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Aliens release a furry critter in the wilds of Lapland where it takes a woman captive and threatens a group of scientists.Aliens release a furry critter in the wilds of Lapland where it takes a woman captive and threatens a group of scientists.Aliens release a furry critter in the wilds of Lapland where it takes a woman captive and threatens a group of scientists.
Åke Grönberg
- Dr. Henrik
- (as Ake Gronberg)
John Carradine
- Narrator
- (English version)
- (voice)
Gösta Prüzelius
- Dr. Walter Ullman
- (as Gosta Pruzelius)
Brita Borg
- Singer
- (uncredited)
Doreen Denning
- Anna
- (uncredited)
Ittla Frodi
- Girlfriend in Volvo
- (uncredited)
Fred Hoffman
- Doctor (US TV version)
- (uncredited)
Chuck Niles
- Second Doctor (US TV version)
- (uncredited)
Gustaf Unger
- Air Passenger with Dark Glasses
- (uncredited)
Katherine Victor
- Diane's Mother (US TV version)
- (uncredited)
Lars Åhrén
- The Monster
- (uncredited)
- …
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Did you know
- TriviaThe scientists fly up to Lappland in an SAS Convair 440 Metroliner, "Trygve Viking", then onto the landing site in a Swedish army Noorduyn Norseman.
- GoofsThe English title "Terror in the Midnight Sun" isn't logical. Since it's set in the Swedish winter, the midnight sun is something that occurs in northernmost Sweden during the summer. The same areas in the winter are almost all-day dark.
- Alternate versionsWas released in the USA as "Invasion of the Animal People". The film was shortened and scenes with John Carradine were added. Jerry Warren and Virgil W. Vogel are given co-director credit for the U.S. version
- ConnectionsFeatured in Censuren - En thriller (2011)
- SoundtracksMidnight Sun Lament
Based on an old Swedish melody
Music and Swedish lyrics by Gustaf Unger
English lyrics by Frederick Herbert
Sung by The Golden Gate Quartet
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If you like watching a bunch of people skiing around, you'll love this. An alien saucer lands in the opening round of the movie, and just sits there for about an hour of film running time before anything else involving it happens.
I saw this on one of those late night live-monster host shows, and the riffs the guy did kept the movie from being pretty boring. There's some scientists that want to see the "meteor" that came down, a romance between a couple who flirt on the ski runs, and some other folks that do a reenactment of the mob scene from Frankenstein. You have to wait a long time to see the creature, a really really big hairy guy with ugly teeth, and his brief scene is pretty campy. Still, I liked the Jolly Neanderthal Giant. As for aliens, they show up only once too, just staring at somebody. (One is seen a couple of times from the back, always watching TV).
Innocently silly and mildly amusing. There's loose ends at the end deliberately left for you to ponder. Or laugh at.
I saw this on one of those late night live-monster host shows, and the riffs the guy did kept the movie from being pretty boring. There's some scientists that want to see the "meteor" that came down, a romance between a couple who flirt on the ski runs, and some other folks that do a reenactment of the mob scene from Frankenstein. You have to wait a long time to see the creature, a really really big hairy guy with ugly teeth, and his brief scene is pretty campy. Still, I liked the Jolly Neanderthal Giant. As for aliens, they show up only once too, just staring at somebody. (One is seen a couple of times from the back, always watching TV).
Innocently silly and mildly amusing. There's loose ends at the end deliberately left for you to ponder. Or laugh at.
- MartianOctocretr5
- Mar 24, 2007
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- Release date
- Countries of origin
- Languages
- Also known as
- Invasion of the Animal People
- Filming locations
- Lapland, Sweden(as Midnight Sun Territory, Lappland, arctic sequences)
- Production companies
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- Budget
- $40,000 (estimated)
- Runtime55 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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