Product Details

• Actors: Diane Franklin, Mary Woronov, Gerrit Graham, Chad Allen, Jon Gries
• Directors: Ted Nicolaou
• Producers: Michael Wolf
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Avid Home Ent
• VHS Release Date: September 12, 1995
• Run Time: 83 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6303566405
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #137,737 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

A family's new satellite TV system starts receiving signals from another planet, and soon it becomes the passageway to an alien world.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Is Stanley a "manly man"? February 23, 2006

By David Baltazar

Format:VHS Tape

This review is from: Terrorvision

I still can't believe this movie is not out yet on DVD in the US market! If there are US DVD's of "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" and "Surf Nazi's Must Die" out than it is truly unjustified to this movie which is superior to the forementioned. Although this is a typical 1 to 2 star B-rated movie, I always have a 5 star time watching it. The true strength of this movie is the very colorful characters. The Playboy husband, sex crazed wife (who looks like Peggy Bundy), war-monger grandfather, Cindy Lauper want-to-be daughter, clueless heavy metal boyfriend, the swinger couple with the gay Greek, the Elvira want-to-be movie hostess and finally our brave hero, the always misunderstood little boy! Oh yes, there is a goofy monster in the center of it all, but his antics is often overlooked by the rest of the humourous cast that never fails to make me laugh. This is a true, cult classic that must not be overlooked. Please, someone make a US DVD release!

Actor notes; O.D. the stoned heavey metal dude played by Jon Gries later became Uncle Rico in popular comedy film "Napolean Dynamite". The little boy Sherman played by Chad Allen later became the sheriff in the TV series "Dr Quinn Medicine Woman".

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Give me a smoke an a brew and make it snappy. April 26, 2004

By Elohymn

Format:VHS Tape

This movie is an all-time classic!!! Filled with wonderful characters and classic one-liners. The first time I saw this in the 80's, I hated it. But years later I saw it on T.V. and had a completely different viewing experience. I saw the movie for what it was, a hilarious, cheesy, 80's, horror-comedy classic. If you grew up in the 80's and liked metal and monster movies, then trust me, see this movie, it's totally unique.
Every line in this movie is funny. My friends and I still use quotes from this movie in our conversations. Just rent it or buy it and you'll see what I mean. I envy anyone who can see this for the first time. Most of all, enjoy the brilliant, kooky, almost cartoon-like characters. Enjoy.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Unfairly overlooked classic July 2, 2006

By Charlie

Format:VHS Tape

A lot of people might dismiss Terrorvision as simply being a bad movie or a stupid movie without realizing that it's very tongue-in-cheek. Gerrit Graham is terrific and his over-the-top, cartoonish performance really adds to this movie. The TV monster is one of my favorite monsters ever. It would be great to see this on dvd.

"Oh man that bikini is DY-NAMITE!"

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars "We use live rats you know..." July 6, 2005

By M C

Format:VHS Tape

I saw Terrorvision when I was a child, it is so much fun. Medusa is amazing! Punked out New Waver Diane Franklin star of the 80's is great, I love The Noodles as well dear. Chad Allen is super as Sherman Putterman. And of course I must mention Mary Woronov, so wonderful. The opening credits and song are perfect. I just am waiting until The DVD is released! Now, go have your hair ratted.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars WHEN WILL THIS MOVIE COME OUT ON DVD February 20, 2007

By Moe

Format:VHS Tape

i saw this movie back in 84 or soemthing and eversince i have been looking everywhere for a dvd version!!!!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Where's the DVD? August 27, 2005

By W. L. Anderson Jr.

Format:VHS Tape

This is a hilarious movie, The dvd IS out in Canada but not here in the US as of this review. What gives? Are we chopped liver down here? Same old distribution troubles...

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars what planet does this place on? September 10, 2004

By Rottenberg's rotten book review

Format:VHS Tape

The Puttermans install a new satellite TV system not knowing that it has..uh, well maybe a backstory is in order. The aliens of a distant planet love to keep as pets these gloopy monster things. Unfortunately, when they get older, they become monsters which must be destroyed by beaming them into space using the same signals that are received by satellite dishes like the kind installed by Stan Putterman. Soon the monster is beaming in and out of the Putterman's TV and making life a horror for everybody.

While that says little about the movie, the real plot twist is the Putterman's themselves. After watching them for a moment, you begin to wonder if the colorful Puttermans are any more of our world than the monster. Their son and grandpa are militant survivalists; their daughter is dating a metal-head, and they themselves are spouse-swapping swingers - you see why nobody gets out of the house for the entire movie? The house itself is almost a character - reflecting the Puttermans' outlandish tastes. (Imagine a cross between a "B-52's" video and something directed by John Waters.) The script tosses in a buxom late-nite movie hostess, guaranteeing that wife-swapping, head-banging, machine-gunning and relentless squishing won't deprive us of flesh. Though never really over the top, "Terror Vision" is consistent fun.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Terrorvision ROCKS! June 23, 2002

By Michael Fleishman

Format:VHS Tape

GERRIT GRAHAM (NATIONAL LAMPOON'S CLASS REUNION) stars in this wacky science fiction horror about a high-tech television satellite that tunes in real-life horror!
Television will never be the same for the Putterman family. Stanley Putterman (GRAHAM) installs a state-of-the-art satellite dish in his backyard. Through a cosmic accident, a wayward monster's energy is beamed across galaxies, into the satellite and onto the Puttermans' television set. The Puttermans don't notice any changes, only better reception and a strange monster continually appearing on the screen. But when the monster leaps off the screen and into the Puttermans' living room-terror erupts. The monster needs to feed on humans for its survival.
Don't touch that dial...TERRORVISION has just begun!