Robert Vaughn and Christopher Lee are the embarrassed looking stars of this 1977 Canadian science fiction film, released in the UK under the title of Project Genocide. A group of rogue aliens known as the Legion of the Winged Serpent, from the Orion Constellation, lead by Captain Rameses (played by Christopher Lee in a gumby shaped ninja outfit), plan to colonize Earth fleeing from their home system, whose sun is about to explode. They plan to exterminate mankind in the process, using a device that affects the human mind from distance, causing people to become homicidal and suicidal. Many elements of the film, including the design of the robots and the winged serpent emblem the black-clad villains wear, are taken from real life UFO accounts. It was trounced at the Box Office by Close, Encounters of the Third Kind.
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