
The story begins in 1957 in the star-filled skies above California's Mojave Desert. It is a special night for noted astronomer Ted Lewis, who is preparing a special dinner for his beautiful, adoring wife Lana to celebrate their wedding anniversary. In another part of town, Tammy, a waitress at small local diner with big plans for the future, looks out her window and is excited to see a shooting star, which she takes as a good sign for her dreams. But, what Dr. Lewis and Tammy... (Full plot summary below)
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The story begins in 1957 in the star-filled skies above California's Mojave Desert. It is a special night for noted astronomer Ted Lewis, who is preparing a special dinner for his beautiful, adoring wife Lana to celebrate their wedding anniversary. In another part of town, Tammy, a waitress at small local diner with big plans for the future, looks out her window and is excited to see a shooting star, which she takes as a good sign for her dreams. But, what Dr. Lewis and Tammy assume is a shooting star, is really an alien spaceship. The fiery ball hurtles toward earth and crash-lands on a butte in the desert. The only witnesses are teens Dick and Penny who are necking in a nearby lover's lane. A tall, metallic alien named Urp emerges from the craft unharmed, alarmed to discover that the monstrous Ghota, who was also on board, has escaped. The menacing one-eyed creature's unquenchable appetite could mean the end of civilization as we know it. Urp is the only one who knows how to stop the hideous extra-terrestrial, but to do so he has to take over the body of Dr. Lewis and enlist the aid of Tammy, the only human in town willing to believe and trust in his mission. The local police - including Chief Dawson and Officer Vern - are confirmed skeptics and offer little help. Together, Urp and Tammy must hunt down the Ghota and neutralize it before it consumes all the local inhabitants and uses the human fuel to multiply and conquer the world!
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| Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumThe characters in Alien Trespass (directed by X-Files producing alum R.W. Goodwin) are specimens of Sputnik-era determination, led by a gung-ho Eric McCormack. |
| EricDSnider.comEric D. SniderIt achieves its hokiness by design, which renders it artificial and flat. |
| Mania.comRob VauxFans of the era will respond warmly to it, but more through its expressed affection than any notable assets of its own. |
| Critic's NotebookRobert LevinThe movie is a curiosity, to be sure, but one fostered by an enjoyably nostalgic spirit. |
| Boston GlobeTy BurrIt's pretty endearing - a low-budget labor of schlock. |
| Denver PostLisa KennedyIt's comfy. It's kitschy. There are lovely enticements but also much that is simply put and beautifully, beguilingly silly. |
| Internet ReviewsSteve RhodesWhile it never rises to the level of Galaxy Quest, my gold standard for funny sci-fi films, Alien Trespass consistently delights and amuses. |
| BeliefnetNell MinowThe shrewd script has two of the 1950's primary fixations: the couple who exemplify "togetherness" and the teenagers who could be juvenile delinquents. |
| One Guy's OpinionFrank SwietekIt doesn't want to be camp, but it inevitably becomes so, because the very effort to replicate its models is so knowing that it comes across as insufferably arch. |
| Dread CentralSteve "Uncle Creepy" BartonA true love letter to genre days gone by, Alien Trespass delivers on its promise to bring back a slice of the good old days to horror cinema. |