COUSIN GIACOMO'S TAPES FROM THE GARAGE PRESENTS:

WITHOUT WARNING

Holy crap kids, this is a good one! Check out this cast:

Cameron Mitchell, Larry Storch, Martin Landau, Jack Palance, Neville Brand, Ralph Meeker and lil' Davey Caruso and directed with b-movie finesse by Greydon (SATAN'S CHEERLEADERS). For some dumbass reason( usually one dick has the rights, don't want the other dick to get any cash)it's not available on dvd.

It's a simple enough story: Some teens (including David Caruso in some tight blue shorts that will make you retch. I kept expecting one of his ginger colored balls to pop out) go to the lake and run into an alien out pleasure hunting with some nasty flying sucker disc critters he throws around. They're pretty creepy, bitey things like you might catch from a hooker down Mexico way. Mitchell buys it quick as a hunter trying to "man-up" his girlish son with hunting, the way you're supposed to do it. Gorillanaut fave and one of the most talented character and voice actors around, Larry Storch, is a doomed scout leader. So like an 1980 slasher movie, the kids get thinned out and it's up to the men to settle up with the alien. Landau is a crazy, drunk shell shocked vet named Fred "Sarge" Dobbs and Palance is well...Palance. Both of these pros eat it up and kick the picture into drive in heaven.

The alien itself has a goofy leftover Star Trek feel but he's not in it that much and in his own is sorta creepy. He's played by the late Kevin Peter Hall ( the 80's Ted Cassidy) and is first seen in a nice PSYCHO homage. The sucker critters are pretty well done, especially when old Palance is digging one off of him with a hunting knife. A lot of people like to compare it to the action picture PREDATOR and yeah there both "aliens killing guys" shows but this one is way closer to a kids at the lake slasher with a bit of 50's scifi thrown it. It may lose something when Landau and Palance are off screen but for the most part it moves well enough. I think my tape is from Greece which makes you wonder "why Greece?" I have no idea.