best movie i've ever seen.

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

When a strange craft lands on our planet, the TEENAGERS FROM OUTER SPACE emerge, immediately skeletonizing a poor dog for barking! At once, we know that, in space, teenagers are at least 25 years old. Also, they wear white clown gloves. They intend to use the Earth as grazing land for their Gargons (aka: giant lobsters). Derek (David Love) feels compassion for the earthlings, and rebels against his comrades. He goes rogue, and attempts to blend in w/ the humans. The scowling, terminally angry alien, Thor (Bryan Grant) is sent to find Derek. The rest is a chase, w/ Derek trying to stay ahead of Thor, who enjoys blasting everyone in his path w/ his skeletonizing gun! Thor's killing spree is the best part of the movie, offsetting the quaint, goofiness of it all. Characters like Betty and Gramps (Dawn Bender and Harvey B. Dunn) are particularly hilarious! Derek himself is as unlikely a hero as there could possibly be. Yet, it all works in some weird, nonsensical way. I always catch myself pulling for Derek, in spite of my cynical, blackened heart. Don't forget the Gargons. They're... um, amazing! ... P.S.- Ms. Bender has a wonderful, young Carolyn Jones thing going on...

This is a very unintentionally funny MST3K style scifi film from the late 50s. Aliens, modeled on a splicing of Nazis with those pesky Commy Ruskies who everyone was afraid of at the time, decide to use earth as a breeding ground for their crop of "Gorgons", animals that are harvested for food and then brought back to their home planet for consumption.Apparently, over the years, this alien civilization has devolved from a civilization of families into an authoritarian planetary military camp in which family units do not exist and thus there are no parents, siblings, etc. Everyone is just a slave to the state. Plus this alien civilization considers itself the master race. Earth is found to be the ideal place for the Gorgon to grow until harvesting, growing from the size of a lobster to a gargantuan size.However, one alien, Derek, has read about how things once were on his planet, and rebels at the idea of leaving the Gorgon there to grow in number and size, wiping out the inhabitants of the planet. He escapes from his alien cadre, and the malevolent Thor is left behind to capture him (turns out Derek is The Leader's son though he doesn't know it) if he can, kill him if he has no alternative. Since Thor just killed a dog for the fun of it, you figure he'll look for any excuse to kill Derek.The dead dog is the catalyst for what comes later. Derek, feeling sad for the unnecessary killing of the harmless dog, takes the ID showing his address and shows up in town. Wouldn't you know the dead dog's owners have a room for rent. Wouldn't you know they have an attractive age appropriate daughter who looks something like a young Drew Barrymore in a bad wig. Of course Derek rents the room.Evil Thor quickly finds a ride into town - let this be a lesson that you should never pick up hitchhikers, especially ones in weird uniforms. Come to think of it, don't rent rooms to strangers in weird uniforms either. Meanwhile, the original Gorgon is in a cave, growing in size and in potential danger to humankind.How will this all turn out? Watch and find out. Don't let the low rating fool you. The acting is wooden, but the film tells you something about small town and suburban life and the good intent we assumed of strangers that we have completely and justifiably lost over the last 60 years, and gives you a feel for what people were afraid of back then - some malevolent force far away, not the lone nuts that walk among us today. I'd recommend it. Just realize you are dealing with, what was from the start, a low budget production.

An alien race come to earth with less than honourable motives in their genes...Gargons Will Rule The Universe!Ah, well, one needs to have a modicum of interest in the "Z" grade sci-fi schlocker craze of the 1950s to even watch this picture. To understand why it exists, with a knowledge of budget restrictions etc, allowances can be made. Yet it's so dreadfully performed and constructed it asks for giant leaps of faith even from the most hardened of cult schlock fans.In truth there's only enough material here to have filled a half hour Twilight Zone episode, in fact thinking about the acting this would have made a good silent feature. There's some fun in the ray guns used, which reduce living beings to skeletons, and the flying saucer is funky, hell there's even the notion that aliens get horny as well. But come the time when the rock lobster puts in a show, you wont know whether to laugh or cry... 3/10

Oh dear. Where to begin? To say that the title is something of a red flag is a serious understatement. If the writers can't come up with something better than "Teenagers from Outer Space," then how good can the movie be? The answer is not very.The movie starts promisingly enough, with a shaggy dog running along and barking. Everyone likes dogs, right? Well, apparently not everyone, because when Fido starts barking at a fake looking saucer, the hatch opens and a masked alien shoots him with a ray gun, instantly turning him into a skeleton. The alien then removes his mask to reveal- a human. Yes, what better way is there to save money on costumes than to have the aliens look like regular people in weird clothes? It's soon revealed that these space teens have come to earth in hopes of using it as grazing land for their livestock, the grecken. A fight immediately breaks out. Derek, one of the aliens, believes it's wrong to unleash the grecken on a planet with intelligent life, and is willing to hold the others at gunpoint to prevent that from happening. Through some incredibly wooden dialog, we learn that on their home world, they have no families, and that the old and sick are killed off to preserve their "Supreme Race." Well Derek makes a run for it into town, and one of his shipmates pursues him, while the others head back into space, and the grecken is left in a nearby cave. Oh and I forgot to mention, Derek's father is the Supreme Leader, an important tidbit that didn't come up until Derek had fled. So Derek ends up boarding with a nice family through a series of highly unlikely misunderstandings, and his pursuer stays one step behind him, vaporizing anyone who seems to be getting in his way. There are poorly staged shootouts, dull car chases, and of course the hero finds a nice girl who repeatedly ignores his instructions to stay out of danger.And even when the trigger happy villain is thwarted, there's still the grecken. By this point, you're probably wandering to yourself "just what is a grecken?" It's a lobster. And not just any lobster. It looks normal at first, but after a day on earth, it's as big as an elephant… and hungry for human flesh. The scenes in which the hero battles it are among the most ridiculous ever to appear on screen, because even a five year old can tell that someone's just projecting the silhouette of a crayfish onto the screen. It doesn't even look like it's walking, it just kind of floats around, wiggling its legs.You've surely guessed by now that the acting is as abysmal as the effects. Every line is stilted. I'm not sure if the aliens ever use a contraction throughout the film. These guys have about as much personality as Microsoft Sam. And the townspeople… If you were approached by a man in a Starfleet uniform, ray gun at his side, who had never seen a car before, wouldn't you have a sneaking suspicion that something was up? But these folks don't seem to notice anything funny until the ray gun's pointed at them. I don't know, maybe they're relatives of whoever wrote this mess.