I think this film was made just a bit after THE DARK POWER. Once again Lash is a supporting character, but he doesn't handle a whip even once in the film,
and displays a fine talent for light comedy. The plot is very PREDATORS (in fact, this was made a good bit before Predator) - aliens land in an invisible
spaceship, and it turns out they all like guns! They find earth guns and go on a murder/assault rampage. Meanwhile, low-rent gun-show Annie Oakley type Jessie
Jameson (in perhaps the shortest skirt in film history) is trying to make the big time with her shootin', rootin' and tootin' show, after getting a
few tips from Sunset Carson (in a one shot cameo). Unfortunately for the aliens, the first person they kill is her no-good road manager, so in the end they
will have to face her blazing guns. Lash is a mentor whose son is the other worker in Jameson's little gun circus, another manager-type who spends the
entire film in bed.
There are great bits (Jessie wearing her shootin' duds on horseback through southern suburbia, going after two armed aliens also on horseback while people hide in their house; the college student with the most accurate and deadly fishing rod in the history of film; the drunk doofus wearing a cowbody hat, his underwear, and a six shooter going up against the aliens; the local comic relief character with a genuine southern accent and a gift for comedy). The aliens look like the image made famous on the poster for DEF-COM 4 - living skulls inside futuristic "helmets".It's too bad that Kari Anderson (who played the bodacious Jessie Jameson) never made another film, but she seems to have made a great career as a fitness instructor.
Does anybody know if director Phil Smoot has been interviewed about these two films (seemingly his only as writer/director?
There are great bits (Jessie wearing her shootin' duds on horseback through southern suburbia, going after two armed aliens also on horseback while people hide in their house; the college student with the most accurate and deadly fishing rod in the history of film; the drunk doofus wearing a cowbody hat, his underwear, and a six shooter going up against the aliens; the local comic relief character with a genuine southern accent and a gift for comedy). The aliens look like the image made famous on the poster for DEF-COM 4 - living skulls inside futuristic "helmets".It's too bad that Kari Anderson (who played the bodacious Jessie Jameson) never made another film, but she seems to have made a great career as a fitness instructor.
Does anybody know if director Phil Smoot has been interviewed about these two films (seemingly his only as writer/director?
