Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 83 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Frights
- Strong
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- It goes hard on frights — not a wind-down.
The story
Happy go-lucky teen Billy Duncan discovers an otherworldly laser gun in the southern California desert, making him the target of a pair of aliens who had recently executed its previous owner.
- spacecraft
- laser gun
- mutation
- alien life-form
- alien
- stop motion
- desert
- exploding car
- machine gun
- pinball machine
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Eddie Deezen — Froggy
- Keenan Wynn — Colonel Farley
- Roddy McDowall — Doctor Mellon
- Dennis Burkley — Deputy Pete Ungar
- Barry Cutler — Deputy Jesse Jeep
- Mike Bobenko — Chuck Boran
- Rick Walters — Mike London
- Simmy Bow — Gas Station Attendant
- Joanna Lipari — Franny
- Wendy Wernli — Carolyn Spicer
- Michael Barrere — Hip Kid
- Directed
- Michael Rae
- Written
- Franne Schacht, Frank Ray Perilli
Production
- Rating
- 3.4 / 10 · 116 ratings
- Studio
- Selected Pictures, Charles Band Productions, The Irwin Yablans Company, Full Moon Features
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
