Teenagers from Outer Space!

With a title like that, you'd expect some hokey sci-fi piece of crap, but this one was actually pretty good. It's got a shit rating on imdb, but what do they know about trash?

In this story, a bunch of human-looking motherfuckers land on earth and immediately blast a dog with a ray-gun and disintigrate it, leaving only the bones behind and the dog's tag. Derek is one of the more rational ones who considers it in poor taste to annihilate a poor little creature on a planet that is obviously civilized enough to write and tame animals. This prompts argument amongst the crew, who the majority of are in favor of using earth as a breeding pit for gargons, a violent but plentiful food source for them.

When Derek realizes how stupid this is, he escapes their wrath and they send Thor to retrieve him as they lolligag back to their own planet for some reason or another. What ensues is Derek's assimilation to earth, where he meets a nice old grandpa and his granddaughter Alice, all while the irritable Thor searches for him, blasting anyone who gives him lip with his death ray, leaving behind a trail of skeletons as he intends to bring Derek back to the home world before the gargons take over.

One of the instantly recognizable features of this movie is the same stock music used in Night of the Living Dead. That music must have been around for a while.

The movie has a surprisingly good pacing going for it, with the setup, meeting the other characters, a cat and mouse game, a love story, and the eventual battle with the enlarged gargon, which looks like a giant shadow lobster. Somehow, a movie with this concept was given a fair amount of thought and was rather competently made. Not bad. Not bad at all.