Starship Invasions

Starship Invasions (1977)

We know they are there - advanced beyond our imagination. Why have they come?

Captain Rameses and his Legion of the Winged Serpent brigade are out to claim Earth for their dying race. Out to save Earth is an alien guard patrol located in the Bermuda Triangle, the League of Races. LOR leaders warn Rameses that he's breaking galactic treaty rules. The alien villain responds by launching an invasion which telepathically drives Earthlings to suicide. The LOR implore UFO expert Professor Duncan to help them. Eventually, the two alien forces battle. Will the Earth be saved?

Date of release
1977-10-14
TMDB
3.3 / 10 (25)
Runtime
1h 29m
Genres
Science Fiction
Director
Ed Hunt

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Toronto

Starship Invasions is a 1977 Canadian science fiction film directed, produced and written by Ed Hunt and filmed in Toronto, Ontario. It was re-released in the United Kingdom as Project Genocide.

Production and release

The film had to be retitled twice. It originally was titled War of the Aliens, which resembled the 1977 blockbuster Star Wars. The title was changed to Alien Encounter, which resembled the 1977 blockbuster Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Hal Roach Studios producers Earl A. Glick and Norman Glick bankrolled the production with $1 million.

Starship Invasions was released in VHS format by Warner Home Video. It was also released in 1987 on video in the United Kingdom by Krypton Force under the title Project Genocide.

Its French-language title was L'invasion des soucoupes volantes.

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