(For the record, I personally, did not.)
What a title, huh? Reaches right out and grabs your attention, doesn't it?
The actual movie is a lot more serious and less campy than the title would suggest, but before we get going on that, I want to mention why I even watched this in the first place.
When i was a little bitty tyke, my elementary school had a little store at the front where you could buy things like pencils, notebooks, glue, and all sorts of school supplies. They also had something that they might have thought was supposed to be erasers, but where actually just little rubber toys of monsters.
One of them, one of my favorites in fact, was this guy.
(https://i.imgur.com/6lUHU9n.jpeg)
Naturally, since he was just something I bought for a quarter out of a little bin, I had no idea what it was, where it came from, or anything like that. He had no more backstory than a random little green army man or a MUSCLE thing.
But ain't that a great design?
It was literally decades before I found out the company that made these things just ripped off old movies for their toys.
The actual monster looks like this.
(https://i.imgur.com/jYHgOVil.jpg)
And I have to say that this may just be one of my all time favorite B-movie alien designs ever.
As for the movie itself, it feels heavily inspired by Invasion of the Body Snatchers, but takes it in a slightly different direction.
A woman is about to get married, but on the day of her wedding, she finds her husband has suddenly changed and is acting strange. Colder. Less familiar with things he used to know.
As she investigates, she discovers that an alien has taken his place. Worse, she doesn't know who she can trust because other aliens have taken the places of other people in town.
It seems radiation on their now-dead homeworld has killed all their women. So they plan to mate with earth women, once they figure out exactly how to genetically modify them (which is a nice touch. It's not just a plain taking the women, they have to alter them to make them compatible.)
However, when taking human form, the aliens get something they didn't expect. Human emotion. Another interesting part where this movie zangs where others would have zigged, is that this doesn't actually lead to any of the aliens turning on the others. They may be starting to udnerstand love, but it's not going to get in the way of their mission.
This movie actually manages to be a good metaphor for women being gaslighted or marrying some abusive manipulator that's decided to stop pretending to be something they aren't, and it actually does a fairly good job at that.
One complaint I do have though, is that they never give the aliens a name. They say they're from Andromeda but there's never a moment where they go "I am Gorgleplaza," or "It's the Thing from Planet Schoom!" I think lacking a good name has really held these guys back in the realms of sci-fi b-movie fandom.
They movie was actually released as the headliner in a double bill with another minor sci-fi movie you may have heard of at some point. It was called "The Blob".