Seven or eight really geeky kids live in a trailer park near a missile launching site. Their parents are all scientists working at the site. They are about to launch the first sattelite to orbit the Earth with a nuclear warhead that can be delivered to any city in the world from space. Just like Ronnie Reagan's Star Wars thing. To bad Ronnie wasn't in it, that would've been really ironic.

Anyway, these geeky kids range in age from about 6 to 15 and they all hang around together. They do things like hold hands as they walk along, help each other over big rocks and up and down steep inclines. Boy, when I was 15 you didn't wanna get caught hanging around with little kids. I don't know, maybe it was just the neighborhood I lived in. As if these kids wern't geeky enough at first, they turn into absolute nerds after meeting the blobby thing.

Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you about the blobby thing. A light descends out of the sky and into a cave on the beach near the site. The kids track it down and find a blobby thing about the size of a dinner plate. It keeps getting bigger and bigger as the movie rolls along. But it doesn't get anymore interesting. It still remains a cheap special effect.

The blobby thing communicates telepathically with the geeky kids. It wants the kids to sabotage the missile site. They have been endowed with a few powers from the blobby thing, like being able to walk past guards unnoticed. Also the adults get temporarily paralyzed or worse if they if they lift a finger against the kids. Just ask the local drunk who tries to lay a beating on his kid and suffers a heart attack. Oh well, I knew he was gonna buy it right from the start.

The countdown finally begins and the button is pushed. The rocket fires up but doesn't lift off. When the smoke clears we see that the warhead is split in two. Nobody seems too concerned about radiation spewing out of it or anything. They're more worried about foreign powers getting theirs up first. They are informed by the kids that this is a worldwide affair and the children all around the world have destroyed every single nuclear bomb on Earth. The light now splits from the cave and heads back out to space. The End.

This thing would probably be enjoyed mostly by kids around the same age as those in the flick.



A few of these people later became TV mainstays.
Jackie Coogan became Uncle Festus on The Addams Family.
John Crawford became Mark McCain on the Rifleman.
Russell Johnson became the Professor on Gilligan's Island.