ALIEN FROM L.A. 
(1988)

(From Joe Bob's Ultimate B Movie Guide)


Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Kathy Ireland mucks around through caves with gunk on her face and gets kidnapped by an army of Sears appliances in this fairly decent sci-fi yarn about what would happen if the lost city of Atlantis was really a spaceship full of aliens and it sank into the ocean and then all the aliens went to the center of the earth to live and they're still down there waiting for Kathy to fall down a hole so they can chain her up and do disgusting things to her. Add some "Blade Runner" rip-off effects, "Dune" rip-off costumes, "Alice in Wonderland" rip-off plots, and gratuitous mud-wrestling-to-the-death, and you have the first movie ever made with spewing dry-ice in every scene. This was the first in a series of one starring roles for Kathy, because she talks like Marilyn Monroe after inhaling helium. Six dead bodies. No breasts. (Shame on you, Kathy.) Two brawls. Troll mule. World's worst tractor. Maggot Burger. Cast of fish-eye lens people from a San Francisco Sadie Hawkins Day. Gratuitous troll leisure suit. Bottomless Pit Fu. Frying Pan Fu. Repeated lead pipe Fu. "Wizard of Oz" rip-off Fu. With Linda Kerridge as the slinky underground ice-woman bar-maid sex goddess, William R. Moses as Gus the Miner ("I feel like a worm broker"), Janie du Plessis as the Acid Witch Woman with a hypo, Deep Roy as Mambino the Gangster ("You look like a troll, you dress like a worm, and you have a voice that gives everyone a headache"). 2 stars

 

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