Teenagers from Outer Space
by Tom Graeff
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Actor: Bryan Grant, David Love, Dawn Anderson, Harvey B. Dunn, Tom LockyearDirector: Tom Graeff
Brand: Gaiam
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 86 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-08-30
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Good Times Video
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Summary: 3 Stars
Definitely a "so bad it's good" sci-fi treat, especially for B film fans. We start off at an observatory with a young man and a professor with the fakest goatee ever. The young man says he thought he saw something but it must have been his imagination. He then goes off on a philosophical rant about us being alone in space like a piece of food floating in the ocean.
We never see them again and it has nothing to do with the plot, but we're moving along.
These guys land in what is a saucer and parttime drill bit. It drills into the earth and up pops the hatch. There are so many guys that come out that you have to wonder how much space is in this thing. They are all wearing what look like Air Force surplus jet pilot masks. One guy spots this cute little dog and ray guns him down.
The dog (a.k.a. "sparky", get it?) becomes a pile of bones. Clack!
So these guys come out and set up their equipment, which looks like stuff from a ham radio operator's attic, complete with English language dials and knobs. They test the air and find that this planet will be ideal for the raising of their herds of giant Lobsters for their race's food supply. If the lobsters overrun and kill everybody, so what?
One guy, our star Derrick (played by David Love) says no, tries to force them at gun point to get back in the saucer but they overpower him.
He escapes: to 1950s suburbia! The Horror!
The first part of the movie is basically one of the spacemen, Thor, chasing Derrick. As Thor rayguns several people and becomes the media darling of the airwaves as he leaves skeletons in his wake (turns out the same skeleton was used over and over. Low budget deluxe), Derrick makes friends with the locals.
The Grandpa is the worst actor ever. Really hams it up. But I digress.
The smaller part of the film has the giant lobster thingee go on a rampage. He cannot be killed except by Derrick's Flash Gordon raygun, which of course does not work at the last second. Oops.
Reminiscent of Star Trek, Derrick finds that enough power from the power poles could generate his ray gun to work. So he hooks up the raygun to the power poles (somehow not getting a shock) but there's not enough power. Betty calls the power company who believes her story about a giant monster and they need more power for the ray gun, turns up the juice. She yells, "More power, we need more power!"
Where's Scotty when you need him?
The self-sacrifice at the end is a bit of a let-down, mainly due to the low budget and a lot of smoke.
Overall, entertaining. If director Tom Graeff had a bit more money he could have made quite the impression at the box office. This film was parodied on Mystery Science Theater 3000.
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Description of Teenagers from Outer Space
TEENAGERS FROM OUTER SPACE Thrill-Crazed Space Kids Blasting the Flesh Off Humans! Aliens plan to use the Earth as grazing land for their lobster-like monsters, the Gargons, but Derek (David Love) argues that they should find a planet without "civilized beings. Placed under arrest, the rebellious teen escapes, not knowing he is the son of their leader, so Thor (Bryan Grant) goes after him?with a disintegrator ray that turns people to bones. Derek befriends Betty Morgan (Dawn Anderson) and her grandfather (Harvey B. Dunn), who are placed in jeopardy when Thor begins blasting virtually every Earthling he sees! This no-budget wonder was written, produced, directed, shot, scored, and edited by Tom Graeff, who also did the special effects and, as "Tom Lockyear," co-stars as Joe Rogers. Approximately 86 minutes Black and WhiteBestsellers in DVD
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