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Alien Possession | Monster
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1982
Budget 700,000 USD
The set dresser on this film was Bill Paxton, before he took to acting. He was employed by the film's Art Director, and future frequent collaborator, James Cameron.
Future director James Cameron worked as Art Director on this movie, but got a big career break when he noted that the director and camera crew didn't produce enough shots. He requested to be Second Unit Director as well, so that he could film additional shots. His request was honored, and one of his suggestions was adding a scene involving a severed arm covered with squirming maggots. Cameron used real maggots, but because they didn't move by themselves, he invented a set-up by hooking a power drill line to the arm and hiding the cords inside the set. One of his co-workers would then plug the wire into an electrical outlet, letting the maggots wriggle on cue. On the day that the effect was shot, two of the future producers of Piranha II: The Spawning (1981) were on set. They were so impressed by Cameron's ingenuity that they immediately told him they had big plans for his future, and signed him on for his first directorial deal when production on GoT was over.
Sid Haig didn't think the dialogue in the script matched the character of Quuhod, so he asked Roger Corman if he could play Quuhod as a near mute instead. When Corman asked why, Haig said "Have you read the script?" Corman agreed and let Haig portray Quuhod with almost no dialogue. Haig only says a single line in the whole movie.
Taaffe O'Connell was nearly crushed by the one-ton giant worm during the filming of the notorious rape scene.
Originally, Taaffe O'Connell's character was supposed to be attacked and eaten by the giant worm after she ended up topless. The change to her being raped by it was a last minute decision by producer Roger Corman who had promised investors there would be a nude sex scene with O'Connell. She didn't want to do it but later agreed after getting them to pay her more money. She didn't object to being nudity while filming, but she was upset by the fact that the set and the slime that she had to be coated with were freezing the day of the shoot.
"Quuhod: I live and die by the crystals."
"Captain Trantor: They're too busy being heroes out there to talk to us. 'Fame is the food that dead men eat.' [quoting Henry Austin Dobson's 1906 poem]"
