Product Details

• Actors: Vic Perrin, Bob Johnson, Ben Wright, Robert Culp, Robert Duvall
• Format: Black & White, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
• VHS Release Date: September 26, 1995
• Run Time: 51 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6301978846
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #313,077 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Flim Noir Thugs Meet Sci-Fi Bugs!, November 2, 1999

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This review is from: The Outer Limits: Zanti Misfits [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Sleazy thug Bruce Dern seems to drive right out of a old black & white crime flick into a 1950's alien invasion story. This odd (and wonderful) combination plays well right up until the bullet-blazing climax, which is intense enough to impress even jaded modern audiences. Maybe not the best episode of The Outer Limits (see Demon With a Glass Hand for that), but one of the most memorable.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Terrifying and cold hearted, August 3, 2000

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Roger E. Moore (Janesville, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Outer Limits: Zanti Misfits [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Of all the episodes of "The Outer Limits" that I saw in my youth, this one contained some of the most genuinely terrifying alien monsters ever shown on TV, an amazing thing considering their tiny size. The Zantis really creeped me out; I still hate them. The ending confrontation between humans and aliens has a terrific punch, much more personal and visceral than the end confrontation in "Independence Day," but this episode also contains one of the coldest condemnations of humanity ever delivered through science fiction, in its last few seconds. I recoiled from the message even as some of what was said rang true. (The only equal to this effect came in the last few seconds of the "Twilight Zone" episode, "The Lonely," which was barbaric and brutal.) A must-see film.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best examples of SF on TV, March 20, 2005

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Charles Ashbacher (Marion, Iowa United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Outer Limits: Zanti Misfits [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Despite the absurdity of the bug-eyed giant ants with a semi-human face, this is one of the best episodes of science fiction on television. The authorities on the planet Zanti contact the Earth leadership, and the message is an ultimatum. Receive and intern a collection of Zanti exiles that are a danger to their society. Given no choice in the matter, the Earthlings prepare a ghost town in the southwestern United States called Morgue. The ship arrives and it is very small. Two human criminal malcontents, a man and a woman, break the quarantine area and encounter the ship. The man is killed and the woman is pursued. A historian consultant to the military forces controlling the area goes to the ship and rescues the woman. The creatures then attack the military forces controlling the town and after a battle, all of the Zanti exiles are killed.
The general in command is then deeply concerned that this will launch an interstellar war that will lead to widespread destruction on Earth. However, that is not the case, the deaths of the Zanti malcontents are what the Zanti leadership had planned all along. Their society had long given up the policy of executing criminals and sociopaths, so they looked for another solution. After studying humans they realized that humans were often willing to execute others of their species and that it would not take a great deal of time before the humans killed the Zanti exiles.
Like so many of the best examples of science fiction, this one deals with a fundamental philosophical problem. How does a society remove those dangerous to it in a manner that does not violate their core beliefs? The Zanti's found an interesting solution that is similar to the exile strategy employed several times on Earth. Of course the solution does not paint the human race in a very flattering light.