A mutated creature(terrifically icky thanks to the superb work by John Carl Buechler)escapes to Planet Earth through a lightning bolt(?!)in space from it's planet Pluton before being exterminated. The bolt enters a badly assembled satellite dish thanks to father Gerrit Graham who is unsure how it is to be put together. Along with wife Mary Woronov(very sexy in this flick), daughter Diane Franklin(barely recognizable underneath her whole punk garb), son Chad Allen, Franklin's Metalhead boyfriend OD(Jon Gries), & Grampa(Bert Remsen), the family will have an uninvited monster with an unhinged appetite for their flesh. Exiting through their television screens, many of them become lunch as Franklin and Allen try to teach the monster human traits, but it's desire to eat may halt it from making any earthling companions.
The acting is animated, to say the least(hyperacting, I guess for lack of a better word)and the plot is chaotic along with the effects of how the monster is able to take those it eats using their voices and faces to trick others suspecting anything fishy. The film wears it's stupidity as a badge of glory..it never really wants us to take it for a grain of salt. Everyone involved just seems to have decided to have fun. It's a roller-coaster of access with lots of gooey melting effects. Woronov is a treat as always, but this is clearly Franklin's film as she just lets it all hang out in very unusual role for her. The film doesn't pretend to be anything more than a silly sci-fi horror picture with not a serious bone in it's body.
The acting is animated, to say the least(hyperacting, I guess for lack of a better word)and the plot is chaotic along with the effects of how the monster is able to take those it eats using their voices and faces to trick others suspecting anything fishy. The film wears it's stupidity as a badge of glory..it never really wants us to take it for a grain of salt. Everyone involved just seems to have decided to have fun. It's a roller-coaster of access with lots of gooey melting effects. Woronov is a treat as always, but this is clearly Franklin's film as she just lets it all hang out in very unusual role for her. The film doesn't pretend to be anything more than a silly sci-fi horror picture with not a serious bone in it's body.