
Nightbeast(1982)
A creature from outer space, nightbeast, crash lands in Baltimore and starts a killing spree that quickly escelates.


“Billy was a kid who got pushed around... Then he found the power.”
Happy go-lucky teen Billy Duncan discovers an otherworldly laser gun in the southern California desert, making him the target of a pair of aliens who had recently executed its previous owner.

Kim Milford
Billy Duncan

Cheryl Smith
Kathy Farley

Gianni Russo
Tony Craig

Ron Masak
Sheriff

Eddie Deezen
Froggy

Keenan Wynn
Colonel Farley

Roddy McDowall
Doctor Mellon

Dennis Burkley
Deputy Pete Ungar

Barry Cutler
Deputy Jesse Jeep
Mike Bobenko
Chuck Boran
Laserblast is a science fiction, horror film released in 1978 exploring themes of spacecraft, laser gun, mutation, alien life-form, alien, stop motion. Directed by Michael Rae, it stars Kim Milford, Cheryl Smith, Gianni Russo. Happy go-lucky teen Billy Duncan discovers an otherworldly laser gun in the southern California desert, making him the target of a pair of aliens who had recently executed its previous owner.
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