It! Came From Outer Space (c 1980)
You guys at RiffTrax know, nothing can make a REALLY bad film than horrible remakes, reboots, or horrible movies having the audacity to 'borrow' a title from a classic B-Movie.
In the 1980s, cheesy studios had really warped ideas on how sci-fi should be, either inexplicable gorefests, or have strange aliens attacking, then you have this film.
The poster for this shlock was indeed misleading: shows a typical ravaged female victim running from some odd jellyfish, tentacled, fanged creatures pursuing her.
However, the trailer proves the film is so bad, it makes Alien Outlaw and The Dark Power appear as Academy Award material.
Apparently a refugee alien from the Cantina Band from Star Wars mysteriously hovers over Earth in some kind of dimension (the scene never really clarifies if he's in a ship or not.). Now rather than invade our planet, in typical alien fashion, he hurls these frisbee like beings down toward the planet.
The sound effect here makes it seem as if Sid & Marty Krofft produced this rather than having it being a sci-fi flick. Though I never saw this film, from the trailer these frisbee creatures mysteriously transform into carnivorous beasts that feed on humans (sure, why not).
Except the film goes with the standard cliche of the creatures preying on humans in the dank woods. Which was the setting for ALL alien films back in the 80s, I mean, you never saw an alien attack on a populated city, until 'Independence Day' had come out.
Anyway, the reason why I want RiffTrax to riff this gem is because the film became 'The Star Wars Holiday Special,' of the big screen. Mainly because after it was shown in box offices, the film was actually pulled, but not due to poor sales, or its questionable content.
Rumors claim that when Universal Pictures had gotten wind of this B-Movie, they had threatened to sue the studio for copyright infringement. And if that wasn't bad enough, many B-Movie films which used the 'Cantina Band' alien archtypes for their productions were suddenly getting flack by George Lucas.
In fact the film was so bad, imdb doesn't even have a listing for it. If you guys could locate this version and riff it, you're definitely a better man than I am.