Teenagers From Outer Space
Teenagers From Outer Space (1959) Rewatch? ✅
Spoiling myself tonight, a slice of camp brilliance.
Space nazi teenagers sent on a mission to find an entire planet to expand their massive meat farms to, a safe distance away from their own planet so they don’t get munched themselves, land on Earth but one of them has other ideas and a conscience, he’s named Derek and he’s having none of this space nazi lark. One failed single handed rebellion later and … yeah, things happen camply from there.
Scenery gets chewed, dogs get lasered, space teenager falls in love, a really, really big lobster happens. It’s the film Mars Attacks could only ever dream of being and it has an absolutely lovely flying saucer too. One of the space nazi teenagers has a thing for lasering things to death and it’s just brilliant, really. It would be great anyway but he’s using an actual kid’s raygun toy prop to do it, so that obviously makes it a gazillion times better.
A legendary piece of cheap film making that’s not going to let not having any money crush its ambition and, for me, a sci fi all timer.