They Came from Beyond Space
Starring:Robert Hutton, Jennifer Jayne, Zia Mohyeddin, Bernard Kay, Michael Gough, Geoffrey Wallace, Maurice Good, Luanshya Greer, John Harvey, Diana King, Paul Bacon, Christopher Banks, Dermot Cathie, Norman Claridge, James Donnelly (II), Frank Forsyth, Leonard Grahame, Michael Hawkins, Jack Lambert (II), Robin Parkinson
Director: Freddie Francis
Studio: Diamond Ent. Corp.
Product Type: DVD
Average customer rating:
- Not one of Amicus best productions
- So why exactly must the Gods hate Kansas?
- "Have You Ever Known Meteors To Land In Formation?"
- Reasonably Good Science Fiction Movie
- "The Brains of These Primitives Are Suitable for Our Purposes"
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They Came from Beyond Space
Starring: Robert Hutton , Jennifer Jayne , Zia Mohyeddin , Bernard Kay , and Michael Gough
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Release Date: 2004-03-02 |
Customer Reviews:
Not one of Amicus best productions.......2006-07-15
They Came From Beyond Space,is not one of the best Amicus movie released in the 60s & 70s. But is still worth watching,and adding to your British Horror/Sci-Fi collection.The transfer to disc isn't great,but watchable.
The storyline runs along ok and the acting is passable.
Don't expect too much from Michael Gough,he only appears in the last 10 minutes of the movie.
Apart from all that,give it a try.
So why exactly must the Gods hate Kansas?.......2006-07-11
Don't understand the signifigance of the title of the book this film was based on, as it takes place in England. Nonetheless, it was surprisingly decent find on the Mill Creek Sci-Fi Classics package. Formless aliens trapped on the moon hitch a ride to Earth aboard some meteors (very Zontar, guys ;), and begin to possess the bodies of scientists investigating the crash. One of the scientists has a silver plate implanted in his skull from a car wreck that makes him immune to alien control, and he sets about to find out exactly what the creatures are doing and stop them...but should he? Definitely has a late sixties feel with the colorful sets and groovy music. The same chap who portrays the alien leader co-starred as Alfred in the Keaton/Kilmer/Clooney Batman films. Nothing to go out of your way to see, but good enough to waste an hour on.
"Have You Ever Known Meteors To Land In Formation?".......2006-05-18
This little known gem was made in England in 1967, and is a surprisingly effective and captivating sci-fi film. The movie opens with a very mod lava lamp credit sequence and the whole movie features period music that makes it clear what decade it was made in.
The hero, Dr. Curtis Temple (Robert Hutton) is a brilliant scientist involved with space exploration. Early on there is a formation of nine meteors that crash in a nearby farm field. Upon examination the meteors emit a powerful beam of some sort, which allows aliens to take possession of the humans in the vicinity. The good news is that Temple is immune because of a metal plate in his head. Eventually he notes the farm being transformed into an industrial facility and is quite interested when rockets begin taking off from below the surface of a lake. Much drama ensues before the good Doctor and friends end up on a rocket to the moon where they meet the "Master of the Moon," who has more than a passing resemblance to a Vulcan. It turns out that all these moon people want is for the humans to help repair their ship so they can go to their home planet to die in dignity. In a moment of composure Temple persuades them to eschew violence so they can work together. It all sounds quite hokey, but it actually works quite well.
The acting is generally good (far better than most 1960s-era sci-fi films), the futuristic sets are excellent (although I don't understand the presence in an elaborate paisley upholstered sofa in the rocket launching area), and the pacing is great. The film does have a few quirks. I noted that the film had a feel reminiscent of the great television show "The Prisoner" down to the same style music and the fixation on wacky automobiles. It also struck me that in many ways this film is a very sophisticated update of "Zontar, the Thing From Venus," albeit with considerably more finesse. A couple of the special effects were laughable by today's standards, but the "Crimson Plague" pox and palsy effects were excellent and actually somewhat frightening.
This is a great sci-fi film. It is understated and refined, yet powerful, well paced, and action packed. I recommend "They Came From Beyond Outer Space" to any audience.
Reasonably Good Science Fiction Movie.......2006-03-12
Here is a low-budget science fiction movie that has an interesting story and manages to keep the pace moving along. Mysterious objects have landed in an English farm field. Top scientists investigate the object only to disappear. Soon the area around the farm is cut off from the rest of England, and strange events abound.
One of the first kidnapped scientists is Lee Mason (Jennifer Jayne), whose intimate friend Dr. Curtis Temple (Robert Hutton) becomes concerned and then suspicious about the happenings at the farm. Dr. Temple learns that aliens have taken over the minds of the people at the farm, including that of his beloved. Dr. Temple is immune to their machinations because of the silver plate in his head, received after an auto accident.
Dr. Temple is puzzled about the happenings at the farm. He perseveres and eventually enters the underground facilities built by the aliens, and rescues Lee, only she is quite reluctant to be rescued as the alien within her is uninterested in Temple. Fortunately, Temple and a close friend learn to detect and remove the aliens from their hosts, and they do so for Lee. The trio is off to single-handedly halt the alien invasion! Will they survive to the end of the movie? Why are the aliens launching people to the moon? How can the mysterious plague be stop? These and many more answers await those who watch this movie.
This movie is reasonably good. There were a few technical glitches, but the glitches were sufficiently minor to keep those types of distractions to a minimum. The acting was also reasonably good, always a surprise in a movie of this type. The underground sets were nicely done and generally looked good. One interesting and bizarre aspect of this movie was the vision devices developed to detect the presence of the aliens. These devices were used once when trying to expel the alien from the body of Lee, and then we never see them again. When Dr. Temple and his friend walked into the room where Lee was tied up, they were not looking at Lee and were walking very strangely, which makes me suspect these devices, looking much like military night vision goggles, were impossible to see through.
Fans of the Batman movie may recognize Michael Gough, who plays the Master of the Moon. Gough was in the first four Batman movies as Alfred, beginning with the 1989 film "Batman." Gough has been in numerous other films, such as "Top Secret!" and "Sleepy Hollow."
The ending was an interesting surprise to me, and a little out of character for this type of movie. Scott Whear said he thought the ending seemed a bit contrived. I think the movie went out with more of a whisper than a bang, which made the ending seem a little lame, but at least the director tried something different from the endings of other, similar movies. I recommend this movie to those who would like to watch a decent low-budget science fiction movie about aliens invading the earth.
"The Brains of These Primitives Are Suitable for Our Purposes".......2006-02-06
Some sentient meteorites (actually a bunch of rocks dropped from beyond camera range by one of the crew members) crash into the English country side and take over whatever humans happen upon them. Except for our hero, of course, who has a metal plate in his head and is therefore immune to their...brain rays? His metal plate is the clue to our salvation; it leads to one guy wearing a metal spaghetti strainer on his head, and a woman wearing what appears to be a motorcycle helmet. The entire film is a bit boring, and not particularly worth watching, except for the nifty English touring cars and some engaging countryside. Keep your eyes open for the Petulia Clark look-a-like who works at the local gas (I guess I mean "petrol") station who puts the make on our hero, racily offering him some tea with "some sugar" in it.
Average customer rating:
- Not one of Amicus best productions
- So why exactly must the Gods hate Kansas?
- "Have You Ever Known Meteors To Land In Formation?"
- Reasonably Good Science Fiction Movie
- "The Brains of These Primitives Are Suitable for Our Purposes"
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They Came from Beyond Space
Starring: Robert Hutton , Jennifer Jayne , Zia Mohyeddin , Bernard Kay , and Michael Gough
Director: Freddie Francis
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Release Date: 2002-03-26 |
Customer Reviews:
Not one of Amicus best productions.......2006-07-15
They Came From Beyond Space,is not one of the best Amicus movie released in the 60s & 70s. But is still worth watching,and adding to your British Horror/Sci-Fi collection.The transfer to disc isn't great,but watchable.
The storyline runs along ok and the acting is passable.
Don't expect too much from Michael Gough,he only appears in the last 10 minutes of the movie.
Apart from all that,give it a try.
So why exactly must the Gods hate Kansas?.......2006-07-11
Don't understand the signifigance of the title of the book this film was based on, as it takes place in England. Nonetheless, it was surprisingly decent find on the Mill Creek Sci-Fi Classics package. Formless aliens trapped on the moon hitch a ride to Earth aboard some meteors (very Zontar, guys ;), and begin to possess the bodies of scientists investigating the crash. One of the scientists has a silver plate implanted in his skull from a car wreck that makes him immune to alien control, and he sets about to find out exactly what the creatures are doing and stop them...but should he? Definitely has a late sixties feel with the colorful sets and groovy music. The same chap who portrays the alien leader co-starred as Alfred in the Keaton/Kilmer/Clooney Batman films. Nothing to go out of your way to see, but good enough to waste an hour on.
"Have You Ever Known Meteors To Land In Formation?".......2006-05-18
This little known gem was made in England in 1967, and is a surprisingly effective and captivating sci-fi film. The movie opens with a very mod lava lamp credit sequence and the whole movie features period music that makes it clear what decade it was made in.
The hero, Dr. Curtis Temple (Robert Hutton) is a brilliant scientist involved with space exploration. Early on there is a formation of nine meteors that crash in a nearby farm field. Upon examination the meteors emit a powerful beam of some sort, which allows aliens to take possession of the humans in the vicinity. The good news is that Temple is immune because of a metal plate in his head. Eventually he notes the farm being transformed into an industrial facility and is quite interested when rockets begin taking off from below the surface of a lake. Much drama ensues before the good Doctor and friends end up on a rocket to the moon where they meet the "Master of the Moon," who has more than a passing resemblance to a Vulcan. It turns out that all these moon people want is for the humans to help repair their ship so they can go to their home planet to die in dignity. In a moment of composure Temple persuades them to eschew violence so they can work together. It all sounds quite hokey, but it actually works quite well.
The acting is generally good (far better than most 1960s-era sci-fi films), the futuristic sets are excellent (although I don't understand the presence in an elaborate paisley upholstered sofa in the rocket launching area), and the pacing is great. The film does have a few quirks. I noted that the film had a feel reminiscent of the great television show "The Prisoner" down to the same style music and the fixation on wacky automobiles. It also struck me that in many ways this film is a very sophisticated update of "Zontar, the Thing From Venus," albeit with considerably more finesse. A couple of the special effects were laughable by today's standards, but the "Crimson Plague" pox and palsy effects were excellent and actually somewhat frightening.
This is a great sci-fi film. It is understated and refined, yet powerful, well paced, and action packed. I recommend "They Came From Beyond Outer Space" to any audience.
Reasonably Good Science Fiction Movie.......2006-03-12
Here is a low-budget science fiction movie that has an interesting story and manages to keep the pace moving along. Mysterious objects have landed in an English farm field. Top scientists investigate the object only to disappear. Soon the area around the farm is cut off from the rest of England, and strange events abound.
One of the first kidnapped scientists is Lee Mason (Jennifer Jayne), whose intimate friend Dr. Curtis Temple (Robert Hutton) becomes concerned and then suspicious about the happenings at the farm. Dr. Temple learns that aliens have taken over the minds of the people at the farm, including that of his beloved. Dr. Temple is immune to their machinations because of the silver plate in his head, received after an auto accident.
Dr. Temple is puzzled about the happenings at the farm. He perseveres and eventually enters the underground facilities built by the aliens, and rescues Lee, only she is quite reluctant to be rescued as the alien within her is uninterested in Temple. Fortunately, Temple and a close friend learn to detect and remove the aliens from their hosts, and they do so for Lee. The trio is off to single-handedly halt the alien invasion! Will they survive to the end of the movie? Why are the aliens launching people to the moon? How can the mysterious plague be stop? These and many more answers await those who watch this movie.
This movie is reasonably good. There were a few technical glitches, but the glitches were sufficiently minor to keep those types of distractions to a minimum. The acting was also reasonably good, always a surprise in a movie of this type. The underground sets were nicely done and generally looked good. One interesting and bizarre aspect of this movie was the vision devices developed to detect the presence of the aliens. These devices were used once when trying to expel the alien from the body of Lee, and then we never see them again. When Dr. Temple and his friend walked into the room where Lee was tied up, they were not looking at Lee and were walking very strangely, which makes me suspect these devices, looking much like military night vision goggles, were impossible to see through.
Fans of the Batman movie may recognize Michael Gough, who plays the Master of the Moon. Gough was in the first four Batman movies as Alfred, beginning with the 1989 film "Batman." Gough has been in numerous other films, such as "Top Secret!" and "Sleepy Hollow."
The ending was an interesting surprise to me, and a little out of character for this type of movie. Scott Whear said he thought the ending seemed a bit contrived. I think the movie went out with more of a whisper than a bang, which made the ending seem a little lame, but at least the director tried something different from the endings of other, similar movies. I recommend this movie to those who would like to watch a decent low-budget science fiction movie about aliens invading the earth.
"The Brains of These Primitives Are Suitable for Our Purposes".......2006-02-06
Some sentient meteorites (actually a bunch of rocks dropped from beyond camera range by one of the crew members) crash into the English country side and take over whatever humans happen upon them. Except for our hero, of course, who has a metal plate in his head and is therefore immune to their...brain rays? His metal plate is the clue to our salvation; it leads to one guy wearing a metal spaghetti strainer on his head, and a woman wearing what appears to be a motorcycle helmet. The entire film is a bit boring, and not particularly worth watching, except for the nifty English touring cars and some engaging countryside. Keep your eyes open for the Petulia Clark look-a-like who works at the local gas (I guess I mean "petrol") station who puts the make on our hero, racily offering him some tea with "some sugar" in it.
Average customer rating:
- WELL worth the extremely low price
- Excellent Value
- In The Year 2889/ Teenagers From Outer Space/ and more.
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Release Date: 2003-07-15 |
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3 Great Movies on 1 DVD. Star Power, Exciting Genre with Extras on each DVD.
Customer Reviews:
WELL worth the extremely low price.......2006-10-22
but NOT for "In the Year 2889" which somehow escaped being camp and is just plain awful. In fact, it is probably the longest 80 minutes you will ever experience.
"Teenagers," on the other hand, is marvelous, and even well made. How'd THAT happen?
"They Came from Beyond Space" is a British effort that is kinda ok...maybe being British saves it--whatever.
Excellent Value.......2004-11-04
An excellent buy - 3 movies in one.
TEENAGERS FROM OUTER SPACE is excellent. This is a highly entertaining and memorable movie - one of my favorites for all around 50's quality sci-fi. Aliens arrive on a spaceship determined to colonize Earth with craw-dads that will grow to enormous size and become a food source. Nerdy alien teen breaks off and heads into town and takes a room in a house with an earth teen girl and GrandPa. Mean alien teen has to track nerd teen down and bring him back. Suspenseful as he almost catches up to them as they go about the town. Has a ray gun that turns people into skeletons. Car chases. Car crash off a cliff. Pushy press people. Doctor's office in a house (total 50's). The default movie cave thats been in N sci-fi movies.
IN THE YEAR 2889 is pretty good. After a nuclear war 8 people end up in an isolated valley saved by vertical convection from a warm lake that carries radiation away. Grandpa is in charge and carries a side-arm. Donna Reed's son and his brother arrive early and he falls in love with GrandPas daughter. The brother gets infected and loses his appetite - never eats but has a craving for meat, spends all his time roaming the woods looking for rabbits. Alcoholic low-life and 60's psychedelic floosy dancer girlfriend arrive and add suspense to the movie. Pervasive is the lurking outside of GrandPas son who is infected and looks like a monster and roams the woods spying on the girls as they bath in the pool. Movie is worth an hour and half every 15 years or so.
THEY CAME FROM BEYOND SPACE is not very good. Like the cars that went downhill after 1965, this is a 1967 color not very good film. English movie too. Best part is later in the film when the hero and side-kick figure out wearing a metal strainer on their heads will protect them from alien attempts to take over their brains. I saw this about 20 years ago and wouldn't waste my time on it again.
In The Year 2889/ Teenagers From Outer Space/ and more........2004-05-12
IN THE YEAR 2889...It has been thirty hours since the Nuclear attack. Everyone is gone, except for an old, grumpy, father who is protective of his teenage daughter. She fears that her boyfriend is dead. But he does show up at the doorstep with horrible radioactive burns to him. His brother (Paul Petersen, "The Donna Reed Show") who is fine stays with him. Other people begin to show up at this house too who appear to be fine. They all must avoid contamination. Who will survive?
Filmed in 1967, this film is scientifically inaccurate and is not a survival guide to actually surviving outside radiation, which does seep inside a house in real life. But this film is fun to watch. Also recommend THE DAY AFTER (1983) and TESTAMENT (1983).
TEENAGERS FROM OUTER SPACE...UFO lands on Earth. The human-like shipmates are from a planet that treats there own like slaves. They are trying to find a planet to release their Gargons. One shipmate wants to do good. He commits treason to try to stop his other shipmates from allowing Gargons on Earth. A book he has kept hidden and read (like a Holy Bible) as changed his mind to do right. He wants to do right. When his shipmates killed a dog, the good alien tells them the creature had life. This is not the place to release Gargons. His shipmates disagree. The good alien, Derek, escapes from his shipmates. He meets the people of this fine town. The bad aliens try to find Derek, but shoot other people into skeletons with a raygun.
Dvd also includes THEY CAME FROM BEYOND SPACE (1967).
Average customer rating:
- Not one of Amicus best productions
- So why exactly must the Gods hate Kansas?
- "Have You Ever Known Meteors To Land In Formation?"
- Reasonably Good Science Fiction Movie
- "The Brains of These Primitives Are Suitable for Our Purposes"
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They Came from Beyond Space
Starring: Robert Hutton , Jennifer Jayne , Zia Mohyeddin , Bernard Kay , and Michael Gough
Director: Freddie Francis
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ASIN: B00004WGCA
Release Date: 2000-10-03 |
Customer Reviews:
Not one of Amicus best productions.......2006-07-15
They Came From Beyond Space,is not one of the best Amicus movie released in the 60s & 70s. But is still worth watching,and adding to your British Horror/Sci-Fi collection.The transfer to disc isn't great,but watchable.
The storyline runs along ok and the acting is passable.
Don't expect too much from Michael Gough,he only appears in the last 10 minutes of the movie.
Apart from all that,give it a try.
So why exactly must the Gods hate Kansas?.......2006-07-11
Don't understand the signifigance of the title of the book this film was based on, as it takes place in England. Nonetheless, it was surprisingly decent find on the Mill Creek Sci-Fi Classics package. Formless aliens trapped on the moon hitch a ride to Earth aboard some meteors (very Zontar, guys ;), and begin to possess the bodies of scientists investigating the crash. One of the scientists has a silver plate implanted in his skull from a car wreck that makes him immune to alien control, and he sets about to find out exactly what the creatures are doing and stop them...but should he? Definitely has a late sixties feel with the colorful sets and groovy music. The same chap who portrays the alien leader co-starred as Alfred in the Keaton/Kilmer/Clooney Batman films. Nothing to go out of your way to see, but good enough to waste an hour on.
"Have You Ever Known Meteors To Land In Formation?".......2006-05-18
This little known gem was made in England in 1967, and is a surprisingly effective and captivating sci-fi film. The movie opens with a very mod lava lamp credit sequence and the whole movie features period music that makes it clear what decade it was made in.
The hero, Dr. Curtis Temple (Robert Hutton) is a brilliant scientist involved with space exploration. Early on there is a formation of nine meteors that crash in a nearby farm field. Upon examination the meteors emit a powerful beam of some sort, which allows aliens to take possession of the humans in the vicinity. The good news is that Temple is immune because of a metal plate in his head. Eventually he notes the farm being transformed into an industrial facility and is quite interested when rockets begin taking off from below the surface of a lake. Much drama ensues before the good Doctor and friends end up on a rocket to the moon where they meet the "Master of the Moon," who has more than a passing resemblance to a Vulcan. It turns out that all these moon people want is for the humans to help repair their ship so they can go to their home planet to die in dignity. In a moment of composure Temple persuades them to eschew violence so they can work together. It all sounds quite hokey, but it actually works quite well.
The acting is generally good (far better than most 1960s-era sci-fi films), the futuristic sets are excellent (although I don't understand the presence in an elaborate paisley upholstered sofa in the rocket launching area), and the pacing is great. The film does have a few quirks. I noted that the film had a feel reminiscent of the great television show "The Prisoner" down to the same style music and the fixation on wacky automobiles. It also struck me that in many ways this film is a very sophisticated update of "Zontar, the Thing From Venus," albeit with considerably more finesse. A couple of the special effects were laughable by today's standards, but the "Crimson Plague" pox and palsy effects were excellent and actually somewhat frightening.
This is a great sci-fi film. It is understated and refined, yet powerful, well paced, and action packed. I recommend "They Came From Beyond Outer Space" to any audience.
Reasonably Good Science Fiction Movie.......2006-03-12
Here is a low-budget science fiction movie that has an interesting story and manages to keep the pace moving along. Mysterious objects have landed in an English farm field. Top scientists investigate the object only to disappear. Soon the area around the farm is cut off from the rest of England, and strange events abound.
One of the first kidnapped scientists is Lee Mason (Jennifer Jayne), whose intimate friend Dr. Curtis Temple (Robert Hutton) becomes concerned and then suspicious about the happenings at the farm. Dr. Temple learns that aliens have taken over the minds of the people at the farm, including that of his beloved. Dr. Temple is immune to their machinations because of the silver plate in his head, received after an auto accident.
Dr. Temple is puzzled about the happenings at the farm. He perseveres and eventually enters the underground facilities built by the aliens, and rescues Lee, only she is quite reluctant to be rescued as the alien within her is uninterested in Temple. Fortunately, Temple and a close friend learn to detect and remove the aliens from their hosts, and they do so for Lee. The trio is off to single-handedly halt the alien invasion! Will they survive to the end of the movie? Why are the aliens launching people to the moon? How can the mysterious plague be stop? These and many more answers await those who watch this movie.
This movie is reasonably good. There were a few technical glitches, but the glitches were sufficiently minor to keep those types of distractions to a minimum. The acting was also reasonably good, always a surprise in a movie of this type. The underground sets were nicely done and generally looked good. One interesting and bizarre aspect of this movie was the vision devices developed to detect the presence of the aliens. These devices were used once when trying to expel the alien from the body of Lee, and then we never see them again. When Dr. Temple and his friend walked into the room where Lee was tied up, they were not looking at Lee and were walking very strangely, which makes me suspect these devices, looking much like military night vision goggles, were impossible to see through.
Fans of the Batman movie may recognize Michael Gough, who plays the Master of the Moon. Gough was in the first four Batman movies as Alfred, beginning with the 1989 film "Batman." Gough has been in numerous other films, such as "Top Secret!" and "Sleepy Hollow."
The ending was an interesting surprise to me, and a little out of character for this type of movie. Scott Whear said he thought the ending seemed a bit contrived. I think the movie went out with more of a whisper than a bang, which made the ending seem a little lame, but at least the director tried something different from the endings of other, similar movies. I recommend this movie to those who would like to watch a decent low-budget science fiction movie about aliens invading the earth.
"The Brains of These Primitives Are Suitable for Our Purposes".......2006-02-06
Some sentient meteorites (actually a bunch of rocks dropped from beyond camera range by one of the crew members) crash into the English country side and take over whatever humans happen upon them. Except for our hero, of course, who has a metal plate in his head and is therefore immune to their...brain rays? His metal plate is the clue to our salvation; it leads to one guy wearing a metal spaghetti strainer on his head, and a woman wearing what appears to be a motorcycle helmet. The entire film is a bit boring, and not particularly worth watching, except for the nifty English touring cars and some engaging countryside. Keep your eyes open for the Petulia Clark look-a-like who works at the local gas (I guess I mean "petrol") station who puts the make on our hero, racily offering him some tea with "some sugar" in it.
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Sci-Fi, Vol. 3: Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet/They Came From Beyond Space/Abraxas/First Spaceshi
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Night Fright/They Came from Beyond Space
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Night Fright
When two young lovers are viciously attacked by a hideous monster, Police Sheriff Clint Crawford finds a rocket has mysteriously crashed. Soon, the sheriff realizes that there may be a connection, but it's too late for Crawford's partner who becomes yet another victim. It's now human wit versus monster instincts as Sheriff Crawford devices a plan to rid of the creature and save the town.
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They Came From Beyond Space
When extra-terrestrial beings land on Earth and begin taking over people's brains, only one man is capable of saving mankind - Dr. Curt Temple, who is protected by a silver plate in his skull.
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They Came from Beyond Space
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Scientists investigating an unusual meteor shower in a rural field are possessed by an alien force bent on an ulterior purpose.
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They Came From Beyond Space / Warning From Space
Starring: Robert Hutton; Toyomi Karita
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