Space Invasion of Lapland (1959)

Original title

Rymdinvasion i Lappland

Directed by

Virgil W. Vogel

Genre

science fiction film

Country

Sweden, United States

Runtime

1h 12m

Rated

NR

Rating

4.0 of 10 from 33 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A creature from space lands in the remote wilderness of Lapland. A team of people must figure out what it is and how to stop it.

black-and-whiteslowaliencreepydatedlow-budgetsuspensefulmonster

What happens

Invasion of the Animal People (Swedish: Rymdinvasion i Lappland, lit. 'Space invasion in Lapland') is a 1959 Swedish-American black-and-white science fiction-monster film released to Swedish cinemas on August 19, 1959. The film was produced by Bertil Jernberg and Gustaf Unger, directed by American Virgil W. Vogel, and stars Barbara Wilson, Robert Burton, and Stan Gester. Written by Arthur C. Pierce, the film had most of its dialogue in English. The film was re-edited by American producer Jerry Warren and had newly filmed sequences added. The film had its U.S. release in 1962 under the title Invasion of the Animal People (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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