Over-sexed Rugsuckers from Mars

A cult sci-fi comedy from the late 80's that looks like it was shot on 8MM. If you like normal films you won't like this one.

A group of aliens (miniature naked Claymation ones) land next to a bum and an old vacuum and decide to create a new breed of humans. Thanks to the aliens the homeless man finds the vacuum irresistible and you can imagine the rest.

The vacuum likes to eat by using its plug to pull plates of food into its mouth. Things get nasty when it starts taking lives and raping women (we find out the vacuum is male). Things get even weirder when the woman becomes pregnant from the vacuum which was the ultimate goal of the aliens. They figure the new generation will clean up after themselves.

The acting is atrocious especially the detective who is doing a Bogart impersonation all the way through. Really the whole film is atrocious but in a funny, ridiculous way. You will laugh. The title alone has to get you to watch it.

This movie is a really funny, original shot-on-video film. If you can make it to then end of the movie, watch for the woman giving birth to a dustbuster with the head of a cabbage patch kid doll. Very silly film, definately not to be taken seriously. Funny kitschy soundtrack and effects. Think California Raisins meets The Bloody Video Horror That Made Me Puke On My Aunt Gertrude....

If you only see one movie about rug-sucking Martians this year, see this one. This movie opened my eyes. I have since replaced all the carpet in my house with hardwood and tile.

They won't get me!

Well, Kira Philips and Miles O'Brien, in speaking about Mars, spoke about this movie on August 27, 2003 as one of 108 movies with the name "Mars" in the title. I don't think that the movie would have been mentioned at all if it was not at least funny. Has anyone seen this film on TV and/or at art film showcases such as the Museum of Modern Art in NYC?

Oversexed Rugsuckers from Mars is absolutely insane. Not the kind of insane that leaves one asking 'Where have you been all my life?', but rather the kind of insane that has one questioning 'How the hell did this film get made in the first place?' and 'Who would want to invest the time and effort to make something so totally bizarre?'.

It's punk rock sensibilities are evident throughout, with a 'couldn't give a s**t' attitude regarding its narrative, wild editing, alternative music, and oddball performances from people with far more enthusiasm than talent. Sometimes this sort of chaotic approach reaps dividends, but on this occasion is simply results in a film that is just too weird, and horribly cheap, for its own good.

The film starts with small, badly animated, naked, plasticene aliens arriving on Earth, only to be disappointed by mankind's lack of progress. They decide to alter the course of evolution by crossing a man with a vacuum cleaner, the human subject of the experiment being drunken bum Vernon (Richard Monda), who unknowingly chugs some alien urine, after which he has sex with an upright vacuum, who he calls Dusty.

When Dusty is stolen by a street vendor and sold to Tom as a gift for his wife, the vacuum turns on its new owner, raping and killing her. After Tom is arrested for murder, his neighbour, aspiring rock singer Rena (Jean Stewart), tries to help prove his innocence. Meanwhile, Vernon walks the streets, looking for Dusty.

Utterly bonkers (the scene where Rena gives birth to a cabbage patch doll/dustbuster baby is definitely one-of-a-kind), but too crap to ever develop a cult following, Oversexed Rugsuckers from Mars is the type of film that results in a big sigh of relief once it is over.