The Deadly Spawn

     This is a great monster movie from the early '80s, my favorite kind! Two campers see a meteorite fall to the earth, when they go inspect it, they encounter a giant eating machine of an alien with multiple heads and literally thousands of teeth. 

      The creature moves into town and hides in someone's basement. People start disappearing left and right. A tea party is subsequently attacked by what looks like a baby spawn, which bears a striking resemblance to the "Killer Condom". Sort of like tadpoles on steroids with nothing but rows and rows of razor-sharp teeth. 

      A few teenagers figure out that they better kill the parent creature before it makes enough spawn to devour the whole planet. One of the teens is really into magic shows and puts a huge amount of flash powder in a dummy head and dangles it in front of the creature, who is hesitant at first but finally gives in and takes a great big bite. Then suddenly... boom! The creature splatters everywhere. All seems well with the world again. That is until the end when you see a HUGE spawn emerge from a mountain, smile and bear literally millions of little teeth.  

     This is a typical alien creature flick from the good old 1980s that rides the line between horror and comedy.  A lot of times in these types of movies the comedy is unintentional but this one doesn't apologize for some of the more absurd scenes and never really takes itself too seriously.  The creature effects are actually quite good when you realize how simple they were to pull off.  Sometimes simply painted silicone really is a horror movie maker's best friend.