History Film / PodPeople

* GratuitousEnglish: The songs "The Engines Roar" and "Sara" in the original Spanish version.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Trumpy and Tommy are both safe, but Trumpy's mom has been killed and Tommy had to pull the BreakHisHeartToSaveHim on Trumpy, and that's most likely the last thing the poor alien ever heard from him. The final shot shows the poor alien, alone and friendless in the foggy woods, with nowhere to go and no way back to his home planet]].

* EagleLand: The set dressers occasionally feel the need to remind us that the movie we're watching is set in America. Therefore, the bar in Tommy's house has a picture of George Washington on the wall and an American flag on the bar, and the park ranger cabin has a giant framed portrait of Ronald Reagan.

** Bill is supposed to be some sort of rugged woodsman--Molly brags how "he knows the forest", but he just spends the movie barking at everybody. Even his one act of unquestionable heroism, getting through the snowpacked road to the rangers' cabin, happens offscreen.

** Uncle Bill is another who may not deserve to die, but is undeniably a total asshole.

* NeverTrustATitle: While that weird gelatinous substance with the eggs in the cave might count as a "pod", Trumpy's species, whatever it is, certainly doesn't count as "people". Averted by the "''Extra-Terrestrial Visitors''" release, which is both technically accurate to the plot of the film and also tips you off that it's an ''E.T.'' {{Mockbuster}}.

** Bill is supposed to be some sort of rugged woodsman--Molly brags how "he knows the forest", but he just spends the movie barking at everybody. Even his one act of unquestionable heroism, getting through the snowpacked road to the rangers' cabin, is depicted offscreen.

** Tracy is apparently supposed to be the "smart one" among Rick's singers, judging from her comment to Molly that "I don't know what frightens the guys more, my face or my intelligence," but we don't really see her do or say anything particularly intelligent. She spends most of the movie either [[DeadpanSnarker snarking]], whining, or acting horny.

Set in the foggy mountains of "[[CaliforniaDoubling New England]]" (actually filmed in Spain), the HyperlinkStory follows three distinct sets of characters. One is a seedy group of dim-witted poachers headed by Burt (Frank Braña) and Matt (Guillermo Anton), looking for eggs. Another is a family who lives in an isolated cabin with a very well-stocked bar: widowed Molly (Concha Cuetos), her gruff older brother Bill (Manuel Pereiro) and her young son Tommy (Oscar Martin), who has an extensive array of pets he likes to call "specimens". And there's singer Rick (Ian Serra), who takes a break from recording [[FakeBand nightmarish "pop" music]] to travel by RV up to the mountains for a camping trip with his [[Series/WKRPInCincinnati Andy Travis-lookalike]] manager Brian (Emilio Linder) and his female backing vocalists, including his girlfriend Sharon (Nina Ferrer).

Not to be confused with PeopleJars, which involves Jar People, or ''Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers'', which features [[ReplicantSnatching pod people]], unlike this movie.

Set in the mountains of "[[CaliforniaDoubling New England]]" (actually filmed in Spain), the HyperlinkStory follows three distinct sets of characters. One is a seedy group of dim-witted poachers headed by Burt (Frank Braña) and Matt (Guillermo Anton), looking for eggs. Another is a family who lives in an isolated cabin with a very well-stocked bar: widowed Molly (Concha Cuetos), her gruff older brother Bill (Manuel Pereiro) and her young son Tommy (Oscar Martin), who has an extensive array of pets he likes to call "specimens". And there's singer Rick (Ian Serra), who takes a break from recording [[FakeBand nightmarish "pop" music]] to travel by RV up to the mountains for a camping trip with his [[Series/WKRPInCincinnati Andy Travis-lookalike]] manager Brian (Emilio Linder) and his female backing vocalists, including his girlfriend Sharon (Nina Ferrer).

* OminousFog: "''The Fog'' didn't have this much fog!"

* HongKongDub: The English dub seems to have a fairly limited voice cast (it sounds like the same woman dubbed Tracy, [[CrossDressingVoices Tommy]] and maybe Laura), but generally they do a good job in avoiding LipLock, and at times it's hard to tell that it wasn't originally in English, though some of the dialogue is weirdly-phrased to fit the lip movements. The big exceptions are Tommy, whose lip movements are often way off, and Bill, who, as the film's LargeHam character, was probably harder to dub properly.

The film was as much of a mess behind the scenes as it is on-screen. ''Los Nuevos Extraterrestres'' (''The New Extraterrestrials'') began its life as a low-budget horror film. Then, after the initial script had been written, [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086026/trivia the producers demanded the addition of the subplot about the little kid adopting the alien]], in a blatant attempt to [[FollowTheLeader cash in on the success]] of ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial''. It was filmed in Spanish and French. For the US release it was (badly) dubbed into English and retitled ''The Unearthling''. Then, when the copyright expired, the distributor Film Ventures International purchased the film, slapped the credits from a ''[[Film/TheGalaxyInvader completely different film]]'' onto the beginning and end, and changed the name to ''[[http://www.mst3kinfo.com/mstfaq/subtle.html Pod People]]''.

Some sort of extraterrestrial pod filled with huge eggs crashes in the woods. One of the poachers finds the eggs and, for no particular reason, destroys all but one of them, leading the alien mother to launch [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge a killing spree in response]]. Tommy finds the one egg that wasn't destroyed, takes it home, and when it hatches a creature that looks like some kind of cross between an orangutan and an aardvark, he names it Trumpy. Trumpy has fantastic powers such as being able to suck up peanuts with his snout and warp time and space with his fingers. Meanwhile, Trumpy's mom, for no particular reason, starts killing off Rick's entourage one-by-one, and when the survivors take refuge at the cabin and hunt for the culprit, Tommy is determined to protect Trumpy.

* NeverTrustATitle: The movie doesn't really contain any pods, much less people who come from pods. Averted by the "''Extra-Terrestrial Visitors''" release, which is both technically accurate to the plot of the film and also tips you off that it's an ''E.T.'' {{Mockbuster}}.

Set in the mountains of "[[CaliforniaDoubling New England]]" (actually filmed in Spain), the HyperlinkStory follows three distinct sets of characters. One is a seedy group of dim-witted poachers headed by Burt (Frank Braña) and Matt (Guillermo Anton), looking for eggs. Another is a family who lives in an isolated cabin: widowed Molly (Concha Cuetos), her gruff older brother Bill (Manuel Pereiro) and her young son Tommy (Oscar Martin), who has an extensive array of pets he likes to call "specimens". And there's singer Rick (Ian Serra), who takes a break from recording [[FakeBand nightmarish "pop" music]] to travel by RV up to the mountains for a camping trip with his manager Brian (Emilio Linder) and his female backing vocalists, including his girlfriend Sharon (Nina Ferrer).

Some sort of extraterrestrial pod filled with huge eggs crashes in the woods. One of the poachers finds the eggs and, for no particular reason, destroys all but one of them, leading the alien mother to launch [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge a killing spree in response]]. Tommy finds the one egg that wasn't destroyed, takes it home, and when it hatches a creature that looks like some kind of cross between an orangutan and an aardvark, he names it Trumpy. Trumpy has fantastic powers such as being able to suck up peanuts with his snout and warp time and space with his fingers. Meanwhile, Trumpy's mom, for no particular reason, starts killing off Rick's entourage one-by-one, and when the survivors hunt for the culprit, Tommy desperately tries to protect Trumpy.

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''Los Nuevos Extraterrestres'' (''The New Extraterrestrials'') is a 1983 French-Spanish science fiction film directed by Juan Piquer Simón.

A little boy named Tommy (who has an extensive array of pets he likes to call "specimens") finds an alien egg to hatch. When it hatches, Tommy names the creature--who manages to use his snout to suck up peanuts and warp time and space with his fingers--Trumpy. Unfortunately, Trumpy's mom is found by poachers who destroy all of her pod-like eggs, and goes on [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge a killing spree in response]]. To add to the terror, a group of unappealing young people takes a break from recording [[FakeBand nightmarish "pop" music]] to travel by RV up to the scene of the alien foothold. When one of their members is killed by the alien, they are drawn into the hunt for the culprit.

The film is as much of a mess behind the scenes as it is on-screen. ''Los Nuevos Extraterrestres'' (''The New Extraterrestrials'') began its life as a low-budget horror film. Then, after the initial script had been written, [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086026/trivia the producers demanded the addition of the subplot about the little kid adopting the alien]], in a blatant attempt to [[FollowTheLeader cash in on the success]] of ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial''. It was filmed in Spanish and French. For the US release it was (badly) dubbed into English and retitled ''The Unearthling''. Then, when the copyright expired, the distributor Film Ventures International purchased the film, slapped the credits from a ''[[Film/TheGalaxyInvader completely different film]]'' onto the beginning and end, and changed the name to ''[[http://www.mst3kinfo.com/mstfaq/subtle.html Pod People]]''.

* AndStarring: The original Spanish opening credits say "and introducing Oscar Martin as Tommy" [[labelnote:''en español'']]''"y la presentación de Oscar Martin en Tommy"''[[/labelnote]] at the end of the cast list.
* ArcSymbol: The Big Dipper. [[RuleOfScary For some reason]], it appears on the forehead of anyone Trumpy's mother kills, plus on the star map when Trumpy "tells" Tommy he's from outer space.

* NeverTrustATitle: The movie doesn't really contain any pods, much less people who come from pods. Averted by the "''Extra-Terrestrial Visitors''" release, which is both technically accurate to the plot of the film and also tips you off that it's an ''E.T.'' knockoff.

* FinalGirl: Sharon technically is this after Laura, Tracy and Kathy get killed by Trumpy's mom, but she does absolutely nothing to confront the monster, it's up to Rick and Bill to do so.

* HongKongDub: The English dub seems to have a fairly limited voice cast (it sounds like the same woman dubbed Tracy and [[CrossDressingVoices Tommy]]), but generally they do a good job in avoiding LipLock, and at times it's hard to tell that it wasn't originally in English, though some of the dialogue is weirdly-phrased to fit the lip movements. The big exceptions are Tommy, whose lip movements are often way off, and Bill, who, as the film's LargeHam character, was probably harder to dub properly.