This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

Overrated

If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

I saw this on HBO for the first time in 1981 or 1982. It was Summertime and it was the perfect late night movie to watch. I loved it then and I love this now. Even today I prefer to watch this very very late because it ups the creep factor. In this film a group of 4 friends are on a day trip. Before they arrive we see a man and his son killed by "Some Flying Object" that sticks to you and precedes to kill you in some fashion. These flying disc are from an Alien that is out to kill. This film stands out because it does have future academy award winners Martin Landau and Jack Palance. Great Movie and fun to watch! What amazes me was that this film was never available on home video. The 1980 film was finally released in 2014! It took 34 years! If you like old fashion style stories then get this. The film is well made and its lots of fun.

Something alien flings flying flat things which stick to earthlings and slurp them dead. Something alien flings flying flat things which stick to earthlings and slurp them dead. Something alien flings flying flat things which stick to earthlings and slurp them dead. Something alien flings flying flat things which stick to earthlings and slurp them dead. Something alien flings flying flat things which stick to earthlings and slurp them dead. Something alien flings flying flat things which stick to earthlings and slurp them dead. Something alien flings flying flat things which stick to earthlings and slurp them dead. Something alien flings flying flat things which stick to earthlings and slurp them dead.

This movie had good actors in it. Martin Landau and Jack Palance, who were stars when they were younger and would go on to do better things when they were older. This was their "Working for Booze Money" phase, and it wasn't pretty, as they were both overacting in roles that were kind of silly. Also here- David Caruso before NYPD Blue and CSI Miami.The plot is that apparently an alien has taken to hunting people in a rural area. And Landau and Palance's characters are aware of this, trying to find a way to kill the monster. Meanwhile, a van full of horny teenagers shows up to be Monster bait. But the monsters are barely in the film.Oh, hey, Larry Storch from F-Troop is here. No one is entirely sure why. I think he was the comic relief, but it isn't funny when there's gore and a threat to children is implied. He and Caruso and others are victimized by the alien weapon, which is a flying disk with nasty tentacles. It's actually kind of a cool effect. Too bad it wasn't in a better movie.The flaw of this movie is that the characters do things that make not a lick of sense. Landau and Palance are introduced and then forgotten about for about half the movie. THe whole thing looks like it was shot in some rural town for the cost of box-tops.The alien is kind of creepy in that they follow the monster movie rule of not introducing your monster in full view until the last moment possible. Before that it's an ambivalent threat. It's like the film makers really did some things right but did a lot more very wrong.

I remember seeing the movie trailer one time when I was living in Long Island. Though I was way too young to see it. The movie may have been a limited premier in some places, it should have been nationwide later on. It has a great cast. Martin Landau ( Mission: Impossible, Space:1999), Jack Parlance, the biggest movie veteran ever. What more could you want? How about the 7'2" star Kevin Peter Hall who would later play BigFoot in "Harry and The Hendersons", and "Predator" ! In this movie, he plays this unnamed alien hunter who stalks the humans on Earth. His first kills are a father and son who are enjoying the outdoors and it would be the last for them as well. And the Scout leader was an unfortunate victim, leaving the Scouts running for their lives. How does this alien hunter kills so swiftly? By using these hideous discs that come alive when it hits the victim. So when the four friends went out to the lake to have fun, only two of them encounter the horror themselves. Later on, they meet a former Army Sergeant who still think he's in the war, feel there is an invasion. The store owner happens to be the most trusting is the one the two seems feel safe with. The whole ordeal with this movie is to survive the terror of being hunted by an alien hunter. A very good movie, just a bit overlooked, though.