Tubi Thursday: Without Warning (1980)

 I was going to promote this, but, you know...

This is definitely a Cult Classic and somehow escaped my attention until today.

Let's jump right into the terror that is...

In the Cold Open, a Hunter- Cameron Mitchell- is out with his Son- who is a dead ringer for William Smith.

He's attacked by...something that throw alien creatures onto its neck and it seems to kill the son as well.

The Story proper involves a pair of couples going out to the same Woods.

Greg- a 70s TV Star that never broke out- is the real lead, but that is also a young David Caruso in his Film Debut.

I bet he wishes that it was First Blood.

We also get a long setup involving a Boy Scout Troop led by F-Troop's Larry Storch.

It leads to him being killed and they run away.
That's it.

The duos go swimming.  Our Heroes leave when Caruso and the lady start to make out.

Good call.

They wander back and the pair are gone.
They wander around until they find a shack and they find...

They drive to Town- after the unseen creature attacks the van- and run across the creepy guy from earlier- Martin Landau.

He believes their claims, but nobody believes him.

It all comes down to Jack Palance- who owned the Gas Station- and things don't go well.

The creature finally makes himself known when the duo hide out at a nearby House!

Early Kevin Peter Hall here to 'Serve Man.'

Greg is sadly killed, so our Final Girl must run away.

Fortunately, Palance and Landau (whose salaries were half of the Budget) are here for the big climax.

To see how it all plays out, stream it now.

A Film with really good moments, but boy does it take way too long between them.

The basic idea- an Alien comes to Earth to hunt Humans- sure is a good one.  Maybe you could get a big, Action Director like, say, John McTiernan to do it.
Hell, keep Kevin Peter Hall.

Oh, right.

The make-up work with the discs look good.  The effect of them flying...not always great.
Think of them less like frisbees and more like a creature throwing face huggers.

The Alien looks great.  More of it please.

If you can deal with the slower pace, this Film- which is close enough to the 1970s to be a '70s Film- has good moments of effects and action.

Now let's play a Game called Where's Alien?

A Greydon Clark Film that could have been really good.  If you can accept the slow pace, it's worth a watch as a Cult Classic.