bigfrog6 Featuring a Bill and Ted prototype, special effects ranging from the surprisingly good to the straight out of the intro from MST3k, a hot girl with big 80s hair (which apparently I still have a thing for)... this movie is an 80s junk food fest. What more could you want?

Benedito Dias Rodrigues So bad and so good this one can be contradictory but it's happen in this picture,all family has an odd kind,the grandpa has a bunker expecting a third world war,the couple living a open mind marriage seeking for new couple to do swing,all house is decorated with sexy paintings,the girl dating a punk odd guy,the boy is almost normal in the house,so when the monster show up on TV all crazy things gonna happen,the grandpa and medusa stolen the show......funniest trash Sci-Fi-horror!! Resume: First watch: 2017 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 6.5

trnjamesbond On a B-movie scale it's a 7 out of 10!Well I have never seen this film before, but I must proclaim I am a product of the late seventies and remember seeing this film on my video store shelf as a kid. I never knew what it was about. Was it Sci-Fi? Was it horror? I had no clue. I was around 10 years old then and remember the cover of the movie like it was yesterday.This film is very campy and cheesy, and the beginning of the film looks like a cheap knock off of an old Godzilla movie with the zoomed in miniatures. Then we move to the beef of the story with an 80's Mtv generation family with a twist, the parents are swingers, and sexual paintings and art work throughout the house, I started laughing at this, thinking to myself how their kids turned out this normal. The whole story is simple, crazy dad buys a satellite dish and he bought the cheap model and is in the midst of repairing his new purchase because it doesn't work right, he then hit's it with a hammer and it then receives a signal from another planet. Now all hell breaks loose, monsters and mayhem. I have watched a lot of low budget cheesy films and I tell you, this is one of my favorites, it's perfect if your in a mood for a campy story and purposely bad acting. I would give this a watch if your into that sort of thing.

David Massey We're introduced to a family brimming with all the worst trappings of the 1980's; the clichés have been elevated to the absurd and it's to the director, Ted Nicolaou's, credit that, in 1986, he was able to poke so much fun at the decade without the benefit of hindsight. The result is an off-the-wall comedy that feels like a 1950's monster movie, staring 'Leave it to Beaver', as filtered through 'Adult Swim'.The daughter, Suzy, played by Diane Frankin ('Better Off Dead' / 'Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure'), has the hair and make-up of an animated Cindy Lauper and an over-the-top valley-girl gab. A very young Chad Allen (you'll recognize him from nearly every family TV show of the late 80's and early 90's), is the war-game-obsessed son. The mother, played by the always fantastic Mary Woronov (Roger Corman's poster girl and star of 'Eating Raoul'), is a distant, self-involved socialite more interested in her exercise videos than her kids. Gerrit Graham ('Phantom of the Paradise' / 'Demon Seed'), hams it up as the swinging (literally) father always on the lookout for the next big thing. Rounding out the family is Grampa, the paranoid vet with a bomb shelter in the basement (Bert Remsen – 'Nashville' / 'Places in the Heart') and Suzy's boyfriend, 'O.D.', the tweaked metal-head dropout played buy 1980's staple, Jon Gries ('Real Genius' / 'Running Scared'). Together, this group inhabits a home that looks like a cross between a sex spa and a Patrick Nagel exhibition on ecstasy.Wacky from minute one (the theme song being one of the film's high points), the family has just hooked up their new satellite dish while, simultaneously, far across the cosmos, a creature that can only be described as a booger with eyes, is being transported in exile by a humanoid-lizard alien that we don't learn much more about until the film's climax. The monster is mistakenly transmitted to the family's satellite dish and has the ability to escape at will from their TV sets. Nonsense ensues as the monster is able, by transforming its tongue, to impersonate the face and voice of anyone it kills.The film never really crosses into any straight genre and manages to hover, quite proudly, over 'wonderfully weird'. If all of Hollywood had ostracized, instead of embraced, Tim Burton, this is the kind of live-action cartoon he'd be making.