Invitation to Hell (1984 TV Movie)
3/10
The Stepford Wives 2
19 January 2024
Warning: Spoilers
I was undecided whether to watch 'House That Vanished,' 'Don't Go to Sleep' or 91s 'Captive' tonight, as they all failed to hook me within the first 10 seconds, so I've opted for this invitation movie even though I don't feel like watching anything.

I believe I've seen this before. It's similar to 'The Stepford Wives' or 'The Stepford Children.' I always got Jeannie and Samantha mixed up as actors as they were so identical, but it was groovy seeing Jeannie shed her nice lady image and bury a corpse in 'The Stepford Children.'

After a couple of hot bikini babes walk past Colonel Cochran's limo, either the red Power Ranger or Japan's Ultraman becomes a victim of a hit-and-run but defies the odds, raises from hell, and uses the force to fry the driver. There are no tickets around here, just death sentences.

It's a bit early in the movie for this sort of behavior, isn't it?

An all-American family moves to a new state for a fresh start in a town called Paradise as the epoch of the 80s is spawned, bringing with it the guarantee that computer technology is the way of the future. (We're talking Digital Derby Auto Racing here, people.)

Married to his job, Dan Tanna spends his first day refining a space monkey used as a Guinea pig that can defy gravity, fire, and insults.

It only establishes this scene, as it's required at the end of the movie to infiltrate hell and repel its unbearable heatwave of suffering.

An underlying tone to the movie lets you know that something's astray with the locals, like they're subservient robots to Colonel Cochran or Scientology.

The murderous red Power Ranger Ultraman lady, or PRU as an acronym, proves this by accepting brainwashed Mormons into her freezer club. They have to strip naked, inject Tranq, sign a 1,000-year contract, then step forth into temperatures below zero, even though it's the gateway to hell. Hell's entrance must require some coolant, apparently.

Everyone in this seems to have a few loose screws in their heads.

The movie harbors a dark secret about an exclusive Encino Oaks freezer club where normal people turn into Scientology members overnight if they cross the boundary of hell. Funny at the end, how hell's basement is just a carbon copy of suburban LA? (Are actors in LA today anything different to these controlled zombies in this movie? What's the difference?)

Against Dan Tanna's wishes, his wife and two children are influenced to join the freezer club without his approval, and they become pod people overnight and display traits not of this earth.

All these people in secular sects think they're superior to us everyday people, and I find that highly offensive. What do I need saving from, them or myself?

Speaking from life experience I was duped out of 40 bucks eons ago by Scientology, and I'll never forget being surrounded by dozens of Mormons in the library once, and they just circled me with motion in a ring and were watching everything I was doing like it was an experiment to garner an electric force field into joining their cause. It was creepy. You could feel the energy they were letting off, and they looked down their noses at me and saw me as subhuman to them.

'Invitation to Hell' is not doing anything for me. It's like the town of the crazies from that 'Gymkata' movie.

Surely I could have picked something better than this tonight?

Breaking into the Encino Oaks Scientology Club, Dan Tanna is busted by security, but he murders him, and that would be count one hanging over his head. With a taste of blood, he goes home and bashes up his children and locks them in a closet, then turns on his wife and knocks her out cold. Add count two to his murder rap, as he just had a good old-fashioned showdown with a co-worker and blasted him away with a laser proton zapper doohickey.

Uninvited to a Halloween party, he attends anyway, dressed as a spaceman, and enters the gates of hell in an alternate world, only to be pursued by - what's her name? PRU. Yeah, Pru, the Red Ultraman thingy. All she does is bark lifeless windbag orders at him and forgets that she has Emperor-like powers at her disposal.

The power of love proves PRU's undoing as Dan Tanna defies hell's order and PRU spins around in a tizz like a 'Mortal Kombat 2' combatant and explodes for no reason.

What a total waste of everybody's time.

I don't know about you, but I find Robert Urich to be a terrible actor.

This movie was not required.

And watching it in 2024 or beyond should be outlawed.

Like Marty McFly, it's outer time.
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