Alternate ending?
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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.
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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.