Without Warning (1980) on Netflix
Four teenagers camp at a lake in the California mountains, ignoring warnings from Joe Taylor, who runs the local truck stop. An alien lifeform hunts humans there as game.
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Plot summary
An alien lifeform reaches Earth and treats humans as game to hunt. In the California mountains, a father and his son are hunting when creatures with needle-tipped tentacles pierce their skin. Tom, Greg, Beth and Sandy are teenagers who hike the same area, against warnings from Joe Taylor, who runs the local truck stop. A Cub Scout troop is in the same area. The teenagers make camp at a lake.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Without Warning (1980)
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- Dan Grodnik optioned the script in 1978 and hired Bennett Tramer to rewrite it, but half way through Tramer said he had realized he was a comedy writer and could not finish a sci-fi script; Grodnik then sat in his living room at an IBM typewriter on a TV tray table and finished it himself.
- Asked how he wanted his screen credit to read, Bennett Tramer chose "Ben Nett", believing a horror film would hurt his push into comedy; Grodnik pointed out that Robert Wise started with The Curse of the Cat People, but Tramer was adamant. He went on to write the TV series Saved by the Bell.
- This was the final film role for veteran actor Ralph Meeker, who suffered a severe stroke shortly after filming that forced him to retire from acting, before his death in 1988.
- The film has been acknowledged as an influence on the 1987 film Predator and its subsequent sequels; both films feature Kevin Peter Hall as a costumed manhunter of alien origin.
