Teddie Blake The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Staci Frederick Blistering performances.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

davidcarniglia Almost a fun movie. The premise uses the familiar early sci-fi device of a spaceship landing in a remote area. Feuding aliens with cool rayguns emerge, and slip into town. The bad one fixes to call down a hundred cattlecar ships to feed on unsuspecting, helpless humans, while the good one hopes to sabotage the mission. So far so good.The concept of the rebellious alien shows how closely the era's sci-fi themes mirrored the Cold War rivalry, and how human nature was subverted by the 'alien' nature of Totalitarian regimes. That's a thoughtful view which has lost nothing with the passage of time. The residual nostalgia for the aliens' lost 'humanitarian' culture survives in a clandestine few (Derek included), amidst the general dystopian culture.The movie fails, though, in almost every other aspect. As others have noted, the title is virtually meaningless, because there's no teen culture on display here. Look at The Blob or The Giant Gila Monster for a credible blending of rock-and-roll, high-school hijinks, hotrods, parties, dances, even period slang and dress with a monster/alien-on-the-loose film. In general, the characters are poorly-drawn: the girl's grandpa, in particular, is just a dolt. Sometimes humor works ok in sci-fi, to establish an atmosphere of an isolated community with a sprinkling of eccentric types, but the guy isn't remotely amusing, he's just dumb. Derek and Thor are the only interesting characters.I realize that this was an extremely low-budget movie, so I don't really care that you can read the logo on the alien's whatnot machine, or that there's display [?] tabs riveted onto some of the skeletons. And there's successful effects as well: the rayguns really dish it out. The shock value of the pool water vaporizing as the girl is reduced to a skeleton is one of the best scenes. As a display of superior alien technology, it's just the thing. The stylized way both Derek and Thor speak about 'earthling' life (driving a car, going to a doctor, etc.) is convincing and consistent. Then there's the mostly realistic car chase near the end (yeah, a different car going off the road, but at least they're similar 40s coupes), even the small detail of the spacecrafts' weird spiral landings is unique and interesting.I just can't deal with the unrealistic aftermath of the shootout at City Hall. In the first place, there's not one uniformed officer or police car to be seen. I'd think that police uniforms, and even cars done-up in police livery would be fairly stock items in any studio warehouse. But beyond the prop issue, there's a huge gap in logic. The police just disappear for the crucial sequence that allows Thor to escape. He's hiding in a car that's in the vicinity of the shootout, and yet the cops wait for Thor to leave before they follow up. That brings us to the lobsters, err, the monsters.All we get is a back-lit/silhouetted lobster looming over his supposed victims. What, did the lobster that was with the aliens in the beginning wander off the set? Couldn't they have used a pile of lobsters to 'attack' some toy cars, buildings, etc., as in The Giant Gila Monster? How expensive could that have been? Thankfully, the plot almost saves the day. Derek fools everyone by convincing the bad aliens that he's 'back-on-board', when in fact he manages to lure the waiting ships, filled with the carnivorous monsters, into crashing. But that's achieved with an explosion so underwhelming that it could possibly account for only one crash, not hundreds. Give us cheap but hairy atomic-test footage instead. This could've been a much more interesting movie, but Teenagers From Outer Space took so many shortcuts that it leaves a uneven, unfinished impression. Still worth seeing once, anyway.

hackraytex Thank God for Comet Channel. I am getting to see a lot of the movies that I saw as a kid in the early 60's. Many that I have not seen since. Keep up the good work Comet. Some of the movies are very amateurish and hardly beyond the worst of what we now call fan movies. There is a good mix of experienced and novice actors and with Tom Graef they made it happen! It is too bad that the movie was stolen from him by Warner Brothers. With the right backing and chances, Mr. Graef may have become a successful writer, director. Maybe he did not play ball good enough with the powers that be and got shut out and such frustration caused his suicide at the young age of forty. They certainly could have picked a better title since none of them appeared to be teenagers and appeared to be in their mid 20's. I also wonder since the novices did not have more than two or three movies in their careers if they had any expectation of a career in the movies. I also wonder this about a lot of the other movies of this type in that era. It looks like with a some more money and better acting coaching some of them may have been successful. I don't know if it was technical problems or the telecasting but the film looked blurry. I do not intend to pick apart one of the best moves of this type and era since I enjoyed it again 50+ years later and a good job was done by all. I highly recommend it to fans of sci fi.

J-bot6 and see this movie!Man I love this film. I had no idea what to expect when I pressed play. What followed was one of the quirkiest entertaining movies I've ever seen. It's a mix of awkwardness and brilliance at every turn. There are scenes that are expertly lit and shot interspersed with others that appear almost no-budget. Holding it together are characters that are genuinely fun to watch -- each of them speaking absurd yet awesome lines. The effects vary from good to awful. To top it off, it has great pacing. There's so much going on in this movie. Never a dull moment. Man this film is cheesy. Yet it clearly was a labor of love for the people who worked on it. The lead actress was remarkable and she played it straight right on through to the end. I commend her for playing such an earnest character and really going for it. It actually helped the film a lot. No matter what happened, she read her lines like she was living the story. In short, this film is fun. I have a feeling that this actually influenced a number of notable science fiction directors of the 1970s and 1980s.

calvinnme This is a very unintentionally funny MST3K style scifi film from the late 50s. Aliens, modeled on a splicing of Nazis with those pesky Commy Ruskies who everyone was afraid of at the time, decide to use earth as a breeding ground for their crop of "Gorgons", animals that are harvested for food and then brought back to their home planet for consumption.Apparently, over the years, this alien civilization has devolved from a civilization of families into an authoritarian planetary military camp in which family units do not exist and thus there are no parents, siblings, etc. Everyone is just a slave to the state. Plus this alien civilization considers itself the master race. Earth is found to be the ideal place for the Gorgon to grow until harvesting, growing from the size of a lobster to a gargantuan size.However, one alien, Derek, has read about how things once were on his planet, and rebels at the idea of leaving the Gorgon there to grow in number and size, wiping out the inhabitants of the planet. He escapes from his alien cadre, and the malevolent Thor is left behind to capture him (turns out Derek is The Leader's son though he doesn't know it) if he can, kill him if he has no alternative. Since Thor just killed a dog for the fun of it, you figure he'll look for any excuse to kill Derek.The dead dog is the catalyst for what comes later. Derek, feeling sad for the unnecessary killing of the harmless dog, takes the ID showing his address and shows up in town. Wouldn't you know the dead dog's owners have a room for rent. Wouldn't you know they have an attractive age appropriate daughter who looks something like a young Drew Barrymore in a bad wig. Of course Derek rents the room.Evil Thor quickly finds a ride into town - let this be a lesson that you should never pick up hitchhikers, especially ones in weird uniforms. Come to think of it, don't rent rooms to strangers in weird uniforms either. Meanwhile, the original Gorgon is in a cave, growing in size and in potential danger to humankind.How will this all turn out? Watch and find out. Don't let the low rating fool you. The acting is wooden, but the film tells you something about small town and suburban life and the good intent we assumed of strangers that we have completely and justifiably lost over the last 60 years, and gives you a feel for what people were afraid of back then - some malevolent force far away, not the lone nuts that walk among us today. I'd recommend it. Just realize you are dealing with, what was from the start, a low budget production.