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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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