Line #1 Film/TerrorVision


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3	->''"The Do-It-Yourself 100 picks up things from EVERYWHERE!"''
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5	''[=TerrorVision=]'' is a 1986 SciFi ComedyHorror movie produced by Charles Band, directed and co-written by Ted Nicolaou, and starring Creator/ChadAllen, Diane Franklin, Creator/MaryWoronov, Creator/GerritGraham, Creator/BertRemsen, Creator/JonGries and Alejandro Rey.
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7	An alien civilization has decided to send its garbage into space as energy so it doesn't clog up their planet. On Earth, a family have just set up a fancy satellite dish. These two events clash when the trash energy is given material form through their telly, and naturally turns out to include a monster which begins gobbling up anybody it can get a hold of.
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10	!!This film contains examples of:
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12	* TheAssimilator: The Hungry Beast can mimic the speech patterns of people he eats, and with proper concealment, can make them look perfectly alive by recreating their heads on its tongue.
13	* BigBad: The Hungry Beast.
14	* BigEater: The Hungry Beast gets its name from the fact that the slightest push could send it into an unstoppable eating binge.
15	* CrazySurvivalist: The grandpa of the family is a gun nut who has a massive panic room with an arsenal and is convinced that lizard tail turkey is the way of the future.
16	* CryingWolf: Not all TV horror hosts are [[Film/FrightNight1985 Peter Vincent]]. When Medusa is initially contacted by Sherman about the alien she thinks it's a prank call and pranks Sherman in return, [[spoiler:and when she still arrives to the house in the final act, her panicky reactions at seeing actual aliens are the direct cause of the film's DownerEnding.]]
17	* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:The Hungry Beast consumes everybody in the main cast, including the KidHero, and makes its way to a movie studio to continue feeding.]]
18	* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: [[spoiler:The Hungry Beast may be a ravenous monster, but it will stop rampaging if it sees somebody wearing a glove that resembles the one worn by whoever handled it as a baby.]]
19	* TheHeroDies: [[spoiler:Sherman is devoured by the Hungry Beast.]]
20	* HopeSpot: [[spoiler:Pluthar, the alien that has appeared in warning transmissions throughout the film, finally appears in the third act and has a solution to kill the Hungry Beast for good and regenerate Sherman's assimilated family... and then Medusa (who ''now'' finally arrived to the house), thinking he's an evil alien, gives him a HeyYouHaymaker that kills him. She also shakes Sherman when he finally figures out how to use Pluthar's gun, making him miss its one shot.]]
21	* HorrorHost: A parody of one who dresses as Medusa the Gorgon shows up on TV. [[spoiler:She becomes a ChekhovsGunman [[NiceJobBreakingItHero of the worst sort]].]]
22	* MyLittlePanzer: [[spoiler:Turns out that the Hungry Beast is considered a ''pet'' among Pluthar's species. Downplayed in that the Hungry Beast's species can mutate and become dangerous, and this whole mess happened because of the aliens' method to destroy the beast.]]
23	* {{Portmantitle}}: "Terror"+"Television"
24	* ShoutOut:
25	** ''Film/RobotMonster'' and ''Film/TheGiantClaw'' show up as part of Medusa's program.
26	** A metalhead character is seen wearing a [[Music/WASPBand W.A.S.P.]] shirt.
27	* TitleThemeTune: "Terrorvision!"
28	* VillainOpeningScene: The trash creature being blasted into space.
29	* YourHeadAsplode: [[spoiler:The alien sent to stop the Hungry Beast is killed when his helmet cracks and the sudden change in air pressure makes his head burst.]]

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