...HOW A MOVIE CAN SCARE YOU SO BADLY WHEN YOU'RE A KID, YET WHEN YOU SEE IT YEARS LATER IT'S JUST AMUSING. THIS MOVIE IS SUBLIMELY HORRIBLE -- YOU HAVE TO APPRECIATE THE GENRE TO ENJOY THIS FILM AS MUCH AS I DO, BUT IF YOU'RE EVER LUCKY ENOUGH TO GET BITTEN BY THE B-MOVIE BUG, FIND A COPY OF THIS MOVIE STARRING JACK PALANCE, MARTIN LANDAU, AND A VERY YOUNG DAVID CARUSO.
share...I think I saw this one when I was a kid too. Is this the one where some barn gets blown up in the end?
Cheers
Yeah, you're right, the heroin blowns up the shed where the alien stores his "trophies". And to give you some more clues, this movie contains flying star-shaped flesh-eaters, boy scouts running from the alien' shadow, Martin Landau as a paranoid veteran who take the heroes for first wave of invaders, big-headed tall black and white monster, Die-Hard Jack Palance, etc.
Hope it helps you reminding this nice flick.
...just ordered the movie from monstersinmotion.com
shareI remember this movie!!! It was good enough to watch more than once when I was a kid. (around 12)
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This movie scared the hell out of me at 10 yrs old! I would not walk up the stairs alone, I knew one of those little 'frisbee suckers' was going to get me! Whenever my sons are now afraid to walk back to the bathroom by themselves and I think it's silly, I have to remind myself of how this movie scared me, then I escort them right back. I haven't seen it since then and would love to watch it again!! With my sons! :)
shareI remember seeing this when I was a kid when we had one of those 'Free PayTV weekends' and it totally freaked me out! I had thought of this movie over the years but couldn't remember exactly what it was called and came across a reference to it here on IMDB while checking out the bio on Kevin Peter Hall.
I'm going to order this movie today!
Wow, I didn't think this movie would be remembered by anyone but it sounds like 10-12 year olds everywhere were scared to death by it.
I too saw this when I was 12 and had nightmares about those "flying starfish" for years.
If you liked this movie, another one you might be interested in is "XTRO". I'm convinced these two films caused me to be the insomniac I am today. <g>
Yeah, it's a pretty incredible film. The cast alone makes it a winner. I mean, how can you go wrong with such dependable B-pic stalwarts as Jack Palance, Martin Landau, Neville Brand, Ralph Meeker, and Cameron Mitchell hamming it up with unrestrained lip-smacking glee? You just can't, man. Landau in particular overacts with such maniacal eye-rolling gusto that you swear he's gonna give himself a nosebleed. Those little frisbee with teeth monsters are definitely cool; ditto the big bubbleheaded alien hunter. I'm proud to say I own a copy of this sublimely schlocky sci-fi/horror treat on DVD-R. I bought it at a horror film convention for fifteen bucks and certainly got my money's worth.
shareI never saw it at the movies I was 7 when it can out, but I saw it on tv,the late late show when I was about 13 and I still thought it was pretty scary
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I also saw this film when I was about ten, hired out VHS (1983 time I think). I can fully understand how 'bad' it is in a modern technical and plot sense, but for those of us who were kids at the time and saw this 'secret film that hardly anyone knows existed' it's a classic!
The killer limpets were a great invention and the atmosphere was brooding and bleak (as a ten year old anyway), along the lines of other very cheap/unknown video nasties I watched back then (Island of death film springs to mind, not sure if that's the title but some teens go onto an island, dead guy in a swivel chair etc..)
They just don't make this bleak, convincingly low budget type of horror any more. 1972 - 1982 were the best years for true 'horror' in my opinion and this film is a cult classic to at least 20 people (who all seem to be posting on this board) ;)
Add me to the list,
scared me when I saw it in school as a kid, as I lived by a forest with lots of scrubland and small trees around, so when I walked my dogs, I always kept an eye-out for thse flying fried egg starfish monsters.
better than predator! ha ha
Scared the hell outta me and my sis many moons ago, we always spoke about
it "the movie with the flying alien things" ha! We rented the old vhs but
was called The Warning i think here in the UK. I'd love a copy to watch now,
it's been too long.
Saw it on cable TV on a sleepover at my buddy's house when I was about 15. Scared the crap out of me. I've never seen it again, but the flying blood-sucking disks stayed with me to this day. Plus Martin Landau.
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"I'm tellin' you we ain't- we ain't alone!"
It played after an episode of Kolchak on CBS station around May of 1984. don't remember the Big headed Alien but the synthesizers and close-ups of the flying-bloodsucking-mini pizzas digging into the victims.
shareCouldn't agree more... I was 11 and my family decided to rent a fucking lake-house in upstate New York for a month in 1980 and we decided to see this in the theaters. Everywhere you looked it resembled the foggy, dimly-lit woods in this movie. My imagination back then used to run waaaayyy too wild and I envisioned that alien with the giant melon outside my window so my sleep was fucked for a week a so. Looking back now, it's of course with amusement but for that brief time, this was the top of the heap for scares. Note: I wasn't "allowed" to see Alien yet so I didn't have the basis for comparing a classic to a slightly forgettable monster movie.
Funny how the plot for this film, in a very subtle way, is similar to the plot of the brilliant Predator film from 1987.
It's a different mentality.
Children can be scared much more easily. When I was young Beetlejuice (1988) and Halloween (1978) scared me. I don't find them scary in the slightest anymore.
It's also one of the reasons why some people claim older films are scarier. You saw it when you were young and shit your pants, now films don't scare you anymore, ergo the films of yesteryear were scarier.