Teenagers From Outer Space

Teenagers From Outer Space (1959)

  • 40% of critics liked it
    (5 reviews)

  • 27% of users liked it
    (2,246 ratings)

This off-the-wall, low-budget sci-fi film was written, produced, directed, edited, photographed, and acted (one role) by Tom Graeff. The unlikely story concerns a spaceship that lands on Earth from somewhere a lot less accommodating. On board are the space aliens' grazing animals, the gorgons.… More

Unrated,
Directed By
Written By
Tom Graeff
Genres
Horror, Classics, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Cult Movies
In Theaters
Jun 1, 1959 Limited
Warner Bros. Pictures

Critic Reviews

  • Rob Humanick, Suite101.com

    If the concept of a giant lobster tickles your fancy, worry not.

  • Phil Hall, Film Threat

    Endearingly silly entry in the so-bad-it's-good genre of Grade Z filmmaking.

  • Stefan Birgir Stefansson, sbs.is

    beware of the GARGON! and the alien named Derek.

  • James O'Ehley, Sci-Fi Movie Page

    The acting in Teenagers from Outer Space is particularly bad - and the source of most of the movie's unintended hilarity . . .

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • AJ V


    I half liked this movie and half didn't like it. The story is interesting even though it's cheesy, but it gets less interesting as it goes on. Overall, it's just okay.

  • Luke B


    Pure comedy/sci-fi genius. Cheap, tacky and pretty damn awful. But with lobsters for monsters, people turning into skeletons and of course Grandpa trying to cross the road, it's a forgotten classic.

  • Emily B


    One of the great unintentionally hilarious B-movies from the 50s. This one features a teenage alien be terrorised by a giant lobster, or rather the shadow of a regular lobster. Yes, the acting is pretty bad and the effects even worse but if it's laughs your after you can't… More

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