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Aliens from the far advanced planet Zanti have coerced the American
gouvernment to leave them a strip of land as a penal colony. Reluctantly,
Army General Hart (Robert F.Simon) cordons off the perimeters and signals
the alien spaceship to land. However, gangster on the run Ben (Bruce Dern)
and his moll Lisa (Olive Deering) have nothing better to do than to run
over one of the guards and make it right to the landing area - where their
car breaks down. (Why a gangster on the run would actually choose to drive
into restricted army area where he's bound to be found before long by many
men with weapons called soldiers is best left at anybody's guess, from a
logical point of view it doesn't make the least bit of sense.)
With their car broken down, Ben (again for no reason whatsoever)
decides to climb a hill to check out what that shiney object (the
Zanti spaceship) might be ... but when he gets too close to the spaceship
(that is no bigger than himself), the door opens and exit a Zanti misfit,
an antlike creature no bigger than one's hand. Ben runs in terror (I
suppose he's easily scared) but the Zanti misfit comes after him and kills
him.
Meanwhile at the army base nearby, the general has learned about the
intruders, and it is decided to send an emmissary, army historian Stephen
Graves (Michael Tolan) into the area, to show the aliens the earthlings'
good intentions. However, when Graves sees Lisa threatened by one of the
Zanti misfits, he crushes it with a stone to save the woman ... which
somehow turned his mission into a failure.
And indeed, when Graves takes Lisa back to the army base, the Zanti
spaceship follows his car, lands atop the building and the Zanti misfits
attack in force. All the heavily armed soldiers immediately panic, only
Graves remains cool enough to show them how easy they ae to crush, and
soon enough, all the Zanti misfits are turned into purée ...
Thing is, now the General fears retaliation from planet Zanti ... but
then the Zanti gouvernment radio earth and promise to not
retaliate, actually they have sent their misfits to earth for one reason
only: Because earthlings are capable to execute their prisoners while our
friends from Zanti are not ...
For the most part, this episode of Outer Limits isn't
half-bad (and of course I just love the title, The Zanti Misfits),
it's a trashy piece of science fiction with cool stop-motion monsters -
even if they, at fist-size, fail to be particularly scary - and enough
suspense scenes to forgive the story its many leaps of reason. The total
let-down only comes in the end, when it turns into a celebration for the
death penalty ... I mean I won't even go into moral issues about executing
prisoners here, but whatever way you see it, killing convicts is not
something to be celebrated !!!
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