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Critters
Why this pick
Pairs small-town alien chaos with scrappy creature effects and jokey genre energy; it is a little spikier than Spaced Invaders but shares its playful low-budget sci-fi texture.
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MOVIE1990 1h 40m USA
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
The space armada from Mars, known as the Imperial Atomic Space Navy (Battle Group Seven), fights an interstellar war against their long-time enemy, the Arcturans. The armada is forced into battle by Enforcer Droids, tasked to keep the Martian soldiers in line, despite objections by some that it won't work. Meanwhile, an incompetent crew of a small Martian spaceship, from the Civilian Asteroid Patrol, intercept a distress signal from the fleet, followed by a Halloween rebroadcast of Orson Welles' 1938 The War of the Worlds (radio) radio dramatization.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Douglas Barr
Sam
Gregg Berger
Klembecker
Royal Dano
Wrenchmuller
Ariana Richards
Kathy
Patrika Darbo
Mrs. Vanderspool