ETN The Extra Terrestrial Nastie | 1967 | USA | James A. Sullivan

A real sign of the times, ETN The Extra Terrestrial Nastie is actually a retitle of an old 60s B-Movie called Night Fright, repurposed by World of Video 2000 to cash in the recent release of children’s movie ET which was at that time commercially unavailable in the UK. Animals are sent into outer space as part of an experiment, only for cosmic radiation to severely mutate the menagerie into a large brutish humanoid, which ends up back on Earth after the rocket crashes. The small rural town of Satan’s Hollow is then beseiged by the creature who tears his victims apart and poses problems with its bulletproof hide, before local law enforcment band together to end its reign of terror. Nowhere near as violent as the majority of the films taken, the film was nevertheless subject to destruction orders once seized by police due to the infamy of the distributor (for their release of Nightmares in a Damaged Brain) and what the authorities saw as a purposeful marketing ploy to sell a gruesome horror film in child-friendly packaging.