The Creeping Terror (film)

Cast

Arthur Nelson - Martin Gordon (as Vic Savage)
Shannon O'Neil - Brett Gordon
William Thourlby - Dr. Bradford
John Caresio - Col. James Caldwell
Brendon Boone - Barney, the deputy (as Norman Boone)
Byrd Holland

Special effects
There were two creatures, one trapped in the spaceship, and one that slipped into the lake. Unlike all previous cinema "space aliens", these aliens were essentially giant, sexually hermaphroditic slugs that just wanted to swallow and digest prey. The first creature, which Silliphant designed with Jon Lackey, was lost to the production (possibly stolen), and Nelson had to recreate the creature without professional help. The dry carpet version, with shaggy "hobbit feet" was the best that Nelson could pull together. The monster in the film somewhat resembles a rug or thick blanket, hence has been called the "carpet-monster". The back half of the monster is rather quilt-like, and obviously has several extras under it. The front half of the monster is a man in a bulky suit, physically comparable to Gumby. The monster's mouth is a hole located between the knees of the puppeteer in front. The monster is barely mobile (moving at an unbearably slow crawl). In some scenes you see shaggy "hobbit feet" under the creature, as it creeps. Also, the creature has no real way to grab onto its victims, meaning that all the people who get eaten in the course of the film actually appear to be jumping inside its mouth of their own volition.

Plot
A newlywed deputy, Martin Gordon (Savage), encounters an alien spacecraft that has crash landed in a small high sierra county in California. A large, sluglike, omnivorous monster emerges from the side of an impacted spaceship, and a second one, still tethered inside, kills the sheriff when he enters the craft to investigate.

Martin, now temporary sheriff, joins his wife Brett (Shannon O'Neil), a renowned scientist (who is eaten when he tries to reason with the onboard creature, and is then replaced with a more careful scientist), and a military commander and his men, to fight the creature that stalks the Tahoe countryside, devouring vacationers, casino patrons, and members of the local populace.

The protagonists ultimately deduce that the monsters are not intelligent. They only fear something like an 18-wheel truck. They are mindless biological-sample eaters. The bio-analysis data is microwaved back to the probe's home planet.

At the end of the film, both creatures are destroyed, but not before the signal is sent, boding ill for the human race, but perhaps a threat that may not come for another two million years- The galaxy to which the transmission was aimed is a million light years away, in the opinion of the surviving scientist character.

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