A group of little monstrous aliens named
the Krites escape from a galactic prison
which is on an asteroid and stole their
fastest ship that could fly across the
galaxy.
A group of intergalactic bounty hunters
chases after them and tries to capture
them. They disguise themselves into human
beings. One of them disguises himself as
a rockstar and the other into various
other human beings when they realise that
the Krites are landing on planet Earth as
they try to tear up the town looking for
them.
The Krites look for food so they land on
Earth after the ship crashed in a
farmland of Kansas where they kill and
eat the farm animals and try to eat the
family living there too.
The family there are endangered and tries
to put a stop to them with the aid of the
bounty hunters as their power and phone
lines have been destroyed along with any
vehicle transportation.
But yet, the more the Krites eat the farm
animals the bigger they get and more
powerful and deadly.
A fun flick as I watched it on TV and at
the time I was slowly getting into horror
films but I loved sci-fi too and this had
both with lots of dark comedy.
It was a well done flick and lots of
action with the rolling furballs that are
destined to kill and eat.
I loved it even more watching it the
second time as it had great special
effects and a total 80's touch to it.
The acting is well
done Dee Wallace Stone does a
good job as always and this time she is
not encountering a loveable alien that
wants to go home to his planet like in
E.T..
Billy
Green Bush does well as a farm owner
and a strict as nails one too
I also enjoyed the
seriousness performance of Terrence
Mann as the head alien bounty hunter
Ug. He presented himself extremely well
on the camera and really stood out in
this film.
Another cast member who stood out was
young teenage actor Scott Grimes
as he delivered alot of character into
his part as a mischievious kid always
getting himself into trouble
M.
Emmet Walsh was annoying as the head
county bimbo sheriff.
The odd bite marks
from cows and people etc as well as
Krites being devoured but nothing too
gory as most people who have strong
stomachs can take it.
The directing by Steven
Herek is enjoyable. He uses both of
his chemistries using corny dark comedy
along with serious horror
I didn't care for the dark comedy like
his direction with M. Emmet Walsh and
his dipstick deputies as he tries to make
it seem funny and it's not
The same with his coaching on Jeremy
Lawrence preaching at a church with
his cheesy lines and then the sherrif car
crashes into the church.
But there's hilarious moments with the
Krites like when the head Krite looks ast
a stuffed E.T. doll
thinking it's alive and it was a joke
since Dee Wallace-Stone starred
in this film.
There's also a funny moment when another
Krite is on fire and jumps into a toilet
bowl.
His best was directing the serious horror
in it like when the Krites terrorise the
family in the farm or when it attacks Billy
Green Bush's character and he shows
perfect reactions making you think to
yourself if he is going to survive.
He was great at directing Stone
at being hysterical of the whole
incident.
Another great moment was when he coached Don
Keith Opper by playing two different
characters since one of the bounty hunter
aliens takes his character's form at
first playing a dopey mentally challenged
person to a quiet serious one.
Close to the end of the film I loved his
direction with Scott Grimes and Billy
Green Bush as I found it very
touching.
There's music composed by David
Newman who doies a nice classical
score in the film.
We also have 3 songtracks
by 3 unknown 80's hair rock groups but
they sound fantastic
"Power of the Night" performed
by Mann
"Leather" performed by White
Chicks
"Still You Turn Me On" by The
Mix.
Critter
1: They've got weapons.
Critter 2: So What?
[Critter 2 is shot off the porch]
Critter 1: Fuck!
Ug:
We're here for the Krites.
Critter
1 [Looking at a stuffed E.T.
doll]: Who are you?
Charlie
McFadden: Call the army! They're
here!
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