What can I say about Alien Earth, the new TV series on Disney+?
Superlatives don't really cover it.
Think supremely fantastic and cringingly yucky in equal measure, maybe somewhere round the dripping joints between films like the Thing and Sputnik grafted onto a waiting open Alien.
Not for the faint-hearted and completely compulsive.
For me the current icky award goes to one of the show's smaller varmints.
But before I reveal it, it's interesting to dawdle over some precedents ... But watch out!
This golden oldie sets the scene, a movie that terrified me as a kid and one I know as the Trollemburg Terror! Is it one you know?
This is the box art to a model kit.
Cuneo's painted slithering devils spring to mind as well, as introduced to us on MC by Wotan 17 years ago.
I just couldn't help jiggling this into a clip, but it's Cuneo's artistry.
Similarly Bill brought us his fondness for rubber uglies on MC and this oily eye-squid fits right in (a phrase which comes into its own on Alien Earth! 🐙 )
Once more I was compelled to meme it.
But none of these wrigglers can prepare you for the truly cringing orb that is Alien Earth's small and parasitic crawling eye!
You've been warned!
Yuk!
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