So after the highly kid-friendly antics of Matilda, we turned to classic ’80s cheese. Chad R selected Without Warning (1980), often cited as Predator before there was Predator. A super tall alien (Kevin Peter Hall, who in fact indeed also played the Predator) uses toothy organic frisbees to hunt down rural humans. A rare pretty good movie directed by Greydon Clarke; in fact, it’s probably the best thing he ever did. LIke many B-movie directors of the period, he loaded the film with old timey movie stars and character actors; Jack Palance, Martin Landau (the two also starred in the only slasher film I ever liked, Alone in the Dark), Cameron Mitchell, Neville Brand, Sue Ann Langdon, Ralph Meeker and, most oddly, Larry Storch. See Agarn die a horrible death! On the younger side, David Caruso is also in there.
