Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 109 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Frights
- Strong
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on frights — not a wind-down.
The story
The Midwest USA is invaded by stingray-shaped alien slugs that ride on people's backs and control their minds in order to spread their dominion. Government agency reps Sam Givens, Andrew Nivens, and Mary Sefton must stop the aliens.
- mind control
- small town
- based on novel or book
- escape
- iowa
- rescue mission
- alien
- space
- alien contact
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Will Patton — Dr. Lawrence Graves
- Richard Belzer — Neil Jarvis
- Tom Mason — President Douglas
- Yaphet Kotto — Ressler
- Gerry Bamman — Viscott
- Sam Anderson — Culbertson
- J. Patrick McCormack — Gidding
- Marshall Bell — General Morgan
- Nicholas Cascone — Greenberg
- Bruce Jarchow — Barnes
- Benjamin Mouton — Higgins
- Directed
- Stuart Orme
- Written
- Terry Rossio, Ted Elliott, David S. Goyer
Production
- Rating
- 5.8 / 10 · 204 ratings
- Studio
- Hollywood Pictures, Buena Vista Pictures
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.
