High Desert Kill (1989 film)

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High Desert Kill (1989), AKA Desert Alien, Death in the Desert

Summary

"In the badlands of New Mexico it waits for them..." An old cowboy and hunters in New Mexico are tricked and tested by an alien in human form.

Details

• Release Date: 1989
• Country/Language: US, English
• Genres/Technical: Science Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, made-for-TV
• Setting: 1980s New Mexico
• Runtime: 1 hr 29 min
• Starring: Chuck Connors, Marc Singer, Anthony Geary, Micah Grant
• Director: Harry Falk
• Writer: Mike Marvin and Darnell Fry (story), T.S. Cook (teleplay)
• Producer/Production Co: Lehigh Entertainment, MCA Television Entertainment (MTE), MCA Television
• View Trailer: (link)
• IMDB Page: (link)

Ratings

MPAA Ratings

• Rated: PG-13 (mild made-for-1980s-TV Violence and Adult Content)

Tentacle Ratings

A rough measure of how "Lovecraftian" the work is:

• Ss___ (One and a Half Tentacles: Barely Lovecraftian; has almost no direct connection to Lovecraft's work)

The characters find themselves in a strange and mysterious "Eldritch Location" where things just aren't quite right, at the mercy of psychological experiments conducted by a shape-shifting Tentacle Monster, leading up to a showdown in some creepy Pueblo Indian ruins....

Note: This rating is not intended as a measure of quality, merely of how closely related to Lovecraftian "Weird" fiction the work is.

Reviews

Review Links:

• (Review at TV Week)
• (Review by Ken Begg at Jabootu's Bad Movie Dimension)
• (Review by Ty Burr at Entertainment Weekly)
• (Review by Agustin Cordes at Slightly Deranged)
• (Review by Amanda Reyes at Made for TV Mayhem)
• (Plot summary in the book "Cyborgs, Santa Claus and Satan: Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films Made for Television" by Fraser A. Sherman)

Notes

Associated Mythos Elements

• TO DO
• Tentacle Monster