It's not often that the monster becomes less lethal before it fucks off into space. In TIME WALKER, a space traveler sealed inside an Egyptian sarcophagus is awakened from their mummified imprisonment by a heavy dose of X-rays. The movie follows a gaggle of unpleasant and/or uninteresting humans as they slowly figure out everything the "mummy" touches is seared by a nasty green fungus. Meanwhile the alien is reassembling a set of stolen crystals without any care to refrain from harming any being that gets in the way. Amazingly, some of the humans understand the danger well enough to not get killed or maimed.
Finally the alien recovers the full set of crystals, wins the game, reveals their true form, and escapes this Earth.

The movie spends about the first hour trying to figure out how to tell this story in an interesting way, and by the end it almost gets there. Thanks to the #Monsterdon community for the commentary! Thanks @Taweret for hosting and thanks @cherizilla for the real star, the bingo card!

"Keep an eye on him."
"Sure thing. Right after my lunch break."
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Oh, Zhu Ming is the guy who got attacked in the car. #monsterdon #SuperInframan

@steggy is looking at the gloves. I'm looking at the machine gun jubblies.
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If you point out to the villain's right-hand woman that she has no cleavage to show off, she will cut your head open with her laser cannon. #Monsterdon

"Do you want to die, or will you obey my orders?"

... that's what she said. 😃
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I cast "Lame 4th of July fireworks in a state with stupid laws"
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@starkraving666 @RobynGoodfellow heh nice one

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It had moments of coherence. #monsterdon

I wonder what Dr. Nadir is up to these days. I hope he's well. #monsterdon

This is like high school TV club bad special effects.
#monsterdon #superinframan

What a coincidence these aliens happen to use Chinese dragon imagery.
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This is absolutely NOT a rip-off of Masked Rider, okay? #Monsterdon

hmmm haven't seen this version of The Grinch before #monsterdon

The drill's a metaphor, right? #Monsterdon

The monsters have a teleporter from the other side of their dragon skull shaped fortress. Plant guy has a speech impediment so he slurs his words.
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@SnoopJ @kcarr2015 Yeah but there was one in his chest which could have been special and transport-resistant

for all we know 🤷

#Monsterdon #TimeWalker

Why are bad movies so good? #Monsterdon

I mean, there was nothing really involving time in the whole film. #Monsterdon

Whee - the university president is also the foreman (Frank) of the Uneeda Medical Supply Warehouse! I knew he (James Karen) looked familiar!

#Monsterdon #TimeWalker1982

There was a made for tv movie in the 90s, Sci-Fi Original, I think, where the basic plot was that an archaeology professor found an artifact that changed him, and he gathered up a group of ‘perfect specimens’ to go meet the ancient aliens. #TimeWalker reminded me a bit of that. #Monsterdon

So the mummy either f**ked off into outer space, or into a crystal that scorches lawyers hands.

Weird ending.

#Monsterdon #TimeWalker

@LingLass I hope the sequel has plenty of mummy puns or maybe they used them all up #Monsterdon

@littlemiao Yes! Literally. Alas. #Monsterdon

#monsterdon Wow let's just use our most petroleum-based outfit for these fire stunts #Inframan

@paco @Somarasu About as much as the Puppet People spent Attacking in their movie #monsterdon

Monster roll call! Claw guy! Plant thing! Spider-man! The Twins!
#Monsterdon #SuperInframan

@LingLass Did it end with To Be Continued?! #Monsterdon

@brooke A charitable reading would add "on #monsterdon" but why be charitable?

We have survived another #Monsterdon!

Well, now we know what all the silver Mylar in the uniforms is for: fire resistance. #Monsterdon

Villain can't afford better than a two-dollar wig. #Monsterdon

So they threw in a jerk lawyer for me to hate that got his greedy hand burned at the end, so that adds a point in this movie's rating for me. 👍

Other than that, this is one of those movies that would have worked better with higher production values. I especially enjoyed the campus wide power fluctuations. 🙂

Also, what is the deal with the flesh eating fungus? Doesn't seem real friendly.

#Monsterdon #TimeWalker

@bunnyhero I dread the use of that "yet"

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Tokusatsu is always improved by control panels that swivel for no reason. #Monsterdon

@Zerofactorial @Somarasu Exactly! Same hat.

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@Somarasu Personally I liked the steampunky parts of the Asphyx, just not the characters #monsterdon

huh, susie was also in critters 3! (and 4 but we haven’t watched that here yet) #monsterdon

the important thing now is to watch whatever is next on https://miru.miyaku.media/

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The Second Unit Director, Skip Schoolnik, later went on to direct some "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Angel" episodes, having the significant demon 'Skip' named after him in the latter series.

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#TimeWalker

Bigger balls. More blinking. More colors. Increased beeping.
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Two stars to this film on #letterboxd - it was hard for me to come up with positive things to say about it, honestly https://letterboxd.com/anderson_petaq/film/time-walker/ #monsterdon

Wait, what do you mean they didn't make Time Walker 2: Walking Time‽
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Big thanks to @Taweret for this, the final Monsterdon of 2025. Certainly wasn't the worst, and at least tried to hit all the checklist items.

#Monsterdon #TimeWalker1982

More glowing balls? This is a sequel!
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#monsterdon But the best part for me, for Time Walker, was how he was just this very lonely sock-muppet with big black eyes who just wanted his little glass beads back. That was it. The entire thing. X-Rays, Green Goo, Frat Boys, and... a homesick sock-muppet who just wanted to go home.

@paco I’m the fourth pipe from the left.
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#Monsterdon 💀 ☢️ ⏳🚶‍♂️‍➡️ 😱

the time walker did walk, but not through time. Maybe they should have called it 'fungus covered walking mummy' instead? That might have given too much away.

anyhoo, thanks for hosting @Taweret and for bingo @cherizilla and for the excellent trivia @JoeWynne and most of all, as always...

thanks for making it fun, all you #Monsterdonians!

See you next time I hope!

@Louisa I think as long as they don't start pulsing light, we're cool

I mean.....I hope

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@Somarasu Disagree. Not, like... _hard_ disagree, but disagree.

#monsterdon #TimeWalker

To be continued?

Please!

No!

-fin

#Monsterdon #TimeWalker #monsterdonBingo

@CactuarJoe voting The Worst for the sheer arrogance of the sequel bait when they knew it was never coming. they knew!

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well that was an hour an a half of my life i'll never get back. too bad the entire movie wasn't subsumed by a green goo before it made it to the theaters. one giant slimy thumbs down.

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The mummy was an alien the whole time!

Let's shoot it! 🙄

#Monsterdon #TimeWalker

@DelilahTech accurate

(I use my TV for the movie and my laptop for the toots)

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@Louisa as long as it doesn't start glowing and getting warm! #monsterdon

Well then. Cocaine is a hell of a drug, I guess.

I'm gonna make some dinner and watch some X-Files. Good night, #monsterdon, don't forget to tip your organizer @Taweret , and see y'all next week!

DON'T TOUCH THE CRYSTAL!

ZZZZZZZ AAAhhh! (Worst Wilhelm Scream knockoff ever!)

"To be continued"

BAHHHAHAHAHA! Yeah right whatever.

THE END

Today we learned that you shouldn't touch mysterious green stuff, and you should leave alien mummies dice collection the EFF ALONE

Thanks @Taweret for the completely mis-titled shuffly-floaty-spacey-mummy #Monsterdon that had nothing timey wimey in it at all it was delightful!

#Monsterdon #TimeWalker TO BE CONTINUED

bold words

@JoeWynne aha, i assume that the 'time' part of 'time walker' would show up in the series i guess?? #monsterdon

Super Inframan! The man beyond bionics!
https://miru.miyaku.media/
#Monsterdon #SuperInframan

Well, that sure happened. Not bad enough to be a bad movie. Not good enough to be a good one.

Thanks @Taweret @cherizilla @ryan / @miru @JoeWynne etc.!

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Well, that's not likely included in Shari Belafonte's resume.

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I kinda wanna know what happens to the space dude. #Monsterdon #TimeWalker 🤷🏾‍♀️🎥🍿

Next up INFRAMAN! The best crazy tokusatsu movie ever made.
Somehow it's better than any old Kamen Rider movie by not being made in japan, but instead made by the Shaw Bros. Ya know the guys who made so many awesome 70s kung fu movies.
#Monsterdon #SuperInframan

The director of #TimeWalker, Tom Kennedy, seems to have had a reasonably accomplished career, even if this single movie he directed was kind of a dud: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Kennedy_(producer)

#Monsterdon ~Chara

@klu9 mmm, noooo.

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@davesdogmaggie

#MonsterdonSavesTimeWalker2

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@nazokiyoubinbou We are all time travelers. #monsterdon

Woohoo! Psycho ripoff! Done poorly! #monsterdon

@jonny in the forward direction, we are really all time walkers if you think about it - Linda, probably

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wtf he’s a grey alien??? #Monsterdon

I'm really not paying attention and I'm still stamping my #MonsterdonBingo card like crazy ✔️
#Monsterdon #TimeWalker #Monsterdon #TimeWalker #monsterdonBingo

Well,, that was... yeah

In order to really enjoy this, I need two monitors, if not two computers: one for the movie and the other to Fedi

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No coffee drinking. No smoking (that I caught, at least). The dog doesn't die, which is something.

#Monsterdon #TimeWalker1982

@josh0 I love the benevolent alien movies of the 80's

#Monsterdon #TimeWalker

Please tell me there’s a sequel! #Monsterdon #TimeWalker

@guyjantic I am disappointed that Sharpe didn't meet some grisly end, or even have to pay a fine #monsterdon

Lyn McKissik, script supervisor, has a LOT to answer for.
#Monsterdon #TimeWalker

He brings us peace and love! Don’t let him get away! #Monsterdon #TimeWalker

I remembered the mummy alien stalker green fungus glowing balls all that nonsense. But it was actually dumber than I recalled. This was a great bad movie.
#Monsterdon #TimeWalker

#monsterdon stone 5/5 collected.

time travel time??

I see what is probably the final girl putting on what appears to be both a MacGuffin and the mystical creature's balls. #monsterdon

i quite literally howled at that ending 🤣 probably woke the neighbours

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lmao on our taped version there was an ad for the upcoming evening news at the end, advertising a segment about a lady who is "the area's leading psychic"

anyway thanks @Taweret that was a thing see you all next week #monsterdon #timewalker1982

Space Imhotep had the right idea. I'm going home. Geez! Thanks all. #monsterdon

Robert Random? Victoria Von Vorhees? These actors all have the most unique names and they're all playing characters named "Coed 2" and "Man on bench." And "Gaffer."

Wait that's the crew.

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@Louisa ...this implies outtakes. This implies there were more scenes.

And that they thought all of these were the _good_ ones.

#monsterdon #TimeWalker

This end credit music is *such* a letdown

#Monsterdon #TimeWalker

Tink Ten Eyck.

I don't have a joke here, I just really like that name. I hope they're having a good life despite having assisted production of this ... this. #Monsterdon

Jeff Yesko "Wrapper" 5 minutes to learn, a lifetime to master! #monsterdon

Decent ending credits music.

#Monsterdon #TimeWalker

Thank you @Taweret for hosting and everyone who participated.
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Looks like he rolled a 1

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in WHAT WAY did the time mummy in time walker walk through time #monsterdon

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"Mummy Dog — Buffy"

...there was a mummy dog?

HOLY CRAP!! There IS a sequel!!! #Monsterdon #TimeWalker 🤷🏾‍♀️🎥🍿

Poll results! https://me.dm/@kshernandez/115800682676325298

The view of most of us watching this ending...
Tag yourself. I'm definitely the guy in the middle.
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more movies should end like that tbh #monsterdon

To be continued!!?? In your dreams movie! Wow was that one pointless. Thanks as always to @Taweret for hosting. Have a great New Year Beautiful Mutants and remember: Let sleeping mummy balls lie. #Monsterdon #TimeWalker