Friday, January 14, 2011

TERRORVISION / Altair Productions - 1986

Hello everbloody, welcome to Friday Frights, here at The Dungeon... Here's one we used to see on the USA Network on cable back in the late eighties! Cheese might be a good term to use when talking about this flick, because, almost every aspect about it is pretty much way over the top!

It all starts here, on the planet Pluton. One of their 'bad' mutant creature's being shot into space, they do that just to get rid of the damn things! You'll hear it ricochet off some planets right before the theme starts in the soundclip!

The music is by Richard Band, brother of Exec. Producer Charles and son of Producer, Albert... It runs in the family! Here's a few other movies Richard composed for: LASERBLAST, PARASITE, GHOULIES, RE-ANIMATOR, TROLL, FROM BEYOND, PUPPETMASTER, BRIDE OF RE-ANIMATOR, SHATTERBRAIN, DRAGONWORLD, CASTLE FREAK, ROBO WARRIORS and HIDEOUS! Naturally, Richard's still working today.

Best of all though, The Terrorvision song was written and performed by those crazy menses, The Fibonaccis, and, Stan's Theme was sung by Hal Negro!

Aw'rite! Let's bring in our lil' button pusher, Ralphie The Tarantula, to push that button all the way down, which in turn begins the electrical impulse that triggers the electro wire to click against the spark-o-meter and eventually travel way across the room and then finally come to rest here... TERRORVISION!

This is the way Tabonga likes his wimmen... Exercising! Here's Dungeon favotite, Mary Woronov, as Raquel Putterman, modern housewife! Mary, with 110 acting credits, was also in these fine flicks... KISS THE BOOT, SHOWER, ****, SEIZURE, COVER GIRL MODELS, ROCK 'N' ROLL HIGH SCHOOL, EATING RAOUL, ANGEL OF H.E.A.T., BLOOD THEATRE, HELLHOLE, CHOPPING MALL, BLACK WIDOW, BUSTER'S BEDROOM, MOTORAMA, ZOO and FROG-G-G!

Bert Remsen plays nutty war veteran, grandpa Putterman. Bert had 186 acting credits, appearing mostly on TV, a few shows were THE WEB, MAN WITH A CAMERA, YANCY DERRINGER, JOHNNY STUCCATO, THRILLER, PETER GUNN, MY THREE SONS, LEAVE IT TO BEAVER, THE OUTER LIMITS, THE THIRD MAN, THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW, THE ROOKIES, CHARLIE'S ANGELS, THE NEW ADVENTURES OF WONDER WOMAN and more!

Gerrit Graham plays Stanley Putterman, he just got his new satellite dish installed and the whole family's checking it out! Gerrit was also in BEWARE! THE BLOB, PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE, TUNNEL VISION, DEMON SEED, THE ANNIHILATORS, RATBOY, MARTIANS GO HOME and CHILD'S PLAY 2.

Here's Jon Gries as O.D., boyfriend of teenage daughter, Suzy Putterman...

Raquel likes him a lot, but, Stanley's not so sure..


Grandpa and grandson Sherman scan through some of the new channels they can now get on their satellite dish. That's Medusa hosting her horror movie show, played by the boobalicious, Jennifer Richards.

Grandpa thought he heard something... The mutant creature has actually used the satellite dish as a conduit to manifest itself inside the Putterman home!

Guests are invited to swing with the Puttermans. That's Alejandro Rey as Spiro and Randi Brooks as Cherry. Check out Stanley!

Sherman wanders in just at the wrong time, so, mom forces him into their underground bunker and locks him in! He's trying to tell her that there's a monster in the house!

Then, she finds out that Spiro is actually interested in Stanley!!

Spiro decides to go for a dip in the pool with Cherry after Stanley turns him down.

This is O.D.'s custom painted Mustang!

Sherman, Suzy and O.D. go looking for the parents...

And, here's what they find!

Later, they find out that the ugly critter is just hungry, so, they feed it and make friends for awhile.

Medusa makes the 'party' just in time to watch the dude chasing the mutant creature's head explode inside his glass helmut!

So, now, the thing has no way of being stopped!!

Medusa gets the last word... Ghoulnight Everbloody!!

4 comments:

Greg Goodsell said...

Great choice! Criminally unreleased on DVD, this is actually a funny film! If I am allowed to drop names, Mary Woronov told me she loved this movie as the "punk rockers" in this film -- although the guy was more of a metal head and the gal was a Cyndi Lauper clone -- are the ones who briefly civilize the monster! The film was recently revived at the New Beverly Cinema in Hollyweird.

Will Towles said...

I watched this last Sunday. I think there should be a four drink minimum to start this film.

David said...

Now that member of the Band family should have made more films.

Anonymous said...

(SCB)- Kudos for including this movie in your blog. It's a very 80's B-movie, but somehow it holds up just enough to be strangely watchable.

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