Greydon Clark directed this wonderful alien invasion film about an alien who is on earth to hunt humans and he uses small flesh eating discs to get the job done.
Jack Palance, Martin Landau, Sue Ann Langdon, Ralph Meeker, Neville Brand, Cameron Mitchell and Larry Storch are just some of the familiar faces in this winner. Landau gets the acting nods as a psycho who thinks he's still in the Army and that everyone is an alien.
The alien isn't seen much which is a good thing, bit his nasty little hunting companions are in the spotlight and are they nasty. The late great Kevin Peter Hall plays the alien. Hall was 7'2" and also played the alien in a rip off of this movie entitled "Predator". Sadly Hall dies at the young age of 35 after contracting AIDS from a blood transfusion.
This movie brings back the feeling of watching "Creature Features" and is a hell of a lot of fun. The rest of the cast is rounded out by Tarah Nutter, David Caruso, Christopher Nelson, Lynn Theel and Darby Hinton.
I cannot recommend this movie enough and I find it sad that MGM or someone hasn't released it on DVD. I had a copy from the horror movie channel or something like that and it was totally remastered, so it is ready for release. I FINALLY got another copy of it, and yes it is a bootleg, but until MGM or hopefully Shout Factory since they own the library now releases it, I will keep the copy I have now.
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