Imbalance
2019-11-10, 04:36 PM
Does anybody remember this NBC movie+miniseries from the late '80's? It wasn't very good, so I don't blame you. As with most things, my memory is of little more than the alien monster, even though it was shown so sparingly since it was a lame network show. I kick around the Googles every once in a while for good pics of it, but there are only ever the same half dozen stills or silhouettes that are grainy at best. I had hoped that by now someone might have dredged old magazines about special effects or some retrospective might have uncovered this lost...gem and found the creature on a studio back lot somewhere, but no.
I remember it being a rather buggy looking thing, all spines and antennae. It was pretty big, but could either shapeshift or bodysnatch or something, as most of the time it was presented as having been in human disguise to hide and also harvest organs from unsuspecting victims. I guess it had a following, or mind-controlled slaves - seemed to have others work for it? It clearly had some sort of higher level psychic abilities. The supermodel alien lady that was hunting it said it could make you forget how to breathe, iirc.
Anyway, I was thinking about basing some homebrew on it, its specific appearance and abilities, but there is so little information about this show at all, save for an apparent DVD release over a decade ago. Even if i was interested in watching it again, it appears very difficult to find.
Does anybody have a reliable source for really obscure tv and movie monsters? What other unknown monstrosities haunt the dark recesses of your memory, yet evade your Internet searches?
I remember it being a rather buggy looking thing, all spines and antennae. It was pretty big, but could either shapeshift or bodysnatch or something, as most of the time it was presented as having been in human disguise to hide and also harvest organs from unsuspecting victims. I guess it had a following, or mind-controlled slaves - seemed to have others work for it? It clearly had some sort of higher level psychic abilities. The supermodel alien lady that was hunting it said it could make you forget how to breathe, iirc.
Anyway, I was thinking about basing some homebrew on it, its specific appearance and abilities, but there is so little information about this show at all, save for an apparent DVD release over a decade ago. Even if i was interested in watching it again, it appears very difficult to find.
Does anybody have a reliable source for really obscure tv and movie monsters? What other unknown monstrosities haunt the dark recesses of your memory, yet evade your Internet searches?