TEENAGERS FROM OUTER SPACE (1959) - One of the very worst . . .

[The Burgomaster]

This ranks right up there with some of the very worst sci-fi flicks of the 1950s.

This movie wins the prize for the two most ridiculous looking paste-on beards in screen history.  There is a scientist with a glued-on goatee and later on we get to see an alien with a glued-on full beard.  I was positive one of these beards would fall off.

Anyway, a flying saucer lands on Earth in a remote area.  The aliens decide that it is a good place to breed "Gargons" their #1 source of food.  Gargons, as it turns out, are actually normal sized lobsters that will eventually grow to gigantic proportions.  Toward the end of the movie, we get to see one of these giant lobsters in what is perhaps the WORST display of special effects you will ever witness.

One of the aliens (who has good intentions) leaves his evil companions and wanders into town.  He meets a girl.  She is possibly the ugliest female lead in any 1950s sci-fi movie.  She looks sort of like a skeleton with a terrible haircut (straight bangs like Moe Howard) and an annoying gap between her two front teeth.  One of the evil aliens also wanders into town and starts blasting people with a ray gun that turns them into skeletons.

The only redeeming value is that you will have fun recognizing some of the music (some of it was also used in PLAN 9 and some was used in NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD).

You can find this movie in the SCI-FI CLASSICS 50 MOVIE PACK.  Beware!

[ulthar]

I've got this one in my queue; there is something about it that is just drawing me in....

[Just Plain Horse]

I actually have a soft spot for this one... it's obviously low-budget, and I actually respect the guy playing "David Love", it's obvious he's trying to break into a serious filmaking career. I admit my first exposure to this one was MST3K related, but I love the way this one goes all over the place... I've found it easier to get through than films like The Giant Gila Monster or Killer Shrews...

[Ed, Ego and Superego]

I like this one as well. In many ways one of the worst things about it is the title.  IT also has the amazing Skeleto-Ray.  It zaps animals into lab skeletons!
-Ed

[The Burgomaster]

Ed Wrote:
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In many ways one of the
worst things about it is the title.


I agree.  The visitors from space all seem to be between about 25 and 35 years old.  Not a teenager in the whole damned group.  And I forgot to mention the flying saucer.  It's about 2 1/2 feet tall, and about 6 aliens emerge from it.  It's like one of those clown cars where the clowns keep coming out one after another and you can't figure out how they could all fit inside such a small car . . .

[RCMerchant]

I got this at Dollar General.It even has an exta couple of Flash Gordon episodes tacked on to make it a SCI-FI Double Feature pack. The dad in the flick is the same actor who plays the sherrif in Bride of the Monster! (Minus the parrot).A true z-budget classic.

[Ed, Ego and Superego]

Oh, and I forgot the mutant lobsters....sci fi gold!
-Ed

[Ozzymandias]

Okay I disagree with the comments about the girl. As the guys with MST3K pointed out, she looks a little like Wynona Ryder.

Also the alien comander is played by Ronald King Moody. He was frequently a henchman in a lot of the spy shows of the 60's. Of those parts, his most famous was KAOS agent Starker on Get Smart. After Get Smart he played RONALD MCDONALD in the McDonald commercials of the 70's.

I wonder if George Lucas stole the ending of this for American Graffiti.

[RCMerchant]

Was this guy related to the notorious Titus Moody?

[The Burgomaster]

Ozzymandias Wrote:
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> Okay I disagree with the comments about the girl.
> As the guys with MST3K pointed out, she looks a
> little like Wynona Ryder.

If Wynona Ryder was an anorexic heroin addict and someone hit her in the face with a shovel, she might look like the girl in this movie.

[Flangepart]

Okey....if no one else will say it.....TORCHA!...there, its said. You may now get up and move about the cabin.

[Just Plain Horse]

The lobster jokes were the ones that really had me going. Goodnight, sweet crustacean.