IMDb RATING
5.9/10
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The Earth is invaded by stingray-shaped alien "slugs" that ride on people's backs and control their minds.The Earth is invaded by stingray-shaped alien "slugs" that ride on people's backs and control their minds.The Earth is invaded by stingray-shaped alien "slugs" that ride on people's backs and control their minds.
- Awards
- 2 nominations
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaFor the seduction scene where Mary tries turn Sam back with one of her alien slugs, Julie Warner had to wear an apparatus that looked similar to her back with the creature's movements guided by a team of puppeteers and make up effects crew.
- GoofsWhen asked for the town's population, the figure is stated as 10,001. The population on the sign shown at the beginning is 10,079.
The town sign writer is not doing his job.
- Quotes
Niven: It's the kid from the spaceship. Get him off the car.
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Featured review
A decent sci-fi flick
This was a decent sci-fi flick. Good performances by Julie Warner and Eric Thal, and of course there's no role that Donald Sutherland can't pull off. Alien effects were revoltingly good. OK, it's not completely true to Heinlein's magnificent novel. Hollywood has a formula, (the happy ending, the obligatory love interest of one or more of the stars, etc.) and any deviation from it is exceedingly rare. That's why foreign films are good, because they are not bound by the formula. I've noticed that great sci-fi movies are almost always originally written for the screen, rather than adapted from books. Books are always better than movies, but science fiction seems to be particularly so.
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- smatysia
- Apr 13, 2000
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Robert A. Heinlein's The Puppet Masters
- Filming locations
- Production company
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $8,647,042
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $4,069,057
- Oct 23, 1994
- Gross worldwide
- $8,647,042
- Runtime1 hour 49 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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