently her mother is dead and her dead is an explorer or something. He goes missing and is presumed dead, she travels to somewhere and she ends up falling into a hole and ends up in Atlantis...where they apparently drink Fosters cause there be lots of Australians there. She meets one guy who is seemingly the other star, but then some random dude becomes the girl's love interest. Lots of basement and boiler room shots found within as they try to mimic an underground city. Kathy's character gets chased, drugged and interrogated; however, she doesn't get nude at all and she very rarely wears anything nice and skimpy which makes one sad.As I mentioned above, this film was my first introduction to MST3K. I basically had a thing for Kathy back in the day and I saw here and stopped flipping the channel. Then I noticed the silhouettes, and noticed only one appeared to be human. I also found what they were saying about this film to be very funny. I ended up finishing the episode, but it would be a couple of more years before I could watch the show again as it was a free preview of comedy central, which we still did not get after the free preview was over. I had to wait till the show made it to the Sci Fi channel before I could really fall in love with the show.So, while this movie is pretty bad, it has some fond memories for me. It had a very attractive Kathy Ireland in like her only starring role, and it introduced me to MST3K. Granted, it was also just an unsuccessful mix of a bunch of films, it made the lead character hot, but very annoying sounding and its attempts at humor failed miserably. It would have been better had they not made the film so tame, as when making a low budget film you need something to distract the viewer from the fact it is a cheap film, but the film gets some props from me for the reasons listed above.
rush830 I've done that, so I know for fact it's true. It really is. I'm pretty forgiving when it comes to bad movies too. I could even say that I enjoyed watching Manos: Hands of Fate after watching this.I can't really say exactly why this movie was bad, as it was so horrible I've blacked out all memory of the plot. Or was there a plot at all? I suppose it's just as well.Not even Crow, Servo and Mike's humor could make this movie tolerable. I suppose if they created a version where they muted out Kathy Ireland's voice, then it might resemble something that's a slightly more annoying than Chinese water torture. But as is, I'd take the head crusher, the rack or even the Spanish tickler, anything but this movie.Avoid at all costs.
Diana Boy, this movie is bad. And not in a good, cheesy, fun way, either. Even MST3K couldn't stop it from being boring, and it's also confusing as all get out. But the most annoying part of this dull mess is Ireland's hideous high pitched voice, which I was tired of listening to in the first five minutes. Not to mention how really unappealing her character is. Even her Dad ran away and abandoned her! I can see why, frankly. If he'd had to listen to her whine in her little mouse voice for more than a few minutes, he'd have been tempted to do her a great harm. As I was, by the end of the movie. Plus, she's useless and annoying. When she falls down the long hole in the earth a la Alice in Wonderland, she'd have been done for in the first ten minutes if that inexplicably Australian accented miner hadn't kept saving her from all of the various plights she kept falling into. He should have just tied her to the Atlantean version of train tracks and been done with it. And this Atlantis underground with the weird, confusing obsession with bone density,I have to ask-where was the light coming from down there? Did they have generators that imitate the sun? No matter. There's no real plot anyway, just a bunch of oddly costumed Goth wannabees running around trying to catch Kathy(probably so that they can stick a gag in her mouth). Stupid, pointless film. Thank you Golan Globus, for this cinematic abomination. May you burn in the seventh ring of Hell for all eternity.