This one’s a right stinker. If you don’t watch carefully, you can’t even tell it’s been dubbed. The movie is actually from Spain. The Pod People somehow is one of the “classic” MST3K episodes. Perhaps because it’s one of the commercially available ones. I don’t know.
Whatever the reason, this movie suffers from poor dialog, extreme continuity problems, bad acting, and generally lacks the cohesiveness that any normal movie might have. First, it’s a story about three poachers in the woods, and one of them runs across a glowing red cave full of alien eggs. He dutifully busts up most of them, and is then murdered by what I must assume is the mommy alien. Then it’s about a “rock” band recording a song you can’t ever understand despite the fact that it’s in English. They go on a weekend camping trip. Then we cut over to a boy and his family that live out in the woods. The boy steals one of the good eggs and it hatches in his room. He names the alien Trumpy because of his long snout. Trumpy is telekinetic and understands the boy Tommy within the first few hours of being born, somehow.
Robbed of its egg, what I must assume is the mother alien goes on a rampage killing people she finds in the forest. Everyone assumes it’s Trumpy when they discover Tommy’s been hiding him in the house. Tommy takes Trumpy out in the woods to leave him like an unwanted pet, the mother attacks, gets killed, and they leave Trumpy to fend for himself without any help. The end.
I rate this movie 7 empty seats, one for each star in the constellation-type thing that appeared on the forehead of each victim killed by Trumpy’s mommy.
It stinks!