EDITOR’S NOTE: Strangest Dreams: Invasion of the Space Preachers was on USA Up All Night on March 1 and 2 and October 18, 1991 and June 20, 1992.

Directed and written by Daniel Boyd (Chillers), this is the story of dentist Walter Bennett (Jim Wolfe) and accountant Rick Lowery (Guy Nelson) who have gone on a vacation to the mountain cabin of Truman Gator (John Marshall). They want to prove that they’re real men, but all they find are rednecks in the wild and wonderful woods of West Virginia, the House of Dung, a rockabilly icon named Johnny Angel (John Riggs), his groupies Dreama (Stacy Weddington) and Rhonda (Piper Thayer), more rednecks that want some Gray Poupon — which I thought was fancy and beyond my family’s means as a kid only to learn that it only costs $3.99 a jar today — as well as a pond filled with nudists, two old people who have adopted a small adult as their child, a survivalist named Vic 20 (Jesse Johnson), Jimmy Walker (yes, the actor, playing himself) and Reverend Lash (Gary Brown), a radio evangelist whose sermons play 24 hours a day.

There’s also a spaceship that has crash landed. The alien survivor asks to be taken somewhere to rest and when the shell that covered the creature breaks away, it ends up being Nova (Eliska Hahn), who is more attractive as a female. The Reverend is also an alien with an army of bad guys that she has flown here to stop.

Boyd didn’t have much experience here and it shows. There are some ideas — as you can see above — but he’d get much better from this as Chillers is pretty fun. But even though this is rough, there’s just enough to keep it entertaining, like the idea of Elvis living in the Appalachians.

You can watch this on Tubi.