Shudder Day: Nightbeast (1982)

 With everything going on in the World right now, I want to watch something dumb and fun.

As such, I decided to watch...

A space ship crashes on Earth in a random, small town.

It immediately starts killing folks.

Within the first 20 minutes or so, he zaps a bunch of people.

The laser effect of them being zapped/disintegrated is constantly changing.

It feels like they just kept trying out new ones and never went back to change the others.

Early on, we follow these 2 kids being chased by the Alien.

They run to a Cabin, where it kills a Couple (after some Nudity).

I wonder what else will...

...oh, they got vaporized.  Never mind.

Our two Cops battle the Alien to no avail at night and then face it again.

It doesn't go well...again.

They do destroy its gun, so now it can just rip you apart.

Baby steps.

We get a random Jaws rip-off as the Mayor won't evacuate the Town from his Pool Party on account of the rampaging Alien.
Given that this is an update of a 1978 Film...

The Sheriff was also Bozo the Clown from 1972-1977.

After all of the Extras leave (literally the Pool Party Guests are all credited separately), they try to finally kill the Alien.

Even though they know their guns don't hurt, they won't stop firing at it- of course!

They eventually save the day- naturally.
The End.

It is exactly what you probably expect...and nothing more.

A big, old Alien shows up and kills people.  We get a little bit of Character Backstory and motivations.
Lots of people die.

This one doesn't aim to be much.  It achieved that.

The Film does include some random Nudity, which apparently the Director was against...but also needed to sell the Film.  I guess it worked- I'm watching it over 40 years later!

As a Drive-In Film, this one is oddly paced.  It front loads a whole bunch of silly Action, laser effects and gore.
They kill more people in the first 20 minutes than most Films do in the entire runtime!

After that, it wisely slows down.  If not, they would have run out of Cast before the 40-minute mark!

A random Scene- added in post-production- involving this lady being introduced just to be killed by her Boyfriend sure didn't belong though.  What was even the point?!?

The craziest thing about this Film is that one man went on to do a much more successful Sci-Fi Film.
You see, the Film was Scored by a 16-year-old J.J. Abrams!

No, really!

A Film that promises you an Alien killing a bunch of people for about 90 minutes.  It gives you exactly that.