Expert: 7devonapes - 7/18/2010

Question
My friends and I have been racking our brains trying to come up with this title. It's an early to mid 80's film.  All we can vaguely remember is people being turned into orbs of energy.  They speak with disembodied voices from the orbs (yellow, if I remember).  It has to do with aliens doing it.  It's in a deserted town.  There's a guy who has gone crazy (we think from trying to get away from the aliens), but then in the end, everyone is turned back to normal.  It was higher quality film, if I'm right, but I have not come across anything like it anywhere.

Answer
Hi Doug,

Not quite sure about this one, but will take a guess and say it's one of the following three:

Strange Invaders (1983)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086374/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35Ze9l0tYgQ

Invaders from Mars (1986)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091276/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISWW8Ed7UeA

The Tommyknockers (1993) (TV)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106156/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqFh0QWE-Y0


- All three are available on DVD from Amazon.com and elsewhere online. The first two films, strangely enough, can be purchased together in the following set: http://www.amazon.com/Strange-Invaders-Mars-Karen-Black/dp/B0007R4T2G/ref=sr_1_1...

Best of luck!
Ryan