People are voting emotionally.

Admirable film.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Stan (Gerrit Graham) installs a state-of-art satellite TV system for his dysfunctional family. However, he accidentally picks up a signal from another planet and his television system becomes the gateway between the two planets. A ravenous alien creature comes to his apartment and only their son Sherman (Chad Allen) sees the monster, but his parents do not believe in the boy. "TerrorVision" is a cult-trash from the 80´s and a highly entertaining sci-fi. The characters and the situations are hilarious but maybe the funniest scene is Medusa meeting the last hope to save Earth, Pluthar. My vote is seven.Title (Brazil): "A Visão do Terror" ("The Terror Vision")

This is a weird one about an alien that comes through the TV and absorbs people. It's trying to be a comedy with some gore and some of it works really well, like the Gramps character, but other parts fall flat, like the valley girl daughter. Not gory enough to be horror and not funny enough to be comedy, it falls in the middle and never really reaches the top. Worth watching but it's no classic.

While tinkering with his new satellite dish in the back yard, Stan Putterman receives a transmission from outer space that beams a ravenous mutated creature into his home. Later, as Stan and his wife Raquel entertain a pair of fellow swingers, their kids, Sherman and Suzy, try to tame the alien beast, which has started to eat members of the family, starting with their grandpa.Charles Band's Empire International Pictures churned out numerous low-budget B-movies in the '80s; some were atrocious (Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama, Ghoulies, some of them were actually quite good (Trancers, Reanimator), and a few were just plain silly. TerrorVision definitely falls into the latter camp, being an offbeat sci-fi/horror/comedy full of bizarre situations, quirky characters, and crazy special effects, all served up with a garish aesthetic.The result is totally bonkers but quite a lot of fun, the entertainment factor helped immensely by a memorably daft monster (that liquefies and assimilates its victims) and suitably wacky performances from a game cast that includes statuesque cult B-movie favourite Mary Woronov, the lovely Diane Franklin (Amityville II, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure), Gerrit "Beef from Phantom of the Paradise" Graham, and that blonde who sings Duke of Earl in The Man With Two Brains.

To begin this unpleasant horror satire, the planet Pluton disposes of a big ugly, mutated monster by blasting it into outer space. Unfortunately for Earthlings, it is directed to our planet and gets picked up by the TV satellite dish installed by gregarious Gerrit Graham (as Stanley Putterman). The alien monster lives in television airwaves and eats people. Others in the host family are: Mr. Graham's wife-swapping partner Diane Franklin (as Suzy), their punky teenage daughter Mary Woronov (as Raquel), cute blond pre-teen son Chad Allen (as Sherman) and lizard-loving old Bert Remsen (as Grampa)...Young Allen tries to tell the family there is a monster in the television, but everyone is too self-absorbed to believe him. The monster eventually appears more comfortable outside of television. Allen, Ms. Franklin and her heavily metallic boyfriend Jonathan "Jon" Gries (as O.D. Riley) try to make friends with the creature. A concerned alien from Pluton warns Earth the monster could eat everyone on the planet. Bosomy horror TV hostess Jennifer Richards (as Medusa) is called in to help. Alejandro Rey and Randi Brooks have fun poolside, as a "swinging" hot couple. Everyone tries hard and the sets are cool.***** TerrorVision (2/14/86) Ted Nicolaou ~ Diane Franklin, Chad Allen, Jon Gries, Gerrit Graham