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TerrorVision [VHS]

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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".

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.

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!"

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.

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

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...

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.

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!

This is such a re-watchable movie, and one of my all time favorites. The Turner Classic Movies channel has been showing a nice widescreen transfer of this film, and there is an MGM logo at the end of it. So MGM studios, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE release TerrorVision (1986) on DVD in 16 by 9 widescreen, maybe as part of your "Midnite Movies" series. All of the many fans of this movie will be very grateful.

This is a cult classic! I can't imagine that with all the boomers who saw this so long ago this is out there. Come on and release this on on DVD, Avid (or whomever holds the rights.)