Alternate ending?
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uruseiranma — 20 years ago(January 27, 2006 08:42 AM)
I always remember seeing that ending and asking what happened, and my Dad 9like most parents, mad with power to scare the kids) said: 'They were watching TV in bed, and they turned on the Disney Channel, and then-!! (And that was it, but I never forgot that bit-it's the little things that scar their way into your head).
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IronRabbit — 19 years ago(November 28, 2006 08:00 PM)
The most disturbing scene (out of many) for me was the scene where the needle goes into Sgt. Rinaldi's neck. That was gross. It gave me nightmares. But it's probably been eighteen years since I saw this film. Being the horror movie buff I am now, I'd probably not mind so much.
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inan1210 — 14 years ago(August 31, 2011 11:34 AM)
The most disturbing scene (out of many) for me was the scene where the needle goes into Sgt. Rinaldi's neck. That was gross. It gave me nightmares.
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mysecretsamadhi — 20 years ago(March 04, 2006 11:20 AM)
I swear this was the movie that scared the crap out of me when I was a little kid. I watched a lot of bad horror films in the 80sCritters, Hello Mary Lou, House, The Gate, etc without much ill effect on my developing young psyche. However, I saw one movie about aliens landing in a small town, and I swear it's Invaders from Marsand I didn't sleep for months. But I remember the ending as the little boy waking up (thinking that all of the scary past events were all a dream), going into his parents room, and seeing that the aliens are eating his parents. Is that what happened? Or am I thinking of a totally different film? Or did my memory just warp what I saw many years ago?
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penywizecs — 20 years ago(March 06, 2006 01:20 PM)
this also was the scariest movie of my childhood and yeah, after watching it again i realized not only that it's one of the worst movies ever, but also that alot of my memories of the movie had been warped (probably due to time, my underdeveloped brain at such a young age, and oh yeah, drugs) but i was always so scared of the following parts: when the dad chugs the coffee in the beginning, when the teacher was eating the frog, and when the 2 dudes with metal detectors get sucked down.
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the dude-30 — 19 years ago(July 23, 2006 07:48 PM)
Interesting that you envisioned the parents getting eaten. I read the script when this was still a relatively new release and the ending was much more elaborate (and overwrought) than in the final cut of the film. Here's what happened in the long version:
The spaceship explodes and David and his parents (graphically) get fried in the blast wave. THEN, he wakes up and tells his parents about his dream, as seen in the released version. Afterwards, he tries to sleep again, and is awoken by the spaceship landing again. Before he runs from his room, we were to have seen the Supreme Intelligence creature crash through the window, screaming, and the rotor-device was to burst through his floor, like in the scene at the school. After that, he runs to his parents room, where he, yes, finds his parents being EATEN by the Martian drones!! In teh final cut, we only see David's reaction to this as he screams and the shot fades to black.
Some were critical of Tobe Hooper's ending being pretty much the same as the original film's, but if this full-length, double-whammy ending had been included, the film would have probably been rated R and completely scorned by everyone for being way over-the-top. I always figured the parents were being eaten, too, upon my first, innocent viewing, since the sound effects pretty much conveyed that assumption. I'm surprised, however, that the cut ending hasn't found its way to video yet
If you want to read through the whole ending in detail, it's also brought through in the 1986 Ray Garton novelization, but slightly different, again, as a dream within a dream! -
bigdaddysfunhouse — 14 years ago(July 21, 2011 05:22 AM)
I just watched this film. He woke up, his parents came in to his room and calmed him down, they talked about his penny collection being why he dreamed about aliens wanting copper, he insisted on seeing the back of his dads neck, he cried When his parents go back to their room he sees flashing lights, looks out window and sees ufo landing and runs to his parents room. The journey through the hall to their room filmed in crazy fish eye vision. He opens their door and bright lights are flashing, the camera does not leave his face, you hear some slurps and crunches, as the boy screams "NO! NO! NO! NO!"
The parents are not shown again, leaving whether they were being eaten, raped or given a very thorough mani-pedi up to your imagination. -
monkeymallow — 18 years ago(September 11, 2007 08:14 PM)
the version of the movie we got - in new zealand - the parents DID get eaten. he goes into their bedroom where the aliens are already, eating his parents, judging from the noises of pleasured munching and his horrified face
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nvasapper — 14 years ago(May 13, 2011 04:15 PM)
But how could that be? His mom tucks him in, he closes his eyes for a couple of seconds and then bolts upright in bed to the sight and sound of the Martian saucer heading into the sandpit. How could those Martian creatures have gotten into his house so quickly when the spaceship had just barely gotten beneath the sandpit? Those creatures couldn't move that fast. They were kind of slow and lumbering. And why would they eat his parents, anyway? Wasn't it their intent to turn humans into their drones and have them do their dirty work for them? How does having them for a midnight snack help achieve that goal?
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TheSolarSailor — 14 years ago(May 20, 2011 02:55 AM)
This is why I think the ending is nothing more than a dream within a dream. He wakes up for real this time and everything is alright!
Of course, that would make for a boring ending, so they leave us with his last dream instead!
Whose idea was it for the word "Lisp" to have an "S" in it?
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athenaworth — 19 years ago(November 18, 2006 09:12 PM)
It's been ions since I've seen it, but wasn't there something about the copper in the penny that killed the aliens? I totally remember there not being a penny by his bedstand, and then opening up the window and looking out and seeing the UFO.
It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.
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kfrancis207 — 18 years ago(October 31, 2007 07:05 AM)
I have no idea if that alternate ending with the penny is from that movie but I do remember a movie with a kid and a penny where he sticks the penny into some crevace and it causes some sort of reaction. Now you got me on a mission to try to find out what the whole penny thing is about! LOL
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bigdaddysfunhouse — 14 years ago(July 21, 2011 05:25 AM)
He wakes up and talks about pennies and copper with his folks, then aliens land and eat them. Yes he used a 1958 mint condition penny (referencing the original film) to kill an alien. I just watched this for the first time since it first came out on video. Weird as I remember.
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bigdaddysfunhouse — 14 years ago(July 21, 2011 05:32 AM)
He wakes up and talks about pennies and copper with his folks, then aliens land and eat them. Yes he used a 1958 mint condition penny (referencing the original film) to kill an alien. I just watched this for the first time since it first came out on video. Weird as I remember.