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Partly notable because footage from this movie was used for the credits sequence of ''Film/PodPeople''.

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Partly notable Very oddly, it might be best known because Film Ventures International took footage from this movie was and used for it under the credits sequence of ''Film/PodPeople''.
''Film/PodPeople'', their presentation of the Spanish SciFiHorror film ''Los Nuevos Extraterrestres''.
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* {{Tuckerization}}: Joe's idiot son JJ is probably named in honour of [[Creator/JJAbrams the composer]] for Dohler's movie ''Night Beast''.
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* ParentalMarriageVeto: Joe's introductory scene shows his very violent reaction to learning that his daughter wants to marry Mike. His surname being [[Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet Montague]] is probably deliberate.
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* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: The Green Man only kills in self-defense, Joe is a monstrous abuser who beats and torments his family, sends his friends to die, and is utterly lacking in redeeming qualities.
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* HateSink: Joe Montague is a drunken redneck who is introduced slapping his adult daughter for dating a man he dislikes. When she slaps him back, he blasts at her with a shotgun, only barely missing. When an alien crashlands near his house, Joe obsessively hunts it down for the money, not caring who gets killed in the process. Soon after the alien kills his supposed best friend, Joe tries to rape the man's wife and then shoots her InTheBack. His family eventually has enough and tries to leave, so [[PaterFamilicide Joe tries to kill them all]].

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* HateSink: Joe Montague is a drunken redneck who is introduced slapping his adult daughter for dating a man he dislikes. When she slaps him back, he blasts at her with a shotgun, only barely missing. When an alien crashlands near his house, Joe obsessively hunts it down for the money, not caring who gets killed in the process. Soon after the alien kills his supposed best friend, Joe tries to rape the man's wife girlfriend and then shoots her InTheBack. His family eventually has enough and tries to leave, so [[PaterFamilicide Joe tries to kill them all]].
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* HateSink: Joe Montague is a drunken redneck who is introduced slapping his adult daughter for dating a man he dislikes. When she slaps him back, he blasts at her with a shotgun, only barely missing. When an alien crashlands near his house, Joe obsessively hunts it down for the money, not caring who gets killed in the process. Soon after the alien kills his supposed best friend, Joe tries to rape her and then shoots her InTheBack. His family eventually has enough and tries to leave, so [[PaterFamilicide Joe tries to kill them all]].

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* HateSink: Joe Montague is a drunken redneck who is introduced slapping his adult daughter for dating a man he dislikes. When she slaps him back, he blasts at her with a shotgun, only barely missing. When an alien crashlands near his house, Joe obsessively hunts it down for the money, not caring who gets killed in the process. Soon after the alien kills his supposed best friend, Joe tries to rape her the man's wife and then shoots her InTheBack. His family eventually has enough and tries to leave, so [[PaterFamilicide Joe tries to kill them all]].
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* CorruptHick: The villains are a bunch of rednecks who are hunting the green man for money.
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-->''"It came from a galaxy far, far away. An alien explorer. Its mission... TO SURVIVE!"''

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-->''"It ->''"It came from a galaxy far, far away. An alien explorer. Its mission... TO SURVIVE!"''
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* HeroAntagonist: The Green Man never hurts people except in self-defense and doesn’t seem to have any ill intent, and also [[spoiler: kills Joe Montague, who is a monstrous sociopath.]]

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* HeroAntagonist: The Green Man never hurts people except in self-defense and doesn’t seem to have any ill intent, and also [[spoiler: kills Joe Montague, who is a monstrous sociopath.]]intent.
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* HeroAntagonist: The Green Man never hurts people except in self-defense and doesn’t seem to have any ill intent, and also [[spoiler: kills Joe Montague, who is a monstrous sociopath.]]
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* EvilPlan: Joe Montague, upon finding an alien has crash-landed near his home, spends the film plotting to capture or kill it to sell him to the government.
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Partly notable because footage from this movie was used for the credits sequence of ''Film/PodPeople''.
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Frickin' Laser Beams entry amended in accordance with this Trope Repair Shop Thread.


* EnergyWeapon: The green man's gun.



* FrickinLaserBeams: The green man's gun.
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* AttemptedRape: [[spoiler:Joe tries this on Becky]]

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* AttemptedRape: [[spoiler:Joe tries this on Becky]]Becky.]]



* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Joe is taken down, but he kills the green man first]]

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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Joe is taken down, but he kills the green man first]]first.]]



* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler:Joe is dispatched by his wife, whom he emotionally abused throughout the film]]

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* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler:Joe is dispatched by his wife, whom he emotionally abused throughout the film]]film.]]

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