I think I saw this movie in the late 90s maybe early 2000s. Maybe made in the 90s or even 80s? It was kinda lower budget I think. I really don’t remember too much of the movie, but I seem to remember it being 3 siblings-2 brothers and their sister. Their parents went out of town or something, leaving them alone. The eldest kid was driving with his brother and sister in the car, fell asleep at the wheel for a minute, and they ended up in some weird town. I think the sister noticed the people who lived in the town were doing the same thing over and over again, like the man would walk by and tip his hat, then do it again a few minutes later. By the end of the movie they find out that their parents fell asleep too and ended up in the town and were trapped in these pod type things. They get them out by stabbing the pod with a rattlesnake fang. I think that’s all I can remember, I know there isn’t too much to go off of, but hopefully someone out there recognizes this movie!
“Phantom Town”(1999)?
It was a direct to video release. Here is the IMDb page:
http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0197765
Here is the trailer from YouTube. You can see the parents in pods at 1:24.
https://youtu.be/eKQd2o2unRE
That’s the one! Thank you so much. This had been bothering me for years.
Thank you marzipan.