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There is an alien race that lives from Magrons. Unfortunately Magrons
are evil monsters who grow at an enormous rate and devour everything in
sight, so the aliens can't grow them on their own planet - which why they
choose earth as a possible new pasture for the creatures. However, when
they are probing earth, one of the aliens, Derek (David Love) comes to the
conclusion that there is really intelligent life on earth, and he deserts
the others who simply refuse to listen to his claims.
Soon enough, Derek meets up with teenage Betty (Dawn Anderson), and the
two fall in love almost immediately - but Derek's co-aliens have meanwhile
left one of the Magrons behind to devour the neighbourhood, and they have
sent Thor (Bryan Grant), the most brutal of the bunch, after Derek to
destroy him. This all leads to a killing spree by Thor, a chase and
finally a showdown between Derek and Thor, at the end of qhich Thor is
defeated and handed over to the proper authorities ... but that's far from
the end, since Derek still has to destroy the Magron, and his
disintegrator gun was damaged when fighting Thor - so he connects the gun
directly to the power line to destroy the beast. But too late as it seems,
his people already return to earth with a whole herd of Magrons, against
which earth people would be powerless as it is. So Derek changes his
tactics, turns against Betty and all humankind (or so it seems), frees
Thor from police custody, and returns to the mothership with him that has
landed on earth as a vanguard, even bringing the president (Gene
Sterling), who turns out to be Derek's father. But of course, an alien as
nice as Derek would never betray his girl and humankind as such, he only
tricked everyone to make the whole alien UFO-fleet crash right into the
mothership, destroying it along with Thor, the president, the Magrons and
everything else - but unfortunately also Derek himself. Earth on the other
hand is saved to live one more day.
Nowadays, Teenagers from Outer Space is by and large a forgotten
drive-in sci-fi flick, even though in some respects it's simply great,
great in a so bad it's good way perhaps, but still great: There's a
silly looking UFO that has a screwlike design and consequently seems to
drill itself into the earth when landing, there are the aliens' stupid
uniforms, the disintegrator gun that turns everyone into a skeleton, the
lobster-like Magron that's badly copied into the film, some very wooden
acting, a sometimes atrocious screenplay and a serious lack of budget -
all of which might sound awful for the general public but mouth-whetting
for the average trashmovie fan. However, Teenagers from Outer Space
falls somewhat short of great, at 85 minutes it's 10 to 20 minutes too
long for its feeble premise and at times it seems to awfully drag where it
could have been exciting. Still, if you want a good laugh, this is
probably your film ...
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