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Tarfumes.com - Teenagers From Outer Space
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List Price: $7.98
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Availability: N/A
Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea
Starring: Dawn Bender, Billy Bridges, Don Chambers, James Conklin, Don DeClue
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786303985442
Format: Black & White
ISBN: 6303985440
Label: Rhino / Wea
Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Rhino / Wea
Release Date: 1996-02-20
Running Time: 86
Studio: Rhino / Wea
Theatrical Release Date: 1959-06
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In this pulp science-fiction film, a flying saucer full of aliens of a "Superior Race" lands on Earth, searching for grazing grounds for their Gargon cattle. One of the aliens uses a ray gun to kill a curious dog ("They blast the flesh off humans!"). Rebellious Derek inspects Sparky's dog tag and realizes that civilized beings inhabit the planet. He begs his companions to consider the rights of the people of Earth, but the other crewmen turn on him. They leave one of the lobster-like Gargon chained inside of a cave, make responsible Thor hunt down the escaping Derek, and return to their home planet to fetch herds of Gargon. While Derek befriends Betty, Gramps, and Joe in the nearest suburban utopia, Thor's relentless manhunt results in numerous blasted skeletons and abductions. The fun really gets going when the now gigantic Gargon escapes its chains and goes on a murderous rampage. Spunky Betty begins a romance with Derek, who promises to make Earth his home. Reporter Joe is hot on the trail of the double-murder story that grows into something really big. Teenagers from Outer Space sports primitive special effects and almost-bad acting, but really they just add to the angsty fun of this 1959 flick.
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Summary: "Morrow! Go below and bring up the young gargon specimen."
Comment: In the great scheme of things, the most hilarious movie in the vein of "so bad it's good" classic cinema is by far Teenagers From Outer Space. Almost nothing is good about it, and yet every bad aspect leads back to hilarity. This is the quintessential science fiction bad movie. The premise is somewhat believable. A race of aliens that happen to speak English, and none of which are teenagers, seek to enslave the world to aid their lobster growing economy, except one of them, the son of the race's supreme ruler (named Derek no less), who befriends the humans and wishes to turn the rest of the invaders back home. It makes some sense. The dialog is cheesy, and the acting is deplorably bad. The strongest point of the movie is it's consistency to surprise. While movies like Plan 9 and Killer Shrews have their low spots where they are boring and do not surprise with any particular moments of idiocy, Teenagers From Outer Space stays really bad all the way through and has more memorable bad moments than other favorites. The sheer magnitude of stereotypes covered in this movie is, to many, off-putting, but it is likely that this movie staked many of them for the first time. Experts (aka my friend who knows ten times more about bad movies than I) cites some of the films best moments as the awkward alien/human cheesy love affair, classy rayguns that immediately turn all humans into the same plastic skeleton instantaneously, and the fact that the main nemesis is not a lobster, but the SHADOW of a lobster. I find few words to describe this movie. You really should get it. In fact, if you are going to get only one bad movie, you had best be getting this one.
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Summary: SO BAD IT'S GREAT
Comment: When I was in high school (way back in the 1960s), I remember having a discussion with my friends about the worst horror movie ever made. Most of my friends voted for "Plan 9 From Outer Space." I voted for "Teenagers From Outer Space." Both movies are, in fact, so bad that
they're not merely good...they're hilarious!
Perfect for viewing with a room filled with friends.
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Summary: I must be old!
Comment: I saw this movie at a drive-in theater with my parents when I was about 10 years old. It was better back then.
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Summary: "I shall make the Earth my home, and I shall never leave it..."
Comment: Anyone who calls TEENAGERS FROM OUTER SPACE "one of the worst movies ever made" has their head on backwards; have they ever seen "Manos The Hands of Fate", or "Beast of Yucca Flats"? If not, watch those two, and get back to me if you still think this is one of "the worst"...
TEENAGERS is a strange film; a labor of love with flashes of real talent and ingenuity between the easy-laugh fodder of toy zap-guns and giant lobsters. Its earnest, heart-on-its-sleeve nature is what really makes it a target for today's jaded, cynical audiences.
The movies' ace, however, is Dawn Bender(aka Dawn Anderson) as "Betty"... is there any male viewer out there who doesn't have a thing for her? Her unusual beauty and oddly convincing performance(even when being threatened by lobster shadows or simulating romantic tension with an obviously gay David Love) reminds me of those spooky female sung 50s ballads like "A Thousand Stars" or "Angel Baby". It's really too bad she didn't go on to bigger and better things.
The MST3K crowd can goof on TEENAGERS... all they want, but there really is nothing else quite like it...and that's more than you can say for all the big-budget cookie cutter drivel that comes out of Hollywood today.
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Summary: Those Crazy Kids
Comment: A group of aliens are scouting the universe in search of a planet where they can raise giant lobsters for their food supply. Unfortunately it's Earth they choose, but you do have to appreciate their taste in fine dining. One of the "Teenagers" called Derek(an alien name if I ever heard one) has a soft spot for inhabited planets and goes AWOL, leaving the other aliens to go back to their planet to pick up the load of giant lobsters(goes to show teenagers are rebellious regardless of where they're from). Derek befriends a hot chick named Betty and her grandfather and attempts to live a peaceful earth life. That's quickly shattered by one alien called Thor who stayed behind to find and capture Derek. Thor goes on a rampage trying to find Derek, killing everybody who gets in his way. The weapon of choice for these aliens is a nifty ray gun that lights up and reduces people to bones. Then it's a game of cat and mouse involving Thor, Derek, Betty, and of course Gramps. But wait, there's more! The original guinea pig lobster has now grown to monsterous size and is killing folks and making it's way towards the town. Derek is now caught in a pickle as he has to stop the monster and the forthcoming invasion, but now has feelings for Betty and is quite eager to learn the many wonderous delights of the human female. Will he succeed?
This is a better than average "bad" 50s sci-fi flick. It's got all the schlock fixins for the genre with a more interesting plot. Sure there isn't a single teenager in the film(they all look to be in their 20s), the bones of the victims look like the same skeleton from a school classroom simply laid out in various locations, and the giant lobster is a a shadowy image of a real lobster superimposed onto the film. But hey, these are the kind of things we love about these films, right? Horror fans will notice that most of the music on the soundtrack is the music that would be used throughout Night of the Living Dead years later, and it is hard to hear that music without thinking of that film. A fun little movie is you like this kinda stuff, and you damn well should if you're reading a review page of this movie.
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