Post by Butcher on Jul 23, 2006 16:09:04 GMT -5
This is one of the greatest b-movies of the 1980s, and it has some of the best movie monsters of all time. They made it over a period of about 3 years, and it cost them about $20,000 to do, on a week by week basis. It wound up making almost half a million dollars at the box office too, when it was released (the same week as Evil Dead BTW).
The plot goes like this: a strange meteor crashes to earth. Two young guys and their family find out (the hard way hehe) that there are some enormous, horrific monsters in their basement, and the young brothers and their friends have to find out just what they are, and how to escape them. With it's great 50's style monster movie plot, and 80's style extreme gore, we end up with a kick ass mixture of those two genres. Faces and heads are ripped off, bodies are spat out of windows and much more as these poor folks find themselves forced to endure the sticky situation of being overrun by bloodthirsty, man-eating monsters.
Synapse's recent DVD of this is a must have for fans of this movie, or low-budget b-movies of this kind. The crappy tapes don't hold a candle to this new transfer, and it's got two commentaries, among other cool extra stuff.
Anybody else a fan of this thing??
