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Director:
Writers:
Lyn Freeman (written by) &
Daniel Grodnik (written by) ...
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Release Date:
26 November 1980 (France) more
Tagline:
The Alien Terror Is Here On Earth. more
Plot:
An alien creature stalks human prey. | add synopsis
NewsDesk:
(2 articles)
Ogre and still more “final” guests added to La Fango con
(From Fangoria. 12 April 2009, 7:31 AM, PDT)
Ted's Top 10 Thought They Were Original!
(From Icons of Fright. 4 July 2008, 9:14 AM, PDT)
User Comments:
They're coming to take you away! more (41 total)
Cast
(Credited cast)| Tarah Nutter | ... | Sandy | |
| Christopher S. Nelson | ... | Greg | |
| Jack Palance | ... | Joe Taylor | |
| Martin Landau | ... | Fred 'Sarge' Dobbs | |
| Sue Ane Langdon | ... | Aggie | |
| Neville Brand | ... | Leo | |
| Cameron Mitchell | ... | The Father | |
| Darby Hinton | ... | The Son | |
| David Caruso | ... | Tom | |
| Lynn Theel | ... | Beth | |
| Larry Storch | ... | The Scoutmaster | |
| Ralph Meeker | ... | Dave | |
| Mark Ness | ... | Bill, the Pool Player | |
| Burt Davis | ... | Old Man at Bar | |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Kevin Peter Hall | ... | The Alien (as Kevin Hall) | |
| Jeffrey Sudzin | ... | Ambulance Driver | |
Additional Details
Also Known As:
Alien Encounters (USA) (working title)
Alien Warning
It Came Without Warning
The Warning
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Runtime:
89 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
Iceland:16 | Finland:K-16 (1989) | Finland:K-18 (1982) | Australia:R | France:-12 | Sweden:15 | UK:18 | USA:R
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The plot for the Arnold Schwarzenegger sci-fi/action film Predator (1987) also features the same idea of an alien from outer space that hunts humans. The same actor who plays the alien in "Without Warning", Kevin Peter Hall, also plays the Predator. more
Quotes:
Joe Taylor:
[Talking to Sandy] It's up to you now. When I get that alien to the shack, you push the plunger.
Joe Taylor:
[Taylor runs towards the shack; yelling] Alieeeeen, alien, alien, come on.
Joe Taylor:
[Taylor reached the shack and sits down against the shack; yelling] Come on Sandy, You've gotta push the plunger.
Joe Taylor:
[Sandy pushes the plunger, but the wire is not properly configured] The wire, Sandy, push it.
[Sandy puts the wire on the plunger whilst Taylor falls over against the alien, then Sandy pushes the plunger and then the Shack blows up]
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References The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) more
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"Without Warning" is a cheap American b-movie horror from 1980 about the terror striking the beautiful American countryside... some people are brutally killed and mutilated by an unknown stranger, and it's the turn of a bunch of teenagers and war veterans to find out that an illegal alien has landed and is hunting for humans for his horrible collection...
Although this movie shows lots of stereotypes and well-known topics from many horror movies from the 50's to the 70's like "It Came From Outer Space", "The Thing", Jack Arnold and Roger Corman cheapos, "Night of the Living Dead", "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre", "Three on a Meathook" and even "Alien" and the new wave of high school slasher movies like "Halloween" and "Friday the 13th", it's an entertaining and thrilling affair.
There are some old movie veterans like Jack Palance, Martin Landau, Ralph Meeker, Cameron Mitchell and Neville Brand involved with Palance and Landau playing the mad alien hunters, and a young David Caruso in his very first movie role. The alien is played by Afro-American actor Kevin Peter Hall who also played the monster in "Predator 2" (1990). Director Greydon Clark never had a big break-through movie, but photographer Dean Cundey had a big time in the nineties with jobs for "Apollo 13", "Casper", "The Flintstones" and the Spielberg hits "Hook" and "Jurassic Park".
All in all it's a nice midnight movie and a small highlight for fans of seventies' paranoia horror films in the wake of the remakes of old alien, monster and disaster film productions. No more, no less.