an hulking alien beastie crash land on earth and soon wreck havoc upon the populace first use his laser ray gun to dissolve into dust almost every human he catch sight off ( that be when his aim isn not terribly off ) and later his bare claw with which he like to rip out and eat human spleen . all in all and it pretty silly stuff . i do have to give it some point for be somewhat fun at time . i actually enjoy the mindless ray gun battle at the beginning and some of the later over the top gore effect . however it doesn not help when the monster provide the movie only truly entertaining moment and he isn not on screen for a large portion of the film run time . the act throughout this be just plain awful and amateurish and our lead hero sheriff cinder be much too unattractive to be bag the film hot chick . i also have to take off point for blatantly copy the thing from another world ( 1951 ) on several occasion . when the monster isn not on a rampage and nightbeast be far too dull and eventually his attack become so repetitive and predictable even they become less fun . watch this one back to back with the 1951 thing and see the difference characterization and attention to plot and detail and create suspense make to a monster on the loose movie .