TerrorVision was not a horror, despite what I had originally thought, and it is more of a campy B-movie horror that it was made out to be. The story is about an alien that, presumably by accident, teleports to Earth via a TV satellite dish. It appears on the TV set numerous times and then, eventually, materializes into reality and starts wrecking comedy havoc.
The Puttermans are your typical suburban family with a few disturbing things about them. They seem to be a little to contempt with themselves, they have dress in a "Barbie doll house" manner, they seem to pay little attention to their son and more about business. They demonstrate and portray your stereotypical 1980s yuppie rather than an average suburban family. The grandfather, who is a war vet seems very schizophrenic and delusional at points and lets his grandson play with live ammo and firearms and the parents seem to not care. In fact, they lock their son in with him even after the alien kills granddaddy and mimics his naked body.
TerrorVision is a funny, hilarious horror cult film that has plenty of humor to liven this movie up. There are a lot of one-liners, cheesy special effects and the film can be stupid at times but it was still an OKAY movie, I would not see it again. There are points were the characters overact and some points where your wondering "What the hell is gong on?" or "Did they really let him do that?"
If you are in the mood for the definition of campy-movie, then this movie is perfect for you! TerrorVision does include a very clever and original satire on the 80s suburban couple. In fact, I could go as far to say that his family is your textbook example of a very dysfunctional family, and I'm including the alien in this too. But for horror fanatics I would not recommend this for you, but if you are a cult movie follower, I would strongly recommend this movie for you.
The Puttermans are your typical suburban family with a few disturbing things about them. They seem to be a little to contempt with themselves, they have dress in a "Barbie doll house" manner, they seem to pay little attention to their son and more about business. They demonstrate and portray your stereotypical 1980s yuppie rather than an average suburban family. The grandfather, who is a war vet seems very schizophrenic and delusional at points and lets his grandson play with live ammo and firearms and the parents seem to not care. In fact, they lock their son in with him even after the alien kills granddaddy and mimics his naked body.
TerrorVision is a funny, hilarious horror cult film that has plenty of humor to liven this movie up. There are a lot of one-liners, cheesy special effects and the film can be stupid at times but it was still an OKAY movie, I would not see it again. There are points were the characters overact and some points where your wondering "What the hell is gong on?" or "Did they really let him do that?"
If you are in the mood for the definition of campy-movie, then this movie is perfect for you! TerrorVision does include a very clever and original satire on the 80s suburban couple. In fact, I could go as far to say that his family is your textbook example of a very dysfunctional family, and I'm including the alien in this too. But for horror fanatics I would not recommend this for you, but if you are a cult movie follower, I would strongly recommend this movie for you.