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It Came from Somewhere Else (1988)

It Came from Somewhere Else poster
Directed by
Howard Hassler
Genre
comedy film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 29m
Rated
R
Rating
4.6 of 10 from 7 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A small town is invaded by aliens from space who practice kung fu. The town also faces a wave of spontaneous human combustion and other strange events. This is a clumsy spoof of 1950s science fiction movies.

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What happens

It Came from Somewhere Else is a 1988 motion picture comedy directed by Howard Hassler. It is a spoof of sci-fi films and is a B-movie. Kung fu aliens from space have invaded the small town of Grand Bosh, accompanied by a surge of spontaneous human combustion and other mysterious phenomena in this awkward spoof of 1950s sci-fi. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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