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* EyePatchOfPower: General Pykov is a villainous LadyOfWaR with a sinister eye patch.

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* EyePatchOfPower: General Pykov is a villainous LadyOfWaR LadyOfWar with a sinister eye patch.
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%%* EightiesHair* EightiesHair: Just about every character in the film.
* EyePatchOfPower: General Pykov is a villainous LadyOfWaR with a sinister eye patch.

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Wanda Saknussemm (Creator/KathyIreland) is a nerdy social misfit with large glasses and a squeaky voice who lives in Los Angeles and works at a diner. After being dumped by her boyfriend for "not having a sense of adventure", Wanda is informed via letter that her father, an archaeologist, has died. She flies to northern Africa and while going through her father's belongings, she finds his notes about Atlantis, apparently an alien ship that crashed millennia ago and sank into the center of the Earth. Wanda comes across a chamber beneath her father's apartment and accidentally sets off a chain of events that ultimately cause her to fall into a deep hole.

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''Alien from L.A.'' is a 1988 science fiction film directed by Creator/AlbertPyun and starring Creator/KathyIreland. It is loosely based on Creator/JulesVerne's novel ''Literature/JourneyToTheCenterOfTheEarth'', with some minor allusions to ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''.

Wanda Saknussemm (Creator/KathyIreland) (Ireland) is a nerdy social misfit with large glasses and a squeaky voice who lives in Los Angeles and works at a diner. After being dumped by her boyfriend for "not having a sense of adventure", Wanda is informed via letter that her father, an archaeologist, has died. She flies to northern Africa and while going through her father's belongings, she finds his notes about Atlantis, apparently an alien ship that crashed millennia ago and sank into the center of the Earth. Wanda comes across a chamber beneath her father's apartment and accidentally sets off a chain of events that ultimately cause her to fall into a deep hole.



!!! Journey to the Center of the Earth (1989)
This was a sequel to ''Alien From L.A.'', though not originally. According to the credited director (Rusty Lemorande): "Only the approximately first 8 minutes of the film were written or directed by me. The remainder of the film is actually the sequel to Alien In LA which was tacked on and renamed Journey to the Center of the Earth in order to fulfill contractual commitments by the production company to foreign distributors."

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!!! Journey This film was followed by a sequel, ''Journey to the Center of the Earth (1989)
This was a sequel to ''Alien From L.A.'',
Earth'' (1989), though it was not originally.originally intended as a sequel. According to the credited director (Rusty Lemorande): "Only the approximately first 8 minutes of the film were written or directed by me. The remainder of the film is actually the sequel to Alien In LA ''Alien in L.A.'' (sic) which was tacked on and renamed Journey ''Journey to the Center of the Earth Earth'' in order to fulfill contractual commitments by the production company to foreign distributors."



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* HollywoodNerd: Wanda. Need we repeat, she is played by Creator/KathyIreland. A frikkin' supermodel. Even the movie poster makes no pretense.

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* PantyShot: Two. Unfortunately for any peeping toms out there, in the first one Kathy is merely wearing some rather boring bloomers. A later occurs while climbing down a ladder after her Atlantian makeover, and she sure ain't wearing bloomers ''that'' time.
* ReleasedToElsewhere / UnPerson: Because the Atlantian government denies the existence of the upper world, Wanda's escape at the end is treated like this.

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* PantyShot: Two. Unfortunately for any peeping toms out there, in the first one Kathy is merely wearing some rather boring bloomers. A later occurs while climbing down a ladder after her Atlantian makeover, and she sure ain't wearing bloomers ''that'' time.
* ReleasedToElsewhere / UnPerson:
ReleasedToElsewhere[=/=]UnPerson: Because the Atlantian government denies the existence of the upper world, Wanda's escape at the end is treated like this.
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* UnfortunateNames: Charmin. Given that the credits add an apostrophe ("Charmin' "), it's probably supposed to be short for "Charming"; tragically, "Charmin" is a brand of bathroom tissue in the United States. Unfortunate, indeed.

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* UnfortunateNames: Charmin. Given that the credits add an apostrophe ("Charmin' "), it's probably supposed to be short for "Charming"; tragically, "Charmin" is a brand of bathroom tissue in the United States. Unfortunate, indeed.

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