Teenagers from Outer Space

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Teenagers from Outer Space

Wow! What can one say with a title like Teenagers From Outer Space alone, yet about a story of youthful aliens landing on Earth so they can breed the Gargon for food, creatures which grow in the atmosphere and not slightly look like sick lobsters. AS if that were not enough, we then are given a morality play of sorts on the nature of nobility in mankind through the alien character Derek(played by David Love)opposed by Thor, a young man with a grating monosyllabic voice and NO acting skills at all. The story is then supported by a fine cast of nobodies who went on to do little after this. None of them is good, and some of them are downright terrible(such as the female lead). The brightest spot amongst the cast is the unintentional humour provide by "Gramps", Harvey Dunn. The character is a hoot to watch. And so is this ridiculous film. The ray guns that turn living things into skeletons is funny, and overused from the beginning. This is a great film to watch with a group.

I saw this film as a little kid and was absolutely terrified. I was really, really afraid of skeletons. You see, it was skeletons under my bed, not monsters. If any part of me dangled off the bed, they could grab me with those bony fingers and pull me under... anyway, this film holds a special place in my heart because I was SO frightened! They even killed a little dog, boo hoo. Of course, as an adult, this movie is quite laughable. But if you are a fan of campy, corny old sci-fi, you have it by the bucket here!!

If you like unintentionally bad movies from the 50's, you will absolutely LOVE Teenagers From Outer Space. First of all, you pretty much know what you're getting with a movie that has "teenagers" and "outer space" in the title...this masterpiece offers some of the worst acting, plot, script and f/x you will ever see, and all rolled into one neat little package. There is enough action and stupidity to keep you interested all the way through. Notice the voiced-over (obviously human) barking of the dog Sparky (RIP) at the beginning, classic. Interesting too is the fact that the actor who played the ship's captain (the guy with, not one, but TWO v's on his astro suit) went on to become the original Ronald MacDonald. I'm lovin' it, and you will too.

'teenagers from out of space' has grown on me a LOT since the first time i saw it. true, it isn't a very good movie, but considering how they used what little they had to work with (budget-wise, acing-wise, etc.) i'd say this movie deserves a bit more respect. the effects were cleverly planned (if not well-executed), the fairly inexperienced actors weren't terrible ( except for TORCHA! guy, but he's so bad he's great), and it had a decent plot with a fairly atypical ending. (okay, there's no excuse for the lobster. the lobster was just terrible.) it's no 'godfather' (heck, it's not even 'cannibal: the musical'), but, in the vein of 'night of the living dead', 'teenagers' takes very little and makes something decent with it.

I know it sounds stupid, but I saw this movie last night and it's not as bad as some of the descriptions make it out to be. Maltin gets a little hoity-toity in his reviews; a movie doesn't have to be "The Color Purple" to be worth watching. It's not Oscar material to be sure and the effects are _awful_, but the writing is a lot better than most films of this ilk and the action/acting is OK. If you're busting code out at 3 AM and this comes on, don't turn the channel. Kind of an interesting flick.

Tom Graeff's entire film career consisted of this one film and work editing another. He shot it for $5000, performed much of the work himself, and gave his boyfriend David Love (Charles Robert Kaltenthaler) the lead role. Graeff was 28 and Love 23 when the film was shot. Graeff died 12 years later after an apparent mental breakdown; no one seems to know what happened to Love. Amazingly, Warners paid $25,000 for distribution rights for this clunker at a time when teen audiences were eating up sci-fi movies. More bizarre details about the film, including props and locations used, are at the Daddy-O's Drive-In Dirt website.