Author: Shane Hnetka

A drifter (Roddy Piper) finds construction work in L.A. He befriends fellow worker Frank (Keith David). Frank takes to a shanty town that Frank lives in.

While there Piper notices some strange activity at the local church. When he goes into the church he finds it empty. A tape recorder is playing a choir and the place is filled with equipment and hidden boxes of sunglasses. Later police raid the shanty town and the church. Piper escapes and returns to the church to find it empty but finds the boxes of sunglasses are still there. He takes the box and hides it and takes one of the sunglasses. When he puts it on his world is changed forever.
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Interplanetary ships the Galliott and the Argos receive a distress call on an uncharted planet. Both ships decide to land and investigate but as the crew of the Argos passes through the planet’s foggy atmosphere they suddenly become possessed with a murderous lust and try to kill each other. Fortunately Captain Mark Markary (Barry Sullivan) has the awesome will to resist and manages to snap his crew out of their bloodlust and land the ship safely.

Unfortunately they’ve lost contact with the Galliott. When they find the Galliott, the crew is all dead having murdered each other. When the Argos crew go to get supplies to open the Galliott’s bridge they find all the dead bodies missing. Soon members of the Argos are getting killed and dead seem to be walking around!
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Ok, this is the last meteor crashing on Earth movie for this 31 Days of Horror. If focusing on Space: The Spooky Frontier has taught me anything is that Earth needs to come up with some sort meteor destroying defense system and fast! Nothing good comes from meteors hitting the Earth just ask the dinosaurs and the vast majority of B-movie victims from sci-fi horror movies.

Anyway in this 1958 classic young Steve Andrews (Steve McQueen) and his girlfriend, Jane Martin (Aneta Corsaut), are making out in lover’s lane when they see a meteor crash near by. They go and investigate and find that an old man (Olin Howland) has beaten them to it and has gone and poked that meteor with a stick causing a weird gelatinous blob to crawl out of the meteor, up the stick and attached it self over the old man’s hand. Steve and Jane take the old man to a doctor.
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Awakened by a strange noise young David MacLean (Jimmy Hunt) looks out his window one night and sees a flying saucer land off in the distance in the sandpit behind his house. He tells his parents and his dad George (Leif Erickson) heads off to investigate.

When his father doesn’t return David’s mother Mary (Hillary Brooke) calls the police. They send two officers to investigate but they both disappear in the sandpit too. Suddenly George returns but is now different. There’s red mark on the back of his neck and he’s acting cold and distant. David begins noticing behavior changes in more of the townspeople. He then witnesses his neighbour Kathy (Janine Perreau) falling in the sandpit. When goes and tells her mom Kathy suddenly appears but again changed.
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In the sleepy little town of Midwich one easy going afternoon, every single person in town suddenly falls unconscious. The military is called in but there seems to be an invisible zone surrounding the town. Anyone entering it from above or on ground falls unconscious.

Several hours later everyone just suddenly wakes like nothing ever happened. But something did happen. Something made every woman in town pregnant. Naturally there’s outrage, scandal and suspicion. The fetus grow at an alarming rate and everyone woman gives birth on the same day. 12 babies are born and all the children have strange eyes, fingernails and hair. Their hair is all a platinum blonde. If the town was uneasy before things have just gotten worse.
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