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Director:
Writer:
Jim Kouf (written by)
Release Date:
20 October 1987 (USA)
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Tagline:
A new breed of criminal. more
Plot:
An alien is on the run in America. To get his kicks, it kills anything that gets in its way, and uses the body as a new hiding place...
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Awards:
4 wins
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5 nominations
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(4 articles)
Trinity Of Terrors Guest Profile: Robert Kurtzman
(From Fangoria. 7 October 2009, 12:33 AM, PDT)
Fiction: Compass - Episode 6: Following the Followers
(From doorQ.com. 13 September 2009, 5:49 PM, PDT)
(From Fangoria. 7 October 2009, 12:33 AM, PDT)
Fiction: Compass - Episode 6: Following the Followers
(From doorQ.com. 13 September 2009, 5:49 PM, PDT)
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I Agree: Entertaining As Anything!
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Kyle MacLachlan | ... | Lloyd Gallagher |
 | Michael Nouri | ... | Tom Beck |
 | Claudia Christian | ... | Brenda Lee Van Buren |
 | Clarence Felder | ... | Lt. John Masterson |
 | Clu Gulager | ... | Lt. Ed Flynn |
| Ed O'Ross | ... | Cliff Willis |
| William Boyett | ... | Jonathan Miller |
 | Richard Brooks | ... | Sanchez |
 | Larry Cedar | ... | Brem |
 | Katherine Cannon | ... | Barbara Beck |
| John McCann | ... | Senator Holt |
 | Chris Mulkey | ... | Jack DeVries |
 | Lin Shaye | ... | Carol Miller |
| James Luisi | ... | Ferrari Salesman |
| Frank Renzulli | ... | Michael Buckley |
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96 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
Iceland:16 |
West Germany:18 |
France:-12 |
Australia:MA (DVD rating) |
Australia:R |
Finland:K-16 |
Norway:18 |
Sweden:15 |
UK:18 |
USA:R
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The transfer of the alien from DeVries into Jonathan Miller was accomplished by stop-motion photography. During the stops, stage hands would work at stuffing the creature model into the mock head. Actor William Boyett, upon seeing the alien going into "his" mouth, was so disgusted he refused to watch and actually left the room.
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Crew or equipment visible: Shadow of camera car visible in first car chase.
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Detective Beck. No one deserves to die like that. I don't care what the man's done.
Cliff Willis: He killed twelve people, wounded twenty three more, stole six cars, most of them Ferraris. Robbed eight banks, six supermarkets, four jewelery stores and a candy shop. Six of the ones he killed he carved up with a butcher knife. Two of them were kids. He did all that in two weeks. If anyone deserves to go that way, it sure in the hell was him.
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Cliff Willis: He killed twelve people, wounded twenty three more, stole six cars, most of them Ferraris. Robbed eight banks, six supermarkets, four jewelery stores and a candy shop. Six of the ones he killed he carved up with a butcher knife. Two of them were kids. He did all that in two weeks. If anyone deserves to go that way, it sure in the hell was him.
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Movie Connections:
Spoofed in Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior (2006) (TV)
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Bad Girl
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I wrote the following three paragraphs and then scanned some of the reviews....only to find everyone else saying pretty much the same thing as I had written, namely that this movie is a hidden gem and enormously entertaining. Well, add my name to the list of admirers.
Here's a low-grade sci-fi/crime story that is amazingly entertaining. It's a fast- paced account of normal people taking turns being inhabited by an alien being and suddenly turning into out-of-control killing machines. It guess it kind of sounds dumb, but seeing it is better than describing it. The characters in here are wild.
Kyle MacLachlan plays his normal mid-80s strange character, a la Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks, etc. Here, he is the FBI agent....or is he?
On the first viewing I found Michael Nouri's role as too abrasive, taking away from some of the fun of viewing this, but, in future viewings he was more tolerable. What also helps this film is a little bit of humor thrown in here and there. It will probably wind up as a cult classic.