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Title: Zarkorr: Invader [VHS] (1997)
Format: VHS Tape
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Starring: Franklin A. Vallette, Don Yanan, Peter Looney, Dyer McHenry, and Rhys Pugh
Director: Aaron Osborne and Michael Deak
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Runtime: 80
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Review of Zarkorr: Invader [VHS]

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Comments for Zarkorr: Invader [VHS]

• Posted on 2009-07-04
  Zarkor
  
  this movie sucks
  bad effects, Ute Arizona has no sky scrapers!
  Too silly
  some good one-liners
  
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• Posted on 2007-03-13
  Slapped together from odds and ends!!!
  
  Charles Band produced Zarkorr and Kraa in the following manner. He hired a LA special effects house to film two brief shorts compiled of nothing but giant monster footage (smashing things, roaring, stomping around, etc.).
  He then hired a writer to create a story around (and limited to) this completed footage. The result was first Zarkorr! The Invader. It basically works but the monster, who looks cool and has a creepy scream, is on camera far too briefly. The second feature Kraa! The Sea Monster is a little bumpier in its production. The monster footage is clearly of a "sea monster" and that is the title of the movie. But the newer footage indicates that it is a space monster. So there is a bit of convolution here. Secondly, Band decided to do some late production re shooting and added some Power Ranger/Star Trek type characters and a space villain. (The original edit of Kraa! was almost identical to Zarkorr in plot. The new footage remedies this but sticks out like a sore thumb as being new and different looking from the rest of the movie. Kraa has the benefit of being made second and utilizes a lot of stock footage from Zarkorr!. Actually, I wonder why Band didnt pad the film with more stock footage from his own earlier sci fi films (ex. Day Time Ended) or public domain military footage to make these flms feel more like classic monster movies. Basically these films are OK but were shot on Video, but given a film look digitally, or electronically. Zarkorr has a "shrunken" character that allows the reuse of oversized props from Dollman. Kraa has a creepy puppet character that looks almost the same as the
  flesh eating crab monster from Hammer's Lost Continent. (It also appears to be rotting/falling apart right before your eyes. hich gives me the feeling that it too was a reused prop from an earlier production.
  The alien villain Lord Doom is also a puppet and loks similar the the cheracter Sutek from Puppetmaster 4/5.
  
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• Posted on 2006-10-23
  this is an amazing movie
  
  this movie has got to be the funniest movie i have ever seen. I highly recomend this movie to you if you want a good laugh. the movie is about a monster that comes to earth and tries to destroy it. A postal employee has to stop him. my favoratie charater is the security gaurd.
  
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• Posted on 2006-01-15
  Move over godzilla
  
  This has got be one of the best monster movies ever made. Most people that saw this fought it stunk. This move should be fine for 9 and up. In this movie and alien race od superior beings decides to test the human race. They sent a giant 180 foor tall 200 ton eye light bolt shooting monster named Zarkor. Who is unvelarable to all weapons develope on earth. Only the select home choosen to defend earth can find the means of vanquish Zarkor. A young mall man named Tomy Ward a scientist and a police cop must stop this creature from space. Will he succed find out in the zappy out of this world conclusion.
  
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• Posted on 2004-12-06
  A Fun Film But Nothing More
  
  I saw this at a local Suncoast and, being a fan of giant monster films, I decided to pick this one up. I wasn't expecting much from this film knowing it was made by a production facility that ended up going bankrupt several years after this film and also knowing it had a shoestring budget (smaller than most of the earlier Godzilla films).
  The beginning of the film didn't sit too well with me because the acting seemed so bad and the story is nothing new to this type of genre.
  There are a couple of women that look gorgeous in the film but it does not really make up for the sub-par acting. But as the movie progresses, everything seems to get a little bit better.
  Aside from the sub-par acting and re-used plot, my major gripe is that Zarkorr, the monster, hardly shows up at all during the film. A sign that the budget was so thin they didn't want to shoot too many scenes of him destroying a miniature city. Even when Zarkorr is shown, it's only for a few seconds and nothing more. It made me upset but it is understandable why there weren't many shots of him. Also, the ending is a little goofy. Considering I thought I had seen it all with my extensive collection of giant monster films, the ending was something new to me and it made me raise an eye-brow. You'll have to see it to understand what I am saying; don't want to give out too much info.
  Overall, Zarkorr is a cheap film but it really isn't all that bad. For those who are looking for some good monster sequences, this is not for you, but if you are a casual monster movie fan, you should find some quality to the film.
  
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