The Thing, It, She, and Them

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I do have to recommend It Came from Hollywood. I agree with Machael Medved (whose work it was based on) that they messed up the execution, including a few actually pretty good films in there, but overall they have a great collection of Bad Films, and the commentary from the SNL/SCTV/Cheech and Chong “stars” actually helps, sometimes. If you get the chance, sit down with this and a copy of Zacherly’s Horrible Horror – it’s the perfect gateway to enjoying Badfilm.
There was apparently a made-for-TV sequel to It Came from Outer Space called, appropriately It Came from Outer Space II. It sounds awful and I’ve never seen it.
And I have to mention They Came from Beyond Space. I knew this was awful, but didn’t until know how awful, or why:

1.) It was made on sets left over from Daleks – Invasion Earth 2150 AD.
2.) They did that because they ran out of money
3.) The reason they ran out of money was that they’ve used it all up making the movie The Terrornauts. The two films were released on a double bill.

If you haven’t seen The Terrornauts, you won’t appreciate how ludicrous a statement that it. The Terrornauts looks like a movie made on a budget of under $100. That any movie had to skimp because they’d blown their budget on that film boggles the mind. But according to the Wikipedia page:

Clearly, The Terrornauts and They Came from Beyond Space are the only films playing, ever, athe Hell Goggolplex.

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There’s also the dreaded She-it.

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The Thing that Couldn’t Die

Wonderfully bad movie about decapitated Conquistador-era magician. Very properly spitted by MST3K

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Hadn’t heard of this one – came out two years ago. Effects look good, at least

It Came From the Desert

So we get giant ants a la "Them" with an "It" in the title. Everybody wins
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It Came from Yesterday – not familiar with this one, either. Movie from 2011

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This one seems to pare at least the title down to essentials

It Came!

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I don’t want to know more about this one
It Came from Uranus

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In addition to those films that are able to specify a definite “Thing,” there was also the rather more vaguely titled Something Is Out There, a high-rated NBC miniseries turned low-rated NBC series. It featured a cop and a beautiful alien (Bond girl Maryam D’Abo) teaming up to fight extraterrestrial crime.

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I liked the way that subverted some common tropes.

at one point, thinking that they might get rid of the whatchamacallum running rampant on the space ship, the Earth guy asks “Why don’t you use the Self-Destruct Mechanism on the ship?”

To which the nice alien woman replies “Why would we put a Self-Destruct Mechanism on our ship?”